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Good evening, Welcome to WSBI,
your Resource for Success podcast program where you
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get to meet inspiring women owned businesses
from across the country. And now for
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your host, Kimberley McLemore. All
Right, good evening and welcome to WSBI,
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your Resource for Success podcast program where
you get to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and
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women owned businesses from across the country. I am your host, Kimberly McLemore's
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CEO and founder of the Women's Small
Business Initiative LLC and award winning author,
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and welcome to another night of sharing
with us. We have a special guest,
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Steve Kidd, owner of Thriving Bestsellers. Steve Kidd a multi talented powerhouse
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whose life's mission is to elevate the
voices of exceptional individuals with heart driven passions.
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He is a bestselling author, entrepreneurial
force, business coach, and radio
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show host who has dedicated his life
to helping aspiring writers and authors bring their
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message to the world and achieved the
achieved bestseller status with his unique combination of
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heart and vision, Steve has helped
thousands of people share their stories, leaving
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a lasting impact on millions. He
is known for his big heart and unparalleled
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ability to see the potential in others, guiding them on their journey to success.
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So, without further ado, please
help me. Welcome to my platform,
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mister Steve Kidd. Hey, Steve, how are you. I'm good?
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Thanks for having me. Well,
it's my pleasure and I'm excited to
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have you on. I always love
talking to fellow authors and fellow podcasters as
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well and coaches, so it's exciting
evening to have you on. And being
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that this is the theme for the
time frame that where I'm interviewing is,
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I'm really trying to encourage in a
course and let other people know what the
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world about becoming an author, how
to elevate those voices that we do have,
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whether it is being an author,
or whether it's about being a podcast
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host, or however people find their
journey and going down that journey, so
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they can't wait to hear your story, how you got started and how you're
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helping those people move forward with their
journey. So before we do get started,
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though, Steve latch to tell everybody
a little bit more about who Steve
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Kidd is well, and the bio
made me feel so good about myself.
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I almost feel like I can't do
it justice. But I am Steve Kidd.
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I'm a third generation minister, an
international bestselling author of twenty one books
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accounting, and I have the privilege
of working with authors. Ultimately, I'm
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a marketing company with a strong publishing
division. We've helped, you know,
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somewhere north of four thousand, almost
five thousand now authors in the writing publishing,
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marketing their books to bestseller and beyond
everything beyond that, you know,
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and like you mentioned, you know, the cool part about that is is
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that in just pretty much the day
one or the first couple of days that
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we've tracked, those books have literally
reached millions of people. And that is
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just so cool to be to get
to be a part of that. Ultimately,
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I guess, really, if you
had to say, what do I
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really do? You know, I'm
a deeply heart centered EmPATH who loves to
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help people find what's their next.
In fact, I always say, what
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you may discover is that it's not
that your cloud has silver linings, but
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that actually it's silver covered in cotton
candy. Oh love that That is very
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sweet, and that is true,
it's true. But the thing that just
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blew my mind was the amount of
people that you have worked with and assisting
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them of finding their voice and becoming
that author, because you know, it's
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the number one question I always get
is well how do you become an author?
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And it's and my always my biggest
answer as well, what are your
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writing? You know? And that's
usually where that story begins. And a
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lot of people feel like they have
to have all these other attributes and things
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behind them in order to realize that
they can share their voice and in so
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many different ways, and they don't
know who they're going to touch. I
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think their biggest concern is always,
well, you know, it's only going
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to be my family or nobody really
going to care about what I'm gonna say.
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And we have all realized that is
true, surely not the truth,
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right, Oh yeah, absolutely.
But what I always tell people in that
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case is if your book only reached
one person, if it made the difference
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in one person's life, that is
more than enough. Exactly exactly, I
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agree, absolutely agree. So tell
the listeners how you decided to go down
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this journey and how many years have
you actually been an author, because you've
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obviously have written many many books and
you're still counting and still moving forward but
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what made you decide to get into
this. Well, you know, I'm
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a high creative. I've been,
you know, creating things my whole life,
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trying to write books since I was
even a kid. And then in
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two thousand and seven, I helped
my then wife and my second youngest daughter.
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They had been blogging about the mother
daughter trip they took actually to go
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to the locations for the Twilight movie
if you remember the original Twilight movie,
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Yes, and you know they had
visited all of both the filming locations as
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well as the designated locations in the
actual city of Forks. And I helped
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them put that together into book form
and publish it out for them. That
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book actually, at one point was
the number one best selling movie related travel
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guide on Amazon. And it was
from there that I learned the power of
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bestsellers as far as my own personal
books. Somewhere in that general same time
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frame, give or take a year
or two, I was actually writing a
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you know, the typical opt in
free giveaway that we do for people.
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Give us your email address and I'll
give you this little thing. And I
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started writing it and got really inspired
and stayed up all night and a couple
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other days and by the time I
was done, I was at about one
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hundred and ten pages, so a
little bit more than a free giveaway.
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I actually went to my oldest mentor, doctor Donald Joy, and he both
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wrote the foreword as well as helped
me, you know, really edit it
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and hone in the content. And
that was my first book. It was
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way too big, had way too
much in it, like all of us
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do. And I actually then rereleased
that book because it's called ten Things that
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you Have to have or that you
must have to have in life and business,
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and I re released it as a
ten book series, taking each one
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of those one pointed time, so
they were manageable and palatable for people versus,
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you know, jumping everything in my
brain on them all at once,
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right, not figuring out right.
So, yeah, that happens, and
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that's and I think that's amazing.
How as authors, we all have our
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different way of how we dive into
our writing. And I'm kind of that
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same person. Once I get started, it's hard to stop, you know.
