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AI Won't Replace You, But Someone Using AI Will

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LinkedIn newsletters represent an untapped goldmine for business owners looking to boost visibility without massive time investment. Dave Worden and Duarne Bernhagen share their proven strategy generating 1,000+ weekly impressions with just minutes of daily effort.

The secret? Consistency and delivering educational value directly to followers' inboxes. Unlike regular posts that disappear in the algorithm, newsletters generate notifications and land in subscribers' email boxes. As Duarne explains, "Where can you get a thousand impressions on your name, on your business name, for practically free?" The marketing potential is extraordinary, especially when creating content takes just 10-15 minutes per post.

But this episode goes beyond LinkedIn strategies. Dave and Duarne dive deep into how AI has transformed business research and content creation. They draw fascinating parallels between today's AI tools and the encyclopedia-based research of previous generations, highlighting how ChatGPT can accomplish in minutes what once took days or weeks. "AI is like having 100 versions of you going to different libraries, gathering information, and bringing it back in 30 seconds," Dave notes, emphasizing that seeing AI as a teammate rather than just a tool changes everything.

The hosts also reveal their exciting new Triumph Mastermind program - daily live sessions where business owners can ask questions and receive immediate expert guidance. With pricing under $100 monthly for founding members and a guarantee of 10x ROI within six months, they're creating an accessible way for entrepreneurs to accelerate growth through consistent access to expertise.

Ready to transform your visibility and leverage AI for dramatic business growth? Listen now, then connect with Dave and Duarne to secure your spot in the Triumph Mastermind before all 100 founding memberships are claimed.

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Dave:

Thank you for watching. Hey everybody, welcome to episode five of the Business Unscripted podcast. I'm your host, dave Warden, founder of Triumph Business Solutions, and I'm here with my buddy, my partner Duarn Duarn. How you doing, buddy? Welcome to another show.

Duarne:

Hey, friday night for me, wrapping up things. Probably should have a beer in my hand, but I don't. Instead I got a glass of water. I want to stay on task here tonight, but it's been a great week, dave, great week and yeah, sorry I couldn't make it last week. Other commitments I'm sure you handled the uh yourself with elegance.

Dave:

I'm sure I'm sure everybody is happy that they don't just get to see my face on the screen today, that's for sure.

Duarne:

So for sure.

Dave:

So all right, everyone, so you know whether you're, you know, a seasoned entrepreneur, or maybe you're just thinking how do I even get started in business? We hope that in this podcast, we're going to be taking you through our struggles, our challenges, things that we're working on as well, just giving you that behind the scenes, look at what it's like being a business owner, the things you got to do, the different tools we're going to be running into and sharing with you all. But we're happy, we're looking forward to another episode. So grab your cup of Joe and let's jump into it. But, duarte, so you know, last week you know we had talked two weeks ago the last time you were here about like the LinkedIn newsletter kind of feature that's in the system that people could be using, and I kind of gave some background information of the results that I had seen from it. You know I've been posting every day on it. I know you're posting every day on it. What's the results that you've seen and what's something that's positive that's come out of it for you.

Duarne:

Well, you know, it's good you bring that back up. I actually decided to with the results I'd had. I was so impressed. I decided to work with a couple of my partners back in Australia some clients and I showcased what we were doing and I showcased the results. So I wanted to see, in a different part of the world, in a different industry, how this could work. It just happens to be that these two clients actually are in a very similar industry and, uh, they're doing really good, like they're getting some great, great results and, um, it's really interesting because from a single article, they're only doing a weekly post, the pair of them and they're getting a least 10 percent of their total base following them at the moment. So, in on the on the worst case scenario, so one of them has about 330 people who actually follow his account and he's actually connected with and he's got over 33 people following him on his newsletter now and it was phenomenal.

Dave:

David Wright, and that's like we're not saying like this is like months and months, like you do it, like he's like.

Duarne:

Oh, this is the one weekend, yeah, second post today.

Dave:

Yeah, I'm on week two. Just over week two, I think. I have like just shy of 260 people that are subscribed to the newsletter and been posting every day and, like I said it last week, the biggest thing that people can get value on is that LinkedIn is taking these and putting them in your followers in your subscribers mailbox, right On their phone. It's giving them a notification that, hey, this person who you subscribe to whether it's you or me I get yours all the time.

Duarne:

Now they'll subscribe to you, I get yours too.

Dave:

Your AI image is looking even better, now it looks more like you.

Dave:

Yeah, you know, hey, but that's the cool thing with ai, which is another thing that everybody's learning about right now is that there's so many new things that you can put out by using a reference photo, etc. So, uh, there's a lot of cool things that are happening quickly and if you're not staying on top of it, things can change. But for you personally, I know you're putting things out like every day, like with the newsletter feature there. What's one thing that you are seeing, not necessarily even your clients.

Duarne:

Look, I'm averaging around about 1000 impressions every single week. So every seven days when I do my check I get my seven day cycle cycle. I'm getting about 1,000 impressions. That's 1,000 eyeballs. Looking at what I'm putting just on my newsletters, I'm getting around about an average of five to six interactions on every newsletter and it's not always the same people. Generally, what I'm seeing is there's a variety of different. You know one or two people new Every now and again. We'll find something resonates with them. You know one or two people new every now and again. We'll find something resonates with them.

Duarne:

And I'm not really doing very much except for scheduling this out and then sitting back and letting it post automatically every day. So, like I've got the next two weeks worth of posts already written added. It takes me like less than 15 minutes to create a post and I've been finding some new techniques and strategies which you know I'll talk about, you know, in a later time but to make that even more interesting. So and what I'm finding is you can be really you can still put your opinion, your twist, you can really take that. You can make it really fun, engaging, quick to quick to read and people are liking it. I've actually had people come and say oh yeah, so I saw your newsletter. It's really great. I really appreciate you putting that out. I've had people reaching out to me on LinkedIn who I'd never heard of before or I chatted to a long time ago and it started that conversation with them again because I'm now front of mind with people again.

Dave:

That's the big thing's awareness, right you're getting your face your name, right your information out and you're presenting educational value to your, your network, to people who you want to be right in touch with.

Duarne:

So and I think that's brilliant, isn't it? I mean, that's what we're doing this for. It's, um, one of these processes which it's very low maintenance to keep doing this, especially if you're only doing one post a week. And I've got a couple of clients, like I said, who are doing the one post a week because that's what they're comfortable with right now. Um, for those couple of clients, what I decided to do was go and create them, uh, a custom gpt where I created a framework. I told it to in their case they're Australian, so write in Australian English because their clientele are Australian and come out with exactly this sort of framework and output by simply just putting in one piece of content that they want to talk about, or a topic or a URL they want to talk about. And they're loving it because it just makes their job so much easier. It gives them their wording. They can add a little bit more of a personal touch by adding a bit more information if they want. But their main time crunch now is just trying to choose the right image for the header and going into Canva and doing a little bit of editing. But they're loving it. They're actually disciplining themselves.

