Some Personal Thoughts and What I See as the GREATEST Need Right Now for Entrepreneurs

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So today, I want to take you behind the scenes and into my mind, which is a little bit scary because there's a lot going on in there, but I thought you might enjoy hearing a little bit about the thought process that I am going through as I'm building this new business that I'm creating and what I'm doing very differently from the first time that I grew my online business.
[00:00:23] So if you find yourself. In a business that just is way heavier than you hoped. It would be where you have a hard time unplugging where, you know, it could be better somehow if you only had the time to change it and stand back and reevaluate. And if you just feel like you're burning out and don't have the capacity that you used to have, or want to have to really move forward.
[00:00:48] I think you're going to find a lot of value in today's episode.
[00:00:51] I'm in the middle of two days of masterminds right now. In fact, two different masterminds. One of them is kind of this secret small six person mastermind that I was invited to join. That just started with some brilliant women. And the other one is a larger mastermind that has 60 or 70 people in it. That is meeting for two days and both of them are wonderful masterminds, but it's been a beautiful time of kind of stepping back and thinking about this new business that I've been creating.
[00:01:56]if you've been listening to season three, you know, that my goal is to really create a business that's aligned with who I am and what I'm finding. And I'm not even quite three months in. I'm finding that it's so easy.
[00:02:10]To go back on autopilot and to just do what you think you're supposed to do, or what's easy to do or what you you've always done because you know, it works and it's so hard, hard to be true to yourself and really know what that means. And to know what that looks like when you are just trying to make some money and build some momentum and get things moving at the beginning of growing a business.
[00:02:36] So for me to put this into really clear light, I've been doing clarity coaching day, which I love doing those. And I have been teaching the bright future method course, which I just launched a week and a half, two weeks ago. And I'm loving, uh, the students that I have in there. I'm loving, seeing the breakthroughs that are happening.
[00:02:57]During this time, I've also been reading the book, the big leap, which is something that we were given in impact mastermind. Yes. I've been a bunch of masterminds. Just bear with me here. It's so good though. They're so good. I can't even tell you how good they are. But the big leap by gay Hendricks has really got me thinking a lot about what's limiting me from really growing big.
[00:03:23] And where is my true zone of genius? Not just my zone of excellence, like the things that I'm good at, but what are the things that I'm not only good at, but they give me life. They bring me crazy energy. And when I'm done with them, instead of feeling depleted and tired, I am fired up and ready to take on the world. the biggest question on my mind is what are the things in my business that fire me up and part of learning this, because it's not always obvious, but part of learning, this has been doing, taking action, launching my course, again, doing the podcast, doing all the things.
[00:03:59] And as I do them, I'm kind of doing this internal audit. And asking myself what feels the best? What feels heavy? What do I really not love doing? Even though I may be really dang good at doing it, but what feels light and what gives me energy and what fires me up. I'm realizing that a lot of the current business models aren't really fully aligned with who I am and that. There is a greater purpose that I can serve in the world. If I'm willing to think about how to better step outside the box, step outside the ship and, things I've done in the past and the things that I'm used to doing that I'm very comfortable doing.
[00:04:42] And think about creating something that's based 100% on the things that light me up. And for me, my zone of genius by far hands down is that I know people and I know how, how are people so I can see clearly as I interact with somebody and I can have conversations that help discover their strengths and see what's holding them back.
[00:05:09] And. Really helped them find alignment and clarity. I have clarity when it comes to people. I know how people work, which is why I'm very good at marketing. I know what motivates. I know how to empower. I know what can inspire. And I really love to help people connect and I'm seeing. That what most entrepreneurs need, especially the ones stuck in the messy middle isn't necessarily a whole lot of new tactics or content or strategy, but that they need belonging, that they need somebody who can be there to support, support them emotionally, as they're launching, as they're trying new things, as they are stuck in this messy middle and just exhausted. And I'm seeing that this need is greater than ever with 2020, let's just be real COVID and all the things.
[00:06:06] Have really taken a large toll on everybody. Now I know for me personally, I'm incredibly efficient, but my capacity for getting stuff done is probably about half of what it was pre COVID. I just do not have the emotional capacity to do all the things that I used to,
[00:06:26] which is part of why I've had to be so inclusive, probably intentional with the things that I'm doing, because I just, I can't work 40, 50 hours a week anymore. I can't work 60, 80. There's no way I can do 60 to 80 hours a week. Like I've done in the past. I have no desire to let my business rule my life like that again.
[00:06:44] And I know it doesn't have to, if I'm truly in my zone of genius, if I'm truly doing the things that I'm not just excellent at, but that I am phenomenally gifted at and that bring me life. And so what I've realized is yes, I can teach and yes, my framework is awesome, but I want to help. People, I want to connect with people.
[00:07:06] I want to help them connect with each other. I want to help entrepreneurs who feel exhausted and feel overwhelmed and who can't even unplug from their businesses to find a way to redesign their business and feel supported in it and feel like they have other people who really get it. To do this together to connect.
[00:07:30] I know for me, the thing that has gotten me through 20, 20 more than anything has been the friends that I have developed and I used to not really have friends and Kay. And I say that very honestly, and it might sound funny, but up until about a year and a half or two ago, I had acquaintances and I had a lot of them, but I didn't have close friends.
[00:07:53] Like the ones you can call on anytime, anywhere, and know that they've got your back. They're there to remind you who you are. They understand what you're doing. They see you. And they love you. Despite the fact that they know all the good, the bad, the ugly, you know, all of it. And I didn't have that. I thought it was broken if I'm totally honest, I'm like, yeah, I know how to relate to people.
