The Exact System This ADHD Creator Used to Go From $45K to $100K in 1 Year

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Meet Megan Griffith, author and coach who transformed her personal journey into a $100,000/year business. Megan explains how she built funnels, courses, and a full shop inside systeme.io

In this episode, you'll discover:
✅ How she grew to 300K followers on TikTok in just 2 months
✅ How she reached $100K in annual revenue
✅ The $15 discovery call trick she uses to ensure clients show up
✅ How she manages multiple websites using systeme.io

🕒 Timestamps:

🔹 00:00 - Intro
🔹 01:28 - Megan's journey to building multiple brands online
🔹 02:44 - Shifting from mental health blogging to neurodivergence education
🔹 05:19 - Publishing a book on surviving and thriving with ADHD
🔹 05:56 - Why she moved her rebrand to systeme.io
🔹 07:38 - The $15 discovery call funnel and coupon code trick
🔹 08:39 - Building a welcome campaign and growing an email list
🔹 09:46 - How to run a digital product shop inside systeme.io
🔹 10:24 - Using upsells and "frequently bought together" discounts
🔹 12:19 - Managing separate audiences with simple tagging
🔹 15:28 - Why systeme.io is ADHD-friendly
🔹 18:44 - How she grew to 300K followers on TikTok in just 2 months
🔹 19:54 - Why she uses Substack and YouTube to find high-paying clients
🔹 25:55 - Using Zoom and automated emails to host live events
🔹 27:27 - How she reached $100K in annual revenue
🔹 32:39 - How the support team helps when tech problems happen
🔹 33:31 - How building a business restored her sense of agency and capability

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

We are sitting down today with Megan Griffith, who is a coach, author, and content creator in the world of neurodivergence. Being autistic in ADHD herself, she understands the intricacies of the world of neuro divergence, helping other people just like her work with their brains instead of against it. And when she's not working, she says you can either find her dyeing her hair or playing with her three children. So let's welcome to the podcast, Megan Griffith. Hi everyone, I'm sitting down with Megan Griffith, and I cannot wait to dive into this one. We're going to talk about the juicy, spicy neurodivergence world. And we're going to talk about how you can actually combine the world of online branding, personal branding, with your passions and purposes using system.io. So help me welcome Megan Griffith to the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Hi, hello. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

All right. I I did a lot of snooping on all your websites before we jumped on. And so out of the gate, uh, I'm 41 and I got diagnosed with ADHD at 40. And I know that that is a big piece of your platform. So can you kind of like take us down memory lane and talk about what even put you online? Like, you know, the cliff notes version to building multiple brands now.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Okay, so what put me online is I love to write. I had a blog after I graduated uh from grad school. I started a blog and it was super fun. I was posting all the time, and then I was like, I could probably make money doing this. And so I turned it into a business. That business has had multiple iterations over the years, but for the last several years, it's been really focused on neurodivergence, especially autism and ADHD. And um, I guess what got me online was just I was at home with my one-year-old. It was the height of the pandemic. I was writing all the time, and I was like, I, if I'm gonna dedicate this much time to it, I I want people to actually see it and maybe even pay me. And um that's kind of what it grew out of was just this desire to like contribute to my family's financial well-being and also help other people understand their brains.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Okay. So you combine, you know, passion with profit or being able to maximize efficiently what you were already doing. All right. And so talk about the transition of you said this, you know, it took many iterations to get to where you are. Was it always neurodivergence education? Uh, did you know, did you find that along the way?

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Yeah, I definitely found that along the way. When I first started the business, it was called Healing Unscripted, which I actually still love that name. Um, and it was all about like mental health in general, depression, shame. A lot of the stuff I'm doing now, actually, uh, is what I started with. And then I started to realize that was before I was even diagnosed. And then I was like, oh no, I think I'm autistic, maybe. And then I got assessed and she was like, Oh, you're definitely autistic, and also you're very ADHD. And I was like, oh, okay. Um, and then I kind of shifted the business from there because all of the clients I was attracting were Audi HD. So it just made sense. And I really went down that rabbit hole and had so much fun doing it. And now the current iteration of my business is just my name, Megan Griffith, because I got tired of buying new domains every time I wanted to shift uh my content. And yeah, I'm I'm back to focusing on shame work again.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Wow, look at that go full full circle. Like you truly did do healing in an unscripted way.

