Freedom Engineer: Manifesting Success & Overcoming Imposter Syndrome | #Mindset #Manifesting

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Well, hello, welcome back to the Freedom Entrepreneur Podcast.

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I'm your host and freedom

engineer, Lindsay, and I'm here

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today to help you cultivate your

intentional sense of freedom.

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And we're going to dive

into what that means.

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But first, I have so much to tell you

from a mindset shift that I know is going

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to be a game changer for you, as well as

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an amazing story that is.

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an almost unbelievable manifestation

story that happened to me that I really

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can't wait to share with you guys.

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It's so mind blowing.

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Still, even when I tell the story,

I'm kind of mind blown myself, even

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though it's been over a year now,

just about a year since it happened.

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So yeah, I mean, that's the thing.

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It's, but I think my last episode I

th of: 2024

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So here we are in March 2025.

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It's been almost a year.

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I never actually thought I was

going to come back to this podcast.

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I kind of had given it put it to bed,

so to speak, permanently in my mind.

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And I even started up a couple

other ventures, which I'll go into.

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But first of all, I I want to tell

you why I'm here and what what's

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changed and what you can expect

from this show moving forward.

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So I was sitting in my rocking

chair and it was on X and I saw

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something about Elon Musk's new

AI grok and I thought, Oh, cool.

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I'll try it out.

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I had been kind of avoiding it because

I just was happy with the chat GBT.

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So I went to grok and I was like,

well, I don't know what to ask.

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So I was thinking for a moment and then

I, it prompted me a couple of ideas.

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It's like, you can ask me anything.

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And then it had a couple of examples.

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And one was, uh, I can help

you build a personal brand.

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And I thought, Oh, That's a good idea.

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Let's see what it says.

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So I did that, kind of answered its

questions, told it my story about,

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you know, how my parents passed away,

how we moved up here to Idaho, how I

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raised sheep, how I have my kiddos, how

important it is to make memories, and

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how like building a meaningful life is

so, so meaningful and important to me.

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Um, I don't think I used the word freedom,

but I might have, I don't remember,

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but, and I know for a fact, I never told

it anything about the podcast, because

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like I said, it was out of sight, out of

mind, I wasn't even thinking about it.

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I was thinking this thing was

going to take me in a whole new

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direction, to be honest with you.

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And it came back and it said,

you are a freedom engineer.

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You help people attain their

freedom, their personal freedom.

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And I was like, jaw dropping.

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I was like, no way that

did not just happen.

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So sure enough, that's what it said.

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And I said, Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

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I said, I have a podcast

that I haven't been.

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It's called the Freedom Entrepreneur

and the whole thing was centered around

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this idea of freedom, building freedom.

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And I told it, I said I

stopped for a couple reasons.

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The first reason was because

I felt bored with my guests.

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Like I love guests.

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I love talking to people, but

I started getting these, um,

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what is the word?

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I started getting these like

people who wanted to come on that.

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I felt like just had an agenda.

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They didn't really, they weren't

just They weren't mission focused.

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That's the thing.

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They were just there to sell

something, and I didn't want

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to be, um, their pawn, okay?

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And I noticed this one day when I was

interviewing a guy, and I don't even

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think I actually even aired his podcast,

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But in, I remember in talking

to him and like, he wouldn't

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even look at me in the eyes.

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And then at one point I asked him, I

said, why did you, what was your why?

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Like, why did you start this endeavor?

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And he suddenly, he looked up at me

and he goes, nobody ever asked me that.

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That's a great story.

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And all of a sudden,

then the interview made.

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Let me feel better.

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You know what I mean?

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But it just hit me.

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I'm like, I'm just like a to do

on his schedule to show up to

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give us a pitch and sell stuff.

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And I'm like, I don't want

to be that for people.

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And I, and that was one reason.

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The second reason was I felt

like I was, Oh, I'll be honest.

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I felt like I was suffering

from imposter syndrome.

