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12/03/2024

Thank you for the kind words Karen Gray and Texas Business Women Across Texas

12/03/2024

Thank you for the kind words Karen Gray and everyone at Texas Business Women Across Texas!

03/03/2024

Events begin with ideas! Mindmap as many ideas as you can—the good, the bad, and the ugly. The objective is to get everything out of your head and on paper (...

02/03/2024

1 day to podcast launch

✅ shoulder/back injury led to 24 hours in the recliner so a slow day

✅ did manage to get the preview episode out!

Who wants it??

01/03/2024

2 days to podcast launch

✅ recorded another interview

✅ recorded two more solo episodes

✅ got the first signup for the Elevate Your Podcast waitlist

Who wants tagged if/when we drop a preview episode tomorrow? 👀

29/02/2024

3 days to podcast launch

✅ recorded another interview, battling weather that made connectivity spotty

✅ Paul has dived into the editing

✅ the Elevate Your Podcast summit waitlist is open 🙌

27/02/2024

4 days to podcast launch

✅ recorded an interview

✅ recorded a solo episode

✅ had a headache develop and rescheduled the other podcast interview—good thing I have plenty scheduled in the pipeline so this doesn’t make me behind!

27/02/2024

Having a set of clear objectives for an event helps minimize the emotionality associated with feedback.

Objectives let you be more objective about decisions because when an idea or piece of feedback is offered, the team can simply ask, “does this bring us closer to our objectives?” If not, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, it simply means that thought doesn’t fit with this particular event.

Maybe it will spark an idea for a different event or project. Or maybe not.

No matter what the case, those clear goals and objectives allow brainstorms to flow more freely because there is less pressure to have a “good idea” and more freedom to explore creative solutions.

27/02/2024

Autonomy is a big deal.

This morning my six-year-old was doing a job daddy set up for her, helping clean a new-to-us piece of furniture. She “invited” her four-year-old brother to take over for her and went off to play.

He came whining to me: “sister told me I could do her job—”

And I latched onto his phrasing. “She told you you *could* do that job. She invited you, but you get to decide! If the job seems fun you get to try it, but if you’d rather not, that’s fine too!”

His countenance slowly lifted as he shifted from reacting to his sister’s potential bossiness and actually weighed whether this was something he wanted to do or not.

And then he got to work!

Amazing how autonomy changes the game.

Yesterday I met with our Buyfrost development team and we established the core features necessary to Alpha test the software.

One of those vital features is autonomy.

Sure, randomized breakout rooms have their place. The algorithm exists for a reason.

But in a world driven by algorithms, getting to control a decision feels like kind of a big deal. it’s one of the reasons my clients work with me specifically—I provide an experience for the people who attend my clients’ events that feels almost as autonomous as being in a real live in-person room.

The attendees get to choose where to go.

They get to choose who to talk to.

They get to choose to come and go…

And a surprising majority choose to stay! Just like my son this morning, the freedom to choose makes their decision meaningful, and when it’s meaningful it’s worth taking a moment to consider instead of simply react, and when these attendees consider it for a moment they realize why they signed up for the event in the first place.

And they stay.

(We have the data to prove it 😉)

27/02/2024

5 days to podcast launch

✅ got some help correcting an automation

✅ straightened out (I think) an issue with the private podcast

Is 30 days a lot? It doesn’t feel like a lot for getting an interview-based podcast launched. Still, I’m happy with how I have taken certain things slowly so that I can test and iterate before I’m “actually” using everything. Like inviting only a few people to apply to speak and testing all the flows with them before opening the floodgates to anyone who might want to apply. Or launching the private podcast passion project to be sure I understand how the feeds work. It’s been a wise process these last 25 days.

26/02/2024

Do you mind map?

👍I have before
❤️All the time!
😆What’s mind mapping?

26/02/2024

6 days to podcast launch

✅ napped, resting peacefully knowing I have at least three guest interviews scheduled this week, plus some solo content that’s mostly prepped

26/02/2024

7 days to podcast launch (Saturday)

✅ presented an updated and expanded signature workshop that will turn into the first few episodes of a future private podcast

24/02/2024

I’m back on the (in person) stages! If you would have told me that I’d be giving a keynote seven weeks postpartum I wouldn’t have believed you. After three difficult postpartums I am so grateful that God had blessed this fourth to be so joy-filled and smooth!

