EP 269: Build Your Dream Business

Deborah, with her thirty years of being an entrepreneur and creating over seven companies, knows exactly what it means to accept the mission. When you make that decision, when you accept the mission to become a solopreneur, to take yourself and your talents to market, then you embrace a life of not only unlimited possibilities, but also the unknown. It's an elixir of fear and bravery that only someone who's

Hello, Thank you for coming back. And I knew you would because you are now.

You know, it's interesting to say I know that that you are the best pot have audience ever because I talked to my fellow podcasting posts and they're like, really, they email you personally, they send.

You emails, and I'm like Yeah, you know why because I tell them to.

So you tell me what you want and we deliver and we're so excited and thank you so much. Our guests always tell me that they see themselves in places that we didn't place them, which is a really big deal. And we know it's from you. It's from our followers and our listeners and our viewers that are sending and sharing and sending and sharing, and we know that a lot of you as well are on the mission. You are on the mission, and you're here to find out what why do I stay here? Why do I keep

So I know that some of you saw that show and you're like, did he get it? Did he get it? Did he get it?

Because he announced that he was up for a nomination, So thank you so much. He appreciates you. And honestly, I told him it was.

From being on the show. Really, what else would it be.

So anyways, you are in for treats today. You know you go on shows, are like you're in for a real treat.

Well, you know what. You just walked into the.

Buffet of entrepreneurships these and look at it's all women today.

It's like women in the house. Women in the house today. So welcome.

This is a very powerful group of incredible entrepreneurs doing multiple things. And I'm not saying that because there's multiple people. I mean, these women are doing multiple things and it's going to be interesting on what they share with us today. So we are going to be introducing I know some

So we have.

Pat Alva Kracker, who is a business coach for women. We have Jennifer Bond who is a vision strategist. We have Dessi Boland who is in all things virtual.

She is also a founder. We have Jasery Lambert who is an iabatic doctor. We have Sue Coleman who just coins the title entrepreneur. She is one of these multi entrepreneurs. I'm going to tell her she's you know, she's a multi entrepreneur. We have Kathleen Carlston who is the CEO and founder. We have Patsy Sanders, international image styles coach and speaker, and Catherine.

Holds, a change agent advocate. So thank you and welcome to mission accepted.

Ladies.

Here we go. I want to get to the heart of the matter. You have all done incredible inspiring things, and listeners, listen to the end and please reach out to these women because every single one of these women have multiple gifts for you, not only what they do, but I'm sure they probably have a little free gift for you.

Just say you're permission accepted. So pat let's start with you.

I love that because we did appreciate we've been hanging for the the last few days. We did some media stuff, hanging out some last few days, and what is the largest draw for you, Like, what was it that made you decide entrepreneurship was the right route that you wanted to.

Go with me. Ever since I was a kid, my favorite game was playing business. We had a huge front porch, I had a table, I had a little cash register, I had a phone, I had invoices and a catalog that used to belong to my dad. I used to sell paints to my sister in high school. I used to babysit. My parents were entrepreneurs. My mom took care of kids at home and my dad worked in eight to five and took all these side hustles to bring

Wow.

I love that, And I love the fact that you said that your mother was an entrepreneur and she took people in because not everyone want to put that together.

Oh my gosh, Jennifer, what about yourself?

Well, first, thank you so much Dev for inviting me to be on the podcast. I am am just thrilled to be here with all of these amazing fellow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs like yourself. You know, for me, it really came at a change in my life. You know how a lot of times as when when we get stuck in the different roles and the different labels that you know, people are.

Putting on us or we're putting on ourself.

Well, for me, I had had a career as a professional actress and I decided to leave that career. I moved halfway across the country and I started thinking, Okay, what am I going to do with the rest of my life? And one of the things that happened is I was also newly married and I had a very very small baby at home with me and another one that was going to be on the way. And I realized at that time it was time for me to start reimagining.

It was time for me to start thinking about what is it that I really want to do with the rest of my life.

And I didn't want to get stuck working for somebody else. I didn't want to be a slave to a time clock, and I didn't want to do things on somebody else's terms. And so I started thinking about what is it that I can do that I can be here for my family. I can live the kind of lifestyle that I want to live, and I can have a thriving business, and I can have something that's really truly scalable, and then I can have that what I like to call living

Wow, I'm just loving the stories Debtsy.

