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Speaker 1: This is my very last episode of my Influencer series.
Speaker 1: I hope you have loved joining me on each episode
Speaker 1: as much as I have loved getting to interview these
Speaker 1: fantastic girls. I thought it was only fitting that I
Speaker 1: would end with the expert, Julie Solomon. She offers an
Speaker 1: incredible class called Pitch It Perfect, where she teaches you
Speaker 1: how to get specific and real about your brand, how
Speaker 1: to make money. She has figured it out by her
Speaker 1: trial and error, and now she's teaching everyone who signs
Speaker 1: up for this, you've got to do it. I'm signing
Speaker 1: up for it. She also has a podcast called The
Speaker 1: Influencer Podcast where she interviews all sorts of incredible influencers
Speaker 1: talks about all sorts of incredible stuff in the influencer world.
Speaker 1: You have to check it out. That's why I had
Speaker 1: it in with Julie, because she is the expert, and
Speaker 1: she's so much wisdom and knowledge, and she's so authentic,
Speaker 1: and she's all about being authentic. So you guys, get excited.
Speaker 1: Here's Julie Salomon. Okay, I am here with Julie Solomon. Hi.
Speaker 1: It is so good to be here with you and
Speaker 1: just to get time with you. I miss you and
Speaker 1: I just love having this time with you today. I
Speaker 1: know you had to move away to California. You were
Speaker 1: in Nashville, girl, for a minute. You were born and
Speaker 1: raised in Nashville. Yeah, it was nice too. I was
Speaker 1: born and raised in Nashville, Um, and it was it
Speaker 1: was amazing. I loved being from there. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: moved to l A about five and a half years
Speaker 1: ago and miss all Mrs mctribe there for sure. What
Speaker 1: have you loved about l A? Though? What is the
Speaker 1: difference between Nashville and l A? Because there's so much
Speaker 1: activity in both cities, but there's such a different vibe
Speaker 1: for both. So how would you define both now that
Speaker 1: you've lived in both? It is I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: just you know, the the very kind of common and
Speaker 1: like obvious right, Like it's l A is much larger,
Speaker 1: it's much more expensive, Um, it's much warmer. Um so
Speaker 1: the the good and bad and ugly with all of that.
Speaker 1: But I would say there's, um, you know, the the
Speaker 1: the expansiveness to l A really does allow for for that,
Speaker 1: for that feeling and kind of more of that sense
Speaker 1: of abundance, which is really nice. UM. And you can
Speaker 1: exactly and I think that especially for what what I
Speaker 1: do in terms of professionally, which we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about today, this is a very optimal time to be
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles just because you have a lot of um,
Speaker 1: a lot of just amazing creative people out here doing
Speaker 1: a lot of really awesome things in the online digital space,
Speaker 1: so that's amazing, um, and just you know, being able
Speaker 1: to thrive um, kind of more of a mind, body
Speaker 1: and spirit, um overall wellness perspective. I mean, the food
Speaker 1: is amazing out here. The weather is great, so you
Speaker 1: can hike. There's a lot of outdoor activity, so that's great.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, one of the things that it
Speaker 1: it can lack at times is that feeling of community,
Speaker 1: which Nashville has so beautifully because it is such a
Speaker 1: little big town, um, so you do kind of miss that,
Speaker 1: and because traffic is so bad and it is so expansive,
Speaker 1: you kind of don't really like leave your pocket, whereas
Speaker 1: you know, living in Nashville, you can go downtown to
Speaker 1: Franklin and forty five minutes and it's fine for the
Speaker 1: most part. I know traffic has gotten back there too,
Speaker 1: but um but yeah, So, I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: the gist of the differences that I've seen. But I'm
Speaker 1: a mom in l A. So I also have a
Speaker 1: really different perspective than I think I would if I
Speaker 1: was like young and single in l A. What is
Speaker 1: mom in l A? Like, let's mom? I've in like
Speaker 1: mom life is wonderful. I have a four and ahi
Speaker 1: off a little boy named Camden, who is just a
Speaker 1: gym and so fun and four is definitely by far
Speaker 1: the most fun age. Um, you know, the first couple
Speaker 1: of years, you're you don't really know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like navigating and you have this
Speaker 1: like human that you're trying to figure out. But something weird.
Speaker 1: Like it's like they wake up when they're four and
Speaker 1: they're like awesome. They're just like funny and hilarious and
Speaker 1: amazing and just so sweet. And little boys are just
Speaker 1: permanently different. Yes, they're so delicious. You know, Like he'll
Speaker 1: just he'll say really funny things like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I just started boys say or that he'll say really
Speaker 1: adorable things like you know, Mommy, you can never leave
Speaker 1: me because I always have you in my heart. Stop it.
Speaker 1: I think I know from sole mother had taught you.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean so much and I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you learn something new from them and through them every day.
