March 8, 2022

A Three-Word Rebellion to Fuel Your Great Work with Dr. Michelle Mazur | UYGW09

A Three-Word Rebellion to Fuel Your Great Work with Dr. Michelle Mazur | UYGW09
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All social movements start by moving away from something. But while the 3-Word Rebellion begins with what you are against, it quickly becomes about what you want to create!

Created by my guest, Dr. Michelle Mazur, the 3-Word Rebellion helps business owners to create a positive 3-word message that grows their business into a movement.

Once you have your 3-word rebellion, what do you do with it?

Join us as we discuss

  • What it feels like to walk away from a well-defined path to build something of your own
  • How a 3rd grade student council election changed the course of history
  • How imposter syndrome can loom large when you are getting started and how to keep going
  • The importance of citing your sources and letting go of getting credit

MEET MICHELLE:

Michelle Mazur works with brilliant business owners who are shaking things up...but having trouble talking about it. She combines the tools of successful social movements with the qualitative research skills she earned in her communications PhD to help them craft their powerful, captivating message. The author of 3 books (including the newly-released 3 Word Rebellion) and featured in Fast Company, Entrepreneur and Inc., she knows that speaking about what you do in a clear and captivating way is the key to reaching the people you could help the most.

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE:

drmichellemazur.com/me

www.3wordrebellion.com

www.3WRbook.com

For more information about the Unleashing YOUR Great Work podcast or to learn more about Dr. Amanda Crowell, check out my website: amandacrowell.com

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Transcript
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Welcome to unleashing your great work, a podcast about

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doing the work that matters the most to you. I'm your host, Dr.

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Amanda Kroll, a cognitive psychologist, speaker, coach,

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and the creator of the aligned time journals. Every week on

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this podcast, we are asking the big questions. What is great

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work? And why does it matter so much to us? What does it take to

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do more of your great work without sacrificing everything

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else? And how does the world change when more people are

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doing more of the work that matters the most to them?

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Whether you're great work is building your own small

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business, or managing a remote team at a multinational company.

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You'll find insight and answers here. Welcome, everybody to

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unleashing your great work. I am your host, Dr. Amanda Kroll and

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today I could not be happier to be joined by Dr. Michelle maser.

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She works with brilliant business owners who are shaking

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things up but having trouble talking about it. She's the

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author of three books, including a newly released version of her

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three word rebellion, which I've read, and it's very good. And

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she knows that speaking about what you do in a clear and

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captivating way is the key to reaching the people that you

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could help the most. Welcome to the podcast. Michelle.

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Thank you, Amanda. I am thrilled to be here.

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Yay. We're equally thrilled. Yeah. So I have a question for

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you. It's the question I start every podcast with and that

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question is, tell us a little bit about your great work.

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My great work is all around communication and messaging, I

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created a framework called the three word rebellion. And what

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the purpose of that is to encapsulate the change that you

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want your business to create in just three words. So think about

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start with why the five second rule, the four hour workweek,

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these are all phrases that we've heard before, they are phrases

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that have made us curious to want to know more. And I created

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a process that I can guide people through or they can read

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a book and figure out what their own three word rebellion is that

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message they want to be known for. And I've, I mean, I've been

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passionate about communication since I was about 15 years old,

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I think I started down this path. But I really believe that

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if we can powerfully communicate the value our business creates,

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other people will get it, they'll get on board with us,

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they'll become the messengers of our message. And ultimately, our

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business can be a bit of a movement maker, and out there

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doing good in the world and reaching the people we most need

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to reach with our message. So my great work is all around the

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three word rebellion and communication. It is what I love

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and what I'm most passionate about in the world. Love it.

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So your three word rebellion is three word rebellion.

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Yes, I'm super moto like that.

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Yeah. So there's a really interesting word in that, which

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I'd love for you to talk a little bit more about, like,

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what is it about a rebellion? Because I've seen you I think

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your podcast is called the rebel podcast.