Now to rest up 😉 Just because I can be on my feet for one day doesn’t mean I should overdo it quite yet 😅

24/02/2024

8 days to podcast launch

✅ finished preparing my script for the hour long in person workshop I’m giving tomorrow. This is relevant to the podcast because I’m hoping to be able to repurpose the recording as some episode content!

23/02/2024

9 days to podcast launch

Rest day but..,
✅bulk recorded 14 episodes for the private podcast!

Have you signed up yet? The first meditation drops at 7am Saturday morning.

22/02/2024

10 days to podcast launch

✅first interview done for both the podcast and the summit!

✅followed up with two key strategic guests who had said they were interested in interviewing but hadn’t submitted their info

✅once I got both of them to submit their info I immediately approved them via mobile app and since they were still online and thinking about my podcast, they also scheduled their interviews!

Juli Baranik’s Seven Figure Podcast Builder really makes it all so easy.

21/02/2024

Let’s talk about zoom chat spam.

You’re in a workshop or webinar on zoom with a whole lot of other people. people who want to connect and network.

It starts innocently enough.

Everyone sharing where they’re tuning in from, saying how excited they are for the content…

And then someone drops their phone number.

So it begins.

The poor souls probably don’t even realize they’re starting the zoom chat spam. They just want to connect with the other amazing people there—

Just like they would if they were at an in person event.

But they’re not in person and there’s no profile to click on or link in bio to find, so the only option is… zoom chat spam.

But it doesn’t stop there.

I was just in an amazing workshop today where another kind of zoom chat spam happened.

During the workshop a brand new irresistible offer was revealed and the attendees were loving it. The host’s assistant dropped the link in the chat…

And it was immediately lost in the excited chatter and questions.

The attendees’ chatter wasn’t the zoom chat spam problem. The link was. Because it had to be shared over and over and over again as the chat took it away and new people joined the call (since the newbies couldn’t see chat history).

Zoom just isn’t optimized for connection.

Not for attendees, and not for hosts either!

You need a better option. One that doesn’t include zoom chat spam.

I’ve got you.

Comment “no more zoom chat spam” and I’ll DM you a little secret something I’ve been working on 👀

21/02/2024

11 days to podcast launch

✅first 11 topics/guests organized and outlined

✅2 interviews recorded for other podcasts where I’m the guest

✅summit waitlist page about elevating your podcast almost ready, including recording videos for that page and the confirmation funnel

20/02/2024

12 days to podcast launch

✅got all of the applications I need for the summit for podcasters! (These will be my first featured guests on the podcast too)

✅worked on a project that will be announced on the podcast and launched at the summit

Who’s getting excited and wants to be tagged when the first episode drops? 🙋‍♀️

19/02/2024

13 days to podcast launch

✅finished listening to Podcast Monetization Tips from Podcasting Business School

✅listened to an episode of Hello Audio’s Launch Your Private Podcast

✅drafted the waitlist page for our virtual summit about elevating your podcast

Wait, a summit for elevating your podcast hosted by someone who’s still counting down to her podcast launch? Yep!

First, because this isn’t my first time launching a podcast. But now I know how to *successfully* launch a podcast (and have the support I need to do it sustainably).

Second, one of the best ways to elevate your podcast is to leverage all these skills and processes you have as a podcaster (like interviewing and managing guests) and apply them to hosting a virtual summit! Now *that* is where my expertise lies 😁

18/02/2024

14 days to podcast launch

✅rest day

✅sent another couple of invites to potential guests anyway

✅listening to a podcast to go to sleep now

17/02/2024

15 days to podcast launch

✅four interviews (total) scheduled

✅first private podcast subscription sold thanks to Hello Audio

✅connected with another great podcast guest via a guest who’s already scheduled—the networking is working! (Thanks Nhien Dinh!)

Actually, that’s a bit of a theme here (the networking working). Something fun happened today when I was at an in person event networking with other entrepreneurs: someone has been paying attention and congratulated me on being 15 days from my podcast launch! I hadn’t said anything about the podcast; she’s simply been watching these daily updates and counting down the days with me 💛

17/02/2024

Checking out a new coworking and event space in the beautiful Texas Hill Country today! Perfect place to host a Shine and Dine event 🔥

16/02/2024

16 days to podcast launch

✅two more guest applications after I attended and podcast guest/host mixer
(Thank you Sarah Penner and Nhien Dinh!)

