Unleashing Your Inner Storyteller with Author Sara Connell

Join us for a soul-stirring conversation with bestselling author and acclaimed storyteller, Sara Connell. Celebrated by Oprah and the New York Times, Sara inspires us to embrace our unique calling and contribute our stories to the world. Tune in as we explore the power of storytelling, the magic of miracles, and the transformative impact of aligning our decisions with our destiny.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The Universal Call to Contribute: Sara reminds us that every individual, regardless of their background or experiences, has a unique calling to share with the world. Our stories have the power to inspire, heal, and connect us.
• Miracles in Every Moment: Discover how miracles, both big and small, are woven into the fabric of our lives. Sara encourages us to cultivate a sense of wonder and recognize the extraordinary in the ordinary.
• The Calling as the Sign: We often wait for a sign to pursue our passions, but Sara suggests that the calling itself is the sign. Embrace the inner nudge and take the leap of faith to share your gifts.
• Decisions Shape Destiny: Our decisions, moment by moment, pave the path towards our destiny. Sara emphasizes the importance of aligning our choices with our dreams and aspirations.
• Unleashing Your Inner Author: Do you have a book or story waiting to be shared? Sara's insights will ignite your creative spark and empower you to embark on your writing journey.

Connect with Sara Connell:

Website: https://www.saraconnell.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraconnell/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraconnellauthorspeakercoach/

Additional Resources:

• https://www.saraconnell.com/books

About Sara Connell:

Sara Connell is a bestselling author and founder of Thought Leader Academy where she helps coaches, writers and entrepreneurs become successful, published authors and in-demand speakers. She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The View, FOX Chicago, NPR, and Katie Couric.

Her writing has appeared in: The New York Times, Forbes, Tri-Quarterly Good Housekeeping, Parenting, IO Literary Journal, Penumbra & Psychobabble. Her first book, Bringing In Finn, was nominated for the ELLE magazine Book of the Year.

Call to Action:

What story is waiting to emerge from within you? Share your thoughts or book ideas in the comments below!

Transcript

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Angie Leitnaker: Hello, everyone welcome back to the sip and soul. Podcast, I am so excited for today's guest, Sarah Connell, and she has so many

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Angie Leitnaker: amazing

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Angie Leitnaker: parts of her life. There's the author part, there's the retreat hosting part, and so many amazing stories that we're going to dig into today. But 1st and foremost, Sarah a. I would like to welcome you.

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Angie Leitnaker: BI would love to learn a little bit about how you became this woman that you are today? Have you always been a driven go getting woman, or was there a windy road on the way there.

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Sara Connell: Well, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy and honored to be here and to connect with everyone today and get to get to have some. I love the idea of, you know, have a sip of our favorite beverage and and get deep in our soul. So I know you and I, Angie, get to go really deep, really fast. So there's always a winding road right? There's always a circuitous route, and I will say that I did come into this world.

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Sara Connell: With a lot of, you know, passion and intensity when I think back to being a kid. And it wasn't received. Well, in my family. Okay? So I don't know if anyone listening. You know, I was too much like I was told constantly, you're too much. You're too intense. You have too many feelings too dramatic. So if anyone listening had the you know, you're too much, and it's the flip side also of. There's something wrong with you. Right? It's like we're not enough and too much at the same time. And I feel like

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Sara Connell: between the world and my family. That's sort of the sand, the kind of message that that I was. You know that kind of crucible that I was in, and and so I really damped it all down, you know, for a while, and I think that what we forget sometimes is

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Sara Connell: we just might be too much for someone else. They forget to add that part of the sentence, right? It's like you're too much for me. But the fun part about growing up and finding our own communities and our own besties, and our own family of choice, family of success all these things it's like that. That's not a true narrative, you know. So I say that all to say that I I really did want to be a writer from a young age, and I just

