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Jasmine Star (00:00:15) - Welcome back to The Jasmine Star Show, a place where we discuss business mindset. And today we're going to talk about the lessons I learned dropping out of law school, specifically the ones that made me a better entrepreneur. Now you're listening and you're like, Jasmine, I don't care. You went to law school? No problem. I hardly cared that I went to law school too. However, however, I learned a group of things that have really impacted the way I've shown up in business, and I want to share those with you because I think that they apply to you. So take them, learn them, use them, and then don't go to law school. I want to record this episode for a couple of reasons. Number one, I truly believe that one of the best ways to learn in your industry is to learn outside of your industry. Okay, should I say that again? The best ways to learn in your industry is to learn outside of your industry. And then you apply those lessons to your business, and then you see how you can stay innovative and avoid just passing down the same old information.

Jasmine Star (00:01:10) - Two examples. For years I went to a summit called Alt Summit, and it was located in Salt Lake City. And this summit was for, for all intents and purposes, creatives, not creators, but creatives. These it really attracted a lot of people who were blogging fashion, a lot of people who were making hand-sewn patterns, a lot of people who were making jewelry. And I didn't really understood what drew me to this summit, but I just knew I needed to be at the summit. And so I would be going in. I'd be learning from people in industries nothing like photography, nothing like writing and creating content. But the way that they were studying their industry, I was able to take the way that they were applying lessons and put it in my business. So I went, I think 3 or 4 years in a row, and normally this was held like in January in Salt Lake City. January, February, y'all is like -37 degrees. And for this California girl to go consistently. And then I would do things like go to the mixers and the event sponsors.

Jasmine Star (00:02:14) - Um, parties. And I was just thinking, how do I learn things from people? I remember having one conversation specifically about somebody who made custom made checkers boards and what she was applying in her business towards her target demographic. And I thought to myself, I am learning a boatload here about how to create content that feels very specialized to people. Even if I wasn't selling a physical product, that was just one conversation that I remember of many. Another convention I'm going to mention it's called the Chia Convention, and this is a homeschool educators convention, and it would happen in Anaheim, California. And I remember going as a child with my mom, we were homeschooled. And then the older I got, there was no reason for me to go. But I just really enjoyed seeing how people were so passionate about the art of education. Now, people had a lot of different approaches, and they were talking about the different ways that children learn. And then now as an adult, I just think to myself, yeah, those children who learned a certain way, they grow up to be adults who learn a certain way.

Jasmine Star (00:03:13) - So if I was learning these mechanisms of education as a child and then learning how I learned as a child, I have to be really empathetic and understanding of how other adults learn. And it empowered me to really change my approach in how I teach people different concepts. Okay. Number two, I mean, do you hear the do you hear the two things, the two events that I'm citing as things that were outside of my industry? It was like one for like scrap bookers and people who made homemade patterns and the other for like homeschoolers. Y'all, your girl is real cool. I got some swag. I mean, it's I'm probably the girl you see wearing kids in a knit sweater with the coonskin hat. That's how. That's how I roll, y'all. Okay, the second reason I wanted to record this podcast. There are so many listening today who has dropped out of college, closed the doors to a business, decided to take a different path in life and everything in between. And I want that person.

Jasmine Star (00:04:05) - If that is you, I want you to know that the time wasn't wasted and nobody can take away the lessons that you learned. Go back and think about the hardest moments, the best moments, the saddest moments, the frustrating moments. Those were all lessons that added a tool to your arsenal to get to where you want to go next. I'm just right there. I'm going to leave that there. Everything that you went through is brought you to here, to this moment. There is not a random reason you're listening to this podcast. Just I want you to come correct that. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Do not switch on over to a different podcast. If something I just said right now has resonated deeply with you, we're going to dive in. And the third reason is I want to record this because I truly believe that I wouldn't be the same entrepreneur if I didn't go through these lessons, and at the time I was going through them, I felt alone. I felt like a failure.

Jasmine Star (00:04:56) - I felt like an outsider. I felt like I didn't belong, I felt stupid, I felt less than, I felt like I had somehow, like, rigged the system to get in. So if if you ever felt like that on the inside of a room, welcome to the club. I think that this goes to show if you can start your business at the same time as somebody else. And yet they seem to be moving along faster. Their past experiences and lessons contributed to their growth. You have no idea why they're making those decisions as quickly and fastly. Fastly. So you look at like, I went to a law school and I say fastly how fastly they made it. Yeah. Everything they went through prepared them for that. So it's never fair or accurate to compare yourself or compare your business to somebody else's, because whatever they went through in previous parts of their life is brought them here to today. Oh, is your girl just coming in like the Wright brothers? Like I'm about to land this plane for the first time.

