Transformative Power of Mindset & Confidence with Bogdan Rosu

In this episode, we explore the transformative power of mindset and confidence in business growth with a coach and consultant who shares his journey from martial arts to business empowerment. Discover how internal shifts lead to external success, confronting procrastination, and the importance of belief and seeking outside perspectives.
Guest Bio:
Bogdan Rosu is a business coach and consultant who has transitioned from communist Romania to entrepreneurship. Drawing on his martial arts background, he applies the principles of yin and yang to business growth strategies, emphasizing the importance of mindset and personalized approaches
Key Points Discussed:
1. Importance of confidence in sales - 04:32
2. Addressing core issues behind procrastination - 11:15
3. Balancing internal and external aspects in business growth - 21:45
4. Impactful changes through seeking external perspective - 29:10
5. Overcoming the fear of success and seeking growth - 37:55
Main Quote:
"You're stronger than you know."
Links:
Connect with Bogdan Rosu: www.bogdanrosu.biz
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Chuck Anderson,
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Hello, everybody, and, welcome back. This is the creative
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collaboration show with Chuck Anderson, and this is the show
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where we help business owners and entrepreneurs
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with tips and strategies and advice that can help you
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to grow your business to whatever
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extent you want to grow it. And sometimes that
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means a strategy or something that you implement
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into your business. Sometimes that means growing and
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and and and working on yourself. Oftentimes, it's
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both. And so I like to invite guests here who
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who align with that thought process, but also,
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are engaged in work that can, help
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along those lines. And so, you know,
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so today's guest for sure, works
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with, works with business owners as a coach and a
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consultant and can help you grow your business. So today, I
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have Bogdan Roju with me today. Welcome to
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the show. Thank you so much, Chuck, for having me.
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Yeah. And you're probably gonna see me looking to the side because your face is
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over there, but my camera is over here, unfortunately.
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So we'll do I'll do my best to switch between the
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2. No problem. Well, you know, that's, that, you know,
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that's the the cool thing about
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technology. I have 3 screens as well. And, and
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so I was watching myself back
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on a webinar that I did. And, of course, the camera's here and the
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slides are here, but then I had the chat over here, and then I had
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something else over. So the whole time, I'm watching myself.
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And, occasionally, I'm looking at the camera, but other times, I'm I'm
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doing this. I'm looking at the other other screens as well.
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That's just how it is anymore. Like, computers aren't just one screen
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anymore. They're they're they're multiple screens. Alright. Well,
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this show is not about computers, so we'll we'll go from there, but it's all
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good. So listen. I I think
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the best place to start is is
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is, you know, your story and,
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you know, tell everybody a little bit about about
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you and the work that you do and and how it came to be
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that you're you're doing this work. Sure.
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I like to think of myself because, like,
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everybody's a coach these days. I I don't see myself as
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a coach necessarily. I'm an amplifier of money
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and freedom for experts and entrepreneurs. I've
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worked with complete beginners to multimillionaires.
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For example, one of my biggest clients, gentleman doing a
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120,000,000 a year, he was terrified to
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do anything to grow his business because he believed that
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he would make a mistake and then lose 1,000,000. So I quickly
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showed him that it wasn't the case, and in fact, he was actually a
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business badass. And that heightened level of
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confidence allowed him to take serious steps
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towards doubling his business.
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The way that this came about was that number 1,
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I became obsessed with how people work. I
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was horrible when it came to people when I was a kid. I
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had like, it was extremely awkward
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socially. In 5th grade, I was voted
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as being the most disliked kid in class. And you can imagine like,
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actually somebody took a poll for that. And,
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that was a big, big defining moment
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for for me. And couple that with,
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you know, Romania post post the revolution.
