Ep 187 - Design, Live, Thrive: Preparing for a Transformational Summit

I've always found inspiration in the wisdom shared by incredible women who teach, coach, and generously draw from their life experiences. That's why I’m really excited for the Design, Live, Thrive Summit happening on January 12th and 13th, where 30 women speakers will be discussing how to make 2024 your best year ever.

In this week's episode, I invited six speakers from the Design, Live, Thrive Summit to share their insights and learnings from their preparation journey. These speakers will deliver transformational talks, covering topics from overcoming stubborn weight gain, expressive writing, and blending families to knowing your strengths, managing self-talk, and navigating the next chapter in midlife and empty nest. We'll also hear some of their personal experiences and beautiful takeaways from the Business Building Boutique. Stay tuned until the end for a dose of inspiration that will empower you to continue the amazing work of changing the lives of the women you love and adore.

Welcome to the Life Coach Business Building Podcast! Join me as I teach you simple (organic) strategies to gain more paid clients in your life coaching business. Plus, I’ll share strategies for designing your offer, pricing your coaching, and selling your coaching offers, I have it all covered. My goal is to inspire you to take simple, consistent action to grow your coaching business. So, if you're ready to be a well-respected life coach with paid clients, this podcast is for you!

Sign up for the FREE Design, Live, Thrive Summit now to gain early access to ALL six talks and receive a special gift from each of our six speakers.

Connect with the Speakers: 

Amy Ambrozich

https://www.instagram.com/amyambrozich_stepfamilycoach/

www.daretoparent.com 

Andrea Sehmel

https://www.instagram.com/rn2rn_coaching/

https://www.nursetonursecoaching.com/

Anne Thomas

https://www.instagram.com/annethomaslife

www.annethomaslife.com

Karena Keesee

https://www.instagram.com/karenakeesee/

https://karenakeesee.com

Linda Jones

https://www.instagram.com/lindoula_mojo  

https://www.Thewritingdoula.com

Margie Setterlof

https://www.instagram.com/sonlighthealth/

https://www.sonlighthealth.com/

Episode details:

01:24 The Purpose of the Design, Live, Thrive Summit

02:46 Introducing Six Summit Speakers And Their Topics

09:46 How the Speakers Prepared for the Summit

20:37 Experiences and Takeaways in the Business Building Boutique

Let’s Connect!

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Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:06

If you're a coach listening you're seeing that you're not alone in how you feel, because what each one of these ladies has described they're all very smart women who are very successful, have had very successful careers and whatever they've done. That the reality is is building a coaching business is a different kind of thing. There are real hurdles and there is a real learning curve to learning how to even do basic things like write emails to potential clients versus all the emails or to be on Zoom. You've been on Zoom for years the last few years but you haven't been on Zoom doing this. So I hope you all that are listening now see that you're not alone in how you feel. Everybody has experienced the same kind of thing as they've built their business.

Speaker 2: 0:49

Hello, I'm Debbie Shadid, the host of the Life Coach Business Building Podcast. If you are ready to have more clients in your Life Coach business, then you're in the right spot. Each week, I'm going to teach you super simple strategies to grow your business without feeling overwhelmed and without spending money on paid ads. Now, if that sounds interesting, stick around and let's get started. Welcome to today's podcast. I am so excited to introduce you guys to six of our summit speakers. I first want to take a moment and talk to you about the Design Live Thrive Summit. This is the second annual summit happening on January 12th and 13th. So what is this summit all about? Let me give you the backstory.

Speaker 2: 1:37

When I think about my clients and the work that we have done together inside the business building boutique, there was two problems that I wanted to solve for them, and number one was I wanted to help them establish a reputation as being an expert in their field, and I wanted to help them have a reputation and expert status with even people like their family members who thought that maybe coaching wasn't the best move for them. I also wanted to make sure that friends in their world maybe past coworkers or current coworkers really understood what coaching was about and could see the value of their coaching. So that's the reason why I decided to help them become a speaker at the Design Live Thrive Summit. Another opportunity was to help them grow the no-like-and-trust factor of their coaching business and also to grow their email list, so to help get them in front of their ideal clients. So if you're listening to this podcast and you have not signed up for the Design Live Thrive Summit, you want to do that. We're going to have 30 speakers who are going to be talking about all the ways that you can make 2024 your best year ever.

