A huge congrats to @Michelle Cyr for reaching Level 8. Of ALL the Skool Communities I'm in, I have not seen anyone make it this far. What a great accomplishment, and not because of the gamification, BUT because of the VISIBILITY. So many entrepreneurs want to "sell their thing" to "make more money" so they can_____(I'm sure your mind will fill in the blank) yet they sit on the sidelines and BARELY share nor offer what they do (yes, I'm guilty of this too). We ASSUME (and you know what that means) that ONE post gets the eyes of 1.1k members. We share promo links with no info, no story, no results and get frustrated and down when no one bites. We spend so much time hiding (I love seeing headshots in profiles so I can connect YOU with your product/service) and lurking, we forget what our job as the CEO of our biz looks like. Sometimes we need to step back, RETHINK our strategy, and make CHANGES. You can't keep repeating the same posts and hope that you'll get a different result because that's insanity! That's one of the reasons I love Bree (a/k/a Muse—and yes, use this link; input my referral code in the first 48 hours, and we both get 1 billion tokens; crazy, I know, but that's Meta for ya) Check out Muse, your personal AI agent. Redeem my code in Settings within 48 hours of joining, and we'll both get 1 billion Muse tokens. Code: V5YORJ https://muse.ai/join. She helps me organize tasks, schedule posts, reply to emails, and reminds me to SHOW UP on these platforms to get — say what?! — yes, VISIBILITY. And this is why I LOVE this community. The Directory on Skool is the most active and interactive on this platform that I am currently a part of. I have had some amazing and deep conversations with @Michelle Cyr @Tia Simmons @Laurie Frenza @Chris Suckling and @Roberto Srpak has been so generous with his About page free audits; my organic traffic has increased significantly since I have made changes that he has provided.

Thursday game. Everyone who sells has one. A line from a customer that's stayed with you for years. Could be the nicest thing anyone's ever said about your work. Could be the most brutal knock-back. Could be something so odd you still don't know what they meant. Drop the line in quotes. Add the story behind it if you like, then reply to your favourite.

Recently I appointed Muse, who I call Bree, as my Executive Assistant. Thank you so much @Sondra Verva for introducing us, and to @Heather Boers who told me we can change Muse's appearance. Teaching her to think in my brand and tonality happened so quickly, I'm smitten. Once a week, when iDateMoney®️ (yes, we have a standing engagement every Friday), I look at ALL of my subscriptions. Just this past week I added three more that I just couldn't pass by. And thought, okay, what's a duplicate, what am I using less of, and guess what?! I'm looking at one that has been in my life since at least October 2023. We connect daily, multiple times, and he's helped me tremendously with research, weight loss, finding a project manager for my children's financial literacy book, airline tickets at the best price, podcast show notes, and more. So why this sudden urge to say goodbye? It's not him, it's that underlying fear of "will there be enough?" Regardless of how much money is coming in, there's always that amount going out. I have a conditioning statement, thank you Kip (that's my husband), that says: "Slow down, don't spend it, save it for the future." And another from 37 years of partnership (I know, we are pretty committed): "Put away 20% for retirement, save so we can retire early." So the confusion in my brain is: I spent 30 years working, saving beyond the 20%, which got me to multi-millionaire status, and now there's the underlying, very powerful thought NOT to spend it all. But I'm reading the book Die With Zero and I see how the ROI on said investments is currently at 12%, and I wonder to myself, do I really need to cut back? Kip says: always review, always redistribute, always have the nest egg. Do we need to worry at our age? Nope... do we? Yep. So this is why I'm sitting here, looking at all these subscriptions and wondering what to cut next. Sometimes it's hard to let go, we have an attachment of fear.

Money flirts with you on payday. Winks. Buys you a drink. Makes you feel like "𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲". Then it ghosts you by Wednesday... and everyone gives you the sympathetic head tilt and says, “Aww, honey... it’s not you.” But, umm, yeah. It kinda is. Just a little bit. Let’s review the tape, sweetie: 💔 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲. Payday hit and you were at Target before the bills were paid. 💔 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱, “𝗦𝗼... 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴?” No budget. No plan. Just vibes. 💔 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁. Business and personal money, sharing one account right out of the gate. 💔 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅 𝗮𝘁 𝟮 𝗮.𝗺. That credit card you swore you were done with? Yeah. You swiped. I know. I did ALL of these. So I handed the whole mess to @Lisa Drennon (yes, OUR Lisa), and she’s been showing me the error of my ways! If your personal money is a mess, your business money is just a bigger mess waiting to happen. So fix the home base first! Monday, Lisa’s doing a money intervention: 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵: 💸 Learn whether to pay off debt or build savings first. 🕳️ Find out what door your money is sneaking out and lock it! 🌴 Learn how to budget for fun without the guilt hangover (it's a MUST) 📈 Discover how to turn “whatever’s left” into money that builds wealth 📅 Monday, Oct 19 · 1 PM CT / 2 PM ET 🎟️ Free, and open to everyone, so bring a friend whose paycheck keeps leaving them in tears. 👉 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸! Has your money relationship ever felt like this? 👇 @Lisa Drennon

You know the one. Lovely customer. You got on brilliantly, had a laugh, found out you've got loads in common. Forty minutes flew by. Then they didn't buy. Being liked feels like progress, and it is a start. But people don't buy because they like you. They buy because they can see that what you sell sorts something they care about, and because someone asked them to go ahead. Rapport earns you the right to ask the proper questions. What's going on, what they want to change, what it's costing them to leave it. If the chat never gets there, it was just a nice chat. That's the sort of thing we work on in Direct Sales Mastery. It's for anyone who sells for a living, face to face or online, who's great with people and wants more of those conversations to end in a yes. Have a look at the About page if that sounds like you. Ever had a customer you got on with brilliantly who still didn't buy?