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It's like you want everything out of
your head on that page. Are
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you the traditional that likes to write
everything out or do you like to you
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know, type it, or are
you doing some of the new stuff where
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people are using the voice, you
know, and let it. I'll do
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the work itself, the voice type
recording. That first book, I did
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actually type it out. I do
not recommend that to anybody. Everybody I
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know that's ever tried to type or
handwrite their book takes months, years,
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decades to be able to get their
book out. I believe very strongly that
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everybody needs to be an author.
Very few people are actually writers, and
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I would say that even of myself, even with all of the stuff that
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I've written, I do most definitely
do it all via recording. UM.
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I suggest to people that aren't really
familiar with it to actually even more so,
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I have somebody interview them and walk
them through that. So that by
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because we when we asked questions about
that thing that we're really passionate about,
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it's really easy for us to answer
and even be articulate with the answer to
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a question on something that we really
care about. And so that's that's the
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best way to get all the content
out. And then there is really amazing
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story development editors and grammar people and
stuff like that that can help you out
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the rest of the way down the
road. Exactly. Yeah, So what
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other guidance I guess, you know, do you provide for somebody who is
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new, you know, like I
said, it really wants to be an
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author, but they just can't decide
how they really want to start it or
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if they have started it, we're
what does it really all come together?
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Because you know, his authors a
lot of times we just, like I
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said, we can write and then
we don't really realize what we have until
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it's done. So kind of I
guess give us some insight about what's your
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thought process when we're talking about being
an author in writing and how that all
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the pieces start to come together,
right, So you know, first we
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always start off with the strategy session, who is the book for? What's
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you know? And really identifying that. I mean, the best thing you
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can do is really narrow that down
so that you're writing the book to a
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single person, because then you're really
specific in all your examples and all the
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things you're talking about, rather than
trying to write something for everybody. When
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we try to talk to everybody,
we end up talking to nobody. So
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being really specific and then identifying from
that specific person what is their greatest need
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and what of what you do and
who you are in the world, do
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you have that will help them be
able to just make just a small step
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their lives? You know, what
is the next step? When we know
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that person's the step next, and
if there's a step after that, which
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there always is in all of our
lives, that's book too. Let's just
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give them something really simple they can
do now, So that's where we start.
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I do have a series of worksheets
that I provide to all my clients
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that kind of helped them hone in
on that a little deeper. And then
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I do the interviews with the people
myself personally because I can kind of help
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draw them out and help them focus
that. And my favorite authors, honestly
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to work with are the ones who
know they'd like to write a book,
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but they try to talk me out
of doing the writing session because they just
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don't feel like they're ready in you
know, when a person is just totally
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lost, that's that's when some of
the most magic gold comes out. Just
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by us talking and them feeling like
they're just rambling is where the real real
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gold is exactly. I agree with
that, yeah, because I found that,
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you know, working with people like
say, when you can communicate with
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them, and I think two,
when they're more open minded about what it
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is that they're trying to convey,
and you can kind of help them,
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you know, get that th and
process together so that they realize, like,
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oh, my goodness, I really
do have something that is of value
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to me as well as it can
be to other people. But I love
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what you said earlier about the fact
that it's not about how many thousands of
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people that you hit, it's about
that one person that can take it all
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in and really truly connect with you. Because that's usually what happens, is
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that there's always those one or two
people or more eventually that will connect because
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they understand that they're on that same
similar journey, and then by reading your
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story and understanding what that story is
about, is what takes them to the
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next step of elevation. So you
talk a lot about elevating. What does
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it mean to be elevated and how
do you see that in a person when
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you're talking to them. Well,
I think a lot of times we try
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too hard to be elevated, and
we need to really understand that. For
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a person in the desert, drowned
in you know, are dying of thirst.
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You know, the smallest drip of
dirty water is literally life for them.
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I'll give you a perfect example from
my own personal life. My youngest
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daughter was diagnosed with acute my lord
leukemia. Now let me skip to the
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end of that story and tell you
she's married, she's doing wonderfully, she's
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in total remission, she's she's okay, okay. I always skip ahead because,
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you know, because if not,
people won't listen because they're worried about
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my daughter. But when she was
in the hospital, the people that were
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the most helpful to us were the
other parents who weren't where you know,
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where I am now where you know, it's like, hey, yeah,
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she came totally through, But we're
the parents who were three months, six
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months maybe at the most, ahead
of in the journey that could be really
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vulnerable and just say, you know, today really sucked, you know,
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and we thought we were going to
lose her today. And here's what we
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have come through. You know,
here's the horrible thing that the doctor said.
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And it's in that that I always
use the phrase I got it from
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a coach that I used to work
with. It's that being vulnerable and valuable
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that we really elevate what we're doing, if you want to go back to
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that word, because it's in that
genuine, open honesty that people can both
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see themselves as well as see,
hey, you know there's hope and here's
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a person who can help me exactly, And you're right, the people utilize
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the word elevating in so many different
fashions and forms, but the everybody is
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so busy worried about the word being
connected to success. And I think that's
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where sometimes you can lose that authentist, authentic side of yourself and being just
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who you are because you're so worried
about connecting those dots and from me.
