Sept. 9, 2025
Go Further, Faster: The Benefits of Collaboration
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In this episode of "Be Life Changers," host Kathy Coates sits down with Monique Lewis of Mo's Sophisticated Events and Anne Wisdom of Business with Wisdom to discuss the incredible power of collaboration. They share how a chance meeting at a pop-up event led to a powerful three-person team, blending their unique skills to support small businesses.
Discover why collaboration leads to higher team performance, improved customer service, and faster growth. Learn how to overcome the fear of competition, find like-minded people, and leverage strategic partnerships to achieve your business goals. They also share an African proverb that beautifully sums up their philosophy: "If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together." This episode is a must-listen for any entrepreneur looking to build a supportive community and take their business to the next level.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I had been praying for a team first of all, and that as run as fast as I can run, like people tell me how they do you ever sleep?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, I do not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're in good company.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of B Life Changers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am your host, Kathy Coates, and I am excited to have you back with us today, because I'm going to talk about something that's super important to me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And one of my favorite words, and that is collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to be talking about collaboration and how important it is when we drop
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[SPEAKER_05]: thinking we can do it all by ourselves and incorporate each other and the power with in it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I am here at JT Visuals without the eye because they are definitely more than me see.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just check this studio out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have so much fun every time I come on in here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They are so professional and everything comes out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Chris and clean.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I love this is my time out the power of
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[SPEAKER_05]: who I collaborate with because I am able to step in here, record a podcast and walk out and be able to go back to doing my job, serving my community and working on my business and in my business without having to worry at all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it is wonderful to have that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: happen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I absolutely love it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So welcome, ladies.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to JT Visuals.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to Be Life Changers, where we talk about real people, real stories, and a real change.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you two, ladies, are making a real change right here in the community.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am honored to have you back on my podcast.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted to come together with us all being together just because I know
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[SPEAKER_05]: So let me introduce you this is Monique Louis over here with most sophisticated events.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then I have Anne with them with business with wisdom on the podcast with us today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so we are going to jump right into this topic today about collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so let's first talk in everybody know kind of how we met.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And how, I mean, we just kind of blended right away.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was like we already knew each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, when we met, I really felt like we'd known each other for years.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, you know, I had came to a event, Monique, one of your events, Monique this year that you had did at home, to highlight the family farms.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I came out that day, I just got up that day and I said, okay, you know, there's days like go out because I promote a lot of small businesses and I definitely promote pop up shopping events and put them up on my platforms.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I have been watching you for a while and I was like, oh, I just love her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Bye.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've got to get out and introduce myself to her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I got there and it started raining.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm baby, I'm so glad I came today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it was like the perfect day, which was good, because they still had a crown.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was still fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody was in it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We just kind of flew off everybody's vibe, but it was neat, because I got to talk to people a little more intimately that day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I love doing that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So that's where I met Anne Ammonique.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, they were working at that event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so it was pretty cool, like running into each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, so that's how we met.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You showed up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a morning and eventful morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to tell them a little bit about it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've been thinking about making your own podcast like the one that you're watching or listening to right now, then JT visuals is definitely the way to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's JT visuals without the eye, because there's more than means CI.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Podcasts for business are popping like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone in their mom is starting a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why should you star one?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, because the truth is, it's actually still not too saturated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only do you get a show that's all about your business and bringing on guests and spotlighting them and stories, but you're also getting clips and media to put onto social media platforms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever your vision is for your business that you want to accomplish and how you help people, social media is the outreach for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you have a podcast show, it is the easiest way to get started and to conquer that social media that everyone's telling you you need to be doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will do everything so all you have to do is help come up with topics and collaboration with us, show up for a couple hours, and then leave and everything else is handled for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We would love to have a quick call with you to see if podcasting is right for you and if JT Visuals is the way to go for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just go to our website at JT Visuals.com that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now back to the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was running that day and we had an out side event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so we were kind of eyeballing the weather the whole one's hard day and then we just made a split decision.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And thankfully, they had another building that was open and available.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we ended up moving all the vendors that we had outside indoors and it just worked out perfectly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was so fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I remember encouraging you guys, but you know, that's normal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, that things happen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, I give you kudos because like I had not ever done a complete outdoor now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've done part in outdoor indoor, you know, but I had never done a I'm at all the years.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've done pop up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was that's one thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, uh, we living Kansas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm already nervous enough.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I can't imagine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, I am.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm doing it this year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, by the time this podcast comes out, I will have already had one going on the second one outside.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, but I'm doing that with Monique and Ampo, and Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're all going to be doing one to show the power of collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, but anyhow, so when we met, um,
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[SPEAKER_05]: we got together and it was just, I mean, we just kind of like started vibing right away, seeing where our gifts kind of came together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that's what's so important, you know, is when you get together and you know, you start seeing where one talent versus another talent, then you know, and see how they blend together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It works very, very well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I don't know, yeah, so anyhow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's great, so Monique and I met a few months prior to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She and I think you had been watching her on social media Her and I had been watching each other on social media and she posted and just said I am looking to collaborate and I said oh, I am as well