Speaker 1: I think two things. I think it's taught me patience, um,
Speaker 1: which I think is just a learning um, a learning
Speaker 1: behavior that we all have to kind of adapt to
Speaker 1: as we as we grow. But for sure, and then
Speaker 1: just kind of seeing the world through his eyes is
Speaker 1: really magical. Um, just kind of the zest for life
Speaker 1: and how you know something as small as like a
Speaker 1: rock can just be like this incredible thing and it is,
Speaker 1: I mean, something so small. But you as you grow older,
Speaker 1: you you kind of miss those little moments. So just
Speaker 1: seeing seeing the world through his eyes is really special.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay. So also I'm sure being a
Speaker 1: career mom has you have so much knowledge just about
Speaker 1: navigating you can do everything. If you're a career mom
Speaker 1: in l A, you're basically superwoman. I really think that's
Speaker 1: what it breaks down to, and that's you because you
Speaker 1: have a great, thriving career and I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about how you've got to this particular point
Speaker 1: because you wrote a really detailed, real blog about how
Speaker 1: you were pursuing something that you felt was like a
Speaker 1: little it was getting closer to your passion and your calling,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't quite fully where you feel like you're
Speaker 1: calling is, and you rebranded your whole self. So how
Speaker 1: did you get into this journey? It started with publicity,
Speaker 1: I know, and now you influence people in it's such
Speaker 1: a big way and teach people how to correctly use
Speaker 1: their platforms. Yeah. So, I mean, I think I think
Speaker 1: the beginning of it all, it's safe to say that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it takes a village. Like no matter where
Speaker 1: I've ever been on my path, I've always had a
Speaker 1: team of people, um or at least another person, just
Speaker 1: somebody there that I've been able to collaborate with and
Speaker 1: to really kind of help me because I don't think
Speaker 1: that it is possible to really do everything on your own,
Speaker 1: you know, so whether that's family, friendships, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: professional career, what have you. So I appreciate what you
Speaker 1: say and and thank you, but I have to give
Speaker 1: a lot of credit to just the people that I've
Speaker 1: been able to surround myself with and I have. I
Speaker 1: haven't always had a team, but I have a team now. UM,
Speaker 1: a small team, but they're small but small but mighty um.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think that the whole trajectory with
Speaker 1: everything that's interesting because I feel like I've always kind
Speaker 1: of been the person that has um really kind of
Speaker 1: whenever I've gotten to like a crossroads or a moment
Speaker 1: that I needed like a shift or a change, I
Speaker 1: kind of rebranded myself. So whether that was you know, um,
Speaker 1: a shift in a in a personal life for a
Speaker 1: shift professionally, I've I've always kind of done that. And
Speaker 1: whenever I found myself in that like fear based moment
Speaker 1: um instead of just kind of quelling in that, I've always,
Speaker 1: um like just followed it and gone through and gone
Speaker 1: through it. So why did you decide to pursue that?
Speaker 1: Because that type bravery? And I was actually talking to
Speaker 1: Just Southern and aeronyms just Pain, but I have to
Speaker 1: call her just Southern because that's our Instagram. I was
Speaker 1: talking to her and she was saying the same thing
Speaker 1: basically how she always I was never afraid to push
Speaker 1: through that fear and you have done that in so
Speaker 1: many bold ways in your lives, in your life so
Speaker 1: many times, but I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: hit that first big wall of fear and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, oh, no, retreat, retreat, when really that's we
Speaker 1: need to push through. But what what what is your
Speaker 1: take on why so many people won't push through? And
Speaker 1: what is your suggestion on that? You know, so people
Speaker 1: say that it's fear of failure, um, but I would
Speaker 1: even go farther to say that. I think that it's
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's fear of criticism and and
Speaker 1: just fear of really, um, you know, showing up. Maybe
Speaker 1: fear of blame and and and fear of forgiveness. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times it's forgiveness for yourself.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times people will kind of
Speaker 1: stay where they are, are not pushed through those boundaries,
Speaker 1: are not really follow their dreams or step into the
Speaker 1: abundance of what they want in life because they haven't
Speaker 1: really been able to forgive either themselves or a person
Speaker 1: or some kind of obstacle along the way. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that that that kind of is the big
Speaker 1: one for me is that I definitely have not had
Speaker 1: a perfect journey by any means that it's it's had
Speaker 1: its moments of being really messy. When you and I met,
Speaker 1: I was married to my college sweetheart. Um, we ended
Speaker 1: up separating shortly after we got married, although we were
Speaker 1: together off and on for a really long time. UM.
Speaker 1: But I think that it took it took me kind
Speaker 1: of just forgiving myself and forgiving that process to then
Speaker 1: be able to step into a new um idea or
Speaker 1: life that I wanted for myself, which then led to
Speaker 1: like living in l A, which led to my husband now,
Speaker 1: which led to my family now, which led to new
Speaker 1: business opportunities. And you know when I would when I
Speaker 1: left my cushiony corporate job job working at HarperCollins, like
Speaker 1: I had to kind of forgive myself that that was
Speaker 1: not my path, even though that was the path that
Speaker 1: my parents wanted for me, and kind of really like
Speaker 1: stepping into myself and and forging my own path. So
Speaker 1: I think at the time to to really analyze your
Speaker 1: journey and like when you hit a spot that made
Speaker 1: you feel kind of uh inside, work through that, figure
Speaker 1: out why you felt that way, and then be able
Speaker 1: to step into your keep moving forward to like almost
Speaker 1: like clean your slate in a way, Is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of just like sitting with it because it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's none of that's going to change. Or
Speaker 1: you know, if if if I'm not doing something that
Speaker 1: my parents wanted me to do, or that you know,
Speaker 1: something that I thought was my career path or something
Speaker 1: that I intended for myself, that doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: necessarily wrong or that I'm necessarily like, you know, this
Speaker 1: horrible person because I'm not going this one direction. It
Speaker 1: just kind of is like it just is, and I
Speaker 1: think that drivings, Yeah, just trying it and sitting with
Speaker 1: it and just being okay with it and then it
Speaker 1: kind of like works itself out. So a lot of times,
Speaker 1: I think, especially you know, in my younger twenties, I
Speaker 1: would always want to hit the easy button and like
Speaker 1: just run away. You know, I would just like fight
Speaker 1: or flight totally flight, Like I just I didn't want
Speaker 1: to deal you know, I wouldn't want to sit with it.