Duarne:

To all right. I've got to write my article this week. All right, I like this and I like this. Instead of posting twice this week, I'm going to post out this for the next two weeks and eventually what's going to happen. I know it's going to be like you and I where they're going to go. You know what. This is actually not that hard. There's lots of cool things to talk about in my industry. I'm going to post something out and they're going to use those techniques like we talked about, where they can get that information turning up in their inbox. I'm really thankful.

Duarne:

I've got like I said, you know information coming into my inbox all the time, so I'm just picking cool shit that comes into my inbox that I want to talk about.

Dave:

Yeah, and that's the thing you mentioned before Google alerts. Just signing up for Google alerts on some interesting trending topics and then you can share your insights. My first newsletter is about basically taking videos that I find interesting, that I find engaging, and then breaking them down into topics that people can digest in another five minutes. Find something that's educational to your target client. That's the idea is think of who's your ideal profile, who's your ideal client, and find out what's interesting to them, right, what's impactful to them. And then how can you turn that into a constant, you know, kind of newsletter stream, once, twice a week to start, you don't have to do something wild and crazy, but it's that system that you can develop for yourself. So, scheduling the time every week to do it, whether it's an hour, hour and a half to do one or two articles, how do you make it more interesting? You know I mentioned Napkin.

Dave:

Napkin is a cool software. I love it. You can highlight text, you can turn it into diagrams and it does it pretty easily for you. You pick the one that you like, and what's nice about napkin is right now it's still free, you know. You don't have to sign up for anything right now. Uh, you can have your writing in there, you can do all of that. So I love it, I highly suggest it. But then linkedin the feature there also makes it easy. Right, you know the, the formatting, you know the headline. You can use canva as you were mentioning canva for your imaging it's, it's too easy not to get started on it. That's the problem is, I feel like so many people want to make an excuse where it's going to take time and all that, but it's so easy to do it and I think you just got to get started. Just got to kick yourself in the butt and get started absolutely.

Duarne:

You know, take the step, put the first post out. If you are and not sure, just put the first post out and then go and check your impressions. Go and check how many people interact and you know what. It's not about how many people like your post. It's not about how many people are sharing your post or commenting on your post. It's about how many eyeballs are looking at your post. So that thousand impressions I'm getting. I love that. I think that's brilliant. So that thousand impressions I'm getting. I love that. I think that's brilliant.

Dave:

Where can you get a thousand impressions on your name, on your business name, for practically free, absolutely. You don't have to pay for it anywhere else, it's just about putting it out there. And actually one of my upcoming newsletter things is going to be on Gary Vee where he talks about the power of literally posting every day, and it's just in that presence. Things is going to be on Gary V where he talks about the power of of literally posting every day, and you, it's just in that, that presence. You know it doesn't matter how many followers you have, it doesn't matter. You know any of that, as you were just saying, it really matters in just getting people to see your name, recognize what you're doing, et cetera.

Duarne:

That's it. It's all about the personal branding, the brand awareness, and what people are going to start to do is they're going to start associating you with what you're talking about. So, for me, a lot of my stuff's tech, ai, um, that sort of marketing here and there I mix it up a little bit, but mostly I stick to my main topics, stuff that I'm pretty authoritarian, I guess, but I enjoy, and I know that people who are going to follow and listen to my newsletter are not going to have a. What the hell is he talking about this? For?

Dave:

you know, I'm talking about things that are we're not talking about sports or anything like that right exactly.

Duarne:

I'm not talking about you know, there is some articles out there which, um, you know, are a little bit clickbait style titled, you know, but they're's but they're actually articles about the topics I'm talking about and the good thing is you can grab that information, you can talk about stuff that's relevant and if your industry's like you know, maybe you're in an industry that's not as exciting, maybe you're in an industry that doesn't have a whole bunch of information going out, changing all the time. But but think about the questions you're getting asked by the customers that you're dealing with on a daily basis and just start writing content around those questions that they might have, to help educate them a little bit better, teach them about different things.

Dave:

Even if you don't know what questions you're asking, ask ChatGPT there's so many ways for you to get the information, but don't make an excuse why you can't get the information. Go out and find a way to get the information.

Duarne:

Oh yeah, right at your finger.

Dave:

We are in the information age. That's why we always say it Give away, give away. Give away the how-to right, give away the how-to, anybody can find out how to do it. But where people are going to need help with is the implementation. And so sell the implementation, help them with the implementation. So, right now, give away all that information, answer their questions. You know, give away a process, you know something like that. And then, once they learn it, they're going to be like man, I can't keep doing this, I need help with it. Perfect, now, this is where you and your business can come in to actually help them with it.

Duarne:

A hundred percent. Like I said, like I'm taking 10, 15 minutes per post to do from start to finish. When you start this, you might take 30 minutes to 45 minutes, maybe an hour, to create your first post. So maybe creating one post a week is all you can really focus on. Maybe you're second guessing what you're posting about, maybe you're trying to make it look too pretty, maybe you're spending a lot of time in napkin, making lots of infographics to go with it.

Duarne:

You know all these things are possible, right? So over time you're going to get better and better and better at it, and you are. It's like a muscle you're going to, you know, work it and it's going to get stronger. It's going to get, uh, more efficient in what it's doing. And what's interesting about this is you don't have to do daily posting. We're doing daily posting because we're testing something uh for ourselves and we're seeing great results. And for us, we're seasoned when it comes to ai, so we're able to leverage ai as a great tool and assistant to really help us get that information out that we want to talk about. But, like I said, some industries like tax maybe tax isn't that exciting, you know, and doesn't have something to talk about every day, and that's okay. Just do a day, don't do a daily post about it.

Dave:

Do something that's Do it once or twice a week. Do like a Monday, thursday or, you know, tuesday.

Duarne:

Friday.

Dave:

Like you can pick.

Duarne:

That's the idea.

Dave:

Just be educational, be informational. And here's the thing that I think a lot of people have to get over and I know I had to get over this part too is just because you talked about something doesn't mean everybody in the world saw it, absolutely.

Duarne:

Especially in your network.

Dave:

And just because you talk about something or that you like all man, this topic's been talked about Doesn't necessarily mean that John Smith, who might see your post, has heard about it either. You know how many times have you potentially talked to somebody about something new? Where you're in your mind is like hey, this is so well known. And then the individual you're talking to goes man, that's interesting. I never do that.

Duarne:

So many times I hear about it.

Dave:

I talk to people. I never do things you know. Assume that your target client knows everything that you want to tell them. You're doing yourself a disservice.

Duarne:

Well, absolutely, it's like going into a mechanic and expecting that you know. If you're not a mechanic and expecting to know everything the mechanic knows, you don't. Realistically, you're going there's a noise in the back, I need you to fix it. That's most people you know. They're not going to say there's a noise in the back, it's probably the rear wheel bearing. Can you take a look at the things on the left side? Because what's going to happen is they're just going to focus on that.

