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So we, we were just having, uh, as a preamble before we kickstart

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everything is um, I was saying I was peridiscombobulated.

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Not quite discombobulated, but then Ben corrected me that maybe

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I'm peribobulated, but then I dunno what a bobulated person is.

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This is the preamble that people who listen to the podcast won't hear.

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Welcome.

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Today we are going to be talking about who are you helping?

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Last week we were talking about what more money could buy you?

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Essentially what, why is it that you would even con contemplate raising

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your prices or even think about your PR pricing in an intentional

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way, and how thinking more deeply.

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What is it?

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You know, you might get more money, but then what is it you're gonna do with it?

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And being, knowing that and really being comfortable with that and sinking into

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that, then you are more likely to do the, to do the work and, and to feel the feels

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and, and go through the hardship of, you know, really diving into what people want.

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And then there's actually, who is it that you are actually talking to?

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Because if you don't know that, then how do you know what they want?

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And if you dunno what they want, then how much do you know, how,

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how valuable is that gonna be?

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And then you just like, uh, finger in the air or just following other

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people's definitions of what valuable is.

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As in when I say other people, just generally the market or, or, or your mom.

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Um, so today we wanted to kind of, uh, talk to this idea of what does it

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mean to understand who you're helping.

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Uh, we were going to essentially model it by kind of talking about

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who we think we are helping and how that's evolved over time of doing

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the Happy Pricing course, where we started, uh, where we think we are now.

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Cuz I think in, in the spirit of transparency, you know, this is an

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evolving thing for us, isn't it, Ben?

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We, we've been, we are trying to work things out and, and, and through the.

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Emergent.

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Emergent.

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Emergent.

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That's the scientific way of saying, making it up as you go along.

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Making it up as you go along, which is not a bad thing.

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No.

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I, I had a conversation today around, there's a sense of responsibility as well.

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Well, that we take seriously around this.

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You know, it isn't just about playing with stuff for, playing with stuff's

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sake, um, isn't just about messing around with people to then work out what you.

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There's a level of, uh, having a very clear and honest intention

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about what you would like to create, and then discovering, actually for

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some people, there are some people you can help better than others.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think that's, I think where I want to ground this rather

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than, um, Just totally being, uh, irresponsible about how this work works.

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So I think that's one aspect.

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Uh, um, might, we might go into a bit.

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But, um, the, the framing, I think just to give people something to

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hold onto as we ramble, is for me, this idea of the transformation you

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wanna, you want to create for people.

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You know, the outcome people say or what's the value?

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But essentially, uh, they're at one point with a certain.

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in a certain state, and there'll be another point after working with you.

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And that was, they'll be in another state.

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And there's a way to describe those states, you know, how

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do you, what do you mean?

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There's that state.

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And there's a podcast I did a couple of years ago actually with Alan Wick

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who talked about psychographics.

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Cuz we were talking about, I think, demographics for a while and, you

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know, the type of industry and the, the kind of like, uh, size of

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business, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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But, um, I quite, I'm more attached to actually this idea of like, what

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do they, what do we want 'em to know?

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What do we, how do we want them to feel, and what do we want 'em to do?

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And at the beginning, they don't know something, and at the end

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they'll know something At the beginning, they're feeling one way.

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At the end, they'll feel another way.

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At the beginning, they're not doing something.

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At the end, we want them to do something.

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So as if anything from this conversation, maybe take that away

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as a way to just really ground and get more clear about your own

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intentions and your own assumption.

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about what you are creating and who you're creating it for.

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Because then it becomes less about specific demographics and it, it's more

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about many different people could access this because they want that change.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then you're not maybe limited to an industry or, or

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a type of, um, way of working.

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Um, so I guess the, the first thing just to, uh, kind of clarify what you were

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sort of saying there is the, in terms of the, the kind of a, a kind of main thing

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that they might take away with themselves.