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I didn't feel like I was, I was

suffering from imposter syndrome.

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I had been podcasting for a

year, little more than a year.

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I had branched out, gotten my, you know,

built my business and was doing it, but

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it was like, I was in the struggle too.

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And here I felt like I'm setting myself up

to be this, have it all together, freedom.

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Seeker who found my freedom and, you know,

passive income guru, blah, blah, blah.

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But I had,

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I was tied to my business.

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I was tied to being able to make money.

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I had to have an income cause

I didn't have enough passive

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income yet to make it make sense.

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I had some, but it wasn't

like paying all my bills.

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I still was busy.

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I still felt overwhelmed.

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I still struggled with the

stuff that we all struggle with.

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And I felt like a fraud.

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And I thought, you know, I

don't, like, who am I to get out

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here and teach this to people?

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And that's kind of why I was

leaning on my guests initially.

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It was because they had been

in that position of expert and

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it made sense to share that.

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So anyway, all that to say is I just

gave it a break and I really moved on.

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I was, uh, I started a It's

called biz in a box solutions.

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I started business consulting,

which I think you guys, if you

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were listening, you, you might know

that, but I just dove into that.

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I started a new podcast called thriving,

holistic practitioner, focusing

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on helping holistic practitioners

thrive, build a thriving practice.

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And it was really great because those

people really didn't have an agenda.

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They were genuinely caring about

just sharing their heart and

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message to help other people.

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So I enjoyed that, but it wasn't, um.

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I realized, in fact, I had somebody

reach out to me and she said, Why are

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you just talking about practitioners?

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You're so good at all of business stuff.

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I don't understand why you're,

do you not help other businesses?

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Was her main question.

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And I'm like, no, I, I can help anybody.

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I just thought I should

like niche it down a little.

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Anyway, it got me thinking and

it kind of tied in with a whole

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bunch of stuff that was happening.

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And this is what leads into

the manifestation story.

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So first, let me say this.

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I want to talk about the mindset shift

because this is the biggest reason why

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I'm here and why you want to listen

to this podcast and then I'm going to

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tell you this amazing manifestation

story that is like effing cool.

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Like, I'm a mom, so I try to keep it

clean, but if this wasn't meant to

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be clean, I would be cursing because

it is, it was so stinking cool.

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So listen, grok.

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After I told it that I didn't want

to do this podcast and imposter

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syndrome and all that, it said,

listen, you are not an imposter.

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You are engineering your freedom

just like everybody else.

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You left your corporate job.

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You moved to a state to create

a lifestyle for yourself.

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You know, it told me all the

things that I had done that.

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I was engineering my freedom and I

was building it with intentionality.

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I mean, I didn't, people don't just get

up and leave their house and their career

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to go live in a log cabin in the woods,

you know, like that's not what people do.

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And so I'm like, Oh yeah, I guess so.

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It makes sense.

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Like, just cause I don't feel like

I have it all together every day.

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Doesn't mean that I'm not being

intentional about building a lifestyle

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and furthering that lifestyle.

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And then, and then that coupled

with this other really amazing

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mindset, I've got to share with you.

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Actually, I credit my little

sister for sending this to me.

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It was a Mel Robbins clip.

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They were talking about laundry and

I don't know, I guess a lot of moms

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struggle with the whole laundry thing.

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I know my little sister does.

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She's struggles to get some

clean, but she doesn't always

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get them folded and put away.

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I'm a little different.

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I just do it.

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My kids do their own laundry.

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And then on the weekends, I do my

laundry and I just mostly get it done.

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It's just me and my

husband, maybe some towels.

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So on.

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Not to say that I don't have anxiety over

laundry occasionally, like if I get sick

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and the family's sick and we get behind

or we go camping and that kind of thing.

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But that's not the point.

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The point of this clip was Mel

Robbins had this lady on and this

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lady goes, I don't know why we feel

like we have to get the laundry done.