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Monique does more of the pop-ups as you've heard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do more of the business coaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so really, I want to help small businesses kind of, like we talked about on the back end, just really with strategy and systems and profitability and things of that nature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's when we've just vendor shopped.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that day, you really came in and I know you're working to be more the promoting and with your vendor biz teaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's like the best of both worlds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so really, that three-legged stool that we have going on
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think, right, we're building a solid foundation and just yeah, that's been really Monika's fast-paced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fast-paced and guess what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Happy is fast-paced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So really, I mean, we are keeping up with each other, which is exciting, and I think that's what that power of synergy and the collaboration is really exciting.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, definitely, most definitely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's a prayer answer, you know?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I had been praying for a team first of all, and that as run as fast as I can run, like people tell me, have they do you ever sleep?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well, I do not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're a good company.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, like yeah, we all, like we literally like messy each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a good night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we do walk together, like we talk to each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so maybe two in the morning, I'm gonna answer back, or sometimes I'll be a bit for in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I get an answer back.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, oh, this is my cram.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we just don't ever know when we're going to get that sweet, but that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, that's cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's one reason we blend, but it's a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's a whole lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But like, you know, I really was looking for someone that had that, you know, where we can be that complete.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, um, pack where it comes together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And literally Monique is like, what, the where you're going is where I came from.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I really needed someone to take that side of things like, you know, I wanted to be able to use my whole entire vendor because I have like,
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[SPEAKER_05]: group with 6,000 vendors and be able to make sure they're finding good events to be in.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so when I'm promoting those events and putting them on my platform, I also want to be able to share, I'm feeding them to businesses like yourself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I've worked with several companies before, and that's great.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it worked well too, but I just really feel a different synergy between us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll talk about that in a minute when we come with collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I love that you're on the team now and taking that side of things so that I can literally promote more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So that I can take that promoting side and that's where we're going to talk about finding those gifts that blend in your vision and where you're wanting to go.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's super important when it comes to collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know when we were doing this, I'm going to pull up my paper.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I do every once in a while.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We need to get off the paper when it's super important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But like I said, I knew I wasn't going to remember these statistics in my head.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, there's statistics.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Who remembers statistics in their head?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, but I don't anyway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So this is the reason, you know, you're always talking about collaboration, why it's important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But why it's important?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think people really understand the stats behind it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That collaboration leads to five times higher performance among teams.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that was done at Harvard Business Review.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Harvard, that's one of the things I got.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And another one is 70% of businesses say collaboration improves customer service.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that came straight from Forbes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I know we could see that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I mean, you know, seeing that that collaboration it just helps the customer have a better experience.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then strategic partnership boost visibility, trust, and they reach faster than solo marketing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So definitely that visibility, trust, and reach, and you get where you're going a lot faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then we stay consistent and communicate clearly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, personal story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh wait, I missed one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: personal stories of shared winds, combined events, and cross-promotion.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, I think those are super important, especially those personal stories when you can share those shared winds.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just helps.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I don't know about you, but does that like help you when you hear about other people winning in your kind of feels like, oh, I can do this, too, or even the struggle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I'm not that you want any of the all struggling.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But when you're collaborating and you come into a room and you start talking about, you know, this is what I went through, then you don't feel all along.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Mike.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I went through that too, and then the thing I like to do is most, and that's where I really got into promoting, especially the pop-up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're vendor biz kind of came about, was I didn't want people making the same mistake I did, like I've already went through this, you know, I don't want anybody else having the same struggle having to have those.
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[SPEAKER_05]: same tears shed and all that kind of stuff like all the pain and like I want to do this mistake again I'm like I want to keep you from doing that you know and um so that's where my heart is when it comes to collaboration but you know um but so yeah we've even seen
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[SPEAKER_01]: that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, you've been helped us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think you play off each other's energy because like if I'm going through something in most having a good day, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She can just help me and lift me up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we've even seen that collaboration even with you too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys are really offering a great package to vendors for our August events.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen through my networking events, individuals come out and join Monique's vendor events.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now they're part of both of our communities and vice versa, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vendors that have gone, that maybe need some co-chener, some business advice, are able to tap into me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so again, just you on that next scale just feels we're fortunate that you're just pouring into us and that we did connect in the way we did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so I think that's what we really wanna bring out today is don't be scared to get out there and find like nine to people, be a little vulnerable.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not always easy when we have to admit that I don't know something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know that that's hard, but we get further when we can say, hey, I'm really strong.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've been working on a calendar for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was hoping it would be out last year, but again, you know, I have so much going on and it's one of those dreams you kind of have in the background because it's not the most important thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so, you know, but when you find somebody else who has that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and runs canvall whole lot better than then you do, I mean yeah, I do, I mean I do, I'm a great captain stuff.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But when it comes to like writing and different things, I wasn't as talented and gifted in that area.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So when Anne came in my office that day, I mean she shocked me because I was just telling her, I was like, you know, I'm going to write this calendar and I wanted to have this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I want it to have that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I start to tell them because I want it to be a calendar that's for not only vendors, but for people that network as well because I don't know about you, but if you go to some networking events or vendor shows and then you have your other stuff that you're putting into your calendar, it's like, yeah, have no room for it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to keep it straight, and I like having those little slots where I can say, okay, there's a vendor event or this is a Networking event that I'm going to so I can kind of keep it straight and then write notes and all that kind of stuff So in my mind, I had all this and I'm just talking away and then we're working in in the office together Because hey, Kathy, and she flips her her computer is this what you're talking about
