WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.079 --> 00:00:06.377 Hey, my name is Calvin Corolli, founder of Sinclair. I'm here with Stacey Harris, who's so 2 00:00:06.756 --> 00:00:07.105 graced 3 00:00:07.704 --> 00:00:08.204 graciously 4 00:00:08.984 --> 00:00:14.001 accepted the comment Skype here with me and have her chat. Hey, Stacey. How are you doing? 5 00:00:14.181 --> 00:00:18.549 - I am awesome. How are you? Thanks for having me. - Thank you. I'm great. Thank you. 6 00:00:19.408 --> 00:00:22.747 You have your, like, all you make me feel all 7 00:00:24.074 --> 00:00:29.332 I'm a sure ish with my Apple headset here. You have this professional mic set up and stuff. 8 00:00:30.031 --> 00:00:32.131 - It's because it's always there. Right. 9 00:00:32.999 --> 00:00:36.898 - Tell us what because - I talk that much. - Yes. You do. And you need it recorded. 10 00:00:37.717 --> 00:00:41.915 - All posterity. Yes. - I might have something genius that comes out of my mouth 1 day. 11 00:00:41.954 --> 00:00:43.953 - And I want that moment recorded. - Right. 12 00:00:43.953 --> 00:00:51.768 Don't we always have that, like and even even sometimes when when I find myself with a in, like, some kind of weird argument situation with my wife or someone. 13 00:00:51.768 --> 00:00:57.885 I was like, if I could we have this recorded so we could just go back, like, 5 minutes and see what actually happened here? 14 00:00:57.885 --> 00:01:03.392 How do we end up here in this ridiculous place. We should always be, oh, god. Go go blessed. 15 00:01:03.392 --> 00:01:05.172 Now I see. Oh, no. Big brother. 16 00:01:05.551 --> 00:01:11.207 - Shit. Never mind. Mhmm. - So it's a slippery slope. - Yeah. Exactly. It really is. 17 00:01:11.587 --> 00:01:15.525 Maybe it's good that things aren't recorded. But what do you use it for? The microphone. 18 00:01:16.724 --> 00:01:19.423 - I do all my podcasting with this microphone. 19 00:01:19.883 --> 00:01:22.022 It records my audio for all my videos, 20 00:01:22.481 --> 00:01:23.501 for all my coursework. 21 00:01:24.569 --> 00:01:29.767 When I put together my programs. That was all recorded on this baby right here, the audio. Wow. 22 00:01:29.767 --> 00:01:31.506 - It's it's come a long way with - me. 23 00:01:32.125 --> 00:01:32.615 Yes. 24 00:01:33.174 --> 00:01:36.873 - I think when I when I upgrade, I will, like, mount it - or something. Yes. 25 00:01:37.532 --> 00:01:38.352 Hall of Fame. 26 00:01:39.171 --> 00:01:40.710 So what's your podcast about? 27 00:01:41.429 --> 00:01:43.288 - My podcast is not online business. 28 00:01:43.708 --> 00:01:45.008 I teach women entrepreneurs 29 00:01:45.627 --> 00:01:47.127 how to start their own businesses, 30 00:01:47.586 --> 00:01:51.064 primarily from a social media marketing perspective, like, 31 00:01:51.404 --> 00:01:59.960 where to start, how to figure out what you're supposed to be doing, and how not to open up Facebook and spend 4 and a half hours there and go, wow, I didn't market my business at all. 32 00:02:00.039 --> 00:02:02.059 But I took a lot of buzzfeed quizzes, 33 00:02:02.918 --> 00:02:05.577 which I say because I'm super guilty of it. 34 00:02:07.076 --> 00:02:13.753 So that's what I mean, we talk a lot about social media and then I do 2 episodes a week, 1 where I am Yammer Yammer for 20 minutes. 35 00:02:14.052 --> 00:02:16.531 And hopefully, something wonderful comes out of it. 36 00:02:16.531 --> 00:02:23.627 And then the other 1 is a guest, which is probably the better episode because then we bring somebody on to, like, talk about things that are important. 37 00:02:23.967 --> 00:02:27.905 We talk about with the guests everything from self care to email marketing, 38 00:02:28.644 --> 00:02:30.064 to getting started with video, 39 00:02:30.443 --> 00:02:30.943 to 40 00:02:31.883 --> 00:02:37.100 taking care of your relationships as an entrepreneur because we all know it's a little bit harder when our office is in our house. 41 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.138 And my husband actually works with me, so it's extra, not separated. Mhmm. 42 00:02:42.677 --> 00:02:46.975 So so, yeah, we talk about all sorts of online entrepreneur stuff. 43 00:02:48.424 --> 00:02:49.564 Just super descriptive. 44 00:02:50.503 --> 00:02:54.701 - Yes. He does. Well, what it covers? I mean, that's what you do. Right? 45 00:02:54.701 --> 00:02:57.960 You practice and then you you share what you've learned in the process. 46 00:02:58.329 --> 00:03:03.627 - Pretty much I just talk about all the stuff I've figured out in the 3 and a half years I've been doing this. 47 00:03:03.647 --> 00:03:09.593 - Yes. Alright. So what would you what like, Is that that's that's would you say that's your business? 48 00:03:09.593 --> 00:03:13.900 Who you who's your audience? Who's your what's your kinda unique angle at things if you have 1? 49 00:03:14.499 --> 00:03:21.356 - My unique angle in my business is really all around social media and teaching women entrepreneurs primarily, generally somewhere between 50 00:03:21.944 --> 00:03:23.684 well, really in their thirties, usually. 51 00:03:24.463 --> 00:03:28.162 We've got a few younger and a few older. But primarily, my audience is in their thirties, 52 00:03:28.621 --> 00:03:30.920 and they're women entrepreneurs. And they are 53 00:03:31.259 --> 00:03:35.278 are scared of social media. They think they're doing it wrong. And I hear so many people. 54 00:03:35.417 --> 00:03:38.785 Every client I have tells me at some point that they're dumb when it comes to this stuff. 55 00:03:39.304 --> 00:03:42.703 And they're not usually. They're just they just don't know what they don't know. 56 00:03:42.703 --> 00:03:44.302 They haven't figured certain things out. 57 00:03:44.302 --> 00:03:48.060 And and I think we have an instinct that, oh, I know how to use Twitter. 58 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:51.958 I can tweet clearly, I know how to use it for my business, and it's a whole other 59 00:03:52.578 --> 00:03:54.017 way of thinking about it. 60 00:03:54.017 --> 00:03:59.604 So what I really do in my business is I teach women to confidently use social media to market themselves 61 00:03:59.944 --> 00:04:02.343 without feeling like douchebags because that's the other pieces. 62 00:04:02.343 --> 00:04:04.802 We kind of sit there and we're like, okay, I'm selling. 63 00:04:05.021 --> 00:04:10.148 And I that was I just was like buy this and that's super not helpful either. Mhmm. 64 00:04:10.208 --> 00:04:15.025 So I teach people to confidently and effectively market themselves on social media. 65 00:04:15.764 --> 00:04:23.820 And a lot of that is for community growth and and building a community around your business, which is everything from, you know, your email list to your Facebook followers to 66 00:04:24.599 --> 00:04:30.856 you know, now with with things like Google plus communities and LinkedIn groups and Facebook groups, it's it's even the communities inside of there. 67 00:04:31.276 --> 00:04:33.615 You know, a lot of people refer to it as like their tribe. 68 00:04:33.735 --> 00:04:35.634 Those people that will follow you everywhere. 