Episode #178 - Working With "Mamas" To Nuture Our Future: An Interview With Regina Cachuela

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Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and

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determination all converge into

an amazing, heartfelt experience.

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This is Speaking From The Heart.

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Joshua: Welcome back to episode

number 178 of Speaking from the Heart.

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Today, we have Regina Cachuela with us.

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Regina was in the visual effects and

animation industry before burning out and

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becoming a digital nomad for three years.

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She then went to become an IT

facilitator at a tech academy that

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has well being wrapped around programs

for youth and teritary students.

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She now combines all her knowledge to

provide two frameworks with a well being

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wraparound for mama entrepreneurs, quote

unquote, and inspiring virtual assistants.

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She empowers busy moms to build

thriving businesses with content

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that truly connects, and helps

them ditch being overwhelmed with

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content creation, and creating a life

that balances passion and purpose.

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For mamas in the Philippines, she

offers specialized training to

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become successful virtual assistants

so they can leverage their skills

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to support other entrepreneurs and

build fulfilling careers from home.

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This model, especially of what we talk

about today on this episode, is something

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that I have not yet heard before.

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Now, we've had plenty of businesses that

have talked about virtual assistants

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recently, and even had some others

that have traveled around the world,

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regardless of where they are at, to

have that kind of business, but Regina,

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an international guest coming from New

Zealand today, really shares a lot of

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different things about not only aspiring

to change the pace, but using this,

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quote unquote, mama framework, create

a legacy, I think, that is not only

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fascinating to repurpose a whole new

generation of individuals to be able to be

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engaged with the workforce, but provides

opportunities and materials for those

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that want to get started, giving them

skill sets that will help them achieve

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their future, but more importantly,

creating energized, synergized folks

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that are willing to treat not only their

training perspectives, but also their

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futures, with more intentful resources.

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Can you ever connect

with somebody like this?

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I don't know about you, but with

Regina, I connected with her today.

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Her authenticity about her mission,

her journey for that matter, is not

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only awe inspiring, it's inspiring,

but I think it reminds us that even

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with a little of mama's touch, we can

be the best versions of ourselves.

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But with that, let's go to the episode.

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Alright, we're here with Regina Cachuela.

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Regina, thanks for sharing

your heart with us today.

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Regina: Hey, Josh, thanks for having me.

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Joshua: Yes.

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Thank you, and of course, technical

difficulties and all those wonderful

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things seem to have plagued today's start

of this episode, but hey, it's okay.

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We are here, and I am super

excited to have you coming

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all the way from New Zealand.

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Thanks for joining the United States

podcast and sharing a bit of your story.

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Regina, I want to just say my

listeners already heard a little

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bit about you and your background.

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I was really fascinated about your story

because you had a career dealing with

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doing visual effects, animation, before

actually starting your business, so I'm

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wondering if you could tell a little

bit of your story of your past version

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of yourself for our audience, and how

it led you into what you're doing now.

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Regina: I'd have to say it was way, way,

way in the past, a really old chapter,

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and I'm just going to have to say this

ahead of time because I used to be really

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embarrassed about talking about it,

because it was one of those things where,

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from my point of view, it's like, "Oh!

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People made such a big deal out of it."

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At the end, it was just a job for me.

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Now, looking back, I'm like, "Oh, it was

actually quite amazing.", but I mean, that

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just goes to show that it's really quite

important to just do something that really

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means a lot to you from you're wanting

speaking from the heart, and I'm saying,

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do things that are from the heart, so just

to give you a quick overview of my past.

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I now live in New Zealand, but I am

a California native, and I moved here

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to work on Avatar in 2009; Avatar one.

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I left the San Francisco Bay area when I

was working on the animated series, Star

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Wars: Clone Wars, on a couple of episodes.

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I was a programmer in computer

graphics; supported, wrote software

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tools and supported artists

and animators; story artists.

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Yeah, and then here I am.

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Joshua: Well, I actually got to ask you.

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Do you actually have on screen

credit for being part of Avatar,

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and Star Wars, and all that?

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Can you tell our audience a little bit

about your experiences being on that,

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because, really, part of your story is

about burning out, so I'm kind of curious

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about being on something like this, you

would imagine that it is something of

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great stature to be able to do things of

that nature, at least from my perspective.

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Now, I'm just a nobody doing something

like this, but I'm just kidding.

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I'm not a nobody.

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I've done a lot of great things in my

life too, but I would think that that

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would be a great accomplishment, but

you burned out, so can you tell us a

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little bit about why that happened?

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Regina: Yeah, it's just a really

hard industry to be in, and I guess

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personally too, it's not until now I

realized that there were quite a lot

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of mental health issues that I've gone

through; throughout my life, for various

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reasons, and there's that as well as

it's just a really tough industry.