unknown 3:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

So as you were doing self-discovery, learning all this, do you help people along that discovery? You know, I know you're not a doctor, right? Not a doctor. Yeah, we got to put that out there. Um, you're not licensed for anything, but you attract that tribe through your vibe. Yeah. And giving them permission to also go through these seasons and this healing.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yeah, exactly. Like, I am not a doctor, I can't diagnose anything, but what I can do is teach you like what is monotropism and how is that affecting the way you interact with your kids? What is, you know, uh pathological demand avoidance? Is that something you deal with? Like, how does the dopamine system in an ADHD brain work? Like, I know a lot of that stuff, so I can teach about how your brain works so that you can make your life work for you.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Ooh, I like that. To help your life work for you. And when you named all those, I only know the third one. So I'm like, ooh, education.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Not sure we don't have a published date yet, but about monotropism, which is basically just like that tunnel vision that a lot of ADHDers and autistic folks get when we're really interested in something. That's kind of the gist of monotropism. So there's an illustrated book about that coming soon.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Like hyperfocus?

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Hyperfocus is a form of monotropism. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Okay, all right, I get that. I'm like, how can I turn this complex thing into something simple that I can understand? And that's what you do for people. That's what the book is about, right? All right. So speaking of book, don't you have a current book available right now?

SPEAKER_00 5:23

I do. My first book is called Welcome to Audi HD: How to Survive and Thrive as an adult with autism and a DHD.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Well, now let's get into the juicy tidbits of how the book, uh, your platform and your purpose, what you're doing, and helping people be educated, um, aware of their, you know, circumstances and situations that work with who they are with system.io. So when did you find system and what was the first thing you built with it?

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Okay, so I found system early 2024 or was it yeah, yeah, it was like March 2024, I think. Um, so it's been about two years, which is crazy because I feel like I've been on system this whole time, honestly, because it's been really great. But I think the first thing I built was my website, um, which was at the time under the blog section. Um and basically I was at first I just wanted to do a one-to-one transfer. I was using a different software before, and I was like, I'll just recreate it in system. But then system had so many different options that I didn't have in my previous uh software, and I was kind of going through another sort of gentle rebrand. It was still Audi HD stuff, but uh the name was changing and whatnot. Um, and so I was like, no, I'm gonna go full rainbow. And uh System made that really easy and really pretty. And honestly, I have barely touched my website since I first designed it because I'm just happy with it.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Oh wow. Okay, so is that the MeganGriffith.com?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

That's the NeuroCuriosity Club.com. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

All right. So that was the first one you built. NeuroCuriosity.com or NeuroCuriosityClub.com. Yes. Okay. So that was the first one you built. So let's dive into the rainbow that you mentioned, all the digits and the gadgets and the fun things that are inside of it. Uh, was it a landing you said website? So landing pages, funnels, email marketing. Uh, how did this explosion of the rainbow happen?

