Episode 90

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27th Sep 2024

Ep 90. Course Creation for Busy Moms: Create Your Course in 6 Weeks or Less w/Zanny Byron-Davis

Do you have lots of online course ideas but you don't know where to start? This episode is for you. Zanny gives us her simple steps to creating an online course. We also discuss the challenges busy moms face in balancing our ambitions with being present for our kids

This episode isn’t just about empowering you in online course creation—it’s a message to mom entrepreneurs about remembering your worth and the value you bring to your family and the world.

About Zanny

Zanny is a wife, mom of 2 amazing babies under 5, lover of Jesus and a Christian Life and Business Coach. After starting her online business in 2017 and having various offers that supports women, she now helps other moms to package their unique gifts and skills into their own online course for passive income and time freedom without feeling overwhelmed, using complicated ads or technology drama.

Using platforms such as Mailerlite and Thinkific you can create your course with ease in 6 weeks or less with her programs.

Born and raised on the beautiful Caribbean island St. Vincent and the Grenadines, she now lives in the UK. She loves traveling and going on adventures with my family, cooking healthy fun meals, eating and cake and serving the Lord.

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You are now tuned in to the mom CEO suite podcast.

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I'm your host, Felicia, wife, mom and

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entrepreneur. In this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur

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journey along with strategies that will help you build your online

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business operations in a sustainable way. The goal is

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to help you build a business that fits into your lifestyle as a mom who

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values putting family first. We will also hear the

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experiences and expertise of other moms with service

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based businesses. You'll get a peek into our journeys, so you'll

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know that you aren't alone. Motherhood gets hard.

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Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together, we can

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do hard things. Welcome to The Suite.

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Hey friends, today our guest is Zanny Byron Davis.

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She is a wife, mom of two amazing babies under five,

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lover of Jesus and a Christian life in business woman.

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After starting her online business in

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2017 and having various offers that supports

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women, she now helps other moms to package their unique

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gifts and skills into their own online course for

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passive income and time freedom without feeling

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overwhelmed using complicated ads Or

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technology drama using platforms such as

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MailerLite and Thinkific, you can create your course with ease

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in six weeks or less with her programs. She

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was born and raised on the beautiful Caribbean Island, St. Vincent and the

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Grenadines. And she now lives in the UK.

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She loves to travel, going on adventures with her family, cooking

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healthy, fun meals, eating good food. Eating cake and serving the

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Lord. I absolutely love that. Zannie, how are you? Welcome to the

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suite. I am doing really well. Thank you so much. I'm listening to

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you read that. I'm going like, Oh, really? I love

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it. always like that Yes.

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But It always sounds so

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great. thank you

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so much. I'm happy to be here. I'm really happy to have this conversation with

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you. I think it's really needed and yeah, let's get into

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it. Yes, I'm so excited. So before we get into all the course

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creation stuff, let's talk a little bit more about you, your

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business specifically, um, how you help people create their

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courses and also just more about who you are as a person. Let us

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know. Absolutely. So as you heard there, I'm not going to recap

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the whole bio, but yes, I started in the online space since 2017.

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And you know, when I started at that time, to be fair, there weren't a

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lot of people doing coaching and courses, I remember.

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I'm a military partner, so my husband's military, um, with the

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British forces. And I was in, so we lived in Germany and

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we then moved to Cyprus. And so this was in 2017 when

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I was working a 9 to 5 in Cyprus that I came

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across the idea of coaching and courses in the online space and I had

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so much free time. My husband is like one of these type A's, just always

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working, always out and I always had free time. I didn't have kids at the

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time. And so I started blogging and at the time

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I, I just heard God say, you know, so one day I read treasures, my

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relationship with God and hearing from him. And one time I was like praying and

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asking God like I have so much free time I need to you know Like

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we could be in one of those states where you want to be more productive

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and do stuff So I used to do baking I used to do all of

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these things And God said to me You know, I have a degree, I

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have a degree in international tourism management. I also was a travel

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agent and, um, I travel quite a lot. And regardless,

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like, use what you already have. Like, you don't have to go out there and

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do anything different. You can use whatever you have. So I started blogging. I remember

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getting that paid, um, opportunity to be published in the

