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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host v Park.
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Good morning listeners.
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Of course, I'm excited to be here because I get
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to be with you, so want to share a quick story.
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I know that we always talk about kindness, so kindness
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is also bringing energy when you show up. So yesterday
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I was speaking on emotional intelligence at Americ Corps at
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high Point, North Carolina, and there were a lot of
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universities that are closed right now, and a lot of
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students come from there to be you know, they're part
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of Americ Corps and they couldn't come. So what I
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did was, because they were not able to attend the presentation,
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I created the guide and I shared it this way
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would be helpful to them. And what happened was that
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when I shared that with the organizer, they were very
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much like thankful, and I'm like, no, this is just
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a little thing that I could have done. And so
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what's amazing is that when you bring kindness it just
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opens up heart people's hearts, not only your heart, but
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people's hearts as well. And another thing I wanted to
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share was that there were a lot of colleges in
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there and a lot of different institutions, so people from
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different parts of North Carolina and just kind of sharing
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their experience after Halleen and all that. But I want
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to talk about a gentleman David. He was from High
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Point to University and he brought so much energy that.
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It's just phenomenal.
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And also, like you know, the whole room was packed
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with energy, but just his kindness on his table and
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going up with energy really can spark so many different things.
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So don't ever underestimate that kindness is something that needs
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to be done. Kindness can be something where you can
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show up. So that was my experience from yesterday. And
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for those of you who have got our books, I
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so so appreciate you. And for those who have not,
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please to get our books because partial profits from our
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books will go to Now we'll be sending in to
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people like who have been.
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Severely impacted with Halleen.
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And our thoughts and prayers are with folks in Florida
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because like now Milton is coming in, so please stay
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safe for all our audience in Florida and sending prayers
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a ways. So let's bring in on our guest.
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I'm say hello, Hello, great to be here.
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Oh lovely to have you.
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So we usually start out from the beginning as to
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do you recall a moment from your childhood or a
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person that left the mark on you, a positive mark.
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It was probably my mother, and she always instilled in
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me that I could do anything, and you know, I
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could do whatever I wanted. There wasn't like you should
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do this, you should do that. What is sparking you?
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You know, what excites you to do? I mean, and
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I looked at a lot of different things as I
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grow up. I actually didn't know what I really wanted
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to do. I thought maybe I'd be an archaeologist or something,
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which is totally different, because but that excited me, you know,
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that was interesting. But honestly, I fell into sales just
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by chance, like it was not. I was very shy
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growing up and so thinking that I would be in sales,
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I just one day thought, you know, that would be
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a route I could take. And it was really kind
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of moved towards money. You know that I could create
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my own wealth when you're in sales, and you can
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do that if you're on straight commission or have your
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own business. So but you know, my mom really instilled
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whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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Oh that is so powerful because so many times, you know,
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parents have their own vision as to what the children
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need to be. And nothing wrong with that, because so
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many times we need to guide children and the youngsters.
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So but that's fantastic that you were able to go
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ahead and do that. So share with us your journey
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as to how did you get into sales.
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Well, I had done some different things early on, and
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I was really trying to find my way and I
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was looking for a new position and I found this
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position in the newspaper. I'm showing my age with looking
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in the newspaper because people don't do that anymore. And
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I found this position for an outside sales rep to
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sell beauty products. And I'm like, oh, it sounds like
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it would be fun, exciting, something new. Who doesn't love
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new things all the time, especially as women? And I
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thought and it was straight commissioned. I thought I could
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write my own paycheck, so that like sounded exciting, grow
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my you know, my financial wealth as well as do
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something that I like to do. And so little did
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I know that when I got into that that it
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was a brand new product. No one knew anything about it,
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and I was starting from scratch. So it was a
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rude awakening when I got out there and I did
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like twenty cold calls a day, and if you can
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imagine doing that no one knowing the product. How many
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no's I got.
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Of course, and so during that time you said that
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how many no's did you get? So how did you
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go from knows and it could be fifteen o's to
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even getting one?
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Yes? Well, you know something. There was times I cried,
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Believe me. The first couple of weeks, I'm like, what
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am I? What did I get myself into? Right? What
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was I thinking? You know? Well, I didn't know. I
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mean you just go forward, thinking oh that sounds exciting.
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But there was something inside of me that just said,
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you know, just keep going, you can do this. You're
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going to figure it out. And I was really lucky
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that the management was training me. They knew that I
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was totally great and didn't know what I was doing.
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And I just kept walking in the door because I
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walked into beauty salons and showed my little basket of product,
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and I was like, I like the product, and plus
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I have hair that kind of shows product.
