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Dear midlife mama with a book in your heart or a book sitting somewhere in your notebook or note app, this is for you.
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One day someone you love is going to wish they had your words.
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Give them your book.
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Now, welcome to the Minute Mastery Podcast, a conversational productivity and time management podcast where busy authors and entrepreneurs are inspired to create time for what truly matters.
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I'm your host, Gozi Edeva.
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I'm a time management coach, writer, and entrepreneur.
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Here you are encouraged to turn your minutes into milestones and to create at least one hour a day working on your goals without feeling overwhelmed.
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Writing your book now is what your grandchildren will thank you for in the future.
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Let me tell you why this is so important.
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My grandfather was a chef.
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Not a chef with a restaurant, not a chef with a name people outside our family would know, all the family he worked for.
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But when we visited him growing up, eating his food was a treat.
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A real treat.
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The kind of bill you remember with your whole body even decades later.
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I was young, I didn't ask questions, I didn't take notes, I didn't have to at the time.
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I just ate.
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I severed every single bite, never once worrying whether to write down what he was making or how he was making it.
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Because, well, as a child you think he will be there forever.
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But today I know better and sadly I don't even remember what half of those dishes were called.
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I was 17 when he passed, old enough to write down a few things, but at the time it didn't matter to me.
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My grandfather could have written something himself, but he didn't know too, and he didn't as well.
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That was the error.
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And that story, the story of everything I lost when I didn't write it down, is the reason I do the work I do now.
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Is the reason this channel exists.
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So today I want to slow down and really sit into this story with you because I think it holds something important for every midlife woman watching this right now.
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And if you have already figured it out, that is writing your own story and leaving it as a legacy for your grandchildren.
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Well done, that is not nothing.
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But having the idea alone isn't the same as knowing what to do with it.
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So if you are that stage, mainly I have something now what?
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Comment publish below because when you do, I will send you the next step so you know exactly what to do to take your idea from where it is right now to an actual published book.
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So let's go back to my grandfather.
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He lived in Nigeria in an era where recipes simply weren't written down.
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Cooking wasn't something you documented on a card or in a notebook.
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It was something you carried.
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It lived in his hands, in his memory, in years and years of practice that nobody ever put into words.
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He learned to cook the way most people of his generation did, by watching, and doing, and making mistakes and adjusting until a dish tested right.
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He probably could have told you exactly why he added a certain spice or where a particular dish came from or which relative taught him to make it.
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He probably had a story behind every single meal he made.
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But because he never wrote any of it down, not one recipe, not one paragraph, not one note about why a dish mattered to him.
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And now he's gone almost 40 years now, and every recipe he never wrote down went with him into the ground.
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Gone forever.
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And me ho and give almost anything for one page in his writing, one recipe, one paragraph, explaining why he made a certain dish for special occasions.
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One story about who taught him, or what was he thinking about why he cooked.
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But that page doesn't exist.
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That page will never exist.
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All I have left is the memory of severing food I can't even name anymore.
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A feeling without the facts to go with it.
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Here is what that experience has taught me, and it's something I don't think we talk about enough.
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We tend to think legacy means something big.
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Money, property, a name people recognize on the building.
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But more often, legacy is something much smaller, much quieter, and much more personal than that.
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Sometimes a legacy is a recipe.
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Sometimes it's the story of how someone met their spouse.
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Sometimes it's how someone survived something hard, a war, a move to a new country, a marriage that fell apart, a child they lost.
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Sometimes legacy is simply knowing who someone really was in their own words.
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It's not through the fuzzy, half-remembered Vashal that their grandchildren tell each other years later.
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And here's the painful truth.
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Most of that disappears.
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Not because people didn't live rich, meaningful, complicated lives.
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They did.
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It disappears, it disappears because nobody ever wrote it down while there was time to do so.
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This is exactly what happens in so many families.
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A grandmother's story about her childhood, a father's hard one business wisdom, a mother's account of raising six kids virtually alone.
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All of it lives only in memory, and memory doesn't last.
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Memory fades, it gets confused, it gets passed down secondhand until it barely matters or until it barely resembles the real thing.
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And then eventually it disappears with the person who held it.
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I think about my grandfather constantly when I think about this, not just what he cooked, but who he was underneath, what he was proud of, what he struggled with, what he wanted for his children and grandchildren.
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I'll never fully know because he never wrote it down.
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And I never asked why I had the chance.
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Many of you may have similar experiences, wishing we know more than we do right now, but all of that is lost.
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So if you're a midlife woman watching this right now, I want you to really hear what I'm about to say.
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You already have what my grandfather had.
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You have a story, you have a memory, a way of doing something, or surviving something, or loving someone that only you carry.