Speaker 1: So but it was it was those reasons that I
Speaker 1: wasn't dealing with things. I kept finding myself in these
Speaker 1: situations or in these jobs or in these relationships that
Speaker 1: I had no business being in the first place. How
Speaker 1: did you finally decide to deal because that is the moment,
Speaker 1: Like what finally when did you be like I am
Speaker 1: gonna look this seven eyes and just move on with it.
Speaker 1: I think when I started really thinking of like what
Speaker 1: what is the alternative? You know, it's like I can
Speaker 1: even because to me, it's like you're either in You're
Speaker 1: either in abundance or scarcity. Right you can't be either
Speaker 1: in a state of joy or you're in a state
Speaker 1: of grief. Like you can't be in both. And so
Speaker 1: to me, it's like if I'm if I'm choosing to
Speaker 1: always walk into in the path of joy and love
Speaker 1: and light and abundance, then I can't be holding onto
Speaker 1: all of this other stuff. And of course it's still there,
Speaker 1: right like fear comes up all the time. You can
Speaker 1: you can sit with it at breakfast and like not
Speaker 1: have it by lunch, right like, it's there. But I
Speaker 1: think just identifying and and being and knowing that, just
Speaker 1: just the knowing that it's there and there's not really
Speaker 1: a control or or a way that you can muscle
Speaker 1: with that anyways. So just as long as you can
Speaker 1: kind of keep trying to move towards what is presence
Speaker 1: and what is going to bring you joy and allow
Speaker 1: you to bring your best self to the world. Um
Speaker 1: is kind of what helped me just like go for it,
Speaker 1: I think. And you just commuted to yourself, which I
Speaker 1: love you. Just committed to you being happy with you,
Speaker 1: which I think is simple as that sounds. It is
Speaker 1: such a brave move because a lot of us are
Speaker 1: programmed not to put ourselves our passions first and not
Speaker 1: to you kind of sacrifice yourself the time. But really,
Speaker 1: you can't thrive until you have loved yourself and let
Speaker 1: yourself come into your own I feel. And you have
Speaker 1: done such a great job blossoming into this amazing human.
Speaker 1: So how did you get from being a best selling
Speaker 1: publicist to running this incredible influencer empire? Yeah? So, um
Speaker 1: did the whole did the whole PR thing? Still do
Speaker 1: it to a certain degree. I just kind of tweaked
Speaker 1: the way I do it now. Um. I lived in
Speaker 1: New York for a while, moved back to Nashville, did
Speaker 1: it there, and then um moved to l A. And
Speaker 1: when I moved to l A, I was o MG Publicity,
Speaker 1: which is the book PR firm that my business partner
Speaker 1: bet From and I joined forces to to run and
Speaker 1: um I moved to l A to do that. Luckily
Speaker 1: I could do it from my home as long as
Speaker 1: I had in my computer. And but when I got
Speaker 1: out here, I was kind of finding myself in this
Speaker 1: place that I found myself a lot in growing up,
Speaker 1: because I constantly moved as a child, so I would
Speaker 1: always find myself in this new place. And like, I
Speaker 1: didn't have any friends, and like, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: well what do I do? So I moved to l
Speaker 1: A and I'm like barefoot and pregnant baking pies and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well then what do I do here?
Speaker 1: Like who wants to hang out with a pregnant woman?
Speaker 1: Like especially, it's not true, right, but it's like so
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I need to make friends. So
Speaker 1: the easiest way at the time this was to make
Speaker 1: friends in l A was to become a blogger, because
Speaker 1: that is what everybody was doing in l A at
Speaker 1: the time. And I knew enough, like I was savvy
Speaker 1: enough in PR and marketing to know that there are
Speaker 1: things like networking events and that sort of thing, just
Speaker 1: like living in Nashville and living in in New York,
Speaker 1: Like you're invited to that kind of stuff all the time, right,
Speaker 1: So I knew that there had to be that here,
Speaker 1: Like obviously there's going to be that for like the
Speaker 1: acting world, but that's not my world, So like there
Speaker 1: has to be that for the blogging and you know
Speaker 1: what is now the influencer space. So I got into
Speaker 1: blogging and I started to meet other PR people that
Speaker 1: I knew that new other bloggers that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and so I kind of started to do both. I
Speaker 1: was doing my PR stuff, which then kind of like
Speaker 1: got me in the mix of the PR people out here,
Speaker 1: and then I was doing I was had a blog
Speaker 1: and so that kind of got me in the mix
Speaker 1: of the bloggers out here. And then I'm kind of
Speaker 1: over probably like an eighteen month span. I started doing
Speaker 1: kind of what everyone else was doing, which was this
Speaker 1: fashion lifestyle beauty blog thing, which works for a lot
Speaker 1: of people because I really do feel like that's their
Speaker 1: passion at the core, but it wasn't really what was
Speaker 1: like my passion at my cool. I totally get that, Julie.
