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Welcome to destined for success. I'm your
Jennifer Takagi:host Jennifer Takagi and I'm so excited because today is PATA
Jennifer Takagi:Palooza Day. And I have the honor and privilege of
Jennifer Takagi:interviewing Yvonne McCoy, Yvonne and I keep seeing each
Jennifer Takagi:other in various platforms. But we've never gotten to connect.
Jennifer Takagi:So it's super fun to get to connect with people. I wouldn't
Jennifer Takagi:otherwise connect with. How are you today? And are you having
Jennifer Takagi:fun at Potter palooza?
Yvonne McCoy:I absolutely am. And and one of the things that I
Yvonne McCoy:liked the best is every time I do Potter Palooza, I think my
Yvonne McCoy:message is clear. So I think I'm actually helping more people and
Yvonne McCoy:being a better guest. So I'm hoping to be a great guest for
Yvonne McCoy:you as well.
Jennifer Takagi:I love it. And what is that all saying? podcast
Jennifer Takagi:is nothing but a rehearsal stage and your next talk is your best
Jennifer Takagi:talk.
Yvonne McCoy:Absolutely. And and I think it's even better if
Yvonne McCoy:if the reason for that is you've gotten better with your either
Yvonne McCoy:with your material or your insights. So, you know, I think
Yvonne McCoy:I've done a little bit of both. So I think it usually
Jennifer Takagi:is a both and right you find out what lands
Jennifer Takagi:and what doesn't. So you're a women's business strategist,
Jennifer Takagi:tell us a little bit about how you got on that path, and what
Jennifer Takagi:strategic moves we need to make so we can be more successful?
Jennifer Takagi:Well,
Yvonne McCoy:you know, like, like a lot of entrepreneurs, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, I pivoted a lot to a lot of different things. But
Yvonne McCoy:probably one of the biggest things that happened for me was
Yvonne McCoy:in March of 2020, I was hospitalized for five days when
Yvonne McCoy:I came out. We were in shutdown from COVID. And I was doing a
Yvonne McCoy:lot of coaching for nonprofits and organizational development.
Yvonne McCoy:And it was like, Oh, my God, I have no business. Over there's
Yvonne McCoy:nothing like being dashed with cold water to really wake you up
Yvonne McCoy:and shake you out of your complacency. Do you know? And so
Yvonne McCoy:I had to really, I mean, one of the good things about it is it
Yvonne McCoy:really turned into be a wonderful gift and an
Yvonne McCoy:opportunity, although it did not feel like that at all. And I had
Yvonne McCoy:to really sit down and go, Okay, how can I make this work? What
Yvonne McCoy:can I do that I can repeat on a consistent basis that I liked
Yvonne McCoy:doing? You know, because there are lots of things that I could
Yvonne McCoy:do that I didn't particularly care about. But what can I do on
Yvonne McCoy:a consistent basis that I can do long term that's repeatable,
Yvonne McCoy:that, you know, that's gonna get me consistent sales. And so I
Yvonne McCoy:came up with a process that I called the VIP profit roadmap.
Yvonne McCoy:And basically, it build on a couple of things that I think is
Yvonne McCoy:really important, if you're going to be strategic, the VIP
Yvonne McCoy:stands for what's your vision? What do you want to be
Yvonne McCoy:remembered for it in 100 years, it's not that you worked 80
Yvonne McCoy:hours a week, do you know that it's something, it's something
Yvonne McCoy:different? You know, for me, it started with the idea that I
Yvonne McCoy:want everybody that I meet to leave better than when they
Yvonne McCoy:first met me, you know that I have something that I can give
Yvonne McCoy:that that makes your life a little bit better. The second
Yvonne McCoy:thing was that I struggled with a lot was the whole idea of
Yvonne McCoy:constant change. Because I was very much one of those women, I
Yvonne McCoy:want to get this finished, I want to get it perfect. And, and
Yvonne McCoy:you know what, you're never finished. It's never perfect,
Yvonne McCoy:and you're never ready. You know? So once I got to that
Yvonne McCoy:mindset, you know that I had all these things that I thought were
Yvonne McCoy:all set in stone, and you know, within a week, they all
Yvonne McCoy:vanished. It's like, okay, how can I innovate during change, so
Yvonne McCoy:I can stay in the flow. Right? And then the third thing was,
Yvonne McCoy:how do I use my special gift in my business, so I can be made.