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That they are kind of clear about what they want their ideal

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customer to know, what they want their ideal customer to feel, what

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they want, their ideal customer.

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Is that the, the kind of framework we were,

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that's the framework that we are looking at.

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Yeah, so I think this obviously kind of touches on a much bigger issue, which

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is all, you know, relating to, um, the kind of marketing more generally.

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Um, and, you know, kind of really being clear about kind of who I know.

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Uh, so Lana, uh, in your community does, you know, written lots around

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this and really talks about, and Yeah, it is a, it's a kind of, you know, not

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only, the clearer you are about who not only, you know, does that kind of point

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to your opportunity to do kind of more valuable work, it's also just a really

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helpful kind of default, isn't it?

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You know, when you are stuck with something, when you are kind of, sort

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of chasing yourself round in sort of circles, assuming you do that.

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We all do that occasionally.

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Uh, you know, uh, it's, it's your kind of.

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To break the cycle, to kind of sort of step out, oh, who am I doing this for?

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Have that kind of picture.

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And I kind of know and kind of remembered this for my own kind of purposes,

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recently for a new, uh, another sort of podcast that I was setting up and

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just had a, I have a really clear picture in my mind who that is for.

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And every time I kind of, you kind of, sort of find yourself up a little

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sort of cul-de-sac, a little dead end, it's just come back to that picture

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and it does kind of break the cycle.

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It resets everything.

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So having that really kind of clear picture of who it's for

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is a tremendously helpful thing.

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Now, um, where that sort of then intersects with what we are doing and

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what kind of every, anybody kind of listening might be doing in terms of kind

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of pricing and selling or, or kind of what you earn and what you so clearly.

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Um, different things happen when we're trying to sell something, oftentimes,

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um, you know, when we kind of need the money or there's not of sales, or we're

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trying something out and we're not really clear in, in a, in a sense that, I know

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I kind of definitely sort of fall kind of victim to this, have a habit to do this,

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it's just kind, well, let's just try and get, you know, as many different people,

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I'll get as many different clients as I can and many different customers as

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I can try and just get these, you know, all of these different types of people.

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Because A, I'm try, you know, trying to kind of fill something up.

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B you are not really kind of clear.

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But of course the thing that happens in that is, um, it's a lot more

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effort because you are trying, you are needing to kind of rethink through

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what the kind of proposition is, what the value is each and every time you

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are having a, having a conversation.

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So it just kind of takes much more effort, essentially.

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And also kind of fundamentally, you're never really going to be able to do your

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most valuable work if you are trying to, if you're kind of spreading the

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value of what you do thinly, uh, across the toast of many different people.

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We can talk to this at two levels.

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I think we can talk to this app, this podcast, or this episode.

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What do, how we would use this idea of what we would like to

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people to, uh, feel and do?

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And then we can talk to it in terms of the Happy Pricing course and what

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it is that, um, we want people to know, feel, and do in terms of that.

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And then maybe we can then say why that's important to us, and not only

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from a tactical perspective, but maybe from an energetic perspective as well.

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Maybe part of this, what we would like people to know, cuz you know,

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we, thankfully Ben put some notes together beforehand, and one of the

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things we would like you to, to know or learn is to be clearer about, Who

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the easier and more valuable your work.

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Oh, to be clear, the clearer you are about who you prepare this, the more valuable

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the work, and easier it'll be to do.

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Mm-hmm.

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then what is the feeling?

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What is the feeling we want people to get, to get from this?

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Um, I know, you know, um, for kind of, for lots of us who are kind of

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responsible for creating our own work, for creating our own opportunity.

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It can feel risky to start to cut things down.

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I kind of know that it kind of feels that way for me to, to an extent.

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If I, you know, if you kind of, the, the clearer you get about who you are

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working for, which then necessarily points to people you are not going

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to work for, you don't feel that you are, you are in a, in a good position

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to help, you know, it kind of feels like you're shutting down opportunity.

