Unlock Your Genius Zone

3 Ways To Know You’ve Hit a Million Dollar Idea (Inspired by Elon Musk, Sarah Blakely & Melanie Perkins) | Ep. 53

• Ine-Wilme Coetzee • Episode 53

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You’re lying awake at night with ideas spinning in your head. Some feel crazy. Some feel exciting. But which one will actually work?

In this video, I break down 3 powerful ways to know if you’ve landed on a million dollar idea—inspired by Elon Musk, Sarah Blakely (Spanx), and Melanie Perkins (Canva).

You’ll learn:

✅ Why the best ideas feel a little crazy

✅ How to use your own frustration to fuel a game-changing business

✅ What makes an idea scalable and instantly desirable

🎯 If you're ready to stop swirling and finally start building, join my next Million Dollar Idea Workshop: https://www.innervoiceinstituteofmusic.com/fymdi-workshop

Inside, you’ll learn:

- The 15-Minute Business Plan
- The Zone of Genius Framework
- The 28-Day Launch Formula

This is how real entrepreneurs move from idea to action—and income.

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Podcast intro music: J.S. Bach Cello Suites, Suite No. 3 in C major, Prelude 
Musician: Mari Coetzee 

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It's 9.17pm on a Friday evening and you're tossing and turning in bed with all of these different ideas and things that you really want to see out in the world. It's keeping you up, but at the same time you're delighted by all the ideas and you wish you could just go sit at your desk and take action One minute. You're vividly imagining yourself on stage speaking into a mic, with a disco ball rhythmically swirling lights onto you and the faces of the people listening. You're at your first women's conference and you are the keynote speaker. Another idea you all of a sudden imagine the opening orientation call of your program for working moms, your life coaching program, and you see them holding their breath to hear you talk. And then, all of a sudden, in the midst of all these ideas, you think if I only had a sales event that converted, that I didn't have to hop on a million different sales calls for an hour long each to make sure that I even get one sale this month. And then, all of a sudden, in the midst of all these ideas, you see your two-year-old baby boy's blue eyes with dark lashes framing the joy in his eyes. He's looking up at you with a smile that could melt gold and you realize it's all for him. You want to be free. You want to hear his little footsteps pitter-pattering through your new A-frame cabin. You want to be able to build that beautiful home with enough rooms to have as many babies as you want. And you take a deep breath and you think if I only knew I could trust my ideas, if I only knew that I had landed on a million dollar idea. Well, with that thought, I have some absolutely fantastic news for you.

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In today's video, I will be breaking down the three top ways that you know you have hit a million dollar idea, so that you can take action, so that you can take action with faith. Now, something very exciting I've been researching a couple of entrepreneurs, specifically Sarah Blakely, elon Musk and Melanie Perkins Not necessarily in that order. It might actually be, I'll see Now. Their perspectives could not be more different, but that is why this works. So here are three ways to know you have landed on a million dollar idea. You ready. Number one it feels a little crazy, but you know it's game changing. This is inspired by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.

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Sometimes, the best ideas don't feel safe. They honestly make you want to hide under the covers, run through a wall and take action all at the same time. They maybe even make you feel a little nauseous, but you know that if these ideas were actually seen out in the world, if people were buying and taking action on your idea after you took action, that it could really change the game in your industry. So here's what to look for. Number one it is bigger than you. It has the potential to change someone's life or their business. Number two it is 10X better than what already exists. And number three it scares you a little, but in your gut you know that it's time. So if you're kind of still waiting for it to take action here, watch all the way to the end, because I'm going to give you your exact next step. You're going to walk away from this video knowing exactly what to do next.

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Elon Musk says when something is important enough, you do it, even if the odds are not in your favor. So that's the first way. It feels a little crazy, but you know that it's game changing Okay. The second way is it comes from your own frustration and it's personal. Million dollar ideas are not created in boardrooms. They're created in bathrooms or closets or nap time, brain spirals. This is inspired by Sarah Blakely. Now she is the founder and executive chairwoman of Spanx. She says that if ideas are born in friction, in frustration, and you're willing to feel that frustration fully, that is when you've landed on something. Now I've actually created a resource for you to feel your frustration fully so you can unearth what brilliant ideas lie underneath that frustration. So it's called the flow state formula podcast. I will link it below. First 100 people get lifetime access to it for free, so make sure that you go click that link before it's too late.

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But here are the three things to look for in this section. Number one you're solving a problem that you've actually lived through, something where you can tell the story with conviction, where you understand the deep pain of the problem you're trying to solve. You can start small and test fast. That is what Sarah Blakely did. I believe I once heard the story of where she would stand in department stores I think it was department stores and she would sell the prototype of her product to anybody who would listen. She tested fast, but she started small. So that is something you can do. If you've landed on a million dollar idea, there's ability for it to scale and it doesn't even have to be polished. Honestly, it can be very human, very raw, and it can be led by the heart. That is the key for this section led by the heart. Sarah Blakely says what you don't realize is there's a whole other group of people out there who want to buy from your heart. The third way you can know if you've landed on a million dollar idea is it's so simple. It's an obvious yes, and this is inspired by Melanie Perkins, the co-founder and CEO of Canva.

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A million dollar idea isn't always flashy. It's clear. It doesn't need paragraphs to be explained, it just clicks. It makes someone say oh yeah, I need that Simplicity. It doesn't mean that it's basic. It means that it's brilliant. It means that it's understandable.

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When I was researching who to add, steve Jobs was on the top of my list. I almost added him Because he had a very similar philosophy to Melanie Perkins. It has to be something that is simple but, at the same time, so brilliant that it's a no brainer. People want to say yes to it and they're willing to pave the way to say yes to it. Now, this doesn't mean that you don't need sales skills. That's like a whole other topic that I will start talking about.

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But you want to make it beautiful, you want to make it simple. You want to make it beautiful, you want to make it simple and you want to make it easy. So here's what to look for. Number one you're solving a universal, recurring problem that people face every single day. Number two you've stripped it down to its essence no fluff, no friction. And number three you can grow and scale this idea without burning out. Now, this is key to stepping into your genius zone, because when you are in your genius zone, it doesn't feel like work. So, melanie Perkins, this is the quote that I love so much from her that I chose for today. It's not about being in love with your solution, it's being in love with the problem.

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Now it's your turn. If even one of these topics or quotes stirred something in you and you have this idea in mind, then it is time to stop swirling and time to start building, and that is why, inside the find your million dollar idea workshop, I will show you three things. We'll go do three exercises. That's going to give you clarity. Number one we'll do the 15 minute business plan. That'll help you get crystal clear on what you're building and why it matters. Number two the zone of genius framework. This will help give you a filter around every decision you make so that you can start creating in alignment with who you are and what you've been put on this world to create. Number three I'll teach you the 28 day launch formula so you can stop waiting, you can start testing and start moving forward with confidence, and that really is what you want, isn't it? You want to stop laying in bed at night waiting for the day that you finally are happy with the work you did.

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I was talking to this one woman. She had been an entrepreneur for 936 days. Yes, she is one of those people that figures out how many days she's been doing, something which I actually find very admirable, but anyways, she had been told. She told me today is the 936th day that I've been an entrepreneur and I've not been happy with my work one single day. These exercises are the exact ones that allowed one woman to write a book in four weeks, another to start posting 400% more on her Instagram channel than in the last seven years, and another to launch a YouTube channel in just three days. It really can be simple. Just like Melanie Perkins's advice, it can be simple, it can be scalable and it can be valuable. So save your seat to join the next workshop and get ready to start finding million dollar ideas on a consistent basis.