Speaker 1: I have had that same struggle like dabbling with fashion
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I love fashion, but I don't have
Speaker 1: a fashion for fashion. It's like, I mean I like it,
Speaker 1: I'm comin in person, I like cut glasses and I
Speaker 1: like makeup, but it's not something It's like I didn't
Speaker 1: go to fit them, Like I never had any desire
Speaker 1: to study fashion. I don't know what text files are,
Speaker 1: nor do I whatever want to get to know totally yes,
Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, for a lot of
Speaker 1: people who get in that either they're they're genuinely passionate
Speaker 1: about it or they're genuinely passionate passionate about becoming famous,
Speaker 1: but once they kind of realized like there's an end
Speaker 1: of the road to that, it's like where do you
Speaker 1: kind of go? And since I didn't really fall under
Speaker 1: either of those because like just I knew that like
Speaker 1: the fame was fleeting and that wasn't really a service
Speaker 1: based path, so like that wasn't really gonna get me
Speaker 1: where I wanted to go. And then this whole lifestyle
Speaker 1: fashion thing wasn't really where my purpose lied, So that
Speaker 1: wasn't really going to get me where I wanted to go.
Speaker 1: So I was like, well, what am I really doing here?
Speaker 1: Because that seems to be like the only two tracks
Speaker 1: the tracks these girls are taking, right, they'm like reality people,
Speaker 1: or they just become like insta famous, or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're really passionate about beauty and fashion and they
Speaker 1: get some like deal with a big you know, label
Speaker 1: or something to do a big collaboration. But that was
Speaker 1: kind of like the rest was just going to kind
Speaker 1: of be like a diamond dozen thing. Um. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I started noticing that a lot of people started coming
Speaker 1: to me for more like pr and marketing advice. They
Speaker 1: were like, you know, how do you get to go
Speaker 1: to these events? How are you pitching yourself for things? Um?
Speaker 1: Because at the same time, I started pitching myself for
Speaker 1: brand deals as in a way to monetize it. And
Speaker 1: I started very quickly and very effectively started monetizing pretty
Speaker 1: well my blog, especially at the time because my follower
Speaker 1: reach was probably between ten and twenty thousand, and I
Speaker 1: was making like five thousand dollars a month, which, wow,
Speaker 1: how do you pitch How would you pitch yourself to
Speaker 1: a brand? I like, that's a question so many people have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the same way that I would pitch clients
Speaker 1: when I was a publicist, you know, So it's like
Speaker 1: that that came that was like my work, That's what
Speaker 1: I did, right, So um, I started pitching myself, and
Speaker 1: I would have my friends be like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: like I have a hundred thousand followers and I'm not
Speaker 1: making that Like how is it that you have this
Speaker 1: tiny little following compared to other people, but you're able
Speaker 1: to monetize so well. And and then that's when I realized,
Speaker 1: like you just said that people needed this information, right, like,
Speaker 1: this is how I could show up and I could
Speaker 1: really serve them far more than like wearing a cute
Speaker 1: dress and like liking to know it and like maybe
Speaker 1: making five dollars off of the dress, right like on
Speaker 1: an right. So um, I created a online pitch course
Speaker 1: because that was going to be the most like efficient
Speaker 1: way that I could get it out to Everyone was
Speaker 1: going to be on an online platform far more than
Speaker 1: I could. I thought about maybe doing like in person
Speaker 1: conferences and like you know, one on one mentoring, but
Speaker 1: I kept hitting that wall because I wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much time in the day, and so
Speaker 1: if I didn't want to travel all that, right and
Speaker 1: do all of that and then like all of my
Speaker 1: time doing the one on one mentoring and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I could have just served like fifteen people, but I
Speaker 1: just only served three. So it was like, how could
Speaker 1: I How could I serve the greatest capacity and get
Speaker 1: this out to people who need it the most. And
Speaker 1: so that's when I created That's why I decided to
Speaker 1: do it on the online platform because it's just the
Speaker 1: easiest way to consume the information. And I created that
Speaker 1: about two years ago, and that's called Pitch It Perfect,
Speaker 1: so that teaches bloggers and influencers how to effectively pitch
Speaker 1: themselves for brand deals. So not only do they get
Speaker 1: out of that affiliate rat race, which is what I
Speaker 1: call it, and just like that, you know, like reward
Speaker 1: styled like to Know It. You know the girls that
Speaker 1: are literally post every single post you see on Instagram
Speaker 1: is an affiliate post. Is like this is my dress,
Speaker 1: It's so cute, it comes in five colors, it's on
Speaker 1: sale by it. Yeah. I just I got so because
Speaker 1: that used to be me and I was like, it
Speaker 1: was like nails on a talk board to me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I see one more girl tell me to like
Speaker 1: their photo to know it, I'm gonna bang my head
Speaker 1: against the wall because it's just it's like so unsustainable,
Speaker 1: you just stop all together. Like to know, it dropped
Speaker 1: all together because I was like, how am I serving?
Speaker 1: I'm not serving anyone the amount of time that I
Speaker 1: have to put into this versus what I'm getting back.
Speaker 1: Like to me, it just kind of became laughable because
Speaker 1: I was like, I would pitch a brand. I would
Speaker 1: spend two hours pitching a brand and get walk in
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen hundred dollars worth of brand deals, versus
Speaker 1: spending all day creating this content for one Instagram post
Speaker 1: and maybe making twenty five off the shirt. Totally, it
Speaker 1: was like I was like, people like, this does not
Speaker 1: make sense, but they were like, the affiliate companies want
Speaker 1: us to do that, right, So I felt like I
Speaker 1: was like brainwashed, and so I was like, this is
Speaker 1: the we bloggers are being brainwashed into thinking that this
Speaker 1: is the only way that we can, you know, make
Speaker 1: make a living. So, um, the pitching really helped. It
Speaker 1: started helping a lot of people. Um, I've had hundreds
Speaker 1: of bloggers and influencers take the course, and I want
Speaker 1: to take your course. When how often do you offer them?
