Is Your Vision for Your Life Connected To the Vision of Your Business?

Tara Bryan: 00:00:01

Hey, everybody, welcome to the course building

Tara Bryan: 00:00:03

secrets podcast. I am so thrilled to introduce Sherry

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Coffelt it today. And welcome to the show, I am so happy to have

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you here. Just to get us started. Tell us a little bit

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about who you are, what your experience is, and what brings

Tara Bryan: 00:00:17

you here today.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:00:18

I would love to do that. And first of all, thank

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you for having me be here. I'm excited about the conversation.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:00:24

So I have been in this crazy topsy turvy world of coaching

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consulting for over 20 years, it's hard to say that out loud.

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And I absolutely love it. I love supporting women to share their

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gift to do it in a way that it gives them that freedom and

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flexibility. It's why most of us started our business, right? And

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gives them that that freedom and flexibility to live their bucket

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list now and take your business with you. That's That's my big

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thing is that we get to avoid waiting until Sunday and

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instead, get clear on what our vision is for our business. And

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then or excuse me for our life, and then build our business to

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fit into that vision. So that's what I do all the time. I love

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supporting my clients to build a virtual business because then of

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course, it gives you more flexibility, right? And do it in

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a way that that generates the income that they want to live

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the lifestyle that they want to live.

Tara Bryan: 00:01:20

Yeah, very cool. So tell us a little bit about you

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personally, like how did you get into this work? And and what was

Tara Bryan: 00:01:27

your journey to sort of go, I assume that you are in maybe

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some sort of traditional brick and mortar kind of scenario, and

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then moved into, you know, really being able to step into

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more of a virtual lifestyle? What does that look like for

Tara Bryan: 00:01:40

you?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:01:41

Absolutely. Well, I started started my

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career out of college and corporate world, which so many

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of us did. And you know, corporate was really pretty good

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to me. But after about 13 years there, I really wanted to make a

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bigger, bigger difference. And, you know, ended up starting

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three businesses in my first year out of corporate, you know,

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from the frying pan into the fire as the saying goes. And

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over over the years, I was able to turn them all into multi six

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figures in one seven figures, business sold that the seven

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figure business and have been concentrating on my coaching

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exclusively for the last 12 years, I guess it is and had

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been coaching that entire 22 years, believe it or not. And

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you know, in that that time period, I had a lot of different

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variations of my business, I think that we have to be nimble

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as a business owner. And that as trends change, our businesses

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need to change, I have to remember I started my coaching

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business in 2002 1000. And virtual businesses didn't barely

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existed at that point. So I've seen a lot in in the two decades

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plus that I've been in business. Getting to where I am now, quite

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honestly was a bit of a knock upside the head moment. It was

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about six years ago now pre pandemic. And I was updating my

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vision letter, which is part of my process for my annual

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planning. And I had that that proverbial knock upside the head

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moment where I was looking at the vision letter I had done the

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year before. And the one I did was doing for this year, and

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realized that I wasn't living my bucket list. What I really

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wanted to do was travel full time. And yet I unconsciously

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grown my business very successfully, but was relying

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mostly on live speaking. So I was you know running around

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doing speaking from stage and getting client getting leads

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that I turned into clients. But it kind of kept me at least

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fixed to the US if not California at the time. And so I

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realized that I you know, I felt pretty out of integrity, I have

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to be honest, because I teach this whole process of getting

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clear on your envision and then having your business fit into

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that business, your business fit into that vision. And here I had

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unconsciously got me into a place where I wasn't doing that.

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So within six months, I completely changed my marketing

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strategy when 100% virtual, sold my house, put my stuff in the in

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storage and was traveling about nine months of the year

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internationally, taking my business with me. And that's as

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the intro I've not looked back. And even during the pandemic, I

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was able to keep doing some travel in the US and spend a lot

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of time with parents and family and friends and started

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traveling again in beginning of this year and I can't do it. I

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have no idea when I'm going to kind of get over the travel bug.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:04:35

I don't know if it'll be forever or not.