Speaker 2: 2:45

Let's get going, margie. Why don't you start out?

Speaker 4: 2:47

Well, thank, you, I'm Margie Satterloff, and I help women 50 plus who are frustrated with failed diets, they're frustrated with the lower energy that they feel around this time and they're also frustrated with their medical doctors or conventional doctors, who just don't seem to get them and they've tried everything to reach the results they want without success and to fix their health problems.

Speaker 4: 3:08

And my topic for the summit is called Beyond Hormones Cracking the Weight Loss Code for Women Over 50. So that, in a nutshell, basically, is how to help women discover the real root cause of their stubborn weight gain, as I mentioned, and then their low energy and other common symptoms that tend to show up right around that menopausal age. And we address the thoughts they think, how they move and, most importantly, their gut health in terms of how that impacts their hormones and how getting to the root cause involves more than just looking at the surface in terms of those hormonal changes. So we take a science-based, a faith-centered and nutritional approach to helping them reach those goals without using drugs, without relying on traditional approaches and just allowing them to do it in a natural sort of way. That's basically the women I reach and the topics that I'm talking about, so that they can age with grace, vitality, and not have to go down the same path that their parents went down in terms of how they spend their 50s 60s and beyond.

Speaker 2: 4:10

That's right. Great Thanks, margie. How about you?

Speaker 3: 4:14

Okay, it's good to be here. My name is Linda Jones. I go by the writing doula. I'm an emotional wellness and writing coach and I help my clients use writing to become better storytellers, legacy keepers, and also to use it to practice self-care. My specialty is in working with black women to help them rebound from emotional setbacks that could be caused by grief, microaggressions and life challenges in general. The name of my topic for the summit is called Writing to Ex-Hell, but it's how expressive writing can help ease the emotional impact of black grief, a topic that's sort of understudied but conditioned, that's pervasive in our community.

Speaker 2: 5:07

Oh, so good. I have to stop for a moment and say Taiz and I have listened to every one of these talks and I have to tell you, guys, you are really in for something special, because every talk is so informative, so enlightening and so inspiring. So, thank you, linda. All right, miss Amy.

Speaker 1: 5:25

Hi ladies, I am Amy Ambrosec. I am a blended family coach and strategist. My company is Deer to Parent and I work with blended or beginning to blend couples engaged in blending those that are in the first stages of how are we going to do this just right. And I work with the couples together, helping them build a stronger parenting partnership and parenting plan, make sure they're on the same page for discipline and expectations, things like that, and I really help them focus on those step-family relationships that are really a challenge to not only work through but to understand each other's perspective within that whole dynamic. So my talk with the summit is StepMom for Wicked to Wonderful, because we all know that these poor stepmoms step in and everybody's got a judgment upon them already before they even meet them. So I want to help women understand where that came from, what they can do about it and how they can really own their own role as a stepmom. So happy to be here. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 6:24

That's awesome. All right, Andrea.

Speaker 5: 6:27

I help nurses discover more job satisfaction from the career that they've been dreaming of and that they worked really hard to achieve. I will help them become more resilient and more self-compassionate, get better aligned with their purpose in their life and in their career, and improve their relationships at work and at home. My topic for the summit talk is knowing your strengths to make stuff better in your life. I think it's really important to come from a positive start where you focus on what's going well and start from there, rather than what's going wrong with your life. Thank you.

Speaker 2: 7:05

Andrea. All right, Karina, how?

Speaker 6: 7:06

about you. Hello, I'm an empowerment coach for single women in midlife and I help women figure out who they are, why they think they're stuck, where they want to go next and create the plan to get there. And my talk is how self-talk can change your life. And I chose this topic because we hear a lot about self-care rituals and you should pamper yourself. Or you know, do you go to the spa to get your nails done, do you take a bath, do you read or nap? And you do those things every once in a while to treat yourself. But I've heard women that I work with, or even in my own family and in my own brain, how we talk to ourselves and it's not always so nice. And I think the self-care, the main self-care ritual that we can really practice is self-talk and being our own cheerleaders and giving ourselves a positive outlook and how it builds on each other. Each comment will build and grow and give you more strength and empowerment within yourself. The headscarf really got a cumulative effect, so that's what I'm going to talk about.