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, uh, yeah, exactly what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then she goes, you want to know something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So she opens her journal and I open and she goes, come here, full-year journal over here, because we're both paper writers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's some, yeah, sometimes I know everybody's good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Some did she's good, you're just good, but I'm still taking her girl.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, I don't know if you're, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Drop in the comments below.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let us know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, are you a clipboard person?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are you a, do you write on paper still?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are you all digital, like, I mean, do you?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I mean, and then, I don't know I can make you tell your age.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, yeah, no, because sometimes I think is like, I don't, all the younger ones I work, but they're always on their phones.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But that's cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just want to know, I mean, this will help us with our cameras.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let us know when in the comments.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, yeah, let us know, because I mean, anyway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: we opened our calendars and literally she had wrote the same stuff down that I had wrote and then not only that we had things that blend it you know for me on the promoter side and her on my way I call the net symbol so like you have to have the net symbol someplace in business and then of course then after you have those net symbol someplace you have to be able to out there and
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[SPEAKER_05]: sell yourself like you know tell who I am get out there get in the network he get in the pop up shop so that's where yeah morning comes into play and she has as she's so organized and I you know finding someone who like thinks and moves as fast as me and able to keep up with that is super cool so not like I got the strong team and I
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's pretty exciting and so we just wanted to get on and do a whole episode on back, because I think it's important that, you know, again, get out there and start meeting people, seeing where, you know, like, you know where you want to go, you know, your vision, you have it wrote down, you know, where you're wanting to go if not, make sure you come to one of our vision events that we're going to come up with vision boards and all that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She does a great job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: off on that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so come to some vendor biz work shop and we'll get you like showing where you can be promoted and get you plugged in the moneks pop up shopping events, but and there you'll probably find some great people that you can collaborate along with us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we can collaborate with us at any time as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I feel that it's important because you're going to go further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you know, a lot further than, you know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's telling me some experiences that you have seen, you know, Monika, know you have just come back out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So where has that been?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know you're very good and it open to be like, I want to collaborate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so how do you see that helping your business?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just know that collaboration is three brains are better than one, and so like you said earlier, just filling in those gaps, the skills, I might know something, or I'm working on a project, and I call in up and be like, hey, what do you think about this?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So just having just another piece of eyes, or another set of eyes and skills just really works together better than just working by yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, too, very, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's lonely out there, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, yeah, I mean, you have to find your people, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, I think we've all been through experiences where we've tried to find our people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this naturally, I think that's sort of the key here is that we naturally came together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we do have a business plan and a business model.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't just friends hanging out, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are acclaimed and unpurpose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, I know we were going to talk about the African proverb,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but do you want to share it because I think we really liked that one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it was it says if you want to go fast Go or wait, hold on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me get this up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got to be able to see I got my glasses on y'all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay If you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together and I think that is like is true You know, I mean if you want to you ready?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean I always want to get somewhere, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so you can get their twice as fast if you just, you know, do it together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I think that's important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, the market isn't too crowded.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just hasn't seen your vision yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so that's one thing I say a lot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just hasn't seen your vision yet.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not over-saturated.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean a lot of times, you know, people say that, well, I, you know, I could have been like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, when I met Anne like, you know, okay, because, yeah, she, you know, you're in business.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it very well could have been like, oh no, like, I mean, I still teach, we still teach some of the same things like, you know, you do some stuff like, you know, our content and cocktails.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You talk about content as well because of course, that's, this was principle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So there's a lot of things that kind of cross and I could have been like, well, you know, she might take my people or.
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[SPEAKER_05]: When it comes to Monique, you know, she was so much like me and did my event, so I could be like, well, you know, you know, I don't want to share my crowd.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you know, I mean, she needs to go fill the same thing, make it hard for her to build, you know, get a crowd as I was for me or, you know, all my people to follow her and not follow me no more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Those are all these little things that run in your head that are just not true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there just isn't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's enough for everyone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I tell the story a lot, and I know you guys have heard it, but you know, when my partner Michelle and I started, you know, KC women's events back in the day, we both were in health and nutrition.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we set our booth right next to each other and did not care.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know, I don't know, but can you have a heard that people say, like, well, I don't want to be by her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She does, I mean, she has the exact same product as I do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We hear that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then this way I have my vendor shows is a lot of the vendors end up talking to each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They end up changing their information.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe they'll have another vendor show together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they forgot something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're using some.
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[SPEAKER_02]: pants, pants like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just all works all together and just such a positive for my smoother when they do that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think, you know, it is great because then, you know, I always think when you're collaborating, especially when you're talking about the vendor world, you know, you're able to say, you know, hey, I've never been to this event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, what was your experience?