Tara Bryan: 00:04:37

Yeah, that's so cool. So So for our listeners, I

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think just to break that down a little bit, which I think is

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really powerful is is that you sort of you evolved right so as

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you went from corporate to starting your own thing to doing

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live speaking which I assumed sort of as the baby step to Oh,

Tara Bryan: 00:04:54

I'm gonna I want to travel more so I'm going to do live speaking

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in different cities. And then it was like Wait a minute, now I'm

Tara Bryan: 00:05:01

traveling for other people still not for myself. My business

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isn't serving me. It's it's sort of chaining me to travel Bakley

Tara Bryan: 00:05:09

that isn't really travel I want to be doing right, right. It's

Tara Bryan: 00:05:12

your Yeah. And so then just to sit and have that moment of, we

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have to shift, we have to pivot and then actually move into

Tara Bryan: 00:05:20

integrity. I love that I had a

Sherri Coffelt: 00:05:22

cell what I do, whatever point now I decide

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where I want to travel to. And then I reach into my community,

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find out who lives there, and find out how I can do speaking

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there. So then I can write off 100% of the trip.

Tara Bryan: 00:05:34

Well, yes, See, there you go. It all comes full

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circle. But yeah, you're so you're able to choose where you

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want to go. And then you know, you can work there. Because

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you've set up your life in order to work wherever you are,

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instead of, you know, having to be dictated by where you're

Tara Bryan: 00:05:52

going. So I love that. That's so cool. Okay, cool. So let's shift

Tara Bryan: 00:05:55

into your business and talk about, you know, how do you

Tara Bryan: 00:05:59

deliver to your deliver to your people, while you're able to do

Tara Bryan: 00:06:03

all the things? What does that look like? So courses, programs,

Tara Bryan: 00:06:07

one on one speaking, all those different things?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:06:11

Yeah, most of those things will be part of it.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:06:14

Yeah, I typically serve my clients in two ways. Excuse me,

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I just still do one on one coaching. I actually love

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working with people one on one. And I do believe that the

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fastest path to success is typically one on one coaching,

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when you could really go deep and have someone that's that's

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kind of hooking arms with you and with you step by step during

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the process. But I also believe in the power of small groups,

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and what I call hybrid courses. So yeah, most of my pro in fact,

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all of my programs, I've chosen not to sell Do It Yourself

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courses for a long time, because people, people just don't

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complete them. I mean, the statistics are less than 10% of

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people make it through the second module of an of a do it

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yourself online course. So what I do instead, is I use my

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courses, and I have three major courses, I use my courses to

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deliver information, that would be the same thing I'd say to

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anybody, pretty much no matter who's watching it, and I use the

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coaching part of it to really go deep answer questions, get

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engagement, have people learn from each other in the group

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programs that I do that are around a course, if you will.

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And really add the value that keeps people engaged, keeps

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people moving forward, and actually creating the

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transformation that they bought the course in the first place

Sherri Coffelt: 00:07:36

for?