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Rebel uprising. Yeah.

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Rebel. Rebel uprising. Yeah. So there's something about

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rebellion that seems to speak to you. What is that? Yeah,

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it's really this idea of taking a stand for something. There's

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so much like, Oh, me too, marketing, where everything

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sounds the same. That all of a sudden, when there is a fresh

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voice on the scene, you're like, oh, this person is interesting.

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They're saying something different. And I never really

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felt like I fit in, in the like, on line, business space, much

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like I didn't fit in, in high school. Like I was the theater

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kid, the Speech and Debate kid. And in the online business

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world, I feel like there are these like popular people who

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are really, really well known. And then there's the rest of us

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kind of quietly doing our great work in the world and not

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getting attention. So for me, when you kind of stage a

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rebellion, you're saying like, Hey, I see things and I don't

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like them. I think we could do things better. We could do

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things differently. We could be doing more good in the world.

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And so staging that kind of rebellion is, you know, a

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necessary step for people who don't feel They fit in to gather

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their right people around them. And I know even for me, like

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when I first started this business, I started as a public

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speaking coach before I was going into brand messaging and

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positioning and all of that. And my first client came because I

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wrote this really, really ranty blog post about how not to be a

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motivational speaker. And it was in response to this woman that I

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saw who like, took the stage. And she asked us all to stand

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up. And we did, she asked us to clap. And we did. And then she

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said, You have given me a standing ovation. And now I must

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earn it. Yeah. And boy, she did not earn it. And that bond, this

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ranty blog post about how to do better with speaking. And it was

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the type of posts that you're scared to share. Because it's

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like, oh, this is super edgy. But people ended up responding

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to it. And then I got this email with the blog post in the title.

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And I was like, crap. I'm in for it. And I opened it up, and he's

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like, Hey, I love this. I'm looking for a new public

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speaking coach, I have a big event coming up. Would you like

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to talk about it? And I didn't have a business or anything

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then. But yeah, like, no, no packages, no fees, nothing.

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You're not even you're like, Yes, I can.

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I was like, yes, yes, let's talk about it. And he ended up, he

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was speaking in front of Barbara Bush's Points of Light

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Foundation in front of the firmer former First Lady and all

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of these famous people. And we work together on that speech,

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and it was fantastic. So that's that rant, that rebellion really

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started my business.

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Mm hmm. So I'm, I'm noticing that and I'm just noticing that

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it's a sort of a positioning against something. Is that

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purposeful? Or can your rebellion be for something? Or

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is it really a strong stance that you need to be against

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something

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you need? Both? So I have based this messaging theory, or this

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messaging framework out of social movement theory, so all

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social movements are moving away from something and when I work

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with people, we we name their villain, so my villain now is

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manipulative marketing, very much against all the bro

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marketing, the scarcity. Yeah, all of like the swipe files that

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we see that are loaded with NLP and other stuff that people

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don't quite understand. And so that's what I'm against. But I'm

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for the three word rebellion, creating this message that

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matters. And that encapsulates the change you want to create.

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So the three word rebellion itself typically ends up being a

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positive message for people. Like, for example, one of my

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clients, hers is profit without worry. And she creates marketing

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funnels for people. And, like, funnel is such a terrible world

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word that people don't like. But her funnels were so radically

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different that calling it that was a disservice. So we came up

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with this idea of like, okay, profit without worry. And her

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clients, right, clients were like, Ooh, yeah, I want I want

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that. How do I like how do I do that? Yeah. And that's really

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the power of that three word rebellion. So you have the,

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you're against something, you have a villain, you have a foil,

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but also you're for something and creating a change in the

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world.

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So once you have your three word, rebellion, what do you do

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with it?