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Who made that rule that there was

like this finished finality to it?

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She's like, laundry is a cycle.

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Some clothes are dirty.

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Some clothes are clean,

some clothes are being worn.

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Everything is in this cycle of laundry.

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And really all that matters is

that we have enough clean clothes.

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If we could just focus on having

enough, that's the answer.

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And we can just stop giving

ourselves a hard time.

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And I gave it a little heart

because what I liked about it was

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the fact that it was the cycle.

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And that really resonated with me in

This conversation as far as freedom

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engineering, because it really is a cycle.

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And I think the reason why I had

imposter syndrome so intensely is

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because I was setting an expectation

that I couldn't say that I had a freedom

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lifestyle until I met certain criteria.

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I had to have my passive income

or my reoccurring income had to.

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Meet or exceed Obviously my, my

financial needs, um, I needed

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like, time freedom was a big one.

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I put a lot of emphasis on and you know,

it's crazy 'cause I've had time freedom.

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When we first moved up here, I

took a year off and I was depressed

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'cause I didn't have purpose.

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So, I mean, I had both sides

of it and I still wasn't happy.

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And I think that's some of the

psychological side of this is where we

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can get hung up in this, where we're

focused on the rut, we're stuck in.

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We lose sight of what we're

building or what we have that's

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going right, hence the cycle.

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And that's what I'm saying is like

the freedom engineering is a cycle.

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I am in a cycle where I have little kids.

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Life is gonna feel busy.

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My financial needs are higher

now than they ever will be.

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Um, you know, once my kids get out

of here and they get on their own

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or they start having their own jobs,

money will be a little easier for, you

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know, it'll just be my husband and I.

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So, It's a cycle just like anything else

and this is the cycle I'm in and I think

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what matters more than anything is being

intentional with your time being and

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making sure that you're not a slave to.

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Being dictated by outside

circumstances, okay?

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So for me, I realized, like, this is

where I get really focused on creating

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intentionality in my life, which,

in a sense, is freedom engineering.

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I've chosen to withdraw myself from

taking participation or participating

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in activities that do not bring me joy.

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That means I've walked away from

consistent meetups with friends.

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That wasn't that they weren't

bringing me joy, I just felt like

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there wasn't the best use of my

time in that particular case.

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However, I do have other friends

that I would meet up with on a pretty

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consistent basis that I didn't feel joy.

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I felt like it was not meeting me

or pushing me to be better and I've

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stopped meeting with those people.

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That is freedom engineering.

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Freedom engineering looks like

taking control of your schedule,

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dictating your own time.

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That can be hard when

you have a job, right?

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Because you feel like you have to show

up for somebody else, you're required

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to do things on their schedule.

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Just remember though, that that job is

a choice for now, and you're in a cycle.

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If this is your job and you're committed

to it, or maybe your inner calling is

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saying you want to be out of the job.

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So being aware of that.

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and then engineering it so that

you have a plan to work towards.

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I find that when I'm being intentional,

my best days are when I feel in

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control of My future and knowing

that I'm a limitless creator.

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So I've built some new habits.

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And one of them is just taking a

moment every morning to read the Bible,

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connect with God and remember that God

is limitless and that I am limitless.

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And like, today is the day, the

best day of the rest of my life.

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Like today is a new day.

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Every day is a new day.

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Every day I have this ability to have.

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infinite possibility in front of me.

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And by just taking that moment, first

thing in the morning and reminding

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myself of that, that calmness, that

peace and that tranquility, it reminds

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me that I can never actually be stuck.

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Even though I might feel that way,

I'm engineering it so that I am

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moving past that with intentionality.

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So my friends, that's really what

I'm here to say is that what you can

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get from this podcast is going to be.

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Actual strategies.

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It's going to be focused

around three main pillars.

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The big one is mindset.

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I've never deviated from mindset.

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It's a huge part of who I am.