Yvonne McCoy:So I don't have to have a professional than near and
Yvonne McCoy:pretend to be something that I'm not or, you know, just, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, be stilted and be professional. You know, it's
Yvonne McCoy:like, there was a point in my life when I felt like, when I
Yvonne McCoy:walked when I was outside my house, I had my MBA,
Yvonne McCoy:professional, corporate, you know, uniform on and when I got
Yvonne McCoy:in my house, I was something else. And so it was like, okay,
Yvonne McCoy:and not only that, I mean, to be perfectly frank, I was like 69
Yvonne McCoy:years old. It was like if I don't do it my way now when we,
Yvonne McCoy:like couldn't do it, right. And so that was what what happened.
Yvonne McCoy:And what I found was that having a vision and a purpose kind of
Yvonne McCoy:makes you automatically more strategic, just because you say
Yvonne McCoy:you know, who can I impact? How can I have a bigger impact? How
Yvonne McCoy:can I help other people, but it also, you know, entrepreneurship
Yvonne McCoy:is not for the faint of heart. I mean, it is it has to mean The
Yvonne McCoy:ups and downs, right. And so when you have a vision, that's
Yvonne McCoy:one of the things that helps you build resilience, you know, and
Yvonne McCoy:keeps you centered. I mean, it keeps you from, when you have
Yvonne McCoy:great successes, it keeps you kind of level headed, and when
Yvonne McCoy:you have great tragedies or devastation, you know, and of
Yvonne McCoy:course, you know, they're not really great devastations they
Yvonne McCoy:just feel that way. You know, it's something that helps you
Yvonne McCoy:rebound. And, you know, doing it in your own way. I mean, I have
Yvonne McCoy:I say to people, I have a weird sense of humor, I have these
Yvonne McCoy:weird thoughts that pop up. And, you know, say to myself, Please,
Yvonne McCoy:God, don't let me say this out loud.
Jennifer Takagi:But I tease my husband, you're not actually
Jennifer Takagi:gonna say that, right? That's a pretend conversation.
Yvonne McCoy:But it's like, but But you know, but the clients
Yvonne McCoy:that I have, once we start working together, you know, we
Yvonne McCoy:feel comfortable enough that I can say those things like, brace
Yvonne McCoy:yourself here, and come sorry. And that's a really nice way to
Yvonne McCoy:feel. I mean, it's, it's, um, I think that I like working with
Yvonne McCoy:women. And I say, enlightened men for the simple reason that
Yvonne McCoy:one of the things that I think that I've learned along the way,
Yvonne McCoy:is that society, we were born as ferocious and fearless children,
Yvonne McCoy:we do, we wouldn't do anything. I mean, I remember the time my,
Yvonne McCoy:my son jumped in the deep end of the pool and didn't know how to
Yvonne McCoy:swim, it was like, Oh, here it is, right. My sister jumped off
Yvonne McCoy:the garage roof once, because I said that she couldn't play with
Yvonne McCoy:us. And she said, I'm gonna jump, and I said, go ahead and
Yvonne McCoy:change. Something, no, but my mother punished me for telling
Yvonne McCoy:her to do that. And so we lose that, you know, trying to fit in
Yvonne McCoy:to blend in to whatever. And, and that is the thing,
Yvonne McCoy:especially in business, that's gonna make us successful.