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So once you have your three word rebellion, you get to create

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more messaging. Because it's like those three words are there

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to create intrigue, to create curiosity to grab people's

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attention and make them think like, okay, she's doing

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something a little bit different in the world. But what happens

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next, is that, great, you've got their attention. Now, how do you

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get their buy in? Well, you need more messaging that really

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builds a persuasive argument for your work, and reaches people

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along the customer awareness spectrum. Right. So this is

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Eugene Schwartz breakthrough advertising. He talks about

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like, the unaware audience, the people who don't know you yet,

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how are we reaching them? What conversations are we having? And

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then how do we get them to have like a belief shift or realize

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what the problem is they're having? What are those

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conversations that structure this argument and move people

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along to being bought into what you're doing and being ready to

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work with you? We're not selling we're not convincing. We're

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helping people get ready to work with you. And then once we have

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that structure, You're down, which ends up being like a

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pretty large piece of messaging that you just use throughout

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your marketing and your copy, then we can fill in like the

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stories, you want to be telling your stories, your clients

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stories, and how that all relates to your work. So once

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you have all of that, then it's like, okay, you have this

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comprehensive messaging strategy that you can use in your

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marketing and your copy into your sales. And then it's really

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about applying it to your marketing strategy, because I

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really believe that any marketing strategy can work if

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your message is dialed in, it actually resonates with your

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audience.

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Interesting. So Michelle, who are you that you would be doing

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this work? Like who like, tell us how you got here?

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Yeah, so I have a PhD in communication I was in academia

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for ever was an assistant professor at the University of

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Hawaii teaching persuasion in our University of

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Hawaii. Yeah. Was it awesome? or No?

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It was not my side. I mean, Hawaii is a beautiful place.

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Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's very hard to live there. Because I

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mean, you are in the most, you're on the most isolated

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island chain in the entire world. Right? Yeah, five hours

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to get to California, seven hours to get to Japan. So there

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is, yeah, so you're on your own. And the community tends to be

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very insular, like, it's hard to break in, it's hard to meet

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friends, because they see that how lay, which means white

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person in Hawaiian, okay. Like, they'll just leave in a few

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months. So it's not worth to get invested. So it was this very,

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like, isolating time, and I was single at the time as well. And

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it just, when I was at the point where I had to go up for tenure,

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it was this decision of like, go up for tenure and commit to

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living here. Or leave and try to find build a fulfilling life

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somewhere else. And so I chose to leave.

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Yeah. And was it just Hawaii? Or was it something about academia?

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And it didn't really suit you, too?

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Oh, yeah, academia was I love teaching. I love doing research.

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I do not love the politics, like I am not a very, I mean, I can

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be political, however, like, you can always read exactly what I'm

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thinking and what I'm feeling on my face. So like having that

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poker face that you would need to go through faculty meetings

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was not my jam.

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Yeah, I can, I can see that. And yet, you mentioned that you do

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like politics. So that's something that you mentioned in

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your book, actually, is that you sort of started out as somewhat

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political, but your political dreams were crushed in the third

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grade. Third grade, that totally changed the course of your life.

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Yeah. So I was like, I don't know. Like, I was like four or

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five years old and already into politics like Jimmy Carter,

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Ronald Reagan, like I knew that this presidential election was

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happening. I knew I was a Democrat, like, I don't know.

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How do you know you're a Democrat, but apparently I was

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and I am. And I just really thought that, oh, politicians

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are here to help people. And that was so inspiring to my five

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year old mind. So I thought, Okay, this is my life path. This

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is what I'm going to do. And then I ran for student council

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and I realized that a it was really hard and be hard to talk

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to people, which has a little bit introverted and shy at that

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point in my life. And I did not when I got crushed

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Oh, so brutal. Counsel,

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I know so that dashed my dreams and politics.