Tara Bryan: 00:07:36

Yep, that's so powerful. One of the things that

Tara Bryan: 00:07:39

we focus on too, is exactly what you're saying is like, how do

Tara Bryan: 00:07:42

you how do you, you know, package as much as you can? And

Tara Bryan: 00:07:47

we are we even like talking about like, creating a virtual

Tara Bryan: 00:07:49

version of yourself, right. So it's not just information, but

Tara Bryan: 00:07:52

it's also the experience that you're creating for people that

Tara Bryan: 00:07:55

they can become successful, and have that transformation. And

Tara Bryan: 00:07:58

then you're enhancing it by being there, you know, to help

Tara Bryan: 00:08:02

coach them along the way. Have you found like, in your

Tara Bryan: 00:08:05

experience, those typically the that, like it's helpful for

Tara Bryan: 00:08:09

people, because my statistic is actually 97% of people don't

Tara Bryan: 00:08:13

finish courses. So giving them the benefit of the doubt. Yeah,

Tara Bryan: 00:08:18

you're Yeah, you're like, Yeah, though, you know, maybe some

Tara Bryan: 00:08:21

more people will, but most people don't. And the reason is

Tara Bryan: 00:08:24

that they need that guide, they need somebody to guide them down

Tara Bryan: 00:08:27

the journey. And if you can do that virtually, that more power

Tara Bryan: 00:08:30

to you, right, like, we specialize in helping people

Tara Bryan: 00:08:32

actually build a journey online that helps them progress, not

Tara Bryan: 00:08:37

just like giving them a bunch of stuff. But one of the things

Tara Bryan: 00:08:41

that I find so fascinating, and I'm interested to hear your

Tara Bryan: 00:08:43

opinion on this is it, it's it's beneficial for the learners, but

Tara Bryan: 00:08:50

it's also beneficial for the for the coach for the person who's

Tara Bryan: 00:08:53

teaching because more often than not, if you haven't, uh,

Tara Bryan: 00:08:59

something that's just all automatic, all automated, right,

Tara Bryan: 00:09:03

we're not serving your people in the way that you want to show up

Tara Bryan: 00:09:06

and serve your people. And so you tend to just like, then make

Tara Bryan: 00:09:10

more stuff, and then go, Well, I don't feel connected, I don't

Tara Bryan: 00:09:13

feel like I'm making a difference. And so it's actually

Tara Bryan: 00:09:16

for both it's for the for the person who's doing the coaching

Tara Bryan: 00:09:20

and training, and it's for the learner to have that hybrid

Tara Bryan: 00:09:22

model.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:09:23

I agree. 100%. And when I first started

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coaching courses, and I've had close courses for, I know, 15

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years or so at least more than that, anyway, for a lot of

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years. And and they were doing it yourself when I first

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started. And that's exactly why I switched to more the hybrid

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model because I didn't feel connected with the people that

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were buying my product. And then you know, I would look at what

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they were consuming. It's like wait a minute, you know, you're

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not opening the videos, you're not using the worksheets, and so

Sherri Coffelt: 00:09:54

I knew they weren't creating the transformation that they had

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spent their hard earned money to buy this course. And the reality

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:01

is when people don't get results. We know human nature,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:06

right? Who do they blame? When they look in the mirror? They

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:09

don't look in the mirror and say, I didn't take action. So

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:13

I'm the one that is to blame. Too often they actually blame.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:17

Who they? Who sold them? The course?

Tara Bryan: 00:10:19

Yep, yep. And there's a little less visibility

Tara Bryan: 00:10:22

there. Right? Like, there's

Tara Bryan: 00:10:23

a responsibility there from us to say, how do we help help

Tara Bryan: 00:10:28

somebody get there? But yes, your your 100%? Right. And then

Tara Bryan: 00:10:32

do you find that like, when you first were doing it that way,

Tara Bryan: 00:10:35

then you would just like, poke in and like, check in and like,

Tara Bryan: 00:10:39

do all these little things anyway? Because

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:42

even more of your energy because it's from a

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:44

frustrated, almost anxious is checking in,

Tara Bryan: 00:10:48

how's it going? Exactly. Like, yeah,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:52

the other thing that I would say to that was a

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big shift for me, and there's so much technology out there now,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:10:57

that helps us around this is adding things into our courses

Sherri Coffelt: 00:11:02

that encourage engagement and encourage forward progress. You

Sherri Coffelt: 00:11:06

know, I have my courses on a platform that allows me to do

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reward points. And I have something I call Rapid Rewards.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:11:15

And so when people take action, that can collect points, and

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then they can turn those points into an extra call with me, or

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an invitation to a live event or whatever different different

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things they can use the reward points for, and people love to

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get those badges or reward points, right. So whatever you

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can do, to encourage people to, to acknowledge them for taking

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action, first of all, and then have some kind of a way that

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they can see their progress makes a huge difference.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:11:46

Checklists help with that, too. I have a checklist I need to my

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modules. So when they check off the different things that

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they're completing, they feel that sense of accomplishment,

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because that's what stops people is they get into the course, and

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they get stuck in some way. And there's not something there

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that's helping them through that obstacle. So they give up. And

Sherri Coffelt: 00:12:06

that's where we'll start. As course creators. That's our

Sherri Coffelt: 00:12:09

responsibility.

Tara Bryan: 00:12:11

100% Well, and and just like all of us, right,

Tara Bryan: 00:12:14

there's, you know, this going on and this going on, and they may

Tara Bryan: 00:12:17

have great intentions. But if you don't have anything that's

Tara Bryan: 00:12:21

helping them progress, like exactly what you're talking

Tara Bryan: 00:12:23

about, then, yeah, then they're like, oh, yeah, I really need to

Tara Bryan: 00:12:27

get to that. I mean, I have courses like that, that I've

Tara Bryan: 00:12:29

bought, right? I really need to get to that. Yeah. And that he

Tara Bryan: 00:12:32

stays on the to do list forever, because I don't have time, time

Tara Bryan: 00:12:36

to get into it. And and if you're, you know, meeting with

Tara Bryan: 00:12:39

somebody and you know that you have to be prepared, then you

Tara Bryan: 00:12:43

tend to take a little bit more responsibility to get there

Tara Bryan: 00:12:46

because you don't want to let that other person down. Right.