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[SPEAKER_05]: because you know, let's be honest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's a lot of scammers out there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And there's some shows that just really aren't in it for the right reasons.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a lot of powerful good ones.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to give Kudos, Kansas City.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You've got some great pop up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Amazing quarternators all to you, but there is.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Any time there's something good, there's something bad, so you don't want to, like, seclude and close yourself so much that you can't get that information from each other, or even, you know, go together, you know, carpool together, because going to cost you less, especially if you're traveling somewhere else.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and then you have that power of collaboration in the car because I can't tell you how many times a vendor would ride with me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We'd go somewhere and we would talk and then you know you just become an like all of a sudden you know that all these strategies are coming out and and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you know like I said you know Michelle and I back then we were just we we try to lead by an example that we both are in health and nutrition.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But there was times I would just
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[SPEAKER_05]: better results with her because they would do this better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you know, I knew that that they were just going to get along a lot better than maybe with me and I would send them to her or there would be a product that she had that I really liked and I would use my products and then add that one product.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She had with it because of course being a personal trainer, I knew that not, I mean as much as you may think that one like thing is the greatest in the best.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, there are still things that mix together and there's always something better than yours.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think that even helps with things collaboration knowing there's always going to be somebody better than you Yeah, and the faster that we can come up with that and know and then be not intimidated by that Because you know, I don't know back in the day I don't know if y'all knew this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of people don't know this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I ran track
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[SPEAKER_05]: back in the day and middle school going into high school and I was on one of the fastest teams, okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But the person in that was, you know, the in front of you, you always had to like, you know, I was the leg that ran to the last leg.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so, but that would push me because I knew that I had to get that to the next person when we're doing a relay race because, and, and those people that are coming by you, you will run a faster time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, there was this one girl on the track team.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We all know the one that's the fastest, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, just blow, blow as you out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, almost embarrassing blow you out, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you're like, okay, do I have to race against her?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so many people wouldn't, and I would be the first one to raise my hand.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the reason I'd want to race against her is because she'd make my time faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's every single time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She made my...
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[SPEAKER_05]: time faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I break my record every time running with her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Even though she's still blew me out, the thing that was was I was going to at least break my neck, try it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Try it again.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but the truth is when you are running with fast pace people, you are going to go faster, you are going to go further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, and I think that challenge is good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I think that challenge is good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That positive challenge.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, that collaboration and coming together, I think, is, you know, yeah, we see that all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think each and our own right are building a community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's just interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're building a community of vendors and community pop-ups.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm building a smart business community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you are just building your community of people that you can promote and teach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so each of us independently are building a community, which is essentially collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: doesn't, you know, surprise us that we're sitting here talking about that and, you know, leads to the collaboration that we have going on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it'll go a lot further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, a lot further because of those gifts, you know, of like, you know, one of us doing one thing and it helps all of our business at one time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I think that's important to be able to find those people that do that, you know, because especially when you're first getting started, because you know, a lot of times we only have so much budget.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we can't always hire someone in.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So when you can find someone who has a talent, that's different than yours, but you have something that you can give back and return, it becomes kind of a fair and even trade.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then you, you know, you find that that is
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So anyway, but I hope that helps some of you out there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, we're all believe in your businesses and, you know, going further and collaborating.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, but I just, you know, today I just thought, well, you know, we got to get on here and talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because I mean, I know, we got, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, the Christmas season is getting ready to come into play and I can't believe that we are almost I mean goodness we're almost to the last quarter of the year and so I know a lot of us have those last minute goals that we want to meet by the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I thought, you know, let's come on today and talk about a way that can just push you to that next level, you know, of to get you to that last goal that you have for the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now you've really met all of us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've met us a couple times, so thank you for having us on and so now come to our event.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that's true to yourself to us, let us know how you've met us and really we do desire that community the same that we have going on is the support that we offer through our businesses and so it's important that we just offer an invite to everybody to come to a networking event, to a pop-up, be a vendor, be a shopper, however it is we want to see you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's so true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We do want to see you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so with that said, let's say how they can follow us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Monique, where can people follow you and give us a chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I am on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok on at most sophisticated events and that is M.O.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pasta fee and then sophisticated events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I know you have some powerful ones coming up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know you know guys in the community come on out and shop with those vendors actually in local shop local.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So some local love Casey because I'm you know we've got a lot of great shows coming up and you know Christmas season is coming up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it is the perfect gifts and we can support those small businesses.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So definitely follow Monique and am tell us how we could follow you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and that is business with Wisdom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Anne Wisdom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is my last name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I fell by that very naturally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also, you can check out www.businesswith Wisdom.com.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that has just a ton of information on my website, my blogs there, and just great information about the services that I provide.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome, and I know you've got some powerful trainings coming up, so make sure you follow and look, and then we have some kind of items together, both of us, when you have some items coming up, because it'll still, we have some events coming together, and we have some events coming together, and then we have some events with all three
