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Hey there everybody.
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And welcome to Fearless Thinking, a
podcast designed to help you navigate
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authentic leadership and the
entrepreneurial journey.
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I'm your host, Michael Devous.
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And these are my thoughts, lessons and
insights from my entrepreneurial
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journey into coaching workshops,
motivational speaking.
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And of course, what I picked up from
interviews with inspiring leaders and
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entrepreneurs along the way.
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My mission is to help people unlock
their untapped potential by using fear
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as a catalyst for powerful change
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and growth,
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so they can step into the greatest
version of their most authentic selves.
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All right, let's get into some fearless
thinking.
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Hey, there fearless thinkers.
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Welcome back to fearless thinking
podcast.
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I'm your host.
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Michael Devous
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Episode 48, woo, 48,
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that's two fours and two fours.
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That's a four and no it's four and two
fours.
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You know, my lucky number 4.
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I love it, 48
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Unleashing your potential, introducing
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the Ascend Hub
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again,
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for aspiring
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entrepreneurs.
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Potential.
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You know,
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if you're ready
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to turn your entrepreneurial dreams
into a reality,
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there are a lot of things you're going
to need along your,
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you know, road to get you.
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going to be it's not just your ideas
and your thoughts and your experiences,
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it's not just your product and your
services.
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Everything that you need to get to
market, to go to market,
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um, they're
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so much.
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And the potential that you've got to
just unleash out onto the whole world
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is huge.
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What you bring with your message, your
services, your products, or what have you,
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that's your potential.
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You're
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behind this.
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It's like you are the fuel for that
rocket ship going into space.
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And
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I want the Ascend Hub
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to be like you're all-
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in-one launchpad for your
entrepreneurial success.
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Some of the things I want to talk about
that we're going to have
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at the Ascend Hub that I really feel
like can help you
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unleash your potential
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is
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curated content.
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You know, forget about scouring the
internet for hours on finding good,
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handpicked articles, videos and
resources to help fuel your growth.
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We
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together with your support and your
help,
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will be curating relevant resources.
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area of focus and expertise will have a
resource library.
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We're starting out small, by the way,
we're starting out with just a few
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specific libraries and areas of focus
and expertise.
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And we will begin to build from that
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as we go. Mostly because I want your
feedback.
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I need your feedback to let me know
where you are on your journey.
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What you need,
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if you need resources
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on finance and funding, if you need
resources on sales and marketing, if you need
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resources on content curation and
development and production and media.
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If you need resources on logistic
supply chain and operational flows and
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SOP's.
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Yes, I could put them all together.
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Now I can try to put everything in
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which I do have almost a bit of
everything.
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But what I need really is for your
feedback to let me know what's relevant
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to you at the moment.
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You know, I could get a bunch
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of new members, 100 of them.
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need something that
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I didn't put in there.
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And so I need that feedback in order to
make sure that we have relevant,
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curated content that speaks
specifically to you where you are on
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your journey.
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And during your launch,
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expert mentorship,
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we will have personalized guidance
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seasoned entrepreneurs and coaches and
executives that are coming in as our
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founding leaders to help us provide you
with the support that you need to get
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you where you want to go.
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A lot of these individuals,
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I will say, have a lot of experience
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presentation,
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performance, coaching,
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executive leadership,
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those kind of things.
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most of us, I think, when we're trying
to step onto this road, as entrepreneurs,
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getting our feet underneath us, and
having that confidence to step out under
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the world with our message and our
mission and our product and our
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services, a lot of it does come from
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building that confidence
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that our idea just isn't a pipe dream,
but it's something real.
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And I think those of us inside the
Ascend Hub
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your tribe, your members of supporting
community, can help you really
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ensure that your message and your
mission are on point.
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You can test drive
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those ideas and those thoughts and
those things with us
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to make sure that you're really on
target when you're ready to get it to
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market.
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And getting that mentorship and
guidance, that professional
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personalized guidance, I think is
crucial from individuals who have
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already been in your shoes before,
having done and launch their own businesses,
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a community of collaboration.
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Now, this is the other part that I
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And I love collab, collab, collab!
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Like we
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together...
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It's Me To The Power Of We.