How about yourself, hun Yeah, I resonate so so much with Jennifer. And eight years ago we moved to a small little town of forty five people, and I have ten years of corporate management experience. I did not want to be away from my family for twelve hours a day for where we are, and it really just I started as a regular administrative assistant and it's really evolved into what it is now and I too get to be here with my family each and every day, and it's it's a life that I love.

Fantastic And jassree yourself, what made you decide to embark on this beautiful world of entrepreneurship?

Self funding, that's my new term, self.

Funding, self funded absolutely well, you know, in ayer Veda practice, there was really no choice in the sense that because it was a new field to North America when I started in the eighties, late eighties. I'm in my seventy seventh year now of continuous practice and still working full time, enjoying it and loving it and just loving your world your word, entrepreneur, because truly we have to be that,

Awesome. I love that. I love that word of mouth.

And for those of us that have been around, that have been doing our businesses for a long time, we understand the power of the word of mouth.

And you know what, the other thing that you.

Said that I love is that the business started to build itself. And I think it's a beautiful thing when you're able to stand back and see yourself and then see your business as its own entity and that you are part of that and you have a relationship with your business because it starts to do its own thing, and that's absolutely beautiful. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. And Miss Sue Coleman, I just to see you today, honey.

I'd love to be here, dev thanks for inviting me. Loving to meet all these other amazing women. And it's a bit of everything that everybody said so far is what got me into it. When I look back, Yeah, I was, I have my paper route. When I was a kid, I did babysitting. I was an avon lady when my kids were little. I needed some adult conversation. So I thought that'll be a good way to get out and about. And then I went into the lovely world of real being a realtor, and I'm thinking, yeah,

Well, when I hear you talk, I just hear like freedom, freedom, freedom, And like when you're saying that right now, you know you love being able to live your life the way that you live your life, I just hear. I just hear a lot of the word freedom, and I know that you've worked hard to achieve that. So congratulations, You're welcome, Miss Kathleen Carlson.

Yeah, Hi, everybody. It's so nice to be here with all these beautiful women. And I get I'm lucky enough to spend a lot of time with dem so this is just so good. You know, I'm going to say I'm probably exactly the opposite of Pat. I did not have an entrepreneur in my veins. In fact, I was raised completely different. I grew up in a still mill industrial town, and I was raised with the belief you get with a good company, you work really hard, and they'll take care of you. And I did exactly that.

Right.

Thirty years corporate leadership, a lot of fun, a lot of not so fun. But at some point I realized, you know, I have spent my whole career, my whole adult life, trying to fit in where others really didn't even want me to fit in. So I didn't realize how much fight was in me all the time, and you know that wears you down. And eventually I got to a point after thirty years and said, you know what, I want to go where I don't have to fight

And also my.

Values became so far different from where I was in the corporate and I just couldn't wake up and face that anymore.

So I sort of.

Got a little bit forced into happily into entrepreneurship.

Awesome, I love it right.

This is like a wild garden, all the different kinds of flowers and Miss Patsy Saunders.

So what was your draw was? What was the drive to step into the world of entrepreneurship.

Well, ever since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a hairstylist like I do by doll's hair, my mom's hair, and my neighbor's hair. And I ended up winning a scholarship to go to beauty college because that's what I ever wanted to do.

So I have done that for five decades plus.

But eight years ago I met a speaker trainer and this program where I had lost eighty pounds, she had lost weight, and I stepped into being the woman I used to vision myself. But she was not there before because she was dealing with life and ate over it. And so when I got a right sized body and I started, you know, changing my own inner outer image of who I was being, I took. I was helping her with her course and she said, Patsy, you have to get you know, color typed in this elements and

I thought I knew it.

She goes, but Patsy, what if what you're wearing is stopping people from working with you. Well, I had moved to a new area and I was struggling trying to get new clients, and I couldn't understand why she goes, just try it.

So I stepped into this. I became a fire.

I didn't want to wear a fire, but I tried it. And the tyler said to me, this, why don't we just go shopping and buy a few new things, And.

If people don't treat you differently. You don't have to do this.

I said, okay, fine, And every time I'd wear one of those new tops of the salon, my clients go, why, Patsy, you look pretty, Dare, why Paths.