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[SPEAKER_05]: of us as a matter together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you definitely don't want to miss those.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You can always see that at Kathy Coats events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's where you're going to find a lot of promoting for small businesses, places to go eat, places to shop with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: local events to go to with that be festivals or pop up shopping event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You definitely want to follow there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: If you're a business, come to knowledge networking.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a place to find out where the next you know workshop will be or the next a networking event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That way you can get plugged in and come collaborate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We welcome you to come collaborate with us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so that's a great place to follow us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, of course, please go to be life changers and follow and like and share.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, we can grow that community and just keep shouting out more local businesses so that you know who to support, you know where to support.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you guys also know who to connect with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, who to go collaborate with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I hope that I'm a powerful source and able to show you those spots.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So thank you for tuning in to this one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Until the next episode you guys have a wonderful week month and we'll see you soon.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I had been praying for a team first of all, and that as run as fast as I can run, like people tell me how they do you ever sleep?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, I do not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're in good company.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of B Life Changers.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am your host, Kathy Coates, and I am excited to have you back with us today, because I'm going to talk about something that's super important to me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And one of my favorite words, and that is collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to be talking about collaboration and how important it is when we drop
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[SPEAKER_05]: thinking we can do it all by ourselves and incorporate each other and the power with in it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I am here at JT Visuals without the eye because they are definitely more than me see.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just check this studio out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have so much fun every time I come on in here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They are so professional and everything comes out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Chris and clean.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I love this is my time out the power of
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[SPEAKER_05]: who I collaborate with because I am able to step in here, record a podcast and walk out and be able to go back to doing my job, serving my community and working on my business and in my business without having to worry at all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it is wonderful to have that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: happen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I absolutely love it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So welcome, ladies.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to JT Visuals.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to Be Life Changers, where we talk about real people, real stories, and a real change.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you two, ladies, are making a real change right here in the community.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am honored to have you back on my podcast.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted to come together with us all being together just because I know
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[SPEAKER_05]: So let me introduce you this is Monique Louis over here with most sophisticated events.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then I have Anne with them with business with wisdom on the podcast with us today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so we are going to jump right into this topic today about collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so let's first talk in everybody know kind of how we met.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And how, I mean, we just kind of blended right away.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was like we already knew each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, when we met, I really felt like we'd known each other for years.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, you know, I had came to a event, Monique, one of your events, Monique this year that you had did at home, to highlight the family farms.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I came out that day, I just got up that day and I said, okay, you know, there's days like go out because I promote a lot of small businesses and I definitely promote pop up shopping events and put them up on my platforms.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I have been watching you for a while and I was like, oh, I just love her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Bye.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've got to get out and introduce myself to her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I got there and it started raining.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm baby, I'm so glad I came today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it was like the perfect day, which was good, because they still had a crown.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was still fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody was in it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We just kind of flew off everybody's vibe, but it was neat, because I got to talk to people a little more intimately that day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I love doing that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So that's where I met Anne Ammonique.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, they were working at that event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so it was pretty cool, like running into each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, so that's how we met.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You showed up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a morning and eventful morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to tell them a little bit about it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've been thinking about making your own podcast like the one that you're watching or listening to right now, then JT visuals is definitely the way to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's JT visuals without the eye, because there's more than means CI.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Podcasts for business are popping like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone in their mom is starting a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why should you star one?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, because the truth is, it's actually still not too saturated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only do you get a show that's all about your business and bringing on guests and spotlighting them and stories, but you're also getting clips and media to put onto social media platforms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever your vision is for your business that you want to accomplish and how you help people, social media is the outreach for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you have a podcast show, it is the easiest way to get started and to conquer that social media that everyone's telling you you need to be doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will do everything so all you have to do is help come up with topics and collaboration with us, show up for a couple hours, and then leave and everything else is handled for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We would love to have a quick call with you to see if podcasting is right for you and if JT Visuals is the way to go for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just go to our website at JT Visuals.com that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now back to the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was running that day and we had an out side event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so we were kind of eyeballing the weather the whole one's hard day and then we just made a split decision.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And thankfully, they had another building that was open and available.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we ended up moving all the vendors that we had outside indoors and it just worked out perfectly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was so fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I remember encouraging you guys, but you know, that's normal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, that things happen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, I give you kudos because like I had not ever done a complete outdoor now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've done part in outdoor indoor, you know, but I had never done a I'm at all the years.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've done pop up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was that's one thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, uh, we living Kansas.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm already nervous enough.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I can't imagine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, I am.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm doing it this year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, by the time this podcast comes out, I will have already had one going on the second one outside.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, but I'm doing that with Monique and Ampo, and Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're all going to be doing one to show the power of collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, but anyhow, so when we met, um,