Jasmine Star (00:05:48) - Like, hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, so what I'm going to do first is name the five entrepreneurial lessons that I learned in law school. And then we're going to dive into each one and my experience learning it. But of course this podcast is about you. And I'll be sharing ways that you can apply them in your business as well. I should also mention, again, for the record, I dropped out of law school. I used to be embarrassed of this fact, but now I take deep pride in making a nonsensical, courageous decision. I was humiliated having to tell people that I was no longer in law school. I was humiliated telling people that I walked away from a scholarship to UCLA law school. I was humiliated, telling people that I was accepted to the University of Chicago and Berkeley and East Coast schools like amazing, amazing law schools. And I said no to them because I was going to go to UCLA. You see, UCLA gave me it gave me a scholarship.

Jasmine Star (00:06:42) - It just they just really want me there. What can I say? And then dropping out, did it not just seem like a squandered blessing? Did it not just seem like a girl who had no idea what she wanted or what she was doing? Or maybe, just maybe. Did it seem like a girl who trusted her intuition and said, I know it doesn't make sense. I'm going to make this decision anyway. Because you and I are both given the opportunity to apply a belief to a fact. A belief to a fact, a fact. This guy is gray. The belief you might have. Oh, it's gonna rain. It's gonna be terrible. It's gonna be cold. The belief I might have. Wow, I get to wear an extra sweater and I'm prepared. And there's air in my lungs and my legs are working, and I get to walk. Same facts, different belief. Fact, I dropped out of law school. The belief I had for a long time was I was a failure, I was stupid, I squandered, I was afraid I didn't belong.

Jasmine Star (00:07:47) - In fact, I dropped out of law school. That was a very courageous decision. Trust your ambition. Trust your intuition. You did something that other people wouldn't do. There have been other people who have completed law school taking the bar, got a job at a firm, ended up hundreds of thousand dollars of debt, only to realize later they never wanted it to begin with. So, Jasmine, what decision did you make and what belief do you have towards this fact? Oh, are we off to the races? Are we just having a real conversation? I sure hope so, because I did not come to play. The five skills that I learned from these law school lessons are analytical thinking, effective communication, time management, attention to detail, and problem solving. So we're going to start them one by one. And we're going to get into the tea. Starting with lesson number one to think analytically this is one of the best lessons that I still use in business today, whether it's making smart decisions or assessing potential challenges.

Jasmine Star (00:08:43) - So in law school, we used analytical thinking to break down complex problems. We had to understand risk and we had to think critically. And so prior to going to law school, and many of us who have not gone through like legal training, we often like to think that the law is black and white. Right there is right and there is wrong. But a good lawyer invites the jury to see a shade of gray, a chance to interpret the law differently in light of evidence, the changing nature of the world, or if the law still makes sense, given like the state of the state or the state of the country. Not all laws stay the same. Things outside of the law can and should change the law. And a good lawyer presents a case to have the jury see it differently. I loved this, I loved in law school that there was this pure, undisturbed, beautiful emphasis on facts, not emotion. And so oftentimes I make fun of myself, you know, here on the podcast or on videos or even in my family, I make fun of myself and I'm like, listen, I have a twin sister.

Jasmine Star (00:09:50) - And she got the emotional gene and I got the logic gene, and it's kind of like funny ish, but not really. This was not honed until my 20s, when I was in law school, and I realized that oftentimes we use our emotions as facts. But your emotions are never facts. Maybe your emotions can change on a dime just because I might feel a certain way, that doesn't matter. We were challenged to find facts that supported our stance, not adhered to emotions, or like what we felt was right at the time. That does not hold up in court. It doesn't hold up in law school. And guess what? It doesn't hold up in business either. You want to feel a certain way. So I'm feeling so depressed about my lack of growth. But if there was a fact that the rate of growth in your industry for your state of business is 2% and you're kicking it at 1.7%, your feeling about your lack of growth is in fact false. Because baby, you right? On average, even if average doesn't feel right now, you could apply analytical thinking to your business by challenging yourself to prioritize facts over feelings.