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Sara Connell: thought along the way that I wasn't, you know, special good. And I didn't have a teacher come to me. And that's what happened in all the movies. Right? A teacher decide and says you're special. You're gonna be a writer. And that's how you know. And because that didn't happen, I said, Oh, I guess I can't do that. So I took a job in advertising right out of a university, and unfortunately was right at the height of the me, too, era. And it was a really abusive traumatizing environment. And what happened is that

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Sara Connell: I was spiraling. I was. I went into a physical and mental health crisis, severe eating disorder like that was how I was trying to manage the pain of this situation. I'm a young woman. I have. No, my parents were like you're out. Don't ever ask us for help. So it's like I'm supporting myself. This is the only job I could think of to get.

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Sara Connell: And I had a you know a belief that I was trapped right, and one day I found a book in an airport bookstore.

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Sara Connell: and

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Sara Connell: I just grabbed randomly. I didn't even read the back. It was called Holy Hunger, by Margaret Bullet. Jonas. She's not famous. She's not a household name. It's not Brene Brown. It's not, you know, Michelle Obama.

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Sara Connell: and I read the whole book on that flight.

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Sara Connell: I stayed up all night reading.

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Sara Connell: and by the time, like lights coming in in the morning, and I'm like crying. And I said, That's it. I'm I'm leaving this job, even if I'm on the street, even if I like. I I'm not doing this anymore. And

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Sara Connell: that's the power of a book like, I credit that book as saving my life.

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Angie Leitnaker: Wow! The hair on my head is standing up like I have. I'm covered in goosebumps, because, you know, like a course in miracles, talks about the holy instant, you know, and I think sometimes we think because we've gone down a certain path for so long that it's going to take that same amount of years to to rewire it. And it's like, No, it can happen in a holy instant where it's under new management. Yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: yeah.

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Sara Connell: I love the course of miracles, and for those ways of like a miracle can happen at any moment, and miracles actually are happening every moment. That's the thing that we actually are happening all the time. And and and so, yeah, so I, I said, You know, I am going to devote the rest of my life to paying that gift forward. I'm going to write my own books so that when someone's in the airport bookstore spiraling down the drain

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Sara Connell: I'm gonna have. I'm gonna pay that gift forward. And then, when that happened, my 1st book, I was so incredibly blessed to get on Oprah and the New York Times, and like these great fantasies, right that we have about books.

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Sara Connell: And I said, I am dedicating the rest of my life to making sure that other people that know they have a book in them that have that calling to contribute to other people to share

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Sara Connell: their brilliance, their method, their genius their story, whatever that is, that I'm going to make sure that that their book is also in the airport bookstore, or on the Barnes and noble shelf, or wherever it needs to be. And that's been it. That's been it for me for the rest of my life. That's what I write. My books. I get to coach incredible healers and artists and thought leaders and experts and

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Sara Connell: holistic practitioners and people that are doing incredible work in their craft. But, like this. Many people know about them right? And and and that's my great gift in the world is to say, let's 100 x this visibility. Let's let the world know about you through your book. Through speaking. I help people with all the different pieces of that monetizing, because it's a big investment to do these things. So how do we create financial abundance through our movement and our mission? And that's what I have the incredible life of getting to do.

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Angie Leitnaker: It's amazing. So if someone's listening to this right now.

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Angie Leitnaker: and they're at that place that you were right before walking into that airport port bookstore, and they're like something, because I think we all know we have this knowing right when you hear something and you feel it. There's like this inherent. Knowing this before your logical mind comes in and says, Yeah, but how? So? If there's someone listening to it right now, and they're like, Oh.

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Angie Leitnaker: I have music inside of me. I have these dreams on my heart. I feel like I'm meant for more. I feel like there's more left untapped. Where do I even start? How do I start by starting? Will you speak to that person?