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It feels like you are minimizing the kind of chances for, for yourself.

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And I guess in terms of kind of feeling that, we kind of want sort of people to.

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It's a kind of feel coming up is, is the, the kind of feeling that actually

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the, that simplifying the feeling that kind of focusing is actually a kind

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of positive move, not a negative move.

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Cause I know, kind of like I said from my own experience, I think,

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you know, in trying to keep.

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As much opportunity open as possible.

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That is the sort of enemy of kind of, of focusing the enemy, of kind of nicheing.

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And I think ultimately that just sort of compromises things.

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So really kind of wanting to kind of encourage people that the kind of, that,

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you know, that simplifying, that focusing is a positive move and will be beneficial.

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So what springs to mind is like for people listening to this, we'd

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like them to leave feeling more at peace with that idea,rather than the

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anxiety of like, oh my God, I need to talk to as many people as possible.

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And I, and, and, and just basically cast a wide net is like feeling

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at peace, feeling the Jomo.

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Um,

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the Jomo,

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the Jomo, the joy of missing out.

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Oh, okay.

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Rather than,

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I thought that was something sort of inappropriate.

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Jomo, not fomo.

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Another thing, see, that's another thing you're gonna learn

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from, from listening us today.

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Mm-hmm.

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So that's, again, sinking into that and it's, it's helpful then to say,

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all right, we want people to feel at peace with this idea, all right??

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So that helps us guide the conversation as well, and guide what we, we talk

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about and then what do we want people to do after they've listened to this?

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Make the decision, do the difficult work, basically, you know, embrace the

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Jomo, uh, start kind of drawing some kind of boundaries about who is kind of

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best in your sort of sweet spot of ideal client and who is best outside of that.

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Um, so I think, you know, that's the invitation that people sort of actually

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sort of step into that, and that's not a, a kinda one-off process or whatever.

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That's something that actually you can sort of keep asking

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yourself, keep kind of focusing on.

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And that's not to say that you are kind of constantly changing the

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who, but actually sort of always have a kind of watching brief.

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Am I, you know, am I continuing to work with the ideal type of person,

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the ideal type of opportunity?

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Am I continuing to do that and asking yourself the question?

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Because otherwise, you know, we can always a, you know, we can get

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kind of lazy, we can get comfort.

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Uh, we can get complacent.

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Uh, and so, you know, it's always worthwhile to keep asking that question.

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Am I continuing to work for the right kind of person, the right

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kind of opportunity where we can do the best kind of work together?

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Or do I need to kind of challenge myself to step up, to step kind of beyond?

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Uh, and so, okay.

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Yeah, the, the kind of invitation to do is to commit to that work is to

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start making that changes, is to start drawing some kind of lines around

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that sort of ideal type of client.

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Mm.

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Another sort of topic that springs to mind here is around, and a question

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maybe for people to check into.

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What does that mean to do the right type of work?

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It isn't just about the money in my head, it's also about the experience.

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Your experience, not the customer's experience necessary.

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That's though, that's important.

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It's like your experience of doing the work.

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Because it can, I think some people can get very caught up with, oh, the

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customer's always right, and I need to work hard to make the customer feel happy.

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And in that process I burn out, because I'm always trying to cater for

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everyone else's needs apart from mine.

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So maybe we can dive into that later.

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In terms of the importance of this work.

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I just wanted to acknowledge also what Beccie said here in terms of like what

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you said on the pricing course helped her a lot, uh, in terms of nicheing and

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targeting ideal clients, but it didn't.

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that non-ideal clients didn't come to her.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think that's if we, if, if that, maybe that's part of the message of how we

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wanna make people feel at peace with this.

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It doesn't mean by talking to a specific group of people or

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specific group of a particular type of change that people want.

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It won't necessarily preclude that everyone else will just ignore you.

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Yeah.

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Or, and or to kind Beccie's point that you then need to say no to them.

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Yeah.

