#32 Pageant Prep on a Budget

Are you dreaming of competing in a pageant but worried about the costs? In this episode of Sash & Soul, we dive into smart strategies for preparing on a budget while still looking and feeling your best.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Choosing the Right Pageant System - Align your goals with a system that fits your budget.
• Setting a Smart Budget - Prioritize your spending on what truly matters.
• Budget-Friendly Prep Hacks - Save money on wardrobe, hair, makeup, and coaching.
• Maximizing Free & Affordable Resources - Leverage Sash & Soul, the Fearlessly Authentic App, and additional resources for affordable support.
• Sponsorships & Fundraising - Creative ways to cover your expenses.

Success isn't about how much you spend - it's about how well you prepare!
 
Tune in now and learn how to compete with confidence without breaking the bank!

Chapters

• 0:00 Budgeting for Pageant Competitions in 2025
• 10:39 Establishing Pageant Competition Budget Plans
• 16:49 Choosing the Right Pageant System
• 21:25 Prioritizing Pageant Expenses and Investments
• 29:20 Maximizing Resources in Pageant Budgeting

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

Welcome back to episode number 32 of Sash and Soul. It is January and it is cold, honestly, like I'm imagining. I mean, if you're listening in the US, like wherever you're sitting, it's probably been a little blustery rather and cold, cold and snowy. It's just like I was just telling my husband I want to work out today. I want to get back into the swings of of working out and moving my body, especially after the the physical, um health issues that I've had recently that I've really kind of taken away from my ability to do that. Because I know, I know working out, moving my body, is good for me. It's good for my physical health and my mental health. It's going to help beat like the winter blues. But it's so cold. I just want to like hibernate. I want to snuggle up with my dogs on the couch with some tea or, honestly, like maybe a glass of red wine, just like not do anything. And I know like my husband just walked in and he had just gotten back from getting his hair cut, looks good and also smells really nice. I don't know what product they used, but it's like lingering in my room right now and, um, he just looked at me with this like pouty, look like I just don't want to do anything. I want to go take a nap, and it's tough when we both we both work from home and, um, it could be really easy for us to just like curl up and start binge watching a show together, but, um, I got a lot of projects in the works.

Speaker 1: 2:04

You guys, if you listen to the last week's episode of new year, new vision for 2025, like there's a lot going on for fearlessly authenticentic and I need to be at my desk, but I just keep looking out the window at the gray and wishing I could go on vacation somewhere. But, anyway, I hope you're doing well, I hope you're staying warm and staying motivated and if you're not feeling motivated, that you're taking some really good, like active, proactive steps to take care of yourself. And you know, like there are, there are certain places in the world where they like, literally their culture is to shut down in the winter because it's just too cold to do anything, and they like literally hibernate and I just I want to move there, or or move somewhere like nice and warm, with a beach, and you know pina coladas or margaritas, or you know endless buffets of delicious food. Anyway, I digress. Okay, let's get into it.

Speaker 1: 3:10

So today I wanted to piggyback off of the episode from last week episode 31, about you know, establishing your goals and setting your vision for 2025. And I talked quite a bit about kind of the highs and lows of 2024 for me and how much that influenced the person that I am today and really wanting to keep moving forward within that self-development and taking the pieces of who I've become and pouring that into the work that I do and using that in service to all of you and to my clients and building my business and new ventures within that to keep pouring value into the world. That's always my intention. So I wanted to piggyback off of that because, with goals and a new vision and dreams that you have of success this year whether that's education or career or pageantry or relationships comes budgeting, because money moves things and we just can't really do anything in this world without money. So it's kind of important that we talk about it and I would suggest you know if money is one of those topics that's just like gives you the ick head back to episode number seven of Sash and Soul, where we talked about money mindset. Episode number seven of Sash and Soul, where we talked about money mindset, because so much of finances and getting ahead financially and saving and building wealth comes first from mindset. As with most things, your mindset is the foundation. So head back to episode number seven if you want to dive into more of the mindset side of things. But today we're going to talk more about the actual budget and how you create a budget for competing, no matter where you're at in your competition journey.