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I live in Romania. Romanian, in 89,
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we had communism collapse all all over the
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world, including here. So my
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parents were transitioning from communism to capitalism. My dad,
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especially, he started his own business, but the business had,
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like, a very difficult time taking off. It actually took my dad
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around 10 to 15 years to have, you
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know, an to experience abundance from his
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business. And you can imagine the more that that left a
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mark as well. So combining, you know, this obsession for
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how people work and understanding that and mainly
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understanding myself because the reason why that happened was because I had
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no confidence. And this
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idea, this relationship with money, this
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is how kind of, I came to be. But before
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being a coach, I actually had another passion. I I started the
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first ever personal development through martial arts program, and that's
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why my work is called the Warrior Shaman Business
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Growth System. You know,
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that's interesting because, you know, in in doing
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research for this interview, and I went on
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to, YouTube and and and searched for you,
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actually saw some videos of you talking about
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martial arts and and that. And so,
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it's interesting because I always think about when I think about martial arts,
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I just think about the discipline, and I think about the, you know, the
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the repetition and the mastery
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that goes into all of that. So so that's
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interesting how you've sort of, like, connected the dots and and
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and, and how you've used that now in your business.
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Can you talk a little bit about that? Like, what are some of the the
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principles, or what what did you learn from martial arts that really applies
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to, you know, what you're doing and and, with the
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work that you do with your clients? Sure. The the
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core the core principle that I got from martial art was
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martial arts was yin and yang. Because if you're always on the
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offensive, you're losing because you're actually being the one
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controlled. And if you're always on the defensive, you're still losing.
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You need a healthy balance between yin and yang. Actually, everything
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everything, everything is yin and yang.
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You cannot grow your business without having a period
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of chaos. Right? I
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see this all the time with myself, with my clients. Whenever they
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tap into a new level of confidence of saying, hey, this is what
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I want from life. The first thing that happens, the
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house gets cleaned up. Right? All of the shit, all
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of the negative can can I swear on this? Oh, sure. Yeah. Go ahead. We
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don't I don't think we have any kids in our audience.
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Perfect. So all the shit that
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was buried deep down comes
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to the surface for you to deal with. And
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it's a natural rhythm of life. Right? We we like to
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talk about balance as entrepreneurs. Balance is a.
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Balance is knowing when to sit and when to move, right? Because
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balance having this this idea of balance of
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nothing moving, that means that you're dead.
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So everything when it comes to my work has this yin andang
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approach. The warrior shaman apparent opposites. They're not.
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It's spiral because the warrior feeds the shaman, the shaman feeds
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the warrior. The shaman heals limiting beliefs
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and turns trauma into treasure. The warrior
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allows you to tap into higher levels of confidence So
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that you go after bigger projects, bigger clients, charge
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what you're worth, and thrive. And
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couple that with business strategies, personalized
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business strategies. What I find usually is that you pay for business
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coaching, buying great strategies that are lead generation
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sales, service delivery, but then you're because
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your mindset doesn't match your the level of your business strategies, you'd never
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really fully use it. You don't believe you deserve success. You don't
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believe that you can handle
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or learn these new strategies. So you kinda either procrastinate you, put
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it to the side, or
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you kind of half ass it. Right? The same
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thing happens with mindset. You buy some mindset coaching. Right? You get a bit of,
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a better handle on your emotions. Maybe you learn a bit about manifesting
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more abundance, but then it's like, okay. But how do I actually generate leads in
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sales calls? I love to give the people I work with
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both. I I don't believe in cookie cutter business strategies. I didn't
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I don't believe in cookie cutter mindset approaches. I need to understand exactly
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what's going on. See exactly what's kind of
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driving you and what's blocking you. And then
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together, of course, I give suggestions, but it's like,
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you know, if I give you a system, my system,
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and it works for you, I failed as a
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coach. My definition of
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success is I awaken the business owner inside of you
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who can create the systems, the tools, the mindset, everything that you
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need to elevate.
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Interesting. Yeah. Because and that's where you see so so
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much of coaching, especially in
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business, is, you know, use my strategy, use my
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tactic. And, and then and,
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of course, we always need to be learning
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about how, you know, tactics evolve and how the
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technology evolves, and that's just good information and keeping us up
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to date. But then how to apply it, real that's where
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we apply our own creativity to it and and then but, also, what do we
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bring bring to it? Yeah. A 100%.
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And what I find is that the how really doesn't matter that much. The
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how is easy. You find the how online on YouTube. It's
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free. Right? What matters is the who.
