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Hey, welcome back to the podcast.

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It's been a while since a new episode

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went live. In fact, it

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is July, 2023 as I'm recording

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this, and the last episode went live

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November, 2020. So

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you may not even remember subscribing to this podcast.

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Who knows? Um, but I

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have a lot to update you on. As

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you can imagine, a lot has changed.

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If you don't remember who I

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am and why you subscribe to this podcast, I'll

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do a quick reminder and then we'll dig

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into all the updates

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and what you can expect from me

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and this podcast and my business going

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forward. So when you first

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subscribe to this podcast, it was probably called The Productive

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Life with Megan Mins. I

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am Megan Mins. Or at least I

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used to be. That is my maiden name,

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and I am actually shifting

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it and rebranding my business.

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And this podcast, that'll be definitely something

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we dig into. So depending on when you're listening to

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this, it may still be called

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that as I start to put out new episodes,

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or we may have gone ahead and rebranded. We'll

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just see how that timing ends up. But

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I wanna go ahead and catch up because the

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last episode in November, 2020

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was a second trimester update and.

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Since then I have become a

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mom. I ended up shutting

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down my group coaching program. I

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started working for one of my dear

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friends and prior clients. Ended

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up working for her full-time for I think

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like a year, and then ended

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up experiencing three more miscarriages.

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I had three before having our

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daughter. And ended up quitting that job

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because I needed to focus on

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me and my health, and

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I ended up basically going on a year

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plus sabbatical. Very

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unplanned, unintentionally, but

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just made the choice one day

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to take a break and just kept making

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that choice every single day for over

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a year. Over that time, I

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got pregnant again. With

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a healthy pregnancy and

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was posting on TikTok about pregnancy

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and motherhood. I had our second

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child in January of 2023,

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and then this past summer I actually

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ceed a three day in-person

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conference in Dallas

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and decided I was ready to come

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back to business after over

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two and a half years, or over

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two years, I should say, of really

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being on a hiatus in my business. Since

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deciding to come back to business, I

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booked out some private coaching and

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did that by posting just two

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Instagram stories, and that

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was just so humbling. And,

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Unexpected and amazing.

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So I've been working with some private coaching clients

3:43

the past couple of months, and

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here I am coming back

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to business ready to start doing

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more public facing besides

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just supporting my clients ready to start

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giving you value,

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connecting with you, helping you, and.

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Yeah, it's been great. I have

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generated over $45,000 in

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sales in just the first two months

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of being back, and we're just getting

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going. So I'm excited to see that

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number climb and not

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from any type of like vanity metric, but

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I have a very real goal with my business

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now that I am a mom of two. And

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I have decided to come back to business and we are

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paying money for childcare. I

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am really focused on making sure

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my business pays for our childcare,

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and there's a very like strategic process of

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how much money we need to make to do that

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and. Then of course, money that

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you wanna reinvest in the business and

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have leftover in profit. So

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maybe we'll have another episode later, talking a little bit

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more about money and

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how we're even doing the business plan,

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because it's definitely different this time around.

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Like I mentioned earlier, I am

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in the process of rebranding. I'm doing

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it imperfectly. I'm not really

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doing the full visual rebrand.

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I would love, I can't wait to work with

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a designer one day, but we're

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just not ready. I'm just not ready to

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commit to a, like a redesigned

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brand and business yet. I kind of need to

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like feel out the business a little bit. More

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myself. First, I like to have a

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lot more clarity in where

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my business is going before I invest

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in branding with a professional. But

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from a conceptual standpoint, from a naming standpoint,

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I am rebranding the business from Megan

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Mins, which is my maiden name to

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Meg King. And I've

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been married since 2016, so Megan

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King has been my name. Since

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2016, and I've just been going by

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Megan Mins professionally,

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and that worked for a while, but especially

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after taking a two year break, I really

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just felt ready to shift into a

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new identity, a new name. Own

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my real life name, especially

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now that I have kids. You know, like this name isn't going

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anywhere. And so I really

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felt like it was the right time. So, uh,

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and all my friends call me Meg,

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so it's definitely shift going

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from Megan to Meg publicly.

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But it feels good. It feels good to introduce

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myself as Meg. So going forward, Hey,

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I'm Meg and let's be

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friends. So that's definitely happening.

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So I'm doing a little bit of visual rebranding myself,

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but also just, you know, we're

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gonna wait on that visual brand. Trust me, later

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this year, we're gonna have a really amazing rebrand.

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Visually, I'm gonna hopefully get new photos done,

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but I'm all about doing things simply

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and imperfectly, and

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taking action instead of just being in a holding

6:39

pattern. So, You're gonna start to see

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this Meg King shift. I've already

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changed my social media handles to

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hey Meg King, and I'm in the process

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of shifting the website and email

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address and things like that, and.

