Community to Cashflow: Why Skool is a Game-Changer for Entrepreneurs

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Hey there mamas, if you're tired of
the same old social media grind and

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you're looking for a place to build a
real community and actually test your

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products, you've come to the right place.

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So today I'm going to dive into school
and it's like, I don't know, a secret

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clubhouse for online entrepreneurs.

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So you can build a super tight community,
you can get honest feedback on your stuff,

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and even discover new opportunities.

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Oh, and This is potentially a cash
cow if you're interested in becoming

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an affiliate, or if you don't want a
group, but you're looking for something

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where you can use something as an
affiliate tool where you believe in

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it and you want to promote it and
it's rock solid, this is for you.

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So you can make a serious
dough through this.

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I didn't even think about this part
really, but I just saw school popping

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up so much over the last year or two.

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And I'm in, I would say right
now, I'm probably in a combination

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of, I think I have three paid
scenarios and the rest are all free.

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So a total of maybe
seven, seven different.

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communities that I belong to on school
over the last, I would say three years.

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And what I've noticed recently
is that this is like a goldmine

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if you do it the right way.

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So this whole episode, I'm going to
break down what I've seen people doing

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in school that is just brilliant.

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And I would say no two people
are doing it the same way.

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So I wanted to just cover some of the
different things that I've seen and

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maybe one of these sounds good to you.

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I'm still trying to figure
out what I'm going to do.

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I'm in a little bit of my own figuring
out process right now myself, and I've

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shut down a website and I'm reopening it.

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So I'm just trying to figure out, I would
love a community, but I'm trying to figure

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out the right space for that myself.

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Anyway, so that's what
this episode is about.

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I think the first time I joined.

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School was probably three years ago
and I wasn't super impressed right

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off the bat, but I did that it was
a little bit different than circle.

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It was definitely different than Facebook
and it had a pretty clean user interface.

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All that was great.

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I ran into some trouble when I tried to
log in again because somebody else sent me

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to their school account and that kind of.

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That kind of bothered me.

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Since then I figured out that you really
can just use one login and then in a very

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tidy way all of your communities will
show up on the left hand side and you

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can just pick and choose and move through
each of the individual communities.

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I think that is brilliant
the way that it's set up.

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It's not confusing.

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at all.

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That's very clear, both on
laptop and on mobile device.

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So anyway, so now that I've have
these communities, I would say I was

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active in, I had one podcast community
that was paid for as a mastermind.

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I had another more recent one
that was a marketing very quick

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course that was closed down by
the founder for whatever reason.

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And then I've had a couple that
are free recently where I was like,

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Ooh, these people are so smart.

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So what they're doing, and this is
the main thing that I wanted to share.

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I am.

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Because I'm so intrigued by the
marketing aspect of what they're doing

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and how they're leveraging school,
I really wanted to share it here.

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So here's what I've seen.

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So let's say there's a YouTube Person
that you really like and you're

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following them or somebody on Instagram
or another social media platform and

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they say hey guys Go they have some
content around something that you want.

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So they're offering something
free Maybe it's a meditation.

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Maybe it's a mini course a free
Template on how to grow your

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Instagram or something like that.

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So they have a link in their
blog post bio or wherever they're

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driving the traffic, you click
that link to their school platform.

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It's free.

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So you join.

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And if you're already in, because you're
in school for something else, that's fine.

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You just log in, you add their community.

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So now you're in the community.

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You can find the free thing, whatever
it is, and you can download it,

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use it, listen to it, whatever.

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So now, unlike when you ask somebody to
join your email list, The school, the way

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that school works is when you If you add
something new, whether it's you're the one

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promoting something in a new thread, like
a new comment thread, or you're adding

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a new piece of content, it's going to
automatically alert your school community.

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So if you're somebody like me, who's
not super consistent with your email

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list, and you find it a burden to stay
connected, this is such a great tool.

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way to create that automatic community.

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And this is the part that I was like,
whoa, this is brilliant because what

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I saw is that one of the groups that
I'm in is a digital marketing group.

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And so the woman running that group,
she gave away something for free.

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So we joined actually we were invited to
join through her email list first because

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she was looking for marketers, people who
had more than four years of experience.

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Experience as marketers.

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So I joined her group.

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I already respected her.

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I had already taken one of her courses.

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I got into her group and because
of the way that she did it in the

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selective way you had to be approved
and I don't even know, I think it

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was like a couple of questions, but
it made it feel more like elite.

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So I thought that was brilliant.

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She's a marketer.