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That's what I keep saying that's going
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Me To The Power Of We. Once we get to
a place where we're ready to start
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giving back to communities
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and helping others in underserved
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areas,
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but collaboration together,
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when you're connected with a vibrant
community of like minded and like
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valued entrepreneurs
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who understand where you're coming
from, understanding what you're trying
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to do with your mission, your message
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When you gather together, in forums,
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brainstorming sessions, live
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huddle sessions,
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you can really come up with some
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couldn't do just by yourself.
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is something that we
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definitely be promoting
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at the Ascend Hub.
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Exclusive events!
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That's me, baby, that's what I do.
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I do events.
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I've done events for thirty years.
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I've produced all kinds of events, from
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big ones.
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this is the part that I really
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That's why I named myself Chief Fun
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the Ascend Hub
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It's my job to bring the events.
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It's my job to bring the fun.
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It's my job to enhance the ambiance in
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so that you have an incredible
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When you're there you'll have master
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featuring industry leaders.
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I'm going to be bringing in people that
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live coaching sessions
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and workshop sessions that we host on
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where you can either join, obviously,
you can sit and listen, but there will
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be opportunities for you to jump in and
get in the hot seat.
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If you have a particular
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struggle obstacle issue with regards to
your business that you want some
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focused attention on,
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you can get it during one of those live
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events.
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I'll be doing all these podcasts in
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and the recording of the podcast into
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So I'll be recording it live and
streaming it there so that all members
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get to see it first before it goes out
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So that's sort of like, you know, the
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It all goes into the vault.
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So all these will be going into the
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and be pulled from the public.
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And only certain pieces and clips will
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to the public.
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Well, later on, you get access to it
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Then it goes out to the public.
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We will be developing online courses.
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we will be taking the experiences, the
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access, the workshops, all the things
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building online courses inside the
community
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in phase three to really start getting
a much more robust set of experiences
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to take us even further.
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it's going to be a collaborative effort
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And we do believe in personalized
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and professional growth.
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Collaborative connections and
unwavering support.
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There's
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always going to be ways that other
members will be
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participating and supporting you where
you are.
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But you can do the same for them.
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Remember, you're not just coming here
to get something.
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You're coming to give.
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You have something important to share.
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You have a talent, a skill, an idea, a
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thought, a perspective
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that is hugely important, your
perspective,
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and you sharing that with us helps us
grow and become better entrepreneurs on
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our journey as well.
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So please don't forget that is
valuable, valuable.
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yeah, this is a short little episode,
just a little bit, you know, bringing a
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little bit more information about some
of the features and things.
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I will be putting up
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clips and things on the main landing
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Now, we are building out some of the
spaces already,
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and I'll be doing some videos about
what that looks like, so you can see
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inside the space, and you can see
what's going to look like in there.
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And I'll be inviting some select groups
of individuals and people to come beta
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test for me
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inside the space, which means you get
to join for free.
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within the next couple of weeks,
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just to get people in the door.
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So yeah, maybe you'll be one of the
lucky ones you want to d and me and
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become a beta tester.
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Go ahead.
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DM me at
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TheAscendHub.com
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You can do it on Facebook.
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You can do it on
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I've got many profiles there,
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and reach out to me.
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I'm happy to to add you as a beta
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That'll be
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fun.
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So, yeah, your ambition and your dreams
deserve
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a place to flourish.
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And you don't have to do it alone, and
you don't have to be overwhelmed.
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And the Ascend Hub is going to be that
place to help you unlock your potential
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while you're beginning to do your
launch while you're becoming an
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entrepreneur, or while you're already
an entrepreneur.
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And you want to give back and you want
to make a bigger impact.
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So come do that
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with us.
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Make a bigger impact
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together.
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We thrive
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better together.
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Go fast.
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Go alone.
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Want to go farther?
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Do it together.
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The Ascend Hub.
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Get out there do some fearless thinking this
week, my friends. Love on one another.
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Enjoy your week and help each other
ascend whether you're going to do it
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with me or what they're going to do
with somebody else.
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Find your tribe and collab.
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Get together, make connection.
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Ok, take care of yourselves.
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I'll see you
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next episode.
Bye.