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[SPEAKER_05]: we got together and it was just, I mean, we just kind of like started vibing right away, seeing where our gifts kind of came together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that's what's so important, you know, is when you get together and you know, you start seeing where one talent versus another talent, then you know, and see how they blend together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It works very, very well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I don't know, yeah, so anyhow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's great, so Monique and I met a few months prior to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She and I think you had been watching her on social media Her and I had been watching each other on social media and she posted and just said I am looking to collaborate and I said oh, I am as well
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Monique does more of the pop-ups as you've heard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do more of the business coaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so really, I want to help small businesses kind of, like we talked about on the back end, just really with strategy and systems and profitability and things of that nature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's when we've just vendor shopped.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that day, you really came in and I know you're working to be more the promoting and with your vendor biz teaching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's like the best of both worlds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so really, that three-legged stool that we have going on
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think, right, we're building a solid foundation and just yeah, that's been really Monika's fast-paced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fast-paced and guess what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Happy is fast-paced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So really, I mean, we are keeping up with each other, which is exciting, and I think that's what that power of synergy and the collaboration is really exciting.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, definitely, most definitely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's a prayer answer, you know?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I had been praying for a team first of all, and that as run as fast as I can run, like people tell me, have they do you ever sleep?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well, I do not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're a good company.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, like yeah, we all, like we literally like messy each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a good night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we do walk together, like we talk to each other.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so maybe two in the morning, I'm gonna answer back, or sometimes I'll be a bit for in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I get an answer back.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, oh, this is my cram.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we just don't ever know when we're going to get that sweet, but that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, that's cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's one reason we blend, but it's a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's a whole lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But like, you know, I really was looking for someone that had that, you know, where we can be that complete.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, um, pack where it comes together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And literally Monique is like, what, the where you're going is where I came from.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I really needed someone to take that side of things like, you know, I wanted to be able to use my whole entire vendor because I have like,
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[SPEAKER_05]: group with 6,000 vendors and be able to make sure they're finding good events to be in.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so when I'm promoting those events and putting them on my platform, I also want to be able to share, I'm feeding them to businesses like yourself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I've worked with several companies before, and that's great.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it worked well too, but I just really feel a different synergy between us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll talk about that in a minute when we come with collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I love that you're on the team now and taking that side of things so that I can literally promote more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So that I can take that promoting side and that's where we're going to talk about finding those gifts that blend in your vision and where you're wanting to go.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's super important when it comes to collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know when we were doing this, I'm going to pull up my paper.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I do every once in a while.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We need to get off the paper when it's super important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But like I said, I knew I wasn't going to remember these statistics in my head.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, there's statistics.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Who remembers statistics in their head?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, but I don't anyway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So this is the reason, you know, you're always talking about collaboration, why it's important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But why it's important?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think people really understand the stats behind it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That collaboration leads to five times higher performance among teams.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that was done at Harvard Business Review.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Harvard, that's one of the things I got.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And another one is 70% of businesses say collaboration improves customer service.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that came straight from Forbes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I know we could see that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I mean, you know, seeing that that collaboration it just helps the customer have a better experience.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then strategic partnership boost visibility, trust, and they reach faster than solo marketing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So definitely that visibility, trust, and reach, and you get where you're going a lot faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then we stay consistent and communicate clearly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, personal story.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh wait, I missed one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: personal stories of shared winds, combined events, and cross-promotion.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, I think those are super important, especially those personal stories when you can share those shared winds.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just helps.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I don't know about you, but does that like help you when you hear about other people winning in your kind of feels like, oh, I can do this, too, or even the struggle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I'm not that you want any of the all struggling.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But when you're collaborating and you come into a room and you start talking about, you know, this is what I went through, then you don't feel all along.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Mike.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I went through that too, and then the thing I like to do is most, and that's where I really got into promoting, especially the pop-up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're vendor biz kind of came about, was I didn't want people making the same mistake I did, like I've already went through this, you know, I don't want anybody else having the same struggle having to have those.
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[SPEAKER_05]: same tears shed and all that kind of stuff like all the pain and like I want to do this mistake again I'm like I want to keep you from doing that you know and um so that's where my heart is when it comes to collaboration but you know um but so yeah we've even seen
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[SPEAKER_01]: that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, you've been helped us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think you play off each other's energy because like if I'm going through something in most having a good day, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She can just help me and lift me up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we've even seen that collaboration even with you too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys are really offering a great package to vendors for our August events.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen through my networking events, individuals come out and join Monique's vendor events.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now they're part of both of our communities and vice versa, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vendors that have gone, that maybe need some co-chener, some business advice, are able to tap into me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so again, just you on that next scale just feels we're fortunate that you're just pouring into us and that we did connect in the way we did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so I think that's what we really wanna bring out today is don't be scared to get out there and find like nine to people, be a little vulnerable.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not always easy when we have to admit that I don't know something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know that that's hard, but we get further when we can say, hey, I'm really strong.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've been working on a calendar for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was hoping it would be out last year, but again, you know, I have so much going on and it's one of those dreams you kind of have in the background because it's not the most important thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so, you know, but when you find somebody else who has that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and runs canvall whole lot better than then you do, I mean yeah, I do, I mean I do, I'm a great captain stuff.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But when it comes to like writing and different things, I wasn't as talented and gifted in that area.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So when Anne came in my office that day, I mean she shocked me because I was just telling her, I was like, you know, I'm going to write this calendar and I wanted to have this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I want it to have that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I start to tell them because I want it to be a calendar that's for not only vendors, but for people that network as well because I don't know about you, but if you go to some networking events or vendor shows and then you have your other stuff that you're putting into your calendar, it's like, yeah, have no room for it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to keep it straight, and I like having those little slots where I can say, okay, there's a vendor event or this is a Networking event that I'm going to so I can kind of keep it straight and then write notes and all that kind of stuff So in my mind, I had all this and I'm just talking away and then we're working in in the office together Because hey, Kathy, and she flips her her computer is this what you're talking about