69 00:04:36.493 --> 00:04:40.471 Since I have more of a rockstar slants in my brand, we usually call them raving fans. 70 00:04:41.179 --> 00:04:45.278 But yeah, that's that's basically what I do is is teaching people social media through community 71 00:04:46.217 --> 00:04:48.096 and and teaching them the confidence in it. 72 00:04:48.096 --> 00:04:52.833 My favorite part of what I do is that moment when someone figure something out. They're like, oh, 73 00:04:53.253 --> 00:04:57.310 - yeah. And I'm like, yay. That's the best. - And that is - So that's what I do. 74 00:04:57.389 --> 00:05:01.188 - That's a very long winded answer. I'm sorry. - Yeah. That's perfect. That's perfect. 75 00:05:01.188 --> 00:05:07.614 And so I'm curious, like, how why did you even get into doing online business for yourself? 76 00:05:07.614 --> 00:05:08.673 And and and 77 00:05:09.093 --> 00:05:10.273 what prompted that? 78 00:05:11.132 --> 00:05:14.950 - It actually came from not wanting to do anything I had done before. 79 00:05:16.209 --> 00:05:18.748 6 years ago now, I had my son 80 00:05:19.208 --> 00:05:25.103 and I stayed home with him for a couple of years and I missed the part of my brain that functions when I was working. 81 00:05:25.103 --> 00:05:27.602 Okay. I missed I missed that piece of myself. 82 00:05:28.342 --> 00:05:32.609 - And I missed it. - As in you you lost it or you missed using it? - I just missed using it. 83 00:05:32.609 --> 00:05:35.448 You know, I had it, but I there was no purpose for it. 84 00:05:35.448 --> 00:05:41.345 You know, I didn't I didn't have any any reason to be using that part of my brain on a day to day basis. 85 00:05:42.314 --> 00:05:44.713 You know, I had adult conversations and things like that. 86 00:05:44.713 --> 00:05:48.880 But, you know, conversations with my husband are not exactly, like, worky. Mhmm. You know? 87 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:54.297 So I wanted that part of my life back. I missed it, but I had 0 desire to go back to do anything 88 00:05:54.757 --> 00:05:57.016 - I had done before. - What had you done before? 89 00:05:57.514 --> 00:06:01.892 - I have done everything from work for a record label to sell commercial property insurance 90 00:06:03.431 --> 00:06:06.130 to jewelry repair. I've done a lot of the next thing. 91 00:06:06.469 --> 00:06:10.787 I always said that I wanted to do lots and lots of jobs before I grew up and picked 1 -- Mhmm. 92 00:06:10.787 --> 00:06:13.285 - -- - because I didn't wanna miss anything. - Mhmm. Okay? 93 00:06:14.044 --> 00:06:14.864 - So we 94 00:06:15.403 --> 00:06:17.362 we sat down and we're like, well, what can I do? 95 00:06:17.362 --> 00:06:21.500 You know, I don't really wanna have a commute every day. I don't I didn't want any of that. 96 00:06:21.939 --> 00:06:30.235 So I started googling work at home business or work at home jobs, which mostly gets you a lot of scams when you when you enter that into Google. 97 00:06:30.844 --> 00:06:32.943 And I found out about being a virtual assistant. 98 00:06:32.963 --> 00:06:36.422 So I started my first business, which was a virtual assistant business, 99 00:06:37.281 --> 00:06:41.748 and learned all about social and learned how much I really liked that it changed all the time. 100 00:06:41.748 --> 00:06:44.306 And then I could figure it out and then I could teach people that 101 00:06:45.026 --> 00:06:50.263 so about a year after I started that, I launched hit the mic marketing, which is now the Stacey Harris, 102 00:06:50.643 --> 00:06:55.101 - which is all about social media and teaching teaching women how to use it. - Cool. 103 00:06:55.949 --> 00:06:57.928 Cool. I see that a lot, 104 00:06:58.708 --> 00:07:00.247 you know, especially women 105 00:07:00.987 --> 00:07:05.134 who have that child and then don't go back to what they were doing before. 106 00:07:05.134 --> 00:07:07.313 It kinda gives you that break, that perspective 107 00:07:07.652 --> 00:07:08.352 of, like, 108 00:07:09.052 --> 00:07:12.890 no. No. They're they're bigger things. They're they're more important things. 109 00:07:12.890 --> 00:07:17.858 They're things like be doing that I just haven't been doing so far. It's really awesome to see. 110 00:07:18.277 --> 00:07:22.935 - And I think when you when you become a parent and you realize, like, okay, this is gonna mean 111 00:07:23.424 --> 00:07:29.601 8 to 10 hours a day away from not only my my kid, but my spouse, you know, away from my family. 112 00:07:29.941 --> 00:07:32.369 Like, is that Is that something I really wanna be doing? 113 00:07:32.369 --> 00:07:37.546 Is that something I wanna prioritize over this? Mhmm. And for me, it it's super awesome. 114 00:07:38.046 --> 00:07:44.222 - Yeah. Yeah. - Also, I'm not very good at having a boss. Like, I'm really I just I don't care for it. 115 00:07:44.222 --> 00:07:48.748 I don't care for being told what to do. So being an entrepreneur and being self employed, 116 00:07:49.288 --> 00:07:55.964 - much more pleasant for me. - Mhmm. Yeah. I hear you on that 1 too. I don't know. It was so funny. 117 00:07:55.964 --> 00:07:56.743 I I started 118 00:07:57.083 --> 00:07:58.982 taking a gig at a bar recently 119 00:07:59.322 --> 00:08:00.382 just to learn, 120 00:08:00.721 --> 00:08:02.999 like, how to make strengths and like how that whole bit. 121 00:08:02.999 --> 00:08:07.497 I've always been fascinated with the restaurant and bar industry, so just to learn more about it. 122 00:08:08.276 --> 00:08:10.695 And so I was at that bar and I kinda had 123 00:08:11.075 --> 00:08:15.902 at Bask I was working under the the lead bartender who was teaching me stuff, and it was so weird. 124 00:08:15.902 --> 00:08:21.459 It was like, oh my god. I can't now I know I haven't done this in so long because it's 125 00:08:22.459 --> 00:08:23.259 It it was awful. 126 00:08:23.259 --> 00:08:27.017 It was it was a good learning growth experience for me to try that again a little bit. 127 00:08:27.017 --> 00:08:28.916 But, yeah, I totally hear you on 128 00:08:29.254 --> 00:08:32.813 - like, having a boss. Yeah. - It's no fun. - No. No. 129 00:08:32.813 --> 00:08:39.119 I think, like, some of us are just we just need to have our own little domain came down to be in complete control 130 00:08:39.599 --> 00:08:45.417 - Well, and I think for people who are self employed, entrepreneurs, things like that, there's a little bit of control freakness in us. 131 00:08:45.556 --> 00:08:49.783 We like to know all the moving pieces and we like to be accountable for all the moving pieces. 132 00:08:49.783 --> 00:08:55.669 We don't we don't we don't wanna have to be accountable to somebody else who tells us what things to pay attention to. 133 00:08:55.789 --> 00:08:58.628 Yeah. Also, you know, I really like making my own schedule. 134 00:08:58.628 --> 00:09:01.067 I really like, you know, I like having that flexibility. 135 00:09:01.067 --> 00:09:03.914 And when I first started, my husband worked swing shift. 136 00:09:04.194 --> 00:09:08.392 - So had I had a normal job, when I came home, he'd have been gone. - Mhmm. No. 137 00:09:08.392 --> 00:09:11.031 - He went to work in the afternoon and didn't get home till the middle of night. 138 00:09:11.031 --> 00:09:13.748 So I would have literally never seen him, 139 00:09:14.648 --> 00:09:18.066 which should not sound very appealing because I'm kind of a fan of him. 140 00:09:18.766 --> 00:09:20.584 - That I would hope. Yeah. Wow. 141 00:09:20.904 --> 00:09:26.362 - What when what day of month were you or is your birthday? I'm just curious. - The thirteenth. 