Jasmine Star (00:10:59) - Now I have examples of how you can do this. Okay, first, what's number one with purchases? I want you to avoid making financial purchases that just feel necessary without taking the time to find out the ROI, like the return on investment, without taking the time to assess the potential risk or where the funds would be better allocated. I don't want you feeling like you need a laptop, feeling like you need a new phone, feeling like you need a new camera, light tripod, book, encyclopedias. I don't care what you think you feel like you need. What I need you to do is say there is a fact of buying me a laptop. Will I make more? More in my business because I have a newer laptop? If the answer is no, it will just make it a little bit faster. Then the question becomes how long can you use your laptop? Do you need a new car? Do you need a new car? Because is your car currently not working? Can you not get from point A to point B and you're like, oh, Jasmine, the air conditioner is terrible.

Jasmine Star (00:11:58) - I have an oxidized hood. Jasmine I lost a bumper, not a bumper. No, a bumper is a little dramatic. What are those like? Those things that cover your wheels. What is that? Dang it. I lost, uh, a hubcap, a hubcap. Thank you. Brain. Thank you, sweet, beautiful brain that brought that to me. Like, if you're saying Jasmine, I lost a hubcap, baby, by a hubcap. Don't get a new car. What is the ROI on that? I have learned to taking business decisions around facts and applying a number to a investment. If that number is not higher than the investment, it's not time for me to make it. It must be a necessity. Okay. Number two oh, people would be annoyed listening to this podcast right now. They're like, dang it, I listened to the wrong podcast on the wrong day. Or did you? Listen to the right podcast on the right day. Remember? Same fact, different belief.

Jasmine Star (00:12:42) - Okay. Number two. Um, I think I'm kind of like a little bit in, like, a jokey joke mood because I don't want to talk about this one. Number two, letting go of team members. When thinking about letting go of a team member because of finances, or maybe your business needs are changing, or your business ambitions are changing, or your business trajectory is changing, I want you to think analytically, evaluate the financial impact, and make a decision based on facts, not feelings. Remember, your job isn't to be liked. Your job as a CEO isn't to be everybody's friend. It's not even to be the most like CEO. Your job is to make the best decision for your business. Period. That's it. I mean, I know it's easier said than done, but by relying on analytical thinking, you ensure that your decision is based on factual information rather than being influenced by emotional reactions. This morning I had a conversation with a fellow CEO, and she had decided that she was going to drive down her revenue.

Jasmine Star (00:13:44) - She wasn't going to be pursuing growth this year because she was really strategizing what she was doing the business. And then we had a conversation around how she wasn't going to downsize her team. And I was like, huh? If you are intentionally downsizing the growth of your business and not downsizing your team, you're going to be directly impacting just your profitability. And we're talking about tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of revenue because she didn't want to let people go. And she said, do you understand that by shrinking down the business, what we're actually truncating is the older part of the business. The employees that have been with me the longest would have to be the people who are let go. And she's like, it really personally affects me. And I know that it wasn't easy to say. But our job isn't to make easy decisions. Our job is to make the best decision for the business. And that sucks. And it's hard. And we feel devastated. But your job, the caliber and the quality of what you do is directly related to the difficult decisions that you can make in a timely fashion.

Jasmine Star (00:14:55) - Who? Okay. We're going to move on. So, uh, lesson one was analytical thinking. And lesson number two is effective communication. Now lawyers must communicate persuasively and clearly. This skill is so important in business because like negotiations, client interactions, presenting ideas to investors, clients, presenting ideas to your team. Now a technique that I like to use for clear communication is something that I kind of took a twist on from law school and law school. They practice the Socratic method, and the Socratic method involves questioning like you're questioning commonly held beliefs and assumptions to encourage critical thinking. For example, a professor might ask students to consider why they believe something is true or why they hold that certain opinion. And let me tell you, you couldn't say because I feel like it. Because it's true. Um, because it was raised this way. Because it says it. And then you can't cite a particular religion because not everybody adheres to that type of religion. If you wanted somebody to understand your point of view, you needed to use facts and law.