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And when I look at in that
perspective, I always think about it's where
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people reverse where they're chasing the money
and worried about that before they're worried about
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the real purpose of why they're doing
what they're doing. What is your thought
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process on that as well? I
always and I actually heard this the first
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time from Lisa Nichols, so again
it's not mine, but I remember the
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first time she said that. I
was sitting in a small group that she
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was teaching, and she looked at
the room and she said, you have
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to understand the messages inside of you. It's not about you. And that
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was like a dagger through my heart, you know, even though I had
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done a lot of things in my
life and shared a lot, to really
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have somebody say of that specifically really
drove home. Man. And that's really
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the truth is. We get so
hung up on all those things about building
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our kingdom, elevating ourselves, all
those kind of things, when the truth
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of the matter is is that thing
inside of you is only as good as
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you allow it to flow through you
and out of you and to the person
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who needs that information. Yes,
yes, as absolutely well, very well
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saying because I'm sit there thinking that
is the truth. You know, we
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do. We kind of get caught
up into that realm. And I think
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a big part of it is because
of what people see versus what they're actually
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feeling. And so then once you
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to connect and trust the journey that
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truly does become so much more of
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terms, that it's so enlightening because
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you're touching the people who need to
definitely hear your story, understand your story,
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and know that that connection is what
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me saying is realizing that you know, because we all have stories, and
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a lot of times some of those
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people to hear. But what I
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that I have been through that being
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others and telling those stories and gettee
having those teaching moments has been more enlightening
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for me, and I think that
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thinking about being an author and what
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too? About if they decide,
hey, I don't want to write it
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down, but I just want to
talk about it. How about that podcast
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because you are obviously a podcast,
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show. What is your thought process
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that. In fact, the system
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we were more of a traditional digital
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for the multimillion dollar clients that I
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best selling author, I couldn't maximize
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them not just as an author,
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would take signature talks and things like
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a book for them. They'd show
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you know, when did I write
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become a best seller? You know, I needed that to market them.
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podcasters, you know, they're just
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can, as we say, you
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segments that can be used and the
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four sixty eight, you know whatever
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specifically get them the guests and ask
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if they don't have a guest,
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content and then that totally gives us
everything we need. Jane and another some
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development to turn it from spoken word
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that's that's what my staff is here
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a very excellent idea. You know, you don't really think about, like
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I said, but a lot of
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comfortable being able just to communicate and
then not realizing that what they're communicating can
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absolutely be turned into something where people
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to fill that vision in that understanding
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just talking about. So you just
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chit chat about for a second,
and that's about having either a staff and
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a lot of obviously a lot of
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you know, prepare to edit their
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have found that working with the clients
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be easy, but once you get
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there, it's that marketing piece.
So talk a little bit about how that
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process works with you guys. Yeah, So, I mean, you know,
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marketing is everything and everything's marketing,
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the process really is like this,
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it's you do like I do now
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you just jump on a zoom by
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or you take in the can done
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to happen from there is the audio
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what I call a story development editor. That person is going to take and
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arrange that content so that it flows
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that it makes sense and so that
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to identify where the holes. I'll
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of the books I was writing in
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just said, hey, you know, we were talking about X y Z,
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was talking about. But the story
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you have to understand, even though
this is only two maybe three pages
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away at the most, this could
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whatever, they may not remember that
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as focused on that particular page,
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we don't have to go into the
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to give them more than just remember
when we were talking about you know,
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we have to kind of spur their
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of things we do in writing.
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story you know, you're telling us
about aunt Jan and then you never finished
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telling us what the heck happened to
aunt Jan? We're dying to know?
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Is aunt Jan? Okay? You
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a story devolved. They make all
the comment and stuff like that, and
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then from there, um, you
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in you know, because there's just
a sentence or two to explain it,
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or you know, myself or my
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you and you can That's what I
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as I was on with an author
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a couple more stories, and and
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hey, tell me about blah blah
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then you know, and we went
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what we need to fill in those
holes, um, so that we have
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a document that flows from the beginning
to end, and then from there we
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can have it to go to the
the you know grammar people who love looking
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and making sure comments are in the
right place and that kind of thing,
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right rights, And it's a great
concept. So you guys are actually a
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full service publishing company. So do
you provide or offer those um individuals who
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like to do self publishing or the
hybrid type publishing? You know, what
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is your that's in that. So
I focus completely on what would be classified
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as help publishing. The reason being
is because I mean, if you go
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with the traditional publisher, a traditional
publisher owns your content through that out.
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I mean, I don't care.
Lisa nichols last book, HarperCollins owns it.
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She had to redo her whole entire
course that she had created for it
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because HarperCollins said, no, you
can't use our content for your course.
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Okay, that's traditional publishing hybrid publishers
with all of the right intentions, And
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I please hear me. I'm not
trying to dis anybody. But what they'll
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do is once the book is already, they will take their account in other
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words, their email address, and
they will log in on your behalf to
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Amazon and upload it into an account
that is underneath of the management of their
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email address. Well, what that
means is is, as far as Amazon's
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concerned, they're the owners of your
book. There, who then has the
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contractual relationship with Amazon? There,
who's Amazon's paying? And you know,
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the truth of the matter is is
you know, author is a form field.
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You know, with the exception of
claiming you were over Winfrey, which
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they would flag. But you know, short of names like that, you
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can have a total pen name and
make up what your name was and put
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it in the field and Amazon isn't
got a check that they don't care.