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Mhmm. Who you're being when you're using these strategies? Are
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you being your most confident self? Or are you being the
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version of you who's full of fear and doubts? Right? You might
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have the best sales script. If you don't believe in yourself,
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if you don't believe in what you're selling, doesn't
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matter. The how doesn't matter. It's all about the who. Who are
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you choosing to be in this moment?
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No. That's, that's a really good point because I I tell the people in
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my group program all the all the time that, you know, what it
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because they ask me, you know, what does it what does it take, you
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know, to sell at higher prices or to sell this
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higher ticket program or, you know, or it could be some other
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question. And the the answer often comes
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down to confidence when you can speak about it
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with confidence. And the question always is, does
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your program help people? And if the
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answer isn't yes, you're gonna have a really
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big problem selling it. It doesn't matter the price point. It doesn't
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matter the features and the benefits. It doesn't matter the bonuses and all of that.
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It's does your program help people? Do you truly believe that it
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helps people transform or to get a better result?
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Yeah. And, you know, like, 2 things come up. The first
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is you'd be surprised how many people have
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exceptional results and still doubt themselves when it comes to selling more.
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I'll give you, I'll give you a concrete example. One of my most recent clients,
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This guy who, his
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specialty is helping experts make more money
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in 5 days than they do in a
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year. He runs a done for
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you 5 day challenge service, sets everything up for
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his clients. One of his clients was making 5
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k a month. With the 5 day challenge, he made a
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$160,000. Another one of his clients
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made $460,000. And
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my client was struggling to make any sales. He didn't make he made zero
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sales in
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the past 3 months. And I'm like, dude, what are
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you doing? Why are you not talking about these case studies we're off to bat?
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Why isn't it on your, you know, talk about strategy? Why isn't
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this the first thing that people see on your your profile? Fine. Right?
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You say you help them more make more money in 5 days than the whole
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year. So what? Where's the proof? Right? And we worked on his
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confidence. Amazing results. No
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confidence. Mhmm. 1st week, 6 k.
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Next week, 4 k. The the other week, 10 k.
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20 k in 2 weeks. Right? Why? Because that was
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the missing component, confidence. And, you
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know, the second thing that popped up when you were you were sharing about your
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clients, and it's interesting, this just came to Like we have this,
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this phrase what does it take? What what it what
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does it take to get a specific result? Right? But what if replaced we
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replace it with what does it give?
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Right? What do you need to give? Or rather
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who do you need to give to the world to achieve that certain
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result? Are you bringing your best self to this table?
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And your best self is like there's nothing like there's no perfect version of you
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but there's definitely that future super successful version of you that you're
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aiming for. Bring that version of you here in the now.
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Market like that person would. Sell like that person would.
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Lead like that person would. Have the standards
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that that person would. And you're giving the
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world a whole new energy, and the world is giving that back to
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you in many different ways. Mhmm.
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In business conversations I hear so often, you know, a lot of
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there's a lot of, lot of emphasis on strategic
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planning, in goal setting, having your
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vision, and all of that. And what I really hear you talking
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about, what we've really, you know, honed in on here in this in this
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interview is because we have talked not at all about
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strategy. We have not talked at all about, you know, vision and all of
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that. It's really about, it's really
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about, you know, confidence. And like you said, you
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know, who do you need to be to to to get that
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result? So,
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I'd love to hear a little bit about the
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conversation that you are having with your,
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potential clients. Are they coming to you where they
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already realize that there's something going
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on internally, or are they still looking externally? And
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then, in in other words, how open are
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they to looking at that, or are you then having this conversation and then
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helping them to see that, wait a minute. It's maybe not this
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tactic that you need. It's really more just inside
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of you is where we need to work first.
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It it that's that's great. That's a good question.
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And, you know, to kinda circle a bit back, strategy and vision are
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essential. Right? There is no way you can build that level of confidence with how
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it's having a vision of where and who you wanna be. There's no way you
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can bring that version of you forth. There's no way you
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can create it's like
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yeah, it's again the yin and yang idea. Now in terms
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of the people coming to me, it it depends on the person. I
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mean, if we're talking about a shamanic healer,
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right, of course, they're gonna be a lot more self aware
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of, hey, You know, my my energy is a bit off. I'm not really,
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you know, being in my I'm not flowing, let's say, a lot. That's kind of
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the language that will be, used. Or I'm not into my
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abundance and into scarcity and so on and so forth.