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Condé Nast. So, you know, I started out really good, you know,

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talking travel and just really helping women to be more confident with their

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travels and traveling on a budget and all of that. So when I

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transited into coaching, because when I saw this thing online about you actually

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helping other women, I was like, I want to do that. I really want to

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do that. I had such a desire to do that. And so my first business

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coach helped me to package data games. I became a travel life coach to

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begin with. So I was helping women, coaching them through travel, and I loved

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every minute of it. Right, but then I became a mom and that's a

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whole different transition, you know in 2000 2019 I

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gave birth to my daughter and it was a journey in faith because we know

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we were trying for a long time There's a bit of I don't want to

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say fertility issues But it was a long delay and I was really trusting god

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and my partner and I were really trusting god for this child and You know

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when it did come when we did get pregnant and stuff Then I had these

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huge fears around childbirth and I was so worried about giving

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birth I think a lot of first time moms go through that and i'm all

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about the natural I know I don't like I don't like surgeries and all of

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these things. And I remember praying and the way I came across this

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technique called hypnobirthing, it was truly God. It's like a friend mentioned it

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to me before I was pregnant and I moved to the UK and then the

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midwife mentioned it again without knowing I knew anything about

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hypnobirthing. God, this is a sign from you. So I did the hip

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deberthing program and I gave birth within my daughter within three

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hours naturally. And I was like, God, that was the most miraculous thing that ever

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happened to me. I was so amazed with it. And it was so fast forward.

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I then became a practitioner. I hit the button practitioner from there. And

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then obviously as I was doing that, I felt called to just really go

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back to that life coaching aspect. And then I've done

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businesses related to my unique gifts and talents. And so that's how I've

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come to become a business coach and where I help now with course

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creations. I love

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that story. And you know, I always like hearing people's journey because

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it's never linear, right? It's always a bunch of different

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experiences, whether it's up or down, but they all.

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work together to get you to where you are now. And I love that you

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said, you know, when you asked God what you should be doing, he said,

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use what you have. Right. And I think a lot of times we just try

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to get another certification or, join a course

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or try to go back to school, whatever it is we're trying to do, or

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give, give ourselves excuses or reasons for not

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starting. But we literally have all that we

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need to start, right? You might need something else as you go

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along, but you have all you need in your hands right now to start.

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so I love that you said that. Now you started talking about your

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daughter and you had your first child in 2019. And

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I know you have a second one now. So

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your motherhood journey, um, are you

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loving right now in this season of motherhood? Oh my goodness. You

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know, from even before I got pregnant, I always knew that I want

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to be a stay at home mom and I want to be present for my

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children. And that's one of the desire for me. for a long time. And as

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you mentioned, I, we are blessed with a little boy. He's going

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on three months. He is the sweetest little thing. And the thing is with

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this one as well, with this birth, it's, this is the thing. God just blows

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all mine sometime. Like I didn't have the lovely experience in the

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sense of hitting the birth in with him, which I really tried to do, but

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he was breached. And so we ended up having to do a C section. And

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I was so worried about that C section, but I just, went back again to

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faith, like just kept trusting God. And even though we did the C section, it

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was nothing as expected. It was so seamless. It was so easy. And

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I kind of just heard God say like, you know, sometimes we just need to

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have the different experiences, not always going to be the way that we want it

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to. But it's always going to be the way that he wants it to, you

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know? And so as a mother, I really just value being there for

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my kids. I said to people like, you know, sometimes you could, as moms, especially

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I have a five year old and she's such an energizer for me and everything,

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mommy, mommy, mommy this, mommy that, you know, sometimes I go like. If I hear

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mommy one more time, but I love it so much. I love it. The

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fact that she comes to me and she needs my help and she needs me.