Speaker 2: 8:13

That's awesome. Really great point about self-care, because we do think about it sometimes as like going to get a manicure and that's not what we're talking about. So that's great. Thank you All right, anne.

Speaker 7: 8:24

I'm Anne Thomas. I am a life coach for women in that changing dynamic of midlife and emptiness, and so I help women make that transition from being mom to being whoever you are, and so I came to that work because I had to go through it myself. It's a very heartfelt time for a lot of us and we don't spend a lot of time really thinking about the other side of that bridge, and I'm here to tell you that it can be just as rewarding as the journey to get there. So saying that the topic of my talk for the summit is momentum, that matters utilizing the four pillars of connection to create a life you love, and that just gets the clients or the women to think about what are the best parts of you and let's take those and bring them into the next chapter.

Speaker 2: 9:06

All right, thank you, anne. I want to take a moment now and introduce you to our mindset coach and our client success coach, tyce Glenn Tyce, why don't you take over? Yes, thank you, Debbie.

Speaker 8: 9:17

I am Tyce Glenn. I am the mindset coach here and the client success coach and I just absolutely love coaching all of the members in this community and we're doing such beautiful work. I'm so excited for the summit, so excited for everything that we are planning here. The talks are amazing and I just can't wait to have it all out there for everybody together. So I was wondering if some of you could come and talk a little bit about this preparation. How was it preparing for this summit and why don't you tell us, how did this preparation help you as a coach?

Speaker 7: 9:51

Well, it gave me that chance to take a pause, because we're doing a million things right. We've got great ideas, we had execution that we have to do, we have to create with all these plates that are up on the cane as a business owner and entrepreneur, that we're trying to keep spinning right. So, the opportunity to prepare a talk for the summit. Let me take a little pause on a lot of it. Just really write my brain around 30 minutes. If you have 30 minutes, what do you need your people to know and how are you going to get that information through to them? And how are you going to put your slides together? How are you going to record that? How are you going to create some kind of value for someone who's going to give you that lovely price of time? And so I thought through it.

Speaker 7: 10:28

I put together a lot of my experience from coaching last year. My clients and I just took the very favorite parts of it, the things that even I learned along the way, and I wrapped it up into a 30-minute signature talk which I now have recorded and ready to go, which I think is so valuable. Also, I had help when I got stuck doing something. At first I was recording with notes and that was being really kind of awkward for me. And then I had some mindset coaching from this mindset coach named Taiz and she said forget the notes. So I said okay and boom, I hit record and it just fell out. I felt like I grew as a coach. I felt like I grew as a presenter along the way.

Speaker 8: 11:05

I agree with you. Sometimes we are so stuck on how to do it perfectly that it becomes so robotic and the goal is just for you to be you. We love you as you are and, yes, I'm so excited for your talk. It's a beautiful talk. Another thing is that it is only 30 minutes, right? How can we add all of this knowledge in a 30-minute session? It's amazing. So, andrea, why don't you tell us a little bit? How was the experience for you?

Speaker 5: 11:29

I am grateful for this experience because a year ago I graduated with a university degree in Christian Life Coaching and I kind of floundered for about seven or eight months trying to figure out how to put the pieces together to build a business, and I was listening to lots of different people who had nuggets of helpful information.

Speaker 5: 11:50

But coming to Debbie Shedded and the business building critique has put those pieces together clearly and in a community of women who are positive and enthusiastic, and the icing on the cake is having Taiz to sort of not just along, focusing on our projects and believing in ourselves. It was really pretty cool to me because I was a nurse educator and I saw what Debbie had created and that was this culminating project that we were going to break down. The expectations were made perfectly clear, the project was broken down into baby steps and, lo and behold, at the end of this project we have everything we need to succeed. Really no ifs, ands or buts. We've got what we need, what we needed to put together or finesse, and I'm grateful for that because this was the nudge I needed when I wasn't making progress before.

Speaker 8: 12:45

Oh, that's wonderful. Yes, I love the example you just gave. It's almost like all these puzzles that we have together, and here in this coaching group we really put all those pieces together and then you actually have something right. You have your business ready to go, and that is such a beautiful thing that we get to do here in this boutique. I love it. Thank you so much, Andrea. So Linda, how about you? How did that help you as a coach?