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Whereas the majority of, in terms of awareness,
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it's okay. I I just need more
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clients or I need better clients. I just need a way to get more leads
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through the door. The general tendency is
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to look at the outside, the external events
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happening. And, yeah, that's kind of where I focus
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my marketing as well. Right? There is, like, you have to soften the
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mind first, the physical mind before you can reach the heart.
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So they're coming to you with some degree of openness about having that
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conversation, and you're not necessarily having to convince them, well,
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you know, that, you know, you're you're you're looking externally,
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but we also need to be looking internally. And
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It depends. It depends. It's like, I
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speak to where the client is. I mean,
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if strategy is the most important thing, what I usually like to do
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is talk strategy and show them how simple
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strategy is, and it's, like, not a big deal. And then
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say, hey. Guess what? You know all of this.
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So why do you think you're not doing it? Well, you know, because
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and then we get to the core. And that's where it really comes
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out. Yep. Right? You hear it all the time, you know, in,
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you know, procrastination. You know? And and that's another,
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you know, word that comes up in in my group coaching program, which
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I've been running for, you know, this is, I think, 13
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years now that we've been running it, and
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people know what to do. You can give them the steps. You can give them
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the checklist. You can give them the procedures. I can give 2
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people the exact same set of instructions. 1
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will take that and run within an Excel, and
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the other one appears to still be at the starting line.
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And then when you unpack, it's like, you know, I'll get the question, like,
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how do I stop procrastinating? And I always you know, I've this is something
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that I it's a question I journal about. It's a it's something that
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I, look to understand more and more.
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And my today's understanding of procrastination is
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is really a matter of clarity. And what I find is when
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people know what they need to do, but they don't do it, there's
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there's there's there's some still something that they're
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unclear about. And and maybe
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it is like, oh, if I do this new thing, I'll be undoing all these
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other good things that I have in place, like like like the
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the, you know, the case of your client. But,
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you know, I'd love to hear your opinion on on on
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procrastination, why people aren't doing what they need to do even though they need
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to do it. I think you're you're on point that it's
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clarity, but what where
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people miss the mark on is which
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dimension are we talking about in terms of clarity. And here's what I
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mean. One of
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my clients, a copywriter, she was making good money. You know, she was making
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6 figures, but working like a like a maniac.
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But no matter how hard she works, she couldn't go over
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12 Canvas. Right? And
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she wasn't even a client. We did this, session together.
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I had her connect with her father. Her father had passed
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away for maybe over a decade
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and the thing that she connected with was one of the last
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things that her father told her on her deathbed.
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Can you guess what that was?
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Unheard on on his deathbed. Yeah. I'm I
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I nothing comes to mind instantly about that.
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He said, don't be greedy. Don't
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be greedy.
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That can be interpreted a lot of ways. And and and
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then, you know, if that and then installs a belief,
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you're gonna start acting in accordance
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with that. Wow. Yeah. And what does don't be greedy mean?
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My client was procrastinating selling to higher local
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clients even though she made her clients millions. She was
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procrastinating showing up and saying, hey, this
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is who I work with. These are my people. And she was just saying that
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comfort zone of, hey, you know, at least I know the money is coming in
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every month. Right? So the reason why she was procrastinating
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was because in the back of her head, she still had that image of if
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she became too successful, she would disappoint her father.
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We removed that, and then she made 25
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cameraman. Wow. Minimum effort Mhmm.
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Compared to the hustle and grind she was dealing with, with
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before. So, yeah, it's a 100% that's clarity,
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but it's not that obvious
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where you need clarity in. So in this case,
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it there's clarity, but there's also a belief
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that if I'm being bold, then I'm also
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dishonoring what my father said and that I'm being
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greedy. By wanting more, I am being greedy. That's that's what I
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hear you saying. And so so that's where belief so it's kind of
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like so so clarity, but underneath
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all of that, that may be leading to the unclarity
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is this this belief that
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because I could see the, you know, sort of the tug of war that be
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could become you know, happening in in one's
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mind. It's like, oh, I know I need to charge more. I know that my
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work is worth more, but I also made this promise
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not to be greedy. So, therefore, I you know, that that
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it's out of alignment, and that's going to lead to unclarity. I'm
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unclear about what I believe, and I'm unclear on what I'm even
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allowed to charge because it doesn't align with
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with, with with what I was told and
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now what I believe. Right? And so Yeah. Interesting.