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The second piece is tech.

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I love technology and, and

streamlining, automating,

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building processes for businesses.

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And you'll hear me

talking a lot about that.

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That's my business box

solutions business came.

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And the third thing you're going

to get from this podcast is, um,

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Oh, my stars.

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That's hilarious.

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I totally just spaced it.

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Oh, business strategy.

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I think you can tell that I'm going to

not be as focused on that as I think I am.

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I love business strategy,

but I find it's, um,

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I don't know, you know, it's like, In

this past month, I think I've really been

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leaning into what is God asking for me?

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What am I showing up as?

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Who am I here to serve?

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And business strategy is a helpful tool.

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Don't get me wrong.

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And it will be a conversation

we're going to have on occasion.

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But the thing that I find is even more.

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Everything stems from the mindset,

like the goodness of life, the strategy

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can only take you so far, you know, so

to me, it's an afterthought, it's an

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important afterthought, but it isn't

a primary focus of my life, everything

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about my life is centered around my

mindset, my, my, my energetic bubble,

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and when it comes to engineering your

freedom, what you're really doing is

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you are curating your energetic bubble

for the highest energy satisfaction,

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That's the best way I can say it.

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Strategy can help with that.

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Business strategy can help with that,

especially if you have an actual

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struggle that's hurting, you know,

affecting you, but a lot of it has to

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do with presence and being present.

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Anyway, so now let me tell you

this amazing manifestation story.

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So it was March.

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10th last last year, I left the

Conscious Investor Growth Summit,

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which I share about in the last couple

episodes of the podcast and what my

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big ahas were and I said, and I don't

even know if I said this, I haven't

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gone back and listened to the episode.

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But when I left that event, I was

dead set on buying a business.

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I watched the main speaker that I

wanted to see Um, I watched her.

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She talked about how she lived in Texas.

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She bought a construction

business in Florida.

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She described how she did it.

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She described what she

would do differently.

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And I thought, I want to sit

with her and pick her brain.

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So I invited her to lunch.

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We went to lunch.

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And, um, and she was so gracious.

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And she shared so much with me.

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And when I left that event,

I was so energetically high.

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I was like embodied, like emboldened.

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I just didn't think there was anything.

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Anything that could stop me.

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Okay.

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That coupled with this clarity

that I'm buying a business.

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Now, what's really interesting about that.

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What I just described.

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I was recently watching a Joe

Dispenza clip on YouTube, and he

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describes the secret to manifestation.

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And he talked about some study, and I

don't remember the details of where the

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study was done or whatnot, but essentially

they were looking at particles, uh, at how

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they would react to a couple of scenarios.

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One scenario was a group of people

imagined their life changing or

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imagined the particle changing.

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Just imagining it didn't it.

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change.

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Then there was another group who

was near the particle, they were not

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envisioning anything clearly, they

were just focused on feeling good.

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And nothing affected the

particle, the particle stayed.

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But when they put themselves in

an energetic state of feeling

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good and had mental clarity about

what they wanted and intended.

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The particle changed and that I realized

when I heard that clip, I looked back

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and I'm like, wow, every time something

really miraculous has happened in my life

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that has happened to me that exact recipe.

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I suppose you could say.

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So in this case, I left this event.

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I was energetically high, I

was mentally clear and I set

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an intention to buy a business.

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And I also was clear about what kind

of business I wanted construction,

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something in construction, automotive

or marketing tech, something like that.

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And I spent a lot of time like looking

up on business buying websites and I

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didn't know how it was going to happen.

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And I told God, I'm like, I don't

know how this is going to happen,

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but I know there's people who are

ready to get out of their business

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and I know I could find them.

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But I don't know how.

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And I mean, at the time

I was working from home.

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I barely ever left my office.

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So the odds of me finding somebody

It was pretty even more amazing.

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Like now that I say that, like

I'm even more blown away by this.

