July 7, 2025

Elona Lopari on The Mompreneur Model with Dori DeCarlo

Elona Lopari on The Mompreneur Model with Dori DeCarlo
Elona Lopari on The Mompreneur Model with Dori DeCarlo
Word of Mom Radio
Elona Lopari on The Mompreneur Model with Dori DeCarlo

Elona Lopari strives to empower purpose driven entrepreneurs align their purpose with profits.

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Elona Lopari is the Founder & CEO of The Life School , Speaker, Best Selling Author to numerous books, Award Winner, Show and Speaking Events Organizer to an audience of over 30,000+ purpose driven service-based entrepreneurs and corporations.

She has supported 100+ companies double and triple their impact and revenue through fractional and business management Operations and HR Services.

Elona is a Prior Fortune 500 C Suite Executive also Featured in Disrupt, NY Weekly, Business Insider, CEO Weekly, The Business News & Famous Times.

Join host Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model and connect with Elona at ElonaLopariCoaching.com and online on LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.

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She is sure, she is true, she is straw is straw,

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She is true, is true, she is pray pray, she

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is she is you.

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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here

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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,

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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week

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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that morepreneurs

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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses

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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales

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and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,

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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of

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women in business and in life. And I'm looking forward

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to bringing today's guest into the show. Elona Lapari is

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the founder and CEO of The Life School. He's the speaker,

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best selling authored a numerous books. She's an award winner,

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show and speaking event organizer to an audience of over

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thirty thousand people. With purpose driven, service based entrepreneurs and corporations,

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he has supported more than one hundred companies double and

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triple their impact and revenue through fractional and business management

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operations and human resource services. She's the prior Fortune five

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hundred c Suite executive and also featured in Disrupt, New

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York Weekly, Business Insiders, CEO Weekly, The Business News, and

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Famous Times. I can tell you more and more about Alona,

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but it's better to bring her into the show. So

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with all that being said, Alona, welcome to Word of

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Mom Radio.

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Thank you so much. Story. It's a pleasure to be here,

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and I hope the conversation will be having will be

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of service to all the moms in the audience.

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Oh me too, So I would love for you to

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take us on your journey from the c suite and

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everything else to being the founder and the CEO of

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the Life School.

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Yeah.

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I think it started with the inner conflict of pretty

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much losing sets of my purpose while I was working

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for corporation raising my kids. I have two kids, a

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girl and a boy, which are older now. But during

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that time, which was over five years ago, I started

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to lose sense of the meaning of why I was

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doing what I was doing. For many years, I climbed

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the corporate ladder over thirteen years for this fortune five

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hundred company to really, you know, chase success, chase the

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American dream. I'm natively Albanian. We migrated here when I

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was only fifteen, So my dad especially instilled it very

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early in me that you know, in order to be

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successful and be happy and fulfilled and all those things,

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it was good to be able to grow my career,

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build my family alongside and all of that, and buy

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house and all those things that are promised to you

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as the American dream. I did all of that. However,

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there came a point where I reached all the way

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to the top without feeling happy. So that's kind of

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where I started questioning my what was I going to

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do next? Was there all there is? These were all

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the questions that were kind of puzzling me at that time.

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It was really not connected to what I was doing anymore.

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The company happened to be acquired by another company, and

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the culture change there was very profit driven, so that

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was sort of my clue to figure out, Okay, what

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else I was going to do. Was I going to

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go get another job based on all my experience, or

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was I going to try out this thing called entrepreneurship,

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which for me was very new because I didn't have

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entrepreneurs in my family. So my husband supported me a

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lot during that time, and he's like, why don't you

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just try to just offer your services on your own.

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You have a lot of experience. So that was the

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beginning my tapping my feet into entrepreneurship. While I still

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worked for two years, I started growing my small business,

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and when I felt comfortable enough to make the pivot,

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I just switched to entrepreneurship full time, and that's what

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I've done now for over six years.

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That's awesome. I would love for you to kind of

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share how you created the philosophies and the steps that

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you have. I'm looking at your seven pillars at scaling

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a legacy company, and there's such interesting components to all

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of this. How did you come up with that balancing

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purpose and profit and all of that conceptual information that

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the Life School is sharing.