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Okay, so I started with just the homepage, right? And then I knew on the homepage I wanted to get people to book a discovery call. And I used to just send people to my Calendly, but it was really nice that I could actually embed my Calendly into a uh system IO funnel. Um, and that way, yeah, that way I could have a custom thank you page so that after they booked a call, it would automatically take them to a page where I gave them a little coupon because my discovery calls cost like $15 just because I work with ADHDers. And if they don't put a little money in the game, they tend to forget to show up, which I totally get and totally understand. I am the same way. Um, but I also don't necessarily need like that 15 bucks is just to make sure they show up. And so on the custom thank you page, I'm like, hey, here's $15 coupon to my shop. Enjoy, you know. Um and that seems to work really well. But I couldn't do that before when I was just doing it all through Calendly, but with System, I had a whole little funnel set up for my discovery calls. So that was probably the second thing I built. And then of course, email marketing is really important to me. I've been growing my email list since day one. Um, and I built, I think, a campaign, like just a general welcome campaign, um, so that anyone who signs up for anything on my website, uh in the automations, I add them to that welcome campaign. Um, and it's just like three or four emails basically like saying, Hey, my name is Megan, this is what I do. And then the next email is like, Chat GPT cannot tell you if you're autistic. Please stop asking. Um then um, hey, here are some of my services and you know that kind of stuff. So what else did I build out? Some funnels, some email marketing, and I uh I love like I already mentioned the coupons are super easy to use inside of system. So yeah, I kind of just jumped right into all of it.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Okay. So I love that you probably just did an unlock for a lot of people with that discovery call, charging, then giving a coupon. And you said to your store, is your store built on system? And what do you have in it?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Yeah, so I um basically just built a landing page on my website. So it's like a page, and it's uh it just says like shop at the top, and then I have a bunch of visuals of all the things you can buy, and then you click on that and it'll take you to the sales page, and then you can buy things that way.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Okay. So here's one thing that system uh has, you know, their store isn't like a Shopify or an e-commerce, so you can't like click, click, click, click, click, buy like a hundred things. So how do you, you know, circumvent that or be able to combine, or can they combine, or like, you know, how have you approached that?

SPEAKER_00 10:24

So generally speaking, I just tell people, yeah, you're gonna have to check out a couple times. It's fine. Basically, whenever they click the button, I make sure it opens in a new tab. That way they don't lose the shop so they can come back and like keep buying stuff if they want. Um, but the other thing, things that are frequently bought together, like I have an autism discovery binder and an ADHD discovery binder. And people often want both. So I do have like a click where it's like you can actually get both for a discount.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Okay. So a tripwire upsell that's in that, you know, processing area.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Love it, love it. And so you're you're paying attention to your avatars, you're just paying attention to your your tribe, your community, and saying, okay, I see the these patterns. So how can I make these patterns work for me, not against me, instead of forcing them into a box, which the world does. Yeah. All right. And so now let's talk about the diversity of you know your own brands. So we talked about the Megan Griffith. We then you have this uh neurodiversity or new curiosity, my bad. Yeah. No, you're okay. And uh isn't there a third website too?

SPEAKER_00 11:32

I just saw. Yes. So I actually am closing that one down, but it's called the Chaotic Entrepreneur. I dabbled in a little bit of business coaching. I have grown these brands and had a lot of fun doing it. And so I, you know, dabbled with teaching other people how to do this too.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Okay. All right. All right, so we won't spend too much time on that. So, how do you run the two websites? Because that's a new transition for system.io. It used to be under blog. So if you're paying listening here in March 2026, blog has been antiquated and now they have website. And how do you operate those? Do you operate it all under one account? Did you do it my sub accounts? How did you keep it?

SPEAKER_00 12:10

So when I started with System, sub accounts weren't a thing quite yet. So I just have it all on one account. Um, and I when I was running the Chaotic Entrepreneur and the Neuro Curiosity Club at the same time, I basically um just used an email tag. So whenever people sign up for any kind of freebie or paid me for anything regarding the chaotic entrepreneur, it would have a little TCE tag. And that's how I circumvented and made sure I was only emailing people who signed up for that email list because you want to be really careful. You do not want to email people for something they didn't sign up for, you know. Um, you don't want to, I wouldn't want my chaotic entrepreneur folks to end up on my NeuroCuriastic Club, not because they wouldn't relate, a lot of them do, but they didn't opt in for that. And that's not cool to do that to people. So um, yeah, that's how I got around that. It was pretty simple.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

All right. Are the tags did you find the tags easy to implement? You know, how can you lean into the email marketing? I think a lot of people kind of get lost because it's like, well, there's so many options. Oh my dude.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Email marketing so confused me at first. I was like, what is this? But okay, think about it this way. Um, have you guys seen those parties that you can go to where there's the different color solo cups? And if you're taken, you use a red cup because you're like, nah, I'm good. I'm in a committed relationship, I'm not open to that. If you're curious, you take a yellow cup. And then if you're like, yeah, I'm ready to go, you take a green cup. So it's just a way of letting everybody know what your vibe is. And that is what email marketing is like. You literally are just assigning different color cups to different people so that you know what they opted in for, what they already have information about, what they might need more information about. That's all tagging is. It's not complicated. You're just putting a little tag on somebody so you know what they want to see.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