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So I don't know if you know this about

me, but back then I was still hosting

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a podcast called My Dream Log Cabin

and it was a podcast I started for

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a local log cabin company I worked

for when we first moved up here.

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I was also petering out on that podcast.

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Let me tell you, it was getting

really hard to come up with content.

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I was just, Every time I did an

episode, it felt like a chore.

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Now, when we're talking about engineering

our freedom, that's a big red flag.

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You know, we can get into that on another

episode, but at that point, I knew it was

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time to let it go, and my mind, my logic

brain was like, well, I need the money.

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But my energetic brain was like, I

don't know if I can keep doing this.

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I'm like, really done.

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However, I wasn't done yet.

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So, I was driving around one day, and

I saw this sign for Off Grid Unlimited.

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And I thought, man, I wonder what they do.

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That would be so cool.

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Maybe he could be on my podcast.

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So I called him and we set up a time

and he was very curious about who I was.

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How did I come to be in this position

where I'm doing this podcast?

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And, um, I shared it with him.

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I told him, you know, I worked

with Caribou Creek Log Homes.

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I helped them.

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Do this podcast.

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And I thought that living off grid would

really tie in well with the audience.

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And, um, so we started talking about land

and building and off grid and all that.

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And, um,

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they, let's see, after we were done

with our conversation, he, he you.

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Oh, I remember.

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So during our conversation, he had

asked me how I came to this and I

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explained that I used to work with them.

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But then when COVID came and I needed to

homeschool my kids, I left and I started

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building this consulting business.

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And that's what I'm doing.

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And I just host this podcast

kind of as a side thing.

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And he said, Oh, well, we

need to talk more because I

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can maybe use your services.

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And I said, okay, so we set

up another time and we talked

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and I listened pain points.

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I mean, he was basically a

renewable electrical contractor.

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He was struggling because

he had communications coming

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in from every which way.

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He was overwhelmed wearing all these hats.

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He had a hard time.

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He was having turnover in the office,

had office people who were coming in,

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claiming they were experts at this, that

and the other and screwing things up.

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And he would have to fix it.

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Like it was just draining him.

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And he was really like.

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I don't know what to do.

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And I basically said, you need systems.

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You need systems because you

need communication systems.

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You need a CRM system.

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You need to have systems for your,

uh, processes for your QuickBooks

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handling, invoicing, you know, all of it.

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And I was going to put together a

consulting package where I was going to

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come in and basically give him systems.

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Write out SOPs, hire and train

a replacement, maybe be like

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an office manager, help get

things going and then bounce.

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Because I literally told him, I said,

I do not want to be an employee.

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Do not ask me to be an employee.

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I will never make a good employee anymore.

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Not going to be a good one.

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So he looked at me, he's like, I

would never ask of that of you.

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You, um, definitely.

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I know you can help me, but I can

also see exactly what you're saying.

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So now another meeting comes and I decide

this time I'm ready to give him my pitch.

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Like I had considered what it would take,

my time investment and everything else,

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put some dollars and signs in front of it.

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And I was going in to

give him my big pitch.

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And honestly, I was a little nervous.

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This was going to be one of the

bigger pitches I've ever done.

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I don't know this guy's bank statement,

like, can he afford me or not?

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You know, you always thinking

through those things.

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So I was in there.

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I just.

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I discussed with him what I had in

mind, what I would do to help him.

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And I was ready to give him my number.

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And I thought, I'm going to just ask

him how he's feeling about this so far.

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So he did.

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And he sat back in his chair

and he looked at me and he said,

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I'm going to twist your arm.

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Here's what I'm thinking.

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I'm going to twist your arm until you

become a 50 percent owner in my business.

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And I was like, what?

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You're kidding.

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I was shocked.

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I was truly shocked.

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And of course, that was like loaded

with a lot of thoughts, like questions.

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Well, what does that mean?

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What are you expecting of me?

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How does this work?