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Yeah, it came through a process in my own evolution

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as an entrepreneur. I started out coaching executive women which

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also were moms, where they needed help with be success

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from their career, lending leadership roles, but also balancing their

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personal lives. So that's where I began, and then I

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realized that that there was something else that I still

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kept me in the corporate space. So I wanted to

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explore the rest of the world, so to speak. I

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was like that child, trying to like figure out, like

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what else is out there now on the market and

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what else do I want to do? So I tapped

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into some career coaching as well, because I did HR

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for many years and I still felt like that wasn't it.

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And through my process of discovery, I realized that the

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two things that I did really well were always business

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and leadership. So over my process of helping now startups

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all the way to companies in ten million in revenue,

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I realized that there were seven pillars that always showed

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up in building a consistent a company that's going to

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create impact, but also a successful company that operated independently

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from the founder and the team and the owners. So

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over the years of my experience, I realized that those

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seven pillars, which is branding, marketing, sales systems, and team,

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are the seven pillars that are very foundational to any

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company that is scaling or growing. And I worked under

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that methodology for a lot of the businesses that I

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have supported, because I believe that, just like personal life,

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if we don't have the foundation in place, then we

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cannot build something as big or as small as the

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CEO and visions it to be So that's how those

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pillars came about. It was just experience of supporting companies

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and seeing what were their biggest challenges and what were

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some of the things that were always repeating. And I've

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always been a fundamental sort of person. I like to

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always go deep into things, not just superficially fix, you know,

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things that are going to maybe break tomorrow. So over

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the years I've I've kind of just came up with

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my own pillars and structures to support to support businesses

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and their growth.

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How did you decide to be working in the service

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based industries with entrepreneurs and corporations and kind of let

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people understand what that's all about.

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Yeah, I love your question because this came from my

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own experience being a service provider, but also the fact

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that service to me is tied to serve contribution and growth,

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and those were actually two of the things that I

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realized over my experience were going to not just keep

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me happy with the work I was going to do

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choose to do in the world, but also we're going

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to keep me very fulfilled because I was always going

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to meet contribution in service towards others. Plus I also

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realized another challenge with companies that have a service, it's

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harder to scale because a lot of the time the

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service is connected to the founders. So just piecing a

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lot of things together, I started really staying in the

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lane of service and just making sure that I was

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improving the way that I was supporting companies to be

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able to build a personal brand, but also detach eventually

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to build a company brand where it was going to

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be easier for them to scale a service rather than

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a product, which traditionally it is easier to scale a

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product because the product is kind of its ill entity.

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So that's that's how I came about just niching in

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the service space for the work that I'm going I'm doing.

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How can you help them scale and stay true to

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their purpose because quite often that purpose changes as a

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business growth.

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Yeah, it's absolutely a process of evolution, So depending on

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where they are in their growth phase. I've seen two

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main patterns that always show up, and with well growing

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my own company, but also seeing it with my clients,

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is that at the beginning of a business, it's good

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to focus on a business model that's more quality than

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quantity because you don't have the foundation in place you

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don't have the brand in place yet, and a lot

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of those structures that are needed, maybe even your systems

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of how to create consistem sales. At the beginning, it's

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good to understand how to set those things in place

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and build a personal brand. And then eventually, once you

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have all of those pillars in place, you can start

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to scale your personal brand into your company brand. And

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then of course you'll have more systems and you'll have

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team around you that you could start to connect to

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the dots, so to speak, between your company brand and

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your personal brand, I don't think. I mean, we're in

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the environments that we are operating in, you can completely

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detach from your personal brand. But for founders, again, it

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just takes strategy to be able to focus on the

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right priorities in the business for its phase of growth.