Speaker 1: 5:05

I want to preface this by saying that budgeting has been essential for me in that, like I came from the circumstance of not having any financial support when I was competing, I had moral support. I had family and friends that poured their love into me, but I didn't have the financial resources that some are fortunate enough to have. So I needed to be really savvy about how I utilized the resources that I had in front of me, and so for me, I started competing when I was 17 in the Miss America organization and I was fortunate enough to be competing within a local title that was established in the community had longevity that I borrowed all of my wardrobe pieces from the pageant closet from that local title, and then, when I won, they had again the pageant closet that I could use for appearances, but they also had relationships within the community, different businesses, and they had a fund set aside to help with pageant wardrobe and things like that, and at the time I didn't have any competition fees. The only thing associated with, you know, needing money to compete in the Miss America organization at that time was to fundraise a certain dollar amount for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital and the Miss America Scholarship Fund, and so that was required in order to compete, which is much different than today, where now you have, like I think there's like a membership fee and competition fees associated. So a little bit different back then, but I was really fortunate to have that support of the local title and I am obviously I'm not blind.

Speaker 1: 6:50

I know that that not everyone has that and there's different pageant systems that just don't have as many resources for you, but that isn't going to deter, to be deterred just because of lack of resources within the pageant system itself. We're going to find a way, we're going to make that happen. I work on with my clients and just kind of an outline for you on how you can best set yourself up for a successful pageant competition year in 2025 on a budget that works for you. So there's five things that we're going to go through today regarding setting up your pageant budget. The first one is your goals, like just kind of establishing like, what are your goals, what are you prioritizing, what do you want to achieve most this year? The second thing is, like your overall budget, like actually sitting down and looking at your income versus your expenses and if you are, you know, in the red or you know if you've got extra funds that you can set aside for a hobby like pageantry because let's please keep in mind that pageants are a hobby okay, you should not be going into debt to compete in pageants.

Speaker 1: 8:22

Number three choosing the right pageant system for you to compete in, and we're going to talk about you know, based on what your goals are and based on your budget. We're going to talk about you know, based on what your goals are and based on your budget. Number four prioritizing your expenses for, like, setting up your expenses for your pageant competition and prioritizing the ones that you want to pour more funding into, because they're more resources that you have at your disposal, and also, you know how do you establish new resources that are going to help you on your way. So with that. Let's dive in. Let's talk about your goals, something that we talked about last week in New Year, new Vision and it's something that we're going to be talking about in the January master class on Tuesday, january 28th. If you haven't signed up yet, the link is in the episode description, so go ahead and sign up. It's absolutely free to sign up, free to participate in January as the very first master class. But we're going to be talking specifically about, like, how do you set your goals and your vision for 2025 and how do you stay on track. So you need to know why you're competing in the first place. This is going to help you when we get down to number three choosing a system and number four, prioritizing your expenses.

Speaker 1: 9:44

Do you want to participate in pageants to focus on community service? Are you focusing, or do you want to participate in pageants to focus on your personal development or professional skills like public speaking or interviewing? Are you in it for the fashion and for the modeling? Or are you in it because talent, performance is incredibly important to you and you're looking to build a career off of a vocal talent or instrumental talent or anything else that you're bringing to the table? Okay, so what are you looking to get out of this? What's your why right? Like, what is the driving force here? Or like, one of the things I didn't mention is scholarships. That was one of the reasons that I competed. Now you can have multiple reasons, but, like, let's look at your goals and also then prioritize what those goals are, cause that's going to really play a role when we get further down into actually budgeting for those expenses.

Speaker 1: 10:39

In competition, the next piece that you need to look at is, like, what level are you competing at this year? Like, are you looking to win a local title or a state title? Are you going all the way to an international title? That's also going to determine how you set up your budget for this year. Okay, so your goals are going to be kind of the foundation of of how you set up your budget. So, if you haven't sat down to actually look at your goals and your vision for 2025, that is absolutely the first step. Join the masterclass on Tuesday and we'll do it together. You'll walk away with really having a better idea of what that looks like and how you're going to stay on track, okay.

