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Hi there, Colleen here on the Hear, Not There podcast, finding our way back to presence,
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connection and delight.
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Hey there, this is Colleen, your host, and I'm actually coming to you guys as a bonus
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episode that's a little bit before the usual release during our biweekly cycle, because
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I am launching my book, July 21st, and I wanted to make sure that my listeners, you all got
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an opportunity to join my book launch team and to just tell you a little bit about it.
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And also to mention that I will be taking a little bit of time off while I'm launching
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the book. And yeah, just, you know, if you want to connect with me, I would actually
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say, join the launch team. I'm going to be doing some Zoom calls where you can actually,
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you know, interact with me one-on-one or within a group setting on a Zoom call and ask questions
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about the book. So I'm really excited. I mean, honestly, I think it would be so fun to, you know,
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I do this podcast and, you know, I just see numbers of people and I would love to actually
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see you in person to hear who you are and to just kind of hear, you know, that you listen
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to the podcast and to put a face with a name or a number with a name and a face.
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So let me tell you a little bit about the book launch team. So it's The Shattered Soul,
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is the book that I wrote, and it releases July 21st, which is next month. It's less than a month
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away. And I'm just going to kind of read a little bit from the form that I've created that if you
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are interested, I'm going to put the form in the description of the episode and you can,
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you know, just go fill it out. I am going to be starting my Zoom calls next week. So if you want
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to hop on the Zoom call and get access to an early copy of the book, this, yeah, it's available to
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you. It'll be available to you to fill out, but we will probably have a cutoff time where at some
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point, obviously, you know, I'm not going to be doing it anymore, but it'll go for four weeks.
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So let me go ahead and read you some of the information. So as a member of the launch team,
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you'll receive an early access copy of The Shattered Soul, but you need to, you know,
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provide proof of purchase. So you'll pre-order the book wherever you get your books, but then
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you get an early access through Tyndale that we give you digitally. Of course, please don't share
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this. It's copyright material. And then there's exclusive access to weekly Zoom calls with me
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from 8 to 9 Eastern Standard Time and 5 to 6 Pacific on June 30th. These are all Tuesdays,
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June 30th, July 7th, July 14th, and then July 21st, which is when the book releases. And then there's
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access to a private Facebook group with weekly engagement. I'll be also putting some bonus
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content on there, which is like, you know, when I was writing the book, there were some things that
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didn't make it into the manuscript just because there's only so many words. And so it's still
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important information. Maybe it'll find its way in another book in the future, but I thought this
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would be great to, you know, share this kind of bonus content with you all, just some different
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things that I thought were important but didn't make it in the book. And then, of course, an
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opportunity to share the book with your audience. I'll be providing some social media things that
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you can share or ways that you can talk about it with your church. And then to participate,
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to be on the launch team, obviously, you know, we're launching the book. And so I already mentioned
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pre-ordering The Shattered Soul, and then read it. You know, I'll have you guys on a schedule
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of reading so that each Zoom call, we're going to be covering certain chapters. Once you get into
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the Facebook group, I have all that information in there. So by the 21st of July, though, to have
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had the book read. And then to leave a review. You know, when people leave a review, it actually,
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you know, all the algorithm gods like I've talked about and all the different, you know, things that
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the internet does to make things happen, sometimes it feels like, you know, it's kind of a guessing
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game, but actually leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads really helps to, you know, promote the
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book or to get it into more people's hands that really need it. And then another thing to participate
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is to post about the book at least once on social media to just kind of talk about it, to share your
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experience reading it. And it could even be while we're, you know, going through the launch process,
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and maybe there was a chapter that really resonated with you, and you want to post about that.
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I'll provide, again, some social media, you know, graphics that you can use,
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and then share the book with your church, your ministry, maybe do a book club, your email list,
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or other community, you know, networking. You know, I think that even though I wrote the book,
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it just really takes a village to spread it. And I'm just really hoping that truly it gets into
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the hands of the people that need it. And so I think that you are a big part of that. And if you
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want to support that, of course, if this is something that is not of interest to you, you
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know, maybe you know somebody who it interests, but don't, you know, don't feel pressure to be
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a part of this, but I would love for you to join me on this journey. And so it also has just a few
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areas of, you know, ideas for you to share, places to share. And once you submit the form,
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and you upload like a proof of purchase, it'll be like a, you know, confirmation number that
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you've purchased the book. Then it will send you some information about the private Facebook group,
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the Zoom calls, as well as the digital copy of the book. So I, yeah, I wanted to hop on
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and mention this. I know the next episode that I usually release would be next week, but I wanted
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to come on and mention this because I've just released this information today. See, so the
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29th, I normally would have released an episode. I think what I'm probably going to do is the next
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time I release an episode is going to be, let's see, the 27th. And so that'll be after the book
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release. And there is somebody who I have who's going to be interviewing me on my book, on my
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podcast that will come out shortly after that as well. But during this time while I'm launching
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the book, I'm going to be kind of taking some time to be as present as I possibly can to the
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book launch team, but also not to overload myself. I think that a lot of people, you know, try to do
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it all. And I'm very aware of my own capacity and that I will need this time to be able to
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devote to the book launch. But if you're interested, I would love to have you. I would love to see your face.
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I'm so glad you were here with me today. If this episode encouraged you, take a moment to follow,
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share, and like it on Facebook. That's how this space keeps growing.
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And may the God of presence, connection, and delight find you today in the little mercies along the way.