Yvonne McCoy:Because there are all these other people who have that same
Yvonne McCoy:hidden desire, that have that need to be able to do that. And
Yvonne McCoy:I think that's the thing that, you know, is amazing. And so
Yvonne McCoy:part of what the program is that I don't talk about as much, but
Yvonne McCoy:is to help you stop practicing. And do it. I you know, my
Yvonne McCoy:analogy is, you know, most of our businesses are like junk
Yvonne McCoy:drawers, we're attracted to shiny objects. So we've got lots
Yvonne McCoy:of courses, and lots of freebies, and lots of all these
Yvonne McCoy:things that we stick in the draw, that we have no idea where
Yvonne McCoy:they fit. And, and so what I do is, I hope you don't dump that
Yvonne McCoy:dry out, sort through it, rediscover the treasures that
Yvonne McCoy:you have in there, figure out how you can use it and make
Yvonne McCoy:money fast without making a whole lot, you know, a whole lot
Yvonne McCoy:of mistakes. And, you know, I look at patterns. I mean, that's
Yvonne McCoy:part of my gift is I recognize patterns. And, you know, I say,
Yvonne McCoy:you know, if you There are regular patterns and
Yvonne McCoy:entrepreneurship. And just like if you go to the shore, and you
Yvonne McCoy:see the waves, and you can time the waves, you may not jump all
Yvonne McCoy:the time at the right time. But when you do get knocked down,
Yvonne McCoy:you know, you need to get back up, because you know, that next
Yvonne McCoy:wave is coming. And that's what entrepreneurship is about. It's
Yvonne McCoy:being able to it to time those ways, and be as proactive as you
Yvonne McCoy:can as much of the time as you can. But know that you have a
Yvonne McCoy:reset or recovery strategy, so that you can do it. And, and one
Yvonne McCoy:of the things that I love is, you know, part of my goal with
Yvonne McCoy:working with women is to get you out of the doing stage and get
Yvonne McCoy:you into the CEOs into your CEO Mojo. One of the things that you
Yvonne McCoy:know, that I'm kind of putting together as what I call the
Yvonne McCoy:entrepreneurial leadership journey. And one of the things
Yvonne McCoy:that happens is in terms of leadership, we tend to, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, if you actually were to follow it is like you kind of
Yvonne McCoy:learn to manage yourself, then you learn to manage projects,
Yvonne McCoy:then you learn to manage other people then you manage
Yvonne McCoy:organizations are bigger things. As entrepreneurs, we jump into
Yvonne McCoy:managing projects, we are such doers. I mean, I can't tell you
Yvonne McCoy:how many executive directors I've coach that are busy filing
Yvonne McCoy:or finding something or whatever, instead of you know,
Yvonne McCoy:and then seeing at the end of the day, oh my god, I still have
Yvonne McCoy:all my stuff to do. Right
Jennifer Takagi:today go? Yeah.
Yvonne McCoy:And so that is, you know, helping them say okay,
Yvonne McCoy:we need to develop the that part of my skill set so that not only
Yvonne McCoy:can I manage a project, but now I'm in a place where I can
Yvonne McCoy:delegate and grow faster. Right? And so the the intensive is
Yvonne McCoy:meant to be that stage where we take a look and really do the
Yvonne McCoy:foundational stuff where you're really taking your business and
Yvonne McCoy:giving it shape so that you Ready to Grow and then ready to
Yvonne McCoy:scale? Right? I, most of the people that I work with have
Yvonne McCoy:already been in business, they've made some sales, they've
Yvonne McCoy:invested in themselves, but they got these expensive courses or
Yvonne McCoy:these expensive, you know, programs that they've been in.
Yvonne McCoy:And I mean, and I've done it myself, I mean, my client is me.
Yvonne McCoy:I was in, I was at a really, you know, like, it was over $20,000
Yvonne McCoy:program for a year. And at the end of the year, I still didn't
Yvonne McCoy:know who my avatar was,
Jennifer Takagi:Oh, me, too, you know, been there done that.