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The problem with that is is that
a, if you don't want to work
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with that hybrid publisher anymore, or
b has happened so often they go out
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of business. You then have to
go through the very arduous task of proving
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to Amazon you're the one who actually
wrote the book and you know, and
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all of that kind of thing,
and sometimes that doesn't even work. So
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we absolutely always recommend to our people
you want to own the book, meaning
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that it's your email address. An
email address you own logs in Amazon,
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it's your bank account that the money's
going to. Right, we can log
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in on your behalf and help you
out and there's some you know, some
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best practices that we teach people in
on that. But you know, at
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the end of the day, you're
the total owner of it and you have
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full control over it, right And
I like that, And that's and I
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thank you for, you know,
clarifying that and bringing that up, because
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I think it's important that people understand. And even though you know, we
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can talk about this all day and
sometimes people are hearing you, but they're
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hearing that selective hearing, so you
know, it's like they don't really truly
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understand that there is a huge difference. And you know, sometimes you can
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even though my courses I provide actually
in writing explaining there's a difference between the
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traditional publishing, the self publishing,
and the hybrid. But you know,
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obviously it's everybody has a right to
choose what they feel is best for them,
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and for most people it's usually about
time. You know, I don't
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have the time to do this,
or I don't have the time to do
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that, or I need somebody to
this piece, you know, and they
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just want to write. I get
that, But you're right, in order
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to have one hundred percent control,
you have to self publish it, you
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know, like I said, that's
where you know that the money is going
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to be come directly to you all
of those things, and that's important for
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people to realize that they can have
the control. But at the same time,
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if they're not, if they don't
have that time, there are definitely
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enough services out who that can provide
what they need in order to get them
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over that hump. So real quickly, I know, as this time is
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going by really fast. But tell
us a little bit more about your podcast
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show please. So um, it's
actually technically a radio show. It's it's
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in convocation. It's actually available on
about twenty five or thirty radio stations wow.
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And then it's also available in multiple
places around the internet. It's called
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Priving Entrepreneur. The first week of
December of last year was our eight year
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anniversary. I belie, you've had
thank you. We've had guests on there,
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you know, all the way from
multi billionaires to you know, actually
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children even have been on the show
with me. My grand My granddaughter in
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fact, was one of the ones
that was on there also at eight she
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was an international best selling author.
Just as a shameless promotion for her,
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you know, and she's like thirteen
now, So you know, that was
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a few years ago, but she
probably will hate me that I brought that
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up, you know, And we've
had everywhere in between. We talk to
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people about their life and business and
being a thriving entrepreneur is really just about
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managing, yes, possibly the business
you have, but also all of us
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are an entrepreneur and the fact that
we are the CEO of the business of
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our life. Absolutely I like that. So if anybody was to walk up
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to to day and say, you
know, Steve, I need some advice,
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whether it's starting a business, writing
a book, wanting to be a
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radio show host, business coach,
with advice, would you give them follow
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your passion. All of us have
a tendency to get distracted by trends,
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by shiny bobbles that look cool.
I mean they probably are m and may
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make a ton of money short term, But when you are in the heart
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and soul and core of who you
are, what makes you tick, that's
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what's going to get you through the
hard times. Business will and does have
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its ups, but it also has
its downs, and there are days when
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you're just like, what the heck
am I doing? Why am I doing
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this? And it's that you're doing
something that is the core of who you
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are, that carries you through those
moments. If you're just chasing a trend
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and that trend is crashed and burned. Like if you were an expert at
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any one of the social media is
that doesn't even exists anymore, you know.
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Or you know, you were really
great at Yahoo groups, yeah,
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you know, right, you know, Or you were a my Space expert,
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you know what I mean. Back
in the day, you probably made
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a ton of money on that.
But now that's if you were still banging
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the druma of why my space is
really the place you should still have your
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social media, you're probably not going
to get any clients, you know.
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But if you understand that what you
liked about my Space was, say,
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for example, the real sense of
community that you've felt there, that is,
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for the first time, a place
that you felt like you had a
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home in the whole wide world.
Now, see, that's a passion and
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that's something that you can latch a
hold of and can go with you through
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whether you're you know, eight years
old or you're eighty years old and on
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through your life because it's a core
of who you are. Yes, absolutely
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love that love that it's it's important
because we do here in see that's all
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you hear about, you know,
with all the new if it's not about
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TikTok, it's about something else,
you know, it's about meta, it's
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you know, there's all these social
media platforms that people are just over zealous
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about. They really really love their
social media, but at the same time
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it is ruining a lot of people's
lives because they're they're looking through other people's
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lenses. They're not truly seeing who
they are and really understanding. Like you
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said, what is your passion?
Was it about that you truly it's driven
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for you every day versus what you
actually are seeing everybody else doing. So
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I like, you know what you
just said, and I think it's important
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that once people look, sit understand, like I said earlier, if you
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trust the journey you're you know who
you are. That makes life so much
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simpler and also gives you the joy
that you deserve to have as you're going
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through this process. So, Steve, we are definitely getting down to the
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end and to the wire of this
conversation which I could talk to you for
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hours. I just love your conversation, but could you please tell everybody you
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know, if there's something you like, share about what you may have coming
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out soon or what's going on now, and also share how they can reach
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you. Absolutely, so I made
it really easy for everybody. I gave
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your business, your marketing, anything
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That's your fifteen months and I'm here
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I really truly appreciate you taking your
time out of your busy day in hanging
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out with me and telling us a
little bit more about who you are and
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what you have to bride to the
table and give you everybody the opportunity to
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elevate themselves in the way that they
best know how to buy. Obviously,
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just using your voice in what's inside
of you. So again, I appreciate
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you coming on with me. It
has been such a pleasure to talk with
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you, sir. Thanks so much
for having me. You're welcome, You're
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very welcome. So all right,
you guys, before we close tonight's show,
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I just want to hope you truly
enjoy it and learn a lot from
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the best selling author, entrepreneur,
business coach, minister radio show host Steve
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Kidd. It has been a great
conversation and learning about how to truly elevate
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who you are. And it's not
just the word elevation. It's not just
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about talking about the success of being
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way, it's really truly about what's
inside of you, so I can always
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tell people what are you ready for? Are you ready? Are you determined?