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Actually working on Clone Wars back in

the day, it was actually very, very good

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company, so I was really, really lucky.

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Moving to New Zealand is

quite a different story.

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The way the company was structured

here was different, and it's just

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really difficult; a lot of hours.

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You're always In crunch time, so you're

just constantly on the go, working 10

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to 12 hours a day, 6, 7 days a week.

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People are demanding when

they want to watch the shows

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that they want to watch, but-

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Joshua: I imagine that it can be, and

especially keeping with a strenuous

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schedule of releasing episodes, I'm

sure that maybe that was asked quite

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a lot of you, and even the team that

you worked with to be able to do that.

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Outside of that, what would you

say was really the ultimate final

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straw for you to lead the industry?

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Regina: Yeah.

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I think there was just a point where

I realized, "Oh, you know what?

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Mentally and physically, I

cannot handle this anymore.

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I needed to do something different.",

and so, I was researching ways to

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create an alternate income, either

from home, or just in a specific

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location, and I did, and so I was

thinking, "Well, you know what?

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I'm just going to see what this is like.

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There are more possibilities for me

to kind of create some sort of income

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without having to work at a job;

without having to work for somebody.",

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and for me, it was quite important

for me to do that, and then that

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was when I found a way to do that.

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I eventually ended up traveling for

three years to do what I was doing

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before coming back and having a baby;

coming back to New Zealand, that is.

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Joshua: Yeah, and I actually just had

someone recently on the show talking

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about her experiences with her husband

being a digital nomad, being able to

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travel across the world, so I find

it really interesting that lifestyle.

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Is it something that you felt like you

did because you were trying to release

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some of the tension, some of the stress,

that came from your previous career?

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Was it something else completely different

in terms of the motivation as to why

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you became a digital nomad for a bit?

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Regina: Yeah, I think, initially,

it was definitely to relieve stress

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and to do something different, and I

knew I had to create money somehow.

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What I realized now is I was really just

trying to find something that would really

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fit something that would work for me,

and something that really meant something

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more to me than just going to work every

single day, and working for somebody else.

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Joshua: Well, and I know

exactly what you mean.

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I mean, I started my business,

because at some point, I want to

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be able to work for myself too.

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I still work for somebody else, even

as I do this too, and I know for

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many of my listeners listening to

this, that is part of their strategy.

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They want to be unshackled.

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What was really the motivation, if you

will, outside of what you've said earlier?

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Was there something that really

led you to wanting to be your own

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boss, be able to set your own hours?

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Is it about the freedom?

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Was it about something else?

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Regina: It was definitely about the

freedom, but I think the deeper- there

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are many, many deeper reasons why I think

a lot of it is, creating a legacy, being

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able to know that I did something on

my own and that I was able to make it,

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because I did had a baby, ended up going

to a couple of other jobs, and now it's

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more about kind of giving back, and then

making sure that my daughter is going

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to be okay, and being able to spend time

with her now, and be able to stay home

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while she, you know, all of a sudden, got

sick or if she's got activities I can go

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pick her up and take her to activities,

instead of saying, "I can't today.

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I need to work."

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That in itself was quite painful

just having to tell my daughter, "No.

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I can't do it anymore."

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Joshua: Even with that shift too,

you're definitely trying to build a

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better level of consistency, direction,

not only for your daughter, but to

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have that stability, which I actually

love the fact that you brought that

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up because the big part of the reason

why you even do what you're doing is

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to help out, and you call it this.

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I'm just using it for the purposes of

talking about it: quote unquote, the

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mama entrepreneurs, so I think that's

a great segue to talk about what you

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do for your business, so your branding

name for this is Regina Paula, but you

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also call it the Soul Biz Broadcast.

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I noticed that you have all kinds

of things that you offer from an IT

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perspective, so tell us a little bit

about what led you into the IT field.

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I mean, obviously, the visual effects,

the background that you had, does

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have some strong connections to that.

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I could completely understand that,

but what led you into being part

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of the academy teaching that, and

then going into your own business?

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Regina: Yeah, so my own business really

is- this is almost like the second

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generation of the first part of the

business, because in between that, I

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had some other jobs, and obviously,

the IT stemmed from initially, I went

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to school for engineering, and then I

ended up, changing majors to visual

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and game programming, and so I was

kind of in the IT space, and I never

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really thought of it that way, because

in visual effects and animation, your

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positions are so specialized, so I

was a animation technical director,

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but for some reason, I don't know

why I didn't click that, "Well, yeah.

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I guess it is it.

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Yeah.

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Okay."