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I'm also in a very different spot with how

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I work on this business

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and how I run this business because

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in the past, prior to having children, I

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ultimately had all of the time in the world

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to spend on my business, and

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I never was one who was really working overtime

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on my business anyways. I really always prioritized

7:11

having personal time and downtime. But

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there is definitely a shift from getting to

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choose that to only having

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like a set number of hours per week that I

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can sit at my desk and have reliable

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work time. Even though we have childcare

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for both children right now, that's

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really looking like less than 15 hours per

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week at an absolute maximum.

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And that's like if I didn't eat lunch

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or have personal appointments or

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a kid didn't get sick, so,

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Yeah, as you can imagine, 15 hours

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would be like a good week, and most

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of the time it's far less, like probably

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half. So I am really

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simplifying the business, not only from

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a software standpoint, but how

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I choose to do things in my business,

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how I choose to work with clients, how I

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choose to do marketing,

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how I choose to do the backend. I don't have

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any help right now. I don't have a virtual assistant or anything,

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so. It's all on me. So things

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have got to be simple and they've gotta

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be hyper focused. So I'm

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really, really clear on my priorities

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and where my energy is going, and that's why

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the past couple of months I haven't done the podcast

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because I have been focused on my

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clients. I've been focused on.

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Getting things set up for them, serving them to

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my fullest capabilities, and now feel

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like I can transition into doing more

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marketing again, which I'm really excited about,

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but it's making me be patient,

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which is not my strong suit. I love

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taking fast action when I can, so

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sometimes having to wait

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and go slower can feel

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really frustrating, but we're figuring

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it out. And as I come back to business,

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this is a really great opportunity for me to

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clarify who I wanna help

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and how I wanna help them. And it's

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been an interesting mindset

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journey coming to this point because

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I didn't realize how much fear there was

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for me in niching. I

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think that sometimes, Niching

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isn't necessary. I'm absolutely

9:08

a personal brand, and so on social media, I always

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talk about all parts of my life, but

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I do feel like when it comes to

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marketing and communicating

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how you help people, the more specific

9:20

you can be, the easier that is,

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and I really want things to feel simple

9:25

and easy and straightforward right now. And

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especially in the coaching space, sometimes it's hard

9:29

to nail that down because

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especially if you're like me and you love. Personalized,

9:35

individualized, high

9:37

level private coaching, you

9:39

can really take things in a lot of different directions

9:41

based on the needs of your client and based on your

9:43

intuition and I love that. But

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when I'm trying to help more people and,

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and have larger,

9:51

more accessible ways to work with people,

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you've gotta get clear. Right? So there's definitely

9:56

been a lot of mindset stuff for me when it comes

9:58

to making this choice to niche down. There's still

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a lot of. Resistance. I'm

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doing it through the resistance, but there's absolutely

10:05

still some resistance with worrying

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about people's reactions or

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feeling like, am I really, do

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I know enough to talk about this? Even though

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I absolutely do, and there's

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also fear about just like excluding people

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and it's really caused me to.

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Take a step back and look at the

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journey of my life, all of my experiences,

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all of my areas of expertise and

10:28

interest, and the

10:30

stories I have, the successes I have,

10:32

and it's really cool to see how it really does

10:35

all culminate in the direction

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of my business from this point forward. But

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it's interesting how much mindset stuff

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can come up when it comes to shifting and pivoting

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your business. So at this

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point, med King is shifting to

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focusing on moms

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soon to be moms, aspiring moms,

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new moms, experienced

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and established moms. Wherever you fall on that spectrum,

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I really wanna help moms grow in

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online coaching business. Now,

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you could technically be. But not

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a mom. You could be any kind

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of service provider, but my

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area of expertise is absolutely online

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coaching. I have been coaching online

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in various capacities and formats.

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Basically, since I started my business, I. I

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love it. Coaching is my favorite way to

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work with people. Even when I have tried

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to do more structured programs

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like courses or like

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high ticket group coaching, I've always

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found that the coaching piece, the

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live calls piece, the

11:34

answering your questions piece, the helping

11:37

you overcome your mindset blocks, peace,

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that's my zone. That's my

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favorite place to be. And so I'm really

11:43

excited to be leaning into. Not

11:46

only the fact that like I'm a coach and this is a coaching

11:48

business, but also the fact that

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I can help other people start

11:53

and grow their own coaching business as

11:55

well. And specifically for moms, this

11:57

is making sure it's profitable. So we're

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gonna be making really smart choices financially

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and also making sure we're pricing in a healthy

12:04

way for our business. And also that it's fulfilling

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because one of the big reasons I

12:09

decided to come back to business after being a stay-at-home

12:11

mom for over a year was to have.

