69: It's Good for the Plot [Voice-Memo Pep Talk]

Coming at you with a little voice note-style episode today because sometimes you just need a bit of a pep talk. If you have been feeling like "man, that just didn't go the way I planned it to go" or you didn't see the results you wanted to see during a sale, launch or anything in between, this episode is for you!

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SPEAKER_00 1:33

Welcome to your behind the scenes BFF podcast. I'm your host, Kate, and I'm a teacher turned entrepreneur, mom of two. And on this podcast, we are pulling back the curtain on all things, business, motherhood, mental health, relationships, and everything in between. Here's the thing, building a business, being a mom, taking care of ourselves. It can all get super overwhelming at times, but here you don't have to do it alone. So grab your coffee or make another cup and let's dive into this All

SPEAKER_01 2:10

right, so I'm coming at you with a voice note episode this week because I'm on my walk and I'm just thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends who is also an entrepreneur and I just feel like We need to let you in a little behind the scenes of this conversation and kind of what started the conversation and what I had told her through the conversation. I feel like someone else needs to hear this. So this friend of mine, she had a really big launch and she had put in a ton of effort into planning it and did all this work to prep ahead of time. It was honestly incredible. And she had done everything, quote unquote, right. And then when it came to it, life just happened during the week. like family members getting sick, her husband getting sick, you know, not having the childcare that she needed to be able to really focus on the launch and the sale. And, you know, just really feeling like she couldn't put the amount of effort that she really wanted to put into it during the week because of all this other stuff happening. And we were like, we were texting and she was saying, you know, how she was bummed about it, how, you know, she was, she wished that she could have, you know, made it more of a priority and it wasn't, it didn't go how she wanted to go and she didn't get the results that she wanted to get. And I think a lot of us can relate to this. And if you can't, like if you right now are thinking about having a business or you are thinking about entrepreneurship, um, You're not quite there yet. Like this is something that is so common, so, so common. And I think we honestly need to talk about it more because of how common it is. But things aren't always going to go according to plan. You know, like things are going to come up. Launches aren't going to go the way that you anticipate. You know, you're not going to get the results and sales that you hope for because of X, Y, and Z. And it's normal and it's, Okay. And it's good for the plot. And that's what I told her. I was like, you know what? Like this is so good for the plot. And what I mean by that is this is going to be a story that you either tell yourself down the road or you reflect on down the road or a story that you tell in your business to other people. It's going to be something that you think back on and are like, you know what? Like, remember when I had that thing happen? Remember when I didn't get the results that I wanted to get? Look at how that experience led me to where I am now. Look at how I learned from that experience. Look at how I've grown and transformed from when that happened. I often think about this, you know, when I was first starting out in business and I would have calls like kind of like webinar type of calls and I would prepare for it. I'd get super, super ready for it. I would anticipate, you know, all these people showing up, people would sign up for it, all this good stuff. And then I would get on the call and no one would show up. No one. And Instead of just ending the call and never doing another one ever again, instead of doing that, I would hit record and I would do it anyway. I would give the presentation, I'd do the webinar, do the training, whatever it was, and I would just do it anyway. And then the next month I'd do it again and I'd do it again. And now, you know, almost seven, a little over seven years later, six years later from when I started really doing these calls, I know that when I get on a call, when I have a training scheduled, when I book a webinar, there will be people there. You know, I've gone from no one joining these webinars, no one getting on these calls to, now have helped over 350 women through our program in the last, you know, two and a half years alone. And it was good for the plot. It is good to look back and see that growth. It's good to look back and see, like, you know what? Like, I didn't quit when no one showed up. I didn't give up when no one liked my posts. when I had 500 Instagram followers and no one really paying attention to what I had to say. It was good for the plot. Yeah, it didn't go according to plan. Yeah, like it was frustrating to do all that work and put in all this effort and not see the results that I was really hoping for. But now, because I didn't give up, I can look back and be proud of how far I've come. I can be proud of the learning experience that allowed for me to have the growth that I've had in life and entrepreneurship and all of the things. And so if you're someone who has maybe experienced this, maybe someone who feels like you had a quote unquote failed launch or maybe someone who you know didn't get the sales that you wanted to get or didn't get the results that you were looking for haven't booked the clients that you were really wanting to book just remember it's good for the plot just remember that there's always a lesson that can be learned and if the lesson is simply to keep going because a year from now two years from now three years from now five years from now you can tell the story about how this went compared to where you are now, then that's reason enough to keep going. So I hope this encouraged you today and I'm rooting for you. Chat soon.