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Because obviously, you know, we are all kind of sort of functioning adults

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and, you know, you have the, the kind of right and responsibility to make

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decisions on a case by case basis.

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It's really, uh, as kind of Beccie's talking about there, the kind of the,

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the value of a kind of focus, the value of an orientation, the value of an

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intention to kind of, yeah, to orientate in a certain direction and, and.

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You know, kind of lending you the energy to kind of inform your focus.

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But of course, as things kind of pop up around that, that you can make a

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decision around whether that is something which is kind of right to pursue for

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whatever kind of whatever reason or motivation it might kinda represent.

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I think there's, for me, there's, there's the, we don't wanna be like,

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oh, kind of like, oh, this is the ideal way you must do this, and, you know,

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only work with your ideal clients.

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I, I wanna acknowledge that there's a pragmatic aspect to this.

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Mm-hmm.

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you know, we're not always inundated with our ideal customer.

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Mm-hmm

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uh, and sometimes we, we need to, to work with people just purely

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from cash flow perspective.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so not to beat ourselves up, oh, I'm not working with an ideal customer,

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or I can't work with this person because they don't fit this profile.

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Um, to be open to that.

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And for that to then, you know, just, I think this idea of.

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to have intentional choice rather than being, uh, just taking

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anything that anyone gives you

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Mm-hmm.

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to be able to clearly say yes or no for the right reasons.

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Yeah.

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Rather than just swamping yourself with too much stuff.

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So again, for this idea of peace, I think maybe this feeling

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of empowerment, it's okay.

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You know, you need to feel empowered to make that choice rather than not knowing

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you know, where the next customers come from or having to say yes all the time.

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And may, maybe, maybe a kind of way of, um, sort of exploring that is

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via the lens of the kind of course and what we were, what we were

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thinking about in terms of that.

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Because I think, you know, it's, you know, and actually it kind of mirroring

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a lot of what sort of Beccie was saying of the, you know, we've done a few

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different cohorts now and, and I think, you know, Sort of given sort of what we

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know of what is taught on the course, kind of, we know that actually a lot

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of the, the sort of skills and the sort of tools that people get in terms of

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helping them kind of identify who the right kind of person is, helping them

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identify what actually the changes that that person is wanting to make, cuz as

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you were sort of alluding to and kind of referencing earlier, you know, the reason

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that, uh, kind of your, your customers or clients buy anything is because

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they are trying to change something.

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You know, it's never about the what of what you do, whether that's coaching,

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whether that's websites in your old case, what, you know, whatever it might be,

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there is some other change that a customer or client is trying to make, and that's

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the reason that they're buying, you know, the, the thing that you kind of provide.

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So a lot of what we sort of teach on the course, how people understand

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that, how people understand what the value of that thing is, how people

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understand what the, and how that kind of relates to kind of pricing and

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how you have those conversations with people so that you are getting to a

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place where you are increasing what you earn, the kind of broad spread

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of that, we know is applicable to actually quite a wide variety of people

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because it does touch on marketing, it does touch on selling, and it does

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touch on on what, on what you earn.

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And I think the, the kind of cohorts that we've run up till now kind of

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reflected that idea that, you know, I think, you know, there's a certain type

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of person, obviously who, which is kind of generally in your community, the

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Happy Startup community and, and kind of people who are in that sort of orbit.

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So we know that there's a sort of commonality of person essentially, or

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they kind of feel in a certain way, they have the same sort of positive intent.

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Uh, and I think when we went into the last kind of rounds of the, the, the kind of

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last cohorts of the course that was in a sense as kind of detailed as the kind of

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thought was in terms of who it would be.

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You know, it's not just for the people who were only interested in profit for

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profit's sake, because there are other ways, you know, you can sort of do that

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so they wouldn't be right for this.

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But in a sense that was really one of the only sort of, um, kind

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of informal filters that we had.