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Maybe it's your own version of his recipes, a way of cooking, a family tradition, a skill you picked up along the way.
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Maybe it's something much bigger.
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The story of your childhood, the story of a marriage, the story of raising your children or not being able to, the story of an illness you survived, or a career you built from nothing, or a fate journey that carried you through something unbearable.
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Right now, all of that lives in your head.
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It comes out in conversations at family dinners.
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It comes out when your kids ask questions at just the right moments.
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It comes out in fragments, in stories you tell out loud but have never once written down.
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And one day someone you love, a daughter, a son, a grandchild, a niece you barely think about right now, is going to wish they had all of it in your own words.
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They are going to sit somewhere quiet, missing you.
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Wishing they had asked more questions while they stay cold.
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Wishing they had one page in your handwriting, one recipe memory written the way only you could write.
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You have the chance to write it down while you stay calm.
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He didn't get that chance, or maybe, or maybe he did, and nobody encouraged him to take it.
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But you have it right now, today, while you are watching this video.
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So, what does it look like for you?
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This is exactly why I help midlife women write and publish books.
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Whether that is a book, a memo, or the story of your life.
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I want to be really clear about something.
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This is not about becoming a best-selling author.
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It's not about being a real writer, whatever that even means.
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Most of the women I work with have never written a book before in their life.
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I never wrote one before I wrote one.
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And I never even thought I was the sort of person that could write a book.
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Many midlife women think of themselves as mothers, grandmothers, nurses, teachers, business women.
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Women who have lived life to the full and simply never had a reason or the confidence to put any of it on paper.
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So, what this is actually is about taking what is in your head and your heart and turning it into something real, something your family can hold.
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Something that outlasts you.
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A book doesn't have to be 300 pages.
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It doesn't have to take five years to create.
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It doesn't have to sit unfinished in a drawer, the way so many of our stories do.
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With the right process and the right support, you can turn your story or your recipes or your children's book idea into a finished published book far faster than you think possible.
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So when I think about what it would have meant if my grandfather had done this, even a small book, 20 recipes, a paragraph next to each other in his own words about why it mattered, that book would be one of the most treasured things in our family.
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It would have outlived all of us.
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That is the kind of legacy I want to help you live.
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Not a perfect literary masterpiece, just your story in your words, finished and real.
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I don't want your story to disappear the way my grandfather's recipes did.
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If you have a story inside you right now, a memo, a children's book, a life you want to put into words before it's too late, I would love to help you get it done.
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Everything I teach and everything inside my program is built for exactly this moment.
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For exactly this kind of woman.
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A woman who has lived enough life to have something worth writing.
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And who just needs the right process to finally get it out of her head and onto the page.
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You may be wondering at this point, is my story good enough to be published?
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Well, many women ask that same question.
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I have been talking to a lot of I have been talking to a lot of midlife women lately, and their stories have stopped me in my tracks.
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Women who struggled with anxiety for years and never told anyone.
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Women who fought illnesses quietly, alone, while still showing up for everyone else.
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Women carrying grief, they never fully put into words.
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Women learning self-compassion for the first time in their 50s after decades of being hard on themselves.
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Every single one of them has felt that same nudge.
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A quiet voice saying, Write this down, write this down.
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So here is what I keep noticing.
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These women don't think their story is a book.
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They think it's just their life.
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Just something they went through.
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Just something they survived.
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So they push the notch away.
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They tell themselves someone else has already written this.
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They tell themselves their story isn't dramatic enough or unique enough or important enough to matter to anyone else.
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But that voice keeps coming back because deep down they know there is a woman out there right now in the middle of her own anxiety, our own illness, our own grief, who needs to hear that someone else made it true.
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Here is what I want you to understand why this story matters.
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You don't need a dramatic story to write a powerful book.
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You need an honest perspective.
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The woman who is anxious right now doesn't need a perfect story.
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She needs your story, the real one, the world where you didn't have it all figured out, the world where you were scared and tired and still kept going.
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That is not too ordinary to write.
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That is not too ordinary to publish.
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That is exactly what real people are looking for.
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So if you're sitting there right now with a story like this, anxiety, illness, grief, a hard season you came through, I already know the question in your head.
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Is my story good enough to publish?
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That question is the only thing standing between you and the book that has been waiting inside you for years.
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And I want to answer that question for you personally.
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If that is you, comment with the word clarity.
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When you do, I'll personally help you figure out whether your story is ready and what it will take to turn it into a published book.
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Not someday, not when you feel brave enough, but now why the nerd is still speaking to you.
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Comment clarity and let's find out together if this is the book you were meant to write.
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Until next time, you are in control of your time and you've got this.