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Because that's another problem that I've seen that a lot

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of founders don't understand what to focus on at different

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phases and stages of their growth to give them their

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desired results. So, yeah, doing this in a smart way,

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in a very intentional way, it's really important when you

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are scaling and growing. But that's kind of some of

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the ways that I do it. Once I foundation is set,

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then they can start to detach from their personal brand

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a little bit, but of course still staying consistent with

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both pillars as they get their name out there and

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people start to get to know them and they build

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no and trust, and they build audiences and they build

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communities and all those things which are necessary to grow.

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So are those more of the purpose driven strategies that

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you work with and expanding people living as those purpose

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driven strategies start to take hold.

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Yeah, at any point and grow in the growth journey

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of a company or even our personal growth as founders.

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We always work with the vision, mission and values, and

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that sort of is the guiding start to how they

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we make decisions for their business because, as I said,

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especially in the service space, authenticity is really important, especially

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when you're building a brand, especially in today's world with

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AI and the new sort of conditions that have been created.

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So purpose is always at the forefront, keeping the eye

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on the ball as far as to what is a

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bigger contribution and why we're doing something, And the bigger

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picture is always something that I revisit with the clients

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that I support at all times, because that can change.

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Right we start out, companies are like humans. We start

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out as a certain phase and then eventually we test

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our services and we realize that there's a different problem

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we want to solve, or a bigger problem we want

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to solve. So it's very easy to lose sight of

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your the reason why you started and this is important

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to you. So keeping an eye on that at all

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times really helps with decision making and ensuring that you

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are aligned with that and you're not completely going on

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the other side and building something that's you know, not

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even passionate for you or something that really aligns with

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the founder. So it's just an ongoing way that we work.

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It's not something that we do once and we're like, Okay,

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we figured out what the mission, vision and values are

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and we just forget about it. It's just a way

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of being and just revisiting that every day when making

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really important decisions how to drill the business.

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On that note, think of what Alona just said. We're

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going to take a quick break, say thank you to

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And we're back here on Word of Mom Radio. We

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are talking with Alona Lapari, who is the founder and

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CEO of the Life School. And I really like what

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you had to say about the why because often people

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forget the why, and we say all the time here

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on Word of Mom radio that women start with why.

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Most women in business see something, especially in a product

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and service based business, where something is missing. They need

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something and it's not there, so they create it for

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themselves and then realize other people need it. How do

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you help people keep the eye on the why even

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though your why is going to expand.

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women because over the years for my personal growth, I realized,

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I've realized that we have something really powerful at our hands,

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which is intuition, and the more we tap into it,

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the more we can be very savvy, smart, intuitive, innovative,

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decision key decision makers, but also consumers. Right because the

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biggest markets in the world target women, and for a

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good reason, because we're the ones that are making the

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most major decisions in our households. So we're very powerful

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business owners but also very powerful clients or customers for companies.

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more we tap into some of our inner wisdom that

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we all have as women, the more we can leverage

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that powering business and use it as our best competitive advantage.

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So that is what I realized with women, especially that

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we have this. However, we were not obviously taught this

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for the longest. I you know, work traditionally, you know,

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in my mask buline energy, especially in the corporate environment

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I was in, because you know, it's all do do,

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do and just follow strategy and follow structure. However, there's

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a whole other side of us which we have it

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so naturally, mothern nature gave it to us. So why

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not leverage this in business as well. And the more

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that we are in the flow and the more we

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tap into this intuition, the more we can again stay

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aligned with the work that's meaningful to us, but also

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be able to not be afraid to innovate in the

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marketplace because we're bringing something new to the table. And

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plus again we're so high touch with are with society,

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with families, you know, with our children and all of

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this and everything that we touch, everything we hear can

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be a competitive advantage if we're smart about, you know,

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bringing it to the marketplace and knowing our person that

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we want to support. So I think it's it's time

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for us to you know, value what we do. Naturally. However,

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we have just set it aside for so many years

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because again for the longest, when I learned a lot

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of the gifts that I was naturally good at. I

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just thought everybody knew how to do this. So we're

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nar really taught how to value ourselves. But it's time

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to kind of just honor that and really, you know,

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charge charge for the things that we do really well

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and align ourselves with people that are complementary. I think

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it only will will serve the world, but also ensure

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that we are in contribution and utilizing a lot of

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those things that we didn't know we actually possessed as women.

