Taryn Victor - The power of words

Taryn Victor, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a writer, content creator, creative specialist, and journalist with a passion for storytelling.

 Her love for writing began at a young age, but it was in 2017 that she officially caught the storytelling bug and started her blog, Diary of a Whimsical Girl. Through this platform, she found a way to express herself and share the stories that inspire her.

 As an independent entertainment and lifestyle journalist, Taryn highlights events, theatre productions, artists, and musicians from South Africa and beyond. Her passion for showcasing talent drives her to keep exploring and sharing the beauty of these creative industries.

 But her creativity doesn’t stop there. Taryn is also a content creator and creative specialist through her business, Phoenix Media, where she helps business owners and coaches build brands they truly love. She combines content creation, creative marketing strategies, and social media solutions to attract ideal clients and grow their businesses.

 For Taryn, storytelling and content creation aren't just skills, they're ways to help others share their passion, build their brand, and leave a lasting impression.

Taryn’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarynvictor/

Phoenix Media Website: https://phoenix-media.co.za/

Email Address: taryn@phoenix-media.co.za

Diary of a Whimsical Girl Blog: https://tarynvictor.com/blog/

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Transcript

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Lis Karin: Listen to household fulfillment podcast. And Liscar in

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Lis Karin: and in today's episode I have the honor to have Tarin Victor as my guest.

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Lis Karin: She's a content creator and creative specialist and storyteller

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Lis Karin: in her company, Phoenix Media.

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Lis Karin: She is also an independent entertainment and and lifestyle.

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Lis Karin: and she has a blog that calls diary of a

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Lis Karin: Windshill girl.

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Lis Karin: if that was corrected, announced

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Lis Karin: so welcome, Tarin, and

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Lis Karin: welcome to introduce yourself with some words. Start.

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Taryn Victor: Oh, my goodness, Liz, thank you so much for that wonderful introduction and for for bringing me onto your onto your podcast. Is such an honor to be able to share my story and be on this platform with you.

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Lis Karin: Oh, thank you, Tarian.

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Lis Karin: So we want to lift up storytelling, and the impact storytelling does in our lives.

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Lis Karin: Tell me, tell me, how does

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Lis Karin: storytelling? What does it mean to you?

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Lis Karin: Storytelling.

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Taryn Victor: Storytelling to me is a way of encouraging others, storytelling. How it's helped me is by hearing other people's stories and listening to their stories, how they got through challenges. How how they overcame challenges and reached the point where they did. It has encouraged me to see through troubled times like when we went through Covid.

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Taryn Victor: You know, really challenging times and obstacles that we face. It's really it's really encouraged me hearing other people's stories to keep going, keep persevering and never giving up.

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Taryn Victor: And the path storytelling is that there's storytelling in everything. There is storytelling in your business, in your marketing. There is storytelling in different areas, and storytelling has played a huge part in my life because I get to share my experience that I hope one day will impact people through my personal stories

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Taryn Victor: that it can help them in whatever they are facing. And then, on the business side, I get to use storytelling in my company, Phoenix media through content, creation, social media solutions and creative marketing strategies to bring their brand vision to life and attract the ideal clients

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Taryn Victor: across the online marketing and branding, which is such a gift and a blessing because you connect with the person before you connect with the product or service. And we all have a story to tell, be it in business, personal, or whatever area of your life

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Taryn Victor: we have a story to to tell, and the other side, that, as you mentioned, with diary of a whimsical girl as an independent entertainment and lifestyle journalist, I get to tell stories of the same nature in theatre events and just different aspects in those industries in my country, and it's a privilege to share that, because there is so much talent, talented actors.

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Taryn Victor: that when you see them step out on stage they are telling a story because they are acting up this beautiful play in production. But it's also their life purpose to act out and entertain, and make people smile and laugh, and tell the story of that production that they watched to others. So storytelling

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Taryn Victor: has played a very significant role in my life to where I am today.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I can see. And it's such a an old way. I I believe it always have been storytellers from the beginning of humanity.

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Lis Karin: And it's it's so beautiful that it it's so uplifted today. In the AI age we are. AI is a very good and I I good tool, of course, but to to be in this genuine storytelling, to listen to it. And

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Lis Karin: I myself have studied storytelling a bit, and I

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Lis Karin: I see the importance of the more you know how to tell a story for someone else in in the right way. It can differ so much than to tell it in a way.

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Lis Karin: That isn't the right way. I mean that the best way it gives 2 different stories.