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Dear midlife mama with a book in your heart or a book sitting somewhere in your notebook or note app, this is for you.
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One day someone you love is going to wish they had your words.
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Give them your book.
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Now, welcome to the Minute Mastery Podcast, a conversational productivity and time management podcast where busy authors and entrepreneurs are inspired to create time for what truly matters.
00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:29.839
I'm your host, Gozi Edeva.
00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.600
I'm a time management coach, writer, and entrepreneur.
00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:44.640
Here you are encouraged to turn your minutes into milestones and to create at least one hour a day working on your goals without feeling overwhelmed.
00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:50.159
Writing your book now is what your grandchildren will thank you for in the future.
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Let me tell you why this is so important.
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My grandfather was a chef.
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Not a chef with a restaurant, not a chef with a name people outside our family would know, all the family he worked for.
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But when we visited him growing up, eating his food was a treat.
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A real treat.
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The kind of bill you remember with your whole body even decades later.
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I was young, I didn't ask questions, I didn't take notes, I didn't have to at the time.
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I just ate.
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I severed every single bite, never once worrying whether to write down what he was making or how he was making it.
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Because, well, as a child you think he will be there forever.
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But today I know better and sadly I don't even remember what half of those dishes were called.
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I was 17 when he passed, old enough to write down a few things, but at the time it didn't matter to me.
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My grandfather could have written something himself, but he didn't know too, and he didn't as well.
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That was the error.
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And that story, the story of everything I lost when I didn't write it down, is the reason I do the work I do now.
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Is the reason this channel exists.
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So today I want to slow down and really sit into this story with you because I think it holds something important for every midlife woman watching this right now.
00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:26.719
And if you have already figured it out, that is writing your own story and leaving it as a legacy for your grandchildren.
00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.159
Well done, that is not nothing.
00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.039
But having the idea alone isn't the same as knowing what to do with it.
00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.479
So if you are that stage, mainly I have something now what?
00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:54.319
Comment publish below because when you do, I will send you the next step so you know exactly what to do to take your idea from where it is right now to an actual published book.
00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.479
So let's go back to my grandfather.
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He lived in Nigeria in an era where recipes simply weren't written down.
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Cooking wasn't something you documented on a card or in a notebook.
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It was something you carried.
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It lived in his hands, in his memory, in years and years of practice that nobody ever put into words.
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He learned to cook the way most people of his generation did, by watching, and doing, and making mistakes and adjusting until a dish tested right.
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He probably could have told you exactly why he added a certain spice or where a particular dish came from or which relative taught him to make it.
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He probably had a story behind every single meal he made.
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But because he never wrote any of it down, not one recipe, not one paragraph, not one note about why a dish mattered to him.
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And now he's gone almost 40 years now, and every recipe he never wrote down went with him into the ground.
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Gone forever.
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And me ho and give almost anything for one page in his writing, one recipe, one paragraph, explaining why he made a certain dish for special occasions.
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One story about who taught him, or what was he thinking about why he cooked.
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But that page doesn't exist.
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That page will never exist.
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All I have left is the memory of severing food I can't even name anymore.
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A feeling without the facts to go with it.
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Here is what that experience has taught me, and it's something I don't think we talk about enough.
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We tend to think legacy means something big.
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Money, property, a name people recognize on the building.
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But more often, legacy is something much smaller, much quieter, and much more personal than that.
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Sometimes a legacy is a recipe.
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Sometimes it's the story of how someone met their spouse.
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Sometimes it's how someone survived something hard, a war, a move to a new country, a marriage that fell apart, a child they lost.
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Sometimes legacy is simply knowing who someone really was in their own words.
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It's not through the fuzzy, half-remembered Vashal that their grandchildren tell each other years later.
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And here's the painful truth.
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Most of that disappears.
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Not because people didn't live rich, meaningful, complicated lives.
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They did.
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It disappears, it disappears because nobody ever wrote it down while there was time to do so.
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This is exactly what happens in so many families.
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A grandmother's story about her childhood, a father's hard one business wisdom, a mother's account of raising six kids virtually alone.
00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:16.560
All of it lives only in memory, and memory doesn't last.
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Memory fades, it gets confused, it gets passed down secondhand until it barely matters or until it barely resembles the real thing.
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And then eventually it disappears with the person who held it.
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I think about my grandfather constantly when I think about this, not just what he cooked, but who he was underneath, what he was proud of, what he struggled with, what he wanted for his children and grandchildren.
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I'll never fully know because he never wrote it down.
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And I never asked why I had the chance.
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Many of you may have similar experiences, wishing we know more than we do right now, but all of that is lost.
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So if you're a midlife woman watching this right now, I want you to really hear what I'm about to say.
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You already have what my grandfather had.