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Joshua: Well, you know, I think when

some people hear that too, they don't

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realize that there's a strong connection,

and I do procurement stuff for IT

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for a living too, so I can understand

why there can be even a disconnect.

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I, I see that, but other people might

not, so I'm glad you point that out.

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Regina: Yeah, and I never really thought,

because I went from being a programmer

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to going into creating digital products

and selling digital products, and travel

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blogging, and being a digital nomad before

everyone else was now, and I've always

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had an inclination towards technology.

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My dad taught me how to do basic

programming when I was like six

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years old, and so there's always that

natural tendency to go into the web

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server, and go into just like the

nuances of the technical tools that

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you need for marketing, and marketing

automation, and stuff like that.

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Moving forward, I guess I'm going to skip

a couple of chapters, but what I had done

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previous to getting back into my business

is being an IT instructor and facilitator

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at a tech academy for youth, and for

tertiary students, and so it wasn't really

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until then, I took my past few jobs to get

back on my feet, because of some personal

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stuff that was going on in my life, and

there was a point where I was like, "Oh!

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I'm already kind of running

web services, and I have web

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solutions for certain clients.

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I've got this platform,

which has Soul Biz Broadcast.

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I'm actually wanting to combine

everything that I know into what I want

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to do.", so I've already done socially

marketing teaching, helping IT students

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get into wherever they want to get to.

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I've already got this thing running.

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I might as well just combine everything,

and show people how to use it, and

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more specifically, mama entrepreneurs,

how to use these things in a way

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that will help their business.

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Joshua: I'm kind of curious.

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You answered my question.

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It was great.

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I'm actually kind of curious then.

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Why moms?

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Why not dads?

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Why not other college kids?

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It's very unique to pick moms.

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Regina: Yeah.

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I'm glad that you brought this up, because

I do have men messaging me, and I do have

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non-mamas messaging me as well, because

the framework that I've put together, the

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same principles apply for anything, not

just marketing, not just in a business

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everywhere, but I specifically speak

with mamas, because being a mother, being

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human is just hard enough as it is, but

being a mother, having to juggle raising

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the child, needing to bring home the

money, needing to clean the house and

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do all these things, a woman is almost

expected to do everything, and you kind

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of wonder why a woman burns out, so,

for me, it was quite important to bring

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mothers together so that they can know

that they're not alone, and then I'm

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going to bring in another dimension.

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Can I bring in another dimension to this?

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Joshua: Oh!

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Hey, this is your interview.

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I would love for you to do that, and

actually, I think for our listeners,

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seeing this well rounded picture from

you is really a great idea, so go for it.

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Regina: Yeah, so my heritage is Filipino.

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I'm a Filipino, Mexican descent.

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I'm an American expat in New Zealand,

so I see how native English speaking

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businesses kind of do their thing.

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I also see how Filipino moms are

struggling in their own way, and

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what's quite common now is in this

digital space, this digital era, is

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being able to hire virtual assistants.

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One of the things that I offer is

a free academy for aspiring virtual

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assistants, because it's really important

for me to kind of connect the virtual

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assistants with mama entrepreneurs,

because I feel like there's such a huge

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gap where you've got these Filipino

mothers, and maybe not just Filipino.

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I'm just saying in other countries that

are highly skilled, highly intelligent,

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very motivated, and then you've got

these mama entrepreneurs, and primarily

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English speaking countries who are trying

to get their business up and running,

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and the most beautiful combination can

be them meeting together, but there's a

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huge gap in between, and that gap is the

communication, the understanding of what

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quality for what a business needs, so

I'm wanting to bridge that gap by helping

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train these aspiring VAs to help these

mama entrepreneurs at the same time.

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It's like mamas helping mamas, and

I think that mothers, women, really,

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and some men too, but mothers really

just have this natural inclination to

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really help each other, and so I think

that what's really underutilized in

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the world is being able to collaborate,

especially nowadays, with everything

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going on, I'm not turning the blind eye

on all that's going on, but I also feel

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like if we can start focusing on things

that can really help each other grow,

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maybe there'll be some sort of a ripple

effect throughout the world somehow.

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Joshua: Not to interrupt, but I was going

to say that you strike me as somebody

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that would want to bridge those two areas,

because I think that for somebody that

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can see that there's this need here,

and this need there, and be able to push

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those two things together, I don't think

that we often hear about that enough,

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and you know this coming that you were

born in California, and you moved to

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New Zealand, us "United States people",

we're so selfish sometimes, and I'll

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go on record for saying that, because

sometimes we are sometimes creating

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that value for ourselves, but we got to

realize that if we're going to create

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that value for ourselves, we have to work

with others to be able to do that, so we

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got to change and shift our mindsets, so

I kind of love how you are challenging

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that status quo, even for people that

are vested, wanting to be able to sell,

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or do what they want to do, so do you

do that in groups, or you pair people

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up, like how exactly does that work?