Duarne:

They're the expert in their trade. Let them go and learn about it. And this is what we forget. We are the expert in their trade. Let them go and learn about it, and this is what we forget. We are the experts in our trade and what we do. And sometimes we take it for granted what we know that other people don't know. And you're right.

Duarne:

Consistently, I'm finding out. I'm on a meeting. Hey, do you know about this? Oh no, I never heard about that. Have you ever tried this? No, have you tried this tool? All know, and it's not about overwhelming, but it's just about educating. So I mean prime example if you're, if you're in, let's say, tax I know I've picked tax a couple of times, but if you've got a, let's say, a white paper article or something that's 50 pages long done by a university, you can drop that into chat gpt and say give me some angles on what I can talk about for my customer base, or my subscriber base, rather, of my newsletter. And it's one thing I'm actually doing right now and it's coming back with like four or five different angles from the same piece of content. So suddenly I've just got a week's worth of posts to write about all of the same content, but every single post is all a little bit of a different take on it.

Dave:

And I only had to go and find one piece of content to come up with that. Same thing with video, same thing with any, even your. Interesting thing you could do, too, is you could take your website that's got all your information, your services, all that kind of stuff. You can even drop your website link into chat GPT and say, hey, analyze, here's my target client, right, Analyze my website, help me create some content based on what I do, my speciality and look at my website and figure it out. And ChatGPT will come back and say here's 15, 20 suggestions of posts you should be making. Right, Absolutely.

Duarne:

Take it one step further, dave. If you know that you're selling your services to plumbers or you're looking for clients in a certain region because you're a local business, then you can also then go and say now I want you to tailor suggestions to plumbers in this region and give me some topics to talk about about. From my you know about that and it'll go and fine, fine tune that information so you can take it like the weather, the geographics, the demographics right, the average you know, you're like here in the Philippines.

Duarne:

We don't have frozen pipes, there's no such thing. But we, you know, we've got one example that actually like here's a real world of data.

Dave:

So everybody knows I'm an ambassador. Well, maybe you don't know, but I'm an ambassador for the website Alignable. So it's a networking platform similar to LinkedIn. Well, recently they asked me to do some advertising and I did. I'm advertising in four different communities.

Dave:

Well, I did this exact thing with ChatGPT, where I was trying to figure out. I had four kind of you know, I had my four main services. So I was like here's the demographics, here's the communities that I want to advertise in and here's the four products. That helped me create the copy for the products as well and the services. Now, tell me, based on these four communities, which community should I advertise which service to? And it went through and it figured out the average income, the demographics of the city, et cetera, and it gave me the actual topics and services that I should advertise.

Dave:

So it's definitely possible and it's easy to do. You just have to know to kind of go in and do it. That's a big thing. Chatgpt is easy. You're right, it's about use. Now, granted, you want to kind of deep dive in a little bit more, continue to ask questions, treat it as like a professor or something like that, that you continue to kind of deep dive and hey, well, tell me a little bit more about that, or let's refine that a little bit more. Don't just take the first output and think it's gold.

Duarne:

Oh yeah, ask your questions, like you know. Can you give me citations or source material where you found this from so I can check this? Go back and check their source. They'll give you a link you can go and check. But I mean, you're right. One of the things is really interesting about what you said. There is treating it as a research tool to help you, and the best way to use a research tool is asking the question. If you ask the right question, you'll get the right answer. Ask the wrong question, you'll get the wrong answer. So this is it's a lot easier now than what it used to be. I used to walk into a library when I was a kid and for those who don't remember what a library is, it's a place where they store books and you could take them out and go home with them. And if you didn't bring it, back on time.

Dave:

you got a fee and then you had to pay a fee, and then remember the little cards they used to have in the books too. Yes, you could see any person ahead of you that signed out that book.

Duarne:

Yeah, it was hilarious, so good, but like, literally, how hard was that?

Duarne:

Like you wouldn't know what was in each book. So if you had a study assignment, you take out three or four books because you'd read through those books trying to find the information you're looking for. Now, with Chachi Petit, you can go through and analyze those books in a matter of minutes to get the information that you want. You can take that cross comparison and mix it and say you know, like you did, like I've got four products that I have on my website. Go, look at my website to get information about my products and these are the four counties I want to work in, and tell me a little bit about these counties. What's unique about each one of these counties that might be suitable for what I'm doing with my products or my services I'm offering? And just by asking these questions, you can then start to develop more questions and then eventually, you've got yourself this incredibly powerful tool that's taking information from different points, different data points, and putting them together in ways that would have taken people days or weeks or months to put together.

Dave:

You mentioned it, right.

Dave:

That's the biggest thing is just think you back in the day when we were doing a project we'd have to.

Dave:

We'd get a minimum of like, maybe one source, maximum of like, maybe five like, if you had time and you were like a bookworm, right, if you're like me, probably like I went with the one or two sources just because I wanted to get it done. But now with chat, gpt, that same research project, you get unlimited knowledge. You get all the sources in the world that ChatGPT has to give you that information and that research at your fingertips, 100%. You can simply, obviously you could say, hey, draft me up an outline on something and then you can go in and kind of do it yourself. But AI is going to take all of that time and reduce it to seconds or minutes in some cases, where it's going to give you all that information in minutes. Now your refining process, your prompting process that's where the investment is. But think for an hour on ChatGPT, going back on one research topic used to take us what two, three weeks maybe to do that.

Duarne:

Oh, 100%, absolutely. And you know what's interesting about this. I know people are going to be out there and they're going to be saying but Dwan, but Dave, the information's not up to date on chat GPT. Well, guess what? It wasn't up to date when we went to the library either. Some of these books were 15 years old 20 years old.

Dave:

Four years old. Some were a couple of months old and chat GPT now like it's more caught up, you know, with the newer versions if you're paying for the updated versions, like it's more caught up, you know it knows what's going on. Maybe it's not like up to the minute of 30 seconds ago but, like you just said, either was the resources that we were using before.

Duarne:

Absolutely.

Dave:

You know how many times did you go into attorney's office and you see on their wall, on their bookshelf, you know the whole like version 456 of their encyclopedias of the law. Well, that's not updated either, like they still have to do you know, do research and you know internet searches for the most recent law cases and catch is gonna have all I remember as a kid I used to get bored and I'd pick up an encyclopedia at home and I'd start reading it.

Duarne:

right, I didn't realize until sometime later.

Duarne:

I was reading a book that was 15 years out of date. So I've got data which is 15 years out of date. I didn't know any better. Come window, you know, come 1995, and I got myself Encarta 95, the encyclopedia on a CD and suddenly I was able to get more up-to-date information and realize a lot of the information I had was out of date. And. And then you start to realize hold on, you've got to update this thing every single year to have the most up-to-date information. But it's only up-to-date to the time it was researched and put out. So if you're doing a research topic, it's very probable you don't need the most up-to-date information anyway. Anyway, you could just simply say give me the most up-to-date information to x point in time and make references that this information is from this point in time. You can, you can use that sort of information. It's a great tool. It's probably a thousand times better, in my opinion, for researching than what's previously been out there. And it doesn't have to be chat gpt, it could be perplexity. Perplexity is an incredible tool for doing research. Um, but not all ais are equal either.