Speaker 1: You can get it online now, so it's set up.
Speaker 1: I've recorded webinars and like offered free services for that,
Speaker 1: and then it's up. It's at pitch it perfect dot net,
Speaker 1: so you can just go there and you can go
Speaker 1: in immediate access to it pitch it perfect dot net
Speaker 1: dot net. And it's for anyone who needs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it really is focus towards influencers and bloggers because
Speaker 1: that's who I was. I do serve and specifically when
Speaker 1: I created it was really serving at the time. Of course,
Speaker 1: we update it pretty frequently because this industry is ever changing,
Speaker 1: so we have to kind of keep up with the times.
Speaker 1: But you know, it really is for anyone who because
Speaker 1: a lot of times people ask me, but like, well
Speaker 1: will it work for me? But I'm not a blogger,
Speaker 1: I'm not this or I'm this type of blogger. So
Speaker 1: what I always say to people is like, if you're
Speaker 1: a human being that has to send an email to
Speaker 1: another human being, like you have to pitch anything to anyone,
Speaker 1: this will work for you. Yes, for the most part,
Speaker 1: I think for for media and for collaborations, it will work. No,
Speaker 1: can you do it and just use your Instagram profile?
Speaker 1: Do you have to have You don't have to be
Speaker 1: a blogger. Okay, Um, you can have an Instagram, you
Speaker 1: can have a Pinterest, you can have a Twitter, any
Speaker 1: kind of any kind of online platform that you have.
Speaker 1: You have to have an online platform obviously. So how
Speaker 1: did you figure all of this out? How did you
Speaker 1: figure out how to be effective with brands on these platforms?
Speaker 1: Because I did it myself. You know, I spent I
Speaker 1: spent you know, now over ten years as a publicist
Speaker 1: to kind of learn that end of the spectrum. And
Speaker 1: then I spent like two years as a blogger doing
Speaker 1: exactly what we just talked about to really understand that process.
Speaker 1: And then I was able to kind of use those
Speaker 1: two things together. And do you feel like with brand deals,
Speaker 1: do you only do brands that match you as a person? Yeah,
Speaker 1: now I do. I think in the beginning trial and error,
Speaker 1: we all just it's like throwing spagetti at the wall
Speaker 1: to see what's sticks, right, like, oh yeah, this dog
Speaker 1: walking thing, I'll do that or this or that. And
Speaker 1: then at the time I think that you learn, when
Speaker 1: you really start to learn who you are as a
Speaker 1: brand and what your purposes and what your vision is
Speaker 1: and your why. Um, then you can start kind of
Speaker 1: carving out more of a strategy behind it. Um. But
Speaker 1: that's another thing. A lot of people don't know what
Speaker 1: their purposes or their vision is. How do you find
Speaker 1: your wife? Yeah, so um, that's at um. I can
Speaker 1: tell you kind of how I've uncovered it um. But
Speaker 1: that was something that I started after, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of helping a lot of people through their pitching process.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the next question of like, now,
Speaker 1: what I'm discovering is that when you know the pitches
Speaker 1: are working, but then when they're coming back to me
Speaker 1: to really want to do more bigger collaborations. I don't
Speaker 1: really have a brand, you know, like I just kind
Speaker 1: of a mass this following online, but like I don't
Speaker 1: know who I am or why it matters, or like
Speaker 1: how I'm trying to serve. So I've been I've been
Speaker 1: helping people kind of maneuver through that of really understanding
Speaker 1: their why, mapping out their their purpose and their vision,
Speaker 1: and then being able to put like a strategy behind it.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm going to be launching a new academy
Speaker 1: in the fall called the Influencer Academy NICE that's going
Speaker 1: to basically be like a master's program, like a like
Speaker 1: a like an educational program for someone who wants to
Speaker 1: become an influencer and really like an influencer with like
Speaker 1: purpose that can see staining a long term business as
Speaker 1: an influencer. So I always say it's kind of like
Speaker 1: some people go to school and spend thousands and thousands,
Speaker 1: sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars on some kind of
Speaker 1: education or degree that they never even use. So this
Speaker 1: is hopefully, you know, for those people who feel lost
Speaker 1: in that, giving them something that is way more manageable
Speaker 1: and cost effective and easy to retain. Um, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be about a six week program. Um, you get access
Speaker 1: to me and my team, and there's kind of a
Speaker 1: lot of great details that go in it, but that's
Speaker 1: going to really cover a lot of the purpose and
Speaker 1: the vision, mapping that out how can one gain clarity
Speaker 1: on that, and then the strategies that you need to
Speaker 1: then grow a brand, and then you have like list
Speaker 1: building and audience growth and marketing and all of that
Speaker 1: stuff that will come in with it. So because all
Speaker 1: the pitch at perfect dot net, that will be the
Speaker 1: Influencer Academy. So yeah, Julie Solomon dot net is my website.