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Regina: I'm not at the

pairing up part just yet.

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What I'm trying to find out is where are

the gaps, so I'm training, and I'm finding

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the gaps at the same time on both ends

at the point where the mom entrepreneurs

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are absolutely ready to say, "Okay.

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I have this in place.

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I can now delegate it."

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I can say, "This is how you're going

to create your relationship with the

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VA.", and on the VA side, it's like,

"Here's this, and this, and this.

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This is how you can see the lens

through a mama who has a business in

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mostly an English speaking country."

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At that point, when they're ready to

kind of like have that sweet spot,

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that's kind of what I'm going for, so

right now, at least on the VA side,

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I'm starting to kind of train them

up, and fuse that into my program, and

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my framework, for mama entrepreneurs.

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Did I answer your question?

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I kind of lost myself for a second.

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Joshua: No.

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You're answering all my

questions wonderfully.

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I actually want to dig a little bit deeper

into this, so what you're saying to me

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is you're mentoring not just the people

on the one side; these are like the mama

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entrepreneurs, but you're also mentoring

the Filipino women, or men, or whoever

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coming to you, that want to be VAs with

skills that they need, so essentially,

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you're kind of like a broker of sorts if

I were to be as daring to say that, but I

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know that's not even close to what it is.

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It might be more of a mentorship.

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Regina: Yeah.

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I mean, my intention moving in the future

is not only for them to connect them.

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I guess I could be a broker, but

sometimes if there's a broker, you don't

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necessarily want the middleman, so if

they're at a certain point where they're

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like, "Actually, I don't need Regina.

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I can do this on my own.", then I want

that synergy to happen as well, because,

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while I would love to always be the

go between, I think that removing the

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middleman could be a good thing as well,

but if they need the communication, or

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the help, or the management, then by all

means, that's just something that would

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be, you know, do feel passionate about.

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I love what you said earlier

about Americans kind of being

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in their own bubble, and I think

that everybody's like that too.

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You can only see the world through your

own lens, and being an American expat

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and a ethnic, multinational human, I can

absolutely say that part of my point of

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view of how Americans are, or that you

really can't see past your blinders, and

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my mom moved to the United States from

the Philippines when she was 21, and even

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now, she's just saying, "I'm really lucky.

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You're still one of the

luckiest countries in the world.

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There's so much abundance.", and I'm here.

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I live here in New Zealand

in the countryside.

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You're so lucky.

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Joshua: Yes.

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Yes, and you know, with all

intensive purposes, I'm not

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insulting even our American

audience that does listen to this.

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Let's just pull that back a second by

saying though that, for the most part,

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we do have that reputation, and funny

enough, even listening to some other

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podcasts at the time of this recording, I

was listening to something earlier today

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where somebody was even saying, yeah.

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If you start to branch yourself out, you

start to see what the differences are

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with the different people, the different

cultures, the different perspectives,

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us United States folk, we can figure

out that maybe we have it all backwards.

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Maybe you can learn a little bit of

ourselves, learn about us to be a

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little bit different, but I have to

revisit something, because you sort of

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downplayed yourself, but then you picked

yourself back up, which I'm like, "Yes!

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Pick yourself back up!", because you do

have an important role, Regina, because

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I would have never thought in a million

years, let's take some mama entrepreneurs,

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let's put them with people that actually

want some skills that they are really

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invested, they're thirsty for these

opportunities and push them together.

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We're always thinking of, "Who

can we get that will help us that

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already has that kind of experience?"

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We're not necessarily always

thinking about, "Well.

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What can I do to help somebody

that's just starting out?"

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We want, usually, nine times out of

ten, somebody with experience; somebody

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that has a college degree; somebody

that has some sort of credential

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behind them; somebody that's worked

on well known movies, even TV series."

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It's going back to your background,

so I almost feel that, no!

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You are doing a right service.

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You are helping other people, so I say

that to say, what has been some of the

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successes that you've seen by doing

this, like pairing these people together?

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Is there a success story, or somebody

that comes to mind, that if it wasn't

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for what you provide here, they

would have never been able to get

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some of those ideas off the ground?

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Is there somebody, or something, that

comes to mind, that you want to share?

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Regina: Yeah, I mean, I definitely

would have to say- I don't know, I'm

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a little embarrassed by saying this,

but I'd have to say me in some way-

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Joshua: don't be embarassed!

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I was hoping that you would say

yourself, because obviously you've

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had to use your own services, right?