You look nice?

Day and the salon on recommen. She goes, what are you doing differently? I said, change my top. She goes, well, whatever you're doing doing it? And I realized that I was hiding and playing sight. We're in the wrong colors. And I now got compliments everywhere I went.

Now I had.

People come up and want to work with me that I'd been in network groups before but hadn't wanted to work with me. And I realized there's a magic about wearing your right colors and an energy that allows people to see you.

It was life changing. So I decided to become a stylist. The owner got sick.

I managed your business for two years, and six years ago she sold me the business.

So I think God has a sense to humor. I didn't even want to get colored type. Now I own the darn business.

But what I love is I've always loved helping women look beautiful. But what I get to do now is help them look beautiful and be more confident than they've ever been in their life because they're comfortable being who they are.

So it's been life changing.

And sometimes I think God has a plan for us that we don't always know what it is until we just get on that road.

And that's all I've ever wanted to do.

I'm partially I work part time and I do this part time, and I've become working with events and you know, just i just love coming alongside other coaches and helping us.

Have your people been great?

So it's been really fun having women feel beautiful.

So it's so interesting, how you know what I mean, Like, how many people have decided to get into business in some industries they were like, oh, I got dragged along. My friend talked me into it. My friend begged me to go into business with them. I wasn't sure. Not everybody steps in, you know, fullheartedly. Sometimes the moment of uh, you know, the angels, the entrepreneur angels start singing three or six months down the road.

So, oh my gosh.

So Kathy Holt, Miss Kathy Holts, And for you, what was it that drew you to this world of entrepreneurship?

Well, I think, like so many of these stories that we have all presented today, I was one of those in younger years that always was figuring out something something to do to get money. But then I did go into a world of working and organized in organizations and it was fine.

I learned a lot.

As Kathleen said, you know, it added to my toolkit. But I then moved to Brazil. My daughter's father is Brazilian and we lived down there, and I didn't fit in anywhere, so I had to start my own business. And I saw all of the wonders of the Amazon and decided to go into natural products and opened one of the first natural products stores in the city where I lived, which was over two million people. So that

It.

This is a complete wild garden.

Thank you so much, and I know that there is people. You know, we talk about that, right because we've been entrepreneurs for a little while. Now, I love your word mature. Thank you will borrow that, Kathy. So as we vo matured right and maybe done one business or two businesses, or some of us have different businesses within one, there's still many, many people that are thinking about the world

And I'm like, well, no, less than three.

Percent of the planet actually, right, But those of us that are in it that we see it. And so we're starting to see people becoming open to not only adding on a side gig, but coming out of school right into entrepreneurship. We're seeing classes changing, We're seeing you know, most of you know that my son started his first company and he's just you know, he's twenty, and that there is this kind of like, Pat, you were raised in an entrepreneurial home.

But we see people being raised in an entrepreneurial world.

We see that opportunity not as oh, I don't know, but something very tantalizing, something that you know, allows people to be creative, and we're seeing a drop in college and university.

Sign ups and things like that.

So, ladies, as we kind of go around, maybe share what you think in terms of why entrepreneurship has become so you know, so popular. And at the same time, if you were to take one word or two words, I know that you shared.

And what you know what, but what is it? What is it that keeps you on the path, What is it that makes you happy? You know what I mean? What does that makes you happy?

So for example, I you know, I'm a big proponent of direct sales.

I love direct sales.

One of the things that made me the most happy is when I was in direct sales. When I saw someone in my team that I knew worked really hard have their first walk.

Across the stage. I mean, oh my gosh, I think my body tingled.

You're behind the stage and you're seeing them and they're super nervous be where they go, and they want to throw up, and You're like, you got this, Now go out there and do that. You know, that for me was one of the things that kept me going from when I was really strong in that industry. So your comments a little bit on why you see people coming in because I know that a lot of you are coaches. You're working with first time people, right, even for you Jastree,

So pat back to you.

Yeah, so thanks for creating this an energetic space. I just love the gifts that are being presented and just the energy and spirit. When COVID hit, it was a game changer for a lot of women. They were forced to go back into the workforce. Actually were they were forced to go work to work at home, and they realized, heck, I enjoy being at home. Oh my god, I have

Wow, clarity, clarity, clarity, Absolutely fantastic.