Jasmine Star (00:16:01) - And if we're doing this in our business, we can't just say, oh, um, why do you feel that way? Because I do. No, no, no, I need to clearly communicate that to the team, to investors, to clients. Now, this allows people to challenge their assumptions and think critically, to find their own solutions and even lead to mindset shifts. This is the thing that we're called to do as professionals. At least I believe so. And this is something that I learned in law school. Now, another technique I like to use is using as few words as possible. Now I know you're listening and you're rolling your eyes because it's my podcast and all I do is use words, right? But who I am on this podcast is very different than when I am in CEO mode. Like the strongest arbitrators and lawyers aren't those who use the most words. The strongest are those who use their words strategically. Now, when you get to the main point faster, you keep your audience rapt.

Jasmine Star (00:16:57) - They're paying attention fully. And then the more words you use, the more convoluted your convoluted girl. Just girl friend boyfriend, my friend. Friends convoluted, y'all. This. And this is why I dropped out of law school. Um, or actually, maybe I applied a different belief. Maybe I could be so compelling that I could petition Merriam-Webster dictionary to add convoluted instead of convoluted. Okay, so the more words you use, the more convoluted your point becomes. Now I know people. I'm going to rub people the wrong way, but the most commonly used phrase I use in meetings okay, I'm going to rub you the wrong way. If somebody presents me with something, the thing I say the most is, can you please say it again? But this time use less words like legitimately. I know you had a point and it's a great point, but you lost me in all the words. Tell me what you need to say in the shortest amount of words possible. Another thing I say is, can you say that again? But like I'm five.

Jasmine Star (00:17:59) - Are you offended by that? You might be, but I'm telling you, I honed this skill to be like less is more or less is more. Get to it. And I also love frontloading a case. So if somebody on the team. This is another thing, like when you are arguing a legal case in court, nobody's like, let me tell you a story. One day back in November. No, of course not. They will stand in front of a jury or a judge and say, Your Honor, he is innocent. So you start immediately with what? Your point is, I freaking love that. Because then after the main point, you have to use all these facts to like get to your point, like in business. Can you just freakin start off with your main point? What are you saying I should do? Then follow it up with facts? I know, I know, but let me tell you all it works. Um, and part of the reason why it works is because when you can use facts, I'm not dealing with opinions or hunches.

Jasmine Star (00:18:48) - I am using facts. And when people use facts to argue their point, I'm loving. I'm more drawn to it because it's a fact. There's history, there's data, there's analytics. Now in law school, citing case law was the practice, right? So the reason why I believe this person is innocent is because based on this case, in this case, in this case that's called case law. But in business it's really good to use examples of other business owners in similar situations to see, hey, what did they do? What did they say? How did they act to get a favorable outcome? So when you're in business, you could use like business law. Like I'm going to cite to business law. I saw this person do this one thing and get this favorable outcome. Therefore, I want to apply the same logic or the same facts to my business. So how can you apply these to your business? Well, you could use this method on yourself. Why do I think this way? Prove my point.

Jasmine Star (00:19:36) - What facts am I using? Or perhaps in sales conversations like you want to encourage potential clients to dig deeper into their concerns and come up with their own solutions, or come up with like clarity on why they're saying no. Like, are you saying no because you're not certain? Or are you saying no because it's a no? Like this is shaping the side of your brain that applies logic. Instead of feeling like you can use phrases like, oh, can you tell me more? Or why might you feel that way? Well, what is the plan to reach your goals? Could you elaborate on that? These are all active things that I have been using and learning ever since law school. So we covered analytical thinking, effective communication. And the third lesson I learned in law school is time management. Okay, as you can guess, the workload in law school is and was incredibly intense. And so it taught me a whole new level and way to manage my time efficiently. This began the practice of me waking up early.

Jasmine Star (00:20:31) - And most importantly, this is the time in my life when I chose discipline. Now, I wouldn't say I was a disciplined person then, but it was a muscle that I began to form, and then I began to focus on it. And it was proof that when I set my mind to something, I could do it. So it started very small. I realized that my mind was better in the morning. I realized that my hours in the morning were a heck of a lot more productive than they were at night. So if I knew that about me and that was my circadian rhythm, well, then I was like, how small can I start? So I started waking up 15 minutes earlier and I did that. Not every day. I did it every other day. And then I woke up earlier, like every day, 15 minutes, just 15 minutes. And then I started adding following 15 minutes earlier to sleep. So I would be falling asleep 15 minutes earlier every few days. And then all of a sudden the two coalesced.

