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Marathon Success!

Nov 23, 202235 minEp. 5
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Episode description

Mikki talks us through her awesome Queenstown marathon result and Cam discusses his recent trip to Samoa for a triathlon camp recce.

Cam brings us into the world of hosting software and describes some hacking attempts on his platform where hackers attempt to use stolen credit cards.

To learn more about Mikki and Cam and their businesses visit https://mikkiwilliden.com and https://trainingtilt.com

Transcript

Mikki

so Cameron, what are we talking about today? Are we recording? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just put it on. Great.

Cam

So where are we? Were at Urbanaut another brewery again, in where are we?

Mikki

city of Sales Auckland. Yes. Kingsland, even

Cam

Yeah. Yeah. More locally. Kingsland. Yeah. Which, where we were last time. We were recorded.

Mikki

Yeah. No, you, no, we were, we were in Mount Eden.

Cam

done so many episodes now.

Mikki

I know we're getting confused. I will say though, I was here three weeks ago just before the Auckland Marathon or Half Marathon that I did Baz of the Marathon, and that's when I realized that Urbanaut was Urban Ought.

Cam

Oh yeah.

Mikki

As in City Urban?

Cam

Oh, yes. Oh, oh, cool.

Mikki

Yeah,

Cam

that was a. That's the one you tried? What is

Mikki

is it? Marshmallow? Yes. Yes. Strawberry Pavlova

Cam

Oh, strawberry pavlova. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Yeah, it's yum. Oh, so yeah, the marathon. , why don't you start with your updates?

Mikki

Awesome.

Cam

you start with your awesome marathon that you did?

Mikki

Okay. So as you know, potentially the listener might know, but they might not. But I know, you

Cam

they've probably seen you on TV or

Mikki

something. Yeah, probably. I was

Cam

a small TV they carry around in their

Mikki

head . Exactly. So. I've been training for this marathon forever, actually, since like July, which is actually my whole life, which is actually like quite a long period of time. But I got really good training in like when we were away in LA I was, other than a couple of runs, one I was sick and one with my Achilles. Couldn't do. I was great. And so my goal was to do a Boston qualifier, which was easy for me. Like three hours and 50 is, it would have to be catastrophic for that to.

For me not to do that. And so my actual goal was sub 3 30, 3 30 and below, and I knew that I could do three 30. And I never allowed myself to imagine going above that actually, you know, like, I'm going

Cam

going faster

Mikki

you. No, no, sorry, going slower. I'm like, oh no, of course I'm gonna do three 30. Like, I didn't even make it an option for me to consider that I would be slower. And so when prior to that, I'd done my Park run, which. A sub, my sub 20 part run, so 1932, which I was really stoked with. And prior to that I hadn't done sub 20 in years. And I thought, okay, I'm obviously fit enough. And then I just had such a good feeling, the lead up to the marathon.

I didn't get any of those usual nervous, un uncertain feelings that you always know. You know what it's like, you know that you are. So you just dunno how you're gonna go. But I never even entertained the thought that it would be a bad race. I was like, of course it's gonna be good. I just dunno how good actually. So I took out all unknowns with regards to the nutrition stuff. Kept it like really simple low residue diets. So low vegetable intake the day before just had a u can bar and a banana.

The morning of had two hours in between. Got the toilet stop I needed and then. There were no pacers and I was relying on a three 30 pacer, but there was none. And so I was there with my mate Tom, who had put in his pace of pro a 3 25 time, which I thought was quite ambitious. Even for me. I'm like, oh, I'm not sure. And then our other friend, Emma, who was gunning for a three 30 or below, but wasn't quite sure.

So we all started out together and then we were fine until nine k. I just needed a quick loose. Like an in and out 30 seconds. And so I lost Tom at that time, but I was still on pace. And in fact, I think I went through, Emma and I were together for the first 24 K and we went through halfway at about one hour and 43 or something.

And then my goal was to just get to about 32 K and on a sub 30, 30 pace and then see how fast I. and, but actually at about 24 k, I just started running about 10 seconds a k faster. Just, it just felt it was hard, but actually really loved the feeling of it being hard. And you know, you and I talk both about mindset and about how you actually, like, you've just gotta get out of your own head a lot of the time and outta your own way when it comes to anything sport, nutrition, business related.