And Jennifer, I know that you see this all the time in what you do, right the trepidacious And so for yourself, what do you think is being the big draw and what makes you you know, what's that sweet spot?

What makes you happy?

Yeah, you know, dev I think it's a couple of things.

I think it's absolutely what pat was talking about that I think the pandemic really made a lot of people reset think about.

What it is that they were doing.

You know, there were so there was so much fear, there was so much you know, requestioning what it is that you were doing with your life.

You know.

There's some interesting data that's come out recently from Forbes. Actually this couple of weeks ago, they put out a study and they had they had done the study and they were specifically looking at the group of gen z and millennia and it was really interesting because they said that well over fifty percent of gen z ers and millennials were currently unhappy with their corporate position, so working

Live your end.

I think the second part of it too, though, Deb, is I think there's a lot of people like your health who are really good, strong examples, and so it's showing people the possibilities so that they see the possibilities. It's no longer what Kathleen was talking about. You know, back in the day where you were stuck very much as a woman, there were these roles and labels that were assigned to us that we had to just step

Your second question was what makes me so happy?

This is really easy, really easy for me as a vision strategist. The thing that just gets me up in the morning and gives me goosebumps like it does right now is that I get to help create alongside my clients, alongside the amazing women that I've been working that I've worked with, I get to help them create a vision for their life and then get to help give them a strategy.

On how to make that come to life.

There is nothing better, just like you said, seeing somebody walk across the stage or earn their first incentive trip, or oh my gosh, when I get somebody say, Jennifer, I just applied for my first passport and I'm going out of the country for the first time in my life, and I never thought this could be possible. That's the thing that you know gets me up and keeps me doing what I'm doing, and it will keep me doing what I'm doing for a very long time.

Awesome, Thank you so much. And DESI, what about yourself? Now?

You get to see the backside of it a lot, right because you're sought out by entrepreneurs, right, So you are an entrepreneur that works with entrepreneurs as many of us do. As many of us do. So I don't know what is it? What gets what's your happy place? And why do you think this is happening right now?

I really think this is happening, you know, as all these other beautiful ladies have said, it's the pandemic created a massive shift in the entrepreneurial world and I love it. I love seeing all of the creativity and the imagination that comes out of this generation of entrepreneurs. And you are so right. I do see the back end of things a lot, and the tech is definitely needed in

Thank you and Jaffrey. I know that you for your industry.

Being an Arabaa doctor, you teach people how to involve are beta in their life and some of those want to be become doctors and practitioners like yourself.

I'm sure you've seen.

Over the years the eyes opening around are beta, particularly where you reside in the Western world.

I know you are both.

Tell us a little bit what you see in terms of your industry and what brings you joy.

Oh my joy, I think comes from really being involved immersed every day in Ayurveda, the world's oldest holistic medical science. Many of us have seen the collapse of our medical systems and the inefficacies. We just heard yesterday about a young man whose father was killed by yatrogenic wrong prescription prescribed by a young doctor. So the family lost their father in patriarch and this happens just all too often.

I get to travel every year.

I get out of the cold and into the warm, and it is the schedule of my dreams. It's also the community of my dreams. Deborah, this company is a perfect example. So I'm just grateful for every day, every breath, every opportunity.

Wow, thank you, what a beautiful way to put that. It's like, and I love how you're like ayer Veda allows me, and it's kind of like our businesses allow us right, energy and energy out. I would say that when I used to say that when my daughter was first dating and she would bring home her little friend and I'd be like, we have a role in this house. In cases doesn't last forever, and you're not walking down the aisle respect in respect out, respect for each other.

Okay, miss Sue.

Now I know you are absorbed in the world of networking and you are a very powerful connector, and so you must see people coming in to this world new very much and what it is that their needs are in those kind things. So please share with us what is it that you're seeing out there and what's the thing that you know?

Well, what I saw, I mean, COVID was an awesome opportunity for people in many ways because they did have the opportunity to embrace entrepreneurship. What I found was though they didn't understand the relationship building, and so the art of networking really fell away. And that's what I find out A great need right now is people need to understand how to build ethical, efficient and effective networks and

No, no, it's a powerful rent. And I think that we've all talked to it a little bit. But with this challenge came new opportunity. And by the way, people, this is how entrepreneurs think. So if you're hearing a theme, it's because that's how we're wired. So if you're like nod in your head while you're listening to this, you're driving boohoo, sorry, you're one.