142 00:09:26.741 --> 00:09:28.361 - Thirteenth. Okay. Yes. 143 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.477 I'm you know, you I don't know if you know, but unlike this numerology, I'm kinda sure. 144 00:09:33.477 --> 00:09:37.984 But I've I don't I should study it more because I don't remember. So 13 means you're a 4. 145 00:09:37.984 --> 00:09:41.562 That's your your base. And it's 1 plus 30 is 4. 146 00:09:41.902 --> 00:09:44.789 But I forget what a 4 is. So never mind. 147 00:09:45.289 --> 00:09:49.367 - I need to study more on that. - I'll have to Google that now. - Yeah. 148 00:09:49.367 --> 00:09:55.993 Well, there there's a ton of different systems, but the 1 that that to my wife's study and that we're practicing as like a particular 1. 149 00:09:55.993 --> 00:09:56.493 Anyway, 150 00:09:58.072 --> 00:10:06.067 back to you and your your business, I'm I'm when you look back at how far you've come in these past 3 and a half years. 151 00:10:06.067 --> 00:10:06.807 - Right? - Mhmm. 152 00:10:07.666 --> 00:10:08.166 - What 153 00:10:08.706 --> 00:10:10.894 what achievement are you most proud of? 154 00:10:11.454 --> 00:10:12.594 In that span. 155 00:10:13.293 --> 00:10:18.511 - Oh, there's so many you know, the 1 that I'm probably the most proud of and that is the most recent is 156 00:10:19.090 --> 00:10:20.230 retiring my husband. 157 00:10:20.769 --> 00:10:23.948 Charles is my husband. I'll stop referring to him as just my husband, I guess. 158 00:10:24.368 --> 00:10:24.868 Charles 159 00:10:25.327 --> 00:10:30.004 is today, actually, right now, he's at work. Giving notice for his job. 160 00:10:30.004 --> 00:10:32.842 He'll be home full time in 2 weeks. Yes. Uh-huh. 161 00:10:32.842 --> 00:10:36.160 The only because he's way cooler than I am and decided he should give him 2 weeks notice. 162 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:39.169 I was like, just quit. Gonna be fun. Mhmm. He's like, no. 163 00:10:40.348 --> 00:10:44.646 This is why he's the more responsible 1. But he's, you know, being able to 164 00:10:45.025 --> 00:10:48.533 to give us both that freedom and independence from 165 00:10:49.113 --> 00:10:49.893 a a boss 166 00:10:50.312 --> 00:10:55.359 is is real of course, now he's, you know, I'm his boss. So for better or worse for him. 167 00:10:56.378 --> 00:11:00.156 But, no, I think that's probably my biggest accomplishment inside of my business. 168 00:11:00.336 --> 00:11:07.672 I actually spoke at a conference last year at the for the International Virtual Assistance Association, and that was the very first conference I ever ever attended. 169 00:11:08.051 --> 00:11:12.909 And I said after I left there that I was gonna speak at it someday. And 2 years later I did. 170 00:11:13.168 --> 00:11:18.446 So that was probably my my other 1 sort of inside the minutia and day to day of my business. Right. 171 00:11:18.446 --> 00:11:24.512 - But retiring Charles as from from a life perspective -- Mhmm. -- is a is a pretty massive 1. - Yeah. 172 00:11:24.812 --> 00:11:27.471 Now that's so great. I I love that. I've seen 173 00:11:27.899 --> 00:11:31.737 I've seen that elsewhere as well. Robin, that I interviewed AAAA 174 00:11:31.737 --> 00:11:33.277 while back, a psychiatrist, 175 00:11:34.616 --> 00:11:40.363 her husband lost her job, her his job, and then she just decided to, like, support the family and and and did. 176 00:11:40.543 --> 00:11:48.018 And that's it's that's also something that excites me a lot is that, you know, that women start to take on that role voluntarily 177 00:11:48.358 --> 00:11:53.295 and, like, and grow with it, run with it, and really, you know, make amazing things happen. 178 00:11:54.254 --> 00:11:56.274 - That way. That's - It's really fun. 179 00:11:56.493 --> 00:12:02.129 I think it's so fun for me because when I first started my virtual assistant business, the goal was to make a little extra money. 180 00:12:02.449 --> 00:12:03.349 You know, vacations, 181 00:12:03.769 --> 00:12:06.927 save for college, college, things like that. That that was the goal. 182 00:12:06.927 --> 00:12:11.165 And now we're at a point where it's like Charles is gonna, you know, he's gonna start working with me. 183 00:12:11.165 --> 00:12:15.722 He's not gonna, like, stop working because he would go insane, and I could not deal with that. 184 00:12:15.722 --> 00:12:17.502 We have to keep him busy. Right. 185 00:12:18.401 --> 00:12:24.828 So, you know, to be able to make that shift, in 3 and a half years from, like, oh, yeah, a little extra money from vacations 186 00:12:25.447 --> 00:12:27.826 to, hey, you wanna work for me. 187 00:12:28.006 --> 00:12:31.944 - It's it's really exciting and it's something I'm really really proud of. - That's very cool. 188 00:12:31.944 --> 00:12:33.643 And it's also a good progression. 189 00:12:33.863 --> 00:12:41.488 Like, you can start out I mean, you can start with the ambition to, like, I'm gonna I'm gonna make this my living and to support my family or you can start out. 190 00:12:41.488 --> 00:12:46.106 This is gonna be a side business and then just, like, let it grow. But both are are really 191 00:12:46.486 --> 00:12:51.262 great options and great ways to do it as long as you're still commitment to make it work. Right? 192 00:12:51.262 --> 00:13:00.537 - Whatever your goal is, you know, I I talk to people, you know, I I have in my business, I do a mastermind called the business amplifier mastermind and I had somebody and she's like, I don't wanna make 7 figures. 193 00:13:00.537 --> 00:13:02.276 Like, I don't wanna run a team. 194 00:13:02.554 --> 00:13:06.992 I don't, like, I don't want these things that, you know, everyone's pitching is like, what you have to do. 195 00:13:06.992 --> 00:13:09.231 And I was like, whatever your goal is is your goal. 196 00:13:09.231 --> 00:13:12.568 You don't have to You don't have to set that against somebody else's. 197 00:13:12.568 --> 00:13:15.547 If you wanna be somebody who just wants to be able to live 198 00:13:15.886 --> 00:13:24.532 out of a suitcase and a laptop and so you wanna run a business and support those bills, and put a little money aside for a rainy day, that's that's perfectly acceptable. 199 00:13:24.632 --> 00:13:28.890 If you wanna be somebody who wants to make a little bit of money, work a few hours a week, 200 00:13:29.529 --> 00:13:35.606 and and build a a totally passive income business, and and this is this is the scale that you wanna be in that being that scale. 201 00:13:35.606 --> 00:13:38.803 There's nothing wrong with that. It it's totally unique to you. 202 00:13:38.803 --> 00:13:40.962 That's the good thing about being your own boss. 203 00:13:40.962 --> 00:13:44.421 If you don't have to sort of measure stick to somebody else's 204 00:13:45.739 --> 00:13:50.756 - realm of success. Whatever success is to you that that success. - Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. 205 00:13:51.136 --> 00:13:54.784 Alright. So let's let's talk a little bit about Simparo and on support. 206 00:13:54.784 --> 00:14:00.901 Because I know you started with on support and then you you discovered Simpara somehow and you decided to move order over that. 207 00:14:00.901 --> 00:14:05.947 - So Let's start with that. How did you come across Amphora? How did you hear about it? - I am b school. 