Jasmine Star (00:21:28) - And so I found myself every day waking up 15 minutes earlier and going to bed 15 minutes earlier. And then slowly I started expanding when I started making time for sleep, but also for my waking hours. And this was the first time in my life ever that I was aware of the discipline I was choosing. A couple days ago, I was having a conversation with my sister or my sister and said, oh well, it's just that you're disciplined. And I looked at her and I thought, I'm. I, I'm not disciplined more than the average person. And she'll say, well, you are, because you can. And then she cited a few things, and I said, as much discipline as it takes for me to say no to pizza every night and instead choose a salad, it's the same amount of discipline that I'm exerting, because it takes discipline to order the pizza every night, and it takes discipline to order the salad every night. It takes discipline to choose working out, and it takes just as much discipline to stay sitting on the couch.

Jasmine Star (00:22:29) - When people ask me like, oh, what's your favorite TV show? And I'm like, I, I don't know, I'm not really watching TV these days. And people are like, oh, she's so disciplined, really? Because it sure takes a hell of a lot of discipline to sit on your couch and watch Netflix for an entire series. That's discipline. We all have discipline. We're applying that discipline in different areas. Own it. That was the first time in my life that I was like, I am choosing a different form of discipline. I began time blocking during law school. Like I just realized I can't get it all done. I need to know where every single minute is going. That's when time blocking. And then I stuck to that timeline. No matter what, I use this practice still to this day. Like I set a schedule and stick to that schedule. Now people are like, yeah, but what happens when things come up? I know I have a husband who works and lives at home with me.

Jasmine Star (00:23:17) - I have a toddler who lives and works like work. What does she do? I mean, she like runs the house, basically, but like, she's at home. There are things that happen in my day. And so then what I'm doing is I'm padding my day for unexpected needs, interruptions, extra book breaks. So I feel confident that I can execute on my daily to do list because I've patted it like I'm like, okay, add another 15 minutes, add another 15 minutes here, and then all of a sudden at the end of the day, I'm not being like, man, I missed out on 30 minutes worth of work. I'm a failure. I'm less than no, no, no. It was just that was what I can handle today, considering my life. And as my daughter gets older, I might not have to pad my day so much. I flex as my life changes. It was at this time that I also began watching how other people created time by sharing information.

Jasmine Star (00:24:02) - I started off this podcast by saying I felt like an outsider. I was very alone. I was a loner in law school. It was very clear I was a lone wolf. I hung out on my own. I was okay with it for the most part, but it was because I was thinking very small. So we all were assigned the same amount of reading. But because I was a loner in law school, I did all that reading on my own. But I saw other people divide the reading, and then they would meet in groups and they would distill their portions of what they read, and they would learn it together. They had it, right. They weren't just saving time, but they were teaching each other how to think about the law. They were sharpening each other's learning curve. I was doing it alone. And I think it's the same in business. When you surround yourself with people who are in similar stages of growth, you share what you know and then you shorten the learning curve.

Jasmine Star (00:24:54) - So what I have learned from the beginning, like when I really started growing my businesses, I needed to get inside of a community. I needed to get into small groups. I needed to, quote unquote, divide the reading and teach each other. You know what? What I'm saying. I see this happening so often on the inside of social curator. There are groups of people who just say, okay, well, for this month, we're going to stay committed to each other about this one thing, or they set up their own zoom calls, like, exactly. That's right. That's what you do. You take ownership and finding your people so you're not a lone wolf. Travel in a pack. You can do this in business by surrounding yourself with entrepreneurs who are in the same season of business as you, or maybe like a couple steps ahead. I do this by joining masterminds, but I understand that's an investment. Not everybody is there at that time, so find a community that you can do for free.

Jasmine Star (00:25:37) - I promise you they exist. You just have to look for them. I also want to challenge you to decide on an area of your business where you would like to be more disciplined, and then you could start making and tracking small shifts daily to build to your new routine. Okay, so, um, you know, as I record, as I record these podcasts, I, I have headphones in so I can hear myself talk. And if you have noticed that in this episode, I'm like, short of breath or you can hear wheezing, yo, I have had a cough since December 2023. Yeah, what is it? It's March and I'm like hacking up a lung. And so I know I'm probably going to get some like offers for some like homeopathic apple cider vinegar. I know y'all, but like just deal with me. I'm trying the best I can. I literally feel like I am like nine months pregnant, chain smoking wife of a trucker, like. And I'm just like, well, I can just breathe a little here.