✅set up my account on Hello Audio

✅quietly launched a private podcast where I’ll be reading Paul’s book out loud because Hello Audio makes it so easy!

16/02/2024

Expanding Faith with Joy, part 7

Who do you think is the most-forgotten demographic when it comes to expanding the Kingdom?

I grew up hearing about the 10/40 window, the African bush, the atheistic brainwashing of communist countries, and more. These are the people and places we think of when we picture spreading the gospel to the “unreached.”

Growing up, the men and women who traveled far to preach were our heroes. My sister joined their ranks young, and today she and her husband help equip others to be missionaries as well.

But who are we forgetting?

***

Last year I was talking with friends about billionaire Grant Cardone’s 10X Conference. Long story short, some scary spiritual stuff went down. My friend asked me if that bothered me. See, I’d been talking about the Cardone family and the people close to them a fair bit—specifically how I anticipated being involved in their circles more and more.

Did it bother me?

I can’t say it doesn’t. But I also wasn’t surprised by it. The Cardones are Scientologists, and that’s just the beginning. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I’m not aligned with them spiritually.

But neither is my sister aligned spiritually with the men, women, and children she traveled far to minister to.

Perhaps the most-forgotten demographic when it comes to Kingdom Expansion is the billionaires. (Now that’s a foreign culture to mine growing up if there ever was one… 😉)

***

I’ve known for some time now that this is the mission field the Aspens are called to, but it’s hard to talk about. Honestly, I feel a little like Adoniram and Ann Judson, David Livingstone, and Hudson Taylor, the Kingdom-growth trailblazers of years past. People in their home churches didn’t understand their vision, why they would go to *those people* when they had so little in common?

Yet these trailblazers needed spiritual support just as much as—if not more than—the foreign missionaries we are so comfortable supporting today.

So do we.

Quite frankly, I’ve been hesitant to ask for the level of support I know we need. What will people think?

It’s *obvious* that an American learning a new language to go to a foreign country with witch doctors and who knows what other spiritual opposition would need a heavy prayer covering and financial support.

But what about a family learning a new culture, traveling to cities like Las Vegas and who knows where else, facing subtle and overt spiritual opposition on a daily basis?

That’s the Aspens.

We need a heavy prayer covering and support too.

Enter Dawn and Dusk—a way to join us in prayer morning and evening and support our mission.
Living Prayer
Bite-sized, but deeply influential
Meditations to start your day and bring closeness with God before sleep

They changed Paul’s life, which led me into new life, and since he started sharing them he has heard so many stories of transformation because of his vulnerability—from older couples growing closer to to young people growing in discipline and steadiness.

We need support.
But just like in our business, we want to elevate those who join with us spiritually too.

We want to grow together—like a grove of Aspen trees united by a common root system—rather than just drawing support to ourselves.

We want people around us committed to continual challenge and growth themselves, spurring us on to more love and good works.

Will you support our mission?

C O M M E N T “Dawn and Dusk” T O J O I N U S

15/02/2024

The finale is finished!
Expanding Faith with Joy fully written—I’ll publish it here tonight. Who wants a tag?

15/02/2024

Expanding Faith with Joy, part 6

As I understand it, Ryan Pineda never set out to host a “Christian Business Conference.” He simply started hosting a quality Business and Wealth-Building Conference, and happened to bring his spiritual influence along.

The full-blown worship service that is now a dedicated part of WealthCon started out as a small prayer and worship time for himself and his team to give God the glory for what they were doing with this event. They let attendees know that it was happening and that the doors were open—and the turnout was unbelievable!

Now WealthCon in Las Vegas is known as a place to go for faith-based business conversation—but it’s not just Christians attending.

Who would have thought that a business and real estate wealth-building conference in Las Vegas would be a place so infused by the Holy Spirit? “Can you imagine, with all of the faith in the room what the Lord can do?”

And this light isn’t only shining when WealthCon is happening.

I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know more than one person on Ryan’s team and the more I talk with them the more I get to see what God is doing in Vegas of all places with millionaires and billionaires of all people.

Ryan’s Producer also does video production for their church, for example, and other team members are involved in that same congregation that has set out to be a light in the desert. This is part of the reason Ryan hosts such amazing, premium events in person in Las Vegas.

They’re attractive.