Speaker 1: 11:22

Next, looking at your overall budget Ooh, this is where it gets irky right. Who wants to sit down and look at what their expenses are and how much money they're making? Because you know we're we're kind of afraid of of what that end amount looks like. After all, the expenses are paid right Like there's. For some reason, we attach money to our own personal worth as human beings. That's the piece of the money mindset that we need to work through that our worthiness as human beings has nothing to do with how much money we have in the bank account or how much money is on our check every other Friday that we get from whatever it is that we do for a living. We need to separate those things. So, mindset-wise, when you're sitting down to look at your budget, take a step back and look at it objectively, matter of fact, black and white, like, no attachment to who you are, your worth or where you're going to be five years down the road, or where you come from in terms of your family or your lifestyle growing up. Okay, like, detach those things.

Speaker 1: 12:35

I have so much empathy for you if you struggle with sitting down and looking at finances objectively. I have a lot of money mindset issues and my husband and I, like we have a running spreadsheet that actually, like I've organized it into like multiple tabs that you know, we're tracking different things like like student debt, student loan debt, credit card debt, medical bills, and we're looking at like even like households in our vehicles and and so like the long term of paying those things off and trying to set up goals for that. And and then we've got like his separate finance spreadsheet and my separate finance spreadsheet and then our, our joint account spreadsheet and then I've got my business spreadsheet and it's just like so many different tabs that we're looking at. And, uh, I get a lot of anxiety when he's like hey, can we just check the financial spreadsheet? Like sure, like I just it, it gives me the ick. I get really anxious about it and then, especially like as an entrepreneur, that money mindset of like you know, finding, like you know asking for money in exchange for my services is can give the ick right. So I have so much empathy if you struggle to like sit down and actually calculate what you're bringing in and what you are spending your money on. We just did that, my husband and I a couple of weekends ago, where we sat down and we looked at the spreadsheet and we were trying to come up with a game plan for 2025 and what our goals are collectively and individually. And once it's done, you feel a lot better, like you feel like a weight has been lifted off of your shoulders and, more often than not, it's not as bad as what you thought it would be going in. So you know hopefully that will be the case for you as well when you're looking at your overall budget.

Speaker 1: 14:23

I have a spreadsheet that I use where, um, I literally set it up um for every single day of the month and I have a section where I put down like my monthly expenses and like what day they're going to come out. So whether it's my car payment or my student loan payment, or my phone bill, or like my iCloud account or you know whatever it is subscriptions, all the stuff I have so that I can visually see in front of me when those things are coming out. And then I have it calculated where, like, I plug in like what my income is excuse me on a certain day, so if you're getting paid every other Friday, and you have an idea of what that's going to be like. So, for my husband, he gets paid twice a month and so we know exactly how much his check is going to be and we put it in that column and then you know it kind of automatically populates for us. The way that I have it set up, so that I can see even months down the road, like how much we have in the account and then we can kind of budget for miscellaneous expenses or kind of know what we have for our grocery budget, helps us stay on track and it helps us kind of ease any kind of unknown or mystery of like are we going to be able to pay our mortgage this month? Unknown or mystery of like are we going to be able to pay our mortgage this month. That was more of an issue for us earlier on in our relationship. We've been together eight years and we were pretty well established at this point. But when you're trying to get into a certain space financially especially post-college and early career like being able to look at that objectively and see everything in front of you can be a really powerful tool. So that is what I suggest for you First of all, like how much? How are you going to know what you can set aside and budget for pageants if you don't know what your overall budget is? Okay, so sorry to say that's going to be your first.