Tara Bryan: 00:12:48

It's that accountability. We all need to yep, yep. Very cool.

Tara Bryan: 00:12:51

Awesome. Okay, cool. So what would be? So I have two

Tara Bryan: 00:12:55

questions for you what would be the first one is like, give us a

Tara Bryan: 00:12:59

tip, something that you see all the time that if only people

Tara Bryan: 00:13:05

would do that, then their course or their program would be so

Tara Bryan: 00:13:08

much better?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:12

Wow, if only people would do that, the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:15

rewards reward system that I talked about would probably be

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:17

one of them, making sure that they have some way to

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:21

acknowledge people for making forward progress. And I think

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:25

the second one we haven't talked about would be creating a sense

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:28

of community. One of the things people like about group programs

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is that they don't feel like they're alone. And creating

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:36

that, that group dynamic people can learn so much from the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:39

questions other people ask, giving them that, that, that

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:44

space to feel comfortable and confident that it's a safe space

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:49

that they can ask any question, and that they can learn from

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:52

each other. It's just, it's just invaluable in terms of creating

Sherri Coffelt: 00:13:56

that forward momentum.

Tara Bryan: 00:13:58

Yep, for sure. Awesome. Okay. And then, so if

Tara Bryan: 00:14:01

somebody is first starting out, okay, this is a two parter. So

Tara Bryan: 00:14:06

if somebody's first starting out, like a cloud, or you help

Tara Bryan: 00:14:09

them figure out like, what to teach and what they should be

Tara Bryan: 00:14:14

doing in their course, that's the first part of the question.

Tara Bryan: 00:14:17

The second part of the question is, when should somebody start a

Tara Bryan: 00:14:22

course?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:24

Great questions. So what the approach I take in

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:27

my business is I use what I call creating your genius roadmap.

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:31

And your genius roadmap is simply a way for you to take out

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:34

of your head onto a least virtual piece of paper, how you

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:40

support your clients in solving the problem and creating

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:44

transformation that you promised them. So whatever your promises,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:49

think of that as the end of the roadmap, if you will, the end of

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:52

the road, and you getting clarity on what are the literal

Sherri Coffelt: 00:14:57

steps if it's more of a sequential process. What are the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:00

pillars of success? If it's if it's not necessarily sequential,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:06

that make you unique in how you help people get to a specific

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:11

end result? And the reality is we all have a process, whether

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:15

or not we realize it. And I typically go through a process

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:20

with clients where you're asking a lot of questions. It's like,

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think about your favorite client, what did you do with

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:24

them first, and this having them be get out of their head? How

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:30

they did work with that client to create that, that

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:32

transformation. And when you do that for two or three, one on

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:35

one clients, or even in a group, how you work with them, you can

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:38

get pretty clear on that. So that's the first thing, then, in

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:43

terms of where you start, once you have that genius roadmap

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:47

laid out, the approach I take is now where along that genius

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:52

roadmap, do you want to focus first, on helping your clients

Sherri Coffelt: 00:15:57

create success? Are you wanting to create a course or a program?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:03

Let's say? Because we've kind of talked about the hybrid hybrid

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:06

approach? Do you want to create a program where you help people

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:10

get from A to Z on that entire genius roadmap? Or do you want

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:14

to focus in first on a particular stop or pillar if

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:19

you're not an adequate sequential approach on that

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:22

genius roadmap, my genius roadmap is five steps AI is

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:26

fairly sequential. Most of my work focuses on the first three

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:31

steps. And I do have some, you know, some go into the fourth

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:36

and fifth step. But I really love to focus more on the first

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:40

three steps, which are kind of pretty much from startup to

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:44

multi six figures in your business. I have VIP clients I

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:47

work with on on leveraging scale, which are my fourth and

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:50

fifth steps. But for the most part, I focus on those first

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:54

three steps, either is perfectly fine. But when you get clarity

Sherri Coffelt: 00:16:57

on that, then you know where to go with your program. And what

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:01

you want to include in the course. In order to deliver on

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:05

that problem that promise, excuse me, because the big

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:08

promise you have for your entire zone of your work, if you will,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:12

can be bigger than the promise that you that you solve in a

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:17

particular online course. That makes sense.

Tara Bryan: 00:17:20

Yep, yep. Yep. That's great. Yes, I love I love

Tara Bryan: 00:17:23

the roadmap, we talked about that all the time is, you know,

Tara Bryan: 00:17:26

what, what is the step from point A to point B, you don't

Tara Bryan: 00:17:28

just like get into a car and drive?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:31

Exactly right. You've got routes from LA to New

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:35

York?