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, uh, yeah, exactly what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then she goes, you want to know something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So she opens her journal and I open and she goes, come here, full-year journal over here, because we're both paper writers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's some, yeah, sometimes I know everybody's good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Some did she's good, you're just good, but I'm still taking her girl.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, I don't know if you're, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Drop in the comments below.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let us know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, are you a clipboard person?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are you a, do you write on paper still?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are you all digital, like, I mean, do you?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I mean, and then, I don't know I can make you tell your age.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, yeah, no, because sometimes I think is like, I don't, all the younger ones I work, but they're always on their phones.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But that's cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just want to know, I mean, this will help us with our cameras.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let us know when in the comments.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, yeah, let us know, because I mean, anyway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: we opened our calendars and literally she had wrote the same stuff down that I had wrote and then not only that we had things that blend it you know for me on the promoter side and her on my way I call the net symbol so like you have to have the net symbol someplace in business and then of course then after you have those net symbol someplace you have to be able to out there and
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[SPEAKER_05]: sell yourself like you know tell who I am get out there get in the network he get in the pop up shop so that's where yeah morning comes into play and she has as she's so organized and I you know finding someone who like thinks and moves as fast as me and able to keep up with that is super cool so not like I got the strong team and I
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's pretty exciting and so we just wanted to get on and do a whole episode on back, because I think it's important that, you know, again, get out there and start meeting people, seeing where, you know, like, you know where you want to go, you know, your vision, you have it wrote down, you know, where you're wanting to go if not, make sure you come to one of our vision events that we're going to come up with vision boards and all that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She does a great job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: off on that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so come to some vendor biz work shop and we'll get you like showing where you can be promoted and get you plugged in the moneks pop up shopping events, but and there you'll probably find some great people that you can collaborate along with us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we can collaborate with us at any time as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I feel that it's important because you're going to go further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you know, a lot further than, you know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's telling me some experiences that you have seen, you know, Monika, know you have just come back out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So where has that been?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know you're very good and it open to be like, I want to collaborate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so how do you see that helping your business?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just know that collaboration is three brains are better than one, and so like you said earlier, just filling in those gaps, the skills, I might know something, or I'm working on a project, and I call in up and be like, hey, what do you think about this?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So just having just another piece of eyes, or another set of eyes and skills just really works together better than just working by yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, too, very, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's lonely out there, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, yeah, I mean, you have to find your people, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, I think we've all been through experiences where we've tried to find our people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this naturally, I think that's sort of the key here is that we naturally came together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we do have a business plan and a business model.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't just friends hanging out, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are acclaimed and unpurpose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, I know we were going to talk about the African proverb,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but do you want to share it because I think we really liked that one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it was it says if you want to go fast Go or wait, hold on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me get this up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got to be able to see I got my glasses on y'all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay If you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together and I think that is like is true You know, I mean if you want to you ready?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean I always want to get somewhere, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so you can get their twice as fast if you just, you know, do it together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I think that's important.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, the market isn't too crowded.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just hasn't seen your vision yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so that's one thing I say a lot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It just hasn't seen your vision yet.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not over-saturated.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean a lot of times, you know, people say that, well, I, you know, I could have been like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, when I met Anne like, you know, okay, because, yeah, she, you know, you're in business.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it very well could have been like, oh no, like, I mean, I still teach, we still teach some of the same things like, you know, you do some stuff like, you know, our content and cocktails.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You talk about content as well because of course, that's, this was principle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So there's a lot of things that kind of cross and I could have been like, well, you know, she might take my people or.
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[SPEAKER_05]: When it comes to Monique, you know, she was so much like me and did my event, so I could be like, well, you know, you know, I don't want to share my crowd.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you know, I mean, she needs to go fill the same thing, make it hard for her to build, you know, get a crowd as I was for me or, you know, all my people to follow her and not follow me no more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Those are all these little things that run in your head that are just not true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there just isn't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's enough for everyone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I tell the story a lot, and I know you guys have heard it, but you know, when my partner Michelle and I started, you know, KC women's events back in the day, we both were in health and nutrition.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we set our booth right next to each other and did not care.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know, I don't know, but can you have a heard that people say, like, well, I don't want to be by her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She does, I mean, she has the exact same product as I do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We hear that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then this way I have my vendor shows is a lot of the vendors end up talking to each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They end up changing their information.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe they'll have another vendor show together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they forgot something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're using some.
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[SPEAKER_02]: pants, pants like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just all works all together and just such a positive for my smoother when they do that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think, you know, it is great because then, you know, I always think when you're collaborating, especially when you're talking about the vendor world, you know, you're able to say, you know, hey, I've never been to this event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, what was your experience?