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Are you looking for that help,
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Good evening, Welcome to WSBI,
your Resource for Success podcast program where you
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get to meet inspiring women owned businesses
from across the country. And now for
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your host, Kimberley McLemore. All
Right, good evening and welcome to WSBI,
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your Resource for Success podcast program where
you get to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and
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women owned businesses from across the country. I am your host, Kimberly McLemore's
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CEO and founder of the Women's Small
Business Initiative LLC and award winning author,
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and welcome to another night of sharing
with us. We have a special guest,
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Steve Kidd, owner of Thriving Bestsellers. Steve Kidd a multi talented powerhouse
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whose life's mission is to elevate the
voices of exceptional individuals with heart driven passions.
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He is a bestselling author, entrepreneurial
force, business coach, and radio
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show host who has dedicated his life
to helping aspiring writers and authors bring their
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message to the world and achieved the
achieved bestseller status with his unique combination of
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heart and vision, Steve has helped
thousands of people share their stories, leaving
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a lasting impact on millions. He
is known for his big heart and unparalleled
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ability to see the potential in others, guiding them on their journey to success.
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So, without further ado, please
help me. Welcome to my platform,
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mister Steve Kidd. Hey, Steve, how are you. I'm good?
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Thanks for having me. Well,
it's my pleasure and I'm excited to
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have you on. I always love
talking to fellow authors and fellow podcasters as
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well and coaches, so it's exciting
evening to have you on. And being
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that this is the theme for the
time frame that where I'm interviewing is,
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I'm really trying to encourage in a
course and let other people know what the
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world about becoming an author, how
to elevate those voices that we do have,
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whether it is being an author,
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host, or however people find their
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they can't wait to hear your story, how you got started and how you're
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helping those people move forward with their
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though, Steve latch to tell everybody
a little bit more about who Steve
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Kidd is well, and the bio
made me feel so good about myself.
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I almost feel like I can't do
it justice. But I am Steve Kidd.
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I'm a third generation minister, an
international bestselling author of twenty one books
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accounting, and I have the privilege
of working with authors. Ultimately, I'm
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a marketing company with a strong publishing
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somewhere north of four thousand, almost
five thousand now authors in the writing publishing,
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marketing their books to bestseller and beyond
everything beyond that, you know,
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and like you mentioned, you know, the cool part about that is is
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that in just pretty much the day
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we've tracked, those books have literally
reached millions of people. And that is
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just so cool to be to get
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I guess, really, if you
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really do? You know, I'm
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help people find what's their next.
In fact, I always say, what
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you may discover is that it's not
that your cloud has silver linings, but
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that actually it's silver covered in cotton
candy. Oh love that That is very
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sweet, and that is true,
it's true. But the thing that just
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blew my mind was the amount of
people that you have worked with and assisting
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them of finding their voice and becoming
that author, because you know, it's
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the number one question I always get
is well how do you become an author?
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answer as well, what are your
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writing? You know? And that's
usually where that story begins. And a
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lot of people feel like they have
to have all these other attributes and things
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behind them in order to realize that
they can share their voice and in so
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many different ways, and they don't
know who they're going to touch. I
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think their biggest concern is always,
well, you know, it's only going
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to be my family or nobody really
going to care about what I'm gonna say.
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And we have all realized that is
true, surely not the truth,
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right, Oh yeah, absolutely.
But what I always tell people in that
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case is if your book only reached
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in one person's life, that is
more than enough. Exactly exactly, I
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agree, absolutely agree. So tell
the listeners how you decided to go down
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this journey and how many years have
you actually been an author, because you've
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obviously have written many many books and
you're still counting and still moving forward but
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what made you decide to get into
this. Well, you know, I'm
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a high creative. I've been,
you know, creating things my whole life,
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trying to write books since I was
even a kid. And then in
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two thousand and seven, I helped
my then wife and my second youngest daughter.
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They had been blogging about the mother
daughter trip they took actually to go
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to the locations for the Twilight movie
if you remember the original Twilight movie,
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well as the designated locations in the
actual city of Forks. And I helped
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them put that together into book form
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book actually, at one point was
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guide on Amazon. And it was
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bestsellers as far as my own personal
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frame, give or take a year
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you know, the typical opt in
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Give us your email address and I'll
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started writing it and got really inspired
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other days and by the time I
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hundred and ten pages, so a
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I actually went to my oldest mentor, doctor Donald Joy, and he both
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wrote the foreword as well as helped
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and hone in the content. And
that was my first book. It was
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way too big, had way too
much in it, like all of us
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do. And I actually then rereleased
that book because it's called ten Things that
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you Have to have or that you
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and I re released it as a
ten book series, taking each one
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of those one pointed time, so
they were manageable and palatable for people versus,
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you know, jumping everything in my
brain on them all at once,
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right, not figuring out right.
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that's and I think that's amazing.
How as authors, we all have our
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different way of how we dive into
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same person. Once I get started, it's hard to stop, you know.
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It's like you want everything out of
your head on that page. Are
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you the traditional that likes to write
everything out or do you like to you
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know, type it, or are
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people are using the voice, you
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the work itself, the voice type
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actually type it out. I do
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know that's ever tried to type or
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decades to be able to get their
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everybody needs to be an author.