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Then we were just sort of confidently taking the kind of broad spread of

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the tools to whoever would be kind of interested in them, and sort

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of the course kind of reflected the, the cohort reflected that.

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Yeah,

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And I think one of the things that we were then kind of reflecting on as we

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kind of think about the, the Nets course is this kind of idea that actually, um,

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to, for us to be able to deliver most impactful people, um, there is this

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kind of link that actually, you know, you need to have people on the course

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who are likely to be selling their services over the duration of the course.

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Because if that's happening, then we know that we can all work

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together to help them get to the place that we want them to get to.

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Which is for them to be earning more for the work that they do.

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So then that starts to kind of, kind of raise questions over, go, well,

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what's the right ideal kind of length?

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What's the ideal kind of format?

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And it then means, okay, so it's only gonna be right for you if

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you are likely to have client conversations over the duration of it.

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Uh, and so that points to another thing.

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And another thing that, uh, kind of came out of it was this idea that actually,

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um, you know, some of the people who've been on sort of co-ops before

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were selling something entirely new.

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They were trying to work out something entirely new.

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And again, asking, you know, a lot, whilst a lot of what we teach would be

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useful for them, we ask ourselves, well, where can we deliver the most value?

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Who can we deliver the most value for?

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And, you know, the kind of realization we can deliver the most value for people who

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have, or, you know, do know what they sell already, uh, but they're looking to find

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ways of kind of, sort of selling that.

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More money essentially.

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So that, you know, those things start to point a little bit more clearly to

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an ideal who, and start to kind of put a little bit more clearly to kind of

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lines we might kind of draw, kind of who fits in that sort of sweet spot.

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So that's just a example of how it was starting to kind

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of influence our thinking.

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And, and to so open a bit more of a, a door to, to follow on with, uh,

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Beccie's analogy, and use of the door, um, to give you, open the door, open

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the door a bit wider to our thinking.

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Um, one of the ways we were trying to look at it in terms of also just

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a structure maybe for you to think about if you're doing this, is like

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there's the who, the what and the how, and they are all connected.

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And so the what you know is very simple terms is essentially get, get paid your.

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and, and more often that just more get paid more, you know?

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Mm-hmm.

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, you, you're in a state of like, uh, I'm working, I'm doing something,

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but I'm not, there's something not feeling, you're not feeling the ease

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or you're feeling the anxiety of the, just the not enough cashes coming in.

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There's things that you want to do and the, it just doesn't feel like

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you're being valued in the right way.

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And so well,

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Earning your worth might be worth.

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Worth.

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Exactly.

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You're not earning your worth.

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And so what we would like to give people is the opportunity to earn their worth.

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And then this who and how I think is this interesting play here in terms

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of like when you were talking to this before, it's like, you know someone

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who's just launched something new.

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They don't know necessarily if that's the right product.

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They're not confident about the product.

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It's harder for us to get them to the place of earning more, because

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that's an iterative process of you know, their own who and understanding

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exactly also what they would like to do in terms of that work.

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There's lots to unpack there.

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But if we start thinking about, okay, we, we want people who, who are

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getting opportunities, for instance, they're getting opportunities to work.

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They're just either turning them down cause they're uncomfortable about the

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whole pricing thing, or they're taking them on and just not getting like paid

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the right amount of money for 'em.

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They're not getting paid their worth, and, and that can happen.

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Um, you know, if we did a course over five day, a five days, which

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we did last time, it's great for learning all the different things.

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So the, what they get is just a set of tools.

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, but the what we, the, the ch you know, the what being the change we wanna make

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is what we would love, what we would get energized by, what we would actually

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get, um, excited to keep on doing this for, are people who then actually

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during the course, sell something for more money than they would before.

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And if you have this window op opportunity of five days where you're intensely

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trying to learn something, it really so kind of closes off the opportunity that,

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or the ability to help people should an opportunity come down the following week

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or the week after, or the week after that.

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So that started to make us think about the how.

