Making a difference!

Hello everyone. I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and leadership coach. I'm really excited to talk to you tonight. If you have been following any of my posts today, you have seen that today I announced my birthday special, my birthday fundraiser, my birthday extravagant, whatever it is that we're calling it. Usually for my birthday, I'm a big birthday person. Okay. Birthdays are very important in my family. It is not like us to miss a birthday. If we do, we feel really bad about it. And with those who are really close to us, we like to make a big deal out of it and that. Oh, hi Rick. Hi. Welcome. And normally for my birthday, the number one thing that I want is I just want all of my people around me. So I have like a party, I have a picnic and everyone can come and it's kind of like a drop by hangout for a bit and I just get to be surrounded by love and that's my normal go to. But this year, you know, we're going back to normal. It's still not quite there. I have a new puppy. There's just a lot of things going on. So the party's not happening. But I wanted to make a big deal out of my birthday anyway in a way that would really give back. And so if you saw my post earlier today, you know that I'm doing a fundraiser for two organizations that mean a hell of a lot to me. Planned Parenthood and the naacp. Okay. So two organizations that support causes that I think are so critical to our world to empower people who haven't been empowered before. So to do this, I'm actually, I'm killing two birds with one stone. Okay. So I want, I'm raising money for those two organizations. I'm doing it by offering strategy and coaching sessions for a free fraction of what I normally charge. Normally for a 45 minute session I charge $700 and I'm offering them for $99 and I'm offering them to entrepreneurs. Anyone out there who normally wouldn't be able to afford to work with me. Oh, Rick. I love the birthday plan and love the two option idea. Oh, thank you so much, Rick. So yeah, so you can book a $99 session with me. It's 45 minutes. You get to choose which organization you would like for your money to go to. So if you're really pass the naacp, please sign up for the session that goes to that. If you're also very passionate about Planned Parenthood, you can sign up for that. I've already had multiple signups there are only 33 spots, spotless blots spots. So if you want to book one of these, you need to get on it fast. But one of the things that I want to bring to these sessions is I want to make sure that when you come to the session you're not just getting coaching. You're not just getting some woo woo airy fairy. And I know I'm fully sold on the life coaching, but I know that people think coaching, that's what they think of. They think of, okay, cool, we're going to do visualizations and stuff. Yes, I do offer that, but these are specifically for entrepreneurs. So this is going to help you get very clear on what your marketing strategy is, what kinds of things you need to start doing, what kinds of things you need to stop doing. And you know that there are some things that you need to stop doing. We're going to be talking about your sales methodology. You know, what's going right and wrong there, your pricing, what systems you need to have in place. I know everyone gets super tripped up over, I need to have a calendar system, I need to have an email list, I need to have all these different things. What social media do I need to be on? Literally in this 45 minutes we're going to dive into all of it. And the best part is that the $99 that you spend on this session is not only going to get you some expert advice on how to scale your business and how to grow it and how to make your dream life a reality. We're literally going to reverse engineer it, but your money is going to go to one of two organizations that makes a huge difference in the world. Another option I have for those of you and I just have to say a thank you to one of my clients, you know who you are. I haven't asked you yet if I can name you as a gratitude, but one of my clients went ahead and donated $250 to Planned Parenthood. One of the things that I'm offering to anyone who would like to make a donation of $250 or more to either one of these organizations, just email me the receipt and what you'll get is a two hour deep dive with me and in this two hours we'll be able to cover absolutely everything, including your future vision. But yeah, I'm really excited about this. You know, I spent a little while I was talking with my mentor here, Rick Tamlin, who's watching. Hi. And I really wanted to make a difference with my birthday this year. It's Been a fucking rough year. It's been so hard on so many people. And one of the things that I appreciate about the last year, and I know there was a lot of death and destruction and really some really bad things that have happened in the last year. I don't have to say that, but one of the things that I appreciated through all of that is how many people woke up and realized, oh my God, I have just been, you know, doing the same thing every single day for my whole life. This isn't what I want to do. This isn't what lights me up. I know I can make a difference. I know I can have impact in the world. I need to go start doing that. Like, this is the wake up call. I need to go to start doing that. Because life is so short and. Hi, Gabriel, welcome. Life is so short. And so this past year, so