Of us, because that's how we think.

Now, truth be truth, right, DESI, you talked about it, so you talked about it, and we've all talked about it, and if not, we have experienced it ourselves. And Jasper you talked about it. The Internet education that we had to go through, as one does when they go from one form of doing business to another, or people coming in and so they may come in high tech, low touch.

There's an elixir, there's there's always new things to learn.

But with this great gift came also some deficits, and that happens to be one of them that but can be learned. So thank you for highlighting that, because you know it's not all right, Okay, Miss Kathleen Carlson.

It's interesting to hear everybody talk about the opportunities that came out of COVID. I see that, and I also see. For me, what I think is driving people to entrepreneurship is that it lent a tremendous exposure. And this might not sound popular, but what it exposed was the failure in leadership, the lack of mentorship that you know, you know, I started out talking about how hard I tried every day to fit in, and all.

I wanted to do was serve well.

COVID gave everybody that chance to go Yeah, I'm uncomfortable too, and I can go out. But the reality is we still do need big companies. We still are going to have corporations. You know, they provide a tremendous service, and we still need leaders, and so there's an opportunity for me spending thirty years being a leader and mentoring. That was always my favorite piece, always the part that brought me sunshine. Yes, we had to meet all the goals

So that's what I love to do.

Awesome, thank you so much for flipping that coin. That's what we do. Grow it on the table, let's talk about it, let's dig that in. And I love that you talked about the numbers. I mean, it's one of the big things that I love.

You know, I always say I do for people what they don't want to do, And most beautiful entrepreneurial creatives can't stand strategic planning and talking.

About first, second, and third quarters.

So right, it's like, there's the variety of what it takes to make a business sustainable, and a sustainable person is a powerful person. So Patsy, please share what you're seeing a real innership out there right now?

I thought, you know, Covid.

I was blown away by Covid because I had a makeover studio. I had manifested a makeover studio where I could do the whole makeover woman. I could do the colors, could do their hair and the makeup, everything on one spot. It was so exciting to see women start feeling more confident and transformed just by knowing how to shop and what to wear and feeling good about who being themselves.

People don't know that what they were may not be the best thing. And I thought, well.

Wonder if I did this virtually, like put together a little So I did. I got this idea to put a typing git together. I did a little beta testing a girl in Oregon, I went in Texas, and then I had a coach friend that had a bunch of friends that wanted to be color type in this essence, and and I could color type all of it and it worked. And now I have clients all over the world who would have thought that I could change lives everywhere, not just locally in my community. So I think the

Are guessing the hold stuff up like this is look good.

So it just is so much fun to take that guests work out and help women know what to wear, how to look.

Best on zoom on stage.

I put together a new course on a twenty piece event ready wardrobe, so.

You can do anything. You never have to think.

About what you're doing net because we've worked together and you're ready to go. And so this has evolved over time for me to empower my my people, my friends and women that are amazing to feel so confident that it doesn't matter what they're doing, they can go. When they walk out of the bedroom, they know they're a rock star and it's it's all good. So I think that's the joy when somebody gets online with me and said, Patsy, I got three compliments this week because I wore that teal top.

I mean, I've never had that many compliments.

Like that's joy when I can when I'm doing they don't need me anymore.

When I've taught about how to do what they need to do.

It's exciting to see women feel beautiful and confident, and I'm so tired of the world trying to take that from them. So I think that's the one thing that I can change and I can support other women to It's not that hard if you know what it is, you need to have done. So it's just exciting to be able to come alongside other coaches, other people.

And I think that's what's why this is so.

Amazing, deb is that we're doing this together, We're supporting each other, sharing each other.

It's like, I've already.

Thought of a couple of people that, you know, maybe would want to talk to one of these girls. So like it's like, that's the magic of women in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is like, we're not afraid to work together. We love helping each other. We're not competing. We're here to uplift and change people's lives. That's that's my passion and I think that's what I see. And I know Pat is amazing at that, Like she's so focused on helping women and they.

Get such great results. So like that's what's exciting about being an entrepreneur.

Well, thank you so much for that.