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Regina: Yeah, well, I mean, I've been,

I've been through, you know, I've worked

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with quite a few virtual assistants,

and because of the communication, and

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the language, and the cultural barrier,

sometimes there's this misconception

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that if they can't communicate what

they're trying to say, then they just

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don't know anything, and it's the

total opposite, because so many of

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them are college educated, and the

amount of will and drive they have

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to make things work is incredible.

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Filipinos or not just Filipinos, but

at least the ones that I've worked

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with, are extremely resilient, and a

couple of the people that I've worked

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with were just saying, "You know.

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I want to work.

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I really want to work.

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What do you have for me?", and I would

take that over someone who's highly

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skilled, and has I guess, maybe not an A1

attitude, as my daughter would say from

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her school, because they're teachable,

and they're willing to do the work,

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and you know that they'll do a good

job if there's that communication and

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that understanding that they can do it.

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Joshua: That also makes me think that you

definitely have some tough conversations

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with some people that maybe aren't

taking it as seriously, and I wonder.

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Has there been any time that you've been

on your journey, because you shared a

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lot about your background that I think

is truly inspiring to the fact that

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you could have just said, "I don't need

to help Filipinos, or even my culture.

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I'll just stick with what I'm doing.

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Although I'm burning

out, I'll stick to this."

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I mean, it has to be pretty rewarding

for being able to do what you're doing

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to help these people see something

that they possibly, probably would have

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never been able to obtain on their own.

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Maybe they would have.

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Maybe they had.

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Maybe they could, but you're helping them

to accelerate that pace, wouldn't you say?

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Regina: Yeah, because even though there

are a lot of resources for them to

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find clients, there are still untapped

resources that they don't have access

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to unless they have someone who has the

connections, so it's really about the

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networks, and knowing that there is a

possibility beyond some of the known

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sites, and the known avenues, of being

able to get a job as a virtual assistant.

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Joshua: What would you say are some of the

things that you help them with, because

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you said that there are some things that

you try to connect them with as a whole.

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What are some common things

that you often see when people

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come through your business?

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Regina: Mama entrepreneurs,

or on the VA side?

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Joshua: Whatever way

you want to take that.

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I was more thinking of the mama

entrepreneurs, but whatever way

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that you've seen in your business.

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Regina: I think the common thing really

is, and aligns with your podcast,

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Speaking From The Heart, is really

connecting to the heart to create an

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authentic you- and not really create,

because everybody is authentic.

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It's really just kind of like

sharing your voice, and unpacking

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what is really important to you as

a person, or to a mama, or whoever,

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and really letting that shine.

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A part of the reason why I picked

the name Soul Biz Broadcast, is

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because we all have something to

share, and people deserve to hear it.

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We all are our own experts, and it's

really just a matter of unpacking it,

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so, a lot of the problems that I hear

from clients, and potential clients,

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is like, "I don't know what to say.

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I'm inconsistent.

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How do I share these things?

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I can't connect with my

audience.", but really, a lot

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of it is just your own story.

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It's like, "Who are you as a person?

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Why are you doing what you're doing,

and how are you using that to help

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the person that you're looking

for, and how are you having that

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authentic conversation with them?"

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That even goes into authentic selling.

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It's like, "Well, you don't really have

to sell if you know what you're doing,

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and you're just speaking.", and you're

generally helping the other person to help

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them solve their problem, and so they will

purchase your product, or your service,

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based on the idea that it's a value

to them, and it's definitely worth it.

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It's okay to raise your prices,

or not raise your prices, but are

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you giving them that extra value?

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If they're not seeing that value,

what value can you add on top of

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that, that they would really hold

onto, and use for themselves, so

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to better themselves, essentially?

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Joshua: Absolutely, and it even comes

from a variety of different angles,

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not just with even business, even with

some people that I have even coached,

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Regina, I have seen them take some of

the capital that they have seen inside

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themselves through working on the parts

work that they need to break down and

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realize that they have to address.

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They haven't been addressing it for

years, to seeing those outcomes,

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seeing those results, feeling

empowered to be able to take charge.

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All of those things: life, professional

development, business, those are so

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many different things that I think

you see all those angles yourself.

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Kind of in a way, you're playing the

role of a coach by just being able to

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do all that, and I think that's the

most fascinating, rewarding thing.

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We're almost out of time, and I want

to ask you this last question, because

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it's on my mind since even before

we sat down here today, when I was

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reading through everything that you

have done, what you've accomplished,

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what I've seen on your website.

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I just find that you are somebody that

is very much attuned to helping somebody

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through their emotional process, the

value added process overall, when it

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comes to getting from point A to point B.

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What do you think you have to

achieve yet to get to that point B

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that you're working on right now?