208 00:14:05.947 --> 00:14:08.486 - Okay. I - think it's probably the most common because - there's 209 00:14:09.494 --> 00:14:13.872 - be - Marie Foresley is b school. Yes. Yeah. And so I heard about it from b school, 210 00:14:14.292 --> 00:14:15.151 and I 211 00:14:16.059 --> 00:14:19.657 original, I had already moved to Oxford because I decided in 20 14. 212 00:14:19.657 --> 00:14:24.155 It was gonna be the year I got rid of all of the pieces. I sort of had duct tape together. 213 00:14:24.404 --> 00:14:30.581 And I wanted to streamline and I wanted to add an affiliate program for my my stand alone courses, my self study courses. 214 00:14:31.001 --> 00:14:33.380 And so the easiest way to do that was gonna be 215 00:14:34.489 --> 00:14:36.068 a bigger system. Mhmm. 216 00:14:36.488 --> 00:14:41.585 And so I was gonna do that. And so it I went to onboard on a recommendation of a friend, 217 00:14:42.224 --> 00:14:47.142 who I'm still friends with. But I I didn't care for Onport. I didn't I didn't like the process. 218 00:14:47.142 --> 00:14:48.241 I had a lot of 219 00:14:49.079 --> 00:14:51.938 a lot of tech issues with making things work, and 220 00:14:52.318 --> 00:14:57.275 it was just a gigantic pain, and I did not care for it. Like, I gave it 2 and a half months. 221 00:14:57.275 --> 00:14:59.634 We got everything moved over and coming through there. 222 00:14:59.634 --> 00:15:03.652 And every time I would go to do something, something would not work for me. Mhmm. 223 00:15:03.752 --> 00:15:06.051 And I'm sure it's not that does not happen for everybody. 224 00:15:06.051 --> 00:15:09.689 I don't wanna sit here and, like, bash on port. It's a great system for some people. 225 00:15:09.948 --> 00:15:13.127 But I was really, really relieved when I found Simpario because 226 00:15:13.746 --> 00:15:16.534 not only did it work the way I wanted it to work, 227 00:15:17.174 --> 00:15:20.212 But also, I really like the interface a lot more. 228 00:15:20.212 --> 00:15:24.431 I like it's it seemed it felt more intuitive to me. It felt more 229 00:15:25.889 --> 00:15:30.387 everything sort of right there on my dashboard and it's in the menu and I just know where to go. 230 00:15:30.607 --> 00:15:33.785 And I'm pretty tech savvy. Like, I'm I'm a tech savvy person. 231 00:15:34.164 --> 00:15:36.823 And I but I don't like digging through 6 things 232 00:15:37.523 --> 00:15:38.382 to find something. 233 00:15:39.122 --> 00:15:40.461 I'm also lazy, apparently. 234 00:15:41.321 --> 00:15:41.760 But no. 235 00:15:41.760 --> 00:15:46.838 So I was really really happy friend of mine in b school said, why have you not tried a simplero yet? 236 00:15:46.838 --> 00:15:51.376 That's what I use. And so that's what I started using. And I started looking at it, and I was like, 237 00:15:51.734 --> 00:15:52.234 Awesome. 238 00:15:52.814 --> 00:15:59.111 - And so that's what I use now. - Cool. Amazing. And the and so when you saw it first, 239 00:15:59.770 --> 00:16:01.589 do you remember what were your thoughts 240 00:16:03.718 --> 00:16:07.457 - By then, I had seen off report, so I was not as overwhelmed 241 00:16:07.836 --> 00:16:16.530 as I could have been I think whenever you get in some place where you can handle your products and your email list and your affiliate program, like, there's so many pieces and 1 thing. 242 00:16:16.530 --> 00:16:18.710 It would be easy to be overwhelmed. Mhmm. 243 00:16:19.119 --> 00:16:24.817 I remember being really relieved that I wasn't, and I remember getting in there because of the frustrations I had with OnFort. 244 00:16:24.996 --> 00:16:26.776 I remember getting in there and seeing 245 00:16:27.504 --> 00:16:29.723 that side menu and being like, 246 00:16:30.263 --> 00:16:33.241 I go there for that and there for that and there for that. Yay. 247 00:16:34.079 --> 00:16:34.579 - Right. 248 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:41.036 - So I I think there was an an like, and this sounds really weird, but there was an ease and a comfort when I got into it for the first time. 249 00:16:41.036 --> 00:16:42.295 Like, I kind of knew 250 00:16:42.684 --> 00:16:47.462 what I was doing. I didn't have to be like, I don't know what any of this means. Right. 251 00:16:49.201 --> 00:16:54.528 - That's cool to hear. Well, I mean, it it clearly helps that you know kinda what you're looking for. 252 00:16:54.627 --> 00:16:56.626 Yeah. You understand how the business works. 253 00:16:56.626 --> 00:17:03.802 That's 1 other thing that the dreams that I have is to, like, really can emerge this teaching about how to run this kind of business with the software. 254 00:17:03.802 --> 00:17:06.761 So it's not like, here's a product teaching you how to run the business. 255 00:17:06.761 --> 00:17:08.500 Here's this offer, but it's really integrated. 256 00:17:08.619 --> 00:17:11.398 And it really guides you in that process even if you don't 257 00:17:11.897 --> 00:17:16.595 know or have her on this type of business before, that's something I haven't quite gotten to 258 00:17:17.624 --> 00:17:22.402 - It would be amazing, though. Because I totally something I would have embraced earlier. - Yeah. 259 00:17:22.741 --> 00:17:29.868 - But I think I I sort of duct taped everything together because I sort of figured out that I needed it and then just sort of 260 00:17:31.407 --> 00:17:33.765 put it in the in the funnel. You know what I mean? 261 00:17:33.765 --> 00:17:38.412 Like, what does attached this here and this over here. That'll work. Yeah. 262 00:17:38.432 --> 00:17:49.765 Because you kind of don't know what you need until you're like, waking up 1 day and you're like, okay, I I really don't wanna have to send an email out every time someone emails me to buy a sister buy a program. 263 00:17:49.765 --> 00:17:51.154 You know what I mean? Right. 264 00:17:51.653 --> 00:17:56.251 - So I like that sort of education piece of, like, this is how this could run. - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 265 00:17:56.251 --> 00:18:04.565 We try to do it by or so far just by having all the pieces laid out in a sort of logical fashion, but but the edge training is not quite there yet. 266 00:18:04.565 --> 00:18:06.305 But what you said about feeling 267 00:18:07.104 --> 00:18:07.604 this 268 00:18:09.703 --> 00:18:10.602 ease or 269 00:18:11.142 --> 00:18:12.082 peace or 270 00:18:12.661 --> 00:18:18.278 or comfort. I think you said is that touches me deeply because that's 1 of my, like, 271 00:18:18.617 --> 00:18:19.957 also, like, core 272 00:18:20.376 --> 00:18:24.573 values, visions for this just to make it that comfortable home -- Mhmm. 273 00:18:24.573 --> 00:18:28.552 -- where you feel like you found this and you're like, ah, you've come home. 274 00:18:28.931 --> 00:18:31.870 This is like you there's someone there that has your back 275 00:18:32.179 --> 00:18:36.057 and there's, you know, there's just a positive vibration behind this. 276 00:18:36.057 --> 00:18:38.236 There's a good energy and there's there's 277 00:18:40.643 --> 00:18:44.901 you feel in control because you have everything right there. So that's -- Absolutely. 278 00:18:44.901 --> 00:18:48.020 -- how I try to make it. It works. 279 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:51.278 Great. I'm really excited to hear that actually. 280 00:18:52.617 --> 00:18:53.437 Cool. So 281 00:18:54.816 --> 00:18:59.993 so you moved over from onto port And was that painful? Is that painful? 