WEBVTT 00:00:00.255 --> 00:00:05.055 Well, we'll we'll do our our little founder 00:00:05.055 --> 00:00:09.135 support thing here or launch and learn. And I don't know. I think it's a good 00:00:09.135 --> 00:00:12.815 place because I have stuff too. I'm just, like, stressed out about, and I think 00:00:12.815 --> 00:00:17.540 it's I was sharing with Ariel last week. It's nice to just have this format 00:00:17.620 --> 00:00:22.340 to, yeah, support each other and also just have that feeling 00:00:22.340 --> 00:00:26.660 of I'm doing everything that I can. I'm not doing anything wrong, 00:00:27.245 --> 00:00:31.245 but it still doesn't feel like enough. And to have other people that relate 00:00:31.245 --> 00:00:35.885 to that feeling helps me out a lot. So I don't know about you 00:00:35.885 --> 00:00:40.605 guys, but I I really like that from the last couple meetings we've had. 00:00:43.060 --> 00:00:47.860 I definitely resonate. Yeah. Definitely resonate. I was 00:00:47.860 --> 00:00:52.100 on my computer last night until after midnight trying to get caught up and, 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:57.205 you know, just... Oftentimes, it feels like you're 00:00:57.205 --> 00:01:02.005 screaming into the void. I am putting out so much content right now. 00:01:04.005 --> 00:01:08.770 I'm getting no... Nothing. Zero crickets. 00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:13.410 It's hard to it's hard to keep up that level of 00:01:13.410 --> 00:01:18.290 momentum when nothing... You're not getting any feedback, good or bad. 00:01:18.610 --> 00:01:19.170 Right. 00:01:19.330 --> 00:01:22.050 Oh, that is true. That is so true. 00:01:23.975 --> 00:01:28.935 Yep. I definitely relate to that too. I guess to 00:01:28.935 --> 00:01:33.895 to keep it sort of organized here, we'll run this 00:01:34.375 --> 00:01:39.230 format and see how it goes this week. So we'll have about fifty five minutes 00:01:39.230 --> 00:01:44.030 here. This is a practical room. Everyone gets a chance to be 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:48.030 heard. Use a visible timer. I'll use a timer here if necessary. I mean, the 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:53.005 group is so small that it might not matter that much. But we can 00:01:53.005 --> 00:01:57.725 go ahead and introduce ourselves. Regina, if you're not able to come off of 00:01:57.725 --> 00:02:01.085 mute, that's totally fine. We all know who you are. Just glad to have you here. 00:02:01.085 --> 00:02:06.045 But for the sake of the format, I will introduce myself and say, hey. I'm Ian, 00:02:06.045 --> 00:02:10.980 and I am the founder of LaunchBox and been using 00:02:10.980 --> 00:02:15.540 AI for the last, I guess, two and a half 00:02:15.540 --> 00:02:20.100 years since I started my company and figuring it 00:02:20.100 --> 00:02:24.845 out and still figuring it out. So thanks. 00:02:26.925 --> 00:02:27.885 Who wants to go next? 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:41.160 You're off mute, Annette. Why don't you go ahead and go? 00:02:41.880 --> 00:02:46.755 Busted. Well, I'm Annette, and I know 00:02:46.755 --> 00:02:51.635 some of you know some of my fumbles along the way. Today, 00:02:51.635 --> 00:02:56.355 my answer would be the help I need is just for a few weeks, could I have an 00:02:56.355 --> 00:03:01.350 extra day in the week? I I feel like I've taken so much in, and I've got 00:03:01.350 --> 00:03:06.070 so many things half ready. I just... I wanna finish stuff up, and I'm 00:03:06.070 --> 00:03:10.790 working really hard at this point to set everything aside, have one 00:03:10.790 --> 00:03:15.110 focus, and focus on that one thing until I can pronounce it at 00:03:15.110 --> 00:03:19.965 least in motion and working. So I've developed a timetable and a 00:03:19.965 --> 00:03:24.685 posting schedule, and now I'm just organizing the content I've 00:03:24.685 --> 00:03:29.165 built. And I'm gonna spend this weekend building the rest of the content. I 00:03:29.165 --> 00:03:32.950 hope to open my Facebook page and make it live. 00:03:36.310 --> 00:03:37.590 Thank you, Annette. 00:03:42.710 --> 00:03:46.995 Mhmm. Alright. Melissa, you wanna introduce yourself to us? 00:03:47.475 --> 00:03:49.635 Oh, I'm Melissa. 00:03:50.195 --> 00:03:55.075 And let's see where I am, like, in a daze right now. 00:03:55.315 --> 00:03:59.830 I'm sorry about the laundry in the background. Oh 00:03:59.830 --> 00:04:04.630 god. It's just one thing after another. You know? Like, I think I finally 00:04:04.630 --> 00:04:09.590 settled on something and come up with a routine that I can stick to, and 00:04:09.590 --> 00:04:14.375 then I realized that I need to reevaluate. So I spent 00:04:14.375 --> 00:04:18.855 hours reevaluating and, you know, feel 00:04:18.855 --> 00:04:23.575 like we... It's hurry up and it's hurry up and stop. Hurry up and 00:04:23.575 --> 00:04:28.040 stop. So I feel like the, you know, the momentum is 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:32.760 really... I mean, there's momentum, but the growth isn't there, and 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:37.080 it's concerning. I left my job August of last year, 00:04:37.695 --> 00:04:42.175 so I have been unemployed for nine months. So 00:04:42.655 --> 00:04:44.335 that is not easy to do. 00:04:44.415 --> 00:04:45.295 It's not easy to 00:04:45.295 --> 00:04:50.095 navigate, and I need to try to get this moving faster. 00:04:52.520 --> 00:04:57.320 Or I'm moving to Thailand. And then I'll 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:02.200 worry about it from a $250 apartment on the beach, 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:05.320 you know, which I might do anyway. So 00:05:07.475 --> 00:05:10.275 not a whole lot to offer today. Sorry. 00:05:10.835 --> 00:05:15.475 That's okay. You just show up with where you're at. That's totally fine. Thanks, 00:05:15.475 --> 00:05:20.140 Melissa. Go 00:05:20.140 --> 00:05:20.620 ahead. 00:05:20.620 --> 00:05:25.500 So I'm Ariel. So I just switched jobs to 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:30.380 Melissa. But, you know, before, when I opened my first company, I had 00:05:30.380 --> 00:05:35.185 been unemployed for nine months, and that was kind of the the catalyst 00:05:35.185 --> 00:05:39.905 to be like, hey. There's no better time to start a business. You know? And 00:05:40.145 --> 00:05:45.025 I think it is awesome when you get that chance. And, you know, I I mean, I 00:05:45.025 --> 00:05:49.880 would be jealous moving to Thailand also. So if you do that, you know, 00:05:49.880 --> 00:05:54.680 we have to come and visit you. But... Yeah. So I'm doing 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.320 Launchbox to work on my second... My newest solo 00:05:59.320 --> 00:06:04.125 venture, and I'm still trying to figure out the balance like we 00:06:04.125 --> 00:06:08.525 all are and what... Maybe not 00:06:08.525 --> 00:06:13.005 priorities, but, like, what should we focus all of our time on. Right? 00:06:13.245 --> 00:06:18.070 And I think more... I want to start 00:06:18.070 --> 00:06:23.030 getting out and doing the word-of-mouth thing because my reach is only so big 00:06:23.030 --> 00:06:27.430 online. So whoever's in my, you know, 00:06:27.750 --> 00:06:32.425 immediate area of vicinity that I can talk to you about things 00:06:32.425 --> 00:06:34.985 is what I wanna start doing. 00:06:36.345 --> 00:06:41.065 Mhmm. Thanks, Ariel. Regina, if you're able to want 00:06:41.065 --> 00:06:45.880 to come off mute and introduce yourself. Otherwise, I'm gonna move 00:06:45.880 --> 00:06:46.200 on.... 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:50.520 G... And I am actually struggling with trying to get just one thing 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:51.400 accomplished. 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:52.360 Mhmm. 