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Is there something that you're working

on to stretch yourself to become

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even a better version of yourself?

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Not saying that you're not,

because you certainly are Regina.

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You shared a lot of that today.

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What do you think is another thing

that you're striving for to become yet

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even better than what you are today?

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Regina: Yeah.

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Just being completely present.

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Just being here, feeling into my heart.

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I feel like I've reached a point where,

while like physical evidence isn't showing

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exactly what I really, really want.

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I've already got it, so it's just kind

of releasing more of the layers, because

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it's like you release layers, and

then you realize, there's more layers.

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Joshua: There always is, and I

always feel like it's part of the

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onion that we're always unpeeling.

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When we're digging even deeper to see

where we could potentially go where we

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can create that value for ourselves.

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With relationships, what would

you say is something, somebody

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that could help you along the way?

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Is there somebody that you think that

will take you to that next level, and

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it doesn't even have to be a somebody.

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Could it be a something?

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Could it be an item?

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Could it be a resource?

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Could it be a person?

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Is there something that you feel

that will help you to get that

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"present-ness", to be present,

even more than where you are today?

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Regina: Honestly, I feel like it's myself

really connecting with my daughter.

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Joshua: Hey, that's an awesome answer.

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I love that.

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We've got to think about who you're

serving, right, and it could be

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even those that you're supporting.

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Regina: Yeah, because she's my biggest

teacher, and I don't give her as much

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credit as she deserves, and I feel like

all children have the intelligence,

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and the intuition, that adults have,

but have blocked for whatever reason.

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We're just teaching them how to live

in this world, but they have natural

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intelligence, and we just don't

honor them as much as we should.

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Joshua: You know, it reminds me

so much of even growing up myself.

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I felt like that my parents could do a

lot more with that, but they also had

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so much on their plate financially,

with their own issues, their own

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situations, and they know this.

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It's funny because I have never heard

them once share anything about listening

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to any of my episodes here on Speaking

From the Heart, but I know for a fact that

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even if they didn't listen to one thing,

I know that at the end of the day, I wish

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I would have had that extra support, and

I think that's what you're saying, is that

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you want to be present for your daughter.

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You want to be present for the people

that you want to take care of the

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most, and I think that's a really

important lesson to learn from all of

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this, and why you do what you do, so-

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Regina: Completely.

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Joshua: Regina.

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I'm going to give you the

last few minutes here.

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We are at the end of our time, but before

we close out, I'd like to give you the

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last few minutes to pitch your business.

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I would love for you to have some

information for our listeners about how

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they can contact you, social media wise,

if they can reach out to you, maybe follow

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you on your journey that you're doing,

maybe they even want to work with you

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because I know I have some international

listeners that might be enticed to even

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participate, maybe work with you, so I'm

going to give you the last few minutes

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to not only share that information,

but also anything else that you might

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have to add at the very end here.

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Regina: I appreciate that.

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I just want to acknowledge you

first and foremost, and being able

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to really put yourself out there

for others to thrive as well.

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What you do is quite important, Josh, and

really, I just thank you for your time.

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Joshua: Thank you for that.

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Regina: So I just wanted

to say that first.

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You're welcome, but yeah, I just

want to let you know that I do help

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mama entrepreneurs really craft

authentic content to build their

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business that fits their mama life.

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I also have a web hosting and solutions

platform, and a learning academy for

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aspiring VAs, and I guess what's one

of the things that I like to do is

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blend wellness with my framework.

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I think that's quite important is

like you can have the doings and

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the things that you see and do, but

what's also quite important is all the

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invisible stuff behind it to really

kind of build yourself up to be able to

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create something that represents you.

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You can find me on some platforms under

Regina_Connects; C O N N E C T S, but

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I'm at ReginaPaula.com, and yeah, you

can search Regina Apollo, but I think

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there's quite a few Regina Apollos, but

ReginaApollo.com is fine; on Instagram and

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on X, and on YouTube on Regina_Connects.

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Joshua: That's awesome.

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I'm going to put all that in the episode

notes in case any of my listeners do want

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to follow along with you, and I want to

say, Regina, I feel that for you, your

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calling might've been behind the computer,

being able to animate, do some of the

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most amazing technology things that

we have yet to see in our generation.

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Avatar was one of the most biggest

grossing revenue films across the whole

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entire world; still is one of the top

movies that I think of when it comes

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to the visual effects, but instead of

putting up the smoke and mirrors, I

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feel like you've put that aside, and now

you're doing the real work of helping

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people become the best versions of

themselves, and that warms my heart,

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especially somebody that is a transport

from the United States coming over to

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New Zealand, being able to help people

and bridge your culture, be able to help

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other people to do all those wonderful

things that they can achieve if they

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just have the right skill sets, the right

mentorship, the right opportunity, so

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for all those reasons, Regina, thanks for

being on Speaking From The Heart today.