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So of course, not everyone's doing that.

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Some people are just like, just go
ahead and join, but she did that.

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Then you're in.

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And then she started sharing some
of her wins from some new things

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that she was doing with Instagram.

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And so she was sharing one of her
AI tools and she would, explain what

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it is, how it's helping her clients.

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And she made a video that kind
of walks you through all the

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different steps and how to use it.

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And then she had a database, which
was like a separate Notion template.

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And that template was so kick ass that,
and she explained it would take 80

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hours to gather this information about,
in this case, it was about Instagram

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prompts and what's working, what's not.

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And then what she was selling, as I
later learned, was this way of her team

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gathering up very specific information
about whatever your niche audiences, then

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they would gather these prompts and then
show you and save you 80 hours of work.

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Like these are the things that are working
really well in this particular niche.

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And then you join, there was an
offer to join that, subscription

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to get that spreadsheet with that
information and implement it.

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And then you could give her feedback.

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She'd offer all of this to you
for free to kick the tires, try

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it, see if you liked it or not.

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She gave a what do you call it?

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A discount code for only
for people in the group.

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And if you shared it outside the
group, there were, you'd get kicked

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out of the group essentially.

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So it was on the honor system,
but she did a really great job and

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then said, in X number of days,
this won't be available anymore.

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It's going to go up to this price.

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And, 1.

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95, 3.

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95, whatever the thing was.

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And I was just like, wow,
this is awesome because she's

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getting feedback in the group.

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She has narrowed her niche to only
marketers who are fairly experienced,

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intermediate level at least.

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And the only people she's promoting
this to are people who actually have

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some idea of what they're doing.

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They're not noobs.

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So they're not going to be like spamming
her with all kinds of questions.

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And because everyone in there are
marketers, they can learn from each other.

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And I don't know, I just was like, wow.

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And then she off, AI tool as well.

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Same thing.

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That AI tool was, Connected to
marketers and specific to marketing.

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She walked you through how to use it.

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I ran into some trouble with
it and I was like, Oh, I'm

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going to send some questions.

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And then I went back and because
it had like step one, step two,

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step three with videos in school.

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I hit a snag where I saw, Oh, this, the
question I have has already been answered.

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It's only going to do this.

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Yes.

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it's not going to retain the
content that I'm asking it to do.

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Anyway.

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So I just thought that was brilliant.

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I'm like, wow, she
already has an audience.

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That's segmented.

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She doesn't even have to create
a brand new email to send to that

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list because when she writes a
post, her post is becoming the

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email that gets sent to all of us.

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And there's a link inviting us
back into that school community

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specifically to then partake in
whatever the thing she's offering.

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Okay, so I thought that was really cool.

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Then another different school
group that I'm in, that person.

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Was offering like a free training
and it was a live training.

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So this is a group that's more of
a mastermind paid group, but this

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free training they have, I'm trying
to explain the way that it works.

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So the mastermind was like one
year where you get feedback and

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you have live trainings, but
you're in the school group as well.

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So you have the course and
the mastermind, but then the

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school group is the community.

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So new people can join and
they can get that live piece.

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But after a year, As somebody in
that group you're in the community,

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but you're not necessarily
getting that live coaching.

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So they had this special event where
you could come and they were, I think

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they were talking about specifically
about emailing your list and a very

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like niche topic related to podcasting.

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And I was like, Ooh, that's awesome.

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Again, they were able to just send
out a note through the thread.

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The thread went to the entire list.

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Then you could register, you can go back.

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And because they went live, the live
was literally like in the community.

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And then the way that they did it, they
were sharing some very specific things.

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They had you ask for the
content if you missed it.

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Again, staying connected
to community, prompting.

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asking for feedback.

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They're handling it in a different way
than the previous person I mentioned, but

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still, it's a good way to hook people in.

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You're not in a Facebook group where
you're being spammed by other people's

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comments, potential ads in the timeline.

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You're with your like minded people, in
this case, fellow podcasters I just really

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liked that it was so clean and clear.

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And then as I was watching these two
people, and then a couple of other

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people who are using school another
one is a writer, and what he's really

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great at is he's he's teaching writing.

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He has a newsletter.

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He has two or three
courses, plus a mastermind.

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He does a ton of writing
on LinkedIn and teaches.

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How to write on LinkedIn, but mainly he's
teaching about how to get writing clients.

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And so what he will do is drip
out very specific niche lessons

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in his school and his school
videos are just hosted on YouTube.

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So every time he sends it out, it
goes to his school And this so I

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belong to both a small paid community
of his and a free one and I'm right

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now I'm referencing the free piece.