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:57.160 I appreciate these times to hear that I'm not the only one. But I have also 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.835 had to set time to be like, okay. I've got to do shorter increments 00:07:01.835 --> 00:07:05.195 instead. Like, you get overwhelmed and you just stop where you're at, and then 00:07:05.195 --> 00:07:09.035 don't get nothing accomplished. So that is something that I'm actually working 00:07:09.035 --> 00:07:13.720 on myself. So... Mhmm. It's good to have you guys all here to hear that 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.040 I'm not the only one dealing with that. 00:07:16.840 --> 00:07:21.240 Hi, Gary, Dana. Thank you. Looks like we have Crystal coming in, so we'll reintroduce 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.960 her to the group and get her to say hello. Hi, Crystal. 00:07:27.385 --> 00:07:32.265 I'm so glad you can make it. Hello. If you are able to and want 00:07:32.265 --> 00:07:37.225 to, we've all... Everybody here so far has gone around and introduced ourselves 00:07:37.225 --> 00:07:40.585 and give you that chance to introduce yourself as well. 00:07:46.820 --> 00:07:51.460 Looks like you came off mute, but maybe 00:07:54.605 --> 00:07:56.605 Potentially issue with the audio. 00:07:59.565 --> 00:08:04.365 Oh, I can kinda... It looks like you're trying to... Something's coming 00:08:04.365 --> 00:08:04.605 through. 00:08:10.410 --> 00:08:15.210 Hello? Okay. 00:08:16.650 --> 00:08:21.370 Let's see. I'm gonna I'm gonna move on. But, Crystal, if 00:08:21.370 --> 00:08:26.205 you want to... We're kinda going around in a circle. So you haven't been here, 00:08:26.205 --> 00:08:29.245 and I I know we've talked a little bit. I'm not sure if you've been getting 00:08:29.245 --> 00:08:33.885 the the emails to to come to this. But what this 00:08:33.885 --> 00:08:37.885 meeting has sort of shaped over the 00:08:37.885 --> 00:08:42.790 last five or six weeks is sort of like a a bit of like a founder support group 00:08:42.950 --> 00:08:47.670 in a way where we can all speak to where we're at, what it is 00:08:47.670 --> 00:08:52.655 we're trying to launch, where we're possibly stuck, give everyone an 00:08:52.655 --> 00:08:57.375 opportunity to sort of collaborate or or 00:08:58.015 --> 00:09:02.815 comment in general in a group setting and then a weekly commitment. 00:09:02.815 --> 00:09:07.470 So trying to structure this meeting, more like that. So no 00:09:07.470 --> 00:09:11.390 pitching, more just support and hearing where we're all at. 00:09:12.350 --> 00:09:15.630 So if you get the chance once we're all gone back around, you're welcome to 00:09:15.630 --> 00:09:20.565 unmute and, and speak. So, yes. The next 00:09:20.565 --> 00:09:24.645 piece is what are you launching? But I I also wanna tell you guys a bit of my 00:09:24.645 --> 00:09:29.445 background that you probably don't know. But the reason I think I really like 00:09:29.445 --> 00:09:34.040 this format personally is because I've been in 12 step 00:09:34.040 --> 00:09:38.600 meetings, like AA, NA, all those fun 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:42.840 things, and in recovery since I was in 09/19. 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:48.215 I'm 31 now. And for the last two years or so, 00:09:48.455 --> 00:09:52.455 I haven't really been doing the meetings. It's not been really driving with 00:09:52.455 --> 00:09:57.415 me, but still sober. But for me, that was a big 00:09:57.415 --> 00:10:02.295 piece of my journey in those meetings was like, okay. I have 00:10:02.295 --> 00:10:07.050 a problem, and I feel, like, bad because I 00:10:07.610 --> 00:10:12.090 think I'm the only one experiencing this. And I think I've definitely experienced 00:10:12.090 --> 00:10:16.490 that as an entrepreneur, as a founder, trying to get my stuff out there. 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:20.765 And online, you see so many people, and it looks like they're doing 00:10:21.965 --> 00:10:26.765 so well and they're making it look so easy. But I 00:10:26.765 --> 00:10:31.405 think a lot of that is just, the marketing piece, and and we're all really 00:10:31.405 --> 00:10:36.300 just in the middle of trying to figure it out. And so I like this format, 00:10:36.380 --> 00:10:41.340 and I like to hear that you guys are experiencing sort of the same 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:46.235 stuff that I am. And... Yeah. So 00:10:46.235 --> 00:10:49.275 what... Where I'm at and where I'm launching what I'm launching this month, 00:10:49.275 --> 00:10:53.995 I am really focused on getting a workshop rolled out for 00:10:54.235 --> 00:10:57.835 LaunchBox. Ideally, I will run it twice this month. 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:02.070 But what comes along with that is a lot of, like, 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:08.950 building out some stuff for the app, building out marketing. I'm trying to do 00:11:08.950 --> 00:11:13.865 a referral program with it and all sorts 00:11:13.865 --> 00:11:18.265 of meetings in between then. And it's a lot. 00:11:18.825 --> 00:11:22.505 It's exciting. And there is certainly that fear of... 00:11:23.465 --> 00:11:28.270 Well, only two people have registered so far. And I know that that will increase. 00:11:29.310 --> 00:11:33.950 But like it's been shared earlier, it's it's a little daunting 00:11:34.030 --> 00:11:38.430 when you don't see those numbers immediately. So that's what I'm working on 00:11:38.430 --> 00:11:42.245 this month, and I'll let you all know how it goes. And we'll just continue on 00:11:42.245 --> 00:11:46.165 in our circle here. Think... Annette, you're next. 00:11:51.365 --> 00:11:54.325 Are we on the two minute one? Is that where we are? Are we... 00:11:54.325 --> 00:11:55.205 Yeah. Let me do that. 00:11:56.100 --> 00:12:01.060 Okay. So my name is Annette, and I live in Melbourne, Florida. My background 00:12:01.060 --> 00:12:05.780 was in a government agency for thirty two years, and then I've been retired 00:12:05.780 --> 00:12:10.740 a while. And truthfully, I was brought to LaunchBox because 00:12:11.675 --> 00:12:15.835 I'm pretty new. I'm not done... You know, I'm not sure which direction I'm going. 00:12:15.835 --> 00:12:19.595 I'm sort of stepping about 10 toes out, and we'll see which one ends up being 00:12:19.595 --> 00:12:24.395 two feet. And I was already connected with Ian and knew some of 00:12:24.395 --> 00:12:29.010 his talents and work, and he started announcing Watchbox. So I 00:12:29.010 --> 00:12:33.490 gained... I grew... I... My god. Isn't that Tom? I joined right away. 00:12:33.970 --> 00:12:38.690 And then, wow, a white label. A white label that was within my... 00:12:38.690 --> 00:12:43.155 That's looked like something I could do with this product. So that made me feel 00:12:43.155 --> 00:12:47.475 like I was really growing up in AA to already have a white label product. So 00:12:47.635 --> 00:12:51.955 all of that sort of brought me here. And truthfully then, and I've told Ian 00:12:51.955 --> 00:12:56.890 this, what kept me here has been his availability and approachability to 00:12:56.890 --> 00:13:01.370 us as we work our through... Selves through and try to learn. I've sometimes 00:13:01.370 --> 00:13:06.170 been just amazed at how quickly he's responded and how much time he 00:13:06.170 --> 00:13:11.075 has spent helping me as a real novice figure some things out. And 00:13:11.075 --> 00:13:15.555 that's why I'm here now. I'm connecting with all you other guys to learn from. 00:13:16.355 --> 00:13:19.075 I can. Thank you, Nat. 00:13:21.635 --> 00:13:22.515 Okay, Melissa. 