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It was really a privilege

to talk to you today.

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Regina: I appreciate your

help, and your words.

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Thank you.

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Joshua: I want to thank Regina again for

being on the show, despite even some of

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the technical difficulties that we had.

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I think that this was a really great

interview and I'm so glad that she

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was able to speak from the heart.

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It's not every day that you get to

meet someone that's so passionate,

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that is willing to help a group of

people, mamas for that matter, to

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see the best versions of themselves.

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Sometimes we're embarrassed about what

we have done and maybe what we can

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do, and even if we are having some

shame in those areas, we have to learn

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that we can be proud of what we have

accomplished, and what we're willing

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to do, if we have the right mindset.

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These different aspirations, this changing

pace that we're in in today's society,

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: 00:32:34

requires us to think outside the box.

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: 00:32:36

It requires us to have new

solutions to new challenges

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that are happening right now.

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Regardless of what you might

think, it's ever changing.

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This adventure that we're on is meaning

that we have to create a legacy.

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The legacy is that we are no longer

being held back from all the things

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that have occurred, regardless of what

we might think about them, and trying

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to bring opportunities and consistency

to build on new adventures, new

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opportunities that wait in the horizon.

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You can have many careers.

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It's okay to do that, and even for me,

I jumped around in the Commonwealth of

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Pennsylvania now for almost 15 years

trying to figure out where is my place,

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where is it that I belong, and then I

realized, in the last few years, that

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where I actually belong, is behind a

desk, not only recording this podcast,

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but traveling around, helping others

to find their voice, tell their story,

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but also realize that they have this

hidden potential to become great.

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These opportunities, these ways in which

we can have different types of materials

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at our disposal, means that we have to

be able to cater towards those audiences.

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It's something that I even talk

about with my public speaking

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clients of their signature topic.

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What is it that you really want

to speak about that you're truly

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passionate about that will help others

to see what you see, but are you able

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to take what you have learned and

put it to these vast opportunities,

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kind of like what Regina did?

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I'm sure that for many of us, we

will step in the wrong direction.

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We will have a problem with trying

to figure out what is the best way to

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move forward, but the moms that are out

there are probably the most versatile

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and most compassionate, cohesive unit

that I have ever seen: being able to

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take care of kids, being able to bridge

the differences between husbands,

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fathers, for that matter, and trying

to work out all these different tasks,

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all these different responsibilities.

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I envy moms, and I salute you on this

episode, especially in this season

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of giving and remembering about the

holidays, because I know that you

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have to be even more busy, especially

when you're thinking about all the

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different things that you got going on.

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There's something about Filipina moms,

and mama entrepreneurs especially,

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that create this synergy, and I say

that because in Regina's context,

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that's what it is, but put any sort

of ethnicity, nationality behind it,

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and I think that you will see that the

same synergy, the same energy that we

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could have here in the United States

can be provided to us if we're willing

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to just get up to where they are at.

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Come on, folks!

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We have this passion!

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We have this ability to do it, and I

feel like after listening to Regina

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today, Americans are way behind

the curve, but that's the deal.

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We have this ability.

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We have this willingness to be trained.

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I love giving workshops about how you

can start this growth mindset journey,

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especially with everything that I've been

through, it's all about finding our voice.

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It's all about talking about what

is it that we are able to provide.

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We have to find those gaps and

create those relationships with

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people that need those gaps filled.

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That's what quiet

relationships are all about.

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You have to talk to those that are

really helping you become the best

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: 00:36:10

version of yourself, but they're

also trying to tell you, too, that

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this isn't the path to go down.

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Can you connect with others?

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Can you bring these people together

to work on these skills, and I think

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that Regina has created a coalition

in her business to showcase that it is

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possible, regardless of what you might

think of moms, regardless of what you

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might think as a preconceived notion

of what they do, and maybe they aren't

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providing what you want them to do,

I think you have to realize that we

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shouldn't be embarrassed, or ashamed,

of those that are able to provide

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this context, this direction for us.

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They're creating benefits for others

that maybe we don't have the time to do.

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Maybe not even able to

provide as a resource.

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Creating the authentic you in this

process, with all that said, means that

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we have to find that thing that we can

share that we have to promote that value

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that we have, and be completely present

with the physical evidence that is shown

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above that we are willing to work hard.

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I think Regina's conversation today really

shows me that there is lighthouses all

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across the world, going back to one of

my very early episodes in which I shared

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about the watercolor that I did while

I was in mental health treatment at

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Brookhaven Hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland.