282 00:19:00.892 --> 00:19:04.471 - Not as painful as moving too much for it was. Oh, really? Yeah. 283 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.997 To be fair, a lot of it was because I had already moved everything to OnPort. 284 00:19:08.997 --> 00:19:11.436 So now I was moving from 1 system to another system. 285 00:19:11.436 --> 00:19:14.633 I wasn't moving from multiple systems, 1 system. Right. 286 00:19:14.633 --> 00:19:18.631 But also, I think it was a lot easier because I didn't have to figure out where to put things. 287 00:19:18.631 --> 00:19:22.450 You know you know, I clicked on products and I put in my products. I I 288 00:19:22.899 --> 00:19:27.477 clicked on on lists, and I made my list and imported my list over from Onport. 289 00:19:29.256 --> 00:19:31.675 So that helped a lot. You know, sort of 290 00:19:32.004 --> 00:19:33.363 the ease in finding everything. 291 00:19:33.363 --> 00:19:36.562 Like you said, you've sort of it's almost like a checklist that menu on the side. 292 00:19:36.562 --> 00:19:38.819 Like, you know, this goes here, this goes here, this goes here. 293 00:19:39.139 --> 00:19:42.537 There wasn't a lot of me having to, like, find stuff to figure out how to move it. 294 00:19:42.537 --> 00:19:47.035 It was really easy to find. I spent a lot more time finding how to get things out of onboard 295 00:19:47.714 --> 00:19:49.893 I did find out how to put them in to Simcliro. 296 00:19:51.352 --> 00:19:52.652 So that that was 297 00:19:54.111 --> 00:19:54.931 pretty painless. 298 00:19:55.929 --> 00:20:02.586 And in full disclosure, Charles did most of it because at that point, I was like, I've never was looking at this again. 299 00:20:03.285 --> 00:20:04.754 I was so overbid for it. 300 00:20:06.273 --> 00:20:10.531 But yeah. So it was it was a lot easier than the previous move had been. Mhmm. 301 00:20:10.911 --> 00:20:15.089 And, again, a a big part of that I think is that flow in the menu of 302 00:20:15.548 --> 00:20:17.887 - here's here, here's here, here's here. - Mhmm. 303 00:20:18.667 --> 00:20:20.206 Cool. Very cool. 304 00:20:20.585 --> 00:20:21.605 And and, 305 00:20:21.945 --> 00:20:24.333 yeah, it's just like, your experience with Simparo, 306 00:20:25.752 --> 00:20:26.972 what's that been like? 307 00:20:28.231 --> 00:20:28.731 - Easy. 308 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:32.917 Right. No. It is. It's it's really easy to use. I like 309 00:20:33.597 --> 00:20:38.175 my biggest, most, favoritest part of simplero is the products because 310 00:20:38.894 --> 00:20:42.992 - so much of my business is based on selling courses. - Mhmm. 311 00:20:43.372 --> 00:20:45.831 - So I'm able to put my 312 00:20:46.189 --> 00:20:47.728 product information in there 313 00:20:48.068 --> 00:20:53.114 and connects it with my, you know, my payment gateways and and it's all there it goes. 314 00:20:53.154 --> 00:20:56.333 And it sends out a thank you email. You know, I just put in that auto responder. 315 00:20:56.992 --> 00:21:01.490 And moving from a system where I had to, like, have that ugly PayPal button and 316 00:21:02.719 --> 00:21:06.757 and sort of I could never get PayPal to work the way I wanted it to. 317 00:21:06.757 --> 00:21:09.016 And so I always had to make sure that the membership 318 00:21:09.355 --> 00:21:13.893 and the membership side actually went through and And I think not having to 319 00:21:14.672 --> 00:21:15.712 put my hands on it. 320 00:21:15.712 --> 00:21:21.059 You know, my pro my programs go up now and I go in and check them once a month because they're social media programs and they change. 321 00:21:21.699 --> 00:21:24.337 But I don't have to go in in the sales process anymore. 322 00:21:24.337 --> 00:21:26.476 I don't ever touch the sales process anymore. 323 00:21:27.056 --> 00:21:30.395 It it happens. I actually do make money in my sleep because 324 00:21:30.824 --> 00:21:36.921 these products can just be sold without me having to wake up in the morning and be like, oh, let's make sure she actually got membership access or whatever. 325 00:21:37.461 --> 00:21:40.399 So that for me, I think, is the biggest, biggest win 326 00:21:40.929 --> 00:21:46.746 is the products of being able to to sell through it with in a tremendous amount of ease on my side. 327 00:21:47.246 --> 00:21:51.563 And no confusion from the buyer side either. You know, that was really 328 00:21:52.163 --> 00:21:56.501 important to me what my customer's experience would be in the checkout process. 329 00:21:57.179 --> 00:21:58.858 And and I like how simple it is. 330 00:21:58.858 --> 00:22:02.677 It's not there's no confusion about what buttons do I hit or what do I have to enter. 331 00:22:03.176 --> 00:22:05.715 It's really well late. It's really clean. 332 00:22:06.074 --> 00:22:06.894 Really simple. 333 00:22:07.873 --> 00:22:14.770 Because, obviously, using whatever system you use, that front end that your customer sees is a representation of you 334 00:22:15.159 --> 00:22:16.898 as well as a system you're using. 335 00:22:16.958 --> 00:22:20.336 - So it was really important to me that that part was really easy as - well. 336 00:22:21.276 --> 00:22:22.535 Cool. Awesome. 337 00:22:23.274 --> 00:22:23.774 So 338 00:22:25.513 --> 00:22:27.692 I'm curious, like, back to you and 339 00:22:28.271 --> 00:22:29.931 and your business, what is 340 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:32.819 What's 341 00:22:33.438 --> 00:22:34.178 a challenge? 342 00:22:34.677 --> 00:22:36.537 How have you had to grow 343 00:22:37.836 --> 00:22:41.824 yourself if you're comfortable talking about this in order to get to where you're today? 344 00:22:41.824 --> 00:22:43.323 What are some of the growth points? 345 00:22:44.103 --> 00:22:44.923 - So many. 346 00:22:45.582 --> 00:22:51.489 Yeah. I think as your business grows, you you evolve and have to sort of figure out new things. 347 00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:55.247 For me, I had a lot of, can I do this? 348 00:22:55.247 --> 00:22:59.774 Like, there are a lot of people in the social media space that know a lot of stuff. Mhmm. 349 00:23:00.073 --> 00:23:01.333 We're very, very smart. 350 00:23:01.872 --> 00:23:07.130 And who I respect quite a bit and was like, well, do I really need to be adding to that noise? 351 00:23:07.859 --> 00:23:13.676 And then I realized that, a, no 1 talking about social media or really anything else knows everything. 352 00:23:13.816 --> 00:23:18.103 There's always something new to bring. And also, I I learned very quickly that 353 00:23:19.122 --> 00:23:19.622 people 354 00:23:20.162 --> 00:23:24.499 that buy for me, people who learn for me wanna work and learn and buy for me. 355 00:23:24.859 --> 00:23:28.038 Because I'm me and I add my own unique spend of things. Mhmm. 356 00:23:28.137 --> 00:23:32.535 Even if I'm saying the exact same thing somebody else is saying, it's a unique experience when you work with me. 357 00:23:32.535 --> 00:23:33.035 Mhmm. 358 00:23:33.854 --> 00:23:39.172 - And so learning to accept that was kind of different. - I think - that's what - I found. 359 00:23:39.172 --> 00:23:44.439 I think that's something that that a lot of people I mean, I'm I'm taking note myself here as you're saying that. 360 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:47.618 - And it's something I learn over and over again 361 00:23:47.957 --> 00:23:51.456 all the time. It's 1 of those lessons I can't stop learning. Yeah. 362 00:23:51.635 --> 00:23:54.424 Denise, I feel Thomas, is somebody who I respect a lot. 363 00:23:54.544 --> 00:23:57.083 And she has something in the sort of money mindset 364 00:23:57.662 --> 00:24:01.141 realm, but I sort of apply it to this too. It's this new level, new devil. 