Duarne:

My clients back in australia that I went through my about the newsletter stuff. They were both using a paid version of copilot by microsoft, which, ironically, is powered by openAI same people that power ChatGPT, right? I asked them if they had a paid version of ChatGPT Plus and they're like no, we don't right now. And I said, okay, no worries, let's just use what you've got, screen shared on 15 prompts later, just to create a damn newsletter. I'm like you know what? What this is, what we have to do? You need to close this tab. You need to open up chap gpt and spend 20 a month. And let me show you what we can do in five prompts.

Duarne:

And I gave him five prompts same prompts we'd used previously in and we got 10 times better result. And they were like, oh, this was the same for both cases. And I was like, oh, wow, this is incredible, this is great. Okay, you know what this is worth the 20 bucks for me. I'm not even going to question it. And what we realized is copilot has its advantages working with office 365 product and trying to answer questions around microsoft and you and using it in your writing, et cetera. But what it's not great at is it's not great at doing this unique research and content creation that we were trying to do. Chatgpt was really good at that. So not all AIs are equal. They've all got different strengths. They've all got different capabilities.

Dave:

It's all how they're trained, how they're coded, how they're developed. Everything is going to be different. The open AI is kind of more, like you said, more of that robust system. Now, Grant, I'm not even going to claim to know all the stuff on the back end. All I know is what I've done on it. So I'm speaking from experience. There's many opportunities there.

Duarne:

If you're looking for a good, old-rounded tool, chatgpt is great, but I mean opportunities there. If you're looking for a good, all-rounded tool, chatgpt is great, but if you're primarily just going to be doing imaging image generation, then you probably want to use something like Midjourney, because it's a significantly better platform for doing image generation. The seventh revision of it now it's doing great things. You've got to stay on top of the AI. That's the big thing.

Dave:

You can't just say I tried this thing 10 months months ago, 12 months ago, I didn't like it. Uh well, guess what? Like you're like six generations behind. Like ai is developing quicker than computers go outdated right or your cell phone goes outdated like you know, a cell phone you can probably keep for two, maybe three years. Hopefully it still works. Ai is like that. That's that's you know two months ago is like a two-year-old cell phone now absolutely.

Duarne:

It's just coming out with so many things and we're seeing companies like there's a hardware company came out with an ai powered I think it was called an ai pin and I was really excited about it about a year and a half ago. So this is a really cool thing. This is gonna be great. Well, I heard heard recently that they ended up shutting down, going and they don't operate anymore because it just it moved too quick and they weren't able to solve the problems I was trying to solve. Now you've got other platforms out there right now, like I believe some Plot is another one.

Dave:

I think that does that. It's like a wallet card. Or they also have like a necklace bead that I've been looking into as well, just for like meetings. I mean, there's different AI things out there.

Duarne:

There's something new coming out all the time, all the time. If you want to see just how quick the AI road train is going, just look at the content generators that are around AI. Or jump onto AppSumo AppSumocom Like we can get lifetime deals where all these new platforms are coming out. Every single week there's new platforms and it feels like like I've seen something that does something like this. I've seen something that does something like this. Every one of them has got just a little bit of a tweak or a change.

Duarne:

Then go back and check 12 months later and you'll find that some of those companies don't exist anymore because their ideas didn't work out or there was somebody who did it better, and that's just. Unfortunately, that's the game we're in right now. You know it's not like you said. A phone comes out once a year with an update. This software is coming out with multiple revisions every single month. If you want to see that, go and have a look at a change log or a roadmap on the website for some of these platforms and you'll see lists and lists and lists of things they're going to do over the next 12 months, and then you'll see lists and lists of stuff that they've already done in the last 12 months, and then all the stuff in the middle that they're working on right now, and you'll see that, and I think ultimately it just becomes like become an early adopter.

Dave:

Like don't be afraid to be one of the people that like lead the pack in terms of like a software, and also don't be afraid to be one of the. You know quick to change either, you know just because you started something doesn't mean you have to stay with it. Hey, this isn't working. It's not something that I'm really getting caught into. That's fine, find something else. There's so many different options though 100%, dave.

Duarne:

When I first started doing content writing with AI, I started with Jasper. Jasper AI you know what? Yeah, I stopped using Jasper probably about almost two years ago, okay, and jasper was a great tool at the time, but you know what it's just so. It's generations behind what it was capable at the time, to what I was able to do with other platforms. It may have come a long way since then. I haven't looked at it, because I moved on and I found something that solved my problems and it meets my requirements, and I think that's the key.

Duarne:

It's about finding stuff that meets your requirements and just not being afraid to try. I like. That's why I like AppSumo, and you know this is why you and I talk about it. If you're a member on there and you pay your AppSumo Plus membership 99 bucks a year you'll get some protection levels. So if the company goes out of business within 12 months, you get a full refund. You also get 60 days to return any piece of software if it doesn't meet your expectations, no questions asked. So you might have a piece of software on there that you've tried and go. Yeah, this was great. It's going to solve my problem. Oh, in theory it sounded good, but in practice it just didn't hit the mark. It was just missing.

Dave:

So AppSumo is a good one for sure I would say that if you're listening to this or you're watching anything and you are like a I wouldn't even say an advocate of AI, we're definitely an advocate. But if you're like one of those party poopers, right when it comes to AI, and you're always shooting down AI, like just give it a shot, I guarantee you're going to be impressed by the efficiency and the time savings alone that AI is going to bring to your life. Time savings alone that ai is going to bring to your life, like you shouldn't be, uh, going into, even if you use it as like your google. Like stop searching for things on google. Go to go to chat gpt and say, hey, I want to know what is the best restaurant for italian in around me in cleveland, ohio, which is where, and it's going to give you all the results of the best things, instead of you trying to go and search it and look through all the reviews yourself, chatgpt is going to be able to do that.

Duarne:

And you can go one step further with that. Dave, you can now ask it can you go and get the Google reviews and list them here for the top three?

Dave:

Right, and then give me the ratings, give me you you know the links to their website. I want to go, you know, check it out or what, what's their top. You know things that they service under menu. Like all of that could be in chat gpt and so you don't have to google it. Like really, chat gpt could be your google and give you all that results and that strategy and etc. So but we, we've talked, ai, we're always going to continue to talk and that's like you know drawing conversations.

Dave:

Here we are 30 minutes into our episode and we haven't really kind of even dove into any other topic, but that's the unscripted portion. Dwarven and I pre-show we're talking about, you know, something that we wanted to kind of get into, and so maybe this is a good kind of transition. So if you're looking for more AI talk, make sure you kind of uh, stay tuned for next episode, because we'll always get into ai. But um dwan and I this week we've we've had a few conversations this week because in our businesses, in our lives, as we said, we're going to go into the kind of the background we've we've been kind of searching for, like what is that next way to continue to add additional value to people, like what is that next way?