Speaker 3: 13:07

It helped me organize and gave me structure, because before I came here, I was in my head a lot because there was so much information swirling around I didn't know exactly what to do with it. I had a bunch of lists and notes here and there and I just knew, really felt strongly, that I needed to take a step and get some help, so it really gave me clarity. Debbie talks in such self-assured tones that everything's going to be okay and it appears to have an answer for every crisis. So it's like I'm all set up to be panicked and I just waste all that panic energy because she has okay, let me show you how to do this Right. And that is Natalie, and she helps you see that you have what you need In front of you. Just let me help you point what needs to go where.

Speaker 8: 14:01

And even knowing what, do you need to prepare a talk for a summit? Right, we all know we don't know what we need, but it's the direction, right, Like the actions that you need to take. What is the very next step that you need to take to organize all those notes? Sometimes you even have the clarity, but we don't really know what to do with it. So, yes, that was such a great example. Thank you for sharing this. How about this like the whole experience of preparing for this summit? I'm curious to see how did that go for you, Karina. Would you like to share a little bit the full experience of preparing for it?

Speaker 6: 14:32

Like Linda said, it does help you get organized to have the deadlines and structure and everything laid out. So that was good because I thrive on structure. But the experience was really tough In my former IT career. I was on video all the time, especially since the pandemic. We were forced into Zoom and Teams calls and no big deal. I could share my screen and do show and tell whatever. But I didn't realize it would bring up all of my past drama about public speaking and it really pushed me out of my comfort zone, forced me to get more coaching from Taiese. Thankfully you were there to hold my hand and save me and tell me it was going to be okay. And, like Anne said, ditch the notes, because I was trying to be more robotic and perfect. I had to ditch the structure in that sense and just let it flow from my heart. So it really helped me grow and think about who I'm talking to and why I'm doing this in the first place.

Speaker 8: 15:31

Even the level of trusting yourself as the coach. Right, you know what you were talking about. You don't need all those notes to read to make sure it's perfect, trusting that you can make it perfect just because you are such an amazing coach. So, getting back to the whole trusting self, and you all did it so beautifully. I'm so proud of all of you guys. Amazing work. How about you, margie?

Speaker 4: 15:55

Well, I would just tap the first of all Ditto everything everyone has said, because it is so, so true. The experience of preparing for this summit for me, was probably one of the best things I have done since I've opened up my practice as a practitioner and a clinician. We're not really trained over the years to do marketing. Marketing is just something that never had to do, and now it's the biggest thing. In order to get our message out there, we have to do this, and so how am I ever going to have the time to really do this summit with all the different things that we were learning?

Speaker 4: 16:28

But the really important part of this was, for me, was everything I was learning. The summit allowed me to put it into practice and I could then just take what I was learning and all of a sudden now I have a finished product, and it was a big confidence booster for me because I knew who I wanted to reach and I knew what I wanted to say. But this, the organization and the clarity that came out of this to really get it down the earth so that it can go out, was beyond anything I even thought possible. And then the coaching both you, debbie and Ty, both helped get me through many of the hurdles. And then the group. You know, having the group around too, but but mostly just having that confidence to say, yeah, I've got this now and I can get out there and present it, that was really the biggest takeaway for me. I love that.

Speaker 8: 17:13

The confidence right, we all know we are capable of doing it, but it's not until you actually do it. Sit down and take ownership of this project, and then you really look back like, oh yes, I am that good, I could do this and I can do it even more. So amazing, thank you so much. How about you, amy? How's that for?

Speaker 1: 17:30

you Do. You know everything that everyone else has already said and like oh yes, you know that. That. That what everyone's saying. For me, though and this came from about the mindset work that you gave Tais and Debbie, you just getting on my case about it which I needed was that ownership of who I am as a coach and taking my credentials out there and my degrees out there, because that all is a part of who I am as a coach, but owning it, because you know it's very easy to you know, put that stuff on, go yeah, I've got these certifications, blah, blah, blah, but really stepping into that and owning it and stepping in front of you know everyone's going to watch these talks and go no, this is what I do and I'm good at it, and it's okay to say that.