That's a great explanation. Uh, you tried, you gave an analogy for something that could be complex, that's overwhelming for a lot of people, and simplified it. And so it's really helping them mark their lanes of which way they want to go. So now let's lean into this new thing that you're doing. You uh you have this book, and I saw on your website that you have all these links and this marketing. Lean into self-publishing and putting a book online and using system.io for a personal brand versus like tech tutorial, tech people teaching tech to other people for tech. Like this is really cool because you're leaning into that personal brand and not self-publishing, that's right. Uh lean into publishing a book.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Yeah. So I think I see a lot of people using system, um, like you said, for tech tutorials or to help other people who are in tech, and that's awesome. We love that. Uh, but that isn't the only thing it's good for. Like, I have loved using system.io for my personal brand because I think a personal brand is more successful the more omnipresent you can be. And I don't say that to be like, oh, you should be everywhere all the time, like hustle, grind, burnout, you know, like that's not the vibe. But it is nice to have a website and it's nice to have an email list, and it's nice to be on socials and all of this stuff. And the nice thing is, system.io does so much of that. And I think that does help reduce the burnout because you don't have to hop on to convert kit and WordPress and this and that and this. You know, it's that was really my business before I found system. It was held together by duct tape and a prayer, to be honest. It was pretty brutal. Um, which is, you know, I have ADHD, that makes sense. But that's one of the things I love about System is that it's very ADHD friendly in the sense that it's all right there. It's all right there. It's in one spot. You don't need to remember a bunch of websites or passwords, like it's in one spot for you, which was just a huge game changer for me. But yeah, publishing my book, system made it really easy to make like a landing page for the book where I could show off the cover and the blurb. And then I have links where you can buy it all the places. Like if you want to get it on Amazon because it's cheap, or if you're boycotting Amazon, support the publisher. That's great. Whatever works. Like, and then I got to promote, I did the audiobook for my book, which was so fun. And uh, so I have my little audible link for that as well. And I I think it's a really easy to navigate web page, hopefully. And I think system just made it really simple to do that.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Okay. And you mentioned all the bells and whistles are right there in one platform. How many bells and whistles have you utilized? We know website, funnels, email marketing, but there's so much more.

unknown 16:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Community courses, like what else do you have? I have courses. The courses have been super easy and fun to make. Um, so I definitely utilize the courses and I use them for courses you can buy from my shop, but I also used them in, I had a membership. I decided not to use System.io's community feature, um, only because I surveyed my audience and they said I do not want another app. And I was like, fair enough. So we went with apps I already had, like Discord and uh Voxer and stuff like that. Um, but there was content I wanted to give them. And I was like, okay, I know you don't want another app, but here is this course that has all the stuff, if if that's something you want. And so I utilized courses in that capacity. I've also utilized courses for my summits. I host these big live events, and um people can purchase the goodie bag, which has all the replays of the live uh presentations, and it comes with like little bonuses that some of the speakers decided to donate. So I put those all in like one course, and there's a replay module and then a goodies module, and it was just very easy to set up um on the back end.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

Oh, great. I love the use of the goodie bag. That's so cute. That just like it just gives me all the dopamine. Like I'm just like, oh I want a goodie bag.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

Oh, okay. And and then again, listening to your community, where they want to go. I I think that's very wise. Some people try to, you know, oh, this is the tunnel. This is the funnel. This is the tunnel that we're gonna do. Here you go. So speaking of funnels, how do you get the awareness and funnel them down to your website? Where are you at? How are you getting leads? How are you getting traffic?