Duarne:

to continue to add additional value to people.

Dave:

Right, jordan, absolutely, and you know a recent video that I had seen from Alex Ramone. He really stood out to me and he talked about like at the beginning of your business, when you have a lot of time and you're looking to grow like, how do you?

Dave:

just make yourself ridiculously available to the people that are in your programs and in your systems. And it really hit to me because I was like man, what am I doing? That could be even better, you know. So I had my. We have our Triumph Mastermind program in the Triumph Business Solutions kind of realm of services, right, and talking with Warren, I'm like man, how do we make this work? Like, like you know, we have great knowledge, great experience, right, everybody loves kind of talking to us, you know, based on our calendars, um, in the conversations we've had and the people that you know have left us reviews, how do we do that? And Dwarin, like it was a great conversation we had earlier this week by like we just are going to be available all the time and and it led us to the discussion of we're going to be revamping our triumph mastermind program, dorn and I and we're kind of excited about that, dorn, I don't know, about you like what, hopefully, you are too.

Dave:

I didn't just break the end of this.

Duarne:

We're more than mildly excited. No, I'm kidding.

Dave:

I'm actually really good at it.

Duarne:

For me, it's one of the highlights of the week where it's really exciting because it's not something that I would have considered doing myself in the past, because it just seems like a lot of work.

Duarne:

We're talking about a membership opportunity where we are going to go live every morning, 10 am Eastern Standard, monday to Friday, and it's either going to be both of us or one of us at a time and we're going to be talking topics, we're going to be doing training sessions, we're going to be doing hands-on Q&A sessions and we're going to be basically just listening to what the members want and putting that information out there.

Duarne:

And I'm super pumped about it because I was like you know what? As a partnership, we can do this and the value is huge because every time Dave and I get on a call, we typically try and give a bunch of value, gives a bunch of value, and what we find is not everyone can afford to bring us on full-time or even part-time to get as much value as they would like from working with us. But we also know that they're getting huge value by working with us. So we've decided to come up with this plan of the Triumph Mastermind to allow us to reach more people at a ridiculously low price point and offer huge value. Pricing we were talking about, dave, is like sub $100 a month right To get access to us.

Dave:

Yeah, we're looking for that the first 100 people 100 people. You know my goal a goal that I have personally in terms of my business is I want to have an impact on at least a thousand businesses in the next three years, like that's a goal I set for myself at the beginning of 25? Is I want to have an impact on a thousand businesses, help them grow, help them, you know, kind of level up.

Dave:

So part of that like you got to put yourself outside of your comfort zone, like people can say 10 businesses, and it doesn't require any sort of drastic shift. And this is what you can be thinking about in your business. Don't set your, your, your levels or your goals so easy that you don't have to drastically shift. Shift the way that you think. For me to say I'm going to impact 8 000 businesses in three years, it really did require me to think differently, very differently, on what I wanted to do, um, to make that impact. And and that's where this idea you know listening to the video from alex and the idea here is that we're not just going to go live every week. You know we're still bringing in strategy sessions. So we're going to be doing at least a weekly session, whether just me talking, you know a strategy, deep dive impact educational series. Dwarne will also be doing some things every week as well. So not only do you get the daily Q&A, but the idea is like how do we continue to add that value right, that value proposition to everybody that's there? So we're doing at least one weekly session educational session, community. We're also going to have a WhatsApp available for everybody, so you know, if it's 11 PM at night. You're thinking of a question. You can drop a question in the WhatsApp group for everybody and you know Dwara and I, or you know some of our other expert partners will be there to kind of answer your question and help out and more.

Dave:

Like we're going to continue to, you know, build this out to be impactful to everybody. That's part of the team and ultimately, like we're like how do we make sure that people feel comfortable with it? And what we were discussing was we wanted to do a 10x. You know, in six months, if you don't get back, at least you haven't grown six, ten times your investment over that six month period, we will refund you your investment. Like we are confident that if you're doing and you're attending and you're listening and you're implementing that these things can really make an impact in your business. Where I've seen it and Dwarin, give me your impact here but where I've seen where people have struggled to make an impact is because they've just struggled to get started.

Duarne:

Yeah.

Dave:

Take that first step Right. We can tell you everything and I've said this in multiple videos in the past. I Dwarin any coach in the world. Tony robbins is the most successful. Nobody is you.

Dave:

Nobody can make you do anything right unless somebody maybe has a gun to your head, but you don't want people walking around. You know, with a gun to your head every single day. You know what I mean. It's not not safe. But you have to look yourself in the mirror. You have to tell yourself yes, I did everything today that I knew I had to do and I didn't get distracted or I didn't make an excuse for not letting myself get started and to keep moving forward. So, as part of that, you have to have some involvement as well. So if you're attending our sessions, if you're implementing the different things that we're doing and you're doing the metrics that we're going to be talking about and supporting you on, and you haven't gotten that ROI, we're going to give you your money back. That's fine. We wholeheartedly believe that if you don't see a 10x return on what you invest in the Triumph Mastermind program and you attend and you do everything, this is our guarantee for you. We want you to feel safe that you are going to see some sort of result and, as we mentioned, we're going to be releasing some more information, you know, over the next coming weeks.

Dave:

Our ultimate goal is to kind of launch this revamp here at the beginning of May. So when you see the first hundred specials go out, that's that's it. Like. Once the first hundred discounts are done, it's gonna be 197 a month, like that's the goal is. After 100, anybody who invests 197 a month. Uh, we're not. We're not gonna let you know what the discounts are yet until we release the information next week. But if you are one of those first hundred people, you're really going to get a lifetime Like. You're not like just getting a discount for your first three months. Like this is a lifetime discount of being a member of this group and a member of the mastermind. We'll keep you informed on that.

Dave:

But if there's anything too like if you have questions on it, or if there's anything that you're like I want to see this involved, or I'm hoping this is included like send us a message, drop a comment down below the video, shoot us a DM email. However, you typically get a hold of me and DeWarn, but we want to hear from you as well, because we want to make sure that this thing is very impactful to you and your business, whether you're 10 years in or you're just getting started. How can we support you? And the best way we thought of that is being available every day for an hour for a Q&A, for you to drop in and say, hey, like I have this question, what do I got to do?

Dave:

Boom, let's have a chat, let's, and everybody else is going to listen to it. They're all going to be recorded. Um, they're all going to be indexed so that you can drop into the community, see any previous recordings. Even if you can't see, you know the live version, but that's, that's. I mean. I could go on for you know a day, or this right, jordan, but what?

Dave:

do you mean that you want to. I mean we're excited about it.

Duarne:

Well, I think one of the things to really focus on here, too, is we're not talking about a group coaching session where we're going to try and hold you accountable for everything. This is just we're going to be there to help you and give you practical information and assistance. Some of my plans are going to be basically giving you some training sessions on how to use the AI tools that I use better, talking about different tools that I know, that I've used or I've got people that I've worked with who use and how it helps solve problems within their businesses. Taking some of these pre-existing solutions that we put in place for people in marketing and helping with that. Doing audits on, you know, websites and talking about what makes a good website, what doesn't make a good website.