Speaker 1: So we'll be having information on that very soon, but
Speaker 1: of course on Stagram, I mean I'll be I'll be
Speaker 1: sharing all the good news there, So that's an easy
Speaker 1: way to find it too. So if you're going to
Speaker 1: start your courses, say, I'm say on me actually and
Speaker 1: I would like to start your courses because I would
Speaker 1: like to start your courses. Would I start with pitch
Speaker 1: it Perfect? What? How would that? What are the options
Speaker 1: of classes I can take? And how would you start
Speaker 1: to begin? Like just someone who is kind of like
Speaker 1: because I feel like I I'm very much getting clearer
Speaker 1: on my purposes, but I'm still a little all over
Speaker 1: the place, So I feel like your course would be
Speaker 1: ideal for someone like me. Yeah, I think that you
Speaker 1: know that the pitch course is great because for someone
Speaker 1: who's who's really wanting to learn those pitch tactics. So
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they're just starting out as a blogger influencer.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've been doing it for a while and they plateaued.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've just been doing affiliate stuff and they want
Speaker 1: to try to like pitch brands, and maybe maybe they
Speaker 1: never even knew that they could do that, or maybe
Speaker 1: they were scared of pitching because they didn't know what
Speaker 1: to say. That's when pitch it Perfect would be a
Speaker 1: good fit for that kind of person because it offers
Speaker 1: you get like all of the emol templates that I
Speaker 1: used to land brand deal, So it kind of takes
Speaker 1: the guesswork out of like how what to say in
Speaker 1: the email and um, you kind of see a lot
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes of how I negotiate deals so
Speaker 1: you can get higher rates and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So it's it's more focused on the monetization and more
Speaker 1: of the collaboration with brands. You're really cutting off the
Speaker 1: middleman and building those relationships. So that's relationship building and
Speaker 1: monetization through pitching. Fluencer Academy is going to be more
Speaker 1: of an in depth, deep dive into someone who really
Speaker 1: has a passion and a dream and a desire to
Speaker 1: be an influencer, like for their career. Yeah, they want
Speaker 1: to be an online influencer and whatever that may look like.
Speaker 1: So that could mean, um, a blogger, that could mean
Speaker 1: a podcaster, that can mean a YouTuber, you know, just
Speaker 1: using their online platform to grow a sustainable business. So
Speaker 1: the academy is going to deep dive and all and
Speaker 1: all of the nooks and crannies on how to exactly
Speaker 1: do that. So we start with the purpose and vision
Speaker 1: and mapping that out. Then we go into the stress
Speaker 1: ategy of like what is your actual product or service
Speaker 1: um strategy on how to get that out to the world.
Speaker 1: And then once it's out there, how do we best
Speaker 1: service it, how do we innovate it, how do we
Speaker 1: grow our newsletter list so we can market it properly? Um,
Speaker 1: and then how do we leverage it from there? And
Speaker 1: I'm signing up, I'm signing one spot you can buy
Speaker 1: me okay, launching that in October. Actually, so um, what
Speaker 1: a useful service you're offering people. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's saving people so much time because they say you
Speaker 1: have the nuts and both of it, but you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. It's so much worth it's so
Speaker 1: worth it to put a little bit of an investment
Speaker 1: in with you and learn how to do it right
Speaker 1: so then you're not just spending your wheels and wasting
Speaker 1: all this time and like demoting your brand on accident.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of a lot of the reason why
Speaker 1: this evolved is because that's what happened to me, is
Speaker 1: that like I did it the hard way, which was
Speaker 1: just like figuring it out myself many years of trial
Speaker 1: and error. Um, because something like this didn't exist. And
Speaker 1: so now that I have the knowledge and the experience
Speaker 1: and the ability to create it for other people, than
Speaker 1: why wouldn't I do that? Um? You know. I remember
Speaker 1: the first online course I ever took. I was so
Speaker 1: terrified because I was like, it's you know, it is
Speaker 1: an investment, you know. I think it was like four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars or something, which is a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what is this Am I gonna
Speaker 1: be able to retain this information? This thing is online?
Speaker 1: What's going on? But it was an online course that
Speaker 1: was that actually taught like how to set up your
Speaker 1: website and stuff like that, and it was the most valuable,
Speaker 1: Like I'm so glad that I took that, just and
Speaker 1: not that I set there and I like listened to
Speaker 1: every single second. I mean with some of some of
Speaker 1: the stuff I might have already knew, so I was
Speaker 1: able to kind of take bits and pieces, but the
Speaker 1: the way that it helped curve that learning, yeah, was invaluable.
Speaker 1: I got out of that in probably three weeks what
Speaker 1: would have taken me easily through the months. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that alone of just to me, it was like the
Speaker 1: four dollars was well worth it learning from this person
Speaker 1: on how to properly set up my website and get
Speaker 1: going in three weeks, as opposed to me just like
Speaker 1: continuing to try to figure out which by that point
Speaker 1: I probably would have had to pay someone way more
Speaker 1: money than four to try to then like just fix
Speaker 1: it or do it or what have you. So that's
Speaker 1: the way you choose to frame it and look at it,
Speaker 1: because you just can't. It is a chunk of money,
Speaker 1: But like you said, the investment is so worth it
Speaker 1: to put that little bit on the right front end
Speaker 1: so you can have so much access on the back end. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And but this is what I always say to It's like, look,
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur, being being a business owner is not
Speaker 1: for everyone because the first step to being a business
Speaker 1: owner is investing in yourself. And if you are not
Speaker 1: someone who wants to invest in yourself, then you're not
Speaker 1: serious about being a business owner. And that's the that
Speaker 1: I always say about anyone that it's like, if you're
Speaker 1: not serious us about investing in yourself, whether that is
Speaker 1: investing in equipment, whether that's investing in services, products, photography.