Very few people are actually writers, and
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I would say that even of myself, even with all of the stuff that
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I've written, I do most definitely
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I suggest to people that aren't really
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I have somebody interview them and walk
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because we when we asked questions about
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it's really easy for us to answer
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a question on something that we really
care about. And so that's that's the
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best way to get all the content
out. And then there is really amazing
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story development editors and grammar people and
stuff like that that can help you out
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the rest of the way down the
road. Exactly. Yeah, So what
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other guidance I guess, you know, do you provide for somebody who is
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new, you know, like I
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author, but they just can't decide
how they really want to start it or
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if they have started it, we're
what does it really all come together?
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Because you know, his authors a
lot of times we just, like I
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said, we can write and then
we don't really realize what we have until
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it's done. So kind of I
guess give us some insight about what's your
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thought process when we're talking about being
an author in writing and how that all
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the pieces start to come together,
right, So you know, first we
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always start off with the strategy session, who is the book for? What's
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you know? And really identifying that. I mean, the best thing you
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can do is really narrow that down
so that you're writing the book to a
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single person, because then you're really
specific in all your examples and all the
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things you're talking about, rather than
trying to write something for everybody. When
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we try to talk to everybody,
we end up talking to nobody. So
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being really specific and then identifying from
that specific person what is their greatest need
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and what of what you do and
who you are in the world, do
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you have that will help them be
able to just make just a small step
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their lives? You know, what
is the next step? When we know
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that person's the step next, and
if there's a step after that, which
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there always is in all of our
lives, that's book too. Let's just
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give them something really simple they can
do now, So that's where we start.
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I do have a series of worksheets
that I provide to all my clients
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that kind of helped them hone in
on that a little deeper. And then
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I do the interviews with the people
myself personally because I can kind of help
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draw them out and help them focus
that. And my favorite authors, honestly
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to work with are the ones who
know they'd like to write a book,
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but they try to talk me out
of doing the writing session because they just
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don't feel like they're ready in you
know, when a person is just totally
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lost, that's that's when some of
the most magic gold comes out. Just
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by us talking and them feeling like
they're just rambling is where the real real
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gold is exactly. I agree with
that, yeah, because I found that,
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you know, working with people like
say, when you can communicate with
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them, and I think two,
when they're more open minded about what it
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is that they're trying to convey,
and you can kind of help them,
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you know, get that th and
process together so that they realize, like,
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oh, my goodness, I really
do have something that is of value
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to me as well as it can
be to other people. But I love
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what you said earlier about the fact
that it's not about how many thousands of
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people that you hit, it's about
that one person that can take it all
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in and really truly connect with you. Because that's usually what happens, is
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that there's always those one or two
people or more eventually that will connect because
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they understand that they're on that same
similar journey, and then by reading your
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story and understanding what that story is
about, is what takes them to the
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next step of elevation. So you
talk a lot about elevating. What does
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it mean to be elevated and how
do you see that in a person when
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you're talking to them. Well,
I think a lot of times we try
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too hard to be elevated, and
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a person in the desert, drowned
in you know, are dying of thirst.
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You know, the smallest drip of
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I'll give you a perfect example from
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daughter was diagnosed with acute my lord
leukemia. Now let me skip to the
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end of that story and tell you
she's married, she's doing wonderfully, she's
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in total remission, she's she's okay, okay. I always skip ahead because,
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you know, because if not,
people won't listen because they're worried about
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my daughter. But when she was
in the hospital, the people that were
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the most helpful to us were the
other parents who weren't where you know,
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where I am now where you know, it's like, hey, yeah,
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she came totally through, But we're
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months maybe at the most, ahead
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vulnerable and just say, you know, today really sucked, you know,
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and we thought we were going to
lose her today. And here's what we
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have come through. You know,
here's the horrible thing that the doctor said.
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a coach that I used to work
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that we really elevate what we're doing, if you want to go back to
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that word, because it's in that
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see themselves as well as see,
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a person who can help me exactly, And you're right, the people utilize
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the word elevating in so many different
fashions and forms, but the everybody is
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so busy worried about the word being
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where sometimes you can lose that authentist, authentic side of yourself and being just
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who you are because you're so worried
about connecting those dots and from me.
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people reverse where they're chasing the money
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the real purpose of why they're doing
what they're doing. What is your thought
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process on that as well? I
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time from Lisa Nichols, so again
it's not mine, but I remember the
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first time she said that. I
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was teaching, and she looked at
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to understand the messages inside of you. It's not about you. And that
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was like a dagger through my heart, you know, even though I had
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done a lot of things in my
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have somebody say of that specifically really
drove home. Man. And that's really
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the truth is. We get so
hung up on all those things about building
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our kingdom, elevating ourselves, all
those kind of things, when the truth
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of the matter is is that thing
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you allow it to flow through you
and out of you and to the person
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who needs that information. Yes,
yes, as absolutely well, very well
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saying because I'm sit there thinking that
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do. We kind of get caught
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a big part of it is because
of what people see versus what they're actually
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feeling. And so then once you
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to connect and trust the journey that
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truly does become so much more of
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terms, that it's so enlightening because
you're really truly touching it's not you,
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you're touching the people who need to
definitely hear your story, understand your story,
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and know that that connection is what
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me saying is realizing that you know, because we all have stories, and
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a lot of times some of those
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people to hear. But what I
have learned in my journey of the things
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that I have been through that being
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others and telling those stories and gettee
having those teaching moments has been more enlightening
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for me, and I think that
that's what helps those who are considering and
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thinking about being an author and what
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too? About if they decide,
hey, I don't want to write it
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down, but I just want to
talk about it. How about that podcast
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because you are obviously a podcast,
so this is on you have your own
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show. What is your thought process
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that. In fact, the system
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we were more of a traditional digital
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for the multimillion dollar clients that I
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best selling author, I couldn't maximize
their marketing potential. I had to have
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them not just as an author,
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would take signature talks and things like
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a book for them. They'd show
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you know, when did I write
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become a best seller? You know, I needed that to market them.