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Sara Connell: Oh, my God! Cause I am that per! I was there. I have been there over and over and and and it's it's such a holy moment. Right? It's such a sacred moment of just knowing I've got this in me and Elizabeth Gilbert calls like the big magic right

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Sara Connell: we've been tapped. We've been tapped by the big magic, and you all listening, know, like we talked about that before we came on. It's like, you know, when you have a book. And you, you know, when there's a bigger stage for you to be on, you know, when you're meant to contribute to more people and reach them. And so what I would say is to 1st like we just get to yes, ourselves without understanding how.

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Sara Connell: without understanding. Do you know, I I have practiced and put myself. I love as much as I'm an artist. I love data, and I love neuroscience. And I love like facts

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Sara Connell: decisions actually determine our destiny.

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Sara Connell: It's not like a thing out there. No one needs to give us permission. I I always say that the calling to do the thing is the sign

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Sara Connell: that's the sign like I always ask. Oh, give me a sign. The fact that that impulse, that spark, that big magic, is here is the sign right? I always want another sign. Can I have a sign that confirms the sign I love, it

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Sara Connell: would say, is to say to yourself, Yes.

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Sara Connell: yes, I hear you, and I don't know how, but I am going to bring this forth.

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Sara Connell: because if you have the book in you, there's the way is already here. You're already resourced. You're fully. You have the the DNA. It's sort of like the you know. The acorn is in the oak tree right? Or the oak trees in the acorn in that direction, and so and then for me, what I wish I'd done differently is, I wish that I had given myself that yes, a lot lot earlier, and then that I'd found

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Sara Connell: the roadmap, the mentor, the the something to help get me there, you know, which is, which is why I do what I do. Because so many people think it's something like 200 million people in America say, Yeah, I want to write a book.

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Sara Connell: so few will do it because it just feels so overwhelming. And who would read it? And how do I write it? And I'm not a writer, and maybe you're like me. And didn't, you know, get praised for your writer told you weren't a good writer. I call it teacher trauma. Right? People have, like my, you know, one of my clients, fathers corrected her birthday cards to him with a red pen and sort of

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Sara Connell: shamed her, for like not writing it properly, and just makes me actually cry because she so was convinced she couldn't do a book. She's now got 3 bestsellers.

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Sara Connell: Oracle deck. She's like out speaking on these stages, and and she was so shut down by that, understandably, she was like 5 years old, and someone's like you're bad at this. And so she believed she couldn't. And we we have these false stories right? So I would say, like, if you have the calling. It means you can. You're worthy.

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Sara Connell: You're capable. You're good enough. There's a way. And then, finding whatever path that is, you know I know the way that we do it. You know, there's lots of ways to bring books, and, you know, talks into the world. And so just and just getting. I just wish I got mentorship and guidance sooner, because it is a lot. It's a it's a whole world to navigate, and if you don't know, it. It can take a long time, and it can be hard.

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Sara Connell: or it could be really fast and easy.

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Angie Leitnaker: Can you talk a little bit about what that looks like? Like you said. You know the way that you guys do it. So how do you guide someone through the process of.

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Sara Connell: Yep.

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Angie Leitnaker: Start from scratch of discovering what that is, peeling back the layers of the onion and getting back to what?

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Angie Leitnaker: What that is.

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Sara Connell: Completely. Because I actually start in a really unusual place. Because most most people, if you go and say like help writing a book, it's like, okay, let's map out this book, which is wonderful, except

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Sara Connell: that it's very easy in that. In that process to write, I'm gonna call it the wrong book, and there isn't rights and wrongs. But what I mean by that is.

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Sara Connell: we might write a book because I did. That does not actually align with our big vision.