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I could unpack that one all day because and, again, this is the the
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that pursuit of not only understanding it more
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from my own perspective, but then how how
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do I improve the, when I'm coaching people,
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how to improve the the coaching that
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then is delivered to them. And, no, there's no one
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size fits all answers. There's always a there's always a layer
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underneath it. Right? And it's like, what is that? And in this
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client's case, it was don't be greedy. In another client's case,
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it could be some other, you know, belief or decision that
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they have made that puts them out of alignment when they
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want more. Right? Yeah. And, you know,
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I I think a lot of us are more afraid of success because it's a
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new world. Mhmm. And it's comes with a lot of
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uncertainty. Because, like,
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you try something, you fail, you can go back to what you know.
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Mhmm. Yeah. I just I find
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the whole thing fascinating. So I wanna turn
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the the conversation a little bit more to the
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work that you do because I think for anyone listening in here
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who is I mean, our our audience are entrepreneurs,
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different you know, various different levels, growing their business. And I think that if
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there's one thing that we all have in common is there's always
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a there's always a goal. There's always a you
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know, I wanna build this thing. I wanna grow this thing. I you
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know? And, and and it's not always
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money, but the way we often measure ourselves and our
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success is, oh, I do this much per I do 6 figures a year
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or 7 figures a year or 8 figures a year or 9 figures a year,
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whatever it is. And so wherever you're
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at in that journey right now, and you
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might be finding that maybe you have stayed at the same
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level for a certain period of time, unable to
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kinda break past that. Or you have a
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goal, and for some reason, you have not been able to
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realize that goal. So I wanted to ask you a little bit about you know,
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for anyone who's listening in who might be thinking about that, you know,
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what what what is your advice in terms of some of the next
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steps they should take to, you know, maybe look at things
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differently and, you know, to take some new steps
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to towards getting a a better result.
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It's difficult because it's
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very personal to each person. I mean,
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if just logging into YouTube and following I'm some sometimes it works. It's like
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the right information to hit hits you at the right time, and it
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knocks you over the head so strongly that you instantly
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create a a huge shift. But
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it's difficult to understand what's holding you back because it's
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you know, my coach is I don't have eyes in the back of my head,
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you know, to see what's, what's going on, to see myself from from the
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outside. The best thing you could do is if you don't have
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people who like,
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having someone who can clearly see things for you, we're always so much
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better at seeing other people's challenges and and
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the solutions for them as long as we can tell them the truth.
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Having somebody who can speak the truth to you whether you're just starting
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out and
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maybe a friend who's honest with you and gets what you're doing with the
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business, gets the vision, gets you, gets your goals, Right? And
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can really support you and tell you, hey. You know what? I I feel like
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this is like you're not showing up really here in this way. Right? Whether
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it's be being having more discipline or,
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more confidence or, you know, whatever that is.
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And if you're a higher level, that's even harder to get on the around you
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because you're higher you're surrounded by people who
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don't wanna fall from your grace, who look up to you,
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and that's even harder. But, yeah, that's that's
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kind of it, having that external perspective
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with a 100% honesty and they don't give a fuck if
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they upset you, that can be very cathartic
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and can launch you forwards. And as long as you take it through your own
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filter and see how it fits, you try it out. Right? Does this this
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is good for me? Do I feel good applying this or do I see the
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potential in it or not? Right? But at
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least you get to try out something new, like a a
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new shirt or something like that and see how it fits.
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Yeah. We can see what we can see at the end of the
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day. So but that's fine. Right? It's okay. I
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I I think a lot of the pain and frustration is
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feeling like if we don't figure out ourselves, we somehow
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failed. It happened. So that's a really
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good point. I think, you know, what you're really speaking to there, and I know
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it was a very tough question to answer, but but, really,
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that's the benefit of of coaching is that it's you know,
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so many people do try to answer this for themselves.