And so the whole time I was thinking, man, this is hard, but. This is what I signed up for. So just enjoy the fact that it's hard and I'm here for it. So, and I was really like, really happy with that actually. It wasn't even a forced thought, it's just how I was thinking. And then I just started ticking people off and I was coming through and then at about 36, and I was also thinking how grateful I was that I had no stomach issues. And then at 35 k I could see Tom up ahead again.

And then I just gained on him. And then at 36 k I caught up to him and then we went through 37 K together and then I passed him and then just ran and then just, and I was just running and that felt awesome. And I ended up with a 3 20, 2 31. Yeah. Awesome.

Cam

And you could tell that you enjoyed it cuz you wouldn't shut up about it for days.

Mikki

Days look and look at me like you, you just asked me about it and I gave you this like five minute, like monologue , rather than Oh yeah, it was sweet.

Cam

And then one of your friends videoed you over the line and we, we watched that video. Yes. And then you just look stoked to be it's not stoked to be finishing

Mikki

stoked

Cam

with your

Mikki

and. Yeah, it was spot on. Like I was concerned at the start when Tom had put his Pacer pro in and said, let's run together for this time, because I wasn't sure that I could do that time. But also, I didn't know that I could run the way he ran, cuz he likes to hit the downhills really quickly. Yeah. And I knew that I'd, if I'd done that on my quad would be smashed. So I had to trust that I would catch him in the end.

Cam

Yeah. You know what though? That could, that could be an opportunity.

Mikki

for you. Yeah.

Cam

to learn to run downhill. Hundred percent. Especially on a course like that because you, you say that your quads, but actually if you're running on the, if you're running well on a downhill, you just let your legs go

Mikki

go.

Cam

so

Mikki

Totally agree. So

Cam

you actually, you're not breaking, so you're, you're actually like running fast, but not learning too much and not absorbing too much. So that could be some practice

Mikki

Well, given that, and I know this isn't a running podcast, but given that my next event is the hundred and two at tar, I have to do more of the eccentric training.

Cam

Yep. To even just to save, not so much for speed, but to save,, save the impact on your boards and

Mikki

Because I have been in that position, like last time I did ware, it was 60 K, and by the time it came to the bit that I could have run that 15 k, the end couldn't. My quads were gone.

Cam

And you can tell the people who are good at that

Mikki

that. Yeah.

Cam

see them running downhill and it looks effortless that they're running downhill. Yes. And. And then you are

Mikki

jamming,

Cam

not you

Mikki

univers. Yeah. Yeah.

Cam

Jamming on the brakes. Yes. To try not to fall over. Yeah. And that takes a lot of energy. Yeah. Over, you don't have to do too much for that

Mikki

that.

Cam

to, to burn your quads out. That's cool.

Mikki

It is cool. And Queenstown

Cam

was, Queenstown was fun.

Mikki

Yeah. And a change in Don just with the change downtown. The Pedestrianized being pedestrianization. yeah. it's

Cam

I guess, I think they might have had a bit of a,

Mikki

a,

Cam

I don't know whether it would've happened anyway, and whether covid just slowed down the development, but there's a lot happening there. We went to those new, that new set of buildings with the Bavarian place,

Mikki

which is the chain of German, what would you call them? German restaurants. Beer halls. Beer halls, yeah. Yes.

Cam

Yep. So that was really cool. That was a really nice

Mikki

one. Yeah. Fun

Cam

place to hang out. Sometimes you're not sure whether, you know, whether those chain places will be good, but it will, it

Mikki

really was.

Cam

And then I heard on news the other day that they've got, I'm not sure this is a good thing, but they've got like a, is it six stories or eight story buildings happening? Not far from that, up the hill.

Mikki

Oh yes.

Cam

people are trying to stop it

Mikki

cause they don't want, you know,

Cam

you could easily ruin Queenstown. Lots of 10 story buildings on all the hills around

Mikki

town. Well, I get that. But the reality is pre covid people were saying Queensland was ruined anyway, you know, and I like if of different reasons, like not the infrastructure to support all of the tourists coming in. So it was expanding out.

Cam

Yeah. So that, it might be good actually. You get people even that

Mikki

where

Cam

and places, which is up the hill a bit of the way out of the central town by the.