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Sara Connell: because my hunch is that most of you listened. The book is a piece

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Sara Connell: of your greater contribution to the world, your your legacy, your mission, your movement. And so what happens is people think, Oh, I'm gonna like, Tell my story. And we

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Sara Connell: they don't reverse engineer the book based on the outcomes. So if you said to me, you know, like if you said, You know, Sarah, my total dream in writing this book

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Sara Connell: is to change one person's mind about like this issue, you know. Bring this like, then that's a different kind of book than someone who says, my dream in writing this book is to absolutely explode the transformation I do through my retreats or my course, or my one on one healing work with people, or what it's like. That's a different book. And we want to. We want to create a strategy and a narrative

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Sara Connell: that is going to give the reader what they need to have the kind of transformation we want to provide. So we actually start with the vision of, like what those outcomes for for you as the writer, for the reader for the world.

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Sara Connell: And then we map the book, and I don't call it outlining because everyone hates outlining. It's

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Sara Connell: going to bookmap that thing. And there's a really simple structure. If anyone just wants to even imagine what this could look like, it used to take me years to do a book, and I would I'd see people writing a book every year, and I was so in awe and kind of jealous, because I thought, How are they doing this? And

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Sara Connell: so I procrastinated, and I reverse engineered 100 New York Times bestselling books. That's why that's why it was called productive. Procrastination is what I call it, and I wanted to find what they all did like, not the outliers. But just what did all of these beloved books by? You know Berne Brown and Bell Robbins, and all these like? What did they all do.

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Sara Connell: And I boil it down to 3 things that they all did, and I put it in a framework for our clients, and it won't fit every. If you're writing a novel, it's a little different. A memoir which is your personal story can look a little bit different. But for any of us that feel like we want to bring

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Sara Connell: all of those things like we want to educate, inspire, attract, potential clients or participants in our work, or whatever that might be.

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Sara Connell: This framework is so powerful because you start with your story. It's the 1st S. There's 3 s's. I'll tell you really quick. Your story because

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Sara Connell: someone needs to feel like they can relate to you to read the rest of the book like you've been where I've been. You have learned something that I want to learn. You're going to take me somewhere that I want to go. So your story is so powerful right? The second S is what I call the situation or the stakes. It's like, now we zoom out from our story. But what's the

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Sara Connell: right? Like like Angie, even for you, it's like, Wow, we are in an age of disconnection. We are in a time when the adults attention span is 2.9 seconds. People

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Sara Connell: people aren't even remembering they have a soul, let alone daily. You know, I mean people, that your listeners are right, but a lot of people in the world are right. So that might be the situation. And then what are the stakes like if we just take the example of of making soul connection like really listening to our soul. Well, the stakes are. You might end up at the end of your life with major regrets right? Because maybe you did things because other people wanted you to, or because your ego wanted you to versus your I'm just giving it like a random example.

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Angie Leitnaker: This is so I'm like covered in goosebumps.

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Sara Connell: Oh, my God! I'm loving this so much, because then the rest of your book can be the solution.

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Sara Connell: So you have your story.

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Sara Connell: the situation. What's going on? What's at stake?

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Sara Connell: Where? Where do we get to change? Really like inspiring and enrolling the reader in that vision of like, I do want to make a change, and I do want to take this journey, and then we give them the solution. And that can be. It can be very story driven. It doesn't have to be like, you know. Oh, do this this, you know, like we've helped people write every kind of book under the sun, poetic books, short story novels, thought, leader, business books, leadership, books, spiritual books, all the things. But ultimately, when we do those 3 things.

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Sara Connell: we will change someone's life through that book. And I love creating, helping people create, not just inspirational books.

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Sara Connell: but transformation books.

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Sara Connell: That's the soul, right? It's about transformation. So I just wanted to share that in case anyone's like I can't. And that's not the right framework. I mean, we customize everything for all of our you know, authors that we're working with like how does? How does their book? But hitting those notes.

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Sara Connell: we'll make sure that you give tremendous value. You make a deep connection, and that someone is different at the other end of reading it.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah, oh, wow! That is so beautiful, you know, when you hear something, and it's like absolutely the path of least resistance.

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Angie Leitnaker: So when we, you and I 1st hopped on. You're like, I feel like so many people have a a book in them, and I'm like I have a book in me, you know, but.