Speaker 1: 16:10

Your second step after you figure out what your goals are, number three let's move on to. Once we know what your goals are, your personal goals, your professional goals, your pageant goals, what you want to get out of it, and then, once we know what your overall personal budget is, without you know adding any sponsors or other income that you may be receiving from people kind of donating to the pageant fund specifically, then we got to look at choosing a pageant system to the pageant fund specifically. Then we got to look at choosing a pageant system. Now, for some of you you already know Like you already know, you're so zoned in on a system because you have a title within that system or because that's the one you know and fell in love with, or you've already done the research and you know exactly why you're there and what you're doing.

Speaker 1: 16:49

But for others, you may be bouncing around, and I actually had a consultation with a woman yesterday who you know, for many different circumstances, like, went from Miss America organization and then did Miss USA learn that that wasn't for her, and so she's been doing research on different systems that are going to meet what she wants to do for her, like, she wants to succeed and she wants to win the title, but mostly she wants to be part of an organization that is so community service driven, because she has a personal story and she wants to make a difference. Miss America isn't an option for her anymore, so she was looking at other systems and trying to plan out for what are the associated fees with that pageant system, like, do they have entry fees and how much does that look like? Some systems are going to have really high entry fees and others are going to be a lot more affordable. Okay, so, looking at those systems, looking at you know, are you looking for, you know, just wanting to make a difference in your local community? Are you trying to represent the entire state? Like, what are your personal dreams? And honestly, get selfish about it? I mean, that's one of the reasons that we do this is, you know, to have a leadership opportunity and for that self-development to make an impact and all those things. So, like, think about all of those aspects and which pageant system is going to help you do that? There's so many different pageant systems out there, you guys.

Speaker 1: 18:17

I was so green when I started I did not know. The only two systems I knew was Miss America and Miss USA. That was after I started competing. I knew nothing about pageants at all and now, having been around for a decade and a half, I have such an appreciation for the industry and the world of pageantry because there are so many different benefits to each system that stereotypes just don't even make sense anymore, because each pageant system is going to be so unique to itself that makes sense for you, based off of what your goals are, what type of a title you want to hold, how involved in that title you want to be, or, if you want it to be a one and done competition experience.

Speaker 1: 19:07

Looking at the costs, even factoring in additional expenses like how much is the wardrobe potentially going to be? Is there traveling involved? Am I going to need a coach for this particular system? And when we're looking at like comparing those costs and stuff too, it's like if you are looking for a system where you don't have to spend as much money and you really just want to have the benefit of the community service and leadership skills, then doing a high fashion, high modeling system probably isn't the route for you, because you're going to need to invest in the clothing and the couture, gowns, and probably hair and makeup artists when you're at competition, and it's going to be a little bit more expensive that way, versus if you're doing something that is much more like grassroots, community service driven, it probably wouldn't be associated with so many of those expenses. So that's something to keep in mind. And then you know, always, always, always, reach out to current title holders or former title holders, or even directors, volunteers within that system that you might be interested in and ask some of those pointed questions. Knowledge is power and you shouldn't be afraid to be asking those types of questions to really understand what it is that you're getting yourself into, especially when you're pouring your resources into it, when you are investing in that system, you need to know what to expect overall. So always, always, do your research. I think that's incredibly important.

Speaker 1: 20:33

I did that for many years when I was competing, just to find out what was the job actually like, what was the day in the life of Miss Wisconsin like? Because I needed to know, first and foremost, was this for me, is this something I really wanted to do? And, second of all, like knowing even all of the setbacks, is it something that would make sense for me and for my future and my life, like because you know, if it's going to be a financial burden for a year, is that still worth it to me? And for me I knew that it was going to be like a year of not making much money and a year off of school or a year off of advancing my career, but all of it was still worth it to me because it was the experience, the opportunity to go to Miss America, the scholarship that I earned. There were so many things that made it okay, but for others they're not willing. You might not be willing to take a year off of school or to put your career on hold, and that's okay too.