Mikki

Yes. Screwed

Cam

people out of it.

Mikki

Yep. Agree.

Cam

Yeah. And yeah, but it's just amazing the, where we stayed out by

Mikki

Arthur's point.

Cam

Yeah, Arthur's point I shot where the shot over jet is.

Mikki

it's

Cam

beautiful there. Like, just probably would avoid staying in town.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Again. And just stay somewhere

Mikki

like that. Yeah. It was nice. And it had those couple of nice, like one the Canyon Brewery. Yeah. Which was. And then the other little brewery place just down from where we were, which was more sort of pub craft beer place, which we'll definitely have to go back to at some. Like, that was lovely. We didn't get an opportunity to spend too much time there. cool. Yeah.

Cam

that was cool. So

Mikki

last

Cam

we talked, I was wondering whether I was gonna go to Samo the next day.

Mikki

Mm.

Cam

So

Mikki

I did go

Cam

and it was, it was pretty cool.

Mikki

So we recapped

Cam

our friend. From foot traffic coaching was going and supposed to be going with our friend Scotty,

Mikki

Scott, the photographer

Cam

along with Setti from Samoa

Mikki

events.

Cam

So he puts on a bunch of, amazing actually how much stuff he puts on in Samoa and in New Zealand.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Real great events. And he's also like the president of Samo Cycling and also

Mikki

Sam

Cam

Triathlon. So he.

Mikki

So he.

Cam

Samoa, he lives in Auckland. Anyway, puts on awesome events and planning. I'm putting on, this was a reiki

Mikki

to see

Cam

whether it would be appropriate to put on a triathlon camp and Rob would be the camp,

Mikki

You

Cam

the coach who puts on the campus. Yeah. City would be the organizer of the trip, the accommodation or the food and, and all of that. So spent four days in summer and. Amazing. Like not, I wasn't sure what to expect cause I never really thought about it that much. But yeah, Samoa is really like going back in time. Wow. Especially not on the, on , which is not on the island, that's RP is on, which is Apollo. The, and basically it's just local villages and you could be in any decade over the last

Mikki

hundred years. Oh, amazing.

Cam

know, and you wouldn't even know apart from the cars. Yeah. You wouldn't know. I feel like they haven't hardly changed in that

Mikki

that time. So yeah,

Cam

awesome place to go and

Mikki

experience a bit of

Cam

culture, you, there's not many places in the world where you can go and do that.

Mikki

that. No. Anymore can. What's it expensive to be there? No.

Cam

No. So, well, probably cheaper than New Zealand. Yeah. And way cheaper than going somewhere like.

Mikki

Hawaii. Yeah.

Cam

And probably even cheaper than But you gotta, you gotta have your expectations. Right?

Mikki

So

Cam

on Sevi there's not that many resorts.

Mikki

Yeah. And there's

Cam

no like bars or restaurants or anything like that. So you would eat at the resort that perfect for a training camp cuz basically you would go train, try and eat and sleep.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

And socialize with other people on the

Mikki

training camp.

Cam

So you don't need other places

Mikki

to go. Yeah. And was it, was it like, did CTI and Rob decide that? I think

Cam

working through a few, a few things. Like just mainly just because it's really undeveloped.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

So there's no bike shop. Yeah. You know there's a hospital on that island, so, so that's fine. CT has millions of contacts there, so you can pretty much organize anything. Yeah. But I think they'll work through a few things and then. See if they can put one on as a trial. Maybe not worry too much about the profitability of it, just get a few people over there.

Mikki

Yeah. See

Cam

see how it goes. So

Mikki

nice.

Cam

interesting. So the idea of it is

Mikki

a

Cam

climate very similar to Kona, so where the Ironman world Championships is, but hell of easier from Australia or New Zealand to go to Samoa. Like it's only a few hours,

Mikki

four

Cam

hours on the plane. Much cheaper.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Much.

Mikki

if

Cam

go and train and get some heat adaption.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

If you were going over to race.

Mikki

Yeah. Nice.

Cam

Kona a few months, later. So, you know, they've

Mikki

they got

Cam

lava fields,

Mikki

roads

Cam

are similar, just yeah, like a very similar environment to to Kona.