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And, you know, what if you just had a conversation
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with someone like Bogdan who could help you
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to ask different questions, who could see things in a different
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way? And, and and everyone's
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answer is going to be different. So what is your
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answer? What is the thing that,
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that you need to become aware of and where changes can be
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made that can, lead to, you know, bigger
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impact, bigger results in your business. And I'll make sure that all
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your, all your contact information is beneath this
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video. And then if you're listening to this on podcast, it will be, right there,
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in the show notes. And, reach out to him.
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And and so now, before we run out of time, I know that
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you also have a podcast, and, and so I wanted to ask you,
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what what is the best way for people to connect with you and reach out
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to you? And, and then tell us a little bit about your podcast as well.
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Thank you. Thank you, Chuck. Yeah. And it doesn't necessarily
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have to be, you know, a coach. Somebody who can be
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honest with you. That's that's the number one thing. And if you don't have somebody
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like that, yeah. Sure. You know, find the right coach for you.
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But, yeah, best way to get in touch with me would be my Instagram. I'm
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playing around with, a lot with Instagram
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reels. I'm trying I'm making them funny and,
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educational using a bit of a martial arts flair. Like,
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the other day, I was like, how many business growth insights can I
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share while hitting these dog toys with nunchucks and
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so, like, silly stuff like that because of my twisted sense of humor?
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But if you wanna learn more about my work, YouTube or the
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podcast is called Real Freedom Elevator. I interview 6 to 9
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figure earners to talk about what freedom is for them,
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how they're strategizing and optimizing their businesses for freedom
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because not everyone signed up for, you
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know, 12 hour, 14 hour workdays and not seeing your I mean
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they're fine as long as you have that quality time
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in and you're loving yourself first
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because you're the source of the business.
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Mhmm. And, yeah, that's what we do in the podcast.
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Fantastic. Well, we'll make sure all those links, the Instagram
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and the podcast and whatever else you wanna send me, I will put that
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right beneath this video and in the podcast show notes. And I
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encourage people to go and have a listen. Go check out YouTube. Go check out
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the podcast. Reach out. Connect with Bogdan on Instagram.
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And, and, you know, obviously, you can if you're if
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you're here listening right now, you know that it's time well spent.
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And and so, now before we bring this episode
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to a close, because this all of this has been amazing, and we've done this
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really deep dive into, you know, you know, really, what does
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it take to, you know, grow ourselves and grow our business.
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And, you know, a big part of that journey over the last 30 years has
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been what I've learned from some great thought leaders in terms of
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books, some that talk about business strategy,
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others that talk about, you know, really what it takes to, you
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know, grow ourselves and and be successful. And,
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I certainly have my favorite book. So while I have you here, and
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I ask this of all my guests, if you had a
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book that you would recommend to someone is, you know, a
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must read or maybe they're even their next read.
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And I know it's challenging to pick only 1, but if you were to pick
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one book to recommend, which book would that be?
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Could I could I give 2? Or there's Okay. I can I've done that for
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other guests, so I I will, I will allow it today. There you
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go. The books that that had the highest
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impact on my life personally were The Magic of Thinking Big by
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David Schwartz. This is actually first
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ever personal development book I ever read. And the second
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one was The Surrender Experiment by, Michael
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Singer. Really? I have not read either
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of those. I've I've heard of the first one. The second one, I've not heard.
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So tell us a little bit about both of the books just so we can
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kinda get the idea. The the the thing that I
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remember from the book was actually the first page. It just stood out to me
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so much. Like, there's this sales, board or whatever. There
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was, like, recapping the sales numbers for the month.
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And it's like, Carl, you
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know, Carl sold 5 times more than any of you
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than the average. Why is that? Is far Carl 5 times smarter
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than you? No. Or, you know, whatever. Did he work 5
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times hard? No. He just thought 5 times
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bigger than you. That's like, you know,
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it just blew my mind. And the surrender experiment by
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Michael Singer, this guy who just wanted to be a yogi and meditate in the
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woods, He made a decision one day that he was just going to
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trust life no matter what.
