Entrepreneurial Evolution | DFS 300

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Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

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host Jennifer Takagi and this is a very special episode for me.

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This is episode number 300 of my podcast. My podcast started out

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being titled new manager media manage right from the start. But

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I made a shift in my business and made it a little more all

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encompassing. And the name shifted with me to destined for

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success. And part of that is because I believe we are

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destined for way more success than we've already had. There is

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more out there for each and every one of you. This episode

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I've titled entrepreneurial evolution, because I'm here to

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tell you in the almost 10 years since I became an entrepreneur,

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there's been an evolution, there's been a lot of evolutions

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that have happened. If you don't know me, if you're new to the

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podcast, I'll digress for a minute. I was in mortgage

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banking. And then I went to work for the federal government,

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specifically the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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And so I was in housing for many years. And I was given the

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opportunity to leave the government or relocate. And I

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was out that door as soon as I could leave, I was gone. I found

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out on the Monday that it was official, I can leave with

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benefits. And Thursday after lunch, I was gone. Much of my

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time in the government or corporate sector, I did

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training, I liked it, I enjoyed it. Training was good for me. I

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volunteered to train a lot. So when I left the government, it

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just made a lot of sense, like a smooth transition for me to

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become a leadership development trainer slash teacher. So to

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Kagi consulting was born out of that. I love training, I love

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teaching, I quit counting when I exceeded 10,000. But I have

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spoken to or trained over 10,000. And that was from

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several years ago, it's got to be 14 or 15,000 by now. So I

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love to train I trained for the state of Oklahoma, for several

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different agencies in the federal government for multiple

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associations, either local associations, or like at the

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state HR conference. I love that call me, hey, if you're hearing

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this, and you ever need a speaker, I'm your girl call me.

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I'm totally down for it. I love doing it. I love doing

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workshops. I love doing workshops, whether they're a

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couple hours or all day doesn't matter. I've actually hosted

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Well, I didn't host it. But I was the facilitator for a two

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and a half day retreat. And I was the only facilitator there.

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It was awesome. It was amazing. I loved every minute of it. So

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leadership development was a thing for me, I really liked it.

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But things can fall into place quite as easily and effortlessly

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as I thought they could or would or should. And I ran into

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obstacles and I was bumping up against this and I was bumping

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up against that. And I ended up at an online event being

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introduced to a woman who was in the total woowoo spiritual out

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there kind of stuff, compared to the very traditional Christian

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upbringing that I had. It was amazing. I loved it, I fell in

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love with it. And that 115 minute call put me on a path to

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more spiritual development, and more personal development. In

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the leadership training area space. I learned how to

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interact, interact with others more effectively, more

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efficiently. I learned my communication style, I learned

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how people could be offended by my communication style and how I

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might need to back it down. For some people some of the time if

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I chose to. Very beneficial. I'm certified in disc behavioral

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profiles. I'm a certified professional behavioral analyst,

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I think is the title. I'm certified in change management

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with change style indicator. What else I don't even know i've

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just totally lost my train of thought on all of those

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certifications. And they all come into play and they're all

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important. I know entrepreneurs who are in high seven figure

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moving into eight figure businesses. And as they put it,

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I have no letters After my name, I'm not certified in anything,

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but they're just that good at what they do good for them. I

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love learning. I love learning new things. And I do some

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things. And then I get an email that says you're a certified

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this, I became a certified soul Care Coach. When I took that

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class, I didn't even know I was going to be certified in the

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end, who knew? Not me. Why? Because I say yes, that's just

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what happened. So then I really got into this spiritual

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development, and spiritual healing. And working with my

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first spiritual healer named Sabrina. She was like, Well, you

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know, you're showing up this way because of this. And I was like,

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no, no, no, not very pushed back, I was very push back. So

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we worked through a lot of stuff that I didn't even know was

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impacting me, and how I show up in the world. And I didn't

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necessarily like how I was showing up in the world. So that

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spiritual development was very critical, very important to me.

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And when I've shared some of the more specific stories of my

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working with her, I've had people push back, like, they're

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offended by my journey, my story, because they're like, Oh,

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that's not true for you. And I'm like, holy crap, holy, it kinda

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really is like back off. It is true. For me, it is my story.

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And when you're working with a spiritual healer like that, it's

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not that they're telling you anything you don't know already.