SPEAKER_00 18:41

So this has changed a lot over the years. Um, so at first I was really trying on Instagram. Uh, I was going full bore, posting all the time, and it just like wasn't really picking up for me that well. And I think it had a lot to do with my design skills when I started. They were not excellent. Uh but then with the height of the pandemic and everything and the TikTok blowing up, my husband was like, Megan, you need to be on TikTok. And I was like, No, that sounds terrifying. And he was like, Yeah, but you know your people are there. Like, you keep complaining that your people are not responding on Instagram. Like, he's like, I love you, but either stop complaining or get on TikTok. It was like, all right, fine. Um, so I got on TikTok. I went viral within the first two months. Um, and I grew that platform to over 300,000 followers, which was Bananasville. Uh, it was so fun. I really loved TikTok, but I have found that YouTube works really well for me in a different way. So TikTok is wonderful for growing my email list and growing awareness of the work that I do. But YouTube has been really, really great for getting like higher paying clients. I think because it's a longer form video and people have more time to like trust you and like hear that you know what you're talking about. Whereas TikTok is a pretty quick clip and like, yeah, that's great and helpful, but I'm not gonna pay you, which is fair. Um, so YouTube has become a really big part of my visibility and nurturing as well. I've had a podcast in the past, honestly, it didn't do that much for me, I don't think. So uh I haven't really gone back to that. I love private podcasts as like a freebie for to get people on my email list. I have so much fun with those. Um but yeah, so I think right now, big picture is Instagram and Substack. Um, that's what I'm really growing right now. Um, I'm not using Substack for my email list, I'm using it as a social media to like get visibility. And then nurture is kind of YouTube and Substack, and then uh to get people to the website kind of goes from there. Or I have like events that I host, and that usually gets people into like pay Megan mode.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Okay, we're gonna come to that pay Megan mode as we kind of dive in a couple of things before that. I am interested in how you're utilizing Substack to funnel and and use that because from from now side looking in, it just looks like blogging. It just looks like writing, which goes back to your roots. Uh so why write there, but not, you know, potentially on your own blog on your own website for the SEO and domain authority?

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Yes. So I think you kind of have to make a choice. Do you want to blog for SEO, for Google and chat and all those things to find you? Or do you want to blog in a social media capacity where there's already a built in audience and you don't need like I think the benefit of Substack is you don't need to catch Google's eye. You just need to catch people's eye. And I know myself I'm better at that uh compared to like appealing to SEO. I tend to be really bad at that. So not that it's not something I could learn, but it's not a natural skill for me compared to like, I like I said, I went viral within two months on TikTok. I'm good at that. I know how to catch people's eye. And I have a preexisting audience. I have those people on TikTok and on Instagram already that I can show them my Substack and they can transfer over there and I can grow that a little easier compared to, again, a blog is one more website they have to remember to go to, whereas Substack they're already logging on. So that was my thought process. I'm not saying blogging's dead, love blogs. There's several that I still read, but it just wasn't the avenue for me.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

No, that's great because I've seen that trend. And so it's it's being aware of the circumstances of digital marketing. And I think that's a great way that in a sleeper, let's be honest. If you're not on Substack, you're not over there utilizing it. And like you said, treating it almost like a social media platform, another place for awareness and funneling. And you've already got these other places where you're not able to nurture them, you can push them to Substack, and now they get that long form nurturing in written form versus YouTube, where that's video. So talk about your YouTube funnel and how that long form are you treating it like a funnel? Or what lead magnet are you leading them to? Um, how are you funneling them from there?

SPEAKER_00 23:24

So YouTube is one of those things that has really radically changed with the rebrand of my business. Uh, because YouTube really, really hates when you change what you're doing uh on your channel. They really, really penalize it. Like to the point where one of my favorite YouTube creators, if you want to get started on YouTube, you should follow, follow Katie Steckley. She's fantastic. She is brilliant. Yeah, follow her. She's great. Um she has been spending years slowly, slowly, slowly pivoting from talking head uh informational videos to more vlog interactive videos. And it's taken her years to make that pivot. Same topic, just a slightly different um format. And YouTube really pushed back and she had to do it very slowly. Yeah, I YouTube basically the way YouTube works is you show up to YouTube and you say, This is who I am. And they're like, Great, this is who you are. We will show you to people who are looking for that. If you change at all, we will hide you under a basket because you're not stable, basically. We can't trust to know what you're gonna put out. Um, so with that in mind, I am going to leave my current YouTube channel and I'm moving to a new one. Um, because then I can be like, hi, here's who I am now, and it'll like me a little better compared to if I tried to pivot. Um but the goal with my new YouTube is I want to do lots of live streams. YouTube is really pushing those lately, which is great. Um, and I I love live streams. I think I flourish when people ask me questions and stuff, which is why I love podcast interviews as well. Um but live streams for sure. I'm gonna be doing like EFT tapping videos. Those are very popular on YouTube. EFT stands for emotional freedom techniques, it's where you like tap and it's very soothing. Um yeah, it's like a nervous system regulation tool. Um, and then I'm also hoping to do a couple of like kind of witchy vlogs and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