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So the free is going to Out to
his list and it's saying to them.

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Hey, this is what this is about This
is why I think this is so important.

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Click the link to go check it out.

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So when they click They can see that
video within school But it's real.

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Actually, I follow him on YouTube.

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It's being pulled from his YouTube,
so his YouTube views are going up.

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It's embedded from YouTube, so it's,
so if you're a YouTuber and you wanna

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create a tight community or a YouTube
podcaster, you want to create a tight

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community, this is another way to
do it and to drive that traffic more

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consistently to your YouTube videos.

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or podcast episodes.

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And then because it's in school and
school's a community, you can have

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people, you can prompt them to ask
questions give feedback, whatever,

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in a much more cohesive way than you
could just relying on YouTube alone.

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Because YouTube is great.

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You can create a community there.

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Sometimes you're getting random
comments and people aren't.

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Tightly knit to you.

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So I really like that approach as well.

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And what he's doing is he's building
up from his free content, he's

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teaching, he's pulling people over to
his YouTube, he's also sending them

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sometimes to his newsletter, and I
believe also over to his LinkedIn.

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So like he's getting all kinds of views
from this very niche school community.

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Awesome.

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Because You see people who are
like, Oh, go over to Instagram,

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go over to LinkedIn and, direct
message people do all this stuff.

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It takes so, so much work to do that.

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If you can just invite them into
a school community, they're there.

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You don't have to do
all that manual effort.

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And I'm sure there are tools that, that
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seems so simple and so easy and clean.

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The other thing that I noticed
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like, wow, I'm looking at all
my communities that I belong to.

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I ran into a glitch because
I had two different logins.

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As I was looking through school,
I saw that there was a promoted

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on my screen, these other
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And I was like, what?

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I didn't know that school was also a
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discover other free communities.

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has a massive school audience.

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I think his school community, which
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He has over a million people
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So I was like, Okay this is reminding
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they recommend other newsletters, right?

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So I went in and I started, looking
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and I found this really cool Multiple
interesting groups that I could join, but

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one of them was another different digital
marketing tool group, I should say, run

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by a woman I'd never heard of before.

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I think she has, I don't know, upwards
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And as I was reading through it, it
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from a product like, you bought,
maybe people bought her course.

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But because school is promoting
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have found her as, I don't know,
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I watched like what's happening in
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I haven't joined at the moment, but it
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I did the math on that.

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This woman in this group,
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of her group is paid, she's making half
a million dollars a month or something.

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It was ridiculous.

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I did the math on it.

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So I was trying to explain something
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is what's happening on, how
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And so that's huge.

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So if you're somebody who's
Oh, should I have a newsletter?

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Should I create a brand
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Should I, whatever, if you are
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templates or anything like that.

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And you want to have a community where
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This is incredible, I think.

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So here's the other piece of it.

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It's not cheap.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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Obviously, Facebook is free.

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There are all these other communities.

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But if you're somebody who likes
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in things, like I've been playing
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This tool is 99, believe
me, yeah, 99 a month.

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However, if somebody in your group
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you're like an instant referral because
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And you get 40 percent of that amount
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membership, which is very generous.

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So if you sign up as, if you join school,
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you can refer your friends and whatever.

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So if they join under your referral,
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every month for the lifetime of
their, however, the long they're in

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school, if they keep their membership.

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If they happen to.

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join from within a group, the group,
the fact that they're in your group

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supersedes the cookie that was set.

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So if their friend referred them,
but they're in a group because they

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either paid for the group or they just
selected the group and decided to join.

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group, they decide, you know what,

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I'm going to create my community.

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Then you get credit for that
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Super generous, super fair.

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I've never heard of anything like that.

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You might say, Oh, it's unfair to the
affiliate person who sent them there.

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It is and it isn't because
they're in the group.

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Maybe they found school through
that person, which is great.

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But if they're in a group and they
like the group so much that they're

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thinking, I need to have my own.

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It's probably because of the
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So I don't know.

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Anyway, I see both sides of it.

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I think it's very generous.

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And then the, in terms of the
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have a 14 day holding period.

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So if somebody joins within the group or
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And then after that time
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So it goes from school.

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to Stripe to your bank account
and there are no additional fees.

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So there's no, the actual the actual
payout says no transaction fees.

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That's awesome.

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So I haven't seen anything quite this
generous and I would love to hear

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from you if you have something like
this where you're like, Oh, Steph,

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this sounds great, but what about.