00:13:24.770 --> 00:13:29.410 Okay. Melissa, I'm in Florida also. I'm in the 00:13:29.410 --> 00:13:34.290 Tampa Bay area, but I'm on the beach side. So I 00:13:34.290 --> 00:13:36.690 spend a lot of time outside 00:13:39.125 --> 00:13:44.005 to... And that you might relate to this. Like, 00:13:44.005 --> 00:13:48.965 just to replenish myself because I have a 00:13:48.965 --> 00:13:53.330 lot of computer time, and I can get lost in this. And I'm sure every single 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:57.570 one of you know what I'm talking about. So what brought me to 00:13:57.570 --> 00:14:02.290 Launchbox? Well, I think that Ian and I were in the in the same 00:14:02.290 --> 00:14:06.945 group, which maybe a lot of you were. And 00:14:06.945 --> 00:14:10.865 I got a lot out of it, 00:14:11.905 --> 00:14:16.865 but I felt that it was probably not giving me exactly what I wanted as 00:14:16.865 --> 00:14:17.745 far as 00:14:22.310 --> 00:14:26.150 I just... I don't wanna even say anything about it. I just felt like it wasn't 00:14:26.150 --> 00:14:29.670 the fit for me at that... Got as much as I could and then just wanted to move 00:14:29.670 --> 00:14:33.965 on. And I think that Lunchbox has significant 00:14:35.165 --> 00:14:39.885 value. I like the smaller group setting right now. I think you can 00:14:39.885 --> 00:14:44.685 learn faster and more. I like being in 00:14:44.685 --> 00:14:49.460 on a ground level launch 00:14:49.620 --> 00:14:54.020 for a lot of reasons. And I think that's a 00:14:54.180 --> 00:14:58.900 massive selling point even though for some, it might feel like it's not. 00:14:59.140 --> 00:15:03.765 I actually think it's of benefit because you can be involved in 00:15:03.765 --> 00:15:08.485 conversations like this. So that's 00:15:08.485 --> 00:15:12.725 that's why I'm here. And one thing I want to interject is even though the group 00:15:12.725 --> 00:15:17.290 is small, I think that we should go out of our way 00:15:17.690 --> 00:15:22.090 to support each other in every conceivable way. And that... And what I mean 00:15:22.090 --> 00:15:26.570 by that is getting attention. You know? So if we know what everybody's specializing 00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:30.905 in, we can say, I know the person. It's not my niche. I know what my niche is, 00:15:30.905 --> 00:15:35.785 and it's not gonna be everybody else's niche. You know? So I'm committed 00:15:35.785 --> 00:15:40.745 to doing that. And what I mean by that also is just all the socials. If I 00:15:40.745 --> 00:15:45.600 see you, I'm gonna comment. I'm gonna like. I'm gonna share because 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.880 it's it's required right now to grow. It is required 00:15:50.880 --> 00:15:55.840 participation, and we should hopefully want to support each other in those 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.040 endeavors. That's all. 00:15:57.875 --> 00:16:02.355 Thank you. Thanks, Melissa. And and just so you guys know, you don't... When 00:16:02.355 --> 00:16:06.115 I talk about what are you launching, you don't have to speak on LaunchBox necessarily. 00:16:06.115 --> 00:16:10.035 It can be whatever it is that you're working on. Just wanna throw that out there. 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:14.020 Alright. Ariel? 00:16:16.820 --> 00:16:17.540 So 00:16:18.340 --> 00:16:23.220 kind of like you guys. I had, whenever Ian and I first started 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:28.105 dating, I had told him, like, my background and business stuff. And 00:16:28.105 --> 00:16:32.825 then I had been, involved with MLM things and 00:16:32.825 --> 00:16:37.520 different ones. Right? And I 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:41.760 was like, you know, that is nice, and everybody wants to have their own thing. 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:46.240 But LaunchBox feels like it really is your own thing where you have 00:16:46.560 --> 00:16:51.355 full control over it. Right? Not where somebody's giving you the 00:16:51.355 --> 00:16:56.075 platform and you're only limited to what it can do, where 00:16:56.075 --> 00:17:01.035 he's already, like, thought in advance. So that way, you can 00:17:01.035 --> 00:17:05.900 grow as you're growing. And I agree with 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:10.860 you guys sharing, like, the niche or, like, hey. I know I know just 00:17:10.860 --> 00:17:15.660 the person to introduce you to or to work with. And 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:19.740 that, I mean, is the bread and butter of how this works. Right? 00:17:24.025 --> 00:17:27.465 Material. Regina, 00:17:28.985 --> 00:17:32.105 if you're able to, you're welcome to hop in. I know you mentioned your group 00:17:32.105 --> 00:17:36.950 in the chat. And, Regina, she does have a a group she holds every Tuesday 00:17:36.950 --> 00:17:40.950 and Thursday at 6PM central for me. 00:17:41.830 --> 00:17:46.710 And it's good. It's similar, kinda like this, similar vibes of low pressure. 00:17:48.505 --> 00:17:53.145 Mhmm. Yes. Non AI business 00:17:53.145 --> 00:17:56.985 friend on school. Okay. 00:17:58.585 --> 00:18:00.905 Hi there, Crystal. If you... 00:18:01.065 --> 00:18:06.000 Hi there, everybody. Finally figured out I was muted. So, 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:10.960 you know, the... My name is Crystal Firestone. I'm 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:15.935 in Austin, Texas. And I'm 00:18:15.935 --> 00:18:20.895 fairly new to the AI business, but I've been in computers for... Well, 00:18:20.895 --> 00:18:25.055 I'm an old person, so I've been in business... In computer business for over 00:18:25.055 --> 00:18:29.615 thirty years. So I'm just trying to figure out something else to do 00:18:29.615 --> 00:18:34.310 during my retirement, supposedly retirement time in my life. 00:18:34.950 --> 00:18:38.390 Of course, you know, everybody needs to make extra money, so that's what I'm 00:18:38.390 --> 00:18:43.270 trying to do with AI too. I was excited about Launchbox 00:18:43.270 --> 00:18:48.045 because I too was excited about being able to white label something and be able 00:18:48.045 --> 00:18:52.605 to call something that was closer to my own way of doing 00:18:52.605 --> 00:18:57.405 things. Meeting Ian has just been a blessing. I'm so glad he's 00:18:57.405 --> 00:19:02.170 a Texas boy now. And we're glad they have him 00:19:02.170 --> 00:19:06.330 right down the road. I'm still trying to get my 00:19:06.330 --> 00:19:10.570 lunchbox all put together, decide what I wanna do with it. 00:19:11.850 --> 00:19:15.965 We can rename it, you said. We can call it whatever we wanna call it. Is that 00:19:15.965 --> 00:19:17.085 correct, Anne? 00:19:17.645 --> 00:19:18.765 You can. Yes. 00:19:18.765 --> 00:19:22.925 Or we can just keep calling it LaunchBox. I I was a little confused there 00:19:23.805 --> 00:19:25.805 what your thoughts were about that. 00:19:26.365 --> 00:19:29.725 Yes. You can rename it, and 00:19:30.700 --> 00:19:35.580 I'm... I'd... I would really like to, if I could, hop on a call with you. I 00:19:35.580 --> 00:19:37.820 know we had one initially, but I 00:19:37.820 --> 00:19:40.940 would like to, yeah, hop on a call and see how I can help you out with that. 00:19:40.940 --> 00:19:41.900 So... Okay. 00:19:42.220 --> 00:19:46.925 Yeah. We can figure out a time, and I can walk you through doing that and 00:19:46.925 --> 00:19:49.885 and getting you more set up on there. 00:19:50.285 --> 00:19:54.045 Yeah. I was wanting to get my schedule all figured out when the meetings actually 00:19:54.045 --> 00:19:58.525 were. I hate that I've missed so many already. I feel like I've probably lost 00:19:58.525 --> 00:20:02.390 out on some good information y'all been sharing, but I'll catch up. 00:20:02.630 --> 00:20:06.710 That's okay. I mean, we've only done six so far, so you haven't missed all that 00:20:06.710 --> 00:20:09.590 much. I think there's still a lot more to go. And so 00:20:10.150 --> 00:20:13.350 Hi, Annette. Me and Annette have been on several group 00:20:13.350 --> 00:20:14.550 groups together. 