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And he would he would talk about these things that would
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happen and he'd be like, oh my god. You know, this is the
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horrible what are we gonna do? But then he would just center himself
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saying, you know what? There's a purpose for this. And then
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immediately after, this huge
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opportunity opens up for him every
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single time. So it was a huge lesson
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in the sense that what we love to call negative
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is actually opening a tremendously
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big door that we previously didn't have access
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to as long as we keep this
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love and trust and and, yeah,
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confidence that it's it's working for us, that life is actually
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working for us. Incredibly powerful book.
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Wow. Amazing recommendation, and I'll add that to our
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library. And, I will put the links to that, beneath the
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video and and in the podcast as well. Mhmm. What's your favorite
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book, Chuck? My favorite book?
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I've got several, and, of course, it is, so
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difficult to to, to pick
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just 1. But there's one that I have
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listened to and relistened to
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again and again and again. And it's a book
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that was written in the twenties called The Game of Life and
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How to Play It by Florence Scoville
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Shinn. And it's interesting
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because it again, it's not about a certain thing that you
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do. It's it's really about who are you
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being, what, you know, what what do you believe,
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that, you know, if you don't believe something is going to happen,
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then it's not going to happen. And and so it's like,
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and so to really be mindful
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of the things that we say and the
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beliefs that we have, and do they align with the result that we
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wanna have, in our life? Do I wanna have a
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thriving business? You know, is it a business that I
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enjoy and love that's growing? Am I in
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a relationship that is loving and thriving?
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And, you know, there are just so many different scenarios
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in that business and then, or in that book. And then
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also stories of people who, you know, the
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throwaway comments like, oh, you're a you're a pain in my
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ass or or whatever. And and then all of a sudden, that person has
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a medical condition, in that part of their body.
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And, and so, you know, we have to be,
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careful of the things that we say. There was a
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story in there about a person saying, yeah. If I
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if I if I keep listening to people like you, then, I'm
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gonna end up living in a box. And, and
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so, within a few years, that person had
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a financial, upset. They lost their home,
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ended up being homeless and living in a box. And, you know,
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so it's you know, we have to be very mindful of the things that we
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repeat, the things that we say, the things that we
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believe, and are in the in true alignment. And we
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might be joking and we might be sarcastic, but our subconscious mind
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does not know that. Right. Mhmm. So that's I'll
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I'll list that book in the in the show notes as well. It's a it's
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a great book. It's a very easy read. In fact, you can find the
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audiobook for free on YouTube. That's, it
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it's a it's a it's a good one. Game of life and
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how to play it. Yeah. The game of life and how to play it.
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And so who knew that somebody in the twenties was so wise?
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So It's it's So, anyways,
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Bogdan, thank you so much for the time, in this interview.
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This has been amazing. And so it's,
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you know, I I think we could spend hours really unpacking, you
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know, so many of these things. But at a high level, I think it's it
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gives business owners a a place to look and
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also a place to connect to, you know, to to have these
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conversations and and to really look at things differently.
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And so if we were to, end this episode with just final
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words of wisdom or piece of advice that you wanna leave people with, what
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would you leave them with here today?
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You're stronger than you know.
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So true. You're stronger than you know. Great words
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to end this episode by. So, Bogdan, thank you so much for
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being my guest on this show, for,
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our audience who's still listening in and getting value from everything
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that you, learned here today, and I want this to be
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time well spent for you. I would like you to take one thing
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that you identified or that you thought about or stood out to
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you, in this episode, and I want you to identify
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an action step that you can take today towards
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that. Maybe it's reaching out to Bogdan. Maybe it's reading one of these books.
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Maybe it's some other idea or maybe something that you've been putting off or like,
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you know what? I was gonna do this bold thing, and I have not been
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doing it. I'm gonna go and take a step towards that today. Go and do
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that. And, you know, despite the challenges,
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despite the obstacles, believe that you can do this.
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Keep moving forward. This has been the Creative Collaboration Show.
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I'm Chuck Anderson, and we'll see you on the next one. Thank you, everybody.