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You have a story, you have a memory, a way of doing something, or surviving something, or loving someone that only you carry.
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Maybe it's your own version of his recipes, a way of cooking, a family tradition, a skill you picked up along the way.
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Maybe it's something much bigger.
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The story of your childhood, the story of a marriage, the story of raising your children or not being able to, the story of an illness you survived, or a career you built from nothing, or a fate journey that carried you through something unbearable.
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Right now, all of that lives in your head.
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It comes out in conversations at family dinners.
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It comes out when your kids ask questions at just the right moments.
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It comes out in fragments, in stories you tell out loud but have never once written down.
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And one day someone you love, a daughter, a son, a grandchild, a niece you barely think about right now, is going to wish they had all of it in your own words.
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They are going to sit somewhere quiet, missing you.
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Wishing they had asked more questions while they stay cold.
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Wishing they had one page in your handwriting, one recipe memory written the way only you could write.
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You have the chance to write it down while you stay calm.
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He didn't get that chance, or maybe, or maybe he did, and nobody encouraged him to take it.
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But you have it right now, today, while you are watching this video.
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So, what does it look like for you?
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This is exactly why I help midlife women write and publish books.
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Whether that is a book, a memo, or the story of your life.
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I want to be really clear about something.
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This is not about becoming a best-selling author.
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It's not about being a real writer, whatever that even means.
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Most of the women I work with have never written a book before in their life.
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I never wrote one before I wrote one.
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And I never even thought I was the sort of person that could write a book.
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Many midlife women think of themselves as mothers, grandmothers, nurses, teachers, business women.
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Women who have lived life to the full and simply never had a reason or the confidence to put any of it on paper.
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So, what this is actually is about taking what is in your head and your heart and turning it into something real, something your family can hold.
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Something that outlasts you.
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A book doesn't have to be 300 pages.
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It doesn't have to take five years to create.
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It doesn't have to sit unfinished in a drawer, the way so many of our stories do.
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With the right process and the right support, you can turn your story or your recipes or your children's book idea into a finished published book far faster than you think possible.
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So when I think about what it would have meant if my grandfather had done this, even a small book, 20 recipes, a paragraph next to each other in his own words about why it mattered, that book would be one of the most treasured things in our family.
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It would have outlived all of us.
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That is the kind of legacy I want to help you live.
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Not a perfect literary masterpiece, just your story in your words, finished and real.
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I don't want your story to disappear the way my grandfather's recipes did.
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If you have a story inside you right now, a memo, a children's book, a life you want to put into words before it's too late, I would love to help you get it done.
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Everything I teach and everything inside my program is built for exactly this moment.
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For exactly this kind of woman.
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A woman who has lived enough life to have something worth writing.
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And who just needs the right process to finally get it out of her head and onto the page.
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You may be wondering at this point, is my story good enough to be published?
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Well, many women ask that same question.
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I have been talking to a lot of I have been talking to a lot of midlife women lately, and their stories have stopped me in my tracks.
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Women who struggled with anxiety for years and never told anyone.
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Women who fought illnesses quietly, alone, while still showing up for everyone else.
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Women carrying grief, they never fully put into words.
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Women learning self-compassion for the first time in their 50s after decades of being hard on themselves.
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Every single one of them has felt that same nudge.
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A quiet voice saying, Write this down, write this down.
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So here is what I keep noticing.
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These women don't think their story is a book.
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They think it's just their life.
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Just something they went through.
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Just something they survived.
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So they push the notch away.
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They tell themselves someone else has already written this.
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They tell themselves their story isn't dramatic enough or unique enough or important enough to matter to anyone else.
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But that voice keeps coming back because deep down they know there is a woman out there right now in the middle of her own anxiety, our own illness, our own grief, who needs to hear that someone else made it true.
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Here is what I want you to understand why this story matters.
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You don't need a dramatic story to write a powerful book.
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You need an honest perspective.
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The woman who is anxious right now doesn't need a perfect story.
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She needs your story, the real one, the world where you didn't have it all figured out, the world where you were scared and tired and still kept going.
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That is not too ordinary to write.
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That is not too ordinary to publish.
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That is exactly what real people are looking for.
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So if you're sitting there right now with a story like this, anxiety, illness, grief, a hard season you came through, I already know the question in your head.
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Is my story good enough to publish?
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That question is the only thing standing between you and the book that has been waiting inside you for years.
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And I want to answer that question for you personally.
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If that is you, comment with the word clarity.
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When you do, I'll personally help you figure out whether your story is ready and what it will take to turn it into a published book.
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Not someday, not when you feel brave enough, but now why the nerd is still speaking to you.
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Comment clarity and let's find out together if this is the book you were meant to write.
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