Speaker 1: But whatever that is for you, then like, please don't
Speaker 1: sign up for my course because you're not going to
Speaker 1: get anything out of it because you're not really ready
Speaker 1: to show up. Yes, so I'm a firm believer and
Speaker 1: being completely honest that it's like it's not for everyone.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to really want to be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: Do you have to really want to be an entrepreneur?
Speaker 1: You have to be really excited. Hopefully we can curb
Speaker 1: some of that time by teaching a lot of techniques
Speaker 1: to to people as we grow in this online space.
Speaker 1: That's what helped me. So now that's what I want
Speaker 1: to be able to do for other people. But there,
Speaker 1: you know, for the for the people that want to
Speaker 1: just kind of like graze around, you know, and like
Speaker 1: for the faint of heart, Like this is not for
Speaker 1: the sin of heart. This is these are this is
Speaker 1: like your livelihood and these are people I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, so you're you're just your entire career in
Speaker 1: the music business, like songwriting, performing, having a music career,
Speaker 1: like innovating into other things. It is not for the
Speaker 1: people who just want to like fly into town and
Speaker 1: like hang out on music row and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Like it's a lot of flipping hard work. I don't
Speaker 1: care what industry you're in your that's all right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're so right. I think when you commit to being
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur entrepreneur, which in essence is committing to be
Speaker 1: a creative, you are committing to a roller coaster life,
Speaker 1: but in the best way. And you sort of have
Speaker 1: to just learn how to embrace it all because I
Speaker 1: used to fight my first few times I hit the
Speaker 1: rock bottom of the roller coaster, freaked out, panic attack,
Speaker 1: almost mental breakdown. First couple times really knocked me in
Speaker 1: my gut, like laid me out. And then you find
Speaker 1: the lesson and then you grow, and then it actually
Speaker 1: takes you somewhere else that you wouldn't have gone, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, I can next time, I'll
Speaker 1: be able to survive better because I know what I'm
Speaker 1: in the valley. It's gonna take me somewhere great. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you have to look at it too, of like,
Speaker 1: you know, by not showing up in the world and
Speaker 1: by not really stepping into what you want to do
Speaker 1: and and and not like saying I'm here, like claiming
Speaker 1: your spot because it's, like you said, having people put
Speaker 1: their feelings on you with fear of like what people
Speaker 1: are gonna say, Like it's scary to put yourself out there.
Speaker 1: Of course it is, especially as and I love that
Speaker 1: you used I mean being and I agree with you
Speaker 1: being an influencer, being an entrepreneur. To me, that is
Speaker 1: being an artist and being a creative being, which all
Speaker 1: of us are born by God as creative beings. That's
Speaker 1: what we're put on this earth to do. And so
Speaker 1: by waking up every day and intentionally not doing that,
Speaker 1: you're only stealing from those people who need you the most.
Speaker 1: And that is such a good point to use your
Speaker 1: how you're saying it, to use your gift as how
Speaker 1: can you serve? You use the words serve, like how
Speaker 1: can I serve? People? Like, yes, you are making this
Speaker 1: your business and you're making money off of it, but
Speaker 1: it's to serve people and to help people. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the key. You have to find your career
Speaker 1: where you can use your gifts to serve others exactly
Speaker 1: because it's always a service and not a cell at
Speaker 1: least I look at especially if it's if it's a
Speaker 1: purposeful service. Now, of course, could you have like this
Speaker 1: easy car salesman with like the gold chains, you know, sure,
Speaker 1: But if you're really coming from a place of authenticity
Speaker 1: and of love and light and purpose and vision and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff that we were talking about. Um,
Speaker 1: even you know the songs that people write, it's like,
Speaker 1: I may be paying for that song on iTunes, but
Speaker 1: it's a service because it's doing something to my soul.
Speaker 1: It's uplifting me, it's making me happy, it's making me
Speaker 1: want to dance, whatever that may be. If I go
Speaker 1: to a restaurant order food, I have to pay for
Speaker 1: the food, but it is it is serving my body,
Speaker 1: is nourishing my body, or it's just making me feel
Speaker 1: really good. If it's like something that's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think that it's if you look at what you do
Speaker 1: as a service instead of a sell, because that's another
Speaker 1: big reason that people are afraid to show up right
Speaker 1: because they they're afraid of that criticism of of like
Speaker 1: looking to sales. Well, I don't want to pitch myself
Speaker 1: or I don't want to post this, or I don't
Speaker 1: want to say this, or I'm not gonna do that
Speaker 1: because people are gonna think this about me or say
Speaker 1: that I'm in this or that or what it's like
Speaker 1: what people say or think about you as none of
Speaker 1: your business. Anyway. I love that I had. It's taken
Speaker 1: me tell my mid thirties to really believe that. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I still have a hard time like living it, but
Speaker 1: I believe that with my full self now it's none
Speaker 1: of my business. Like I know now that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be a good person every day and if someone
Speaker 1: if you do something that upset someone and it's unintentional,
Speaker 1: you can't really worry too much about it exactly. And
Speaker 1: the way that I look at criticism, it's like if
Speaker 1: you get criticized for something even if it had no value.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about constructive criticism, but if someone says,
Speaker 1: like I had someone write me the other day and
Speaker 1: she was like, Hey, I love your podcast, but could
Speaker 1: you please stop saying this word in this way because
Speaker 1: it's nails on a chalk for it, But I really
Speaker 1: love what you're doing. Thanks, And you know, I just
Speaker 1: had to stop for a minute to be like, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's actually really awesome that, like, at least
Speaker 1: I'm producing something that is worth criticizing. Amended that you know,
Speaker 1: because if something is like like rudimentary or like average
Speaker 1: or boring, I'm gonna be caring. Yeah, at least to me,
Speaker 1: it's like I want to like I think that we
Speaker 1: should always be going into it asking ourselves those questions
Speaker 1: of like, how can we create something that is worth criticizing?