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Lis Karin: So it's it's I'm so happy that I have met you, Tyrion, and that I

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Lis Karin: I'm able to speak storytelling with you today. So when you work with your clients.

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Lis Karin: how do you use this

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Lis Karin: amazing tool?

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Taryn Victor: So with my clients just to go a little bit back. Storytelling, like you said has evolved like when we think storytelling. We thinking those beautiful books we had as kids with those lovely folk tales or storytelling is now is poetry only. But when it comes to your brand storytelling you want to. You want to share with your clients. Why you started.

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Taryn Victor: why you started. Why are you passionate about what you do? You want your clients to share testimonials, which is a story of the success that you help them. It is really bringing their vision to life. So I'm very good with words. I'm love creative writing and my clients they need. They want to save time to focus on their businesses and

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Taryn Victor: sometimes content creation for them can take take some time, or the creativity is just not coming through, and the vision is not coming through the way that they want to. And that's where I come in. I sit with my clients, I chat with them. I learn about their story. I learn about their why. Why did they start this business? Why do they have this product or service, whatever industry that may be, because I work with business owners and coaches.

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Taryn Victor: and there's a passion there, there's value, there's key they can. They want to help others. And I translate that message. That why, that passion? I translate that and create blog posts, social media posts. Just make sure that there's consistency across the online marketing, bringing that to life. So it's bringing. It's such a beautiful thing bringing their vision to life

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Taryn Victor: of what they're trying to say. And at the same time, while I'm creating the content, I'm also saving them time so they can focus on what they are passionate about. And that's running their business, growing their business, bringing up new signing up new clients and helping the clients

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Taryn Victor: in their way that they are helping. And it's it's a beautiful process to see from start, until with my clients, I've actually grown with them as they as they evolve, because your marketing and your branding will evolve their stories evolve as they grow, and I get to grow with them. And that is just. It's such a privilege to do that.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, and it's a privilege for them to have you

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Lis Karin: cause I I know myself sometimes, you know you can have the the heart is full. You want to really

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Lis Karin: give out the message

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Lis Karin: about my brand, about my business, about something, and you can't find the words, and you can't find the words.

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Lis Karin: I know when I, when I studied storytelling to

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Lis Karin: many people, think they have no story to tell.

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Lis Karin: but it can be a fascinating story with some small piece, some little incident, some every day in from the everyday life

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Lis Karin: can be a very great story if you understand how to do it. So.

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Taryn Victor: That is true.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, so so your your service is is amazing.

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Taryn Victor: No, it's we all have a story to tell. There is something, whether it's it's something, something changed, whether it's whether you like decided that it's time for me to leave corporate because I have a calling to do something bigger. You know you have a you. You have this purpose, and you've stepped out of corporate.

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Taryn Victor: That is a story to tell. You took a very brave step of leaving leaving Corporate to pursue this beautiful business, and you're gonna have obstacles. You're gonna learn you're gonna grow along the way, and you bring your clients and your audience along for that journey, because, just like, for example, with Nick networking you building relationships with your audience. It's the way that they can know, like and trust you. And you build credibility.

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Taryn Victor: So it's storytelling through your marketing, you just they're connecting with you as the person behind the service and and the product.

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Taryn Victor: And and that's how you build credibility, build that lasting relationship. And also, of course, you want to build lasting relationships with your clients that always come back.

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Lis Karin: Yeah. Yeah.

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Lis Karin: So

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Lis Karin: what shall I ask you about? What kind of what kind of clients do you have, Terry? What? What is the person that that search.

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Lis Karin: your help, that wants your help.

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Taryn Victor: So for me. I really love working with coaches, coaches in any any coaching sphere. I've worked with business coaches, life coaches, and one thing about content creation, and also the gift of storytelling copywriting is that I can work with any. I work with business owners in any industry.

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Taryn Victor: So be it that you are a coach, or you may be working the insurance industry. Maybe you're a book author and a publisher, and you you've written this book. But now you need someone to get

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Taryn Victor: that that content out and tell your story and get that content out so that you can get those book sales and connect with the right people who resonate with your messaging.

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Taryn Victor: And so I love working with business owners because they've got a lot on their plate and a lot to do, but they've also got a lot of passion, and but they they need time. So business owners. I'm not very industry specific, because I've had the blessing of working with many industries. As long as I get to know your business, get to know you and your business, your passion your, why, then, I can really translate that into the content that you want.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, yeah, that sounds amazing. That sounds amazing. Have you written any books? Perine?

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Taryn Victor: I haven't written a book yet, but it is something that I have already started planning around doing.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I felt that. Yeah, it must be on on its way if you don't have it yet.