Mikki

yeah. And are they targeting the New Zealand market?

Cam

mainly New Zealand I think. Yeah. But, and Australia. So I think they'll utilize like Rob's network of all his athletes, some of him. So he thinks some of his from the states might even,

Mikki

even come over? Yeah.

Cam

I mean, it's not easy to get there from the states, I don't think, but

Mikki

But often time people, they're not, I mean, of course they're in it for the triathlon and the competitiveness, but they're in it for the experience and to have an experience like that would be

Cam

Yep. And. A couple of local Sam and triathletes and cyclists were there.

Mikki

there. Yeah. Cool. And

Cam

just soaking up Rob's knowledge. Ah.

Mikki

Ah. Because Rob knows every like, and I, I don't mean that in a facetious way. He has so much knowledge. Yeah.

Cam

So they're loving it. So they, you could tell, and Rob's such a,

Mikki

if you

Cam

were gonna go on a Kent with a Kent

Mikki

anyway. Oh,

Cam

Rob's the one you want to go on.

Mikki

Totally. Can you imagine if you were, I mean, imagine you running a Can

Cam

No, I'd be terrible.

Mikki

No, you'll be terrible. I know.

Cam

I'll just, I'll just let Okay. You guys go out.

Mikki

Yeah. Yeah.

Cam

I'm just gonna hang outta here by myself or,

Mikki

Yeah. You'd be a great behind the scenes. You'd be great in the role that you

Cam

I'm definitely behind the scenes

Mikki

Ben. No, I get it. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Cam

So yeah, so that was good. So I took some good photos and videos and

Mikki

stuff. Yeah, I saw some of the pictures on Facebook that Rob shared. And I'm not sure if they were cam links with pictures or not, but they were amazing.

Cam

Mm, yeah. Pretty easy to take good photos when you got turquoise blue

Mikki

Lagoon. Oh, yes.

Cam

And and Coke about trees on jungle so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, while I was there, we haven't talking any about anything about business yet. Well, that was a little bit about

Mikki

business while

Cam

was there.

Mikki

there. Yeah.

Cam

It's not really business related, but it is. A few issues came up for me.

Mikki

Okay.

Cam

Okay. I'm not talking.

Mikki

about this

Cam

In our last episodes are not, probably not, but while I was day before just in like an hour before we were gonna go out from the first day in Samoa to go

Mikki

riding.

Cam

I saw some funny activity on the, on my training site. And turns out someone was

Mikki

like a hacker. Yep.

Cam

hack was doing a carting attack. So what that is, is people may have stolen,

Mikki

like

Cam

Credit card numbers. Yeah. But they might just have the number Yeah. And maybe the, the person's name and they might not have the

Mikki

Cvv,

Cam

number on the back Yeah. Or the date or something. Okay. So what they do to try and figure that out is they'll find a website that accepts a card. Yeah. So when you sign up for training tool,

Mikki

you can

Cam

your card details at the same time they were, they'd written a little bot that goes through it, puts the card number and puts the.

Mikki

name and

Cam

Guesses, like either the expiry date or the CVV number on the back or whatever,

Mikki

And,

Cam

then just test them over and over and over again.

Mikki

Changing those details. Changing until they get it right. Until they get it.

Cam

Alright

Mikki

so can I ask, do you get notification of any, like, of a failed attempt as well? Like,

Cam

so I get basically anything, any error or anything that happens in the system is. and currently, which I've always had going, which is like stressful, but at the moment it's good. I get emailed every single one of those things mate. So you know, so I always wake up in the morning with hundreds of emails that I just go through. Mainly I don't need to do anything cuz they're just

Mikki

an

Cam

happened or a log happened or whatever, and not a big deal. But then if I, but then I had like 400 within a couple of minutes

Mikki

so I

Cam

knew something was up. So then I, all the information of what's happening is,

Mikki

included,

Cam

Not the card numbers or anything. Of

Mikki

No, no. You never,

Cam

never pass those around

Mikki

here.

Cam

anywhere. But

Mikki

and did you know immediately what was going

Cam

on? Yeah, yeah. Yep.

Mikki

So

Cam

I've had this sort of thing happen

Mikki

before. Yeah.