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So yeah, that's what's coming up to share around your

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It's very interesting because so often as women, after raising

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young kids and going back into the workforce, whether as

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entrepreneurs or into the workforce, they think they don't have

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a lot of skills that they're bringing to the table,

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and I think they forget that as moms well, gee,

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conflict resolutions, scheduling, budgeting, time management, the organizational skills, all

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of the things that we take for granted that we

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do as moms, putting little finger clothes in there and

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taking care of our families. This all translates to business,

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every bit of it, and especially when you get into

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that service based industry funnel because there are people that

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are raising families that are under standing now. For me,

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I've been a mompreneur since nineteen ninety four, so you're

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talking last century and I had to when are you

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going to quit this and get a real job and

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all the rest of it. I think COVID really opened

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people's eyes to how productive women are who work from home.

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It's not just a hobby, and you can create an

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amazing business. We have so many skills that people just

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don't even acknowledge. I love what you're doing because you're

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making people realize this that they possess so much more

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and that it can drive their business.

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thing with us women. We're not talked to honor our

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gifts and to you know, to to use some contribution

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towards others. I mean, the thing that we do with

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managing a household, we can manage a company, right. I

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mean it's the same thing we can manage a project.

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We can manage anything out there because we have more

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of that detail and we're so high touch with with people. Right.

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those relationships to good use. So yeah, much like myself,

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that's been the journey of personal growth and understanding how

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to honor those things so that I was confident about

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bringing those to the world and creating an impact with it.

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in good hands used for a really good purpose is

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really the way to go about things right when you're

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when you have money in the right hand, especially in

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the hands of women, we know how to be very sourceful.

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that value that we all have is in it as

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humans anyway, and not to be afraid to go out

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there and not just I don't like the word charge

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our worth, but really be in touch for the market.

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Right where is the market? And you know, what is

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those things that we're doing to create transformation and what

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is the price point that we set based on the

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business moundel that alligance with us and what the market is.

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we wake up but we're like, okay, this is what

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it will be. I think it's always a collaboration, but

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especially in the work I've done with lots of my

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female founders, that's been some of the biggest challenges for

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us to really be afraid to charge what is really

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competitive in the market.

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I agree with you one thousand percent. We talk about

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it all the time on the show, that women do

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fear charging what they're worth. It's a glaring difference between

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men and women in the workforce. Joe will see the

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Charlie charge fifteen hundred dollars for a program, so he's

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going to charge fifteen hundred dollars for a program, a

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program that's probably worth three. But as a woman, we'll

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bring something to the table. We're seeing other people charge this,

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but we tend to go below. I think sometimes we

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have a hard time balancing purpose and profit and that

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it's okay to make money, it's okay to be in

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business and actually successfully do this. How do you kind

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of work with that because that is a big obstacle

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for a lot of people alone.

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those things that are holding us back, some of those

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stories that might be holding us back for charging what

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is marketable. Pretty much at the end of the day.

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the articulation of value and the results and the problem

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that we solved. Right. Communication, communicating what the transformation is

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and how it impacts our clients. I think their articulation

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and connecting the dots for their people is really important

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as well, because at the end of the day, that

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is our job as marketers, as founders, as CEOs, as

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business owners to really speak about that and not to

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shy away from our secret sauce what makes us different, right,

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So communication, communicate it loudly, proudly, use your voice to

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be able to do so. Especially the fuel that you

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get from the results you see every day from helping people.

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I think that should be the fuel that we use

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on the days where maybe we're not so confident about

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what we do. And it's not bragging, it's just articulating

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and staining the thing that we believe in. That's why

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I do a lot of work with belief and purpose

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and why because if you don't believe it, your team's

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not going to believe it, your clients are not going

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to believe it. So and at the beginning, I know

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it's hard to believe when you first going to market

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and you don't have all the results. But once you

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help a lot of people and you have that, then speak,

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you know, speak based on their results. Take yourself out

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of the equation and it because it becomes so much

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easier to articulate the value and the transformation and those

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two factors. Is what I've seen really give you that

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energy which is yours own, and that authenticity to speak

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about this from experience, not like what am I supposed

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to say? Like how is this supposed to hand sales

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or marketing? All these traditional things which I think we're

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moving away from. And I always say speak from the gods,

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speak from the heart, speak from your experience, because for

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that you don't need any preparation to share and people

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feel that on the other side, wherever you are, whether

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it's social media, at an event, speaking to potential clients,

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speaking to potential collaborator, speak from experience, and just always

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keep an eye on the people you're supporting and always improve.

