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You're listening to the Mindset in Action podcast

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, the place to be to grow and streamline

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your business . I'm your host , donna

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Eade . Let's jump into the show . Review

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your goals twice a day , every

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day , in order to be focused

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on achieving them . Les

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Brown , welcome

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back to the podcast , everybody

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. I have decided that that is going to be the

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quote that I repeat on all of my quarterly

1:05

reviews , so you'll know what's coming , although

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you'll probably tell from the title , in fairness

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. But

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welcome back to the podcast . It is that time again , it is quarterly

1:21

review time . It is also a little bit of a celebration . So

1:28

, as you are listening to this , I am actually probably already in Paris . If not , I'm on the

1:30

Eurostar going to Paris right now for my birthday , which was

1:32

yesterday , as you're listening to this , if

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you're listening on the Thursday . So it's

1:37

quite an exciting week for me

1:39

. I have never been to Paris before . I

1:41

am looking forward to going up

1:44

the Eiffel Tower and doing all

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of the touristy things and really

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getting to know a city

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that is , you know , in

1:53

fairness , not that far away

1:55

. And this will only

1:57

be my second

2:00

time going to France

2:02

and staying in

2:04

France , so I've been through France a couple of times

2:06

on other holidays or

2:09

day trips , but I've

2:11

never actually stayed in Paris

2:13

, never been to Paris , and

2:15

only stayed in

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Paris in my year seven , no

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, year nine . We went

2:22

for the week , I think in year nine . That's

2:24

when I went to Paris for a week , but

2:26

not Paris , sorry to France

2:28

, but we stayed in Normandy

2:31

, I think somewhere around there . So , very

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excited , happy birthday to me . Very excited , happy

2:35

birthday to me , 43

2:37

years young and very

2:40

, very excited to be

2:42

going to Paris . So

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, yeah , I should probably have mentioned this a few weeks ago

2:53

on the podcast and any of you guys who have been to Paris could have given

2:55

me some tips . But never mind , we will go , we will live , we will learn

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. Go , we

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will live , we will learn . But this episode is all about looking back at our

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goals for the last quarter and seeing what we have done and

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then setting goals for the

3:06

next quarter . So

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let's jump into a little review

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. So , if you've got your notes with you , if

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you're doing this with me , then

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write down what your goals were

3:17

or find your . Where you write

3:19

your goals down , what were your goals for

3:21

the last quarter . So

3:24

, if you remember mine which I'm sure

3:26

you don't , because it's hard enough

3:28

to remember our own right , hence the quote at

3:30

the beginning of this episode . I

3:32

had five goals for

3:34

this last quarter and

3:36

I don't normally set five . I try

3:38

and stick with three because I think

3:40

three is more appropriate . One a month

3:42

or one , you know , three

3:45

spread over the course of three months is

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much better for my head

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space to get around . So I

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thought I was a little bit in , a little bit ambitious

3:53

, but I thought I'd be OK . Turns

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out not so much

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when I actually look at this . So it

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all went a little bit peak tong in the last

4:03

three months and that has been

4:05

affected by my mental health

4:07

, which is an episode that we've got coming up

4:10

. So stay tuned for that . I'm going to kind

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of deep dive into what's

4:14

been going on for me and just

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addressing some mental health topics , which

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I think is really important in business to

4:21

make it known that other people

4:23

are going through things and

4:25

we may be in a really

4:27

great space , but not everybody is

4:30

and sometimes we're not in a

4:32

great space and we think we're all by

4:34

ourselves . So I really want to kind of address

4:36

that in a episode

4:38

by itself . So make sure that you are subscribed

4:41

to the podcast to

4:43

hear that one coming

4:45

soon . So my goals for the first

4:47

quarter were I was launching VIP

4:49

strategy days . Last

4:51

quarter I was going to focus on

4:53

Pinterest , I was going to network more

4:56

, I was going to get my new website up

4:58

and I was going to get more speaking

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gigs . And really

5:02

I kind of failed in almost all

5:04

of those areas and I'm not beating myself up about

5:06

it because sometimes that's just how it goes . But

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my VIP strategy days , they are

5:11

up on my website so you can go to

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the work with me page on my website

5:15

. They are there , you can message me

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, you can talk to me about them . I have got

5:19

dates in the diary , sort of set for

5:22

them , sort of flexibility

5:24

around dates for them . But

5:26

I haven't really promoted it and

5:28

I think that's because the last promotion

5:31

of my program

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, my Start your Podcast program , my

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spring cohorts launch , didn't