00:20:16.005 --> 00:20:20.805 Heck yeah. Okay. So where are you stuck? Let's go 00:20:20.805 --> 00:20:25.205 ahead. And if you're stuck anywhere with time, clarity, your 00:20:25.205 --> 00:20:29.845 tech, audience, confidence, too many ideas, not enough support. 00:20:30.670 --> 00:20:35.310 And, again, this can be outside of the context of LaunchBox and then general 00:20:35.310 --> 00:20:40.110 just, like, where you're at with your 00:20:40.110 --> 00:20:44.910 business or offer or whatever like that. And so for me, it is 00:20:45.085 --> 00:20:49.325 just the feeling of crunch, a feeling of... 00:20:52.285 --> 00:20:57.005 Yeah. Do I have enough time to pull all this off? And then 00:20:57.005 --> 00:20:59.645 I... I'm thinking of, like, well, what is it that I'm really trying to pull 00:20:59.645 --> 00:21:04.050 off here? Well, I'm trying to pull off having enough money to pay my bills is 00:21:04.050 --> 00:21:09.010 my first goal. Yeah. So that's my first goal, and 00:21:09.010 --> 00:21:13.730 I'm not there yet. But I do know that that is, like, close, 00:21:14.755 --> 00:21:19.395 closer ish. But, again, like it's been mentioned, it's tough 00:21:20.275 --> 00:21:25.235 when you still have this gap. You're putting in hours and hours and 00:21:25.235 --> 00:21:30.000 hours of work, And it feels like stuff is happening, but 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.840 when it comes to, like, that safety and security of... Are my bills gonna be 00:21:33.840 --> 00:21:38.480 paid? That's that's a scary feeling. And 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:43.375 so I do believe in what I'm 00:21:43.375 --> 00:21:47.855 doing. I believe in my product. I believe in, like, this community and things 00:21:47.855 --> 00:21:52.735 that are happening. And I 00:21:52.735 --> 00:21:57.220 have faith that it's going to, work out. I know it 00:21:57.220 --> 00:22:02.100 will. But that doesn't mean there's not gonna be, yeah, some 00:22:02.100 --> 00:22:06.740 fear mixed in there when it's not happening on my timeline. So that's where 00:22:06.740 --> 00:22:11.615 I'm stuck. I'm just, yeah, just worried that, like, the goals I've 00:22:11.615 --> 00:22:15.775 set for myself, will I be able to meet them, and 00:22:16.895 --> 00:22:21.855 will I have enough time to meet them. So that's my share 00:22:21.855 --> 00:22:24.720 on that. Annette? 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:33.440 Yeah. All the above. Thanks, Ian. That'll let me talk about this. So what 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.200 am I building? So I have a Facebook page right now 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:42.165 called Simple AI for Seniors. I've set it up, but 00:22:42.165 --> 00:22:47.045 there's nothing live really going on. I hope to use this weekend 00:22:47.045 --> 00:22:51.045 to organize the content I have and 00:22:51.765 --> 00:22:56.530 to create enough to go ahead and start posting. I wanna be sure 00:22:56.530 --> 00:23:00.770 I'm far enough ahead that I can maintain a good momentum while I'm doing other 00:23:00.770 --> 00:23:05.410 stuff. And then I want to go... I'm... Right now, have been looking 00:23:05.410 --> 00:23:09.075 today at at my lunchbox, which I've named, 00:23:09.315 --> 00:23:13.875 PowerSuite, and it's all pretty in blue and gold and all 00:23:13.955 --> 00:23:18.355 that. But, I wanna figure out the... 00:23:19.075 --> 00:23:23.980 Creating the courses and lesson and what my workflow is gonna be to get 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:28.940 my final product in a manner how all that's gonna work for it to be available 00:23:29.340 --> 00:23:34.220 to whoever bites on my Facebook page. And that's pretty much where 00:23:34.220 --> 00:23:34.620 I'm at. 00:23:37.345 --> 00:23:41.985 Cool. Thank you, Annette. Hey, 00:23:41.985 --> 00:23:42.705 Melissa. 00:23:45.745 --> 00:23:48.545 K. So this is the where I'm stuck part. 00:23:50.630 --> 00:23:51.430 I've... 00:23:55.830 --> 00:24:00.790 I am producing so much, and I get momentum, and 00:24:00.790 --> 00:24:05.575 then something comes up, and I have to stop and pivot. So it seems to 00:24:05.575 --> 00:24:10.135 be a constant issue with not being able to proceed at lightning 00:24:10.135 --> 00:24:15.095 speed with what I think is going to work. And it's, you know, I 00:24:15.095 --> 00:24:19.970 mean, it's a combination of new 00:24:19.970 --> 00:24:24.850 tech... Not new technology, vision, and then 00:24:24.930 --> 00:24:29.570 assessing basically every day what I'm doing 00:24:30.685 --> 00:24:35.325 and feeling like it's not working. So I... Do I need to completely 00:24:35.325 --> 00:24:40.125 pivot? Like, even with my niche, you know, I still 00:24:40.125 --> 00:24:44.890 feel like it's a good niche, but I am 00:24:44.890 --> 00:24:48.330 kind of horrified that there hasn't been any 00:24:50.570 --> 00:24:52.250 response to it. 00:24:54.490 --> 00:24:56.745 And with 00:24:56.745 --> 00:25:00.745 that said, I also understand that 00:25:02.105 --> 00:25:06.585 it takes time to build a completely organic universe. 00:25:06.825 --> 00:25:11.305 Right? I'm only thirty days into doing that. 00:25:11.930 --> 00:25:13.370 So how much... 00:25:16.890 --> 00:25:21.690 How how hard... I mean, how bad is it? Really? You know what I 00:25:21.690 --> 00:25:26.585 mean? Like, is it really bad, or is it just me being impatient? So it's a 00:25:26.585 --> 00:25:31.305 constant loop of questioning myself constantly. 00:25:31.305 --> 00:25:36.105 Like, should you reevaluate? Should you do something different? Now 00:25:36.105 --> 00:25:41.090 as it relates to LaunchBox, I owe you two emails, Ian. I've 00:25:41.090 --> 00:25:44.770 got them both and then lost my Internet all day yesterday. 00:25:46.290 --> 00:25:50.210 There were a couple of glitches in some of the things that I was working on, 00:25:50.210 --> 00:25:54.825 so that came to a halt. And I stepped out and then went on to something else. 00:25:54.825 --> 00:25:56.265 So I have to get back in there. 00:25:57.785 --> 00:26:02.425 K. So... Anyway, 00:26:04.105 --> 00:26:09.000 so so that's where I am. I mean, that's where I seem to be stuck. And I 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:12.120 I keep trying to reevaluate. Am I overthinking? 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:19.480 Which is probably yes because that's my that's my nature 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:24.385 to overthink absolutely everything. Maybe some of you can 00:26:24.385 --> 00:26:29.265 can resonate... Maybe that resonates with some of 00:26:29.265 --> 00:26:33.745 you. But it's the constant loop of reevaluating 00:26:33.745 --> 00:26:38.590 and and and and kind of being, like, really 00:26:38.590 --> 00:26:39.710 hard on yourself. 00:26:40.110 --> 00:26:44.990 So Mhmm. You know? Thanks, Melissa. Mhmm. 00:26:51.630 --> 00:26:51.950 Erin? 00:26:55.025 --> 00:26:59.825 I definitely feel like I have too many ideas. The the 00:26:59.825 --> 00:27:04.705 bright idea theory, you know, which one do I focus on, and I 00:27:04.705 --> 00:27:05.105 just keep 00:27:05.105 --> 00:27:07.425 hopping around too much. 00:27:10.620 --> 00:27:12.860 Yeah. I need to work on that for sure. 00:27:14.620 --> 00:27:15.260 Mhmm. 00:27:15.260 --> 00:27:18.620 You know, Ian. Yeah. 00:27:19.100 --> 00:27:23.945 Thank you. Yeah. Regina, are 00:27:23.945 --> 00:27:27.785 you having any... I know you mentioned earlier on anything specific you wanna 00:27:27.785 --> 00:27:32.105 share you're stuck on? If not, 00:27:33.065 --> 00:27:37.870 that's okay too. No. Not really. Okay. Okay. 00:27:37.870 --> 00:27:42.670 Crystal, anything that you are feeling 00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:46.590 stuck on? I know you'd mentioned some stuff with LaunchBox. We can definitely... 