Speaker 1: 21:26

So just kind of knowing what's expected of you is going to be another key factor in deciding which pageant system to compete in. So once we've got your goals, we've got your overall budget, we know which pageant system to compete in. Okay. So once we've got your goals, we've got your overall budget, we know which pageant system you're going to be competing in. Then you get to prioritize your expenses. Once we know the pageant system that you're competing in, you're probably going to know what the entry fees are. You should, by this point, kind of understand what some of the unknown expenses might be for travel, for food, for you know what's expected of wardrobe and anything else that might be coming up that may be hidden costs. Okay, so at this point we should be pretty well ready to set up, like, what are the expenses that I should plan for and prioritize which ones I want to invest more into than others. Okay, so we get to prioritizing your pageant budget and your pageant experiences.

Speaker 1: 22:25

I'm going to break this down into necessary expenses, things that you absolutely are going to have to pay for, and then optional expenses. Okay, so categories are going to include things like, obviously, entry fees that's a necessary expense. Wardrobe may be a necessary expense, may be optional, depending on you know, into more of a high fashion modeling type pageant system, then you're going to need to invest more time and energy into your wardrobe. Versus if you're going into something that may be like more of like a fair, like local community fair or a volunteer program based pageant, then finding something that's used and purchasing used or renting something or even borrowing something might make sense. So then maybe it's an optional expense. It depends on your system, if you understand what I'm saying Things like travel, hair and makeup, anything that you're doing with your platform, anything that you have to do marketing-wise, printable materials like autograph cards, things like that. So really try and think of, like anything under the sun and try and come up with a basic dollar amount that either you would be willing to spend or that you think, or that you know it will come out to be in that expense. Okay, then, once you know, like, what the categories are and what the necessary and optional expenses are, and have a dollar amount, that's where you can start to strategize and like where to invest. Where are you investing the finite resources that you have in your pageant budget, based off of what's important to you? Okay, so is wardrobe the most important to you, because on stage an appearance is like the epitome of this pageant system, then I would suggest prioritizing towards that. But if you are looking to do like, if it's a job and it is very like leadership oriented and communication skilled oriented, then you should probably be investing in interview prep. If you're at a stage in the game where you have most of the things that you don't really need to invest in wardrobe, you're just going to keep kind of recycling things that you have, or you've got, sponsors that are really awesome and you feel like you know you're pretty good in terms of like all of these, like one-time expenses, but you are looking to invest in your own personal growth and development maybe confidence building, maybe mindset. Then finding a coaching program like Fearlessly Authentic or something similar that would work for you, that may be where you want to invest your money.

Speaker 1: 25:09

For me, when I was competing, I again was fortunate. My first two years I had sponsors because I had local titles that had very strong community ties and it was like I didn't have a choice. I wasn't really working, I didn't have a budget personally, my family didn't have much to offer me, and so I relied on those sponsors and I made the most of that. But my third year around, I had a little bit more to invest in myself and I built those relationships, and so finding a coach was the next level for me, the next thing for me to level up, and it was the best investment that I could have made. Because I invested in this coach that helped me elevate my interview that much more and helped me interview my mindset and my approach and release fears of the outcome and fears of what other people thought of me and release the comparison that I struggled with so much the year before and elevated me so much to the point that I was first runner up that year. That meant more scholarship money. That meant, you know, just more pride in my success. That meant goal achieved. That meant, you know, just more pride in my success. That meant goal achieved. And then, unknowingly, that meant that I would be the successor to Miss Wisconsin that year when she won Miss America.

Speaker 1: 26:27

So choosing and prioritizing what you invest in can have really incredible impact on the outcome of your goals and everything that you're trying to accomplish this year. Okay. So keep that in mind. I can't stress it enough. Be very particular about prioritizing your investment strategy. And then, of course, you guys be savvy about how you're going to save. So, after you prioritize your expenses, now it's time to maximize your resources. Okay, after you prioritize your expenses, now it's time to maximize your resources. Okay, like recycling wardrobe pieces that you have borrowing from friends, renting things, being thrifty, going to thrift stores and like I've got clients that do that and have a lot of fun with. Like coming up with fun styles that they found at thrift stores, you know. And then, of course, I think I'd be remiss of you know, talking about a pageant prep budget and not talk about like sorry, and not talk about how to establish sponsorships and do some fundraisers.