365 00:24:01.141 --> 00:24:04.477 Like, you sort of you reach this new place and you're like, oh, I've got this. 366 00:24:04.477 --> 00:24:07.576 And then you hit a new 1 and you're like, oh, wait, new stuff. 367 00:24:08.196 --> 00:24:12.962 - Yes. - There's a new level of exposure here. Let me make sure I can get myself comfortable with that. 368 00:24:12.962 --> 00:24:18.559 - Alright. And also, have you noticed that that the new level, it tends to it tends to be 369 00:24:18.959 --> 00:24:21.398 new stuff, but also some of the old stuff comes up again. 370 00:24:21.398 --> 00:24:26.864 Like, it's the you you kinda bump up against some of the same hurdles every single time you need to go through the next step. 371 00:24:26.904 --> 00:24:27.684 - Right? - Absolutely. 372 00:24:27.824 --> 00:24:34.820 There's that am I good enough to be having anyone listen to me every time my email list hits a milestone because it's like here. 373 00:24:34.820 --> 00:24:38.298 Okay. I know enough for this amount of people to not to listen to me. 374 00:24:38.298 --> 00:24:41.476 But do I know enough for this amount of people who listen to me? 375 00:24:42.056 --> 00:24:46.494 So yeah. It's definitely the the same stuff. And so you sort of have to build 376 00:24:47.273 --> 00:24:50.172 ways to deal with it, which I think are probably different for everybody. 377 00:24:50.312 --> 00:24:53.629 I mostly just go fake it till you make it. 378 00:24:53.648 --> 00:24:59.746 We're just gonna keep going until it all blows up until the horrible thing where somebody comes up to me and says, I know nothing happens. 379 00:25:00.085 --> 00:25:01.465 I'm just gonna keep talking. 380 00:25:03.224 --> 00:25:04.043 That's a 381 00:25:04.823 --> 00:25:08.141 - that's a great plan. - For better or worse, we'll see how that goes. But But but 382 00:25:08.741 --> 00:25:09.241 yeah. 383 00:25:09.999 --> 00:25:14.117 - I've only been heckled at 1 speaking engagement so far. So - Oh, that's cool. 384 00:25:14.117 --> 00:25:15.736 And how many have you done this? 385 00:25:16.316 --> 00:25:22.362 - Let's see. We're up to, like, 10. I started speaking last year, so probably 10, maybe 15 events now. 386 00:25:22.362 --> 00:25:26.280 - Oh. - And only the 1 time. It was the 1 time I was on a really big stage too. 387 00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:28.649 Like, I was in a, like, actually a theater room. 388 00:25:28.789 --> 00:25:33.626 And and this guy, I said something, and he goes, well, you can do that that way. And I'm like, yeah. 389 00:25:33.626 --> 00:25:36.565 But you can't actually do it that way. And by the way, 390 00:25:36.874 --> 00:25:41.612 I'm the 1 that came up to ask to stand up here. So why don't we just not 391 00:25:42.191 --> 00:25:43.331 disagree with me? 392 00:25:45.339 --> 00:25:48.577 Like, you can't do that, but it's against rules and we'll get your account deleted. So 393 00:25:50.656 --> 00:25:54.954 anyways, that was my only time being heckled, and it went pretty well. Everyone basically laughed. 394 00:25:54.994 --> 00:25:59.112 - When I made a joke. So I call it a win. - That's good. Yes. 395 00:25:59.112 --> 00:26:01.491 Well, and and you were you got in the arena. 396 00:26:01.991 --> 00:26:03.490 Right. And that's what matters. 397 00:26:03.819 --> 00:26:05.239 - That's right. - Yeah. 398 00:26:05.738 --> 00:26:06.718 That's so cool. 399 00:26:07.417 --> 00:26:10.656 - Yeah. I'm I'm impressed. I'm very impressed. - Oh, thank you. 400 00:26:10.656 --> 00:26:14.564 - You have a good - sense of caters and hecklers or miles. Stones and and and, you know, 401 00:26:14.983 --> 00:26:20.441 - meet success. So - For sure. Yeah. Yeah. And it's I mean, it's not easy to, like, 402 00:26:21.029 --> 00:26:25.187 you're caught off guard and you need to, like, deal within the moment. Right? You're not yeah. 403 00:26:25.187 --> 00:26:26.886 It's not like you're prepared for 404 00:26:27.644 --> 00:26:32.362 - You took the heck of a course before the first speaker. - You, like, stand up comedian, though. - Yeah. 405 00:26:32.362 --> 00:26:34.941 - Yeah. - Because I'm like, who heck of a speakers, dude? 406 00:26:36.569 --> 00:26:36.849 But 407 00:26:37.968 --> 00:26:38.588 - Oh, - so 408 00:26:38.928 --> 00:26:39.527 so cool. 409 00:26:39.527 --> 00:26:52.729 So what would your, like, number 1 advice be to to someone who's who wants to do kind of what you're not social media, but Blake wants to go through that same process of building their own business and supporting their family as you've done. 410 00:26:54.009 --> 00:26:57.907 - I think putting the systems in place earlier than you think you need them. 411 00:26:58.366 --> 00:27:03.593 And I mean that everything from something like Simpliero to something like calendar management tool. 412 00:27:03.593 --> 00:27:09.759 You know, I think 1 of the first systems I ever put in my business was time trade, and I don't use time trade anymore, but that was the first 1. 413 00:27:09.879 --> 00:27:15.276 The ability to give my clients a way to make paint an appointment with me without me having to do the email game. 414 00:27:15.276 --> 00:27:17.554 Mhmm. And I waited way too long to do that. 415 00:27:17.594 --> 00:27:21.093 And I waited way too long to add something like Simpliura where I could really 416 00:27:21.672 --> 00:27:25.491 bring all of my email list and my products and my affiliate program together. 417 00:27:25.899 --> 00:27:29.577 - I think putting those pieces together before you realize you must have them - -- - Mhmm. 418 00:27:29.577 --> 00:27:31.357 - -- - makes it a lot less stressful. 419 00:27:31.896 --> 00:27:32.396 - Mhmm. 420 00:27:32.776 --> 00:27:34.755 - And also, I think, you know, I 421 00:27:35.224 --> 00:27:45.689 I kept my growth inside of inside of this instead of being able to come out here because I limited how I could serve people and how I could work with people and and customers experience 422 00:27:46.028 --> 00:27:48.767 is because I didn't put those systems in place. Mhmm. 423 00:27:48.827 --> 00:27:53.045 So I think putting those pieces in place as unfunded as it sounds 424 00:27:53.994 --> 00:27:58.152 It's really a way to open yourself up to a lot more success. Mhmm. 425 00:27:58.152 --> 00:28:00.771 And also make working a lot less stressful. 426 00:28:01.029 --> 00:28:04.008 Like, you know, those systems are what make your business 427 00:28:05.187 --> 00:28:09.874 work without you having to work so hard. Right. Again, whatever those systems are for you, 428 00:28:10.354 --> 00:28:13.072 - So I think I would have done that earlier. - Alright. Yeah. 429 00:28:13.072 --> 00:28:21.738 Actually, I mean, if you wait wait to to install those systems until you're under a lot of stress, then you're just, like, the transition is always gonna be stressful. 430 00:28:21.738 --> 00:28:21.898 Right? 431 00:28:21.898 --> 00:28:32.232 - So now you're adding a lot of stress on top of a lot of stress instead of doing it while it's relatively calm and now you've got the structure in place to take you to the next level that's - Absolutely. 