Jennifer Takagi:And
Yvonne McCoy:you know, what it was the it was the approach. I
Yvonne McCoy:mean, I think that people do not one size does not fit all. Now,
Yvonne McCoy:you probably remember this, when it was a big thing when they
Yvonne McCoy:brought out clothing and said, one size fits all. And it
Yvonne McCoy:didn't, right, that's in there. And then they said, one size
Yvonne McCoy:fits most. You know, my philosophy is, if it doesn't
Yvonne McCoy:work for you, it doesn't work. There's nothing wrong with you,
Yvonne McCoy:you just need to find a different approach. And so, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, I had a client said to me, I canceled my appointment,
Yvonne McCoy:because I hadn't done my homework. And I said, I never
Yvonne McCoy:want you to do that. Because you're not doing your homework
Yvonne McCoy:is a lesson. Let's find out why you didn't do it. You know, did
Yvonne McCoy:you just check it off? Or were you having difficulty? And we
Yvonne McCoy:need to figure out a different way to get the same results.
Yvonne McCoy:Right? Because one size does not fit all? You know?
Jennifer Takagi:It obviously does not? I think we we've had
Jennifer Takagi:similar journeys along the way. So I want to get back to your
Jennifer Takagi:VIP a little bit I got the four vision is I innovate,
Yvonne McCoy:its innovation during during constant change,
Yvonne McCoy:okay,
Jennifer Takagi:innovation during constant change. Because
Yvonne McCoy:you know, what, if you don't change, the rest of
Yvonne McCoy:the world still is changing, and you're gonna get left behind?
Yvonne McCoy:Yeah, and I'll give you a really simple it's a really powerful,
Yvonne McCoy:but very simple example. Okay, there was a time when coaches
Yvonne McCoy:and gurus were hired for their expertise. Now, there's
Yvonne McCoy:information everywhere you can, you can get information for
Yvonne McCoy:free. So you're having some some level of expertise is a given. I
Yvonne McCoy:mean, it's like the minimal thing, right? People hire you to
Yvonne McCoy:so that you can help them implement that information and
Yvonne McCoy:give them accountability and get results. So that means you can't
Yvonne McCoy:just show up and say, do this. That's a long, that's a long,
Yvonne McCoy:you know, the same thing with Chad GPT. Right. If you're a
Yvonne McCoy:technophobe, like me, I was like, you know, not an A, and
Yvonne McCoy:now I love it. I mean, I can get so much done, because I found a
Yvonne McCoy:way that it works for me. I mean, it's like, in between
Yvonne McCoy:calls, I'll put something in. And at the end of the day, I
Yvonne McCoy:have all this stuff that I've generated that I've been that
Yvonne McCoy:I've been putting off, right. And, you know, I've learned to
Yvonne McCoy:train it to do certain things for me, you know, like, I'm
Yvonne McCoy:really terrible with hashtags. So, you know, I always say, to
Yvonne McCoy:give me seven titles for this post and give me you know, seven
Yvonne McCoy:hashtags, no, and then I make it my own. Right. So that's what
Yvonne McCoy:the the innovation is, there's always going to be change, it's
Yvonne McCoy:not, when it's going to change. It's not if it's going to
Yvonne McCoy:change, it's when it's going to change.
Jennifer Takagi:I know. And I it's so funny, because I have
Jennifer Takagi:this vision, when I graduated college and got a real job, that
Jennifer Takagi:life was going to be stable, like that it was going to be
Jennifer Takagi:stable. And I think I wanted that because we moved so much
Jennifer Takagi:when I was growing up. And it was like, I want to get
Jennifer Takagi:someplace and like plant roots and stay. And I did not do that
Jennifer Takagi:for many more years. But I just created this vision that things
Jennifer Takagi:should stay the same. And it was a rude awakening, that it's
Jennifer Takagi:never going to stay the same. It's never going to end like
Jennifer Takagi:next year is not going to be the same as this year. We think it
Jennifer Takagi:might be but it's not. We're always in a state of flux and a
Jennifer Takagi:state of movement in the state of change. But I love that have
Jennifer Takagi:innovating in the midst of it all. That's so important.