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ABC product.

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Please do tell me, I would
love to hear from you.

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I am going to become an affiliate
because I am so captivated by school.

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I was in, Sam Ovens is the
founder, I was in Sam's consulting.

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com, which was something he
put out, I believe, more than

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maybe five, six years ago.

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And his product was like, rock solid.

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He is such a masterful,
genius entrepreneur.

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Like he's just so top notch
in everything that he does.

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And that course helped me launch
a digital marketing business.

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And that's what got me really
off the ground and really,

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truly making money online.

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So I really believe in him and I've
had all kinds of stuff with my life

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With my kids with my one daughter
being really sick and just a lot

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happening for the last two years
and I'm just looking for simplicity.

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I'm looking for a way to connect
and I just think this is phenomenal.

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I have explored two other
newsletter platforms.

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So I'm trying to figure out how
to integrate those platforms

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or if maybe I don't need them.

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Maybe I'm going to switch my
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potentially and ConvertKit has its
own its own newsletter platform.

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And then this is another way
of emailing people as well.

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And seems way, especially if you're a
content creator and you're sharing and

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commenting and curating content, it
seems like a really great way to do that.

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And it's not going to exhaust you
the way maintaining a list can.

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Can potentially exhaust you.

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So if you look for shortcuts, looking
for maximum impact, you're looking

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for a community where you can test
your products and get feedback.

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Were you looking for a platform where
there's some discoverability and your

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group could be promoted to other people?

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You're looking for a way to potentially
earn affiliate income through your

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group as an affiliate marketer and,
or just a host of a group, and maybe

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you're not like actively promoting
it, but you want the people within

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your group to potentially opt in
and, create their own groups as well.

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This just seems like a no brainer.

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So this is just for listeners in
general, I am going to be doing, this

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is all audio only I'm not on video.

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I love video.

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My background is.

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My degree's in film and new media,
and I have spent many dollars, many

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hours taking workshops through the
workshops in Maine, the film workshops

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for becoming a digital journalist.

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a Final Cut Pro expert, all that stuff.

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Like I, I love video, but my life right
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So when I need to use the screens,
I will, I probably will do a

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version of this for YouTube.

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But for now, this is just going to
be the way I'm going to share it

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because I'm following somebody who
I'm hoping to have on the podcast,

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who does a digital products podcast.

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I, she's great.

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She's also a mom and
I'm like, you know what?

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She has a YouTube.

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She has a.

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She has groups, she has her podcast,
and she's not ever really on screen.

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And I feel like I'm still
getting a lot out of it.

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So I'm going to follow her
lead and simplify my life.

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And I will, I think that will
make things a lot more consistent.

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If you guys could see the number of mini
courses, tutorials, trainings, Podcast

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episodes that I have on my hard drive
that have never been shared due to the

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Complexity that I have created over
the years you will totally understand.

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So I'm trying to simplify Trying to
embody and be the role model Myself

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because I truly believe that there are
shortcuts and that's what I want to focus

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on moving forward through this Season
of audacious mamas, and I'm hoping That

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and intending that you will see more
episodes this season a lot more All

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right So also if you want to go check
out the audacious life podcast if you're

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somebody who has been through a toxic Or
emotionally abusive financially abusive

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coercively controlling relationship.

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You're coming out the other side and
healing That is my other podcast and

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I would love to You send people back
and forth because I know there's a lot

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of overlap between those two audiences
because as Mamas, whether you're a single

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mom Whether you're a just not just whether
you're a mom who has a partner sometimes

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You just need Mental health support.

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You need to be built up.

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You need ideas on how to save time
and I think that those are all

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the main things that I want to do.

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It's like spiritual upliftment, learning
to thrive, learning to find shortcuts

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so that you can get your life back.

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You can enjoy your children,
your family, your friends, and

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really take care of yourself.

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Self care.

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Without that is the oxygen.

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That is the Yeah, I'm saying
lighter fluid for your rocket.

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You get it.

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If you're going to have anything
launch in your life, you need

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to take care of yourself.

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So yeah, go check it out.

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That's the audaciouslife.

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com and audaciousmamas.

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com is down for the moment
because I'm relaunching that.

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Feel free to subscribe
if you feel like it.

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That really helps the podcast and invite
other people to check out this episode.

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Please do share.

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I appreciate you lots
and lots of love to you.

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And if you have any ideas and
you want to reach out to me,

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you want to be on the podcast.

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I want to feature other mamas and I
want us all to support each other.

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So please do reach out.

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All right, all for now.

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Take care.