432 00:28:32.332 --> 00:28:36.570 And you don't have the time to put the systems in place that save you time -- Mhmm. 433 00:28:36.570 --> 00:28:39.678 - -- - when you've run out of time. - Exactly. - You know what I mean? Yeah. 434 00:28:39.678 --> 00:28:44.136 So doing it a little before you think you're gonna need it a lot a lot less stressful. 435 00:28:44.996 --> 00:28:46.375 So I would definitely, you know, 436 00:28:47.094 --> 00:28:48.693 do it early. Do it do it early. 437 00:28:48.693 --> 00:28:52.171 You know, I'm not saying that you have to have day 1 or all of the things in a week. 438 00:28:52.171 --> 00:28:55.910 You don't have to put them all together at once. Mhmm. But identify them early. 439 00:28:56.209 --> 00:28:59.547 And start working towards that, you know, prioritize -- Yeah. 440 00:28:59.607 --> 00:29:02.925 - -- - what systems are gonna save you the most time and provide you the most value. 441 00:29:02.925 --> 00:29:11.250 I think you know, a lot of us hear from coaches and mentors and things that, you know, we're spending to waste of time on on tasks that don't make us money. 442 00:29:11.250 --> 00:29:14.358 And so the the first instinct is to hire a VA. 443 00:29:14.358 --> 00:29:20.604 Well, a lot of times, you don't necessarily need that super early if you can put systems in place to take a lot of those things away. 444 00:29:21.244 --> 00:29:24.362 You know, for example, I didn't need to hire a VA to do my scheduling. 445 00:29:24.362 --> 00:29:27.919 - I needed to get a scheduling system that I could just email to somebody. - Right. 446 00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:31.617 - So, you know, they're also a lot less expensive thanvas. 447 00:29:32.437 --> 00:29:35.815 And then the money I do invest in having help in a VA 448 00:29:36.424 --> 00:29:41.641 she or he can spend doing really tasks that are also gonna make me money instead of handling, scheduling. 449 00:29:41.861 --> 00:29:45.399 - Right. Yeah. - So I I think those systems are are 450 00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:51.536 - a lot more necessary than we think early on. Mhmm. A lot more helpful. - Yeah. That makes sense. 451 00:29:51.536 --> 00:29:57.992 And then 1 whenever you hire someone, make sure that they're a revenue center, and to make sure that they bring in 452 00:29:58.412 --> 00:29:58.912 money, 453 00:29:59.251 --> 00:29:59.751 like, 454 00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:02.119 obviously, 455 00:30:02.618 --> 00:30:07.116 - it's good to save you time, but it's really great if they also make you money. Right? - Absolutely. 456 00:30:07.896 --> 00:30:12.842 Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I think we get so focused on the idea of hiring help to 457 00:30:13.382 --> 00:30:16.061 save us time. So we can we can make more money. 458 00:30:16.061 --> 00:30:20.707 - But if you can get that person making money to cover their salary and - and save you time. 459 00:30:20.707 --> 00:30:26.893 - Add you add save you time and add, you know, revenue to your pocket, then that's really the setup to go for. 460 00:30:26.893 --> 00:30:37.457 - And the nice thing also about putting the systems together when you have the time to put them together and the space to do it is you can also create, you know, 1 of the things I do is when I use a new system, I do a video screen - -- Mhmm. 461 00:30:37.457 --> 00:30:45.523 - -- - grab of everything I'm doing so that when I add to my team or as I bring somebody new in, even if it's just a contractor, I don't have to spend a lot of time explaining it to them. 462 00:30:45.523 --> 00:30:47.022 Mhmm. I can simply 463 00:30:47.882 --> 00:30:51.000 add them to a folder I have on Drive that's called training videos. 464 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:55.517 - They find a video they eat and and they figure out how to do it for my business. - Cool. 465 00:30:55.617 --> 00:31:00.474 - Because, you know, there may be 6 different people that know how to use SimpliRO, but they don't know where my stuff is. 466 00:31:00.514 --> 00:31:02.773 - You don't know how I have it organized. - Yeah. 467 00:31:03.432 --> 00:31:06.331 Have you looked into have you looked at screen That's screen mailer? 468 00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:09.579 - What's that? - Screen mailer. Have you looked at that? - No. 469 00:31:09.579 --> 00:31:13.437 - I just put them all in a drive folder because I live in Google apps. - Okay. 470 00:31:13.497 --> 00:31:17.873 Now is this is this tool that that we use to do customer service when we shoot videos? 471 00:31:17.873 --> 00:31:19.293 Have you gotten 1 of those? Mm-mm. 472 00:31:19.872 --> 00:31:20.272 No. 473 00:31:20.272 --> 00:31:25.708 Sometimes, like, when people write, it's just easier to show it than to actually, like, write down when people do so. 474 00:31:25.808 --> 00:31:31.045 So I do that so much that 1 of my friends, he started up he created a product for this. 475 00:31:31.045 --> 00:31:33.065 So, like, it it'll record your screen. 476 00:31:33.134 --> 00:31:36.912 And then as soon as you're done, it starts uploading as it's recording. 477 00:31:37.412 --> 00:31:47.836 And as soon as it's done, it it puts a link to the video on your clipboard so you can just paste it in Even while it's still uploading, it knows what the link is, so it's not necessarily done uploading yet. 478 00:31:47.836 --> 00:31:52.703 But you can send that to someone and be on your way with the next thing while it's uploading the rest in the background. 479 00:31:52.703 --> 00:31:57.321 - It's super awesome. It's And - where do I find that at? - Screen mailer dot com. 480 00:31:57.639 --> 00:32:01.637 - Okay. - I know what we're doing after I'm done now. - It's really useful. It's so cool. 481 00:32:01.637 --> 00:32:06.374 - Because I do that a lot with my 1 on 1 clients with social you know, they'll be like, I don't know where find this. 482 00:32:06.374 --> 00:32:10.811 So I will go in and I'll make a quick video, but I have to wait for it to process and everything because I record it with Camtasia. 483 00:32:10.811 --> 00:32:14.879 So I have to wait for it to export and upload it to Dropbox or drive or whatever. Yeah. 484 00:32:15.058 --> 00:32:17.717 - Sounds super awesome for that kind of stuff. - Are you on Windows? 485 00:32:18.457 --> 00:32:21.274 - No. I use a Mac. - Oh, good. Yeah. Good. Yeah. It's a Mac. 486 00:32:21.314 --> 00:32:25.672 So it just lives in your menu bar, you click it, start recording, and and that's it. 487 00:32:25.672 --> 00:32:28.011 - It's - very exciting. - It's so convenient. Yeah. 488 00:32:28.390 --> 00:32:31.228 So Jonas. That's my friend, Jonas. He 489 00:32:33.147 --> 00:32:34.506 it's so cool. He's in Chile. 490 00:32:34.506 --> 00:32:38.604 He's from Denmark, but he's in Chile right now and and some start up startup chiller program. 491 00:32:39.453 --> 00:32:40.193 Very cool. 492 00:32:40.533 --> 00:32:43.911 Trying to make this a business. Yeah. It's an awesome tool. Anyway, 493 00:32:44.251 --> 00:32:44.751 so 494 00:32:45.091 --> 00:32:46.030 plug for him. 495 00:32:48.098 --> 00:32:49.638 Tell us about, like, 496 00:32:51.737 --> 00:32:53.996 if people wanna find out more about you, 497 00:32:54.824 --> 00:32:59.522 where do they go? And and and and what what have you got in a store for them? 498 00:33:00.461 --> 00:33:03.080 - Everything about me is over at b staciehiris 499 00:33:03.459 --> 00:33:07.887 - dot com. Good. Not - sure to post a link. - Yeah. Everything is right over there. 