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Right? It's just unveiling it and packaging it and languaging

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it in another way. And that is one of the modalities I learned

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was reading Akashic records. They're the messages on your

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soul. They've been with you since the beginning of time. And

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it's like a library of books. And there are hundreds, millions

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of volumes, and they they keep growing and expanding. And when

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I do a reading for you, we're just pulling off one book, and

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reading one page. As long as you're reading it all, we're

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reading one page, and we're getting whatever information

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needs to come the message you need to know, the fun thing is,

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it's never scary. It's never shocking. I haven't had one

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person shocked yet. I've heard a lot of oh my gosh, how did you

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know that? Melanie's one of my favorite testimonials. And she's

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like, I don't know how she knows what she knows. But she does.

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And let's be clear, it's not me. Like I'm, I'm guided and given

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the messages. So it's airy, fairy touchy feely and fun, and

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I love it. As my spiritual development continued to grow, I

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continued with my personal development. And I ran into this

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problem off and on throughout my career. And that was probably

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part of the reason I had trouble with trying to sell myself and

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to companies to do leadership development training for them.

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Everybody wants to know, what's the exact return on investment,

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what's the exact outcome. And it's kind of hard to put an

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exact outcome on personal development. But let me tell

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you, if I show up as a better person, as more willing to

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listen, if I pause and use my words carefully, efficiently and

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the right ones,

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the organization is going to operate more efficiently,

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effectively, efficiently. All those words that I'm just

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stumbling over all the sudden, I got myself so excitable, I

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stumbled over my words. But that's what can happen. That's

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what can happen. If everybody walks into your organization,

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fully committed to the mission, if they fully understand their

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role, and how the work that they do fulfills that mission. And

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they're heard, and they're valued, and they're appreciated.

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I'm pretty darn sure that's going to impact your bottom

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line. But I didn't say that so well. So we were like, oh, no, I

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don't really see the benefit of this. No, we're not gonna hire

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you. Okay, moving down the road. Personal development is a little

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bit the same way. Well, I'm good, my life is good. And it's

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like, but could it be better? What if your life were three

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times better than it is right now? And I'm very fortunate

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because my friend Kimberly Crowe introduced me to Brendon

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Burchard. And she said, I'm at this event. I wish you were

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here. I signed up for his Ultra program. Why don't you? And I

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said, Oh, let me be here plus one, and she goes, Great. What's

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your credit card number? So she was gonna let me be your plus

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one, but not in is literally pay for me to be the plus one well

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is that about my time with him and the people I met in his

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altar group. They've been amazing. I've learned so much.

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I've enjoyed it immensely. And as we're going down this path as

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my membership is continuing, he starts talking at one of the

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live events and their in person live event about his certified

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High Performance Coaching Program. And I thought, this is

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the key. This is the last piece that I need to put it all

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together. This is it, this is what I need. So I signed up

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immediately, my friend Kimberly said, Me, too, we had a blast,

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she actually flew to Oklahoma City. And we did the training

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together in my house, I was in one room she was in the other

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because we kept part of it was putting us in breakout rooms

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worked out beautifully. And so now we're both certified high

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performance coaches. And Brendon talks about it and says, some

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people are like, I don't know about this high performance

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business. Okay, Let's rephrase it. This is a coaching program,

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if you want to up your game personally and professionally.

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If you want a two exit three exit, 10 exit, this is a program

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for you. So as I'm learning it, as I'm embodying it, as I'm

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embracing it, I'm like, Ah, and all the energy healing work I do

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can like completely support this. Because you can make all

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the plans, you want to do the things you can muscle through,

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you can put on your big girl panties, your big boy boots,

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whatever it is, and you can you can fight your way through it.

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But typically, you end up exhausted, maybe even a little

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disenchanted, possibly even a little depressed about it. And

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that's probably because you have trapped emotions, imbalances in

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your physical, emotional and spiritual body, and even belief

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systems that are embedded deep within your subconscious, that

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are actually driving the bus. You are doing all the things but

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it's not working out right. I can quickly and easily clear

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what's standing in your way. I had a call with a gentleman

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recently. And it was just a discovery call and explain the

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modalities I do and how it works. And I went ahead and did

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a free session for him just so he could experience it and see

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if he was interested. And at the end, I was like, Well, you know

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how to find me if you want to work with me anymore. I'm not

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really the best salesperson closer, apparently, obviously.

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And he goes, Well, what are our next steps? I said, our next

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steps are I will send you a link to book a call. And he was like,

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Okay, great. And that's, that's what I did. I'm sure somebody

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who's listening to this, who's really a good salesperson,

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they're like, damn, Jennifer, you screwed that up really bad.