Jasmine Star (00:26:33) - So I hear it. I'm going to get better, I promise you. But please don't pitch me on your homemade remedy. I know, I know, my mom has tried a thousand times over to get me on some like, you know, like ginger root cough medicine. Okay, so we're gonna move on to the next lesson that I learned in law school. And that's paying attention to details. As you might guess, precision is crucial in law because you want to avoid misinterpretation or legal mistakes. And this attention to detail is also so necessary in your business. Why? Well, because you draft contracts. You draft agreements. Any other legal business documents so important in law school, attention to detail was everything, and I prided myself on focusing on the small details. And then a crazy thing happened. I was doing so many things at my business at once, that I became a little bit lax when it came to the details. Of course, I paid attention. Oh, of course I made it into the details.

Jasmine Star (00:27:22) - Um, but I wasn't double and triple checking. And that's what I did in law school. I was trained to double and triple check, and I did that in law school. I didn't do that in business. I kind of tapered off until a very big mistake. Okay, so I had a client who changed their wedding date. She reached out to me and said her wedding date was X. I said, great, she signed the contract. She sent it back to me. I had a different client reach out to me. Client B for a different date. She sent me the contract and then client A reached out to me via email and said, we are considering changing the date to this date. And I said, um, sure, of course I'm available that date. And I did not triple and double checked that I had booked a client on that date and a week before the wedding happened. She's like, I'm so excited to be seeing you this weekend of the wedding. And I was like, no, it's not her wedding.

Jasmine Star (00:28:18) - This weekend. I looked at the contract for the client whose wedding it was, and then I looked at her contract and it wasn't updated. And so I emailed her back and I said, oh, you're on your contract. I couldn't even get my words out because I was like, your contract dates this day. And she's like, oh, well, remember in that email I said we were considering changing the date and I was like, considering changing the date and then not following up to confirm that you change the date nor sign a new contract. Y'all, I lost my dang mind. I actually thought I lost my business. I was like, I'm gonna get sued. This is the worst possible thing that happens. I'm going to be very honest with you. I was so deranged that I actually I'm embarrassed of this thought, but I'm just going to be real with you. I had the thought of sending my twin sister to the wedding with a camera, and sending my husband with her to be, like, just pretend her me and JD will handle the whole wedding.

Jasmine Star (00:29:03) - I swear to you, that is the most awful sick thought, but desperate times. Of course, my husband was like, never in a million years are you ever doing that? And so I had to come clean. I had to come clean to the client, and I'm like, this is what happened. I will 100% refund you the entire cost of the wedding. I will personally find a different photographer with my similar style. If there's a difference of price, I will pay it. And I said, or I can have my husband go to the wedding and I will pay to have another professional first shooter with him. So you're going to get two. At this wedding and I will give you an album as part of my apology. And she accepted it. And so that lesson taught me for the rest of your dang life, you will double and triple check. So ever since that mistake, I approach every client, every contract, every business negotiation like I'm representing myself in court. Like I check that last detail every single time.

Jasmine Star (00:29:57) - And as the business grew over time, like I realized, like, if I want to scale, if I want this business to be tens, 20s, 30s hundreds of millions of dollars, I need to remove myself from the details and focus on big picture thinking. Now, when we hire a team member, I have to tell you, we're looking to bring people on who are focused on details, because if I can trust the team to manage the details, that I can trust that they're going to triple check everything, great. I'm now freed to move faster, think bigger, and I had to get a standard for what I expected in place. I had to embody that behavior before I ever expected anybody else on the team to do it. And then once I expected them, the people in the team to do it, I then say, okay, I trust you to deploy again to this and hold this standard internally. Now you can practice paying attention to details in your business by setting time aside each day.

Jasmine Star (00:30:48) - Just double, triple check your work and then do it so many times that it becomes a natural part of your routine, sometimes by stepping away from your computer. If you don't have a team right, and you're working on something and you're like, I need fresh eyes, step away. Go make yourself a smoothie, drink a lot of water, squeeze some lemon in it, do some jumping jacks, then return with fresh eyes because then you could possibly find errors or even just ways to improve your work. Okay, so the fifth lesson, and the last one that I'm going to talk about in this episode is problem solving, right? Oh, you're like, oh wow, deep thoughts. And this one's a little vague problem solving. Great skill set. But how do you build that skill from nothing? Well, I felt the same way. I learned one key perspective from watching other people. How could I see the same facts and interpret them differently? Like I want to use a really simple example.