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An individual sense of fulfillment,

12:17

a personal sense of fulfillment outside

12:19

of my children and home

12:21

and mothering. So maybe

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that sounds like you, you're looking for another way to get some

12:26

fulfillment and also fun. Like

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I don't see a point in doing this if it's not something

12:30

you enjoy. That doesn't mean it's not hard or

12:33

there's not rough moments along the

12:35

way, but that overall you enjoy

12:37

it, that you are enjoying working

12:39

with your clients and. Growing your business

12:42

and through all of this,

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We have a limited amount of time. If you're a mom,

12:47

regardless of what stage you're at with that, you know

12:49

there's a lot of different demands on

12:51

your time, and so all

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of this has to happen in less than 15

12:56

hours a week, right? None of us have

12:58

really more time than that, and less, maybe

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your kids get older, which is amazing,

13:02

but. I have two kids under the age

13:05

of three, and even with childcare,

13:07

there's really very little time to

13:10

dedicate to my business where I can schedule

13:12

calls and be on camera and be

13:14

confident that I can have that focus time.

13:17

So every choice we make in our business has to

13:19

align with that. It has to feel good to

13:21

us, it has to make sense for

13:24

us to prioritize it, and

13:26

it has to be simple and fast and

13:28

efficient and easy. And. We

13:31

can't fall into these patterns of complexity

13:34

and taking our time trying to make things perfect.

13:37

So I know that was a wordy

13:39

way to say it, but basically I love

13:41

helping moms grow an online

13:43

coaching business that is profitable, fulfilling,

13:46

fun, and simple enough

13:48

that it takes less than 15 hours a week to run.

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I hope if you're listening to this, that's

13:53

something you're excited about, that you're excited

13:56

for this new direction I'm taking

13:58

things. And I also understand that if that's

14:01

not you, that's totally

14:03

okay. And, uh, if you know someone

14:05

you think would like this, I would love for you to share it with

14:07

them and let them know, this is what I'm focused

14:09

on, but. It's okay for you to be here,

14:12

even if you're not a mom or an online

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coach. I feel like what

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we'll be talking about will of course be applicable

14:18

to people who are the exception

14:21

to this demographic. But

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if you are a mom growing an online

14:25

business who doesn't have a lot of time, know

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this is the place for you. So

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I'm really excited along with this.

14:33

Clarified focus in my business,

14:35

I'm building out my product suite to

14:37

allow me the chance to support more people.

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You have not been able to work with me

14:42

for less than $5,000

14:45

in like five years.

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I think there have been like one off v

14:50

I P intensives that were the exception to

14:52

this, but I really haven't sold

14:55

any, anything that had coaching since

14:58

at least 2019, so maybe more like four

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years, but. Yeah, it's like

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a while. So I'm really excited to finally

15:04

have a way to work with people at a larger

15:07

scale, at an accessible price point and

15:09

still provide like incredible transformation

15:12

and value and impact. So the

15:14

product suite I'm working towards, and I may do another

15:17

episode digging into my decision

15:19

making process here, but. Just so you

15:21

know what to expect, I am going to

15:23

have a monthly membership, and this is going to

15:25

be where you come in and you're getting new

15:27

trainings from me. Every single month, you're getting

15:29

access to mini courses

15:32

and on-demand trainings, and

15:35

most importantly, you're getting access to a community

15:37

as well as access

15:39

to ask me questions and

15:41

get answers from me. So I'm

15:43

really excited for this membership. It'll be launching.

15:46

Okay. Hopefully in August or September

15:49

of 2023. So absolutely keep

15:51

an eye out for that. And if you wanna know

15:53

more, check the description for

15:55

this. You'll, there should be links for you to either join

15:57

or get on a wait list. In addition to

15:59

the membership, I'm gonna be launching, or I

16:02

currently am launching and enrolling

16:04

into my new mastermind program. This

16:06

program is all about more established

16:09

business owners, finding a high level

16:11

intimate community, getting more personalized

16:13

coaching. With me, we're on camera. You're getting direct

16:16

access to me. My eyes are on your business. I'm

16:18

giving you my feedback. I am helping

16:20

you grow your business to the next level.

16:22

And also you're getting that community with other.

16:25

Industry leaders, so it's a very,

16:27

very special space. There are limited spots

16:29

available, and once those spots are gone,

16:32

the program will be closed and

16:34

on a wait list until a spot opens

16:36

up. Okay. In addition, I'm also still

16:38

doing private coaching, but I like

16:40

to make sure I don't overextend

16:42

myself, so I only work with one or

16:44

two private coaching clients at a time going forward.