His business brings people to the city for reasons other than, well, what you usually think of when you think of the so-called “sin city.” Productive reasons. Even Godly reasons.

Ryan and his team are expanding faith in unexpected ways.

While I always thought of missionaries being the ones out there expanding the church, Paul grew up focused on the clergy. Pastors and elders were “the church” in his mind, and everyone else just sort of tagged along in their pursuit of God. Leaders were the “important” people.

But as we grew and grew together, we came to better understand every believer’s duty to be the light of the world. Like the words spoken at our local congregation at the end of every service, “let’s go be church!” Or the banners near the doors at my parent’s church: “You are now entering the mission field.”

We need to be ready, and not every mission field looks the same. In fact, there is no identity without missionality!

Ryan’s church came together for a mission. His business is organized around a mission. Every organization has a mission statement at its core. So what is the mission for our family, the Aspens?

We’ve had pieces from the very beginning:
Entrepreneurship
Writing and stories
Dawn and Dusk

These little breadcrumbs have been making a trail…

(Stay tuned for part 7—the finale!)

15/02/2024

Expanding Faith with Joy, part 5

Aspen wasn’t Paul’s last name before I married him.

We chose a new name together when we chose to start a new family together. We are first generation Aspens.

There are multiple layers to the reasons we chose a new name, rather than take his family name or keep mine. One of the reasons our name is Aspen is because a single Aspen tree is a small part of the larger organism that makes up the whole grove. Every tree in the grove is connected to the others through the extensive root system. It’s the ultimate family tree!

Paul and I both have a tendency to be loners. We even friend-zoned each other less than two years before we were married! We were very clear that neither of us *needed* the other.

That time leading up to us getting together was quite solitary for each of us, actually.

I was living alone in an empty school building trying to figure out if I could turn my hobby business into a real business.

Paul was experimenting with board game design while rediscovering himself as a writer, sending out daily meditations and spending long hours reading.

Unexpectedly, that solitude brought us together.

We lived in the same neighborhood and were both free to set our own schedules. That meant that if I wanted to take a walk in the middle of the workday, for instance, I could. And he was free to join me.

A few months into this, I went to Colorado. Paul thought I’d be there for a reasonable amount of time—say, a week, certainly not more than two. So when he went to Colorado the next month, he assumed I was already home. But I was still on my solitary retreat. Interestingly enough, he had also made the trip to get away to clear his head.

Long story short, when we realized we’d both be heading home about the same time, we decided to road trip it together—you know, for convenience. Gas money doesn’t grow on trees after all.

On that road trip we realized we had both changed.

My exact thought at that crossroads was, “I could work with this guy.” We married eight months later and a baby came just before our first anniversary. Paul, being the better writer, helped me establish my writing business which took most of our time. Our days were spent huddling together and excitedly tossing word salads.

“Alone together” kinda sums it up.

Our family tree barely growing and we were already in danger of becoming rootbound. Maybe that’s why God allowed toxic mold to drive us from our first home.

Our faith was shaken. We *had* to ask for help.

This wasn’t just a period of discovering who each of us wanted to be. The more important question became who we were together—with each other and within the community. Our identities merged and expanded.

Paul continued to write and share his daily meditations, letting people see his heart—our heart—and inviting them to walk the same path of growth and discovery for themselves. I turned them into a book: Dawn and Dusk, Spring, and we began to compile three more (Summer, Autumn, and Winter). Time and financial constraints nearly slowed the project to a standstill, but in the background it has never fully died.

Now, coming up on our seventh wedding anniversary, the next public iteration of Dawn and Dusk is here.

Once again, we invite our community to be a part of it, to take this transformation for yourselves too. This project would never have happened without me pushing Paul to be more public with his thoughts, and likewise this next iteration can’t be done by the Aspens alone either. We’d love to include you, both to bless and be blessed.

Are you in?

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A peek at the mind mapping we did on Saturday

my blueprint for getting virtual attendees to participate in your event without feeling like you’re a circus ringmaster

Start the video about 12 minutes in--that’s when I got the audio fixed

Your Ticket AND Travel Completely Free for the Elevate Your Network Event!

Is cost keeping you from coming to the Elevate Your Network event? Then be sure to show up live for this stream! When Shamilla told me that she found a way to get her ticket and travel costs completely covered I knew I had to have her on live with me to share her secrets with you. Don’t let the price of ticket and travel and accommodations and all the other things that go into attending an in-person event keep you from Elevating Your Network! Shamilla will show you how 💛

When you're an entrepreneur... and so is your spouse!