many, so many up and coming entrepreneurs were born, you know, and when I say entrepreneur, I don't mean like the drop shippers. I don't mean the people that are starting business after business and then selling this and selling that. I mean you accidental entrepreneurs that I was talking about last night, who you have a gift, you know, that you can have impact in the world. You are called to do something and there is no one hiring for it. So you have to make a business out of it. So I mean, to have that calling. I know I went through that a few years ago when I realized that coaching was the thing that I needed to be doing. I know what it is like and I know how challenging it is when you just don't know the steps. You don't know what the next step is going to be or what is important to know and what is not. It's so easy to spin your wheels on things that don't actually get you paying clients that don't actually get you visibility. There are so many people that pop up in your world asking you to do this, this and this. And it's so easy to think, okay, cool, this is going to be the thing that makes my business a success. And then it's so disappointing when it's not. Because ultimately those are not the right choices to be making. And I'm so honored to be able to even offer this for my birthday, to be able to offer a clear plan, action plan for entrepreneurs who are trying to get their businesses up and running or have gotten started and have kind of stalled. Like they don't really know what was working or not working and they really need to scale to that next level. Yeah, so if you want one of these sessions, I'm going to keep tonight short. It is very hot in my office right, right now. This office is an attic and so it's very hot day today and I'm very warm as I do this. So I'm going to keep it short. But if you would like to book one of these, it's in my original post from today. I will also go through all of the places that this is showing up and I will post the links to sign up for either one of these sessions to the NAACP or to Planned Parenthood. And literally how it works is you're going to click on that link, you're going to pick a time in a day that you want to have your 45 minute session, you're going to fill out your information, you're going to pay, and then on that day, I'm either going to call you or we're going to meet on Zoom and we're going to have your call and you're going to walk away with a clear action plan for the next few things that you need to be doing in your business to bring in high paying clients, to grow your business, to grow your impact. Whatever it is that you want to create, we're going to dive into it there. And also I just want to remind you, for those of you who care an awful lot about these organizations or just want some extra time with me, if you would like to make a donation of $250 or more or more as an option as well to the NAACP or to Planned Parenthood, please do. I just need you to email me the receipt of that donation and I will schedule some times or I'll offer some times for you to book your two hour deep dive. Anyway, and thank you for all of you who are just, you know, commenting on this and liking it and you know, commenting for your network, if this isn't the thing that you need to do for yourself, it means a lot and I take it as good birthday wishes anyway. And I just want to also say that we're all powerful. This is something that I forget sometimes. I forget that my work makes an impact on the world. Okay? I work with clients all day long who are starting their own businesses, you know, gaining more income, they're able to spend more money in their local economies. Oftentimes their business is doing something that's very, very good for other people. So it's changing other lives. It's very easy to get sucked into, oh, I just have a job and I do the thing and that's me, and I'm a coach. So I just want to remind you, like, you also have power. You also have power to go out and make an impact. You have power to make up a fundraiser out of any event and raise money for a cause that matters to you. You also have the ability to sell. Like, one thing I did in high school that was so much fun was I sold. It was a fundraiser. And I can't remember what it was for, but I had this idea I would go and sell Halloween insurance. And so I went door to door in my neighborhood, and I offered, you know, three different tiers of Halloween insurance, and each tier covered, you know, whatever kind of vandalism could happen on Halloween. And I ended up raising more than anyone else. But it was so much fun. You can literally make up anything to be a fundraiser and have impact on your world. So if you're feeling powerless, if you're feeling like you're kind of stuck in the mud, go and do something that does good in the world. It's so easy. And if you want some help, then guess what? You can use one of those $99 fundraising sessions to figure that out. Let me see what I did there. Anyway, I'm dying of heat. It is so warm in my office. So I'm going to end this here. Gabriel, Rick, and everyone else who's tuned in, thank you so much for watching. I am going to be going live tomorrow, and then I'm taking the weekend off because it's my birthday and I have to finish my book. Thanks for not asking, everyone. I really appreciate that. Anyway, I hope you all have a great Thursday night, and I will talk to you all soon. Katie, out. Bye. That was weird. I don't know why I did that. Okay, bye.