00:27:47.545 --> 00:27:51.865 Yeah. I mean, I relate this to so many of the ladies here. 00:27:52.745 --> 00:27:57.465 I don't have squirrels getting in my way, I've got cats jumping in my way. So 00:27:57.945 --> 00:28:02.840 Oh my gosh. I think about, you know, I keep wanting to decide what I 00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:07.800 wanna be when I grow up. The niche... You know, I'll think I'll have 00:28:07.800 --> 00:28:12.200 a niche, and then it's like, no. No. I don't really think I wanna do that. 00:28:12.735 --> 00:28:17.215 And so then I'll change my mind, then I gotta redo the website. And, you know, 00:28:17.215 --> 00:28:21.535 that's my problem is I can't seem to get focused in on something I think that 00:28:21.535 --> 00:28:26.510 it would really work. So maybe, you 00:28:26.510 --> 00:28:30.750 know, maybe I can bounce some things off of you there too. That and then trying 00:28:30.750 --> 00:28:35.710 to learn... You know, I start off starting to learn GET, GPT, and then 00:28:35.710 --> 00:28:40.415 they can make... Oh, no. You gotta learn Claude. Now you gotta have Claude code. 00:28:40.415 --> 00:28:44.415 And it just seems to be so much. They're saying you you need to learn this. 00:28:44.415 --> 00:28:48.735 You need to learn that. And I'm I'm a real good student as far as I love to 00:28:48.735 --> 00:28:53.630 sit and learn, but just putting it out there. I'm scared. I mean, I don't 00:28:53.630 --> 00:28:57.390 even like to be on camera. It's like, oh god. Don't anybody look at me. 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:03.470 So I'm just working through a lot of fears that you would think a 71 year old 00:29:03.470 --> 00:29:07.035 shouldn't have these fears anymore, but you still do. 00:29:08.155 --> 00:29:12.315 So that's where I'm at, and that didn't really help you in the end because I 00:29:12.315 --> 00:29:17.275 wanna be able to generate money for you too because I think your product is 00:29:17.275 --> 00:29:22.160 excellent. It's just me getting in there, really focusing and getting it set 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.880 up the way I want it set up and then branching out and telling everybody, come. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.775 Come. Come. So let's... So if you can help me on 00:29:31.775 --> 00:29:33.935 all that, Ian, that would really be great. 00:29:34.815 --> 00:29:39.775 I can certainly, get you pointed in the right direction and as 00:29:39.775 --> 00:29:44.575 well as... It's not about me. It's... I I mean, for me, it's about you guys 00:29:44.575 --> 00:29:49.400 and wanting you to do well. And I guess, yeah, that's another place. 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:54.360 It's like, feel I feel a lot of responsibility 00:29:54.360 --> 00:29:59.095 in, like, LaunchBox and trying to make it a platform that you guys that makes 00:29:59.095 --> 00:30:03.975 it easy to to move past or do a lot of the heavy lifting to get 00:30:03.975 --> 00:30:08.295 past this blocker that it seems a lot of us have, not just in this room, but 00:30:08.295 --> 00:30:13.095 in general of... Yeah. I mean, this is, I think, a a tale as old as time from 00:30:13.095 --> 00:30:17.550 what I've heard. I don't have a lot of years of experience as an 00:30:17.550 --> 00:30:21.710 entrepreneur, but you... Like, you can have the best product ever, 00:30:22.430 --> 00:30:26.270 but the marketing and the sales is really where the challenge comes into place. 00:30:26.270 --> 00:30:30.795 That's why there is marketing. And so we have AI to do that marketing 00:30:31.995 --> 00:30:36.395 to a degree, creating copy and landing pages and stuff like that. But I think 00:30:36.395 --> 00:30:41.355 right now, we're all flooded with the AI stuff, and it's hard. 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:46.840 It all kinda starts to look the same after a little bit, at least from my perspective. 00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:51.000 And so I think where the real differentiator is is 00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:56.440 us individually as as people and our personality and our own brand and the 00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:01.425 human aspect of who we are. And I know for me, 00:31:01.425 --> 00:31:05.905 it's been a lot of, like, thinking that I didn't 00:31:05.905 --> 00:31:10.865 have something that people could learn from and doing that 00:31:10.865 --> 00:31:15.680 for a while. And, yeah, coming to 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.600 realize that I see that in you all. Like, I see that you all have plenty to 00:31:19.600 --> 00:31:24.320 offer people whether you're new to AI or not. 00:31:24.320 --> 00:31:28.365 Like, maybe you don't need to be the biggest AI coach. Maybe you can just be, 00:31:28.365 --> 00:31:33.165 like, a general, like, here, I'm your... Whatever coach. Don't put so much pressure 00:31:33.165 --> 00:31:38.125 on, like, putting yourself in a box of what you think 00:31:38.125 --> 00:31:42.610 you need to be or to teach people. Because, again, like, 00:31:43.890 --> 00:31:48.370 I I spent, I don't know, probably an hour trying to get this document that you're 00:31:48.370 --> 00:31:51.330 looking at right now. And I've... Who else has done that here? 00:31:51.330 --> 00:31:53.330 It's beautiful. 00:31:53.650 --> 00:31:58.645 Right? And I don't... And I would wager that you guys don't give a damn about 00:31:58.645 --> 00:32:02.805 the document. And sure it looks nice, and maybe it makes this meeting feel more 00:32:02.805 --> 00:32:07.125 official or whatever. But what was really happening is this conversation and 00:32:07.125 --> 00:32:10.660 connection that we're all having, and that's the value that I believe that you 00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:15.140 would take away from something like this. So that is 00:32:15.140 --> 00:32:19.540 my room for wisdom, I guess, is I I am speaking to 00:32:19.540 --> 00:32:24.405 myself as much of get so worried about this event 00:32:24.405 --> 00:32:29.285 going right and looking and doing well and, you know, the numbers and everything 00:32:29.285 --> 00:32:32.965 and think that that's a reflection on me and who I am as, like, what I have 00:32:32.965 --> 00:32:37.205 to offer. But that's not true for one. And two, 00:32:38.620 --> 00:32:42.540 I will just do my best, and that's the best that I can do and maybe... 00:32:43.900 --> 00:32:44.540 Yeah. 00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:46.380 Well, may I ask I 00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:50.540 ask a question to see if anybody else has had this problem? I... I'm 00:32:51.035 --> 00:32:55.915 working my best to be a Christian. Okay? And a lot of people that I talk to, 00:32:55.915 --> 00:32:59.915 they're just like, oh my god. AI. That's part of my devil. And I'm just getting 00:32:59.915 --> 00:33:04.720 so much feedback that way that I'm... It's like, no. You can use this for 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.720 God's good. You know? And I can see how people can use it for that purpose. 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:12.880 But I just wonder if anybody else is running into that problem when you're trying 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:17.600 to say, come and take this AI course. Is anybody... Well, how are y'all 00:33:17.600 --> 00:33:20.985 handling that? If anybody would care to share that. 00:33:22.185 --> 00:33:26.425 I had a post on LinkedIn that was my most commented 00:33:26.425 --> 00:33:28.985 post. I think there was, like, 00:33:28.985 --> 00:33:33.960 4,000 and change impressions and lots 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:38.600 of comments and feedback and stuff like that, and it was pretty fifty fifty. 