Duarne:

All this sort of information that's you know in my head and in Dave's head, which we know we want to share, that we want to get that out, we want to let you guys know. We want to show you how we're using tools to better our businesses and better ourselves, and these are the sort of things which you may not love every episode. You may not get something out of every episode, but I guarantee that you're going to get something out of at least one episode a week, or maybe one episode a month. I would certainly hope it's more than one episode a month, but there's going to be so much value packed into this that we know that people are going to love it. And we've got clients, like we said, and new people that we meet all the time and you know meetings and we just share these little tidbits of information which we know but obviously other people don't know, and the value from that is just incredible and people love it.

Duarne:

So we thought you know what? Let's just open the doors and let other people come in and do that. And what's even better about this, dave and this is what I'm really excited about is we're going to be developing a community. There's going to be the ability for people to connect and network with other people within this network that we're creating and we're going to encourage that. You can help each other, you can share ideas. You might be able to work together with somebody in the group as well. You know there's going to be opportunities there which you may not even be aware of and we're not even aware of yet. So we're going to grow this, we're going to develop it.

Dave:

Um, it's going to be very organic and it's it's ground, it's grassroots right, it's, it's me and duarn who, all honesty, probably should have never met, should have never been connected. Right, it turns out like if, if it wasn't the world that we live in now. You know we're on the opposite ends of the earth, but Dwarin and I, for the last two and a half years, have literally pretty much had a conversation every single week, multiple times a week, and we both have experience in different realms that we want to bring and that we have a lot of people we've chatted with. We have a lot of conversations with people, people we've chatted with. We have a lot of conversations with people, and we want not only that. We're doing this out of fun too, because we love just chatting and having a conversation, and kind of learning really what's that we like to talk, do we?

Dave:

I don't know, I don't think so I, maybe we do, I don't know, maybe I'm just talking for myself, but maybe we should get into radio.

Duarne:

My mom says we're going to face the radio.

Dave:

I mean, we have the audio version of the podcast.

Duarne:

I don't know, maybe let us know if we have radio voices, or maybe I should just talk about this.

Dave:

But ultimately it's a driven passion to help you. Like if you're listening to this, you're watching this, like that's the ultimate goal and if we can get back in any way, we can add value in any ways. Like continue to share with us, like that's what we're going to be and if we can do it, we're going to try to find a way to do it. The ultimate goal is that we are here to answer your questions. So if you hear about something you're implementing something and you're like I have a question about this, you have a place to go, that you have experts that can answer the question for you, like right away. You don't like try to solve it yourself. And that's to deal with the WhatsApp, you know, kind of live conversation back and forth, the community to network with people and instant message people on there as well.

Dave:

As you know, we'll be rolling out into the future like here's the other thing we I guess we didn't mention too. Well, actually, you know I'm going to hold this off. You've got to pay attention to when we release the information because we want you. We're going to hold something off, but trust us, you're going to love it If you're one of the founding members and you know you're going to get all this access for lifetime. But we'll kind of roll out some of this information next week as well. We look forward to kind of sharing it with you. But if you have questions on it or you want to be one of those first hundred, make sure you're one, subscribe two. If you want to be one of the first people like, send us an email, drop us a message. We, you know somewhere, you know down below, or email us, yeah, or phone call.

Dave:

Whatever you want to do, send us text message, give us your name. We'll make sure you get the information right away. Uh, but you aren't, I mean, anything else you want to say on that? I mean, obviously we could go on for a long time about it, but I really feel like it's going to add a lot of people value and it's going to help me reach my goal that I said for myself of reaching and having that impact on a thousand businesses. And who knows, maybe we can. I should up that goal, maybe it's fine, you know what?

Duarne:

who knows dave? I mean, let's see how this rolls right. I mean, for me, anyone who knows me, they know that I'm always discovering something new that I can do with ai or or an app or some new technique that I've discovered and I love to share. So, dave's, much the same. So there's going to be so much great value here. There's going to be so much cool information we're going to share. We're going to be giving away suggestions, ideas, and we're going to be helping people. And look, if you're one of the members and you're signed in and we're helping you, just think there's going to be other people in the community who may love that information as well or may come in later and offer you additional assistance and information to help you.

Duarne:

We're not talking about a group of business coaches. We're not talking about a group of um, you know, a niched down type of business. This is open to everybody because we're talking about broad spectrum business related, marketing related, ai related, access and training and tools and all that sort of wonderful stuff, and we're going to really drive this in the direction of whoever turns up for those meetings on the day. We're going to make sure that we tailor it. We're going to work with them. We're going to answer questions that they really want. How many times have you woke up in the morning, go you, look I've, I need, I need to find out how to do this. Well, now you can just, if you're a member, jump on in that morning session and ask the question and maybe we've got the answer. We might be able to push you in the right direction.

Dave:

That's really powerful to having that ability to do that, in my opinion at least. No, I mean, that's the that's. The ultimate goal is is how do we help you, push you in the right direction?

Dave:

As I just said earlier, you control what you do. You're in the ultimate driver's seat of where you're heading in the future. You get to make the decisions. Dewarn and I can't. We just want to give you all the resources that we have available to bring it to you and help you with that and try to make it easier for you.

Duarne:

That's all we can do 100%.

Dave:

I love it, dave, I'm excited, I'm stoked, man. You know, again, if you're stay focused, next week we're going to be releasing some information, you know, every single day, kind of getting everybody closer. The ultimate goal, like I said, is going to be launched beginning of May and hopefully we have well, not hopefully I know we are going to have the first hundred filled up by the time we launch in May and we're looking forward to it. So if anybody has any questions on it, reach out, send us a text, shoot us an email, drop a comment down below this video too. We will get in contact and ensure that you have the information available as we're launching this. But we want to see you involved in the system, in the program, in the mastermind. But, dwarin, I think, great episode, again unscripted. Obviously, we know we wanted to talk a little bit about the mastermind, but it's because we're both stoked about it. But I love the AI conversation. I mean we could go on for AI for.

Duarne:

Days too.

Dave:

There's just so many opportunities and so many different ways to use it and make yourself more efficient. Anything else that you? It was like top of mind that you're focused on this week for yourself and your business.

Duarne:

Well, I finally released my. With the assistance of AI to do some editing with me, I was able to release my first book on Amazon.

Dave:

Nice, did it get approved.

Duarne:

I know you were talking about getting approved. It got approved. I even got the cover approved. So I'm pretty chuffed about that. Nice um, so the art of conversation by dewan bernhagen. It's up there on amazon for a whole $3.99 a month. Uh, sorry $3.99 yeah, you can pay per month. If you no, it's $3.99 one-time purchase.

Dave:

It's not a topic. What's the topic of the book?