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Right.
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So I was like, Okay, I'm going to be able
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to figure this out and lo and be hoo, hold
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what it was all about? And I was listening to
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you at the beginning of your show that it's all
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about relationships. And so I realized that the more I
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could learn about the salons and their business and how
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I could help them, what value not just my products brought,
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but what I could bring to the table. And so
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that just started. You know, I built my relationships one
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salon by one person, by one person, one person, and
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that's what grew my business. It was just a like
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inner knowing that you can do this, you can do.
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This, so tell us, like vitted you end about.
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Well I the first you know, two or three years
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was not easy, but I again, I just kept going.
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And after three years I had gotten up to from
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like two thousand dollars a month in sales to thirty
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thousand dollars in sales a month, and they promoted me
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to a regional manager and I was thrilled. I was
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actually wanting that. I felt like that was like calling
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me to I learned how to do it, but now
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wanted to help others do what I had done.
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Hmmm. That is definitely powerful. So let's kind of backtrack.
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A little bit.
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You mentioned that initially it was just keep on going,
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keep on going. So what I'm hearing is that one
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thing is that company kept on understanding that Hey, you know,
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when somebody comes INNW, you meet them where they're at,
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and then the trained you so share, like you know,
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from two perspectives. First of all, let's say, let's stop
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out with somebody who has signed up for a product,
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who took a job without knowing what could they do
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in the situation and what could their bosses do in
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a similar situation.
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Well, first off, from someone taking on a job, I
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mean I was lucky that they did have training, but
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that would be now if I would give any type
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of advice if you haven't done something to make sure
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that a company is bringing you training, not just hey,
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let's go through like a week of training or whatever,
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but on going. And especially in sales, if you have
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somebody out there working with you in the field or
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going out on appointments with you, I mean, that is powerful.
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So you can watch someone do it, then you can
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do it, then you do it together. I mean that
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is about support, and that's what I had, and that's
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what I've always done. Like, Hey, I'm sitting next to you.
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I'm not your boss, I am you know, we're a team.
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Like that feels really great and then the end client
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can feel that as well. And as far as you
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know a company, training to me is everything, Like if
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you want to keep valuable people, which I know a
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lot a lot of companies want to do that, you
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got to take care of them, train them, encourage them,
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have them, you know, what do they want to do?
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How can they grow? And you know when I work
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with small companies, boy, I know, man, they are invested
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in their people and know I know that they're going
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to keep those people long term.
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Yeah, and that's the key, and you invested in your
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people then goes back to.
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The relationship absolutely.
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So talking about training, that's really powerful, Like have not
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only onboarting training, but all have that ongoing support. Yes,
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so tell us like especially in sales, because sales is
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something that people shy away from. People think sales is leazy,
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and it's that one of those topics that people tend
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to wid. But it's a necessary element of any business.
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So when you are training someone, what elements are the
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key to be or the core elements that need to
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be present in the training. So the person, whether it's
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doing sales or salesperson, whatever we want to call them,
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is empowered and they keep on growing in like because
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when they grow, your company is growing too.
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Absolutely absolutely. So you know, it's interesting how my how
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I trained people has evolved, right, and because I've been
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doing this for thirty plus years now, and so I was,
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you know, trained it a certain way and most of
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it was what to say processes, which are so so
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important because confidence is everything. I love the title of
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your show because in sales, confidence means I know what
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I'm doing. I am completely confident in the product I
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have or the service that I have, and people that energy,
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like you're saying at the very beginning, is everything. Your energy,
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what you bring, your energy individual. So to me, the
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foundation of sales is the belief in yourself, the belief
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in the product or service, and when you come in
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it's really being mindful of your energy. In any time
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you're networking or you're doing a presentation, or your first
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time meeting people, like that's everything. You have what a
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couple seconds to make a first impression, and so you
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have to set yourself up to be ready to do that.
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Like coming on here or you know, meeting someone for
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the first time. People don't really think about it prior
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to the time that you're there. But you were talking
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about the gentleman with kindness. I mean I love that
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that like preceded him, his energy preceded him. And to me,
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confidence and your energy and being authentic in who you
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are is the foundation the first step to really be
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thinking about sales. And it's not about pushy or like,
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oh I have to sell something. I mean, that goes
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into the mindset as well, but it is not about that.
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So that's the foundation to me, is your energy, you
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being authentically you because you bring all all the experiences
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that you've had. Your personality, like all of you is
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the secret sauce to me of sales. And if you
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step into that fully, boy, people are going to feel
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who you are and to see if it's a good fit.
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I think that's really important. You don't always want to