Cam

So you have to have these mitigations

Mikki

in place to

Cam

try and stop people doing this, but they always sort of find a way

Mikki

around it. Yeah.

Cam

So I basically shut down the signups.

Mikki

so

Cam

I'm a good sign up to.

Mikki

talk

Cam

For a few hours while I was away.

Mikki

Was that shutting down everyone else's signups as well? No, no, no. But just your, yeah. To sign up. Yeah.

Cam

I don't get, I don't get

Mikki

a, a lot, you

Cam

max I might get is a couple a day. Yeah. Couple of new coaches a day anyway, so, you

Mikki

you know,

Cam

and, and

Mikki

name of

Cam

protecting whoever's cards they were trying to steal or my rep, my reputation.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

So when you have a payment processor and you have a whole.

Mikki

of fraudulent attempts of

Cam

using cards even if they fail. Yeah. That affects the reputation of your Yeah. Your account on the payment

Mikki

bank.

Cam

So anyway, after Sam, I got back and I put some mitigation in place for that. And then Just before we went to Queenstown,

Mikki

similar

Cam

thing happened. I dunno if it was the same people, this time they were doing the same thing.

Mikki

but

Cam

On some of my customers Yes. Cause training deals on e-commerce site.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

so all of my coaches can accept payments. Yeah. They started doing it there way less severe. Cause I'd already had, I already had some other things in place to stop them doing that. So they were,

Mikki

instead of doing like

Cam

hundreds in a few minutes, they were just doing like three or four an hour or

Mikki

Yeah. Okay.

Cam

So probably if I was a bigger site, that would probably just go un.

Mikki

Yeah, it would.

Cam

know. Cause it would just be like if you were processing, if you had eCommerce site and you were

Mikki

you're processing

Cam

you know, hundreds of payments now or whatever

Mikki

as your usual, then it would

Cam

just look natural. Yeah. But because we don't have that higher volume, I saw some come in, you know, in a row from the same site and they were all failed payments. Yeah. And then the way they were doing it, error message was were a bit odd. Like they weren't doing things in the right order, which is why they were getting error. So basically they didn't actually process any cards at all.

Okay. So there was no real, no real issues or they, they processed some, which I think when they were doing it manually. Yeah. Then I think they wrote the bot to do it and the bot was doing it in the wrong order.

Mikki

Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say it's a pot issue. Yeah.

Cam

Anyway, so I spent the whole week putting more mitigations in place so they couldn't do it. And you know, when we were in Queenstown, I was

Mikki

looking on

Cam

it in between, we were go in between, we were going to the pub or.

Mikki

whatever,

Cam

And they'd stopped by then anyway, so it wasn't, but then you just wanna make sure that,

Mikki

they might

Cam

taken the weekend off. Yeah. And then come back on Monday anyway. So mitigation's in place now.

Mikki

And are you confident that you've been able to stamp that

Cam

that I've got gotten

Mikki

rid

Cam

of 99% of anyone who will try. So it's it's like when a burg comes to your house. . And he sees like a security camera. Yeah. Yeah. Or he sees like that your gate's locked. Yeah. You can just go to the

Mikki

to the next house. Yeah. Too hard. Yeah.

Cam

are not, they're not sophisticated,

Mikki

attacks. No.

Cam

they're not really hacking. They're just like, basically what, you know, anyone can go into a site, into some fake card details and see if they

Mikki

work. Yeah. Well that's to use another ridiculous analogy, not that yours is ridiculous, but it's like having a car lot, A steering wheel lock on your car. Exactly. Doesn't do a lot, but someone will look at that and go, oh, okay. You don't wanna go there. There's

Cam

three cars next to each other, just like there's a million e-commerce websites on the net that people go to.

Mikki

yeah,

Cam

So pretty confident now that for the most part, they would just come try it manually, try and ride a little bot. They wouldn't be able to ride a bot easily to do it anymore. Yeah. And then move on to the next, what,

Mikki

like it doesn't, it just illustrate small business and the things that you just cannot predict are going to happen, and then potentially throw out a timeline. Because that you, the way that you described that, that was like two weeks of work basically. Yeah. Which you didn't have scheduled in because you wouldn't have known that it would've occurred, and then that's just gonna push everything else back. Like people underestimate the impact that it has

Cam

yep. And of course, there's the argument to be said that I should

Mikki

have

Cam

added all of these mitigations in beforehand.