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And yet you persevered and you got a PhD in communications

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became a professor. And then the politics again cast your dreams

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or changed them, I guess. Yeah. So what what? Tell us about that

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moment when you're like sitting in Hawaii feeling isolated and

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out of place, and yet, I mean, listen, I have a PhD in

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cognitive psychology and I was 100% on the researcher track

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period, full stop. No, no train to burn up no sleep till

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Brooklyn. I was on my way. And then I remember the day that I

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was like, what if I don't do that? But I have to do that. But

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what if I don't do that? That little voice right that's

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whispering in the back of your mind. What if you don't do that

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Amanda? What if that's not what's right for you? And

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thinking like That was a very hard moment. Maybe it wasn't for

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you. But it was for me like, What was that moment like for

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you? Well, it

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was interesting because I had several moments going on, like

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my mom had passed away. Four or five months prior to this

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decision, I had a boyfriend in England and I had just when my

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mom passed away, I was actually living in England and teaching

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there, which was an amazing experience to live in London.

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And so I had broken up with my boyfriend in London, and was

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like, No, I'm done with this, like, I'm just done. And it was,

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it was like this point in time of my life. I'm like, Just gonna

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burn it all down. Like, I am not happy doing this. There are

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parts that I like, uh, but it's not enough to keep me here.

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Like, I have nothing for me here. And especially, you know,

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after losing my mom losing a boyfriend, it was just like,

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well, what's one more loss? we'll just, we'll just move

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through all of this grief together at once. And it just

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made a lot of sense that I was going to leave and do something

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different.

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And where did you go and what did you do? So

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I am in Seattle, that's where I moved to. And at first, I still

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was doing some adjunct teaching at the University of Washington.

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And I also took a research job at Harborview Medical Center in

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the psychiatry department, which was

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Wow, psychiatrists.

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Yeah, yeah, they're an odd group.

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It was it was a very interesting job. I wasn't working with

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patients, I was really just doing some like data analysis

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for them. And then I moved into market research of the Ford

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consumer product goods. companies like General Mills,

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Kerrygold. Butter, I, then I was doing some then after that I was

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doing work with like Microsoft. So I've Yeah, so it was really

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into market research and doing all of that because I was like,

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Well, I'm a researcher. So my skills translate, except I'm

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also psychologically unemployable. I'm a terrible

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employee.

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Wait, I'm sorry. Psychologically unemployable. Tell us more about

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that. What does that mean? Yeah,

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it means I really don't like people telling me what to do.

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And the word

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Siri? Thank you, Siri. But I want Michelle to answer that

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question. Is Beautiful. So funny.

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Yeah, I'm not great at taking orders. I always had a lot of

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questions. So people be like, Well, I think we, you know,

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like, Michelle, you need to do this. And I'm like, But why and

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why are we doing it that way? And what if we did it this way.

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And so I was always this questioner at work, which made

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me a huge pain in the butt, I'm sure to rebel. Yeah. And so at

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the same time, I was doing the job, I was blogging on the side,

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just kind of because I had all of this information about

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communication in my head, and I really wasn't doing anything

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with it. And a friend of mine was just like, you should blog,

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you should do something, get all the goodness out of your brain

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into the world. So that's what I did. And then eventually, I was

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at a job and my boss who I loved, he was a great boss. He's

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like, I'm being promoted. And he's telling me all about this

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excitedly and like my future at the company. And like, in my

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head, I'm like, spinning out because I'm like, I don't want

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to stay here. I don't want I mean, I was planning on quitting

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in the next six months. I was not planning on telling my

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employer that soon, but he's honey here. So it was like he

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was excitedly talking about all this great stuff. And then he's

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like, so what do you think?

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I think I'm gonna quit. Oh, wow. Yeah,

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I'm just like, not today.

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Wow, what an internal compass you have. Mm hmm. It's like,

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it's like a dictator in there. It's like, No, you will ask this

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question. You will quit this job. So tell me like,

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I just I just couldn't lie to him, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but just, it just didn't seem right. To like, pretend

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that oh, yeah, that sounds great. And I'm totally gonna

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stay when I'm like, No, I want the hell out.