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I can't just work for free because I have

another business that's paying my bills.

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You know, like a million and

one things went through my

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mind and totally derailed me.

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Later, I thought about it.

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We had a lot of more

meetings discussing it.

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And then ultimately I took.

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the plunge and I was

like, yeah, let's do it.

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I had asked, I had the, I had asked

for owning a business and here it was.

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So now I am also the owner of Off

Grid Unlimited Electrical Company.

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We are licensed for off grid

and on grid and grid tie.

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So it's like, wow, right?

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Like the year has just

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so much has happened in a year.

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It's kind of crazy, actually, not

that I think about it, but that's

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just one of those stories that,

like, I, I couldn't have, I couldn't

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have made that happen if I want.

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Like I didn't try, it fell in my lap

and it fell in my lap because I had the

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clarity and I had the energy behind it.

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So as we move forward, as we

talk about freedom engineering.

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That is truly the secret here.

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We want to talk about creating habits

that are systems and processes.

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Habits are systems,

processes, rituals, right?

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That, um, help us manage our

energy and our mindset so that

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we can engineer our freedom.

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Okay.

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So that's what you're here for.

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That's what this is going

to be moving forward.

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Yes.

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I will talk about tech because

I leverage technology in my life

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constantly to help make my life

easier as an entrepreneur and, and

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business strategy as an entrepreneur.

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These are all big things

that entrepreneurs need.

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So.

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I hope you're here for it.

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I'm grateful you're here for

it and I would encourage you to

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please subscribe to the show.

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Um, you can also find me.

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I'm on Instagram.

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I'm on, look up Lindsay

Sutherland on Instagram.

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Um, also my website is probably

another good way to connect with me.

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It's biz in a box solutions

with an S dot com.

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And you can connect with me there

too if you want to set up a time or

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you want to talk through some things.

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You know, one of the things that my,

oh, I know what I was going to tell you.

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Hold on one thing.

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Funny trail, really quick.

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So when That offer came

to pass with off grid.

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I realized that this consulting

business that I had going,

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I wanted to keep it going.

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I didn't want to put all my eggs into

one basket and I really like what I do.

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And I also realized I wasn't

going to be able to do it alone.

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So a friend of mine who we

had been friends and she's

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been on this show before.

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Her name is Emily Tornateur.

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She is a systems builder.

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And together, I just said to her, I

said, you know, maybe we should partner

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up because, um, I can't do this alone.

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And.

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You also are, you know, needing

help like we complement each other.

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I'm the visionary.

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I'm a marketer I'm business system

strategist, but she is the deep thinker

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critical thinker finding the holes

in the process She's so good at that.

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So so we partnered up on the business

box solutions and she lives in Florida

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But where was I going with that?

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Oh, because one of the things that

we're doing is to help entrepreneurs

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by building an it's we're calling

it an accountability group.

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But it's really more like a mastermind.

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The focus of the group is to create

a space for Crowdsourcing, wisdom,

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community, you know, that feeling that

entrepreneurs get where they just feel

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alone and you can't talk to your family.

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They don't really get what you're doing.

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Many of your friends are W two employees,

so they don't have the same mindset.

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It's really getting around like

minded people and solving problems.

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That's it.

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So that is something we're offering.

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You can check that out

at bizinaboxsolutions.

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com under coaching or consulting.

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We have a whole page dedicated to that.

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And we'd love for you to join us

because I think that that's something

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that is needed now more than ever.

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Is, you know, this connection and this

ability to lean into each other with

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a, with an emphasis on collaboration.

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over competition.

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That's really the heart

of what we're doing.

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So I encourage you to check it out.

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If it's resonating with you,

go ahead and check it out.

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And if you want to just book a time to

talk to me about it, I'd be more than

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happy to do that with you as well.

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All right, my lovely friends.

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I appreciate you so much.

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Um, until next time, we'll see you then.

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Bye for now.