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I'm a little boy. Now is in the stage that when I walk into the

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room with his dad, he just lights up and he just wasn't to laugh when

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he sees me. And it's just these little moments. I just love being present for

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them. Because I realized that time goes by so fast and I'm going to be

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looking back and going like, Oh, I don't want to be in that state where

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they're young and I'm rushing it. You know what I mean? I said to her

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friend, I don't want to be rushing this stage. And I'm looking back and going,

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If I could be there when they were five and two and just be present,

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you know, so it's just that I just love it Yeah,

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I resonate with that a lot. And I think a lot of people listening as

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well, just having the privilege, um, to be able

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to be in a position to be present with your children. Sometimes

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people, their circumstances may not allow that, and it may be a desire for

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them, but to have the desire and also the privilege. Through

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entrepreneurship to be able to do that. It's definitely something

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that, you know, I resonate with and just don't take

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lightly at all because like you said, they grow up so fast and it is

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challenging because my two they're home with me. I have a 3 year old. Well,

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she'll be 3 next month. Um. She's three and I have an eight month old

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Oh, wow Love

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it so I get it, you know, she's very active

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now and the little ones, he's starting to crawl everywhere and go up the steps

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and it can be a lot, but like you said, you, you're always

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reminded like this time goes by fast and just being

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able to be there with them and not miss out on these moments. It

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is such a blessing. So I definitely, And not only that I want to add

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to that like being present doesn't just mean like actually physically being there It's being

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mentally present right and that's exactly why I started with the

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Courses with passive income, and we're going to that, of course, because the thing is,

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even as entrepreneurs as humans, right? We are with our kids, but we're

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thinking, Oh, I need to do this. I need to do that. And so I,

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when I'm like in that moment where I'm thinking I have a long list of

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to do list, I'm like, no, I want to be present right here in

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this moment. Acknowledging that they're here and being

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involved and not let my mind go wandering. So that is super important

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as well. yes, that's, I'm glad you made

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that, that distinction there, because like you say, you can

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be there physically, but not totally be there, or you can be there and trying

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to get work done and they're just kind of around and don't have your

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attention is one of the reasons why I literally just stopped

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trying to do work while they were around. Because. It was just causing

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too much frustration. And then they were also not getting the attention that they

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needed. So, I'm glad you pointed that out. But since you started

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mentioning the course creation, let's, let's get into that now.

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what have been some of the biggest mistakes that you've seen

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when people are actually trying to create their courses?

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Yeah. So firstly, even before we got to, we get to that, like when

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I created my first course, I remember that I had that desire from

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since 2017. I had that desire to create a course, but

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just starting out, I, you know, I think I get in my, got into my

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head. Like, I think a lot of us moms at the time I wasn't a

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mom, but a lot of us people, women, we go through this, right? I don't

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even know where to start. Start I feel so overwhelmed. You don't know how to

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even get started to do what to do, what to do. Right. And so

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this was just after the pandemic. I remember God putting it in my heart

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again. I think this was 2022, if I'm correct, um, create a

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course. And I was like, I don't know, like, what am I going to

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create a course on, you know, at the time my daughter would have been probably

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two or three, she was start just in nursery, I think for three hours,

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two days, she was doing Tuesdays Three hours. in the U. S.

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um, child care is expensive as here, but she was just doing half

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days, you know, so I only had like three hours in

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for two days, you know, and so I

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remember, and then God said to me, you know, you've learned to hear from me,

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connect with me, really just have that deeper relationship, because I really

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did go through a transition where I've had a spiritual growth during the pandemic, you

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know, and I just started to hear God so much clearly in my business,

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and literally with In that same three hours when my daughter was at

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school, I created my very first course. Like everything just

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downloaded to me while I was spending with God. And I just created the course

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with it. So you could say like within the week I was, it was created

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and it was selling. And I was like, God, this is amazing, you know?

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So just to go back to that question is like, where do you get started?

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I think again, going back to it is. What do you have? What do

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you know? What is it that people ask you about? What is it you can't

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you're confident about? What is it that knowledge that you have experienced for yourself or

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you've done a research for yourself? And now you can then teach somebody

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else with that. That is where I would say you get started.

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Yeah. And, um, just kind of going back to what you mentioned,

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You created your course in a week? Yes

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A week. Okay. Now, one of the

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things that I do know is that people, some people are gifted

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for certain things, right? And they have the, what's the word that I'm looking

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for? The grace.