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Yeah. Right. So you have a very strong regulator in your

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psychology. And, and a really strong sense of

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conscientiousness, it seems like that seems to be something that

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runs through both like your lived experiences as you're

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telling them to us here. As well as through your model of your

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three word rebellion writes like a lot about who are you really

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what do you really think stop with all the nonsense and trying

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to like force or fake or trick people in to working with you,

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and instead just say who you are, sound,

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yeah, who you are what you believe, get in touch with how

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they're feeling empathize with people like all of this, like

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I've always been really aware. And I think because of training

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and communication of how my words impact other people. And a

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lot of what we see in business is the people completely unaware

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of what they're saying what they're promising, and how that

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impacts other people how it's received. And I am always very

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tuned in to that. And I think I mean, I think that's what makes

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me really great. And messaging and communication. Because when

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I work with a client, I'm always filtering it through this lens

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of like, how would this person feel if they hear this? Is it

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going to be like, Oh, push them away? Or is it going to make

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them come in closer? And I always want to make the right

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people come in closer?

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Yeah. Well, it's interesting, because I think you're right,

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that the vast majority of people are totally unaware of the

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impact that they're having on other people and the role that

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they're, you know, the things that we remember that we carry

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forward in our lives that we help to define ourselves are

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often just one off comments from other people. And that person

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had no reason any reality or any sense that what they were saying

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was gonna carry that person forward for years, or haunt them

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for years. Yes. And I think what in the interesting thing is that

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you've got like that juxtaposition. On the one hand,

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there's all these people sort of blindly unaware of the way words

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impact them and the way their words are impacting others. And

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then what you pointed to the people who are acutely aware of

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exactly which words to say, to get people starting to feel like

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their scarcity and urgency, and I'm going to FOMO, I'm going to

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miss out on this. And it's, it's gotta be hard to be the one

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saying, walk away. First of all, it's actually not that easy to

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manipulate people into doing what you persuasively want them

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to that's why like, 1% of people are successful at moving big

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numbers through sales funnels, and really making millions of

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dollars. And everybody else spends three to $5,000 trying to

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do it exactly that way. And then they fail. Right? But

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nonetheless, your voice it really isn't rebellion, right

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like that. You should just stop try to opt out of that game. So

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tell me what struggles have you had sort of bringing this

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message to the world this this great work of yours? Oh, so

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many struggle. I mean, it was interesting. So when I first

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came up with the three word rebellion, it was through a

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conversation with a book coach named Jenny Nash. And she was

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like, Oh, you're really onto something with this. You can

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call it something like the three words speech and I'm like, Cool.

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I don't want to do public speaking coaching anymore. Like,

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I like the three words. And then my brand was already

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communication rebels. I was like, Okay, it's the three word

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rebellion.

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And then it felt so bad. Like, it's like, oh,

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this is a message that it's choosing me like and who am I to

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deliver this? And we, I totally had this imaginary Nemesis with

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Donald Miller, the building the story brand guy happening,

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because Okay, is the guy that is kind of known for messaging.

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Like, if you go into a Facebook group, and you ask, like, I need

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help with messaging, someone I can guarantee will recommend his

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book because it is everywhere. And so he became this like,

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imaginary nemesis in my head, like, who am I to think that I'm

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an expert that I am the best in the world at doing this kind of

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messaging when Donald Miller exists. And, look, he has this

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New York Times best selling book, and oh, and, and everybody

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recommends him and he's on all of these podcasts and blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah. And it really held me back from putting

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my work out there. Like to a point where, like, I had

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multiple coaching sessions with my coach talking about this man

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who doesn't even know me. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't know me, but in

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my head, it's like, I couldn't do the work that I meant to do

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because he exists and he has this book, and what I mean,

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looking back, I'm like, Okay, this was so ridiculous, because

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he and I are so different. We served kind of different

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clientele, even though he's just recommended to everyone like I'm

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always serving like the rebels, the misfits, the people who are

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like swimming in the blue ocean with their new idea, or they're

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doing something in the intangible results realm, and

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the story brand never was designed for them either. was

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never designed For My People, and it took me a while to kind

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of untangle that.