16:47

One of those spots is already full for the next six

16:49

months. So if you are interested in private coaching,

16:52

either uh, apply. You can

16:54

check the link below, or it might be on a wait list

16:56

and you can join the wait list. So more to

16:58

come with all of that, and I can't wait to

17:00

share more of this journey and behind the scenes of

17:02

this decision making process and how

17:04

it goes launching these things and the

17:06

impact it's having. You'll

17:09

hear all of it here on the podcast. And

17:12

the last update is let's talk about

17:14

the podcast. So I am relaunching

17:16

it. Here it is. You're listening to it.

17:18

It's been relaunched, but I am rebranding

17:21

it as well because when it was

17:23

first, Created as the productive

17:25

life with Megan Mins. I was always very clear

17:27

that it really wasn't all about productivity and that productivity

17:30

wasn't the metric of success. But

17:32

I do think I've learned a lot since

17:35

then since I used to focus

17:37

on productivity. I used to call myself a productivity coach,

17:40

and that's amazing and there's nothing wrong with that. But

17:42

I definitely feel like at this point in my life,

17:45

productivity isn't my

17:47

focus. I don't spend every

17:49

bit of the day being productive, and

17:52

that's okay. I instead

17:54

try to be focused and I

17:56

try to be present and

17:58

intentional, but a lot

18:00

of the self-imposed pressure

18:02

I would feel from productivity is

18:04

just not part of my life anymore. And

18:07

I think that I wanted to

18:09

relaunch the podcast as opposed

18:11

to just starting a new one because I think. A

18:13

lot of you have been on this journey with me,

18:15

and I think the past couple of years there's been a

18:18

pretty sweeping shift away

18:20

from productivity

18:22

being the main thing. We're all focused on towards

18:24

a lot more of a balanced

18:27

or integrated life where

18:29

we are focused on what really matters and.

18:32

Not holding ourselves to some impossible standard.

18:35

So just felt right to revive the podcast

18:37

and shift the direction. So

18:40

going forward, this podcast is

18:42

a real reflection of where I'm at in life. My

18:44

journey up until this point. And

18:46

this podcast is gonna be where

18:48

business and motherhood collide, where we're

18:50

talking about the journey of being a

18:52

mom, becoming a mom, deciding

18:55

to grow your family, making those decisions,

18:57

how to be a present mom, as

18:59

well as how to grow

19:01

a really, really successful and.

19:04

Fun business at the same time.

19:06

So this podcast is gonna be called Mommy

19:09

Knows Business, and I'm so excited

19:11

it's my first time like saying that name out loud,

19:14

so it feels very new to me

19:16

still. But I'm really excited to

19:18

be shifting this to Mommy Knows business where

19:20

Business and motherhood collide and

19:22

I can't wait to. Dig more into

19:24

this area to,

19:26

of course, talk about business systems

19:29

and tech and productivity

19:31

and how I'm setting goals and

19:33

managing my time. Of course, those are things

19:35

I'm always interested in, but it's absolutely

19:38

through a different lens now. It

19:40

means something different to me now and

19:44

I. Really am excited to have the space

19:46

to also talk about motherhood because

19:48

it has changed me fundamentally

19:51

for the better. But it's also been a

19:53

journey and I have found that the thing I'm the

19:55

most grateful for is

19:57

community with other moms,

19:59

and especially mom entrepreneurs,

20:02

and getting to talk

20:04

to someone who gets it is so

20:06

hard to find still. So I'm really hoping

20:09

I can be that place for you

20:11

where it's relatable. We're not

20:13

doing things perfectly. If you happen to be watching

20:15

the video of this, which I am hoping to post

20:17

on YouTube like my,

20:20

the room I'm recording this in has a treadmill behind

20:22

me. It's not decorated, like this is

20:24

not aesthetic and my life is not

20:26

very aesthetic right now. It's messy

20:29

and disorganized and there's

20:31

always toys laying around and.

20:34

There's a lot of things I'd like to get done that I

20:36

don't always get done, and that's okay. So this

20:38

is all about the relatable version,

20:41

not the perfect version. So absolutely

20:43

no judgment here and just a place

20:45

for us to cheer each other on and share what's

20:48

working and lessons learned and

20:50

the whole journey. So I am honored

20:52

to have you here if you are excited

20:54

about the direction things are going. Would love for you to share

20:56

this on Instagram or Instagram

20:58

stories, and you can tag me at, Hey

21:00

Meg King and I can share it. It would also

21:03

mean a lot if you'd share this with someone that you think would

21:05

really enjoy the direction this podcast is going.

21:08

If you would leave it a rating or

21:10

a review, that would also be huge.

21:12

And especially as I relaunched the podcast,

21:14

that would mean so much to me. And

21:17

I am just honored to have you alongside

21:19

this journey and can't wait to grow our businesses

21:21

together while also growing

21:24

in motherhood together. So I will see you in

21:26

the next episode. Thank you so much

21:29

and have a good day.