Speaker 1: 18:12

The other thing is the getting kind of a cycle or routine of social media. That was really helpful for me, because I don't know why, but that mindset of I really don't want to do this, and now it's like I'm just inviting people in, and, tais, you were the one that threw that phrase out there, and it got me over the hump of I don't want to be bothering people, which is a phrase I know Debbie catches this thing all the time. I don't want to be bothered to people, but being in this program it allows you to grow in your confidence, but it also allows you to get those changes of mindset which really helped. Like I'm not bugging people by telling them about my blended Bailey blueprint, I'm inviting them into support and strategies for them. So those mindset things I think were the biggest takeaways for me in this whole process.

Speaker 2: 18:56

For sure, all right can you guys see how good these talks are going to be, all these ladies and what they're talking about. Their topics are so good. But also, if you're a coach listening and I know that's my audience you're seeing that you're not alone in how you feel, because what each one of these ladies has described they're all very smart women who are very successful, have had very successful careers and whatever they've done. That the reality is is building a coaching business is a different kind of thing and there are real hurdles and there is a real learning curve to learning how to even do basic things like write emails to potential clients versus all the emails, or, like Karina said, to be on Zoom. You've been on Zoom for years last few years, but you haven't been on Zoom doing this. So I hope you all that are listening now see that you're not alone in how you feel. Everybody has experienced the same kind of thing as they built their business. So I want to talk about the fast track.

Speaker 2: 19:53

You guys are all part of the fast track, which is one of our programs in the business building boutique, and so I want to talk to you guys about that I also. I'm going to wrap up this today by talking to three of our last year's summit attendees, so you guys can hear why you want to attend the summit. Let's start, though, and talk about the fast track. Maybe you guys share a couple of your biggest takeaways from the work we've done together. Everybody's kind of at different places in their business, and one thing that's unique about the coaching that we do in the business building boutique is that we coach people on any niche and at any level of business experience in a group setting, so people think how could that possibly work that way, but I'd love to hear from you guys to share a couple of takeaways, and when you start, I'm happy to that roadmap that you provide.

Speaker 7: 20:41

Debbie provides basically a roadmap for any of us. Putting on where you are in your business. You jump on where you are and whatever step you're at, and then that roadmap takes you to the next place that you need to be. I just hired Debbie for the third time. I just raised my hand and said I'm doing fast track, a third round, not because I didn't do well, because I did do well, I did make progress and I want to go back and alter some things and kind of up my game a little bit here and there. And it's just such a great roadmap to be able to go oh, I got to do this next, okay, oh, when I'm doing this, make sure I think about this. For someone who hasn't ever owned her own business before, it's just really great.

Speaker 7: 21:18

And I will say the other thing is the community that we have in office hours and in each other in our fast track groups is just amazing, and our Facebook group were constantly in there. Hey, look at this. What do you think about this? Is this worded right? Is my message coming across? What do you think about these colors? Getting great, great feedback from people and we're women that have all different niches, and some of us have basically very sister niches, but we're such deeper coaches there's plenty for everybody, no matter where you are on it, and so I've learned from the people that are just coming in. From the very beginning I've learned a ton, and hopefully they've learned things for me too. So I guess the roadmap and then the breadth of the community are the two things that I think are the best things for me.

Speaker 2: 21:58

Oh, thank you Really. It's the women in this group In the fast track. They're not messing around, they are getting stuff done. They're literally taking fast track seriously and they're doing it, so it is a great place to be. All right, linda, how about you Share a couple of your takeaways from the fast track?

Speaker 3: 22:16

It was a roadmap for me. That's one I call it my blueprint. It really gives me my marching orders that I created them, but it just it forces me. It's the accountability primarily showing up to fast track and talking about the progress and if I haven't made any progress, it lights that fire under me, progress that I set for myself. It lights a fire under me and also inspires me to move on. So the accountability is really important because this is really good to the things emerge out of these sessions that I'm like, wow, finally, finally, all this stuff that I had that I know is good stuff. It's no longer this lump of clay, I'm sculpting something out of it.

Speaker 2: 23:02

It's really good, All right. Thank you, Margie. How about you?

Speaker 4: 23:06

Yes, I have two definite things and I've invested in a lot of coaching over the years in the last two or three years, but never have I had the experience. And again I'd have to say the roadmap was the key to what I needed because of the organizational structure of it and it takes you to the basics. You know, every other time I would be in coaching I would be jumping up to this level, I'd jump in at this level, but I never really went back to the basics and set up my brand or set up anything that actually gave me a foundation for what I really wanted to do. So with Debbie's roadmap, that's number one. I know it's the third person that said that, but it hits so powerful because of the organizational structure that has taken you from the very beginning and then self-pacing through what you need or what you haven't already done.