Mikki

That's a, an interesting argument. But

Cam

there, there already was some mitigations and I could continue for another 10 weeks

Mikki

adding

Cam

and more stuff.

Mikki

But

Cam

you know, it's

Mikki

but then is that, then it's that cost benefit analysis, right? Yeah. Yes. And

Cam

like there was, it's all secure cuz it's run through stripe.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

And no one can steal anything via

Mikki

it.

Cam

The issue is they'd already stole. The cards from the cards from somewhere, from someone else. Yeah. And all they're doing is trying random Yeah.

Mikki

numbers.

Cam

And you, so you know what you can do is to stop them being able to do too many at one

Mikki

time. Yeah, because,

Cam

because the way they're doing it, you can't put everything in place them to stop them doing it.

Mikki

Otherwise

Cam

no one will be able to coming into their own legitimate

Mikki

credit cards. Well, you just said that you had to turn the payments off on your site whilst you had actually knew that there's nothing you could do about it. Cause you were on a plane to Samoa basically. Yeah.

Cam

So you can't stop it completely, but what you can do is stop it. So they can't do hundreds at the same, hundreds in a minute to hundreds in an hour.

Mikki

Yeah. Yeah.

Cam

you just, you rate limit it. So it's huge. You detect that. Yeah. Then it just stops them. So that's what it's

Mikki

doing.

Cam

So even now, if they came and tried to do it, yeah, it would allow them to do it the first. Times cuz that's just like a normal person coming to the car. And then I would stop them. So anyway.

Mikki

Good.

Cam

It's good. Another lesson learned, funny thing came out. Insight came out. It's already new about myself. I secretly love these

Mikki

emergencies. Do you?

Cam

Yes, because

Mikki

it's, you know,

Cam

you know, it's part of my nature to solve problems. Problems. And if it's an emergence, it's like that thing, you

Mikki

you know,

Cam

know. You've got an exam or something and you leave it till the last

Mikki

minute. Oh yeah. All

Cam

a sudden your mind just goes, yes. Like your mind turns on and it's exciting and your dopamine

Mikki

hits and

Cam

you actually enjoy it.

Mikki

So

Cam

when I had my business call, my business coaching call yesterday morning,

Mikki

Did you speak? I did. Good on you.

Cam

on you. Another thing is I, I was in a cafe and I'm like, oh, it's a bit loud,

Mikki

It's a bit,

Cam

I won't be able to speak because it'll be too. And that's the sort of thing that I normally do to avoid cuz you know, I hate that sort of thing. That is not my strength. Yeah. And I hate it. Yeah. I don't hate it. I enjoy it when I do it, but I,

Mikki

its, it's avoid it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Cam

it makes me anxious and I thought, no, and that's not a good enough

Mikki

Yeah,

Cam

Not excuse at all. Why is an excuse? It's not a reason. So I had my vans, I just went and set up in my van and didn't pull in my van. And then when I spoke, I spoke.

Mikki

about

Cam

The stuff that had happened. Yeah, yeah. Cause I thought that might help someone else. They,

Mikki

You

Cam

know, cuz it's when you, when you are, especially if you're non-technical, when you set the stuff up, I mean, most people would never have thought that that's a thing that happens.

Mikki

No, I. Yeah. You

Cam

know, people know that people steal credit cards or whatever, but they don't know that they might steal a number and then use someone else's website to randomly check the CVV until they get it right for the, or the.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

So I shared that, but I also shared my insight about how I love when the emergencies happen. Yeah. Cause also, apart from that, I use that as an excuse not to do the other things in my business that I don't enjoy so much because I've got this emergency going on. Yeah,

Mikki

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I like

Cam

now I don't have to do the sales and marketing stuff that I committed to do for the week. Cause this other stuff came up.

Mikki

So it's a very good procrastination sort of method for you. Yeah, and it is interesting with that problem solving stuff, cuz I think a lot of us might be wired that way. You know, like I love the bits that I love most in my business. I mean, I love the problem solving with a client, but I also love the pressure of a sale and the, and the launch. Programming, getting everything, the deadlines and everything, making sure everything's in place like that makes me, it's that cortisol pumping through.