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go as well as I'd hoped

5:39

and that kind of had a knock-on effect

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, whereas I should have then really

5:44

promoted my VIP days and

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been out there promoting other

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things . It kind of put me in a bit of a hole

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and I wasn't really

5:53

prepared to be

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out there promoting . So that didn't

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really go to plan , although they are there . And

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if you are interested in the VIP strategy

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strategy is a big word

6:05

to get your tongue around the VIP

6:07

strategy days . They are to

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kind of plan out your podcast . So

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if you've been thinking of doing a podcast but you just don't

6:14

know where to start , you're not

6:16

particularly a tech phobe , or

6:18

maybe it's just you're not even at that point

6:21

where you want to look at actually recording

6:23

and editing . You want to kind of get

6:25

it set out , you want to plan in place , you want

6:27

to be able to visually see what podcast

6:30

looks like for you . That's what strategy

6:32

day is for . So we will look at

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how it's going to fit into your current

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workload , whether you do

6:38

episodic episodes , whether you do

6:40

seasonal episodes and

6:42

what they look like . So the structure of the

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episodes , what are you going to have in them ? Are

6:47

you going to do guest interviews , things like

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that , and then we're going to plan out a year of ideas for you . So whether you you going to do guest interviews , things like

6:51

that , and then we're going to plan out a year of ideas for you

6:53

. So whether you're going to do three seasons

6:55

a year , whether you're going to do a podcast

6:57

a week for a year . We will plan

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out that first year of content

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and then we will develop some of

7:04

those ideas into full episodes

7:06

that you could take away and record

7:08

. We will also go through a launch

7:10

strategy . So what does that look like

7:12

for you ? When would you be planning on

7:14

potentially starting the podcast

7:17

and what would you need to do

7:19

before it launches to

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ensure that it gets the

7:23

best start it can ? So

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that's what the VIP strategy days are

7:28

. It's around four to five hours with

7:30

me in person , unless

7:32

you're too far away for us to get together

7:34

, and then we can do it on zoom

7:36

. So that's the vip strategy

7:38

days didn't really promote them much last

7:41

quarter , but we'll be doing

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that this quarter . Um

7:45

, the next one was the pinterest , and I have

7:47

been doing the pinterest . I have been really

7:50

enjoying sort of monitoring that

7:52

I have got an episode coming out in

7:54

maybe six weeks time where I'm going to actually

7:56

give you a proper breakdown of

7:58

what my Pinterest journey

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has been like so far , so you can have

8:03

kind of the reality of it , because

8:05

I think oftentimes we kind of hear

8:07

everybody's superstar success stories

8:10

when they're x number of years

8:12

into something and then we

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expect to be able to do that in a few months . And

8:16

the fact is , when you're working with

8:18

SEO and you're working with search engines

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and things like , it's not an overnight thing