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Okay, is. People are Yes, and

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so I think with you, like your grace to be able to

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do this quickly because somebody else might struggle with, like you

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mentioned, uh, where do I start? What do I talk about? And it may take

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months, right? Cause I've even had experiences where it's like, I have an idea, but

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it was taking me forever to, just even map the thing out. but if you're

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able to do it in a week, then that just goes to show like, okay,

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this is not something that you're trying to do, but you have the expertise and

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it's something that you're also graced for to be able to lead other people,

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with that grace to see, some similar results to what you've had. So

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I wanted to point that piece out because I know you help people create their

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courses in what, six weeks, is it six weeks or six weeks or

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less? we go less anyone obviously I did one I did my day one

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week so I don't ever say you can't do it You know, it's just a

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matter of as I said before just getting I'm just getting clay when

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you get clear and I teach this Um very much in

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my programs and I think I just a YouTube video on this actually where I

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was sharing with you You need to get clear on who you're serving,

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um, what you're serving them, as in what problem you're going to be

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solving for them, and the how, which is your process or the

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information that you're giving, you know. Once you're clear on those three things, like

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that is going to propel you to create your course, because I feel like when

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we're just starting, we are so hooked up on websites and what

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platform and all of these things. And to be fair, those things come like

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literally last because your content is what is most important. So

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once you get, and that's why I said, um, you know, I really connected with

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God because that's one of the things that I teach too is just because God

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is going to give you clarity. The Lord is going to download to you and

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let you see things that you probably weren't blinded to before, or

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you will feel overwhelmed around. And once you spend that time with God and put

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intentionally about your business or your course, God is so

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faithful. He will show you, you know? And so once you get clear on those

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things, like that's it, that's all you need. And then it's just a matter of,

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as you said, like probably using my expertise to then help you to set it

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up quicker. And you know, you don't have to be faffing around with

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whatever platform, trying to figure it out on your own. Yes. That's

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so good. Now I'm curious, since you work with women and especially moms,

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do you find that something that hinders them from kind of getting

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started is this whole idea of imposter syndrome

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or like, who am I to be doing this course or anything

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related to that? And how do you kind of address that when you're working

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with them? Absolutely. Like I always say the scripture

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and you know, as I'm speaking to you, I may be misquoting it, but you

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know, the scripture says that I am not giving you a spirit of fear, but

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of power and of love and of a sound mind. I always say that to

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everybody because the thing is, especially as women,

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Mothers, we have so much to give. The enemy is

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scared of us because we, you know, we doubt ourselves so

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much. Like so many of us have gone through so many experiences. How many of

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us have degrees? How many of us have like, you know, experience in the workplace

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for how many years people come to us, ask us to train us all of

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these things we have, but yet we don't want to say we are an expert

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because expert sounds too big, but we literally, we are experts in

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our fields. We know what we know, but yet we doubt ourselves so much.

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so much. So one of the things I really teach you is to get into

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who you are, know how God sees you and

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start to see yourself. And this is a transition for myself as well, because

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I constantly, I think as humans, we do that, especially women. We

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constantly doubt what we do. We constantly doubt who God has said that

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we are because we're not seeing it. seeing that right now, but we have to

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start to see ourselves through God's eyes. And I use scripture and I used

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affirmations and all of these things to remind us and drill it

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into the subconscious mind that this is who God says that you are. You know,

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this is so important. This is like a whole reframing of the mind. And this

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goes back to, I think it's Romans 12 and 12. Don't quote me, but it

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does say like, um, you need to renew your mind, right?

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Don't confirm to the world, but renew your mind. And that's very, very

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important when it comes to imposter syndrome. That's so good.

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So good. Um, okay. So, They've gotten past the

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imposter syndrome. They, they know who they're serving. Is

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there anything else that they need to have in place prior

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to starting to create their course? No, to

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be fair, if you're clear on those three things, because if,

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for example, you know who you're serving, so let's say, let's just break it down.

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You know who. It's your target audience and target students, right?

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So because you know who that person is, you're going to know, of course, their

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problems, the stuff that they're going through. So therefore you're going to be able to

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speak into that because you know, right? So like you, you're reading, you're reading

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from a book when it comes to them, right? When you think about the, what

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is like, what the problem that they have that, you know, you can solve with

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your skills and your, you know, your experiences or whatever that may be.