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We'll see if he comes back around in the next couple three

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weeks. Like that's what I can do. I literally I love calling

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it magic because it is a little bit magical. When when I can

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literally see somebody's face, when we have clear the trapped

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emotions from something that happened years ago. And they

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thought they had worked through it. And now all the emotions

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tied to it are gone. Also. It makes my heart sing. It

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literally makes my heart sing. I'm so excited. And happy to see

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that transformation. it thrills me to no end to see that happen.

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I had a client who said, I don't know why this is coming up. Now.

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I went through counseling to work through this years ago. And

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I worked through it. Why why is this coming up now? And I said,

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Well, I don't know, other than the fact that maybe the emotions

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didn't get released. So we released the emotions around the

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event. And she called a couple days later in tears, which most

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of my clients don't cry during my sessions. But she called me

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teary eyed and she said, I forgiven my parents. And I said,

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that's great. If she has no you don't understand. I thought I

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forgave them years ago. But now I know I really have and again I

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believe that's because the emotions were separate. He did

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from the actual event. She had processed gone through all the

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steps of forgiveness. But the emotions were still there. And

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I've had people say, Oh, that happened so long ago, that

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doesn't matter. If you can get yourself as worked up about the

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situation today, as you could 20 years ago when it happened, I'm

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just putting it out there. I think you have trapped emotions

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around that event. And I love the work because it's quick,

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it's easy. I do short, little 15 minute sessions for people

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because they're clear, they're concise, they know exactly what

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they want to get rid of anxiety, depression, eczema, that's been

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a big one for me, I've helped a couple people with eczema, cat

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allergies, I help one person quit smoking. Another one says

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she wants to quit, we've done one session, she's got to do a

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few more, that doesn't always go away with this one. But it

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thrills me. And now I'm super happy because I can offer one on

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one or group coaching, centered around Brendon Burchard, high

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performance coaching, Formula format program. And clear the

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trapped emotions and the imbalances that are keeping you

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from being that high performer you want to be. And high

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performance isn't like, You got to commit to run a marathon or

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you have to commit to being in the Olympics, it's you just want

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to feel your best all the time. You want to have the energy to

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do what you want to do. You want to have the confidence to do

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whatever it is. It doesn't matter if you're just starting

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in your career in the middle of your career, or you're retired,

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but you want to give back more and have an impact. It all comes

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together. And I'm so thrilled about it. And this in this

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entrepreneurial evolution. I have written 123456 books. I

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know five of them became bestsellers on Amazon, the sixth

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one and I didn't really promote. There is a seventh one out

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there. But it's kind of a personal book and not I don't

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care if anybody ever buys it because it was for me and my

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family about my mom and the amazing things that she had to

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say. But if you had asked me, am I going to be an author? I would

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have said, No, my brother was a writer and one of my sisters is

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a writer. I'm not a writer. But guess what the four of us kids,

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I'm the only one who's written any books. And again, most of

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them have been bestsellers on Amazon. I also have been in two

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compilation books, voices of women 2023 and 2024. I am an

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audiobook narrator I narrated 2023. And in the next few days,

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I will be narrating the 2024 version. I have deemed myself

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crowned myself. By the way my Facebook picture I do have a

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crown on i Crown myself the 12 Minute success coach, I wrote a

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book reach your goals and 12 minute increments. Then I

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rebranded it reissued it in 12 minutes to success.

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I have that three part audio series based on the 12 minute

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increments. I'm getting a lot of traction on it, it's a deal,

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it's a deal, I'm gonna trademark it, it's gonna, it's gonna have

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ensued it's gonna have a quickly, but that 12 minute

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Success Coach, you have big dreams, you have big goals, I

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seem to have a real knack for helping people break those down

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to do them in short increments 12 minutes a day, 365 days a

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year is 73 hours. When was the last time you dedicated 73 hours

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to fulfilling a dream. You don't have to do it all at one time.

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You can do it in 12 minute increments. And with the

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framework of Brendon Burchard, high performance coaching, we

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can help you get to higher performance by focusing What do

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you need to focus on more clarity and who you want to be?

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have the energy to do it and the courage to step into it be more

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productive and influence the people that you are around in

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your life? How do you want to show up? What kind of influenced

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you want to be? What do you want written on your tombstone? I'm

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Jennifer Takagi with Destin, Florida. says, I would love to

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connect with you. I would love for you to grab my free gift 12

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come together for you to have the success that you want that

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you dream of. Reach out, let's have a call. Let's figure out

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how I can help you get to the next level. I'm Jennifer Takagi

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and I look forward to connecting with you soon