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How did you untangle it? What did you need to realize? What

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did you need to step into?

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Oh my gosh, yeah, so multiple coaching sessions and really

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monitoring what my thoughts were around him. Like, oh, because

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the thought was, oh, yes, the New York Times best selling

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books. So he's better at this than me. And my coach at one

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point was like, is that true? Is that like, is that like a true

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thought that he's better than you? Because he has this New

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York Times bestselling book? Or has he just had a different

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opportunity than you? And I'm like, oh, and honestly, like I

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wrote a lot in my journal like, and sometimes it's just

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repeating, like, I am the best in the world at creating three

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word rebellions. Like and then, you know, like when you start

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just kind of practicing a new thought, you start seeing proof

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of it in the world. So all of a sudden, you're somebody shares

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about the book and how finding their three word rebellion and

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what that meant for their business. And I'm like, Oh,

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interesting. I get feedback from a client. And they're like, I

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just had the sales conversation. And it was incredible. I use my

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three word rebellion. And they were super curious. And they

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ended up signing up. So it's like, a way I'm seeing like all

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this proof that I would have shut out before because I didn't

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have the New York Times bestselling book. And it's, I

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mean, it's funny, because I mean, it's a couple years

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removed, but it feels so it feels so silly now, but I know,

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I'm not the only one. Not at all who compares themselves. Someone

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else in their industry?

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Right? Well, and I actually don't know the story brand guy,

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because I'm not in messaging. But it is. I'm assuming that

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some of it is not really that you're comparing sometimes

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people say don't compare your middle to someone else's end.

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Yeah. And that there's a way that that could be interpreted

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as somebody who's like, so expert, and so capable, but I

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don't mean it that way. I mean, like, we have this way, we are

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comparing, like, I'm writing a book, but my book is written

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Thank the Lord. But you know, as I was writing the book, and I'm

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reading my drafts, and I'm like, This is the worst thing I've

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ever read. Right? Like, yeah, that you've written a book,

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you've written a few. So you're like, This is the worst. This is

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not bad. This is the worst. It's really a roller coaster. Maybe

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yours wasn't like that. But like that for me. But it's

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interesting, like his book was out there. He had not really

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like, it's not that he was so much more capable. But he was

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more just like, all the collateral, all the

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testimonials, all the word of man, like, had just built up and

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accumulated for him hadn't accumulated for you yet.

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Exactly. Exactly. And you know, he was first to market with a

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messaging book. And I think that's always a big advantage.

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And it Yeah, and it's like, oh, yeah, he's been at this a lot

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longer than I have with his story brand framework. He'd

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been, you know, doing workshops and groups and all that kind of

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stuff for years before I came along and came up with my

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framework. So yeah, you do you accumulate a lot, especially

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when you're first. And you've, like, I love that idea. Like,

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you've accumulated all of this momentum and this capital around

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this message around this framework. And so when you have

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a little upstart coming in, like you can't, you can't compete

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against that. But then that person for me just kind of looms

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larger than life.

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Yeah. Yeah. And it's, I wonder, like, you sort of overcame that

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you put your stuff out in the world, and you had the courage

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to let it accumulate some and started to convince yourself,

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and then you find yourself, maybe you maybe you have an

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experiences, but I bet you have that. Now you're at your New

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Edge. And now there's something new that you're going to feel

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like an imposter about that you're going to be looking at

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everybody who's further along with more accumulation than you.

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What other things have you sort of, you know, come up against

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that are like that, like new edges that sort of put you back

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in that place?