And and that's connected to your personal brand, the megagriff.com. Yes. Okay. All right. So start from scratch, and then uh what do you plan on using to funnel them from YouTube over to your content?

SPEAKER_00 25:37

Uh my events and my free quiz that I have on my website.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Ooh, a quiz and events. And so when you talk about events, and are these webinars like where are you going to host the video? Uh system.io, or are you gonna have it private on YouTube? How do you do those?

SPEAKER_00 25:55

I usually host through Zoom. Um, so I have people sign up on system on my sales page, a landing page, a funnel. Um, and then they receive both on the thank you page and in an automated email, they receive the Zoom link.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Oh, okay. Can't get more simpler than that. Nope. All right. So we have, you know, explored all these things. So let's go full circle the reason why you started this. You were already writing, you know, being passionate and then purposeful with what you're doing. And you're like, okay, well, how can I be profitable? How has using system.io and personal branding changed your life financially.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Oh my gosh. Okay. So as we've talked about, I am autistic and ADHD. I also have other like mental illnesses and whatnot. And I am not the most employable human being in the world. Um, I do really struggle with traditional employment. I struggle to get it, I struggle to keep it. Um, it's been an issue for me my whole life, right? And and I've been employed in some capacities since I was 15, but it was always like working ice cream shops or working as a dishwasher, or I and there were always, always issues too. Like um, I got a fellowship in in college, which was lovely and amazing, and it helped pay for my school, which was wonderful. And I like didn't do half the work, and I felt so guilty. It was a whole thing. So I'm just not, I really struggle when I work for other people. And there was a time I was really ashamed of that. And now I'm like, okay, no, that's just the way my brain works. I have to be able to work for myself. So what's that gonna look like? So for a long time it looked like freelancing, which was lovely but boring. Um and now I get to do the things I love and that I'm so passionate about. I get to help people, and it does make me some good money. So the growth was it depends on who you ask. Some people are like, no, that's really fast growth. Some people are like, no, that's very slow. It really depends. So for me, it felt fast, it felt good. Um, my first year in business, I made like 15K. So not a lot, not enough to live on. Thankfully, I had my husband. Um, the second year, though, I made 45k, which is like triple, which is fantastic. And then my third year in business, I made $100,000, which is bananas to me. Um, and then I had twins and personal stuff came up, and so we made a lot less the next couple of years. Uh, because twins will do that to you. They are very exhaustive.

unknown 28:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Um, but yeah, now we're back on the up and up, and I've got this new business idea. And I think um I think now it's about financial freedom for sure, but it's also about like work-life balance because I do think there reached a point where my business felt a little bit like traditional employment. It felt like a bit of a trap. Like I couldn't not do all the things I said I was gonna do. And that made me feel a little backed into a corner. Um, so I am creating this new rebrand, this new business where I have a little more freedom, I have a little more wiggle room and movement and and exit ramps for if it does get to be too much.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

So creating perhaps structure and systems, and instead of exchanging your time one-to-ones for money, some kind of something that can exponentially grow even without you being present, probably, right?