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podcasters, you know, they're just
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can, as we say, you
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segments that can be used and the
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four sixty eight, you know whatever
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specifically get them the guests and ask
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if they don't have a guest,
if they're just talking themselves, share that
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content and then that totally gives us
everything we need. Jane and another some
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development to turn it from spoken word
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that's that's what my staff is here
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a very excellent idea. You know, you don't really think about, like
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I said, but a lot of
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comfortable being able just to communicate and
then not realizing that what they're communicating can
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absolutely be turned into something where people
can actually read and learn from and start
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to fill that vision in that understanding
of what those spoken words are that you're
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just talking about. So you just
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chit chat about for a second,
and that's about having either a staff and
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a lot of obviously a lot of
people don't have a staff in order to
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you know, prepare to edit their
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have found that working with the clients
that it's the writing part it seems to
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be easy, but once you get
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there, it's that marketing piece.
So talk a little bit about how that
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process works with you guys. Yeah, So, I mean, you know,
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marketing is everything and everything's marketing,
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the process really is like this,
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it's you do like I do now
when I'm writing my own books, and
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you just jump on a zoom by
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or you take in the can done
the episodes of podcasts. What's going
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to happen from there is the audio
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what I call a story development editor. That person is going to take and
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arrange that content so that it flows
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that it makes sense and so that
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to identify where the holes. I'll
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of the books I was writing in
the spoken I just you know, I
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just said, hey, you know, we were talking about X y Z,
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and I went right on and for
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minutes since I had said x y
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was talking about. But the story
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you have to understand, even though
this is only two maybe three pages
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away at the most, this could
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whatever, they may not remember that
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as focused on that particular page,
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we don't have to go into the
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to give them more than just remember
when we were talking about you know,
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we have to kind of spur their
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of things we do in writing.
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story you know, you're telling us
about aunt Jan and then you never finished
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telling us what the heck happened to
aunt Jan? We're dying to know?
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Is aunt Jan? Okay? You
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a story devolved. They make all
the comment and stuff like that, and
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then from there, um, you
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in you know, because there's just
a sentence or two to explain it,
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or you know, myself or my
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you and you can That's what I
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as I was on with an author
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a couple more stories, and and
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hey, tell me about blah blah
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then you know, and we went
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what we need to fill in those
holes, um, so that we have
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a document that flows from the beginning
to end, and then from there we
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can have it to go to the
the you know grammar people who love looking
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and making sure comments are in the
right place and that kind of thing,
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right rights, And it's a great
concept. So you guys are actually a
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full service publishing company. So do
you provide or offer those um individuals who
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like to do self publishing or the
hybrid type publishing? You know, what
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is your that's in that. So
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as help publishing. The reason being
is because I mean, if you go
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with the traditional publisher, a traditional
publisher owns your content through that out.
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I mean, I don't care.
Lisa nichols last book, HarperCollins owns it.
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She had to redo her whole entire
course that she had created for it
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because HarperCollins said, no, you
can't use our content for your course.
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Okay, that's traditional publishing hybrid publishers
with all of the right intentions, And
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I please hear me. I'm not
trying to dis anybody. But what they'll
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do is once the book is already, they will take their account in other
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words, their email address, and
they will log in on your behalf to
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Amazon and upload it into an account
that is underneath of the management of their
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email address. Well, what that
means is is, as far as Amazon's
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concerned, they're the owners of your
book. There, who then has the
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contractual relationship with Amazon? There,
who's Amazon's paying? And you know,
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the truth of the matter is is
you know, author is a form field.
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You know, with the exception of
claiming you were over Winfrey, which
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they would flag. But you know, short of names like that, you
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can have a total pen name and
make up what your name was and put
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it in the field and Amazon isn't
got a check that they don't care.
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The problem with that is is that
a, if you don't want to work
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with that hybrid publisher anymore, or
b has happened so often they go out
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of business. You then have to
go through the very arduous task of proving
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to Amazon you're the one who actually
wrote the book and you know, and
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all of that kind of thing,
and sometimes that doesn't even work. So
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we absolutely always recommend to our people
you want to own the book, meaning
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that it's your email address. An
email address you own logs in Amazon,
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it's your bank account that the money's
going to. Right, we can log
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in on your behalf and help you
out and there's some you know, some
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best practices that we teach people in
on that. But you know, at
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the end of the day, you're
the total owner of it and you have
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full control over it, right And
I like that, And that's and I
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thank you for, you know,
clarifying that and bringing that up, because
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I think it's important that people understand. And even though you know, we
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can talk about this all day and
sometimes people are hearing you, but they're
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hearing that selective hearing, so you
know, it's like they don't really truly
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understand that there is a huge difference. And you know, sometimes you can
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even though my courses I provide actually
in writing explaining there's a difference between the
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traditional publishing, the self publishing,
and the hybrid. But you know,
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obviously it's everybody has a right to
choose what they feel is best for them,
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and for most people it's usually about
time. You know, I don't
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have the time to do this,
or I don't have the time to do
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that, or I need somebody to
this piece, you know, and they
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just want to write. I get
that, But you're right, in order
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to have one hundred percent control,
you have to self publish it, you
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know, like I said, that's
where you know that the money is going
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to be come directly to you all
of those things, and that's important for
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people to realize that they can have
the control. But at the same time,
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if they're not, if they don't
have that time, there are definitely
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enough services out who that can provide
what they need in order to get them
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over that hump. So real quickly, I know, as this time is
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going by really fast. But tell
us a little bit more about your podcast
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show please. So um, it's
actually technically a radio show. It's it's
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in convocation. It's actually available on
about twenty five or thirty radio stations wow.