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[SPEAKER_05]: because you know, let's be honest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's a lot of scammers out there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And there's some shows that just really aren't in it for the right reasons.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a lot of powerful good ones.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to give Kudos, Kansas City.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You've got some great pop up shopping events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Amazing quarternators all to you, but there is.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Any time there's something good, there's something bad, so you don't want to, like, seclude and close yourself so much that you can't get that information from each other, or even, you know, go together, you know, carpool together, because going to cost you less, especially if you're traveling somewhere else.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and then you have that power of collaboration in the car because I can't tell you how many times a vendor would ride with me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We'd go somewhere and we would talk and then you know you just become an like all of a sudden you know that all these strategies are coming out and and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you know like I said you know Michelle and I back then we were just we we try to lead by an example that we both are in health and nutrition.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But there was times I would just
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[SPEAKER_05]: better results with her because they would do this better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you know, I knew that that they were just going to get along a lot better than maybe with me and I would send them to her or there would be a product that she had that I really liked and I would use my products and then add that one product.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She had with it because of course being a personal trainer, I knew that not, I mean as much as you may think that one like thing is the greatest in the best.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, there are still things that mix together and there's always something better than yours.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think that even helps with things collaboration knowing there's always going to be somebody better than you Yeah, and the faster that we can come up with that and know and then be not intimidated by that Because you know, I don't know back in the day I don't know if y'all knew this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of people don't know this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I ran track
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[SPEAKER_05]: back in the day and middle school going into high school and I was on one of the fastest teams, okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But the person in that was, you know, the in front of you, you always had to like, you know, I was the leg that ran to the last leg.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so, but that would push me because I knew that I had to get that to the next person when we're doing a relay race because, and, and those people that are coming by you, you will run a faster time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, there was this one girl on the track team.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We all know the one that's the fastest, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, just blow, blow as you out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, almost embarrassing blow you out, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you're like, okay, do I have to race against her?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so many people wouldn't, and I would be the first one to raise my hand.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the reason I'd want to race against her is because she'd make my time faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's every single time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She made my...
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[SPEAKER_05]: time faster.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I break my record every time running with her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Even though she's still blew me out, the thing that was was I was going to at least break my neck, try it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Try it again.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but the truth is when you are running with fast pace people, you are going to go faster, you are going to go further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, and I think that challenge is good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I think that challenge is good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That positive challenge.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, that collaboration and coming together, I think, is, you know, yeah, we see that all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think each and our own right are building a community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's just interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're building a community of vendors and community pop-ups.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm building a smart business community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you are just building your community of people that you can promote and teach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so each of us independently are building a community, which is essentially collaboration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: doesn't, you know, surprise us that we're sitting here talking about that and, you know, leads to the collaboration that we have going on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it'll go a lot further.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, a lot further because of those gifts, you know, of like, you know, one of us doing one thing and it helps all of our business at one time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I think that's important to be able to find those people that do that, you know, because especially when you're first getting started, because you know, a lot of times we only have so much budget.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we can't always hire someone in.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So when you can find someone who has a talent, that's different than yours, but you have something that you can give back and return, it becomes kind of a fair and even trade.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then you, you know, you find that that is
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So anyway, but I hope that helps some of you out there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, we're all believe in your businesses and, you know, going further and collaborating.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, but I just, you know, today I just thought, well, you know, we got to get on here and talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because I mean, I know, we got, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, the Christmas season is getting ready to come into play and I can't believe that we are almost I mean goodness we're almost to the last quarter of the year and so I know a lot of us have those last minute goals that we want to meet by the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I thought, you know, let's come on today and talk about a way that can just push you to that next level, you know, of to get you to that last goal that you have for the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now you've really met all of us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've met us a couple times, so thank you for having us on and so now come to our event.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that's true to yourself to us, let us know how you've met us and really we do desire that community the same that we have going on is the support that we offer through our businesses and so it's important that we just offer an invite to everybody to come to a networking event, to a pop-up, be a vendor, be a shopper, however it is we want to see you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's so true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We do want to see you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so with that said, let's say how they can follow us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Monique, where can people follow you and give us a chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I am on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok on at most sophisticated events and that is M.O.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pasta fee and then sophisticated events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I know you have some powerful ones coming up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I know you know guys in the community come on out and shop with those vendors actually in local shop local.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So some local love Casey because I'm you know we've got a lot of great shows coming up and you know Christmas season is coming up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it is the perfect gifts and we can support those small businesses.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So definitely follow Monique and am tell us how we could follow you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and that is business with Wisdom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Anne Wisdom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is my last name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I fell by that very naturally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also, you can check out www.businesswith Wisdom.com.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that has just a ton of information on my website, my blogs there, and just great information about the services that I provide.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome, and I know you've got some powerful trainings coming up, so make sure you follow and look, and then we have some kind of items together, both of us, when you have some items coming up, because it'll still, we have some events coming together, and we have some events coming together, and then we have some events with all three
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[SPEAKER_05]: of us as a matter together.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you definitely don't want to miss those.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You can always see that at Kathy Coats events.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's where you're going to find a lot of promoting for small businesses, places to go eat, places to shop with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: local events to go to with that be festivals or pop up shopping event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You definitely want to follow there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: If you're a business, come to knowledge networking.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a place to find out where the next you know workshop will be or the next a networking event.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That way you can get plugged in and come collaborate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We welcome you to come collaborate with us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so that's a great place to follow us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, of course, please go to be life changers and follow and like and share.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, we can grow that community and just keep shouting out more local businesses so that you know who to support, you know where to support.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you guys also know who to connect with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you know, who to go collaborate with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I hope that I'm a powerful source and able to show you those spots.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So thank you for tuning in to this one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Until the next episode you guys have a wonderful week month and we'll see you soon.