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Yeah, that's such a good, good question, as well. And so what

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it's making me think of is my friend Maggie Patterson, and I

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have a podcast called duped the dark side of online business

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where we sit. It's really a consumer advocacy podcast where

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we kind of break down what we see in them online marketing

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plays from like, how things are priced to manipulative marketing

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to messaging tropes, like courses, like all of it and talk

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about like, how do you figure out if these things are actually

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right for you? How do you make informed decisions, how do you

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critically think through these decisions for your business? And

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it's so interesting because Maggie and I both have this

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experience a lot, where we do a lot of research and a lot of

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original analysis for the podcast. And then we see some

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other online business owner who just takes our work and shares

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it as if they're, it's their own. And you and I are both

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academics. So we're like, gonna cite sources man, always sources

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like right brained and us. And it's always so hard to see it

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because I like read something. And I'm like, Oh, I said that,

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like, that's my thing. Yeah. And you're taking credit for it. And

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that is it. Like, that can be an incredibly hard edge as well,

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that just kind of like ticks you off. And you're like, I mean,

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and this is a problem. I feel like universally in online

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business. Like we actually did an episode about plagiarism

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podcast, because it is so rampant. There's this idea of

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just like robbing duplicate in the online world. But if you're

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the person being robbed and duplicated, it's really hard to

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see your work coming out of somebody else's mouth, and then

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people responding to them, like, Oh, you're so smart, saying this

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thing. And you're like, No, you're not.

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I bet that gets more and more common, the bigger you get.

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Yeah, yeah. Well, I, you know, I often talk about like, Simon

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Sinek. And start with why, and how I see so many people talking

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about start with why without even mentioning him. Yeah, I

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mean, and it's cool. Because like, he's moved on from the

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thing, right? Like he's doing a bigger, better things like he

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has, like in his company, other people speak about it. So he's

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totally like, let that message go and take him a life of its

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own. And I was like, well, good on you. Oh, but for me, I'm

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always like, Oh, this is really hard.

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Well, Simon Sinek also has like a massively popular TED talk

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called Start With Why so if you do write your Google search,

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even a single Google search, you're going to come up with

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Simon Sinek. It does happen. I think more pervasively, too.

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Like I was just on a I don't know, mastermind or something

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with Bob Berg. You know, the guy who wrote the Go Giver? Oh,

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yeah, yeah. Yeah. So he was talking about the fact that

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nobody ever remembers, like, so you're, you and Bob Berg are

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sharing the same like Cliff of difficulty, that no one ever

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remembers that it was his book, endless referrals that first

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coined the know like, and trust all else being equal. People

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work with you if they know like, and trust you. Oh, yeah. He was

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just talking about how like, very few people really

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acknowledge that that was his work. And yet it's pervasive.

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It's everywhere. No hurt.

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Oh, yeah. Like, I feel like when I was teaching persuasion, like

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Robert Cialdini talked about that in his book and mentioned

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Bob Berg, right. I guess. I have that book sitting on my desk. I

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can probably go look it up afterwards. Yeah, let's

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check the check the back notes and notes of it. Yeah. Yeah.

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That's interesting.

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Yeah. It's like, the message becomes part of the cultural

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zeitgeist, and then people don't cite it anymore, because now it

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feels like common knowledge.

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Right. Right. Well, common knowledge. Is that right? Yes, I

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agree with you that that's probably exactly what's

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happening is they don't even know where they heard it. I

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mean, think about like, I find this happens a lot, right? Like

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after, what, nine and a half years of graduate school, like

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between my masters and my PhD, actually is probably six years

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but still right in my undergraduate four years. So 10

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years, right of formal education in cognitive psychology. I know

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things because I feel like I know them. I don't remember

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which theory was the first one to really bring that piece up.

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I'm sorry.

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That's okay. So yeah, I guess it makes sense that people would

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struggle with that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and yet, it's super

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annoying.

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It's really hard. And, you know, for us, it's like, the stuff

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hasn't been around very long. So it's not like, you know, the,

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you know, it was a book written 10 years ago, or we discussed

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this. It's a podcast that came out last year, or we're doing

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some of this original analysis.