Speaker 4: 23:55

Second is the accountability through the group coaching or through the group office hours. And when I say accountability it was really self-accountability. It's not like I had to be accountable to anyone specifically, but every week there was a question what did you do this week? So it made us really look at what did we accomplish and when we did that it really brought home. Oh man, look what I learned. I learned this, this, this and this. I was like whoa, so that was so, so powerful to me. Those were the two things.

Speaker 2: 24:22

So I wanna let you guys know that Margie, Linda and Anne the last three ladies that I just spoke to they all came into the fast track with businesses, so all of them had sold coaching. I mean, they had websites set up, so they were already established in what they were doing. That's one of the incredible things about the process is that they can come in and go through the same process, as Anne mentioned, start anywhere on the roadmap. Maybe they're moving from private coaching to group coaching or maybe they're adding a new marketing method that they hadn't done before, but really the process works for everybody. Thank you guys for sharing that. All right, so let's talk about the progress that you have made. Karina, I wanna talk to you about where you feel like you've made progress and just share maybe some results in your transformation through the work you've done in the fast track.

Speaker 6: 25:14

It's been huge. Let me just say that because I didn't have a formal business anywhere, I wasn't online, I wasn't on social media. So I started my first postings during the fast track engagement and terrified, but did it anyway, with love and support from Debbie and the group and just wonderful feedback. So now I post weekly, sometimes multiple times a week, on social media and I'm clear on my message and I actually have a functioning website, which I never thought I would have. So that's just amazing to me that all these things that I thought were so huge and impossible and mountains to climb, that there is a way to get it done and it not as hard as you think. It just needs time and dedication and the right leadership and mentor.

Speaker 2: 26:07

Thank you. Yeah, I mean you guys really the progress when you come in and work like this Margie mentioned it when you know you're gonna get asked the question of tell me what you've done this week and we all know that some weeks you don't do anything because life happens. But it really does change how you show up to coaching because you know we're gonna talk about it and everybody is genuinely interested in what you've been doing. So thank you for that, andrea. Why don't you share?

Speaker 5: 26:34

I read or heard something recently about three pillars to business success, and the first was finding your tribe and I thought, well, I feel like I've done that with the business for building boutique.

Speaker 5: 26:48

And the second was serving, not selling, and I felt like, well, debbie does that all the time. She's just you bend over backwards all the time and I can say that about my colleagues here is that this is our desire, is to serve and not come across as selling. That comes secondary. What we're trying to do is sort of fill our buckets and fulfill our purposes with our businesses and create our dream businesses. The selling really comes later. And then the third pillar is doing it through the lens of respect all the time, and even when I feel like I have a really dumb question, I'm always treated respectfully and that is a constant theme in this program. And so I thought, wow, this is exactly what Debbie has built is the finding your tribe and serving, not selling, and doing it with respect. And I thought this is why I have more confidence in starting a business and I want to thank you for that.

Speaker 2: 27:43

That is so, so sweet. My desire is that I'm modeling for you guys how you can be in your own business as well. So thank you. The respect part that was really very kind. There's no question. That to me seems like a question that shouldn't be asked, because I know over the years that's what I wanted was answers. It seemed like I always had a question that if somebody could just answer for me. So that is my goal and of course it's the same way. We both want to answer your questions. So thank you, lovely ladies. Is there anything else that you all want to mention about the Fast Track or anything about your summit talk that we haven't already talked about?

Speaker 1: 28:20

So I would say that so many of us feel like we're isolated when we're doing this by ourselves and there's a million ads for a million different trainings and blah, blah, blah, and so you're running, looking at every shiny object, stepping into this. I've never been more organized and structured and there's a path. Everybody keeps talking about the roadmap and I stole the idea that I'm using it in my program too, because when you have someone who's going to take you from one to two to three to four and give you the support without you trying to Google this and look for that, and then it's this other thing that you start investing in which you really don't need. So it's just that, having that structure, this is the first time I have felt organized and knowing what I'm doing and knowing what I'm working on each week. And it has been and I don't feel isolated. Like you know, as a solopreneur, I'm in my home office by myself all the time and I'm like this is all so hard. But then we meet on Mondays and I see our girls and I'm like, okay, I'm not by myself, I have a whole tribe. We've all been supporting each other through the ups and the downs, but that structure piece that you've given us, Debbie. It's been amazing.