Speaker 1: 27:34

Again, this is going to go back to the money mindset. There's so much fear of asking people for help, especially when you're asking for financial help, because we're afraid of that word, no, and we're also kind of like there's some shame involved in asking for financial support. But the thing is, when someone is supporting you financially or supporting you with resources, it's their choice and it is an opportunity for them to pour into someone else that they know is then going to take it and pay it forward. So you got to start looking at asking for donations, pay it forward. So you got to start looking at asking for donations, fundraising and sponsorships in a different perspective. Okay, start looking at it from the perspective of, you know, having these people having an opportunity to support you so that you can then pay it forward and make your community and your world a better place.

Speaker 1: 28:25

Okay, I feel like that sounds like really like hearts, flowers and unicorns, but it's true, like even as a business owner myself, like when I choose to sponsor somebody, or when I choose to donate to a certain cause, I'm not looking for something in return. I'm truly looking to invest in something that I believe in and then I can feel good at the end of the day. So if you can think of it that way, that can help alleviate any of the burden and the stress of asking someone for financial help. So you know, when it comes to looking for sponsors for yourself, I always tell my girls, my clients, like, go to the low hanging fruit first, like, of course you're going to ask the people that know you best, that know your heart, that know your mission, that know why you're doing this, that know your intentions. And those sometimes are the scariest people to ask, because they know you so well, because they're so close to you, that it can be more painful if they say no.

Speaker 1: 29:21

But the idea is to not take it personally and people, if they do give to you, it's because they want to, because they're capable of you know of doing that. And I think sometimes I hear that, like, I don't want to be a burden to somebody else, well, no, we all have the capability of saying no, like don't, don't assume that someone is going to give you money and like not be able to make that conscious decision for themselves of whether or not that was a good financial thing for them to do? Like can't afford to give you money. You're not forcing them into anything, okay, so keep that in mind as well. Um, but going to those you know, the people that you know most. Then go to the businesses and that that you patron, right, like, go to the. Like oh, it is I really. How do I?

Speaker 1: 30:08

It bothers me when someone reaches out to me to sponsor a program book ad for them, and I have literally never met this person before. So, like I don't, like I'm not gonna call you out if you've done this, but like please go to businesses that you patron, that you are a customer of, that you are loyal to, because, like that just shows that, like, if you are supporting them by getting, you know, your Saturday morning coffee from them every week, like that's going to mean a lot more to them to like give back to you than if you went to some random business and had no connection to them. Um, I have clients that ask me, you know, for sponsorships and things like that, and, uh, you know, I that does not bother me at all when clients ask me, unfortunately, like, I have like rules and parameters just because I want to be fair. But, um, it never bothers me when, when someone that I've worked with before asks me, it's when someone that like has not, that doesn't really know my program, that well is just like asking for basically a handout. But then when you're going to businesses or looking for sponsors from the businesses that you haven't worked with some maybe those larger businesses that's where you have to come up with a plan of like how do you scratch their back back right, like how do you pay them back for their donation to you? So usually those types of sponsorships are going to go towards whatever organization you represent, like the larger ones, in the form of a scholarship or something along those lines, and then that's a matter of like. How do we like boost them on social media? How do we thank them by coming and doing an appearance there or like something along those lines, like thinking of ways that you could repay them for their kindness and for their donation. So lots of different strategies for fundraising. I could do an entire episode on that, but when you are looking to maximize your resources, finding sponsors and fundraising is definitely something that that you can do to show that you are very committed to your goals, that that you are resourceful and can just be a really helpful tool to pay for some of those budget items that are absolutely necessary but maybe you don't have in your overall budget to spend on.

Speaker 1: 32:43

The other thing, too, in terms of maximizing resources, is look for those free resources, like I don't know. The one that you're listening to right now, sash and Soul, is a free resource for you to help you in your overall preparation, your mindset, your service initiative, your communication skills and, like overall competition prep. So use the free resources, like the podcast that you can find and, honestly, they don't need to be pageant. Specific resources either Anything self-development, anything, communication skills, anything, leadership skills, anything marketing is going to be helpful to you on your journey to success within pageantry. So think outside the box. There's also, you know, other resources within. You know I of course have to point out the resources within, fearlessly Authentic.