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It's like, okay, we got these materials.

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We, we are really confident about what it can, how it can help people,

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how, how this information can empower.

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But we also want them to put them into practice.

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And so we wanna extend that.

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So now what we are thinking is actually what would be better is like to

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spread it over five weeks maybe, and to be able to have a lesson a week

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so that all the materials are there.

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We will then coach you through the materials over that time, but you now

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have five weeks in which an opportunity could come up and you could then

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immediately dive into those tools and use them and see how that you can put

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them into practice and get paid more.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so that, that interplay of the who and the how, knowing that okay,

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and the what, oh God, now I'm getting complicated , you know, the real, what

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needs for us to see impact happen?

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The kinds of people who are very clear about what they, you know, the, the

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things that they're selling, but just not communicating it maybe in the

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right way or or interrogating what their customers need in the right way.

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And then how do we create that change in a way that actually benefits them in

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the most, actually not in the, in the best way, but also for us, cuz I think

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this is the other aspect in terms of this whole thing is like what excites us, what

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energizes us, and what makes us always want to turn up in the best way possible.

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So, I dunno, have we, have we hammered the point home well enough here?

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Uh, we've definitely hammered some point home.

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We've, we've, we've put a lot of nails into the wall.

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Fortunately, uh, Beccie's offered us lots of comments.

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Oh, good.

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Good, good, good.

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Okay.

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Um, so it sounds like she's definitely realized the truth of what we're

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saying, what we were saying last year, that my truest fans realize

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the value of what I offer and don't really question my prices as a result.

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Ooh, there we go.

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Um, and that, that's really, again, from that, that intention of we want people

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to feel at ease and at peace with this process, it's nice to, for Beccie to say

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something like that because there is that.

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We wanna remove the fear, remove the fear of actually really getting

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clear of who you wanna help.

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I wanted to finish off a bit more because we are kind of

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in this kind of happy space.

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Um, it isn't just about the money and it's all about how all of.

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How, what it feels like to do this work.

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Maybe just being, talking to why we wanna work in this way and what

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is it we would like people to feel when we are working with them.

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I think I, the thing that I get out of it is that we were having the, a

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useful way of me thinking about it.

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We were having the sort of the, the hypothetical conversation if,

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you know, we were talking to people at the end of a sort of six week

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course, what it is, I would like them to them to be feeling dental done.

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And for me, you know, as you've kind is, is also about kind of impact that

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somebody has got the sort of newfound confidence of having made the change.

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So it's not just about that somehow we are kind of artificially sort of giving

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somebody some confidence, but that they have got the confidence that comes

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from having actually made the change.

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Because for me, you know, I like the impact.

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I like sort of tangible things being done, uh, and uh, I like the

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kind of growth that people feel from having made positive changes.

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Uh, and so for those kind of three things to come together is where I

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get my motivation from in doing this.

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A, a way of looking at work for me these days is, is kind of

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grounded in this idea of needs, and kind of core emotional needs.

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And I, I find it, I found it really, um, grounding and also confidence

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building or like, it, it reinforces my intention with whatever I'm doing

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when I can tap into, alright, what is it I'm getting out of this personally?

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You know what?

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What needs of mine are met by doing this work.

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And learning, uh, speaks to a reason why we do that.

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We, you know, we run the Happy Startup School.

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This real, I, I learned so much by just doing this work with people, you know,

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over this past, gosh, is it a year now?

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I can't even remember the last time we did the course, but essentially

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that, you know, I've learned so.

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, you know, by, by running this course.

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And, and that, that excites me cuz I feel like there's so

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much more to learn around this.

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Not even in terms of like topics, but just deepening it and understanding actually

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this is what it feels like to learn this stuff and to, to make these breakthroughs

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and what it means personally for someone to actually learn how to price well.

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This kind of need for connection.

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And this is why I like the idea of just spreading it out, having more

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time to get to know people, having people to get to know each other.