Speaker 1: 29:26

For me, it has been a game changer. I'm no longer looking at anybody else's trainings or anything. I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I have Debbie. That's all I need right now. She's gonna get me where I need to go. So I just I think it's important, because we don't always admit to the fact that we feel isolated, like we don't know what we're doing. We just keep falling forward. I don't feel like I'm doing that anymore, which is this is the first. So I thank you and Taiz for being there, and the ladies in this call. I mean, it's just, it's made a world of difference for me and for my business.

Speaker 2: 29:57

Oh, thank you. Yeah, there is work again that gets done here. I always say this program is not for you if you want somebody to make you do it, because we cannot make you do any of it, but if you want to know how to do it, if you want somebody to give you some honest feedback, if you need the mindset support, if you want to feel connected with women and you want to get your business built, this really is the place to do all those things. You've heard about the progress of ladies in ranking. I want to talk again about the summit and I want to have three of the ladies that attended last year's summit talk about their summit experience so you guys can see why you want to attend Tyisha. You want to start?

Speaker 8: 30:38

Yes, last year it was so much fun. I was actually presenting too, so I had all the experience of feeling so nervous and it's interesting because I have always been very confident in my coaching, so that has never been the problem. But then having that confidence and the business side of it was very different and I think even preparing for the summit was absolutely amazing to see what I'm capable of creating such a short period of time as watching everybody else. I remember I was just listening to all the talks and one in particular. She was talking about teenagers, but everything she was talking about to be a mom of a teenager, it reminded me of my little elementary school kids that feel like they're teenagers and I was just taking notes non-stop.

Speaker 8: 31:23

The talks were so amazing and I feel like really having this intensive right after those two days I was tired. It was so much information but it was so great Like just my mind had opened so much for possibilities, for ideas of how to set new goals and how to just be a better human in general. So I see this summit as this really big, intensive, and I love how it's done in January because it's right when our minds are fresh, right Like all the visions for the year all of our goals and sometimes you don't set goals and you feel so bad for not having the goals set for the year. This is such the perfect time to just grab everything, all this information, and really see your year in a different way. I just loved being a part of the summit last year, but also watching everybody else.

Speaker 8: 32:13

It's amazing to see I think Annie was the one talking in the beginning of how to capture all these amazing ideas you have and put it in a 30 minute, and that is exactly what they all did. In 30 minute session. You have all this amazingness that you just don't need to Google anything else about that topic. And then the next one comes and the next one. It was just so much fun watching it, thank you.

Speaker 2: 32:34

Thais. Let's see Karina. You also attended last year. You want to share your takeaways from the last summit?

Speaker 6: 32:42

Well, I signed up through watching your Canva workshop and because I've got on your email list. The invitation came along and I'm like I wonder what this is about. What is a women's summit? What does that look like? What do they talk about?

Speaker 6: 32:55

So I learned that by watching the summit and hearing perspectives from all different women from different backgrounds, even on ordinary topics that are in our daily lives, that you can really open your mind to new possibilities and new ways of thinking that you might not have even thought of before, and just accepting that there's more out there for you.

Speaker 6: 33:19

You don't have to stay stuck, you don't have to accept the status quo of where you are and even if you don't think something pertains to you, you can get benefit from listening to how other women teach and coach and their life experiences and what they bring to the table and, before you know it, you're gaining all kinds of benefits that you didn't even know you needed. I learned so much and I got several sessions of coaching from these speakers and I have become friends with several of them and we meet outside of coaching and we text and talk regularly so I could be in a summit and be successful to this level, and now I'm in the summit, I'm not just on the sideline, and it's just amazing to see how much can change in one year. So stop resisting and just give it a try.

Speaker 2: 34:14

Oh, my goodness, I just want to have a celebration for everybody. All right, ian, you also attended the summits. Yeah, I did, for all of that, of course.