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Continuous improvement. I mean business is a big continuously improvement

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project where you're always improving what you're doing to give

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people better results. And I think if you're focusing on that,

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you'll be fine and know just a matter of just

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continuing to show up every day and do the thing

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that's necessary.

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What a fabulous way to wrap up this conversation, it

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really is, Alona, thank you so much. What do you

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want to leave our listeners with and how may they

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reach out to you?

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Yeah, I want to leave your audience story with the saying,

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never stop to do your inner work, because honestly, the

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whole entire journey for me has been about learning that

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I'm worthy and I'm powerful, and I have gifts and

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I have there's a reason why I'm good at certain

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things and maybe I could improve on some other things. Right,

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So make your personal development your main project in life

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and you'll be fine. Everything else will just mirror that.

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And I think they can find some free resources I

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put together on my website so they can check that

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out alone on theaparycoaching dot com. And let's connect on

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social media. I'm mostly active on LinkedIn and Facebook, and

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let's just yeah, get those conversations started and look for

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ways to be able to support one another just beyond

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your beautiful space. You've created your doory. But thanks so

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much for having me out a lot of fun and

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I hope what I shared was helpful.

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I think it was absolutely wonderful, and I hope everyone

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reaches out to you. Alona's links will be live on

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wordofmomradio dot com. I really do encourage you reach out,

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connect online and get the conversation going, because creating that

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harmony between your personal and your business life is absolutely possible.

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And again we say it all the time. You know what,

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when you win, we all win. As we lift each

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other up, as we encourage each other and support each other,

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it just paves the way for other people to do it.

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So alone. Thank you for what you're doing with the

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Life School and your work with these purpose driven service

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s based entrepreneurs and corporations. Keep up the great work.

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For all of you tuning in, I want to thank

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you for being with us. We're gonna close out with

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our fabulous theme song from Smith's Sisters and the Sunday Drivers.

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So till next time, This is Dory di Carlo saying,

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go out and create a marvelous you. Bye for now.

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She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she

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is strong, she is true, she is true. She is

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braz Bray, she is boul, she is she is you,

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she is you, she is you, she is sure, she

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is sure, she is strong, she is strong, she is true,

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she is true, she is brave, she is bold, she

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is she is you. She is you, she is you,

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she is you. Sure of herself, Yes, she takes care

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of his powerful and strong. Yes, she knows who she

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is has integer, edy, woman, strong and true. You know

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her by name. See this woman is you. She is sure,

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she is she is strong, he is strong, she is true,

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is true, she is brave, she is she is you,

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she is she is she is sure, she is strong,

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is strong, she is true, is true, she is brave,

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she is she is she is you. She is you.

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She adds value and hope, has proved to be brave.

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See it's never too late, never time to behave Reaching

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for dreams doesn't matter. The age believes in herself. Una

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from her cage. She is sure, she is sure, she

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is strong, is strong, she is true, is true, she

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is brave, she is bold, she is you, she is she,

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she is sure, she is true, she is strong, she

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is strong, she is true, is true, she is brave,

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she is she is you.

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Elona is the Founder & CEO of The Life School , Speaker, Best Selling Author to numerous books, Award Winner, Show and Speaking Events Organizer to an audience of over 30,000+ purpose driven service based entrepreneurs and corporations.

She has supported 100+ companies double and triple their impact and revenue through fractional and business management Operations and HR Services.

She is a Prior Fortune 500 C Suite Executive also Featured in Disrupt, NY Weekly, Business Insider, CEO Weekly, The Business News & Famous Times.