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Yeah. Well, originally Natalie a very different thing than a

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phrase

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too. So. Yeah, that's hard. Yeah, it's so that's kind of

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like an edge that I bump up against and not letting like, I

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feel like at this point in time, I'm just like, oh, just forget

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it. I can't, I can't like, deal with these battles. I have my

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own business to run. And if people actually did their

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research they would find out who actually said this first, and

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those are definitely my people. Right, right. And the interim,

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it's like if we want to make change in the industry, then we

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need people to be sharing the work. And sometimes you just

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have to let go of getting credit for it.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's fast wise, that's wise and hard buys

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and hard. Two things that commonly go together. Yeah,

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yeah. So But dude, is not your only podcast. You have two

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podcasts? Yes. Yeah. So

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duped is our seasonal podcast that I co host with Maggie. And

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then I have the rebel uprising podcast, which really focuses on

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how do you cut through the noise and as

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to Oh, your microphone? Maybe got something weird is happening

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is echoey. Ah, hold on.

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What is going on here?

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Now you're back. Oh,

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okay. So weird. I don't know what happened there. Sorry.

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Okay. No,

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it's fine. So you were you were saying about your podcast?

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Oh, yeah. So the rebel uprising podcast is really dedicated to

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cutting through all of the noise and Bs advice to really help you

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build a business that stands out and gets noticed. So I talk a

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lot about marketing. I talk a lot about persuasion, argument

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building messaging, three word rebellion. Like this month,

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we're talking. I love to challenge arguments, like

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something that is widely accepted, like your business

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needs to be on social media. And yes, the question doesn't

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really, really need to be on social media to build the

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business. Are there other options? And there's other

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options?

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Nice. Yeah. Well, I am 100% sure that somebody was just like,

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Wait, what are the other options? So if somebody was

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like, now dying to talk to you about that, or any of the other

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things that you've said so far? How could someone find out about

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you or spend time with you or learn more about your message?

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Yeah,

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so you can find out about me at Dr. Michelle maser.com. So

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that's where my podcast lives. And the podcast is available

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everywhere. You can also find the book, or get a taster of the

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book at three word rebellion.com. And right now I

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am in the middle or beginning to run a community project. And

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it's very much related to what you and I were talking about

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kind of that the struggles, the messy middle of success, and

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that's called, it should have been me a project exploring the

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messy middle of success. And I'm gathering 20 other business

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owners to talk about, how do they deal with that comparison,

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those, you know, ah, I really wish I would have gotten that

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opportunity that my friend got, like, You're so happy for them.

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And yet, you're like, oh, it should have been me. So how do

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we navigate through those and get our important work out into

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the world? And so that goes for the whole month of March? You

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can join anytime. And you can do that at Dr. Michelle

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naser.com/me. It's short on a little pond. Yep, just okay.

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I'll definitely put it in the show notes also, so they don't

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even have to remember, they can just click it.

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Yeah. And so yeah, it'll be short, little actionable podcast

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episodes that come out every day just to like, give you some

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insights, inspiration and help you keep going to get your

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workout into the world.

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Wow. And are you running that inside? Like a Facebook group?

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Or are you having a rebellion over on Discord?

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And so I'm actually doing it on Instagram. So yeah, my, my, the

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person who's helping me organize it. She's like, well, you could

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do a Facebook community. And I'm like, I'd rather not. Do not

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love Facebook. I

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wish this was a video podcast, just so people can see the face

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you just made when you were like,

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I know. Like, yeah, like I struggle with Instagram, too,

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but not as much as Facebook.

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Yeah, I can totally see that. Wow. Well, I want to thank you

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so much for coming on and sharing all this wisdom,

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everything from the your story and your program and your book.

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And just the way that you think about things so interesting and

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rebellious. I want to thank you so much for being on the

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podcast. I'm glad

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to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah. My pleasure.

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