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Taryn Victor: That is amazing. I love that you pick that up because there's 2 books that I'm I'm not gonna give away the titles or anything. But I'm gonna these 2 books that I'm going to be working on in the future. And it's very exciting, because it's also there's gonna be a lot of elements of storytelling in there, and it's also my story. So I gave a little bit away there. But yes, that's definitely in the pipeline. And I'm looking forward to sharing that with you in the future.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I look forward to that, Irene.

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Lis Karin: When did you start?

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Lis Karin: When did you find out that you so much love to use words and to write stories. And when do you remember?

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Taryn Victor: I do so when I was a little girl, so believe it or not, I am an introvert. I was the quiet one. I was the the one who was always getting straight, as in class, and that in primary school. So I used to love writing poems. I spent a lot of. I used to write poems. I used to journal

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Taryn Victor: journaling, helped me get through some some challenging times when we had challenging times as a family, and I used to journal a lot, and as I as I grew writing was always a part of me like

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Taryn Victor: pen and paper, I'm still old school. I still love writing, writing and that went through high school and in my twenties. And then, sadly, in 2,016, my father passed away

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Taryn Victor: and around this time before he passed away. I was already exploring, blogging, because I already had this feeling of where at the time I wasn't, I wasn't expressing myself verbally.

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Taryn Victor: I wanted to find a way where I could express myself, and the best form was writing. I always loved writing, so I started looking through blogging, and how to create a blog, and and all of that.

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Taryn Victor: And then sadly, my! My dad passed away, and when he passed away I was, I had. It was the greatest

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Taryn Victor: pain that I had ever felt.

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Taryn Victor: and so I started blogging, and I share that. I shared the pain. I shared the experience that I went through on my blog diary of a whimsical girl and people people who had lost someone in their lives or resonated with what I was writing started commenting and responding, and I started writing more and more about that.

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Taryn Victor: And then, as time went on, I I create. There was this beautiful piece of jewelry. I don't have it with me here, but I bought my mom a beautiful piece of jewelry where? It's there was this business in my area where they they created images on a bracelet.

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Taryn Victor: and I could I? I used that and I I bought that for her, and it was such a beautiful piece, and I realized that there were a lot of business in my areas. But why wasn't I seeing any exposure? Why were they not sharing their stories? Why didn't people know about them? So I started doing that? And I started.

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Taryn Victor: I shared a few of these stories to hopefully get them. You know that somebody would see and buy the buy their products because I loved what they did. And as time went on I got invited to an event, and I went to the event at the theatre here in Johannesburg, called the Joburg Theatre, and I remember I've always had a love for media and entertainment, because I'm currently also doing my BA in communication sciences.

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Taryn Victor: I've always loved the media entertainment and arts industry. It's a beautiful, beautiful place, and I sat there during interval the half time of the show, and I sat there and I looked around, and I saw these artists, these creatives all around me, and the only way that I can express to you was that I felt like I was at home, and that is when I knew that that is

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Taryn Victor: one of the one of the parts that I was going to take. And so I started writing about shows. I started going to the shows going to the events enjoying these experiences. And I started writing about that I started writing about the artists and the shows, and it just grew and grew and grew from there.

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Taryn Victor: and it was such a such a great opportunity

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Taryn Victor: for me to shine light on these artists on stage and off stage. And it's been a privilege ever since, and it's just grown all the way from there and then. In 2,018,

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Taryn Victor: I used my skills in Pr and marketing, and obviously worked for a Pr marketing company at the time, and grew my skills even more there. And that's where I extended to social media. I learned more about copywriting and then Co. During Covid, that journey came to an end.

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Taryn Victor: and I thought, I said to myself, at the beginning of 2021. How can I use my skills and being of service to others?

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Taryn Victor: And it just hit me. The time had come for me to start my own business because people were were contacting me, saying, Hi! Could you create some copy for me? Hi, I need help with a strategy. And I was just like Nana. There is something special here. There is a gift here that I cannot waste. And so I started my company. Phoenix Media registered it on in February, and it's been going 3 and a half years since. And so

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Taryn Victor: I get to do what I told you through social media solutions, content, creation, storytelling creative marketing strategies, helping my clients in that way with Phoenix Media. And it's like a phoenix rising from the ashes. I I love that term. It was a friend that actually said, Why don't you call the company Phoenix Media?