There's two words that stuck out for me, and one of them is collaboration.

And I think that it's a word that people hear.

A lot of, but yet it's it's fairly new in the world of business. It's fairly new, and people coming into entrepreneurship now we were just talking about, like, what is it that's driving people to entrepreneurship, right, And I think the art of collaboration is forefront when people start to become entrepreneurs now, where before it was if you were going to be an entrepreneur, it was kind of like either or you were going to be in a corporation with people and support and meetings and that kind

And then there was referrals. Do you remember everyone's like, I have a referral.

Program, right, But that was like someone would refer to you and then you'd refer back to them, And it wasn't that there wasn't a sense of support.

But I don't think there was a movement around it. I don't think there's all we have a referral movement.

Now there's referral organizations, and I think a lot of us actually, if you're in direct sales, you're in a referral organization.

But there wasn't a movement around.

It where we're seeing companies, big corporations like Kathleen talk about, you're seeing big corporations coming together. I see it a lot in my son's fashion business. Big corporations, big sneaker companies, big fashion companies coming together and producing a product and taking that product collectively out to market, to expand and collaboration. We've taken it by its rain and it is running

I'm like, oh my people want to learn more?

Well, okay, here we are right and like DESI teaching technology behind?

How do you make your events go? How do you this? How do you orchestrate technology? For us?

We teach media? How do you how do you get people to say yes to you? Those kind of things? And what are you wearing? So I think that there's a synergy and a movement that's happening around collaboration like we've never seen before, and people stepping.

Into this world. It's an automatic right where before?

I mean, I remember saying to my son, you should never have to sign a contract.

Your handshake should be good enough.

Now if that's not our chaeok, I don't know what is true principle and mission in our family? Right shake a hand you're in right, no matter if it was you know, taken out the garbage or whatever you're in, but that would be considered an old thought process where now but you know what I mean, that's that's a principle. But now they're coming in and it's just a given. It's just a given.

So anyways, thank.

You for that trigger off and talking about change agents and miss Kathy Old what your opinion. I mean, you really see it. You live in a world of statistics. You see what's going on with women and people don't know. What Kathy does is she's in major leadership roles United Nations and you really see the evolvement of women looking to become leaders.

So what are you seeing? What's the draw?

Well, in my work with the UN and several NGOs that I work with internationally, I have seen entrepreneurship in other countries and often for at least fifteen years now, often is because of need or barriers that women are facing. And I think, you know, for survival, they have to figure out how can they do something that brings in either food or money or housing for them in their situations.

What we need.

Our movement needs more women entrepreneurs and more women leaders.

Awesome, Wow, I feel inspired and elated and energize. I'm sure you do too, right.

I mean, I know we're all smiling because we're on camera, but I can I can see our energy change. Look, we're going to be coming to wrapping this up, so you little ladies, we literally are a thirty second piece

So, miss pat All the tracker.

Who is a business coach for women in thirty seconds or less, what is your advice for someone who.

Is who is an entrepreneur or wants to be Oh, we can't hear you, Han.

Prioritize your self care to amplify your business.

Thank you.

Miss Jennifer's care is not it's not a luxury, it's a necessity, all right.

Sorry you took a gap there and yeah, that's fast enough for an entrepreeur to move.

So, Miss Jennifer Vond Vision Strategist.

My one piece of advice for anybody who wants to be an entrepreneur is number one, lean in and go for it. You do not have to have an either or life. You absolutely can step into living your end and get a mentor or a coach. I think one of the biggest mistakes that people make is that they don't have somebody who is paving the way, somebody that can see the obstacles, the opportunities. Having that somebody who can really collapse those decades in today's into weeks for them.

So that would be my advice.

Awesome, thank you and miss Desi Bowan Everything virtual for entrepreneurs and thirty seconds your piece of advice.

I think the biggest piece of advice that I learned and that I want to pass on to you is stay yes and take a step. If you are being called to something, say yes and take a step. No matter how big that step is. You are being called to something great. You are here for a great reason, and that is the most prominent piece of advice that I can give you.

I hear a little show up, stand up speaker. Thank you girlfriend.

Okay, Jasper Lambert, I here Vada, doctor your thirty seconds of advice.

Do you know? To me, the most important thing deb is to be true to oneself.