500 00:33:07.887 --> 00:33:10.066 Links to me on social, links all my products. 501 00:33:10.126 --> 00:33:14.273 In the next couple of weeks, we're launching a brand new program. Well, it's actually launched now. 502 00:33:14.273 --> 00:33:16.852 We're actually starting the program called Social Pro, 503 00:33:17.192 --> 00:33:21.410 - which is a program where I am teaching people to build social media strategies - -- Mhmm. 504 00:33:21.410 --> 00:33:23.099 - -- - like a social media manager would. 505 00:33:23.619 --> 00:33:27.477 Plus we have a whole module on hiring your social media dream team. 506 00:33:27.577 --> 00:33:35.922 So if you're somebody who wants to know enough to be able to hire your team, This will teach you so you can have an intelligent conversation with them. 507 00:33:36.022 --> 00:33:47.326 And also teach you how to hire them and teach you how to outsource it in a way where you feel confident outsourcing it and you're not going to sort of get the wool pulled over your eyes, and you can get somebody who's really going to be what you need, 508 00:33:47.826 --> 00:33:50.085 not somebody who says they're what you need. 509 00:33:50.514 --> 00:33:51.353 That happens a lot. 510 00:33:51.353 --> 00:33:57.930 I get a lot of those clients who have already done that and then they come to me and they're like, I hate this and I'm like, it's okay we'll fix it. 511 00:33:58.869 --> 00:34:00.209 So that's social pro. 512 00:34:01.088 --> 00:34:03.188 And then we'll run business amplifier mastermind. 513 00:34:03.207 --> 00:34:06.426 Again, we're doing 2 sessions this year of social pro and 2 of bam. 514 00:34:08.034 --> 00:34:15.090 So if you miss this in January, then then we'll be running Social Pro again in the fall and bam in the middle, which is a 3 month mastermind. 515 00:34:15.579 --> 00:34:20.136 And it's much more business growth focused. We pick 1 marketing goal. Sometimes it's a launch. 516 00:34:20.136 --> 00:34:22.196 Sometimes it is a change in services. 517 00:34:22.863 --> 00:34:26.641 Sometimes it's building a marketing strategy for a new program or a new product. 518 00:34:27.261 --> 00:34:32.737 - Whatever it is, we pick 1 goal and we spend 3 months part group, part 1 on 1 with me - -- - Mhmm. 519 00:34:32.797 --> 00:34:36.136 -- doing everything we need to do to get you to that goal at the end of the 3 months. 520 00:34:36.476 --> 00:34:40.673 Most of my clients have launched a program or hire people so that they could 521 00:34:41.892 --> 00:34:45.668 outsource part of their their work and bring on a new piece 522 00:34:46.388 --> 00:34:51.406 at the end of that 3 months. They are ready to go. So that runs spring and summer. 523 00:34:53.074 --> 00:34:59.870 - Wonderful. Awesome. Crazy. Thank you. - Big year. Yes. - It sounds like it. It sounds like it. Alright. 524 00:34:59.870 --> 00:35:03.908 The final question that I have for you, is I'm gonna turn it back. So 525 00:35:04.367 --> 00:35:05.067 on Simparro. 526 00:35:05.127 --> 00:35:12.203 So if someone is looking at Simparro and is thinking and is kind of on the fence about whether or not to go with simpler for their reasons. 527 00:35:13.302 --> 00:35:21.978 It could be that they're, like, just starting out and they're, like, concerned it's gonna be too much of an expense, if they're not, if they don't make that much money or succeed? 528 00:35:22.797 --> 00:35:26.555 Or it could be, you know, is it gonna support them long term for their reasons? 529 00:35:26.555 --> 00:35:28.963 What would your what would your advice to them be? 530 00:35:28.963 --> 00:35:31.822 Or what would you what would your response to them be? 531 00:35:33.361 --> 00:35:33.861 - My 532 00:35:34.201 --> 00:35:36.178 advice would definitely need to do it. 533 00:35:36.178 --> 00:35:40.356 Like I said earlier, I think starting the systems before you think you're fully ready for them 534 00:35:40.776 --> 00:35:42.415 is a really good way to go. 535 00:35:42.415 --> 00:35:46.963 And the nice thing about something like Simpliero is it really it does grow with you, you know. 536 00:35:46.963 --> 00:35:48.822 You're gonna have the ability to 537 00:35:49.282 --> 00:35:53.180 handle your bake list, sell your, you know, your passive income programs 538 00:35:53.499 --> 00:35:55.078 set up your affiliate programs 539 00:35:55.618 --> 00:35:59.636 just because you have the capacity to do that right now, doesn't you have to start it all tomorrow. 540 00:36:00.775 --> 00:36:01.275 But 541 00:36:01.724 --> 00:36:06.062 having those options already in your sort of system availability 542 00:36:06.801 --> 00:36:09.940 is gonna be a lot less stressful for you later. And also, 543 00:36:10.409 --> 00:36:11.029 you know, 544 00:36:11.528 --> 00:36:14.907 I think we always have a fear when there's going to be something new. 545 00:36:15.566 --> 00:36:17.125 You know, is this really it? 546 00:36:17.125 --> 00:36:20.343 Especially when we're all being marketed so much as online entrepreneurs. 547 00:36:20.403 --> 00:36:24.661 This is the tool for you and this is the thing for you and this is the course for you and this is the coach for you. 548 00:36:25.401 --> 00:36:29.027 So I always wear and trust in your gut, talking to people who have also used it. 549 00:36:29.027 --> 00:36:31.646 If you're watching this, you're obviously pretty, like, 550 00:36:32.066 --> 00:36:33.046 ready to go. 551 00:36:34.114 --> 00:36:38.092 To go with it, trust your gut and and give it a try. Nothing is 552 00:36:38.432 --> 00:36:39.451 is going to 553 00:36:40.671 --> 00:36:43.089 stop you more than do just not taking action. 554 00:36:43.489 --> 00:36:45.388 That's gonna be the thing that's most detrimental. 555 00:36:45.888 --> 00:36:48.226 So jump in, start using it, and you'll realize 556 00:36:48.686 --> 00:36:53.053 that it really is totally able to grow with you. As you grow, but also 557 00:36:53.833 --> 00:36:56.651 allows you to put the things in place as you need them. 558 00:36:56.911 --> 00:37:01.007 You don't have to start your affiliate programs a day you start using Sempiro if you don't want to. 559 00:37:01.007 --> 00:37:09.543 I actually didn't have an affiliate program in Sempiro for, like, 6 weeks after I started the program because I hadn't decided if we were going to launch it last year or this year. 560 00:37:09.543 --> 00:37:12.841 Mhmm. And we did, and it's awesome, and I love it. But 561 00:37:13.381 --> 00:37:19.098 you don't have to have all of the pieces working right away, but it is nice to have all pieces available to you right away. 562 00:37:20.597 --> 00:37:23.016 - Alright. From Stacy's mouth to your ears, 563 00:37:24.595 --> 00:37:28.773 - thank you so much, Stacy. I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with me. - Thank you. 564 00:37:28.773 --> 00:37:31.272 - It was a lot of fun. - I admire what you're doing. 565 00:37:31.851 --> 00:37:35.009 It's so inspiring just to to hear about and to talk to you. 566 00:37:35.288 --> 00:37:40.226 - Well, I - get to do it because I use some plural, so thank you. - Thank you. I will be on it. 567 00:37:40.606 --> 00:37:44.664 - Thank you. Alright. - Thanks. - Have an amazing day, and thank you very much for being 568 00:37:45.487 --> 00:37:47.986 - Alright. Thank you. - Thank you. - Bye.