[00:08:16] And I know how to like, Connect with people on a surface level, but I didn't feel like I knew how to have those deep relationships or find and not have them, but find them. That's probably a better way to put it, which is part of why I joined Stew's mastermind. If you go back and look, listen to some of the very first episodes in this series, way back to season one, you can listen to that journey and yeah.
[00:08:40] Or about why I joined the mastermind. I literally told them in the very first mastermind that I paid, all of that money. To make friends who get it because I was lonely and I wanted friends who understood the business side, that I could really develop deep friendships with. Like, yes, I wanted to grow my business, but I needed friends.
[00:08:57] I mean, yeah. I have people in my life who know who I am that love me, that. You know, care for me, but they didn't get what I did from a business standpoint. And if you've been doing the online business stuff for any amount of time, or you probably know what I mean, I mean, people don't even know what you do.
[00:09:11] They're like, how, what, what, what do you do? How do you make money? Sure. You understand? I have found that to be the most valuable thing for me in getting through this incredibly challenging year, especially with the demise of my old business and all of the craziness that I haven't even begun.
[00:09:28] tell you about on this podcast that I'm absolutely certain will come out at some point, but it's been such a year of massive transfer information and no tactic, no strategy. None of those things were enough on their own to get them me through this year. I've needed people and able to thrive through this year.
[00:09:50] And I don't know if you are out there doing this alone right now, and you do not have people that you can count on and that you can really call on and you feel alone. It doesn't have to be that way. And. It is so much easier when you have people that you can band together with. So what I'm thinking about right now is how can I create that belonging and that togetherness.
[00:10:16] For entrepreneurs, how can I leverage this gift of connection and clarity and site for people like you? Who, who are so exhausted, who are stuck in that messy middle, who don't have time, frankly, to make friends because it's absolutely vital. And at some point, if you don't do this, if you don't get clarity on what you're doing, if you don't get alignment on it, you are going to burn out.
[00:10:43] You are going to give up and. It's going to, it's going to cost your health, frankly, and you're missing out on all the things that could be, be like our businesses should be making our lives better, not completely taking over our lives and keeping us unable to, to unplug. And so I want to create intentional spaces for people to come together and connect in small groups so they can build deep relationships.
[00:11:12] I want to help people. Build business friends like create business friends, deep friendships. And you know, my, my longterm goal is to create an adventure mastermind where I travel the world with a group of entrepreneurs who are willing to stretch themselves outside their comfort zone. And do beautiful wild, creative things together that help us grow while also talking about life and business.
[00:11:39] And that I've always just said was on hold because COVID and travel right now is all up in the air. And you know, who knows how long this is going to last, but it didn't Dawn on me until yesterday that there's still a beautiful opportunity for us to connect together and we need it now more than ever.
[00:11:59] And so I've decided I'm going to be launching. There, I don't know what to call them. They're kind of like masterminds, but they're a little different because it's not the formal structure of a mastermind, but the focus is gonna be beyond belonging and really. Supporting each other, as we walk through this entrepreneurial journey together.
[00:12:19] So belonging and togetherness, and really connecting like-minded impact driven entrepreneurs who want to make a real change in the world who want to do this together, who are so stuck, that they, I barely have time to breathe. And I want to, until it hit a space for you to step back, to take a deep breath, And to help you realign yourself with your business, because if you don't ever stop to breathe and to reevaluate and to see what's working and what's not, nothing is going to change, you're either going to burn out and quit or.
[00:12:59] You're going to continue going, going, going, and just be exhausted forever. And I just, I know the need is so deep right now. I don't have all the details yet. I don't have it all figured out. It's not going to be the 25, $30,000 mastermind that I'm dreaming of. It's going to be much less expensive than that, but it's also not going to be like dirt cheap.
[00:13:20] It's going to be somewhere in the middle. And so right now, if this is something that you're interested in, I'm literally just kind of gauging interest in need. But if you really want to connect with other transformation driven entrepreneurs, if you really want to have a group of people, it can become deep, lifelong friends who can support you through this.
[00:13:41] You can be a mirror to you who can absolutely help you with the business side, right? More than anything are there to support you. In your personal journey and. Here's the big one. If you're willing to engage and support the other people in a small group as well, I would love to hear from you so you can go to the show notes and probably the easiest way would be to contact me via Instagram at Jamie M Swanson.
[00:14:11] And let me know, and if you're driving right now or doing something where you can't access your phone, because, you know, You're driving or whatever else. If you could take a moment and tell your phone to remind you to come back to this and send me a message, this isn't going to be a big launch. This is probably going to be me reaching out to some of the most amazing people I know who really would love this, who would get a lot of value from this.
[00:14:36] And who've expressed interest in being in some sort of mastermind. Cause it's similar to a mastermind. But it's going to be a little bit different. It's going to be a lot more accessible and it's all going to be virtual for now, until we know we can do something in person, absolutely open to personal or in person events in the future when we're able to do them.
[00:14:53] But for now it's going to be virtual. So it should be incredibly accessible to anybody. And I'm not going to run them in the same way that most people are running them really excited about that. I was, we'll give you more details later as I bang them out, because right now I'm literally still brainstorming exactly what this looks like.
[00:15:11] But if this is something that appeals to you and you're willing to commit a year, To getting to know other people, letting them know you and really reevaluating your business to create something that's so much more sustainable and so much more aligned with who you are. And you're willing to both work on your business as well as on your own personal growth.
[00:15:33] And you get excited by the idea of doing this together, then reach out to me. Let's have a chat about it, see if it's a good fit. And honestly, Tell me, like, what would make this a dream for you? Because right now I can design it any way I want. And I'm very excited about that idea. So without my friend, I mean this more than ever, we are brighter together and the world needs us. So let's go out and make it brighter.

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