00:33:38.600 --> 00:33:43.480 And the article was about AI and creativity focusing 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.965 on artists. How does AI fit into your world 00:33:48.685 --> 00:33:52.525 if you're an artist, you know, like a painter, a physical artist, a painter, 00:33:52.525 --> 00:33:57.165 a photographer, a sculptor. And the reason that I did that is because 00:33:57.165 --> 00:34:02.045 I I live in artist community. I was married to an artist. I know what it's 00:34:01.750 --> 00:34:06.710 like. And so I wrote about that, and there was a lot of feedback. And it... 00:34:06.710 --> 00:34:11.270 Fifty fifty. Some people were like, I hate it, and other people were... I love 00:34:11.270 --> 00:34:15.670 it. You know? And my article was specifically about 00:34:17.385 --> 00:34:22.185 if you're an artist, it frees up your time to focus on your 00:34:22.185 --> 00:34:26.985 art instead of... Every artist that I know, including my ex husband, hated the 00:34:26.985 --> 00:34:31.710 administrative part of the of the business. They hated it. And and so my 00:34:31.710 --> 00:34:36.590 my ankle was you look at what it 00:34:36.590 --> 00:34:41.150 can take off your plate so you can focus more on your art. 00:34:41.470 --> 00:34:46.465 AI is never going to paint the painting for you. So, anyway, maybe that can 00:34:46.465 --> 00:34:51.105 translate somehow if you find a way to translate that into 00:34:51.105 --> 00:34:55.345 the the religious piece of this, which... 00:34:56.065 --> 00:34:59.905 I mean, I've gotten to the point now where it's so hard with anybody. I'm like, 00:34:59.905 --> 00:35:04.820 I do really care if you believe it because it's going to be here, 00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:08.740 and it's not going anywhere. And so it's really up to you to decide how you 00:35:08.740 --> 00:35:13.300 wanna participate in it. I launched an article today about women. There was 00:35:13.300 --> 00:35:17.945 a study done by Harvard about how women are now being looked 00:35:17.945 --> 00:35:22.905 at in business as being an asset, so shocker, because 00:35:22.905 --> 00:35:27.065 they're tiptoeing into it a little bit more conservatively 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:33.240 with, you know, wanting more guardrails, and that's actually being considered 00:35:33.240 --> 00:35:38.040 a asset. You are not going to be, in my opinion, 00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:42.955 hopeful whether you're religious or you're not by bearing 00:35:42.955 --> 00:35:47.355 your head and and and pretending it's not happening. Yes. It is. And if you're 00:35:47.515 --> 00:35:52.395 depending on how you wanna present, you 00:35:52.395 --> 00:35:56.235 can use it to your advantage and so can other people. That's how I feel about 00:35:56.235 --> 00:36:00.630 it. I mean, just the argument for me is over. It's over. It's here. 00:36:00.630 --> 00:36:05.270 And I totally agree with that. I agree with that. And then on the news, you 00:36:05.270 --> 00:36:10.255 know, everybody's, oh, AI, you're taking my job away from me now. So I just 00:36:10.255 --> 00:36:14.255 feel like there's been a lot of negative stuff coming out the last few weeks 00:36:14.255 --> 00:36:18.575 that's been... That's made a little bit more difficult for me anyway. 00:36:20.815 --> 00:36:21.375 Thank you. 00:36:21.375 --> 00:36:26.170 Well, you know, an argument that you can make to the people that say it's gonna 00:36:26.170 --> 00:36:30.970 take my job away, it could. Or you could raise your 00:36:30.970 --> 00:36:35.690 hand and say, I want to be at the front of the line 00:36:35.690 --> 00:36:40.675 to learn AI so that I can help you, mister 00:36:40.675 --> 00:36:45.555 owner or manager, whoever you are, implement these systems into the 00:36:45.555 --> 00:36:49.235 company. Because if you do that, they're... You're more likely to hold on to 00:36:49.235 --> 00:36:53.075 your job a lot longer than somebody who's like, no. No. No. The... Yeah. They 00:36:53.075 --> 00:36:56.640 are gonna lose their job. They're they're gonna lose their job first. Yeah. 00:36:56.640 --> 00:36:58.000 My only opinion. Mhmm. 00:36:59.040 --> 00:37:04.000 And just to throw it out there too, with the... With this segment, my 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.680 intention is to just have, like, an open discussions in in general 00:37:08.655 --> 00:37:12.815 just so you guys know. But I do have a timer up there. We have, like, four more 00:37:12.815 --> 00:37:17.375 minutes, so be mindful of how we share this time with each other. 00:37:17.935 --> 00:37:21.615 That is always one of the questions there. And what was that, Regina? 00:37:22.370 --> 00:37:24.130 I said, can I say something real quick? 00:37:24.130 --> 00:37:24.530 Absolutely. 00:37:24.530 --> 00:37:28.290 That is something that I also had struggled with at the very beginning when 00:37:28.290 --> 00:37:33.010 I was brought AI. I also was the same very well person that felt like guns were 00:37:33.010 --> 00:37:37.330 bad too. But to be honest with you, guns aren't bad as the people behind the 00:37:37.330 --> 00:37:42.135 gun. And people blame guns on people killing people, but it's actually 00:37:42.135 --> 00:37:46.775 the person doing it. And then if that's the case, you know, we can't... Can 00:37:46.775 --> 00:37:51.095 we blame the pencil for us getting a f or a bad grade also? That's kinda the 00:37:51.095 --> 00:37:55.740 same thing. You can do good or you can do bad. A hammer could build a house, 00:37:55.740 --> 00:38:00.300 but also can tear a house down. And that's something that we've got to actually 00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:04.140 be that light and shine and let them know, like, you know, hey, you could think 00:38:04.140 --> 00:38:08.235 of it your way, I'll think of it my way. I'm gonna believe mine. Just like the 00:38:08.235 --> 00:38:13.195 bible says a drunker is a fool, but you also have Catholics that drink 00:38:13.435 --> 00:38:17.995 that may drink one thing of wine or or a whole bottle of wine. It's an 00:38:17.995 --> 00:38:21.755 individual basis, and that's where you gotta be with that. You need to pray 00:38:21.755 --> 00:38:25.800 about that, and just have god god guide you in which direction that would be, 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.320 if that makes sense. Because that was something I struggled with at the very, 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:33.480 very beginning, and then it it was like, the lord brought that on my heart. 00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:38.175 It's like, okay, you know, guns are bad. You know, same situation with 00:38:38.175 --> 00:38:42.175 pencils and stuff like that. So I hope that makes sense, and I hope that didn't... 00:38:43.375 --> 00:38:44.015 Okay. 00:38:44.735 --> 00:38:49.570 Was gonna say something similar because, you know, would... Nobody 00:38:49.570 --> 00:38:53.970 wanted to use cell phones when they came out. Right? And now everybody has a 00:38:53.970 --> 00:38:57.970 cell phone, and it's one of those things where you have to know how to use it 00:38:57.970 --> 00:39:02.575 if you're gonna continue on with the current time. So I would 00:39:02.575 --> 00:39:07.295 say, just like Melissa mentioned, I'm 00:39:07.295 --> 00:39:11.135 even seeing it where job descriptions are like, no. We want you to learn all 00:39:11.135 --> 00:39:16.000 these AI skills because that's what's necessary now. And, 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:21.440 also, I have a a question for Melissa. Are you scheduling your 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:25.600 content? Because I do see everything that you're putting out, and I would... 00:39:26.080 --> 00:39:30.735 I personally would say schedule it, like, a month in advance, do it all. In 00:39:30.735 --> 00:39:34.255 that way, you don't have to worry about it or focus on it. 00:39:35.935 --> 00:39:40.495 No. I'm not scheduling it. Oh, it is scheduled. I have it dropped onto my 00:39:40.495 --> 00:39:45.135 onto my desktop every day for review, and then I do a lot of 00:39:45.135 --> 00:39:49.470 tweaking. But I don't schedule it for it to, like, post for me because I wanna 00:39:49.470 --> 00:39:54.030 have more control over it. And I also believe that with the 00:39:54.270 --> 00:39:58.510 rapid movement in AI right now, it's changing so much. 00:39:58.925 --> 00:40:03.725 What's something that I could have written a day ago is expired by tomorrow. 