Speaker 7: 34:24

I think last year I attended the summit, mostly out of curiosity. I saw the imitation. I thought, hmm, kind of like Karina, huh, what is that? What is that like? Who's talking? What are they talking about? Oh, I've seen her before.

Speaker 7: 34:36

I came to the summit and I was glued. I didn't want to miss a thing. It's like I was so glad that there was set lunch breaks because I didn't want to grab lunch and miss something. You know, even though I bought the recording and I listened to it and there was just so much, so many little pearls of wisdom that I was afraid I would miss if I walked away from my desk. So it was that captivating, like I said, the breadth of knowledge of all the coaches, the terrific Presentation that they put together and then, a year later, to also be a speaker in that same group of people was just amazing and just kind of a testament to the growth that this program has.

Speaker 7: 35:10

I mean, I never thought I would do something like be a speaker at a summit like this. I never thought I would be on a podcast, but I saw my peers doing it. I thought what is she can do it. I guess I can do it. I'll try it. It's just gonna open the door and there's just this gentle, loving invitation to try this. Come on, I know you can do it. I felt like that summit was the opening of the door for that last year, to for me, wow beautiful.

Speaker 2: 35:37

Well, I want to tell all the listening that you have a surprise coming on December 30. I'm gonna give you, and all of these ladies are gonna gift you, early access to all of their talks. We're going to release free summit talks we selected all these To be part of. That just gives me goosebumps. I'm so excited for everybody to see it. If you sign up now will put the link in the show notes. If you sign up now, you'll be able to have access to that.

Speaker 2: 36:04

One of the other incredible things is that everybody will have a gift for you that will be some kind of guide or journal or workbook or whatever it is that fits with their talk for you to be able to take what you learn from them to a deeper level. I also want to mention that we have a Facebook group, and I know you've been in lots of Facebook groups, but this is a Facebook group where these coaches want to also be in there to support you. They're gonna be giving away free coaching. They're gonna be there just connecting with you, so I would highly encourage you. It is a free summit, so sign up, join our Facebook group.

Speaker 2: 36:39

We are going to be offering a replay that you can purchase and mentioned it. The replay will give you everybody's talks, all 30 talks and their gifts that they're going to give to everybody, all in one location, and you'll have access to that for a full year for $29. So you'll get those details later, but just know that coming to the summit is free. All these pre summit talks to set you up for success early in the new year are gonna be available for you as well. All right, you guys have been amazing ties. Is there anything else you want to wrap up today's session?

Speaker 8: 37:13

with All. I think it was everything really well said already. Just the summit is amazing. So even you as the coach coming in to learn more and learn new things about your own niche it's so helpful. But even coming with that, you know women's hats right, where you can really learn things. And, as Karina said, I believe you can be in the summit to right like it is an opportunity for you to come and join us and Be a part of the next summit, because it is possible for you to and, just as you saw here, you can get so much done in such a short period of time that all of a sudden you have your full business.

Speaker 8: 37:48

This is not the type of program where you are watching videos and not doing anything. It's something that you come, you built your business, you have something almost tangible that you can show everyone and really have your clients and have the dream that you've always had to have that business set up and you get to show it during the summit. It's beautiful. I just I'm so grateful for you that be for putting this out together. I know it's a lot of work, but it's such a blessing to all of those coaches and all of the people that come and watch and thank you so much for doing this.

Speaker 2: 38:20

Oh, my goodness, you guys are amazing. I tell you I love and adore each one of you. It's my honor to help you. For those of you who've listened to the podcast today, thanks for being here. I we can't wait to see you at the summit. Make sure you sign up today so that you can have early access. You can go to design live thrive dot com and access all the information about the speakers. If you sign up today will be giving you the schedule with all the details about each person's talk and all the other talks that you're going to be listening to as well.

Speaker 2: 38:51

So, you guys, thanks again. I appreciate you so much. Thanks for the amazing work that you're doing to change the lives of the women that you guys each love and adore as well. So have an amazing day, everybody. Talk to you soon, bye, bye. Okay, ladies, that is it for today. Before we go, I want to invite you to head over to Debbie shadow dot com. I this incredible canva training specifically designed for life coaches, where I'm going to teach you how to use Canva to create beautiful graphics to market your life coaching business. Alright, have an amazing week. I'll talk to you very soon. Bye, bye.