8:23

and I think a lot of people

8:25

therefore give up too soon

8:27

to really get the benefits

8:29

of something . It's very much like podcasting

8:31

. Podcasting isn't something that is necessarily

8:34

going to be an instant success

8:36

thing . It's something that grows with you

8:39

over time and if you give up

8:41

too early you miss out on the good

8:43

stuff . And I think it's the same with Pinterest

8:45

. So new episode coming

8:47

out about that soon . So

8:49

the next thing is networking , and I

8:51

have joined a new networking group

8:53

. So Vibrant Connections

8:56

with Enves Maloney is

8:58

a great new networking

9:00

group that started in March

9:03

or April this year . I've

9:05

joined that . I'm really enjoying it Slightly

9:08

different to some of the other networking that I do

9:10

, which I love because I love to do networking

9:13

. That is all different because then

9:15

you get different connections , different types of

9:17

people and different

9:19

levels of connection

9:21

with those people that are in

9:23

those groups . So it's always interesting

9:25

to do something that's slightly different

9:27

. And Vez does have a waiting list

9:30

for Vibrant Connections , so if you

9:32

connect with her on any platform

9:34

, you'll be able to get yourself

9:36

on that wait list . She is sales training

9:39

with Enves and I'm

9:41

going to check actually I'm going to stop because

9:43

I know how to spell her name , but I know I'm

9:46

going to get the F and the Y the wrong way around , so bear

9:48

with me . E-n-f-y-s

9:51

so it's Welsh and

9:53

I believe it means rainbow . So Enves

9:55

Maloney Find her on

9:57

LinkedIn is a good spot . Or

9:59

she has the business lounge

10:02

on Facebook . So

10:04

she is the host

10:06

of that group and she runs

10:08

some in-person events as well

10:10

. So really a great , great

10:13

networking group to be part of . Other

10:15

than that , I've actually not done as

10:17

much as I wanted to when

10:19

it comes to networking . So

10:23

the small business vibes I haven't actually been

10:25

able to get to . I've just kind of missed

10:27

putting it in my diary . That's what

10:29

that one has been . It's been . I've missed putting it in

10:31

my diary and therefore haven't been able to

10:33

make it , and then there was a couple of dates that

10:35

I couldn't do . I do remember that . So

10:38

I haven't done as much as I want . So that

10:40

is still on my list to get more

10:42

networking done for the next quarter

10:44

. So I'm going to carry that one over

10:47

, but I am still running my online

10:49

networking meeting with Business

10:51

Women Unlimited . So that is

10:53

once a month on the third Tuesday

10:55

of the month . This month , we had

10:58

Diane Watson from she

11:00

Can Prosper , author of the she

11:02

Can Prosper book , come and talk to

11:04

us and , and in July it's our

11:06

last month before the summer breaks . We

11:08

always have August off and

11:10

it's it's going to be a really good one . So

11:13

we're going to be jumping in to

11:15

small groups

11:17

, breakout rooms , one-to-ones

11:19

, and doing some speed

11:22

networking online

11:24

. So there's going to be no teaching element as

11:26

such , although I am going to talk

11:29

a little bit about networking

11:31

and using it well

11:33

, but there's no big teaching element . We're

11:35

going to be jumping pretty much straight into breakout

11:37

rooms . So if you want to come and join us , you can book

11:39

on the businesswomenunlimitedcouk

11:42

website and join us

11:44

for that event . It's £10 plus VAT

11:46

, there is no lockout , there is no membership

11:48

fee and you can come to

11:51

as many or as few meetings

11:53

as you like . So do

11:55

come and join us . The Shining

11:58

Star Awards have also just opened

12:00

, and if you want to take part in

12:02

those , you need to attend three

12:05

meetings , I think , before the closing

12:07

date . So if you can join us for July

12:09

, that would be awesome . The

12:12

new website yes , I haven't even started

12:14

that Procrastination Station happening

12:16

on that one . I really need to get it

12:18

up and running , though . We've had

12:21

a few podcasts launched

12:23

and I really want to get

12:25

a central hub for them so

12:27

that I can share them with people

12:29

. It's going to be really exciting

12:31

. So that is definitely on my list

12:33

. And speaking gigs so I

12:36

am . I did do

12:38

a speaking gig last week

12:40

so that was good , but I haven't

12:42

got anything else booked in . So

12:45

if you know anybody who wants a

12:47

speaker to come and talk about podcast

12:49

guesting or podcast creation , I

12:52

would love to be invited to

12:54

speak in some more groups

12:56

. So I will be doing that looking

12:59

for more speaking gigs in the next quarter

13:01

. So didn't do great . Obviously

13:04

, the mental health has been a bit of an

13:06

issue , so I'm

13:08

not going to beat myself up too much about it , like

13:10

I say , but I am

13:13

ready to plan for the next

13:15

quarter Now . The next quarter is really going

13:17

to be a catch up quarter . So for me

13:19

, june , july sorry

13:21

, july , august is really

13:23

a quiet

13:25

time because

13:28

a lot of the people that I network

13:30

with have children , so a lot

13:32

of people in my realm have children

13:34

and what happens in the

13:36

summer and they all go on holiday

13:39

, so it gets a bit quieter

13:41

. A lot of people that I work with

13:43

work around , do

13:45

quiet and down over the summer

13:48

holidays due to family

13:50

commitments . So it does lighten

13:52

my load a little bit when it comes to

13:54

networking , when it comes

13:56

to activities on social

13:59

media and stuff . So I am going to have a bit

14:01

more time to myself . So