Tara Bryan: 00:17:35

Yeah, yep. Exactly. Awesome. Okay, so then, like,

Tara Bryan: 00:17:39

when should somebody get started? When they're trying to

Tara Bryan: 00:17:43

package their expertise, I think that there's a perception out

Tara Bryan: 00:17:47

there that you can just go from, you know, having an idea to

Tara Bryan: 00:17:52

packaging your expertise. But tell me a little bit about your

Tara Bryan: 00:17:56

philosophy around that. And when is the right time to do that?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:17:59

My philosophy is that as a newer coach or

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:03

consultant, the best place to start is almost always not

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:07

always, but almost always, with one on one clients. And the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:11

reason for that is multifold. The key reasons are number one,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:15

it's the fastest path to cash. Because when you're first

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:18

starting out, you don't maybe don't have a list, you don't

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:21

have a lot of people to draw from. So a lot easier to have

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:24

people say yes, on a one on one basis, where you just talk to

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:29

one person, ask them to work with you. And they say yes or

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:31

no, than it is to get even a half dozen or a dozen people

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:35

into a group program. So start with one on one, because it's

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:39

easier to get some cash in that foundation going for you. It's

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:43

also the greatest market research incubator that you can

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:47

ask for. Because when you start working with those one on one

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:50

clients, you in essence, are implementing whatever section if

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:55

you will, of your genius roadmap that you promised them, either

Sherri Coffelt: 00:18:59

all of it or part of it. You're taking them through your process

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:03

on a one on one basis. And you're going to learn from that,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:06

what works really well. What maybe doesn't work as well, and

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:11

what's missing. And so many people that that jump into

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:15

creating online courses, they literally go and they create the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:18

entire course before they even try to sell it, let alone

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:21

deliver it. And what ends up happening is that when they do

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:25

start delivering it, they realize oh my gosh, I've missed

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:29

this and Oh, this isn't working at all, and the end up redoing

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:32

it all. And that's a that's just breaks my heart because I have

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:37

met people I'm sure you have to that have spent a year

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:40

developing their online course never made a penny from it. And

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:44

then it either does it sell or when they sell it for you to a

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:47

few people. It doesn't deliver. Yep. And that's just oh my gosh,

Sherri Coffelt: 00:19:51

that just breaks my heart.

Tara Bryan: 00:19:53

It's like It's like this, this you know,

Tara Bryan: 00:19:55

masterpiece, and unfortunately, it's too early to make a

Tara Bryan: 00:19:59

mistake. As a minimum viable option, so Exactly, yeah.

Tara Bryan: 00:20:05

Awesome. Okay, cool. Well, we could talk all day like, I am so

Tara Bryan: 00:20:09

happy to have you on the show. And we'll have to have a second

Tara Bryan: 00:20:12

episode later where we can just dive into some more detail

Tara Bryan: 00:20:14

because it is, you know, what we talk about is all of the action,

Tara Bryan: 00:20:20

the tips, the tricks, the nitty gritty, in this podcast, and so

Tara Bryan: 00:20:25

I am just so thankful that you're able to share some of

Tara Bryan: 00:20:27

your expertise with us. It is fabulous. Yeah. And so if people

Tara Bryan: 00:20:32

want to learn more about you and and, and your stuff around the

Tara Bryan: 00:20:37

bucket list and building, they're building their

Tara Bryan: 00:20:39

businesses, where should they go to find you?

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:42

Well, they can always reach out to me on my

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:45

website at results partner.com That's results with an S partner

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:48

70 singular, and there's a free gift there that they can opt in

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:52

for it's called the Freedom finder checklist, great way for

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:55

them to get started to see where they are on their journey to

Sherri Coffelt: 00:20:58

building their bucket lists life and maybe some steps along the

Sherri Coffelt: 00:21:01

way they might have missed. And I also connect with a lot of

Sherri Coffelt: 00:21:04

people on LinkedIn, it's my handles my just my name Sherri

Sherri Coffelt: 00:21:07

Coffelt.

Tara Bryan: 00:21:08

Perfect, awesome and those will be in the show notes

Tara Bryan: 00:21:10

so you can grab them. Thank you so much for being on with us

Tara Bryan: 00:21:14

today. And we will see you later.