Yvonne McCoy:And I think, you know, for me, one of the things
Yvonne McCoy:was I used to say for years, I'm not creative, I'm not creative,
Yvonne McCoy:I'm not creative, right. And, and I read a definition that set
Yvonne McCoy:me free. It says creativity is not creating something out of
Yvonne McCoy:nothing. It's taking things that already exist and coming up with
Yvonne McCoy:a better a better version and you know, or a different use.
Yvonne McCoy:And so one of the things that I you know, I always when I'm
Yvonne McCoy:coaching I always say find three uses for anything that you do.
Yvonne McCoy:Right so If you do a post, you know, Can you post it in more
Yvonne McCoy:than one place? Can you put put it into something that you're
Yvonne McCoy:talking about? Can you do a video? Can you whatever, so that
Yvonne McCoy:you can get more mileage out of out of the things that you know
Yvonne McCoy:that you're doing. And the last piece, because I want to make
Yvonne McCoy:sure that I hit all three pieces, but the last piece is
Yvonne McCoy:your product genius. Okay, that's your uniqueness. Right?
Yvonne McCoy:The thing that you've been taught to hide, oh, God, please
Yvonne McCoy:don't do this in front of other people. You know, your family
Yvonne McCoy:thinks this is the thing that's weird. Like my family says to
Yvonne McCoy:me, please stop fixing things. Because I'm always looking for
Yvonne McCoy:solutions, right? But I'm really good at it. And so that's the
Yvonne McCoy:thing. You know, we're we, we bought these programs, some
Yvonne McCoy:gurus told us to do something, we've tried to do it, and it
Yvonne McCoy:hasn't worked. And your first reaction is what's wrong with
Yvonne McCoy:me? Right. And so I come up with models that I think will help
Yvonne McCoy:you to be you. So the first you know, so one of them is the
Yvonne McCoy:three P's. And I learned this, I came up with this for myself,
Yvonne McCoy:when I was losing weight, because at one point, I was over
Yvonne McCoy:400 pounds, and I lost 150 pounds. And so you know, your
Yvonne McCoy:first thing is you eat something you're not supposed to you gain
Yvonne McCoy:weight, when you're trying to lose weight you go what's wrong
Yvonne McCoy:with me? Do that, why can't I do this? This was, you know, rare.
Yvonne McCoy:And so to get out of that, because it's so subjective, and
Yvonne McCoy:it's so demoralizing. You know, I was like, What about a
Yvonne McCoy:procedure? What? How is it supposed to work? Right? And
Yvonne McCoy:that became the procedure. So had I done shopping had I bought
Yvonne McCoy:the things that I needed that I make time in my calendar, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, whatever the case may be. And that's true of business as
Yvonne McCoy:well. And then you go to the personal. And it's not like
Yvonne McCoy:what's wrong with me? It's like, do I know what I'm supposed to
Yvonne McCoy:do? Do I need to make a change? Do I need something additional?
Yvonne McCoy:Do I have the resources that I need? You know, if I'm saying
Yvonne McCoy:I'm supposed to be eating vegetables, but I've run out of
Yvonne McCoy:vegetables than I need to change the procedure, the same thing is
Yvonne McCoy:true. In your business, if you say I need to have these things
Yvonne McCoy:done at this time, but my copier, you know, is not working
Yvonne McCoy:or my computer crashed, there's nothing wrong with me on my
Yvonne McCoy:read, I need a procedure to say, you know, like I just said to my
Yvonne McCoy:tech person, how often should I shut down my computer? And she
Yvonne McCoy:goes, You don't do that every day? And I'm like, No,
Jennifer Takagi:I have all the tabs open. Yeah,
Yvonne McCoy:I mean, I got stuff. Yeah, it was like, and
Yvonne McCoy:then the one time that I thought I was being really
Yvonne McCoy:conscientious, like, I forgot part of important things. Today,
Yvonne McCoy:I'm gonna shut my computer down, and could not get back in. I was
Yvonne McCoy:like, Oh, my God. So So you know, do you have the resource?