It's that motivation that dopamine, you crash afterwards, but at the time you're on.

Cam

Yep. And the trick is

Mikki

that

Cam

stuff that you love in your business, you can't just go, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. Cause I have to do this other

Mikki

yeah,

Cam

what the fuck are you even doing it for? Totally. If you don't love

Mikki

love it. Yeah.

Cam

So the trick is to indis disperse the stuff that you don't love doing, but you know you have to

Mikki

to mm-hmm.

Cam

with the stuff that you love doing,

Mikki

even

Cam

if it's like a couple of hours here and a couple of hours

Mikki

there. Yep.

Cam

Cause otherwise you're not gonna be able to.

Mikki

it up. No, I

Cam

There's no way you could keep it up. I couldn't even keep it up for a whole day of doing boring

Mikki

stuff. No,

Cam

don't, that I hate doing. And kudos to those who can

Mikki

do that. Yeah. I'm not going, no. I'm

Cam

have the attention span for it. I, you still need to do it. So you just need to figure out, I'm not there yet. Figure out what's the best mix of

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

So you can, cuz you know, some things give you energy and something's taking

Mikki

Well, I know, and, and I was thinking that because I've been playing around since June, since leaving my full-time job to just do clients in my program which is working brilliantly. I, it's, I've been playing around with my client. Because initially I'm like, now I don't have to see clients early, so I'm gonna make that my own time. But actually I do chle on that day when I have clients because my energy is in the morning and my energy to give to people is in the morning.

And then if I, I was doing that sort of over midday to the afternoon, but that then left me, cause it's my personality type to want to get their plans done. So I'm still working in the evening type. But it took me trialing that in order to sort of figure that out.

Cam

yeah, yeah. That's true. Like it's funny how they, the transfer of energy happens like that. Yeah. Because they're probably come and they probably

Mikki

take, yeah, they

Cam

probably leave with energy. Yes. You've like transferred it through your computer Totally. To to

Mikki

Yeah. Yeah. Completely. And in some ways you protect yourself because you are online. And I def and I don't think this is a bad thing. Like I think it's helpful for me as a practitioner. To, cuz I think it makes me a better practitioner for all of the people that I see. And then my online clients, if I was in person all of the time, I wouldn't be able to service all those people because you do protect yourself a little bit with the computer.

But it is still, it can be one of those, you know, there are some weeks when it's a little bit more draining than others. Yeah. Yeah.

Cam

Depends what else you got going

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Yeah. It's hard.

Mikki

hard

Cam

Anyway, so last week was a bit of a ride off Samoa

Mikki

Mm-hmm.

Cam

and then Queens town and then all of this

Mikki

of this

Cam

stuff. Yeah. So basically haven't really made much progress in the business since then, but what I'm working on,

Mikki

yeah.

Cam

My business coach told me to do.

Mikki

Oh, great.

Cam

is a great idea. May have mentioned it in the last episode that doing these webinars.

Mikki

So

Cam

one so far and that was the middle of September before we went to, to Hawaii and LA and it wasn't amazing.

Mikki

It wasn't

Cam

amazing, but felt good and I felt like.

Mikki

It

Cam

be a thing to do. Anyway, so my business coach, I just do one every week

Mikki

and I'm like, wow,

Cam

no fucking

Mikki

wage. Yeah, that's a lot. I knows no

Cam

way. And, but then I'm like, that's what I need to do.

Mikki

yeah,

Cam

And not because doing one every week's gonna

Mikki

gonna,

Cam

grow the business, but doing one every week's gonna make me really awesome at

Mikki

doing. Doing. Yeah, I agree.

Cam

And it's gonna make me real, really,

Mikki

it's.

Cam

gonna prime me for. Then probably moving it to once every two weeks or something. Well, I

Mikki

we should talk about that in our next episode about how you're gonna set that up. Because I was at your webinar and it was awesome actually. I think you under soul, you just sort of underplayed how good it was. Yeah. Technical issues, whatever. And a little bit of apprehension because you're just not used to sharing on that, That

Cam

lies. Yeah,

Mikki

But that's different cuz it's actually people, don. And I think this is important, and you probably know it, but that's stuff that people actually don't care about. They care about the information that people that you have to share and you share great information. But an hour webinar every week is quite a thing. So I imagine they're gonna be shorter.