Duarne:

It's all about how to have better conversations with people and how to communicate digitally, how to communicate with AI, how to generally communicate and have conversations that actually are meaningful and get you what you're looking for, and it's all based on experience, some great frameworks that I use myself as well, as you know over 20 years doing what I do so I think it's a really cool tool. I believe if you're a Kindle Unlimited partner, you can actually get it for free.

Dave:

As part of the audio book.

Duarne:

You, uh, you're gonna, you're gonna release the audio version of it I don't know, maybe when I get some time, maybe I don't know if I'll I'll talk it or I'll, you know, use a really nice ai voiceover that I find, and then I'll have to have, like, the australian version and then the american version, maybe you know, just to mix things up. But now, look at this point, we've um, I've got the first copy out, which is great. Yeah, I hope someone gets some value from it. I'm sure that you know there's a lot of value in there for our listeners and that was really exciting. That was something. I wrote the first draft of that probably about a year and a half ago, and just stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for something else. Uh, my draft. I was like, oh, I remember that and I decided to. Ai is where it is now, where I was able to come in and actually use it in a way to edit and give me information to help me finish the book, which was fantastic, and you know.

Dave:

And so you say you found it like two weeks, three weeks ago, and in that frame period, that time period, you were able to get it finished, published artwork, done on a copy and it's out there, it's approved on Amazon.

Duarne:

I mean just think of that, absolutely yeah, if you had to do that manually back in the day.

Dave:

it would probably have taken you like three months just to have an editor review it, give you back feedback. Then you got to change it, Then you got to send it back.

Duarne:

Like just think of the efficiency that we were talking about it is, I mean and it's interesting you say that because one of the use case I know we said we weren't going to go back into the AI conversation, but one of the cool things I found was this technique that I discovered, where I was able to drop my manuscript into chat gbt and I told it to be really critical analyze my writing, tell me if there is plot holes, missing information, things that don't make sense. You know, basically I told everything, point every problem you can and then recommend anything to improve, and that's what it did. It came back with a whole bunch of suggestions, so I was then able to work a few more sections, add a few more chapters, build out and really refine my framework that I used in the platform, which was really cool. So that's something which I was able to then replicate and use for a small Well, congrats, you're now an author on Amazon.

Dave:

That's awesome news. It's a good win. You know, I love it.

Duarne:

I know, right, I was like that's kind of wicked. That was a bucket list item and that's now there.

Dave:

So I'm excited, it's there. You're on Amazon. Who could say that Not many people can say they're an author on Amazon?

Duarne:

Absolutely, and it's something unique, it's something from the heart, it's something I feel passionate about and I think that's really cool, right, I was actually that inspired. I went out and pulled out a couple of short stories that I wrote about everyday life in the Philippines about two years ago and it was before I launched Be Savvy. Actually, I was doing that while we're waiting for funding. I was kind of trying to find things to fill my time, so I didn't stress out of it, because I'm not much of a patient person, especially back then. And yeah, yeah, there is that and yeah, I was able to take that and I was able to write, rewrite one of my short stories and it ended up doubling in size and I was able to use the same technique to find all the plot holes and fill my plot holes.

Duarne:

And it's a nonfiction piece based on a story you know that I'd heard and it's fantastic. So I'm excited. I'll probably look at that's currently being read by a few friends and family members to get their feedback before I actually go ahead and publish that one. But I'll probably be publishing that. Probably by early next month is my aim. So I'm excited, I'm inspired. I'm using the tools that are available to me to do more, to achieve more and to and you mentioned, like I saw your headline on one of your was are you do you?

Dave:

are you seeing ai as a tool or are you seeing it as a teammate and there is a big difference in that thought process, like, if you see it as a a tool, it's like, oh, it's there, you know, whatever I'll use it like every once in a while, right, but if you really see it as a teammate, it's there to help you, you know, and it's truly there to be another person, an extension of you, to just improve your time, and I think that's the ultimate goal. Imagine, you know, as we talked about using the example we used earlier about the research topic, you know, it's like having 100 versions of you, if not more, going to all the different libraries in the world to gather information on a topic and then bringing it back to you all in like 30 seconds. Like you can't do that, you know, and AI lets you do it.

Duarne:

A lot of opportunity, absolutely, and for me it's like this right, I think of a carpenter. A carpenter has a hammer and they have a nail gun. There's going to be moments where the hammer is the best tool. There's going to be other moments where the nail gun is the best tool. Does using a nail gun to build a house cheating? No, it's more efficient and it makes more sense. So a nail gun could be a teammate that you can't live without, and if you don't have your teammate, the nail gun, life's going to be really, really uh, you know, really average for you as a builder that day.

Dave:

So, or if you're trying to be a solo builder, you know what I mean, like if you had a tool there that could help you, like, lift a piece of wood. That's essentially when you think about a process like writing or editing or copy and all that kind of stuff. It's it's instead of you trying to do it solo and lifting all that weight yourself. Ai is literally there and this is probably an image that you could create with ai right into you with the ai bot lifting the workload of everything of being a business owner. Absolutely now, with ai, it shouldn't be as difficult as it was three to four years ago. Being a business owner right three to four years ago, prior to ai, just think about it like you had to do everything. You had to hire a copywriter, you had to do all this stuff. Now you can do this.

Duarne:

I'm not saying, don't hire those people, because a lot of times they are great, but if you're trying to bootstrap, it's a lot easier now to bootstrap a business than it is to, you know, kind of get off the ground running than it was four or five years ago it's also a great tool for just helping with the workload like I had a prime example, um, last week where I had to provide a customer a whole bunch of summary information based on a lot of data, like a lot of data, and it's like brain melting amount of data.

Duarne:

So and it was from three different sources that I had to put all this together, so I was able to drop all that in and create myself an algorithm that you know, or a prompt, however you want to refer to that which generated and joined all that information together, and then I was able to ask for it to output certain information for me that I was able to collate and put together as the final result that I sent to the client and they're really happy with it. And that's something that took me about an hour and a half to do, where I would have been there for three days previously trying to do the same thing and I would have hated every single moment of that three days doing it, because it's just not something I find interesting and or fun if I've got to put that much time in it, because I know what else I'm not doing when I'm doing that and, whilst it's important, I'd be very frustrated that I wasn't doing that.

Dave:

Yeah, so I'm sure I mean we're going to continue to do that. You're probably going to get sick of Duarte and I talking about AI and how you should be using AI, but hopefully you're going to learn something that in the use cases that we're giving you to impact your business. So we're never going to stop talking about it. I don't think, duarte, I hate to call it a day or a session, but, uh, I gotta get to an actual meeting, uh with some clients. You know what I mean. Uh, but great conversation again today. Also, just to tease you, like, make sure you're following both warren and I, because next week we're going to continue to start releasing more and more of this information. Um, probably even towards the end of the week, open it up for the first hundred and so that you guys can start getting in lock in your lifetime discount as well, as we're releasing more of this information.

