Hi Friends,
🏝️ Are you ready to set your time free this summer? If so, I would love for you to join me in this year's 1:1 Voxer coaching cohort! 😎
We piloted this program last year within my private BFF community, and it was a big hit. It's so nice to shut the computers and screens, and connect asynchronously to help you get out of the day-to-day operations weeds and make meaningful progress on the projects and streamlined systems that matter most.
✅ How it works:
There are 10 spots available, and enrollment closes on June 4 (or whichever comes first)
We'll kick-off our 12 weeks of coaching on June 5
You'll submit one voice memo on Mon - Thurs each week with your biggest question (that part of the process alone helps create tremendous clarity!), then
I respond by EOD Friday each week with detailed ideas, guidance, specific templates, and resources that will help you save time and money while rapidly accelerating progress in any area.
I'd love to work with you if you think it's a fit!
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Now onto this week's goodies . . .
💌 This Week's Roundup
⚙️ Tips & Tools:
ChatGPT continues blowing my mind, along with everyone else's! Have you tried asking "what's my life purpose"? (If your name isn't super unique, add a few descriptive keywords like "author and podcaster" or "XYZ company founder Your Name"). My result for that question: Empowerment Catalyst. It's a little Tony Robbins-esque for my taste, but not altogether wrong either!
More on my ten favorite creative uses (so far) in an upcoming Free Time podcast episode, and check out this recent Pivot conversation with Kevin Kelly on ChatGPT as Universal Intern + Permission Not to Be a Billionaire.
Two more tips on this topic: You can even ask it to draft email replies with a template like the one below (thank you Zapier for the guidance!), and save your frequent prompts in TextExpander.
📧 Email Draft: Please generate 3 warm, friendly email responses (3 to 5 sentences each) in US English based on this subject line, “X” and the following message:
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💬 Quote
Ted Nelson, technical supervisor for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Jerry's line was, "Let's make it like a wallet on the sidewalk." We had that conversation. "Let's not promote it. Let's not tell anybody we're doing it."
Tom Keaney, Seinfeld's publicist: He really wanted this to feel like the cool thing that people were talking about but it wasn't being shoved down your throat. We thought that it would have a better shot at success if it didn't feel like Jerry was telling everyone, "You got to see this."
He built a great trailer. There weren't any words. It was just shots of him and the guests quietly sitting in the car. And at the end it says, "Talking soon." We did almost nothing with it. We loaded it to You Tube — just dropped it into the water. The New York Times emailed me saying, "What is this thing? Is it a show? Is it not a show?" It totally worked. It built a really good ripple of interest.
—Via The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book (Introduction)
💭 Question
What's one of your favorite "wallet on the sidewalk" subtle marketing approaches?
How could you apply this to generate more word-of-mouth interest in your work?
📝 Permission
To stop shouting! Or at least thinking that's how you need to spread the word about what you're doing to be heard in the vast sea of social noise online. How can you surprise, delight, and serve first instead, such that taking the next steps to learn more about you and your work is a natural consequence of people's curiosity?
🎙 Podcasting — Recent Episodes
Free Time:
189: 💡Jay Acunzo’s IP Development OS — Courtesy of Creator Kitchen and 181: Be Irreplaceable with My Creative Coach Jay Acunzo
188: Energy Capacity Planning, Pricing, and Finding Resonant Masterminds with Kelli Thompson
186: Licensing 201 — Q&A (Part 1) and 187: Licensing 201 — Q&A (Part 2)
182:🏚️The Challenges of Renovating a (Business) House while Living in It
180: 📉 Diminishing Returns and the True Costs of Shiny Shoulds
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Pivot:
Who’s Sitting in the Board Room of Your Brain? with Adrian Klaphaak
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Thank you all for being here reading and listening — it means the world to me!
❤️ With Gratitude,
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