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And then it's also available in multiple
places around the internet. It's called
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Priving Entrepreneur. The first week of
December of last year was our eight year
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anniversary. I belie, you've had
thank you. We've had guests on there,
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you know, all the way from
multi billionaires to you know, actually
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children even have been on the show
with me. My grand My granddaughter in
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fact, was one of the ones
that was on there also at eight she
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was an international best selling author.
Just as a shameless promotion for her,
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you know, and she's like thirteen
now, So you know, that was
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a few years ago, but she
probably will hate me that I brought that
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up, you know, And we've
had everywhere in between. We talk to
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people about their life and business and
being a thriving entrepreneur is really just about
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managing, yes, possibly the business
you have, but also all of us
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are an entrepreneur and the fact that
we are the CEO of the business of
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our life. Absolutely I like that. So if anybody was to walk up
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to to day and say, you
know, Steve, I need some advice,
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whether it's starting a business, writing
a book, wanting to be a
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radio show host, business coach,
with advice, would you give them follow
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your passion. All of us have
a tendency to get distracted by trends,
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by shiny bobbles that look cool.
I mean they probably are m and may
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make a ton of money short term, But when you are in the heart
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and soul and core of who you
are, what makes you tick, that's
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what's going to get you through the
hard times. Business will and does have
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its ups, but it also has
its downs, and there are days when
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you're just like, what the heck
am I doing? Why am I doing
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this? And it's that you're doing
something that is the core of who you
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are, that carries you through those
moments. If you're just chasing a trend
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and that trend is crashed and burned. Like if you were an expert at
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any one of the social media is
that doesn't even exists anymore, you know.
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Or you know, you were really
great at Yahoo groups, yeah,
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you know, right, you know, Or you were a my Space expert,
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you know what I mean. Back
in the day, you probably made
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a ton of money on that.
But now that's if you were still banging
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the druma of why my space is
really the place you should still have your
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social media, you're probably not going
to get any clients, you know.
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But if you understand that what you
liked about my Space was, say,
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for example, the real sense of
community that you've felt there, that is,
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for the first time, a place
that you felt like you had a
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home in the whole wide world.
Now, see, that's a passion and
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that's something that you can latch a
hold of and can go with you through
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whether you're you know, eight years
old or you're eighty years old and on
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through your life because it's a core
of who you are. Yes, absolutely
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love that love that it's it's important
because we do here in see that's all
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you hear about, you know,
with all the new if it's not about
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TikTok, it's about something else,
you know, it's about meta, it's
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you know, there's all these social
media platforms that people are just over zealous
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about. They really really love their
social media, but at the same time
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it is ruining a lot of people's
lives because they're they're looking through other people's
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lenses. They're not truly seeing who
they are and really understanding. Like you
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said, what is your passion?
Was it about that you truly it's driven
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for you every day versus what you
actually are seeing everybody else doing. So
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I like, you know what you
just said, and I think it's important
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that once people look, sit understand, like I said earlier, if you
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trust the journey you're you know who
you are. That makes life so much
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simpler and also gives you the joy
that you deserve to have as you're going
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through this process. So, Steve, we are definitely getting down to the
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end and to the wire of this
conversation which I could talk to you for
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hours. I just love your conversation, but could you please tell everybody you
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know, if there's something you like, share about what you may have coming
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out soon or what's going on now, and also share how they can reach
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you. Absolutely, so I made
it really easy for everybody. I gave
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you a free gift we all like
to gift. If you go to yeah,
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if you go to ongoing wealth guide
dot com, that's Ongoing wealth guide
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dot com, there's a free gift
for you there. It's a five step
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program. I promise you it's not
one hundred ten pages. It's just a
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page and a half, but it
walks you through how you can really truly
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create abundance in your life. Included
in that actually as a link to my
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signature write your bestseller in one hour
workshop, so you could, you know,
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technically write your whole entire book just
from that. I know lots of
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people that have, but it's going
to help you really know how to be
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able to ongoingly generate abundance in your
own life. And then at the checkout
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of that, you know, when
you get to the thank you page,
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because that's a free gift, there's
actually a link there that will allow you
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to book fifteen minute a call with
me and we can talk about your life,
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your business, your marketing, anything
I can do to help you out.
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That's your fifteen months and I'm here
to out awesome. Well again,
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I really truly appreciate you taking your
time out of your busy day in hanging
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out with me and telling us a
little bit more about who you are and
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what you have to bride to the
table and give you everybody the opportunity to
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elevate themselves in the way that they
best know how to buy. Obviously,
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just using your voice in what's inside
of you. So again, I appreciate
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you coming on with me. It
has been such a pleasure to talk with
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you, sir. Thanks so much
for having me. You're welcome, You're
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very welcome. So all right,
you guys, before we close tonight's show,
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I just want to hope you truly
enjoy it and learn a lot from
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the best selling author, entrepreneur,
business coach, minister radio show host Steve
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Kidd. It has been a great
conversation and learning about how to truly elevate
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who you are. And it's not
just the word elevation. It's not just
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about talking about the success of being
you know, elevated in that in that
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way, it's really truly about what's
inside of you, so I can always
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tell people what are you ready for? Are you ready? Are you determined?
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Are you looking for that help,
that helping hand that we can guide
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you in the right direction. Reach
out to me at Kimberly at WSBI LC
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at gmail dot com and let's have
that chat. Let's talk about those steps
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that we need to take to get
you to turn those dreams into goals.
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