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Sara Connell: Didn't know that.

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Angie Leitnaker: About eat like eating the whole elephant or climbing the whole mountain. It feels so it's just like one of those things that's like I'll do it when I'll do it when I'll do when the time's right. You know how we do, and when you say it like this it just feels like such, the path of least resistance. Because, like we have a soul knowing like our soul knows why. It's it's the thing that drives us that we don't know why it drives us, but it wakes us up in the middle of the night. That's like you're here for this reason. Go

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Angie Leitnaker: So I love that so much.

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Angie Leitnaker: Now, Sarah, what would you say to someone who is like, I'm sure, a lot of your authors, the the one maybe you were referring to earlier struggle with imposter syndrome. Who am I to right? It's like this. Who am I to fill in the blank?

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Angie Leitnaker: How do you help your clients, you know, navigate those waters.

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Sara Connell: Oh, my gosh! I have never worked with a single person. I am definitely someone who has, and even super famous people like people that are. You know, they've won all the big awards. They're multi new York Times bestsellers.

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Sara Connell: Every single person I've talked to has felt imposter syndrome when they think about doing this kind of project. Even people that have written multiple books like Maya Angelou. 7 books in gave an interview, and she said, I'm always so scared. This will be the book where they find out. I don't know what I'm doing like if Maya Angelou had about you know what. So here's what I do.

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Sara Connell: I actually treat imposter syndrome as a massive affirmation.

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Sara Connell: We would never get imposter syndrome if it wasn't part of our destiny. We just wouldn't care to even do it. We wouldn't. You know what I'm saying? So so the fact that imposter syndrome comes up. I do just to make it silly to myself.

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Sara Connell: And we do this in our community. With our thought leaders we we all like high 10. It's like, Yes, oh, my God, thank you. Thank you so much for that affirmation. Thank you for letting me know I'm on my soul. Path! This is something that I came here to this earth to do thank you so much. So I mean, that's not going to get us all the way through it. But just to sort of not. Here's the scary part is, we believe it. We get seduced by that imposter syndrome story, even though it's a lie.

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Sara Connell: And there's this beautiful quote from I don't know if you know David Bayer, but I also adore his very soulful Podcast, like yours. And he says, if it doesn't feel good, it's not true.

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Sara Connell: So when we hear those imposter syndrome messages, it doesn't feel good. We we then feel contracted, at least for me, my body kind of contracts. I I go into that, you know, hunched, I feel vulnerable. I feel shame, I feel insecure, I feel raw. I feel

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Sara Connell: like all the fear.

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Sara Connell: If it doesn't feel good. It's not true.

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Sara Connell: So that's what I do with imposter. And then when we welcome it and kind of make almost like it, we, we just make it like, yeah, of course you're showing up. That's my affirmation. I'm on the right track. Then it's about

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Sara Connell: straight up, contrary action. So it's like, for example, saying, Okay, I don't know if I'm good enough. I don't believe I'm good enough. I don't know who do. I think I am. I wasn't a special talented writer. Great.

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Sara Connell: And we just we just start right, you know, it's like, so so the the antidote to imposter syndrome actually is taking the actions based on the vision.

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Sara Connell: That's what I've experienced when I when I the the antidote to that fear, is actually to like start writing or to

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Sara Connell: get them for me, getting finally getting an editor. Someone who knew what the heck they were doing could teach me how to write a book. I didn't know how to write a book. I mean, I wanted to, but I never allowed myself even to to learn anything about it and have help.

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Sara Connell: And so that's for me. It's just so exciting because I I love imposter syndrome like game on like I just.

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Sara Connell: I'm like, let's okay, let's go. And and and we jokingly call it the Gremlin, you know, in our community. It's like, Oh, got a gremlin on this. Okay? And and so it's a natural byproduct of

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Sara Connell: It's all this.