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So then again, you are also familiar with the problem and you're also familiar with

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the solutions. So that's gonna be really perfect for you to speak into

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that and really connect with those people going through that problem. And then going back

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to the how, which is your process. So, for example, you may have had

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some particular steps that you took that you were able to create that solution for

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yourself, whatever that may be. So then you are then showing that same

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people that you know what you're talking about, like you have done those steps. And

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if they do that exact step, they're going to get that results as well. So

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once you tackle that, you get that clarity and you brainstorm around and get clear

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on that. And then you deal with the feedback. Fair and imposter syndrome. Nothing can

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stop you. You are on the path. You know, it's just a matter of just

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choosing a platform. And I always say, choose one that is easy for

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you and one that's not gonna hinder you. Because I think sometimes we wanna go

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into this elaborate stuff, like we could be so simple. And this is

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why I teach Thinking fake and male life, because as you, I shared

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with you, and that's how I did mine in a week. Like I didn't overthink

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it. And literally that these platforms are so easy. And one of

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the things that I have introduced as well in my business is I'm done for

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you service because I understand that as moms, we don't necessarily have the

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time to sit down and do all of that. Right. Even though I do teach

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you. So instead of you like trying to. figure it out on your own,

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I will take you through the steps. But if, for example, you don't have the

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time, I literally can do it for you because I've done it so many times.

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I literally have no issues with doing it in probably a week or less,

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right? So that's just the most important things to get your course going. And then,

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of course, it's the selling aspect, which is about showing up and the imposter

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syndrome. Again, tackling that is going to make things so much easier

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for you because you're going to show up confident with self belief about

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what you're talking about, and then that kind of takes care of itself.

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That's so good. And I love how simple you are making the

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process, right? Not just over complicating

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it and giving all of these things. It's just very simple

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I want to focus in on the process that you said they need to have

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a process. Like, how are you getting your, potential clients from

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point A to point B. So, in terms of if somebody

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doesn't have a process, right? Or maybe they just don't know what it

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is, or they haven't quite. Mapped it out themselves.

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do you have any suggestions or tips for how somebody can kind of

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create their framework or their process for their

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course? Well particularly because obviously everybody's situation

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is different and to be fair course does not necessarily have to

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Um, I say solve a problem because it does need to solve a problem But

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it doesn't have to be like an end result when I say this I mean

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like for example, it could be a course on just giving people

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Information that is targeted to what they want right instead of like

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a transformation Like maybe lose weight or lose five

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pounds, right? Which would be different so process for example to lose five

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pounds Maybe you have a meal plan, you have exercise regime, right? You

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have all of those things while compared to if you have a course that's going

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to teach somebody to set up, I don't know, for example, to make a decision.

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Let's say, for example, you have gone through this process

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of wanting to decide if to vaccinate your kids, right? I actually came across this

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with, um, uh, an account I was looking at. And so she

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was a bit Confused as to if she should vaccinate her child, right? And she

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was like going online, looking at all these things. There's so much information out there,

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so much overwhelmed. And then she came across a course that literally was

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just giving her the pros and the cons of vaccination, the pros and

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the cons of not vaccinating. And that was it, right? then from the information that

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you get, you make your informed decision, right? So for example, if

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you're having a course like that, that's just giving people. Targeted

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information your process is going to be different if and then if you have a

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transformational step, you know So it all depends on what

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exactly is your outcome What is it that you're going to help your clients

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or students to get? And then I will help you to break down your process

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because a lot of the times we may be doing something But we don't know

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that it's actually a process that we're doing to get to that step

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Um, for example, as I said before, you may have all of this

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information and now we need to bring it into a more bite sizable,

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um, like easily understood package for your people

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as well. So it's just a matter of looking at that That's really

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interesting. I never thought about because in the online space, I always hear

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people talk about the transformation. What's the transformation? What's the transformation?

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Right? And it just never crossed my mind that you can just provide

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information a course. Like, that's.

