[00:00:00] Hey. Hey, it's Renee. Welcome back. It's Friday. Welcome back to Selling Your Expertise Podcast. And this week we've been working through one of the biggest mindset blocks I see with women entrepreneurs, and we are calling it the Cake Effect. You know, the wild spiraling stories we invent about what might go wrong.

If we simply reach out, dun, dun, dun. Dramatic music, right? I wish I had a sound machine. Maybe I shouldn't actually. Um, and so this is a good part. It's actually really, really cool. I had a listener reach out based on Monday's episode. I almost. Flipped out. I was so excited. So if you ever have aha moments or you're taking action and you're making things happen, make sure to hit reply to any email I ever send you.

You gotta be on my email list. That's where all the action's at. So she reached out and she said she took the action step on Monday that we [00:01:00] talked about. So if you did not listen to Monday's episode yet. Rewind. Go listen to it right after this. It's amazing. It has a swipe file that she used. She said she sent the message that I shared at the end of Monday's episode to someone that she had met in a summit.

I. Now, she did not host the summit. The person that she had met also was not a host. They were just participants in a summit. Now, she had seen this person around the interwebs before the summit and eagerly listened to this person's contribution when the summit went live, and they had chatted a little in the summit chat, but.

Then the conversation had died on the vine and she wasn't sure how to rekindle it. So with the message that I gave on Monday, she said she was totally sweating, but she sent it. It was short, sweet, full of good vibes. And not only did she get a reply, hey, but that reply led to [00:02:00] them chatting more and they set up a call for next week.

So I don't know the outcome yet, but I'm pretty psyched about it. And she wants to be their, uh, this person's inviting her to be a guest coach in her membership. Pretty awesome. Right now. The person who reached out to me, the listener, is a service provider, so she's not a coach, but she is coming in to talk about the technical details of building funnels and automations and where you can go wrong with a certain program that she uses and.

It's such a perfect fit. She's a little bit nervous about being a quote unquote coach, but she's really just going in there to answer questions and do evaluations for this woman's membership. That honestly is not a unique scenario. I have seen that happen many times with women in my program. So being open to all of the positive possible outcomes, especially writing them down is so powerful.

So. I just wanna say that this all [00:03:00] happened not because she was pushy, not because she pitched. She didn't even know this was a possibility. This is just one of many possible outcomes. It was because she connected her genuine intention when she reached out and used that simple two sentences that I said on Monday.

Was connection. That's what her goal was. So think about the message that you could send right now if you didn't go back and listen to Monday's episode and grab that swipe copy as a simple jumping off point. And if you feel that hesitation, don't worry. You're not being pushy, you. Honestly have so much goodness in you, in your heart.

You want to help people. I really want you to ask yourself if you feel those cake effect stories popping up. Ask yourself, is this a false story? I. When I first started in sales, my first sales manager had this meeting [00:04:00] he would call fear, and it's been perpetuated multiple times since then. I'm sure he did not invent it.

I'm sure it's something, some book he read. And it was FEAR, false evidence appearing Real. We make up a story, we believe it's real. And then everything else we do was based on that false evidence. he made an analogy about CSI, if you've ever watched that show how it won. Wrong clue in the beginning can set everything off in the wrong direction.

The other part is I want you to write down some positive potential outcomes that are possible when you reach out to anyone. Here's the thing, you do not need to be perfect. I am not perfect. You are not. We are never going to be perfect. You just need to keep moving. Putting your goals in front of you, and it doesn't mean you have to be fearless.

It's about feeling the doubt and still asking the question, still making the [00:05:00] connection. Now, honestly, if you've been loving these conversations here, I want you to make sure you're on my email list. I've said this a thousand times, but I can't say it enough because that's where you can grab my free mini sales course and that'll help you.

Keep showing up even when the cake effect tries to take over. And remember, hit reply to any email I ever send you and tell me what connections you've made this week. Go out there and connect. Have fun, and enjoy the cake.