Jasmine Star (00:31:37) - Okay, there's a fact I was speeding 27mph over the speed limit. That's a fact. According to the law, I'm guilty. But if I could present to the jury that I was speeding because I was giving birth, or I lost control of my car or my brakes were blown, then it would change the intent and that would most likely change the verdict. Similarly, in business, we face facts every day. You don't have money yet. You haven't booked enough clients yet. You don't have a strong marketing strategy yet. You don't have enough time to dedicate to your business ambitions yet. Those are facts. But the most resilient entrepreneurs look at facts as opportunities to get scrappy and innovative. They don't look at them as dead ends. Instead of looking at the fact that I don't have money yet, and then I get overwhelmed and stuck, I ask myself ways I could generate money into my new revenue stream is produced. This helps my brain think of possibilities in action items instead of getting stuck in like dead end thinking.

Jasmine Star (00:32:33) - Remember, action items might not be the right thing to do, but they will lead you to the right outcome as long as you have the humility to keep taking action. The more actions you take, the faster you're going to find the answer. You could apply this to your business by taking 1 to 3 actions a week that you specifically don't feel ready for. And then by doing this, you're going to be able to learn, adjust, and even get results you would not have gotten otherwise. Now I have to chat about one more thing. I know that you are ready to unlock your next level as an entrepreneur. You wouldn't be listening to this podcast at this point if that was not the fact. So to reach your next revenue goal, to have a turning point in your business, to be able to look back at something and think like, wow, that was the day that everything in my life in business changed. Like I went through that I have experienced that. I am telling you, it didn't change my life and it didn't change my family's life.

Jasmine Star (00:33:21) - It's changing my legacy. And that feels like such a huge thing to say. But I firmly believe with all of my heart, my daughter will be getting access to things I had no idea about. And if I raise her right, and if I raise her well, God willing, she's to be able to deploy the same thing. If she chooses to have a family. We're changing legacies. And I think to myself, I want to do that. I want to do that for more people. I want to do that for the lone wolves. I want to do that for people who feel like they don't have a business, or they feel like they're on the outside, or they feel like they're unqualified. And I'm sitting here standing. You like telling you that I have done something that I never thought was possible. And so then all of a sudden, people ask for like insights and feedback and I'm like, I want to do this with people. I just don't want to teach people. I want to do it with people.

Jasmine Star (00:34:04) - Like, could I teach people how to, like, radically change the way that they're thinking about life? Business, law, school failure, life failures, business failures, business growth, business revenue doubling? Could I actually think about changing somebody's legacy? And the answer is, I better frickin believe it, because I am teaching an eight week life course, and I am teaching my number one launch strategy for generating millions of dollars. And I have generated over $23 million in less than a decade. And it. Didn't start off fast, it started off slow and then we just gained momentum. And I'm like thinking, how can I gain momentum and how can I help others with momentum but also give them access to my templates, my resources? Like, can you be in a private community with other entrepreneurs? Can I go live? Can we be teaching this together? If you are listening to this on the day it airs Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 today before 5 p.m.. This is the last chance to join your biggest launch ever, at least for the foreseeable future.

Jasmine Star (00:34:59) - We don't know if we're doing this again because I'm teaching it freaking live. Your biggest launch ever.com. I really hope to see you on the inside. But that's that. That's that. I can't talk about law school failures and what I felt about my business failures, what it felt like, who I was without giving people the same opportunity that I had learned over nine years to figure out that has changed my damn life. So we're going to review the Vive Law School lessons are analytical thinking, effective communication, time management, attention to detail, and problem solving. Please remember, every situation brings lessons and no one can take them away. What you have learned have prepared you for this moment. I hope you enjoy this episode. If it would be so kind, could you leave a review? I am telling you, you think it's so silly and stupid, but your 30s will have a wild impact on this show. I am actually going to be shouting out people's reviews and people are going to be winning prizes.

Jasmine Star (00:35:58) - We're giving away prizes like I'm giving away courses. I'm giving away subscriptions to social curator, I'm giving away 30 minute coaching sessions. I'm not even announcing it. I'm just starting to do it. So consider yourself warned. Y'all consider yourself warmed at Jasmine Star. Leave a review. Much love, much gratitude. Be blessed to have a great day.