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A huge mindset shift, it takes a lot of weight off well, I'll speak for

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myself. I know I'm always trying to create things that

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are full of value and

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like, we're just always trying to pack a bunch of stuff into our,

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our programs or our courses and things. But even just hearing you

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say it can be just information. enough. It doesn't have to

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be like this whole huge transformation, which

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if you're doing that, that's not bad. That's good. But, that's really

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interesting. Okay. because when you think about it, right, you're going to be

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saving some because of course, let's say, for example, of course, our program is going

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to help somebody save money. Save them time, save them energy, save them

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money. Right? So let's think about, for example, if somebody, a mom

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specifically wants to find out particular information, you have done tons of

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research around, like you have spent days doing this research and you have come

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up with this and you're like, okay, now I can make an informed decision. There's

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somebody out there who's doing the exact same thing going like, Oh, I just wish

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I had a website that they just go on and just get all of this

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information. You know what I mean? And yes, you could, I know people would be

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like, well, you could go to YouTube, but you could go to website, but. Sometimes

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people don't have time to be searching for that. They literally see your course that

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says, I'm going to give you all the information that you need right here.

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And then they're not thinking about the money or whatever is

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saving them. Click. I want that. I've got everything done. That's so good.

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Definitely. Um, giving a different perspective, at least a

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different perspective for me. So hopefully for you all listening as well.

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Um, now we've kind of already gone through action steps people can take, but

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do you have any other final action steps or tips

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for someone who is. It's ready to create their

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online course. I know this might be a bit like,

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I know, because I feel like when we hear online course creation, we always want

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to hear about the tools and the strategies of the actual course creation. And don't

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get me wrong. It is important, but going back again as a course

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creation coach, I know that it all starts with us,

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right? It starts with our mindsets, our beliefs and everything

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else. One of the things I start off with, and that's powerful in my

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own course, as module one is that we go through, which is

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something I call the power framework. And it's a framework that the Lord gave

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me and that I teach my students as well. And it is, this is where

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the life aspect comes in with that whole renewing your

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mind and just seeing yourself the way God sees you. Right. And in the power

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framework, it's essentially allowing you to see yourself. step into your power,

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step into your authority with Christ, that you could shift certain

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strongholds and mindsets that were holding you back. And I

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do not stress this enough. Like you could have all the tools for a

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cause. And if you're not right, right there, It

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is slowly going to burn out. You may start on the high, but it's

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not going to be consistent. I can tell you that for a fact. So one

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of my powerful framework is the power framework. I teach that. And I

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also like to practice this a lot within myself and it breaks down

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everything from prayer to. To forgiveness, to

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not wavering in your faith and your belief in what God has called

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you to do, you know, your emotions and knowing that your emotions are just your

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feelings and not let them control the ship, as we would say,

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you know, your actions. And then of course, um, as moms, it's.

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Stepping into that self care of surrender and relaxation and

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releasing so that you can receive the things that God has for you So

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it's very it's simple, but it's very deep as well And it's

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a foundational part of that self belief and that impossible that we

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spoke about earlier as well. I love that you focus on those

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things that it's not just like, Oh, here, create a course, use these

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tools, do this strategy. Because a lot of the results

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that we see in our business is due to who we are, how

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we operate, how we react to certain things, you know, how

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we're connected All those things. So I love, love,

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love that you are focusing on that foundational piece. Um, and

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having the tools be like, it's like, I love, I love tools, you know, I'm

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into systems and tech and all that stuff. I love a good tool, but

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that's literally even with the things that I teach, the tool is the last piece

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of the puzzle, literally. So if you guys are ready to get

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your course started, Definitely connect with Zannie so she

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can guide you and help you. Yeah, so just to be clear, I

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didn't just like give you the mindset, you know, just leave you on your own.

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I do give you the tools. And as I said before, because I am very

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much familiar with these programs, MailOnline and Thinkific, I teach you how to do

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that. So you're not on your own. And these platforms are really, really simple. When

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I say simple, I can do it. You can do it simple. It's

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really simple, you know, but yes, I do have a course called Course Creation for

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Busy Moms. That's a self study course. And it basically takes you

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four modules and it breaks down everything for you so that you

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literally can create your course in six weeks or less, right? So like you can

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binge watch the videos and follow step by step and you literally can

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do it But I also offer a six weeks one to one program where

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I work on that mindset piece where we're doing the implementation And

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I also walk you through As well for the course creation. So

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we do it together and you also get access to the course to whether you

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work with me one-to-one. So you get life them access for that. And as I

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was mentioning before, I've introduced a done for you surveys because I realized that a

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lot of people may not have the time to actually put up their

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course. So the, in this instance, we do walk through the

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process and stuff that you wanna do so that I'll let you create your video,

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whatever you're doing, your audio and whatnot. But then I would upload it

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and create the course on the platform for you. Because I obviously am

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not going to be able to create the course the way you will, because it's

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your course, you know? But these are the three ways that you can work

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with me and I can really support you. Um, yeah, that's it.