Dave:

But, dwarn, anything else that you want to say? Again, if you made it this far, I love you, dwarn loves you. We appreciate you kind of being here and listening. Hopefully you got one or two things out of today's episode that I love you, dorn loves you. We appreciate you kind of being here and listening. Hopefully you got one or two things out of today's episode that can impact you and we know you will. But, dorn, anything you wanted to wrap up with?

Duarne:

Yeah, look, I'm encouraging anyone who's listening, who's getting something out of this. Feel free to come and, you know, send me a connection request on LinkedIn or Alignable if you like. More than happy to connect to you with you on those two platforms. And, yeah, let's have a chat. You can follow me, you can sign up for my newsletter wired for growth and, you know, maybe there's some great stuff in there you're going to be able to take away and, you know, learn a bit more about what we talk about, and I'm really also down below like we'll have some of our links and stuff like that as we release more information too.

Dave:

If you've made it this far and you're listening, we'll also have the link in the comment description to the sign up form too, so you can get signed up, find out more information. When we release that, we'll add it to the description of this video. But, dwarin, I'm glad that me and you on the lineable were connected two and a half years ago. Uh, because we're gonna accomplish many great things like. That's the beauty of like I'm. I'm looking forward to like even 12 months from now, looking back at this podcast episode and saying, man, we knew it. Like we just didn't know how how much we knew it, but we knew it. And in 12 months, the hopefully like we're. My goal for 12 months is to be in a spot where you and I have actually met face to face. That'd be good that'd be good.

Dave:

We're gonna fly you and your wife in right, or or maybe we'll. We'll go out to you. You know, me and my wife and uh, maybe by then I don't know I'm engaged, but we'll see. Maybe we're married, maybe we're not, but we haven't set a date yet.

Duarne:

But for a girl setting. We'll go out to you and visit you. I don't know yet but one.

Dave:

Michael, 12 months, we'll figure it out that we, you have met face to face somehow. Um, as well, as you know, maybe maybe we even do a live session with everybody. That's part of the membership. We're like, hey, man, we're just going to do this awesome like session where we bring everybody together. Who knows, but that'd be cool, right?

Dave:

I know that when we look back on this to one year from now, two years from now, five years from now, we are going to be like that's when it all started, like that week right before Dorn and I talked on April 11th, you know, with the podcast. That's when things kicked off and everything started from there. I wholeheartedly believe it. I had a feeling at the beginning of this year, like it was my birthday is 225 and it's 2025. So I was like, man, this is going to be an awesome kick-ass year. Like I told myself that at the beginning of the year things are falling in place, things are moving forward and sometimes it's stressful. As a business owner, we feel you, I feel it. I feel it almost every day, especially this morning. I was trying to put together the cash flow projection. Hey, that's okay, it's going to happen that time sometimes, but knowing that you're doing the right things and you're doing them for the right reasons to help people. In the end, the universe is going to bring all that in line.

Duarne:

It's going to line it up for you I love that, dave, and you know you know what I'm super excited about. Our new community membership initiative here is I love hearing the success stories from people when they come and tell us, hey, I implemented what you said and, holy cow, you know, I got 750 impressions in my first article. Or you know, I got this result. How cool is that. You were right. Or what she suggested really did work. I love it. Thank you for that.

Duarne:

There's so many great stories that I've had over the years where I've talked to people and I'm just looking forward to hearing more of those stories. I'm looking forward to our you know our Q&As turning into sharing your success with us as to what you've implemented and what's worked for you, and inspiring other people in the community to give it a crack and give it a go and see how it works for them and not everything is going to work for everyone, but just hearing how someone else has done something and taken an approach on it, I think that's huge and I think that's like the sort of value where there's no way I could talk to a hundred business owners every month. It's just not possible.

Dave:

I'm think, ultimately it's also it's also going to be prioritizing, because I feel like a lot of times, people that I have a conversation with is they are pointed in the wrong direction. Right, their compass is pointing them South when it needs to be pointing them North. And that's what the also the community is for is that you can have people to support you and keep your compass pointed North and help you prioritize what you're working on or where you're going, and all that's different things, and I feel like this is that opportunity for a lot of people and for us to bring that to people, that, instead of us, doing it piecemeal.

Dave:

We can have that impact on a lot of people's lives that we want, and both of us know that we want, so I'm looking forward to doing it with you.

Duarne:

Dorn? For sure, me too, Dave. I love the fact that you came to me and talked to me about this initiative. I'm really happy to be involved and I'm just looking forward to being able to touch other people's lives in their business, in their personal work, whatever that may be and being able to give them some guidance and some help and train them up on some basic things that are basic for me but not basic for others, you know and just getting and you know, being able to help be a part of their success Because, like you and I said, we just want to help other people be successful.

Duarne:

That's what it's all about for us. So if we can do that and we can be a part of your journey, that's what it's all about for us. So if we can do that and we can be a part of your journey and we give you the gateway, the tools and enable you to do that, hell that's awesome. That's amazing. I'm in for that. Like I said, I couldn't talk to 100 people one-on-one every month, but if you're 100, we can talk to 100 members in a month together, maybe more and help them. That's awesome, like that's a dream that I would never have thought would come true and that's the ultimate passion that we have.

Dave:

You know when I come back, it is that passion, but it's also like something that we have experience in that we can add value to people, whether it's finance, bookkeeping, accounting, strategy operations, ai automation like website, we're going to make sure that we're adding some sort of value every single day of the week to you, along with the weekly sessions, so that you feel like you're getting the most and that you are getting the most to make strategy impact changes in your life, in business, etc.

Dave:

So yeah, before we I guess I'm gonna jump I got a meeting here in about seven minutes, but great conversation again today. Dude, I'm looking forward to doing this next week. I'm looking forward to doing this every day. You know, with you the problem is going to be are dwan and I going to be able to shut up after 60 minutes? Because I don't know if we're going to be able to do it? But, uh, maybe I'll just have to schedule myself like an 11 am meeting every day, so that way I have to shut up and get off the call uh, that's it.

Duarne:

I'll just. I'll just organize the wife to come and knock on my door at 11 pm, which is my 11 pm. Hey hon, I need you to come to the bed, I need you to come shut me up because I'm gonna go do something else.

Dave:

But we love you all thank you for being here again. Do all that fun algorithm, algorithm, algorithmy stuff like it. Subscribe comment down below.

Dave:

You know, if you want to be one of those first hundred and you're interested, like, make sure you comment with, like, your name and the email address, or just say, hey, like me, we'll connect with you. We'll get it somehow to make sure that you have the information right when we release it next week, because if you're involved, if you're here, we love you. We want you to be involved as well. But until then, dwarin, thank you again for being here with me. Brother, if you have a question on anything we talked about today, whether it's AI or anything, feel free to reach out. We love you. We look forward to seeing you in the next episode. I hope you have a wonderful and fantastic rest of your day and we'll see you in the next one. Bye, y'all.

Duarne:

Thanks, dave, take care, everyone See you.

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