00:40:04.045 --> 00:40:08.685 So it's it's a daily thing for me, but it's not an issue as far 00:40:08.685 --> 00:40:12.605 as, you know, getting the content out there because I've got every control that 00:40:12.605 --> 00:40:17.170 I have, I have it play... In play. But I'm not at the point yet 00:40:17.170 --> 00:40:21.970 where I am comfortable just saying, oh, yeah, Claude, go 00:40:21.970 --> 00:40:26.930 do your thing. No. Yeah. No. I mean, I find too many 00:40:26.930 --> 00:40:29.855 mistakes just right now. But, yes, thank you. 00:40:32.495 --> 00:40:34.415 Hey, Chris. Welcome in. 00:40:34.735 --> 00:40:37.615 Hey, Ian. Thank you. Hey. Long time no see. Wonderful to 00:40:37.615 --> 00:40:41.695 see you. Yes. Good to see you too. So we have about fifteen minutes left on 00:40:41.695 --> 00:40:42.415 the call. But 00:40:42.575 --> 00:40:43.215 Yeah. No problem. 00:40:43.770 --> 00:40:48.570 We've all sort of gotten a chance to introduce ourselves, talk about 00:40:48.570 --> 00:40:53.290 just briefly what it is that you're launching for your offer 00:40:53.210 --> 00:40:58.205 company, where you're stuck. So if you have a 00:40:58.205 --> 00:41:01.885 minute or two and can run through those real quick, that'd awesome. 00:41:01.885 --> 00:41:06.045 Yeah. Sure. So first of all, yeah, Ian and I go way back. So so I... I'm basically 00:41:06.045 --> 00:41:10.990 here just to be in... A champion for Ian wherever possible. But I 00:41:10.990 --> 00:41:15.230 have been the worst at staying in touch. So I just saw your post on LinkedIn 00:41:15.230 --> 00:41:19.070 from four hours ago saying that you were launching, and I was like, oh my god. 00:41:19.070 --> 00:41:23.825 I gotta go say hi. So... Yeah. Basically... So so 00:41:23.825 --> 00:41:28.145 let's see. What I'm focused on is really 00:41:28.145 --> 00:41:32.465 revenue... Return on ad spend, I guess, would say overall. 00:41:33.025 --> 00:41:37.985 So I I started with... I built this tool that gets you a ton of visibility before 00:41:37.985 --> 00:41:41.960 you run ads, it but was kind of breaking new ground. It was hard to hard to 00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:45.480 bring people up to speed, things like that. And I was like, man, like, ads is 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.520 really... Like, when you get good at ads, you're... You should focus on ads. 00:41:48.520 --> 00:41:51.800 Like, they're... It's much easier to open the doors, all that sort of stuff. 00:41:52.465 --> 00:41:56.305 So I think mostly it's just getting... Like, it's it's building a whole new 00:41:56.305 --> 00:42:01.105 set of webinars and and all that sort of stuff to focus on that output. 00:42:01.265 --> 00:42:04.865 So it's just... I I think just like all of us probably finding time on the day... 00:42:04.865 --> 00:42:09.670 In the day is the challenge for, you know, like, you can only pivot so many 00:42:09.670 --> 00:42:14.230 times and still have a a a productive path forward. Right? Something like that. 00:42:14.870 --> 00:42:18.310 So so, you know, we've got the results, everything like that. We're we're... 00:42:18.310 --> 00:42:21.945 Actually, I I I should share with you at some point. I I met with one of the 00:42:21.945 --> 00:42:24.985 cofounders at high level and and had a good conversation with him and things 00:42:24.985 --> 00:42:28.745 like that. So, you know, kind of going back to the big leagues where I was, 00:42:29.065 --> 00:42:33.900 but now with AI on my backpack kind of thing. So but, yeah, the 00:42:33.900 --> 00:42:36.940 challenge is always finding... Figuring out how to spend every minute of the 00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:40.220 day in the most productive way possible, something like that. So... 00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:45.180 That was awesome. Cool. Good timing. Okay. So the last piece 00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:49.515 of this is to wrap up with some sort of commitment that we would like to hold 00:42:49.515 --> 00:42:53.995 ourselves to, and we can use this group to just say it out loud. And 00:42:53.995 --> 00:42:58.955 nobody's, gotta hold somebody to a commitment, but it's good to just voice 00:42:58.955 --> 00:43:03.880 it out there. So for me, for this week, we're on Wednesday to 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:08.840 next Wednesday. I am going to... Man, my gut tells 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.480 me that I need to take a break. Whatever that looks like is to just give myself 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:18.665 a day or so because my lovely girlfriend on here, Ariel, couldn't 00:43:18.665 --> 00:43:23.465 attest that I am constantly just thinking about this stuff, and I love 00:43:23.465 --> 00:43:28.345 it. I love the game of, like, the entrepreneur, like, and 00:43:28.345 --> 00:43:33.280 trying to challenge myself. But I think 00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:38.240 that if I don't take breaks, that can get caught up and 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.000 and sticky. So maybe... 00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:48.755 Yeah. We'll take a break one of these days between now and next week. 00:43:48.755 --> 00:43:53.475 So thanks. Let's see. Annette, you are up for commitment. 00:43:53.955 --> 00:43:58.800 Paul, well, I will I will pass you some sharing of that. I have 00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:03.120 found... I mean, I'm working a full time job, but I'm not getting paid for right 00:44:03.120 --> 00:44:07.920 now. And I have found I do have to take a day and just 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.455 say, I'm not doing any calls today. I'm shutting my computer 00:44:12.455 --> 00:44:17.255 down, and I have to do something else active in the house. And it does help 00:44:17.255 --> 00:44:22.215 me be more refreshed, so go for it. My next week 00:44:22.215 --> 00:44:26.930 thing is I just started really digging into the course 00:44:26.930 --> 00:44:31.570 app, and I'm going to get my branding up there. And I'm gonna work out what 00:44:31.570 --> 00:44:36.370 my workflow will be to end up with the type of presentation I 00:44:36.370 --> 00:44:37.890 want for my courses. 00:44:39.330 --> 00:44:43.295 Thank you, Nat. Let's see. Melissa, 00:44:44.735 --> 00:44:46.335 you have one minute triggers. 00:44:47.135 --> 00:44:52.015 Weekly commitment? Mhmm. No. Okay. What's 00:44:52.015 --> 00:44:56.640 my weekly commitment? Ironing out the 00:44:56.640 --> 00:45:01.520 hiccups inside the platform so that I can keep 00:45:01.520 --> 00:45:03.040 going. That's it. 00:45:04.080 --> 00:45:07.920 Thank you. There you go. 00:45:08.575 --> 00:45:13.215 I'm gonna pick one one project to work on. Only one. 00:45:17.695 --> 00:45:22.255 Regina, if you wanna throw something in the chat, you're welcome to. And, Crystal, 00:45:23.110 --> 00:45:24.390 do you have a commitment? 00:45:25.430 --> 00:45:28.950 Well, I was trying to write down Annette's phone number, but it disappeared 00:45:28.950 --> 00:45:33.910 too quickly. Where's the chat thing on here? I am work... I'm 00:45:33.910 --> 00:45:38.085 gonna work on getting a logo done and to 00:45:39.045 --> 00:45:44.005 set in stone one... What I'm gonna do my next project and put it up there because 00:45:44.005 --> 00:45:48.325 I really wanna get a course created. That's my goal. 00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:53.700 A logo and getting my price structure set up. 00:45:53.700 --> 00:45:55.860 That's where I need your help, Anne. 00:45:56.260 --> 00:46:01.060 Sure. Annette just put her number in the 00:46:01.060 --> 00:46:05.725 chat. Chris, do you have, something you would like to set a goal for this 00:46:05.725 --> 00:46:06.205 week? 00:46:06.285 --> 00:46:10.845 Yeah. I think I just need to get my ads back up and running. That's that's the 00:46:10.845 --> 00:46:15.005 main thing. It's tempting. Like everybody else said, there's a lot of priorities. 