Plug Talk | Welcome to Admin Social Club

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Welcome back to the Elevate Collection podcast.
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Today is a very special episode.
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This is the Plug Talk series, which, if you're not familiar, is a mini-series with just Alex and I.
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And we go through things that we're doing to build the Elevate business as mothers, wives, women, and founders.
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Welcome back to Plug Talk, Alex.
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It's been a minute.
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It has been a minute since we've gotten one of these down and recorded, but look at us making it happen.
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Here we go.
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Well, today is a very special day because we did something brand new today that's a new concept that we're rolling with the DLM collection.
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Tell our listeners what we did.
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Yeah, we launched what we call Admin Social Club.
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Admin Social Club is exactly what it sounds like.
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It is a social club where we get together and we are in community, but we're just crossing things off the list.
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Both Jordan and I are actually neurodivergent.
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We both have ADHD, and that is not self-diagnosed, that is professionally diagnosed.
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And one of the things that have been proven to help with like accomplishing tasks, things like that, especially the mundane things that we don't really enjoy doing, has been body doubling.
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And so it kind of burst from the idea of like, we're not the only ones like this.
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It was so cool to see everyone come together today to one, knock off things off their to-do list, but also find community in each other, even in unexpected ways.
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It was really cool because as you were body doubling next to someone, you were kind of overhearing sort of what they were working on.
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And then it facilitated really beautiful and natural conversations.
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And I think this is going to turn into something really beautiful where this community can come together to find maybe all puns intended to elevate each other.
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Well, that's you know, like that's the model of elevate.
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We elevate by elevating other lives of other people, and this is something I find so beautiful because it's there's so much intentionality behind it as far as what you're looking to do.
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And it's really about yourself.
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Like it's like I know that there's things that I need to take care of, but I also know that there's other people in my world that need to take care of the things that they need to take care of as well.
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So we get to do this in community over excellent coffee over in beautiful environments, and then we get to do this thing that gives us a dopamine hit, which is crossing things off of a list.
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Can you give our listeners an example of something you crossed off the list today, just so they can get a feel for what that looks like?
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And what was the timeline?
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When did you get that task assigned to you?
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You know exactly what task it was for me.
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So the task that I needed to get done that I had just been putting on off, and not because I didn't think it was important, but often I prioritize my work and like other things that give me more of a dopamine hit.
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I do those things first.
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But I had been given my mammogram order back on June 24th.
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And today is September 3rd.
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So I finally scheduled my mammogram and just I had to get it done.
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It's not like it took a long time.
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I just hadn't done it.
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It was one of those things that was always movable on the list.
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And today it was like it was immovable.
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Get it done, crossing the things off that are maintaining necessary for us to maintain our lives.
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It was really fun because we got to partner with a local business.
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Shout out to One Day in Paris.
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We love One Day, not even just One Day in Paris, but Celini Lau is an absolutely incredible human being over at One Day in Paris.
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And fun fact, she also has 888 tattooed on her, so we knew it was absolutely meant to be.
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But we are going to be working on a partnership with One Day in Paris to be hosting some type of event, hopefully this one, hopefully at least once a month.
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But we're also hopeful to bring it to other local businesses in different parts of the city so that we can reach different groups of people.
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Yeah, and like what's so beautiful about I think what we do here at Elevate that brings us so much joy is that, well, yes, there's things that I need to get done, but the birthing of Admin Social Club was also an effort to serve other people, and it just is a constant reminder of creating safe spaces for our community, for our people, for anyone just to show up, exist as their authentic selves and and do what they need to do for themselves too.
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So essentially, they walked out the elevate way by just showing up for themselves.
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Now, I was a little more hesitant on the admin social club when you first brought up the idea, but I quickly came around to it.
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And it was really beautiful to watch you take an idea that you had in your mind and really run with it.
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And it was even more incredible to see the women who showed up, how they showed up in the room, how the patrons of the restaurant were curious about what we were doing, and even the employees asked to connect with us to so cool.
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Genuinely create more third places in the world, which I think this is where the world is headed right now, more intentional connection.
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And of course, we did create some content just so we can introduce the people, but it wasn't about that.
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There, you know, there were no sponsors to this, there were no, you know, necessary outcomes.
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It was truly just a space to show up in and be in community.
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And gosh, what a beautiful feeling it was to be able to give that to our community.
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And that is the plug talk.
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It has to like that that's it, guys.
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That's a mic job.
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Like that is the beauty of community.
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Showing up authentically as yourself, doing what you need to do.
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Period.
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Like I don't know.
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It's it's difficult to not that it's difficult to talk about, but uh it's difficult to elaborate on because I feel like it just is.
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It just is, and I think that's the beauty of community, is it just is.
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I know that sounds like I'm explaining uh community by using the word community almost, but it really is.
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It's in relationship.
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It is it is being yourself in a space that feels comfortable around people that you may have just met or not have just met, that you feel comfortable to share what you're working on, what you need, and even make that big ask at the end of the conversation.
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It just is.
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Community is essential, I think, to our existence and that connection piece that we're able to foster today, and just the first one that wasn't even marketed.
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It was just hand-selected of just like, okay, here are some people that we think could really benefit from these things.
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And it turned into something really, really beautiful.
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And I can't wait to see some of the things that could come out of those connections that were made today that happened organically.
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It was really beautiful to talk about in our breakdown, you know, just looking around the room and everyone while in community was working independently.
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There were people who were taking their work calls.
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You know, we had someone go out and take a call in the lobby, someone who go outside and take a call, and then come back and celebrate the wins together.
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Like what an intentional way to celebrate the closing of the loop and getting those little dopamine hits.
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Well, she's a good little dopamine hit.
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Alex, what do you see the future of admin social club looking like?
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I love this question because I can see it better than I can tell it.
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And I know that's always difficult for me because I can see things, events in my head.
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Like it's it's more of a vision thing that I get.
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But I think it could be something really beautiful where it could turn into something that's large scale that allows people to come in and take care of their things, their life maintenance.
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Maybe it's a life maintenance weekend, maybe it's a life maintenance day, maybe it's a full reset that incorporates your mind, body, soul, business, social, all the things.
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I know it's more than just uh us meeting up at uh a coffee shop and crossing things off the list.
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I think it can be bigger than that because life is bigger than that.
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But there's something more here, and I'm excited to figure out what that something is put together.
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Me too.
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And thank you for following your gut and trusting your intuition.
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I'm so proud to be your business partner, and I'm so proud of what we're building with this community.
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Me too, and that's that's on partnership.
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Before we even finish this plug talk out, I think it's really important to talk about that.
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Is one of the beautiful things in partnership is that you get to be in community with each other and trust each other's judgment.
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And even if you don't necessarily see it all the way through, as far as like the vision, like the vision of what it could be or what it couldn't be, but have enough trust and be like, hey, like I don't know about it, but like I trust you, and that is sufficient.
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And I am so grateful that we get to exist in that space together.
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Oh, me too.
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What a beautiful gift we have to be in partnership with each other.
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All right, for those of you out there who are listening, we invite you to join our next admin social day.
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Be on the lookout for the release date of that.
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And also let us know what you could benefit from an admin social club.
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If you have any ideas around it, any types of service providers you would like to see there.
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Yes.
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Any ways we can show up as a community and create the third place that you need.
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Sounds good.
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We'll see y'all soon.