Cam

Yeah, I think I will. I will get more efficient at getting through it in much less

Mikki

time. Yeah. Or cut out.

Cam

Cut out the crap that you know, the gaps and the fillers or. Or the cause is a word of opinion. And I think that's one good thing about doing it every week for ages as well. And you know, and with my sort of volume of people yeah, I'll have times where every we know I need Yeah, yeah. And I'll just do it and record it or whatever. Send out the recording. It might have one or two or whatever. Yeah, just I think it just will just help build a bit of and also help me

Mikki

refine it

Cam

as I go, which I've already done. I've changed it up from the first time.

Mikki

I did it, yeah.

Cam

Cause the first time I did it and I, I, I focused it on seasonal revenue and helping coaches with seasonal revenue and I got a lot of feedback saying, actually all of this stuff

Mikki

was relevant.

Cam

to every day.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Yeah. So I'm, I've changed it.

Mikki

just

Cam

just sort of figuring it out. Now. I'm gonna change it from, you know, how to, how to level out your revenue from big. To like actually how to generate more of your revenue in your coaching business. Yes. How to create a more scalable business model so you can make more money every day in your

Mikki

I, I also think that you could take some of those concepts you introduced and delve a little bit deeper in their own separate sort of webinar, and it could be a half hour thing. You know, like, I think there's so many, I'm, I am not giving you advice, but I'm just thinking out loud. The way I sort of am giving you advice is someone who does these things. Is that when you've got a lot of information, you forget that other people don't know this stuff. Yeah.

Cam

Yep. And a lot of that stuff, like I, in an hour, I think I cover like four different ways to generate more revenue. Yeah. And each of those things is quite like, you can understand it when you're lifting through it, but then it's like, oh, okay, so what are the steps I need to

Mikki

take? Exactly.

Cam

So then what I might do is then go to a workshop or like a office hours type thing where I'll.

Mikki

Probably

Cam

set those up every week and then we'll actually go through practically how to set those up. Yeah, yeah. With, with training. Tilt

Mikki

software. That's a great idea.

Cam

And then go, right, I'm sending it up here and I'll say, you can show up and watch. Yeah. You want to,

Mikki

yeah.

Cam

And

Mikki

also, Cameron, you could put them together as a bit of a course Yeah. To then sell on your website later on, particularly with your new gear that you could record stuff

Cam

Oh yeah. My.

Mikki

Yeah. Well, that's exciting. So we've already

Cam

thought about some blog path blog posts to write based on the content from the webinar. One I wanna do, I need to do shortly is like we're going into the off season. We're in the off season for Northern Hemisphere. For triathlon.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

So one of the parts of that webinar.

Mikki

Just

Cam

How to strategize. Well, you've got some down teas down time in your off season.

Mikki

Yes.

Cam

plan a bunch of stuff.

Mikki

Yeah.

Cam

Cause I think what happens is a lot of coaches are so busy during the season and they get the off season and then wanna take a break or whatever and then do some coaching. But really they should be then figuring out, it's like doing

Mikki

strength

Cam

training in the off season.

Mikki

Is that if

Cam

not working in your off season, yeah, you'll come back to the pre-season in the next year

Mikki

and

Cam

you'll just be,

Mikki

back where you started. You started. Yeah. It's hard, eh? Change

Cam

training as it is for

Mikki

business. You can't

Cam

just take your off

Mikki

season

Cam

off or just do the normal things that you do. Yeah. You need to use that for

Mikki

building

Cam

strength, setting up systems learning new things. Just stuff you didn't have time to do when you

Mikki

were

Cam

full on working.

Mikki

in your business. And I think that part of that will be energy management throughout your on season when you're in season. So you don't tax yourself so much that you've got nothing left. And I think that's a, and maybe that's a webinar session as well. It's like managing your energy when you're in, so you've got that time and space because sometimes you're just so taxed. That's the last thing you feel like doing.

Cam

Yep. Exactly. Anyway. Cool.

Mikki

Cool. Nice Cam. I think so.

Cam

All right. Catch you next week.

Mikki

Yeah. Ladies.

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