Yvonne McCoy:Do you have the support that you need to help you do things that
Yvonne McCoy:you don't know how to do? And then the last one is being
Yvonne McCoy:proactive. Don't just solve that problem one time, right? Figure
Yvonne McCoy:out how you can solve it for the future. You know, if you don't,
Yvonne McCoy:if you you know, you need tech support, find a tech person that
Yvonne McCoy:you're going to regularly be with them and say, This is what
Yvonne McCoy:I'm thinking about, you know, my my tech person says, Whatever
Yvonne McCoy:you do, don't add anything. Don't buy anything before you
Yvonne McCoy:talk to me first. So that what you're getting is going to work
Yvonne McCoy:together.
Jennifer Takagi:I love that.
Yvonne McCoy:I surprised her. And so I've decided to change
Yvonne McCoy:platforms. And she goes, you've made this decision. And you
Yvonne McCoy:haven't even talked to me. And I said, but you'll be really proud
Yvonne McCoy:of the way that I did it. I talked to several other people.
Yvonne McCoy:I hadn't expected to do it. But I know that I have support and
Yvonne McCoy:here's why. Here's my thought process. And now I need you to
Yvonne McCoy:you know, help me to do it correctly. And it is. I mean, I
Yvonne McCoy:was awake last night thinking about this because because we
Yvonne McCoy:had had a palooza and a lot of these episodes are not going to
Yvonne McCoy:be airing for months. And I it's like oh my god, and she's like
Yvonne McCoy:not to worry, we can handle this. We can like okay, you
Yvonne McCoy:know, you have the help that you need. So, I want I want women to
Yvonne McCoy:stop just being a very, you know, a very important person in
Yvonne McCoy:their business and be a strategic CEO. I want them to
Yvonne McCoy:have their mojo, have their style, know that their style is
Yvonne McCoy:okay. Right? Know what the limits are to that style. So for
Yvonne McCoy:instance, if you tend to be more of, you know, kind of a
Yvonne McCoy:community leader where you get everybody's, you know,
Yvonne McCoy:information and stuff. That doesn't always work. There are
Yvonne McCoy:times when you need to make a decision fast and you just need
Yvonne McCoy:to do it. But the way that you do that is You know, I used to
Yvonne McCoy:say when I was in corporate, I would say to my managers, here's
Yvonne McCoy:the way this is gonna work. If I get a choice, if something comes
Yvonne McCoy:down from corporate and I get a choice, they if they say we have
Yvonne McCoy:to cut the budget and I get a choice how I do it, you get a
Yvonne McCoy:choice on where you do it. If I don't get a choice, and they
Yvonne McCoy:say, you have to cut it in this category, I'll give you five
Yvonne McCoy:minutes to moan and groan to me, and then that's the way we'll do
Yvonne McCoy:it. I mean, everything can't be a team sport. No, it cannot.
Jennifer Takagi:Well, I love hearing your stories and getting
Jennifer Takagi:to know you better. But unfortunately, our time has come
Jennifer Takagi:to an end. And I see that we can reach you at book a call with
Jennifer Takagi:yvonne.com. Mm hmm. And one last parting thought for our audience
Jennifer Takagi:on what success means to you.
Yvonne McCoy:what success means to me is that I have actually
Yvonne McCoy:used my gifts to make other people's lives better, and I've
Yvonne McCoy:had fun doing it, that I've done the happy dance
Jennifer Takagi:eautiful I love that. Thank you for being here
Jennifer Takagi:today.
Yvonne McCoy:Thank you for having me.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to
Jennifer Takagi:connecting with you soon.