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I learned so much at that time about what

it means to be a beacon of light; what it

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means that even when the light switch is

turned off, we are able to find growth.

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Even if you think that your

children are the most important,

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let me ask you a question.

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If you really wanted to provide for

your children so that they do have

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a future, wouldn't you want to help

others to also see their dream as

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: 00:38:03

well, so that they are able to have

their children see their dreams?

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Why do we have to be selfish in our

own desires to just work on ourselves?

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Why can't we work with others that are

willing to achieve what they want to

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seek out in their life, and I love that

Regina's model really works on not just

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the VA aspect of it, which at this point,

we all know that we can provide some

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type of skill, with some type of ability,

regardless of the content that we have

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to learn in the first place, but we don't

have to be embarrassed when life comes up.

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I think of many books that I have read,

especially when I was going through my

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political science major, that discusses

the working conditions that people

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had to endure in the early 1900s.

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I'm talking about slaughter factories,

especially those that had exposed what

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: 00:38:57

the conditions are going in, working

at meat processing plants, and having

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very little paid, long hour days, and

getting absolutely nothing from it.

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I think when we look back and look

at the different ways in which our

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culture was over a hundred years

ago, we have come a long way.

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It doesn't mean that the

whole world is on board.

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I think of other sweatshops across

the countries that we are engaged with

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trade, and think about those that are

struggling, that are suffering the most.

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: 00:39:30

With all those people, we know that if

we turn a blind eye to it, we're never

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: 00:39:34

going to be able to make change, and today

isn't about having an activist stand.

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It's about saying that we have a voice,

and we can use that voice, whether we

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feel embarrassed about it or not, to make

an incremental change for our society,

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for the things that we see around us,

for what we might be enduring, so that

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we are able to create a legacy that is

challenged for the rest of our lives,

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and we can make progress, whether it's

in baby steps, in the right direction.

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Regina is on to something.

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It's something that we even see in the

United States when it comes to co-working

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spaces, being able to work with like

minded individuals that want to see

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what is the future of small business,

being able to provide a service or skill

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to somebody that desperately needs it.

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If we're willing to give our time,

our resources, and our attention

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to it, we can make a difference.

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We can create that perspective for others

so that they are able to work together

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to become the greater good, but I think

that it goes way beyond what even we have

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talked about on this conversation today.

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It's about what we see

inside of ourselves.

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It's about what we're able

to bring to the table.

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When other people might dismiss

us, might ridicule us, saying

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that we're not good enough.

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That should be our energy.

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That should be our motivation, out of

anger and frustration, to do better,

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not to hurt others, but to do better.

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I think that we have to learn,

especially as we get older, that

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we are the gatekeepers to being

a great role model for others.

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We have to learn how to become better.

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We have to be able to treat

ourselves with dignity and respect.

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We have to be able to do the same

when it comes to all the different

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people that we have to interact with

in our lives, especially our kids.

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Mamas are especially the most

important people that if it wasn't

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for my mom, I want to be here today.

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I think for all of us, we can say that

our moms were the reason why we won't be

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here today, but with all joking aside,

my mom sacrificed so much, giving so

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much of herself, knowing that she had

to do that caretaker role, when other

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people would never want to stand up, that

they wouldn't want to give their best

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version of themselves, when they know

that they have to keep on trying when

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the trying might be very enduring in the

first place, so today, I'm asking you,

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even with Regina's help, can you share

these vast opportunities to help others?

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Can you stop being embarrassed about

the consequences of your past actions,

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having no shame, and stop thinking

of only yourself, and helping those

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entrepreneurs that are out there,

regardless of how you want to define

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it in your personal and professional

life, and giving that training, giving

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that ability to learn something new,

because we're all in this together.

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It's not just about hard work.

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It's about actually sitting down, having

that cup of coffee, telling someone that

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we love them, that we care about them,

that we really want to see them succeed,

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because if we're able to see that in other

people, and if we're able to see that in

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ourselves, we are promoting our value.

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It's as simple as that.

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: 00:43:01

We are creating that authenticness

that we're trying to seek out.

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We all have something to share.

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We all are willing to create an

environment in which all of us

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can thrive, but I need your help.

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I can't do it alone, and even with seeing

a coach, or even trying to get somebody

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that helps you to stay accountable,

just know that if you're able to work on

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that, not only can you become the best

version of yourself, but you're going

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to help others all across the world to

do the same, and even for my moms out

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there, thank you for being those enduring

individuals, those examples of what

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it means to not only learn from you,

to grow with you, but to nurture us to

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become the best versions of ourselves.

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Thanks for listening to episode

number 178 of Speaking From the

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Heart, and I look forward to

hearing from your heart very soon.

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