00:46:15.005 --> 00:46:19.100 But if I don't do that, I feel like I'm not getting far enough. 00:46:21.100 --> 00:46:25.820 That's interesting. I... I've been 00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:30.725 trying to work on my Facebook ads this week. This is first time in a while that 00:46:30.725 --> 00:46:35.605 I've looked at at Meta and, yeah, maybe I can connect with 00:46:35.605 --> 00:46:38.485 you and you can help me figure something out on there. 00:46:39.205 --> 00:46:42.485 Yeah. But... Know what I was saying? Just shoot me a note on LinkedIn, and let's 00:46:42.485 --> 00:46:45.950 let's figure out how to plug back in with each other. But I I would actually 00:46:45.950 --> 00:46:50.430 propose a different target, which is ChatGPT just launched ads. Let's see what 00:46:50.430 --> 00:46:51.630 we can do there together. 00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:56.910 That sounds cool. Cool. And I'll circle back to Melissa. You had mentioned 00:46:56.910 --> 00:47:01.325 earlier in the meeting, like, this, we should all support each other here in 00:47:01.325 --> 00:47:05.965 this meeting. We have a a community here. I'm trying to figure out the best 00:47:05.965 --> 00:47:09.725 way that we could do that. I don't know. If anybody has any ideas, welcome to 00:47:09.725 --> 00:47:14.490 throw it out, as well as maybe it will just organically evolve to where we figure 00:47:14.490 --> 00:47:19.290 that out. So, I think we're all doing that here in this meeting. But, Melissa, 00:47:19.290 --> 00:47:20.490 if you had any thoughts? 00:47:21.770 --> 00:47:25.530 Well, I think that we should share, you know, everywhere that we're posting. 00:47:25.690 --> 00:47:30.485 And if you happen to be on that social media site, it is extremely 00:47:30.485 --> 00:47:35.365 important. I've been doing a deep dive on all of the analytics 00:47:35.365 --> 00:47:40.245 on these different sites, LinkedIn and, you know, all of them. And 00:47:40.485 --> 00:47:45.090 it's pretty important if you wanna grow organically, if you don't already have 00:47:45.090 --> 00:47:50.050 a huge audience. And I know we're a small group, but you 00:47:50.050 --> 00:47:54.855 know what? If you get five or six people every day commenting and sharing, that 00:47:54.855 --> 00:47:58.935 group... That that circle is gonna grow. It cannot do anything but. 00:47:59.335 --> 00:48:04.215 So that that is my 2ยข worth on 00:48:04.215 --> 00:48:07.895 that. I just think we need to support each other in that way. I think it will 00:48:07.895 --> 00:48:09.810 be impactful. 00:48:10.370 --> 00:48:15.330 Mhmm. Well, maybe... I I think we've all done this to a 00:48:15.330 --> 00:48:20.290 degree. But if you're able to pop your socials in there or next week when we 00:48:20.290 --> 00:48:24.955 all come, we can throw every every account that we have into the chat. 00:48:27.435 --> 00:48:31.595 Okay. If anybody else has any ideas too, that... That's great. We can bring 00:48:31.595 --> 00:48:35.915 those next week. One thing I wanna let you guys know about is is that workshop 00:48:35.915 --> 00:48:38.920 that I'll be doing on the sixteenth. Melissa will be one of the speakers there 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:42.840 as well as I will have a a friend of mine that I met here. His name is James. 00:48:43.160 --> 00:48:48.040 But what I really wanted to throw out there is the referral thing. I'm working 00:48:48.040 --> 00:48:52.845 on trying to see how that'll go. So it's a $50 00:48:53.645 --> 00:48:57.885 kick to whoever you get want to come to the event, but 00:48:58.365 --> 00:49:02.445 after the event for them to sign up as a white label. So I 00:49:02.445 --> 00:49:07.250 think I think... Yeah. I think everybody, maybe 00:49:07.250 --> 00:49:11.490 besides Crystal, is an affiliate on there. But, Chris, I can also throw you 00:49:11.490 --> 00:49:15.810 on as one and get you the link. And, 00:49:17.215 --> 00:49:20.015 essentially, I'll share here just briefly. 00:49:22.255 --> 00:49:22.735 Wordle. 00:49:30.060 --> 00:49:33.580 So this is the the little portal, 00:49:34.860 --> 00:49:39.660 and let's see. This is the link to go to sign up as an 00:49:39.660 --> 00:49:43.580 affiliate, Crystal or Chris, if you aren't yet. 00:49:46.985 --> 00:49:51.705 And then the registration page is 00:49:51.705 --> 00:49:56.665 this. So if if any of you... I know probably a good chunk of 00:49:56.665 --> 00:50:01.490 you will be there. But if you're not, just go ahead and, do your name and email 00:50:01.490 --> 00:50:05.730 on there. That way, you can receive updates and information as it comes out. 00:50:05.730 --> 00:50:09.970 But, essentially, what we'll be doing at this workshop is, most of you have 00:50:09.970 --> 00:50:14.165 seen me go through the launch kit where answer some questions and it generates 00:50:14.165 --> 00:50:19.125 your thirty day funnel, your content, your web pages, 00:50:19.285 --> 00:50:24.165 and all of that to funnel people into your own launch box. So I'm 00:50:24.165 --> 00:50:29.100 gonna be doing that on a public, event in hopes that people will see... 00:50:29.500 --> 00:50:32.780 Like we've talked about here, okay. I might have the platform, but how do I 00:50:32.780 --> 00:50:36.700 actually bring people into the platform? One way is with ads, but also where 00:50:36.700 --> 00:50:41.115 do those ads point to would be great if there's a funnel. And that's what this 00:50:41.115 --> 00:50:45.915 does, and it does it in their brand voice and style and 00:50:45.915 --> 00:50:49.115 stuff like that. So there's those links there. 00:50:51.690 --> 00:50:56.410 Let's see. Oh, I didn't even share the right thing. That's 00:50:56.410 --> 00:50:59.210 okay. I shared... I didn't share the right screen. I shared the right links. 00:50:59.210 --> 00:51:03.770 That's fine. Yes. And then outside of that 00:51:03.770 --> 00:51:07.555 to connect, I'll throw my 00:51:08.835 --> 00:51:13.555 my calendar link in here. And, Crystal, if you would like 00:51:13.555 --> 00:51:18.515 to connect, we can sign up through there. Let me 00:51:18.515 --> 00:51:23.500 get the the link here. See. Copy link. And then... 00:51:24.940 --> 00:51:29.820 Boom. So that's for anybody if you'd like to try to schedule a time to 00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:33.740 just connect and see what... How I can help you. 00:51:35.585 --> 00:51:39.345 Love to do that. And... Awesome. Thank you, Chris. 00:51:40.545 --> 00:51:45.425 Let's see. Any last minute thoughts? Anybody wanna 00:51:45.425 --> 00:51:46.145 throw out there? 00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:56.760 If you guys like this format, I do really... I do I do like it. I'd 00:51:56.760 --> 00:52:01.080 be interested in in growing this one in particular as far as just, like, 00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:04.360 founder support is kind of how we've been running this, Chris. 00:52:05.925 --> 00:52:10.805 So, yeah, bring some people if you like to. We can connect. And 00:52:11.605 --> 00:52:15.685 thank you, Regina. Yeah. A lot of good resources here. Thank you all. I guess 00:52:15.685 --> 00:52:19.045 we can just cut it there, and I'll talk to you guys here soon. 00:52:20.050 --> 00:52:23.330 Bye, everybody. Have a nice weekend coming up. 00:52:23.570 --> 00:52:24.450 Have a weekend. 00:52:24.610 --> 00:52:26.130 Take care. Thanks, Dan. 00:52:26.290 --> 00:52:28.210 Thank you, guys. Bye bye. Bye. 00:52:37.015 --> 00:52:38.135 Alright. Bye, Regina.