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Um, this need for community.

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You know I, as much as I like the idea of ha you know, people having epiphanies,

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it's just to have that in a space that feels safe, uh, feels like you're

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contributing to other people's growth and learning, and something that you've

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experienced and you can say to someone else that then suddenly shifts in them,

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th that is a lovely place to be when you can see other people help each other,

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uh, and, and you to be part of that.

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And I, I get energy from that.

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It, it's less chalk and talk and it's more like, okay, how can we work out what's

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really going on with this pricing stuff.

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And when I think about that, it then goes back to the who

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Mm-hmm.

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in terms of like, if you are the kind of person who just wants content, just

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wants the lesson, you know, the, the lesson plan and the, the, the points to

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work on we're not for you necessarily.

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You know, I'm not gonna preclude, you know, let's say, oh, you can't join us,

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but if that's what's in your mind, then maybe think twice about what it means to

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be part of a, a private pricing course.

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Because for me, it's, it's someone who, who has, is tired of doing

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it on their own, who really values the, the accountability they get

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from a group who really enjoys contributing and engaging with a

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group, because it helps them develop their own ideas by talking to others.

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Cuz that's for me, that's why I like having these conversations

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while like being in groups.

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Cuz by talking I get clearer.

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So in a sense it's like if you like me or like Ben, then

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if you like me, do you like me?

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Yeah, you just tapped into that other little knee valid.

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Being seen, being adored, but, um, but don't we all want that?

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Of course.

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It's just some people are less open about it.

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So if you are open about that need, if you can own, I want to be seen in a group, I

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wanna, I wanna like be acknowledged for what I know and what I'm trying to do.

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Then again, those, I'd love to have work with those people and it's, and it's nice

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and it feels, it feels like you then, you're not there just for the course.

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You then there for the whole course of building your business and doing stuff.

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So

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Yes.

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I feel like we've, we've, uh, we've imparted a lot of things then we, we

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sort of started with, with like, uh, no, with no feel and do, and then we kind

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of ventured into who, what and hows.

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So thank you very much everyone.

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If if, if any, of.

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Resonated or made stent or felt like, Ooh, I'd like to be part of that.

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Um, please sign up.

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We're looking to start the, the next cohort in March, so there's

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a bit of time, but towards the end of March we're gonna, we're going

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to do this five week or six weeks.

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I can't remember what we were saying.

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I think six weeks.

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Six weeks.

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It is six weeks.

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Six weeks, yeah.

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We're gonna spread it out over six weeks.

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It'll be probably once, one contact session a week, but we'll have

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all the course materials for you to just work through as and when.

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Uh, and we, and we just follow the model of, of a lot of the stuff we've already

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been doing, um, within the Happy, Startup, School and also the Momentum group that

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you are doing with the pricing stuff, just trying to foster more learning,

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live action, learning, whatever it's called, but basically learning by doing

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rather than just by consuming content.

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Yes.

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that's, that's our hope.

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Thank you everyone.

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Thank you everyone.

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I hope, uh, I hope some of that was useful.

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And until next week, cuz next week we're gonna be talking about what, what are

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you selling and what people want and

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What are they buying?

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Why are they buying?

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Sorry, what are they buying?

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What are they actually buying?

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Because that's an important one.

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Um, uh, and we are gonna be joined by Simon Matchelar from the Better

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Boulder Braver communities and maybe Frances, we might, uh, you know, try

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and get her on as well if she's free to talk about what they do with their

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community, the kinds of questions people have been asking them, um, and

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how that points to what people want.

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So until then, uh, remember to, yeah, if you're interested in

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the course, click on the link.

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But also there's the podcast and there's a YouTube channel.

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Um, go to the website.

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You'll find out, find links to those things there so that you can recap

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on every pearl of wisdom we have been gifting you over the past year or so.

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So until we, uh, lay the next pearl, Until then, have a have a good week.

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Bye-bye.