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Taryn Victor: And it it's like my way of rising up. I get to help my clients rise their brand up, and it's so much fun. And then the the journalistic side as an entertainment lifestyle journalist that's still going, that's still continuing. And I've met some of the most incredible people.

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Taryn Victor: and just like this is my journey. They have their journeys, but the way that I've come through

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Taryn Victor: obstacles. And that was listening to these stories. And I'm really hoping that the same will happen with the stories that you are allowing other people to share. And through my writing I really hope that will impact and help others, especially in the younger generation, to see what is possible, so that they can do so much more.

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Lis Karin: Yeah.

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Lis Karin: yeah, I I believe I'm sure of that. You will be a great blessing to the world, to people everywhere.

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Lis Karin: Are are you born. Have you grown up in South Africa? You're born there.

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Taryn Victor: Yes, I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa, born and being here my whole life. Johannesburg is a beautiful city. It has got so much vibe and so much energy. But we've got so many beautiful provinces in our country. We call them provinces there. I've been to Durban. Of course we have beautiful Cape Town, but it's a it's a beautiful country. We have lovely weather. Winters can get a

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Taryn Victor: bit cold, but we have lovely weather. Our people are friendly, kind.

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Taryn Victor: and the business business owner, community as well. We. We support each other, we want each other to grow. It's it's home. And I I love it. I I want to travel abroad and other places, but my heart always be here in South Africa. It's it's it's been. It's been my home since I was born.

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Lis Karin: Beautiful. I haven't been there. I would love to go there.

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Taryn Victor: Please come, visit, please.

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Lis Karin: I would love to.

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Lis Karin: So what is the most? What is if you, if you have to choose one thing you are doing, you are doing so many things.

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Lis Karin: What would you if you have to choose one of them.

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Lis Karin: and you what would you do then?

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Lis Karin: What what your shows.

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Taryn Victor: Shoo!

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Taryn Victor: I won't be able to choose.

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Taryn Victor: I think if there's only one thing that I would choose, it would be writing, but it it can be in any any that I'm not gonna

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Taryn Victor: I I love writing where the I love writing. I love creating contents with, which is

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Taryn Victor: which is writing, so I'll say writing, but I I can't segregate if I had to choose one side or the other side, because both areas are very much part of me, and who I am. But if I had to choose one thing in life, it would be to continue writing.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, yeah.

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Taryn Victor: Yes.

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Lis Karin: So so good. That was not a nice question.

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Taryn Victor: Was you really got me on the spot? There I was like, if there's only one thing you could ever choose, I'm so immersed in both sides. I'm so immersed in media arts and entertainment I'm immersed as a a business owner with with just everything that we've that I've shared with you today. But writing, if I can say that writing I use my tagline. My tagline is

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Taryn Victor: Creativity is in my DNA, and storytelling is my passion, and all of that boils down to writing. So I kind of just

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Taryn Victor: chose writing because writing really is the basis of all of it.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I still look forward to your books.

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Taryn Victor: Oh, my goodness, I'm even more encouraged, and I'm being held accountable, because now this must and it will happen. And, Liz, I can't wait to share the journey with you. I'll keep you updated.

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Lis Karin: I really love it. If you have, I know there are people out there they that listen now and feel. Oh, I really would need help with my I I it's a hard time to write contents that attract people or other thing to write, but they have no, not the budget to to what if if they have to do it themselves? What do you recommend? Have you something you can some tip you can give to people

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Lis Karin: when they feel stuck in this thing.

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Taryn Victor: Didn't like.

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Lis Karin: Thing, yeah.

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Taryn Victor: Absolutely if you want to write your own content. And, for example, if you want to write it if you want, I think the 1st thing to say is, just start. Just start we. There's a lovely saying that I've expression that I've heard recently that says, we don't start as experts. We never start as experts. We start from the ground up. Just start.

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Taryn Victor: just start. There's there's no such thing as perfect start. Let it in be, let it be imperfect, and you'll make it better from this. So if it's with regards to, you're starting to write a book, maybe you're starting to write blog posts because there's a certain area, because I mean, blogging is any industry. It can be personal. You can be a mommy blogger. You can be a blog and lifestyle, whatever it is, start writing. I I had no idea

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Taryn Victor: all the skills that I have. Now, if I didn't do the research and started, just started. And I created this Wordpress Blog. And I just started writing. I was like this felt natural to me, and I just wrote, you'll be guided, and you'll know what to write. So just start. And then, secondly.