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But it's really exciting because when you think about it, right, you've done the work

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up front, you've created something. And as a busy mom, honestly, we know how it

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is. We just talk about that, right? Like the way I teach is that you

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could spend one to two hours a day and that is creating the content now

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to just

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Market, you know, market. We just like being visible with your course

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and putting it out there, but it does take a while to find kind of

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like get that message in clear and learn how to kind of use your voice

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and how to share your story and I would not make it sound like it

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may happen overnight. You know, there are strategies around that. And especially if

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it's new to you, it could take a while, but that's some of the things

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that we work on. It's just sharing your story. And I do recommend to

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my mom's is and I said before, you receive something or, you know, create a

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course around something that you have gone through yourself so that you can share your

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experience, your story and people are going to connect to that, you know,

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so that is how it's done. Yeah, I love

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that. And I'm glad we were able to have this conversation. I definitely

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wanted to talk about the course creation because you mentioned it. Like

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we are busy moms and we don't always have to

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recreate the world, just creating something that we Spend

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time up front a couple of hours creating and then it's there and we can

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get paid repeatedly for it. It is giving us that

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time freedom that we desire, right? And

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positioning us to be able to be present with our

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kids, what we really, really want, right? So I'm so glad we were able to

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have this conversation. So I want to circle back in the beginning. We talked

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about. Uh, what you're enjoying in this season of

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motherhood. What's something that you're finding challenging

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right now with motherhood and how are you tackling that?

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The challenge, again, I think as entrepreneurs, we always want

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to do more. Let's be serious, right? You want to see more results. You

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want to do more of this. And so this be a present thing I talk

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about is because it's, it's an ongoing thing. I think we all have to just

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go through every single day. You know, there's the times where, you know, I want

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to do something, I want to send off an email, I want to record a

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YouTube video. And that's the day when the baby wouldn't sleep. And you know, there's

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all these times that come and many times, this is the practicing of what I

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teach. It's just going back to It's going to be okay.

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Letting go of the overwhelm. Just trusting the God, trusting God that it is going

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to work out. Everything is going to work out. And so one thing I said

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to my clients, and I think sometimes, um, people look at me

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like, what? I have learned how to just slow down time.

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Sometimes when I tell you, slow down time is like, My friend said to me,

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how is that? You're able to watch your shows, read your book, do this

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in your business. And I can't even do this. And I'm like, it's all about

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your mindset and the way that you think about things and the way that

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you really process what's happening around you and react to it. You know, so

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I'll get so much done when it comes to productivity. I'm super productive, but it

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takes. You really being aware of your thoughts

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being aware of what you're saying I literally suck myself something when i'm saying something

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like no, no, no, I backtracked that no lord. I don't mean that This is

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what I mean instead Right because you have to be careful with some of the

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things that we say because we are speaking a lot of things into our Existence,

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you know, and we are recreating things with what we say and what we believe

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or what we think So in the spirit of manhood i'm telling you many times

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i'm feeling over i'm like, nope, daddy You're not overwhelmed. You just need to step

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back, you know, you talking yourself through it and just trusting that where

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I am right now is exactly where I need to be. And I will get

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to where I need to go. That's it. That is so good and a

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perfect way to wrap up. Oh my goodness. This has been such a

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great, great conversation. We definitely could keep this going. I just

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wanted to, highlight something you just said. You were talking

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about how you have to stop yourself and be very aware. Like this

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journey requires lots of

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intentionality and being self aware to

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be our best selves. And so I'm so glad that you mentioned that because

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without that, we will feel that overwhelmed. You will feel

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stressed if you're just not super intentional about how you

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are. Thinking about things and responding to things.