Who are we? What is our essence? What have we.

Always love since childhood, since the spark came. Be absolutely true to that. Come back to it time and time and time again, in the dark moments the bright moments. That way you can find what you love, be who you love to be, find a good mentor or team of mentors, build relationships, and come back to always being true to yourself.

Fantastic Okay, miss Sue Coleman, and Miss Sue Coleman is everything networking and she is a powerful entrepreneur.

Yeah.

My advice would be to come to every conversation thinking how can you help? It's not about you, and what can you get is how can you help? And also to listen twice as much as you speak. You were given two ears for a reason and one mouth, and your ears will never get you into trouble.

Fantastic advice. Thank you, thank you, thank thank you. And Kathleen Carlson.

Yeah, thank you. I guess the thing I learned, and that was coming from corporate and being an entrepreneur and having this big position. Someone said to me, you know what, You're not afraid to start, You're afraid to start small. So that was life changing for me because when you you know, coming out of a big position, you just think you're going to step right back into that and

Wow ooop jump drops and Ms Patsy Saunders, who is and I'm sure you know by now and international Image Stylence coach.

So I want to share with you an easy way to be able to be seen and heard on Zoom is to wear lashes, lips and medium solid colors.

Online.

People will look at you and not what you're wearing, and you will absolutely feel more confident.

All right, great advice, and miss Catherine hold, if you could wrap us up and then we have a few beautiful things for you audience, that would be great.

I would say that.

It's work being an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur is work, but it's work you're passionate about. So as somebody else said, lean into it, but also as pass it, set boundaries. Self care is imperative because you are giving your energy, but also set boundaries because you know, I can find myself sometimes working at midnight and I go, I really shouldn't be doing this. I need to set my boundaries.

Set boundaries. That's a good one. That's fantastic. Thank you. Oh my gosh. I am sure that people have grabbed paper and pen.

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Podcast, you don't have to share the stage if you don't want to, or in a group podcast. We just set the dates for the next five months, so please contact us. We're happy to have you as well.

As we've just opened the gates to stand up, speak up, and show up two point to zero and we have two well, we don't have two hundred and twenty speaking spots anymore because we're already filled for our first summit, but we do have probably one hundred and fifty speaking spots, and that is for women that want to stand up, speak up, and show up and tell what's your passion, which your project is it a nonprofit?

Is a profit?

What self funding gifts can you share? So we have that available for you as well. And then because it is our gift to offer media, we feel very backstage, we're very comfortable. What our joy places is when someone's in the stage and we're behind the curtain, going, you go, you go, you go. And so we have a beautiful media class. And I know so much of our audience are people that are entrepreneurs and you have confusion around media. You don't understand what media stacking is and you probably

But as a gift for.

Us until we don't, until we don't, that's us, until we don't, it's fifty.

Dollars for our listeners and our viewers.

So we're happy to share with you how you can get on platforms and do it right and just save yourself a whole bunch of time, so let us help you there. You still have to take the first step. You need to be that self starting. I'm to get decided, I'm going to go to do this full time gig, side gig, three hour gig, it doesn't really matter, but just doing media right will be supportive to you, trust me.

In many things that we do.

And so I usually ask this final question and I'm looking at the clock, and I'm sure Carmel is like, okay, we always end with a piece of meal, is a question. So we are going to like this is going to be popcorn people, this is your thirty second of fame.

So two tickets. Someone calls you.

They're like, I have two tickets backstage pass to a concert you've always wanted to go to, never been to, always wanted to go to. And Pat can see you thinking, I'm gonna start with you just like popcorn, two tickets, backstage pass, hang out with these people on stage.

Who's it going to be?

Pat ooh, Mike Jagger?

All right, Jennifer Bond Adelle ooh DESI, I would have to say Skillet okay, Jassrie.

For me, it's the Beatles.

So yeah, did you say me?

Sue? I said Sue, Okay, all right, Toby, Tom Jones, Tom Jones, Oh, bight back okay.

Kathleen, it's always ride me backstage pass, yes, ma'am okay, Patsy.

The Lean Beyond Woo.

Lean Beon and Kathy Taylor Swift Taylor Swift.

All right, ladies, let's close it out. Thank you so much, Thank you listeners, Thank you viewers.

We love you, adore you

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