With special gust Katie Hornor

How to Stay Sane During Your Big Live Launch Event

Hosting a virtual summit? Launching a digital product bundle with your business besties? Stress levels rise the bigger the launch event is... but so does the revenue! Join me to learn how to minimize anxiety and maximize all the things that make big launch events awesome.

4 Mistakes Keeping You From Speaking Opportunities

4 Mistakes Keeping You From Speaking Opportunities . Well, this is just the first one, but I cover all four PLUS the easy solutions to each one in my presentation today at Sell With a Summit: Speaker Edition—have you gotten your free ticket yet? Here's the link: https://civilizedanimal--virtualsummitsearch.thrivecart.com/swas-speaker-edition-launch-kit/ 💛 . My whole goal for this presentation is to help you get summit hosts to want YOU to speak. Not just to recognize you as a speaker, but to land you at the top of their list. I want to make you a must-have! As a summit host myself, I share the number-one things that no other speakers are doing that would instantly make you catch my eye. So if you have speaking at a virtual event (or a live one!) on your bucket list, you MUST attend this summit! Go claim your free ticket: https://civilizedanimal--virtualsummitsearch.thrivecart.com/swas-speaker-edition-launch-kit/

Do you ever use swipe copy?

Do you ever use swipe copy? Whether you're a summit speaker, participate in bundles, are an affiliate marketer, or have used templates it's likely you've tried to use some form of swipe copy to make promotion fast and easy. . How well did it work for you? . If you feel like there is surely a better way to utilize swipe copy effectively, you have to check out my husband Paul's presentation today at Sell With a Summit. His presentation and are available for 24 hours for free! Join us here: https://civilizedanimal--virtualsummitsearch.thrivecart.com/swas-speaker-edition-launch-kit/ . Oh, and if you miss the free period, send me a message. I'll give you another way to access it 💛

Tomorrow Paul is speaking at Sell With a Summit: Speaker Edition.

Tomorrow Paul is speaking at Sell With a Summit: Speaker Edition. His topic? Swipe copy! How to customize it effectively without wasting a bunch of time—because isn't that the point of swipe copy? To save time? . Use the link below to join us at Sell With a Summit! It's free to attend live, and Paul and I have contributed a pretty sweet deal to the bundle that you get if you upgrade to a paid ticket. It's a $250 workshop that you will get free if you buy the upgrade bundle! Either way, I look forward to seeing you at the summit 😊 https://civilizedanimal--virtualsummitsearch.thrivecart.com/swas-speaker-edition-launch-kit/ . PS In case you weren't aware, Paul is my husband and business partner. He founded Civilized Animal Productions before we met and we merged our businesses under his brand shortly after we married 4.5 years ago 💛

Simply Happy Life Summit

You might recognize Brittany as one of the speakers at our Burnout to Balance summit. Well, now I'm speaking at a summit that SHE is hosting! . If you are looking for more support as a parent who is trying to run a business while juggling all things family, use the link below to grab your free ticket. Brittany May has put together an amazing lineup that will help you to 💆 calm your mind 📚 ditch the clutter 😌 and live with intention. . See you there—it starts this week! https://www.simplyhappylife.com/a/2147493532/mRLLX59m

Important update re: Burnout to Balance summit!

Long story short, we are practicing what we are preaching. The Burnout to Balance summit was supposed to start this week, but we are postponing due to some crazy circumstances and because we refuse to burn out. Stay to the end for the whole story, but the most important things to know are: 1. The dates for the live summit are now Sept 8-12. 2. The Community Hub is open early and we will be adding some exclusive live events starting Sept 1 when the summit was supposed to kick off. 3. Postponing the summit means you have some time to invite your friends! There is a giveaway challenge going on inside the Community Hub to reward the attendee who invites the most friends to the summit. Register at civanpro.com/summit then log into the Community Hub for more info.

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my blueprint for getting virtual attendees to participate in your event without feeling like you’re a circus ringmaster

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When you're an entrepreneur... and so is your spouse!

How to Stay Sane During Your Big Live Launch Event

4 Mistakes Keeping You From Speaking Opportunities

Do you ever use swipe copy?

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