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Taryn Victor: when it comes to your business, and say you have your own blog, and you want to write there and then you want to do social media posts, I would say, keep it simple. Share the facts. Let the creativity flow

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Taryn Victor: just right from the heart, right from the heart, because people are attracted to you from what you share. They they know you, they like you. They're attracted for what you share. So share your story. You know the service and product that you offer. You know your business.

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Taryn Victor: Just write from the heart, so write the blog post, and then, with regards to social media posts, don't be overwhelmed. Don't be overwhelmed. Educate your audience, tell them about the benefits of the product and service.

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Taryn Victor: Tell them why share your passion, do only a specific amount of posts per month. Don't get overwhelmed, and don't think if you are starting out in business that you need to be on every single platform when you start, because that's when the overwhelm is going to come in.

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Taryn Victor: start with one, and you'll and and put your content out there. You know your time. So put some time away and create that content and put it out there, and your audience will let you know. They will show you what what they like, what they resonate with, and you can use that as a basis to actually give them more of that content later. So start.

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Taryn Victor: Don't get overwhelmed, and please don't compare yourself to others. You. There's don't compare yourself to somebody who's been in your industry, or whatever it is, many, many years ahead of you. Don't compare yourself. You are unique, you are special. You have something to offer the world so right from your heart, and the rest will flow.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I I believe that

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Lis Karin: a big, a big obstacle for people is perfection. To be perfectionist.

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Taryn Victor: It's the perfectionism because we want. We want it to be perfect.

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Taryn Victor: Instead of striving for perfection, strive for excellence, strive to do excellence in everything that you do. But we we don't start out as experts, and everything that we do that we start. It's it's going to be a draft. It's going to be the 1st draft. It's going to be something new that you, starting as you grow and your business grows, you know, is that your branding changes. Your logo will change.

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Taryn Victor: Don't strive for perfection. You are already perfect as you are, and what you are doing is already perfect. Be authentically you let your content reflect authenticity

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Taryn Victor: strive for excellence in doing the best that you can with what you are doing. But don't do perfectionism, because perfectionism, I find is one of the main. So reasons for procrastination, because now you overthink it so much because you want it to be perfect, and then you end up stressing, and that, and that takes the fun and the joy out of out of creating that content and doing what you love. So do what you love, create the content, be authentic.

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Taryn Victor: Put it out there, and just keep going. Don't strive for perfection. Just be you be authentically. You let that show in your content, and the clients will come. They will follow. The collaborations will come. Your network will come because they will be drawn to you, and we are all imperfect, we are not perfect at all. We are imperfect. That's what makes us so special as human beings. We authentically, imperfectly ourselves, and that is perfect in its own way.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, I I used to say to myself, when I feel in that way, I I tell myself to go from my head to my heart

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Lis Karin: to go to my feelings, instead of being in my head.

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Lis Karin: Because when when I do it with feeling, yeah, it's not perfect. But

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Lis Karin: I just put it out. I I make videos. I put it out. I mean, my English is not perfect. I speak anyway. English, I I and that's the only way for me if I have my have the

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Lis Karin: what do you call it in English? If if I I have to do it perfect, I won't do it. I won't do it.

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Lis Karin: And you, the more we look at something we find always fault. If there are any fault we will find it. If we have that ice to look after fault, we will find it so. We will never do it. We will never put anything out, as you said, procrastinate.

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Taryn Victor: Yes, that's so true. And and being in front of the camera, it takes confidence. And you were doing that. And I think it goes with trusting yourself, knowing yourself, and I love what you said about you went from your head to your heart and your heart does your your heart. It. It guides you, it guides you, guides you in what feels right, and I love that you said you don't care

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Taryn Victor: you putting it out there, and you're doing what you love because you're trusting your heart and cause when we overthink. That's when procrastination comes, then you don't do it at all, and you end up wasting time. Whereas just put it out, there, start start that podcast just start. And you're going to get better. You're going to get better because you're going to learn and improve and grow. So I I loved what you said with, get out of your head and get trust your heart, and let your heart guide you.

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Lis Karin: and I, actually, when we looking at ourselves, we see ourselves in a much, much more

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Taryn Victor: That's so true, and I'm so glad that you saw that because one of the thiefs of joy is comparison, it's comparing ourselves to to others.

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Lis Karin: possibilities that are there. If we didn't have these challenges we would stand in the same place all the time. So they are so good they are for our lessons. They are not the universe that tested us. Some say we are tested. I don't believe we are tested, we are never tested, we we it is there for our

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Taryn Victor: Yes, so true we are we. We are our own worst critic we are. We are very, very critical about what we do, and I love what you do, because I resonate with with gratitude, journaling in the morning, or even in the evening, be before bed. I write down what I'm grateful for, and I think it's in hindsight when we've overcome. Whatever whatever obstacles we may have in life.