Speaker 1: 33:33

So we've got again this masterclass that's coming up on Tuesday that's free to you. This January masterclass is a free opportunity for you to come and actually put pen to paper and put together a plan for yourself so that you can succeed this year. There's no catch to that either. I'm just really excited to be offering these monthly masterclasses, so this very first one in January, is free of charge to you. So I truly just want everyone to join and it's going to be great. I'm working on the presentation for it and everything. The outline is done. It's going to be awesome.

Speaker 1: 34:05

So you're going to walk away with tools that you can actually apply Anytime that you are utilizing a resource and maximizing that resource. What I mean by that is you get out of it what you put in right. Like that goes with anything in life. Someone is, you know, offering you some kind of a free resource If it makes sense for you. Like the most you're going to get out of it is how much you actually lean into and like put your energy into it, right. So so I I've worked with clients before that it just it didn't seem like they were all that invested in my program and I'll be honest, like that's really exhausting for me, because I pour my heart into this and I want everyone to maximize what they, what they receive from me. So don't, don't be that girl. Like, if you're going to spend your time doing something, don't do it willy nilly, like if you are going to be using a resource, whether that's free or you're paying for it, like maximize, like, what you're receiving from that resource by, by putting your all into it and you will be that much better and that much stronger coming out of it.

Speaker 1: 35:15

Okay, so to wrap all of this up, I think you know pageant budget is one of those things where, like I have it. So, if you were to sign up for a free consultation with me, there's a quick questionnaire and one of the last questions is, like there's an investment to this coaching program? Like, what do you have available in your pageant budget to spend? And often I get like the last answer, which is I don't have a pageant budget right now, or something like that. But what I know is that most often that just means that you haven't sat down to look at your budget to see what you can actually afford. So that's one of the best things that you can do for yourself to empower yourself from a financial standpoint is to work through this budget and to figure out, like, what you actually have to spend on pageant stuff and what what you need in terms of resources to help you succeed. Okay, so do the work. Sit down, actually like jot this stuff out. Take advantage of this free resource of this particular episode. Do that work, you'll be better for it and then lean into some of those other resources.

Speaker 1: 36:27

I've got the Fearlessly Authentic app. It's a free download. There's a free workshop within the app. You can try the seven-day free trial of the all-access membership that has like a whole mess of other stuff jam-packed in it. That is like literally pageant prep at your fingertips, available to you. Set up a consultation with me. The consultation is free. It's going to help you figure out, like your direction of where you want to go and what you need most in your pageant preparation.

Speaker 1: 36:55

If pageant coaching is something that you're interested in, kind of figuring out what you want to budget for that and then researching what different pageant coaching programs are available to you within your budget, within your needs and your goals. You know there's so many things out there, so many people, so many businesses, so many programs that are here literally just to help you succeed, and the first step to actually accessing those is figuring out what you can afford, because money moves things forward. So with that, I do wanna close with saying that your success isn't about how much money you spend. Just like your money, your income is not attached to your worth as a human being. Success is about your strategy. It's about your confidence, your mindset, your preparation. It is about all of your intentions and your why, your big picture, for why you're doing that. All right. So, moving forward, detach finances from your self-worth, take action to be a planner and to invest in yourself so that you can be successful.

Speaker 1: 38:03

Right With that, I really hope to see you at the masterclass on Tuesday, or I'd love to see your name, as a free consultation, coming up here in the next couple of weeks so we can look at and dive in more into your goals for 2025. And I can figure out how to help you get there to accomplish everything that you want to and dream of doing this year in 2025. So thank you so much for listening. I hope you stay warm. I hope you stay healthy. I hope you're staying motivated. Be sure to like and subscribe for more episodes and we'll see you again next week. Bye.