14:04

what's the plan ? The plan

14:06

is to plan out my next

14:08

promotional period . So

14:10

I am going to be opening up

14:12

the Start your Podcast program

14:14

in October , the

14:16

beginning of October . So September

14:19

is going to be promotion month for

14:21

the opening of that

14:23

cohort . So if you

14:25

want to be part of that , you can

14:27

go on to my website

14:30

. You can get in a couple of ways

14:32

, but if you go and watch the masterclass

14:35

, you'll be able to go and fill in the application

14:37

form for the

14:39

October cohort . So

14:42

I'm going to be planning the launch for the

14:44

September . So that's going to be a big thing

14:47

. I want to get the website done

14:49

. So the website is going to be

14:51

one thing that I want to do in

14:54

the next quarter , because I'm going to have basically

14:56

all of August is going to be

14:58

pretty quiet on the work front

15:00

for me . So I am going to have

15:02

that time to really dedicate to getting the website

15:05

sorted , going

15:09

to have that time to really dedicate to getting the

15:11

website sorted . So websites and the promotion plan for the next cohort

15:13

of Start your Podcast will be

15:15

done and then I'm going

15:17

to leave it . I'm actually only going to put those two

15:19

down because I've got some

15:22

things in the pipeline and depending on

15:24

whether they come to fruition

15:26

or not depends on how much

15:28

time I'm going to have to

15:30

play with . So there's a few things

15:33

that are coming up that I need

15:35

to just reserve some time

15:37

and space for . So I think actually

15:39

we're going from overloading myself and

15:41

not reaching any goals . Did

15:43

I reach ? I did do the Pinterest one , so

15:46

I did do Pinterest , but the

15:48

rest of it really didn't get focused on . This

15:50

time I'm going to do two and hopefully

15:52

that means that I will get a lot more

15:55

done in my quarter . So

15:57

we're going to set up the new website

15:59

and we are going

16:01

to focus on the

16:03

promotion for the Start your Podcast

16:06

program . So those are my

16:08

two . I am going to obviously

16:10

continue to network at the level I

16:12

am . I will try and get some more in if I

16:14

can . I will be putting feelers

16:16

out for speaking gigs , but they

16:18

are likely to fall in the next quarter because

16:21

, again , most people don't do much in the way

16:23

of offering speaking opportunities in August and then September . Everybody's kind of getting

16:25

back into their routine . So I don't do much in the way of offering speaking opportunities

16:27

in August and then September , so everybody's

16:29

kind of getting back into their routine . So I

16:32

don't suppose speaking gigs are going to come out into

16:34

play until October , november time anyway

16:36

. So that is it

16:38

for my review of my

16:41

goals . It's unfortunate

16:43

that sometimes things don't go to plan and

16:45

mental health and other people

16:48

do affect these

16:50

things . You know , it's all well and good

16:52

setting a goal , but when they

16:54

are reliant on other people it

16:56

is somewhat out of your hands

16:59

. There's only so much you can do . So

17:01

, like I say , I'm not going to beat myself up about it and

17:03

I don't want you guys to beat yourself up about

17:05

it when you don't hit your goals . Up about it , and I don't

17:07

want you guys to beat yourself up about it when you don't hit your goals . But one of the really

17:09

important things is that beginning quote that I said is that you need to

17:11

check back on them . And the reality is

17:14

, even after last quarter , when I said , oh

17:16

, I need to put my goals up next

17:18

to my vision board , I

17:20

didn't do it and therefore , again

17:22

I get to the end of the quarter and I'm like what

17:25

were my goals ? So I really need to put them

17:27

up . I'm going to do it as soon as I finish this

17:29

recording . They are going on a post-it note and

17:31

I am going to put it on my social media

17:33

. So

17:40

if you were on my social media when I recorded this , then you will have seen

17:42

it . If not , then do feel free to tag me in your own goals

17:44

that you post on social media , because

17:53

you know , if you say it out loud then it's more likely to happen . So I would

17:55

love to come and cheer you on with your goals . Other than that , I would love it

17:57

if you would come and join me in my Facebook group . So I have a Facebook

17:59

group called Start your Podcast . It

18:02

is there to help potential

18:04

podcasters just understand a

18:06

little bit more about podcasting . We

18:08

share over there podcasts we're listening

18:10

to and that we enjoy . I

18:12

share some tips and tricks over there

18:14

. It's a really fun place to

18:17

be to discover more about podcasting

18:19

. So if you are interested in that , then

18:22

please head to the show notes . I

18:24

have a link in there for

18:26

the group . Don't forget . You can also

18:28

send me a text by going

18:30

to the show notes , and

18:32

there is a button there that you can send

18:34

me a text . So if you've got any questions or

18:36

if you've got any feedback for me on the episode

18:39

, then please do share that with

18:41

me . I would be delighted to hear

18:43

from you . Other than that , I

18:45

think we are all good for this week

18:47

. So a little bit of a shorter episode these tend

18:49

to be when I'm doing these goal reviews . I'm

18:52

hopefully going to be having a lovely , lovely

18:55

long weekend in Paris , so

18:57

I shall probably feed back to

19:00

you on that when I'm back on

19:02

my socials . So make sure that

19:04

you are connected to me

19:06

in the group on Facebook . I will

19:08

pop a picture or two in there

19:11

and I will speak to you soon . Bye

19:13

for now .