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Taryn Victor: actually, that lesson is helping me for something that I'm going through now, and it's such a gift and and such a blessing when you open your eyes and be like I'm open to the lesson to learn, because, like you said, we're not tested. There's no such thing as being tested. There's only growth and self improvement

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Lis Karin: Yeah. And even if we don't see it, we can know it. And we can be grateful. Even if we don't understand, we can. We can start to be grateful. It helps a lot.

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Taryn Victor: Yes, so true gratitude opens.

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Taryn Victor: oh, so many pathways. Because, for example, this having this chat with you today, it is. I'm so grateful for it, because I I get to chat with you. And it's it's a stepping stone to growth. It's an opportunity for me to express myself visually and on video. And you provided that platform. And I'm so grateful that you started it.

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Taryn Victor: So there's so much to be grateful for just simply by waking up every single day is a gift, and it's like you have a purpose to fulfill. And there's so much to be grateful for, and having that gratitude journal, and that gratitude and just saying, Thank you is is just makes you realize that there's so much more to be grateful for in life.

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Lis Karin: It is always. It is always and help us to focus on the right thing because we are so hardwired in our programming to focus on negative things, on things. We don't want lack of money, lack of

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Lis Karin: We focus on, and we get more of it. That's why gratitude also help us to focus on the positive side. Always.

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Taryn Victor: That's true when we get more on what we focus on. So when you more grateful, then you get more to be grateful for. That is what I mean.

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Lis Karin: Yeah, then you have a lot to lose. Then you can be be scared, I mean, but if you do it to serve, what can you lose? Nothing.

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Taryn Victor: My goodness, I love that you said that there is nothing more amazing that with the gifts that we've been given, that we can serve others. It's it's just when you have so much gratitude that just fuels the happiness it fuels, the joy. It's like everything else will come and fall into place, the money will eventually fall into place, it will all fall into place. But when you have that gratitude I was just. I had this conversation with someone the other day that

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Taryn Victor: we are building you building your, podcast I'm building my business. I'm building my career. We there's a foundation and and gratitude and love is that foundation? We started with joy. You started with that passion, and we get to do that. We get to express and and do what we love

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Lis Karin: And I'm so grateful, Karen, for you that you are here today.

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Taryn Victor: I'm grateful for you, and you're an amazing person, such a beautiful heart! You've got such a beautiful smile, and I'm just so grateful that I met you, and just your energy coming through. And I love that you picked up, that I am going to write a book. That is just this is just amazing.

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Lis Karin: I will hold you accountable for it.

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Taryn Victor: Now I know those books need to need to be in the pipeline now, but it is actually what you've done is just affirm that it's the right path. It's the right path. And because I've we never even mentioned this before, it wasn't even in conversation before this podcast, and you instinctively were like, There's a book coming coming our way from Taryn, and that was just affirmation that I'm on the right track. Thank you.

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Lis Karin: Thank you. Thank you. So, Karen. Time goes fast when we have a good time as well.

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Taryn Victor: Well, we could go on and on and on. There's just so much to be grateful for to share.

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Lis Karin: It is really, would you like to say something? I will put out the links

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Lis Karin: for you to contact you, delegation to contact Karen, so you will find her Web page and her Linkedin profile. And

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Lis Karin: and so, if that's something you want to say about your what you offer

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Taryn Victor: So really, really, I'm just thank you to everyone who supports me. And if you need help with regards to your content creation, your your marketing, your social media, or even if you just need advice and tips on how to get that blog started. Please don't hesitate to contact me. We we all need help with our journey as we grow, and you have a story to tell. Don't be afraid to share it.

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Taryn Victor: and if you need help and guidance, or need someone to create that copy for you so that you can focus on your business. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

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Lis Karin: No, don't hesitate to reach out to Tarin.

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Lis Karin: She is a beautiful soul. So thank you, Karen, thank you so much for all you have shared with me, and together with me.

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Lis Karin: this episode.

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Taryn Victor: Thank you so much. Liz, sending you so much love all the way from South Africa. Thank you for this podcast. That you have started. Thank you that people can come and share their stories. Thank you for your time, your beautiful kind, loving soul. And may your podcast grow and reach every corner of the globe that you are making such a wonderful, positive impact. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

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Lis Karin: Oh, thank you, Taryn, and thank you to all of you that have listened to us

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Lis Karin: today, and see you soon.