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And so so glad that you mentioned that. So I want to say

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something with that too, which is so good. I suppose I said this to a

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client of mine. I said, one of the things that we need to do as

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moms is to set our priorities. And here's another thing that doesn't, that

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actually eliminates my overwhelm is my priorities in my life,

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right? My priority is first God, then my family, and then my business.

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And so when you feel overwhelmed and you prioritize these things first,

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Second third, the overwhelm goes away because you know,

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God first, you spend some time with God, you make sure you have that time

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with God. Then, you know, when you're feeling overwhelmed with your business and your

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children need you. Your children first priority, you know what I mean?

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And then your business. And then when you have those in place, you don't, and

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you set boundaries around that. It's so much easier to let go of the other

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one because you know what, where your attention is going to

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be, you know, what's, what's most important. You know? Yeah,

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absolutely, absolutely says have this, so it's an audio

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course. The Harmony audio course and a part of it talks

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specifically about that, right? The brand we talk about how to

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create and experience work life harmony and

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prioritization is a big piece of that, like setting your

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priorities. And it's literally that

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God, I put myself in there, but God,

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self, family, then business. We are so

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aligned. So I love it. We're going to do like a part two or something

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else because this is just too good. absolutely agree with you a hundred percent.

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I think once we get those things clear, we will eliminate so much

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overwhelming guilt and worry and anxiety because you know

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what comes first. You don't have to worry about it. You know, it's done. Yeah.

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Love it. It's done. This has been so good. So we'll be

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sure again, to put all of your information in our show description so people can

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connect with you. And if you have any final words that you want to leave

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with the moms, feel free to share that with us now.

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Yes, absolutely. what I think I really want to leave with us moms

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is that what we think is not important and what we

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think a slight is so much important. So

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valued by others and I want us to really remember that

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Because we take ourselves so much for granted and love that you said, you know

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God and you because so many times we put ourselves

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down we doubt ourselves We worry and even when it comes to

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self care and just taking care of ourselves, you know We always

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put everybody else above us. So just to just to Just be aware

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that what you have or what you know God has already given it to you

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because he wants you to use it because he knows that you're capable of

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having it because he Trusts you with it, right all of these things And then

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if we believe that we will really show up differently I really think so like

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one of my affirmations I keep telling myself in my business specifically Is

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that who I am right now is exactly who I am what I'm

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here to do. That is perfect for what I'm here to do. Because sometimes we

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think, oh, if only I was further along, or if only I had done this,

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if only I've done that. No, who you are right now is, it's perfect for

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what God has called you to do. You know, that kind of thing. I love

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Thank you so much for joining us here in the suite for sharing your

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wisdom, your amazing energy, and your

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expertise. And so look out for part two, you

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guys, because something is coming. it. I

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really love it. This was a really good conversation.

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The Mom CEO Suite: Work Life Balance & Business Strategies for Mompreneurs
Life and business strategies to help stay at home mom entrepreneurs thrive at the intersection of motherhood and entrepreneurship
Motherhood gets hard. Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together, we can do hard things.

I'm your host Phylica! Wife, mom and entrepreneur. I'm the Founder & Podcast Host of The Mom CEO Suite. In August 2021, I had my first child and life changed! It was no longer business as usual. I had to learn how to navigate this new norm of being a work from home mom, on top of entrepreneurship. As you can imagine, it was a challenge. This sparked my passion for helping to make life and business work together for mom entrepreneurs.

In this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur journey, along with strategies that will help you build your service based business model online in a sustainable way. The goal is to help you build a business that fits into your lifestyle as a mom who values putting family first.

We will also hear the experiences and expertise of other moms with service based businesses. You'll get a peek into our journeys, so you'll know you aren't alone.

Visit us online: https://www.themomceosuite.com
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At The Mom CEO Suite, position mompreneurs to experience work life harmony and spend more time with family while still having a successful service business.
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Phylicia Pough

For over 10 years, Phylicia has been behind the scenes of businesses and ministries, keeping things organized. Her journey started in Administration and developed into Operations & Automation Consulting

Her latest venture is The Mom CEO Suite which is a community for the modern day mom in business. In addition to curating experiences and safe spaces for mompreneurs, we automate business & podcasting processes for mompreneur service providers.

In her spare time, Phylicia loves to travel, read and sip tea.