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Angie Leitnaker: So beautiful, you know. It reminds me you were speaking about Elizabeth Gilbert. It reminds me of her, you know. Fear, can it? It can be in this car, but it.

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Sara Connell: Back, seat, belt.

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Angie Leitnaker: I'm good.

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Angie Leitnaker: That's the radio. Yeah. It's like for sure. Like, come along, come along. You're going to be a part of this journey. But yeah, it's it's so awesome. So you've talked a little bit about your community. Can you share with us what that looks like? So if there's someone listening to this? Do you do one on one coaching? Do you work with clients in group? What's your community like? Share with us all the things.

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Sara Connell: Oh, my gosh, it is! It's so much fun. So we have. Our thought. Leader Academy is like our main, no matter what kind of book someone is writing that's like, that's our year long experience where we're together. And and there is an element of one on one. I think everyone needs one on one support to do a book. So our team is our loving trauma informed, soulful, amazing

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Sara Connell: book coach editors, right? So everyone has their own coach, because it's really everyone's book is different and unique, and we want to customize everything. And and our job as the team is to bring out your voice, your brilliance, your G, and make it easy and expedited, you know, right like. So it doesn't have to take so long. And it could be really like again, I'm a mom. I run 2 businesses like it's it's a lot to add a book project in. So so our work is to make it

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Sara Connell: easy and supported and joyful and inspiring. So everyone has that. And then we have this incredible community of like, amazing.

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Sara Connell: primarily women from all over the world who are just passionate, brilliant masters of their craft that are now like. I need to get my work out, you know, to more people. And so there's a community aspect where we meet weekly to either have write in so like writing parties. So you like, don't have to feel like you're doing it alone. And then I'm doing mentorship on the alternating weeks. Everyone has their own, you know, coach

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Sara Connell: for for their book, and then we do all kinds of fun like boot camps and challenges, and you know just things so that the so it can be really fun, because once the book is in place.

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Sara Connell: then you know what what I here's what I know again, like we said, the book is a piece.

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Sara Connell: and then people are going to want to speak. They're gonna you're gonna wanna you know, some of you want to do a Tedx talk with your book, you want some of, you want to go on podcasts.

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Sara Connell: Some of you want to. You know, be in your local community, and and speaking or speaking on conference stages, or whatever that might be. And then really look into how we build your audience, because we want to write a book that, like your mom and your cat read, and real bummer. So no, it's like, where are the people you're here to serve and letting them know, you know that you're their person. And then, again, really, importantly, we are obsessed.

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Sara Connell: you know, rising the abundance of incredible healers and artists and creative people and leaders. And so looking at how people that already have a coaching program, or a course or retreat. How do we, you know, scale that and and have that create more abundance? Or some people don't have something or want to do something new, and then we create what that is, so that you're monetizing the mission and sort of self fueling. You know that that rise all along the way.

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Angie Leitnaker: I love this so much it because I do think that that's a paradigm for a lot of us. You know. We go into

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Angie Leitnaker: this with a service based heart or mind. But there tends to be this discord of you know.

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Angie Leitnaker: being okay with monetizing your mission and being visible. And I love how you share a little bit about the tedxt

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Angie Leitnaker: stage. So can you talk a little bit, too, about if someone is realizing what their their mission is in this world, how they can get more visible and share with people. So that exactly to your point, their mom and their cat are not the only people.

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Sara Connell: It's so important. And that's why we have. Next week, we're actually doing a training called becoming a triple power. Because we're in this like triple threat world, where people are talking a lot about big external things that are creating a lot of fear, right? Whether it's the economy or wars or politics. Or, you know, there's all this stuff. So we're talking about like, instead of being reactionary to that, we need to be the leaders to rise people out of that fear, because again, the soul is not afraid.