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Yeah, I'm what I'm picturing long term is definitely that more of the passive um income. But I think right now, building up to passive income can take a lot of time and effort for sure. Um and I don't have that at the moment. So instead, what I'm doing is I'm still working one-to-one with people or in small groups, but I am doing it with the expectation, hey, if we work together for eight weeks, I'm probably gonna have to call off at least twice because I got triggered and I'm feeling I can't work, or because my kids are sick. Like, so just going in with that expectation and with them, like if that happens to you, you can also call off and we will reschedule and we will make it work. Like, this is a very reciprocal relationship. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Okay. Yeah, I understand that. I I was also a service provider and I have five kids, and so all of this makes sense, and that's why the ADHD didn't get diagnosed till later in life, because there was finally so much that I couldn't function anymore. Like it was getting to a place that something's not right, and it's not just the circumstances. Like, why can't I still handle what I was handling two two months ago or two years ago? And um, because we mask, and but traditional jobs, I I love how you leaned into that too, because uh I have found that being online, being an entrepreneur ends up being the route for so many people that they didn't even know existed. And isn't the content creator industry gonna be like $10 billion like by 2030? It's wild, it's wild, and and people are still sleeping on it. So you have radically, you know, changed your life, your family's life, and you would never get a raise like that in a traditional job. Like no. So now that you you kind of already answered my questions, but I'll give them to you anyways, because I don't want to assume. If you could describe system.io in one word, what would you say?

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Ooh, probably either flexible or supportive. Yeah, both of those.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

I love that. Now flexible, yeah. It's got all that the rainbow supportive. Can you lean into that? Because I I actually do like that. And a lot of people may not know how supportive they are.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Yeah, I mean, the so I am not techie. For any of you listening, like, oh well, it makes sense that she is utilizing all that stuff on system because she's clearly really good at tech. No, not even remotely. I am terrible at tech. I am not techie at all. Tech is one of those things that makes my brain shut down. And like, I'm an intelligent woman, but I cannot think when I'm presented with a tech problem. My brain is just like, whoo, you know. Um, so I am not techie at all. Uh, system makes like the platform is very straightforward and intuitive, I think. Um, obviously that's going to be different for everybody, but for me, for my brain, it's very like straightforward. So that is it's supportive in the way that it is laid out. But I will also say the support team itself, the people on the other end are so supportive. They are so kind. I swear every two months I'm like, I broke this. And they're like, okay, here's what you do. Like, thank you. So yeah, it's it's just been a program, like you almost want your software to be invisible. You don't want to have to think about your software. Your software should be an intuitive part of everything you do day to day, and that is what system feels like to me.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

I love that. Oh, that's beautiful. And so it's such a supportive system, it allows you to build your personal brand as an entrepreneur. So, what is the gift that being an entrepreneur has given you?

SPEAKER_00 33:47

I feel capable again. I think I didn't feel capable for a long time trying to get into traditional employment. It really wore me down. It really made me feel like I just couldn't do anything right. And then I started my business and I made $100 in a month, and I was like, wait a minute. I did that. I made choices and I said things, and people gave me money, and then I made their life better. Like I did that just because I could. Like, so it really gave me a sense of agency and capability back.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

So maybe there's someone listening right now, that one person, and they're on the edge of their seat and they're saying, That's me. I don't feel capable, I don't feel seen, understood, but there's something inside me that I want to share. What would you say to them?

SPEAKER_00 34:45

I think I would just say it does not matter how saturated the market is. It does not matter if other people are saying this too. It does not matter if you're bad at it at first, none of that matters. What matters is that you exist, that you are a person who is like interesting and compelling, and you have every right to take up space and to put your perspective out there if you want to. And there are people who will benefit from it. There are people who will be so grateful that you stood up and said, Hi, my name is Megan. Here's what I do. Here's how I can help, you know.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

That's beautiful. So, Megan, who are you and where can we find you after this podcast?

SPEAKER_00 35:43

Yeah. Hi, I'm Megan. I am a shame oracle and I help people deal with deep-rooted shame that makes them feel incapable or unseen. Um, and you can find me at MeganGriffith.com. Um, I'm also on Substack and Instagram at the MeganGriffith. Um, and I'm on YouTube just at shameoracle, I think is what it is, because the Megan Griffith was taken. So yeah, that's that's where you can find me.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Well, Megan, thank you for being a guest today and uh creating this nice neurodivergent party for everyone.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

All right. All right, for everyone listening, thanks for joining us for another success story with system.io. Until next time, keep creating.