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Sara Connell: knows this is a process that we're in. There's an evolution happening. And so, in order to be that we want to be what we call the triple power. Instead of reacting to the triple threats. You're the triple power which is like author, speaker expert, you know, in whatever way. And Tedx is just such a

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Sara Connell: fun and beautiful brand like I've always loved, you know. I I find it very inspiring. And it's very fun to do having done. You know, my own Tedx talks, and you know, helped other people do theirs.

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Sara Connell: And it's really, you know, that's a platform, right? It's another credential and another platform where you go. The whole mission of Tedx is ideas worth spreading. And so what I will say about Tedx is different than other kinds of speaking in that you really want to customize your application to Tedx events with the lens of their brand. They don't want just someone who's like, Oh, I go out and speak all the time and doing their their dog and pony show right. Tedx wants to know

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Sara Connell: you've done something special just for them. So you still take your same expertise. But you would put it through that Tedx lens. And so we have a whole methodology where we've analyzed like the New York Times bestseller books, we've analyzed the top 100 Tedx talks.

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Sara Connell: or like how to pick a title and how to do that application to get to get selected. And right now, you know, we are so so lucky to have 100% success rate. So everyone that follows our methodology has not only finished their book, but published and hit the bestseller list, and everyone who has followed the whole step by step. Tedx process has booked Tedx. So it's like, if it's a way, there's a roadmap. You do not have to figure it out, but it is something worth

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Sara Connell: wherever someone listening goes get some guidance from someone that knows the process. Because Tedx is very unique, like they, they're just run by organizers. There's very specific things they look for that will either be a yes or no, and so I didn't know any of it. I was like hacking through with

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Sara Connell: like figure this stuff out. But once we kind of code cracked, you know. What? What really sets an expert up to be selected. Then? Then it's just you just want to know that. So find someone who knows it to help tell you on the inside. Get the scoop.

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Angie Leitnaker: A 100% success rate. That's

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Angie Leitnaker: yeah. As long.

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Sara Connell: As long as you do the steps. I mean, it's, of course, up to each of us to like. We have to put words on the page. We have to send out the Tedx up, but we do know the step by step process and it and luckily that's why I'm so committed to anyone that trains with us, because

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Sara Connell: I want that to always be true. I don't want anybody, you know.

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Sara Connell: like not having that those kind of results.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: incredible, Sarah. I feel like I could talk to you for so long. It's so fun, and it's all inspiring. To be honest with you. It's you make things feel very relatable, very doable. And my hope is that anyone listening to this, it's like today is that holy incident today is the airport moment for them.

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Angie Leitnaker: They listen to your words and they say, Okay, you know, this is the 1st day of the rest of my life. I'm going to start by starting. And so where can people find you if they're like? Let's do this.

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Sara Connell: Absolutely so I would offer to anyone. If you want to DM me on Instagram, because then I will gift anyone from from this beautiful, beautiful community we can do like a bestselling book assessment, which essentially just means like, What's your big idea? Or, if you don't know, just like, I just know there's a book in me, I don't even know, like we can actually just as a gift completely on us like help. You see, you know, what could this be? And what's the path

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Sara Connell: way? And you know, customize? Because again, your your vision is a little different than your listeners, you know, and everything, so my name is without an H. So I'm at SARA,

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Sara Connell: CONN. ELL. On Instagram, so it's just at Sarah Connell, but I'm Sarah without an H. 2 n's and 2 l's on Canel. Yeah, Connell, I know it should be Connell. My husband's family is originally from Scotland. I mean, you know.

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Sara Connell: I'm not too precious about it, because it's you know it's

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Sara Connell: I. I love it so. Yes, if anyone wants to. DM, me and and then then we will. We will do that as a special gift. Just put put sip and soul so that we know it's it's you guys, yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: Go with Sarah. Sarah. Thank you. Thank you so much. This was a lovely time, and I look forward to connecting with you for sure on the other side of this.

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Sara Connell: Thank you so much.

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Angie Leitnaker: Thank you. Everyone.