Speaker 1: I love that. Heck, yes, Julie, what would you tell
Speaker 1: your twenty year old your twenties, yourself and your twenties,
Speaker 1: what would you tell her? Um, you're having a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, keep doing that. But I just know that
Speaker 1: it's all gonna work out and be okay. I think too.
Speaker 1: I would have also told her that if if she
Speaker 1: I don't think she she could have heard it. But
Speaker 1: just to be more present, I think that I always
Speaker 1: flew by the seat of my pants, which again was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I got to experience a lot,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember a lot of it because I
Speaker 1: wasn't present in that moment. I relate, Julie, I relate
Speaker 1: to that. Yea, So just really being in that in
Speaker 1: that moment of just appreciating and the gratitude of just
Speaker 1: the joys of I mean, twenties are insane because we're insane.
Speaker 1: It's like we're it's like we're toddlers in a way,
Speaker 1: you know, like we're in the world. You're like toddlers
Speaker 1: that can take care of themselves exactly kind of you know,
Speaker 1: you won't hopefully die your own toddlers. So interesting time,
Speaker 1: but it's it's such a beautiful time because you have
Speaker 1: no responsibility other than yourself. You you know, you can,
Speaker 1: you can fly by the seat of your pants and
Speaker 1: enjoy life and see your friends all of the time
Speaker 1: and just do so much. So I think that I
Speaker 1: would say, you know, keep doing that because you're you're
Speaker 1: really good at that. Keep living life. But just be
Speaker 1: be more present in the moment and and when you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just be more present with people. I think too, what
Speaker 1: has your thirty year old self taken away from this
Speaker 1: decade so far? Presence for sure, patients, I think a
Speaker 1: child would do that to you. Um, and just I
Speaker 1: think gratitude, you know, I think that I've I've always
Speaker 1: been a glass half full person anyways, so that's probably
Speaker 1: innately in me. But really taking a moment to sit
Speaker 1: back and be just grateful just for the little things,
Speaker 1: I mean, as simple as like my breath my heart beating,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to do anything for it to.
Speaker 1: Like the garbage man taking my trash every week too,
Speaker 1: you know, my dogs still being here at twelve years
Speaker 1: old and being so cute and fluffy that I get
Speaker 1: to walk every day just seeing those moments as as
Speaker 1: gratitudes instead of just like you know, the trashman's loud, uh,
Speaker 1: the dog's barking, you know, just trying to come from
Speaker 1: more of a place of of just joy. How did
Speaker 1: you teach yourself to do that? Because a lot of
Speaker 1: people never learned that lesson of therapy helps. Everything is wonderful.
Speaker 1: Therapy is amazing. I think that I think that that
Speaker 1: should be actually something that the government pays for that
Speaker 1: every human being. I totally agree, before they put you
Speaker 1: on all the different medications, not that I don't think
Speaker 1: people should have medications, but before they put you straight
Speaker 1: on a pilly, you you to go to six monther therapy.
Speaker 1: I think every week, yes, just and it feels good
Speaker 1: just to just to give yourself. What I love about
Speaker 1: therapy or that idea of therapy is it it gives
Speaker 1: you a space, like a safe space to really think
Speaker 1: and feel for yourself or to just start learning and
Speaker 1: you can just say it as ugly as it is
Speaker 1: and as terrible, as jacked up as it is in
Speaker 1: your brain. You can say it out loud and someone
Speaker 1: has the resources to help you organize it. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I mean it's like we're all messy, So just being
Speaker 1: able to to sit in that messiness in a safe
Speaker 1: space is great. So I think, um, you know, I've
Speaker 1: had a lot of great mentors and um in my
Speaker 1: late twenties and early thirties, like I I you know,
Speaker 1: I would do therapy. I started reading a lot of
Speaker 1: amazing books and I really started you know, one of
Speaker 1: my intentions a few years ago was was to find
Speaker 1: people like that, Like I want to find mentors and
Speaker 1: thought leaders and people who are really going to help
Speaker 1: me get to that next space. So I sent that
Speaker 1: out to the universe and and I received it. So
Speaker 1: I have have an amazing life coach and energy healer
Speaker 1: out here named Nicolas Salter that I go to for
Speaker 1: a lot of my stuff. And I did a lot
Speaker 1: of work with her about four years ago, and she
Speaker 1: really The work that I did with her kind of
Speaker 1: like like put all of this stuff into motion. It
Speaker 1: was kind of when I was like at one of
Speaker 1: those like you know, rock bottom places where I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with my life and
Speaker 1: I thought I had it figured out, and like now
Speaker 1: I'm this mom and I don't know what's what? You
Speaker 1: know what is life? And you kind of shifted things
Speaker 1: for me. And then, um, I read a lot of books,
Speaker 1: you know, like a course in Miracles is one that's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like a Bible. So if that's
Speaker 1: too much for people, you can read a course and
Speaker 1: Miracles made Easy by Alan Cohen. That's amazing. Um, let's see. Um.
Speaker 1: Maria Shriver is incredible. I love just she has something
Speaker 1: called the Sunday Paper. If you subscribe to her newsletter,
Speaker 1: you get it every Sunday morning in your inbox and
Speaker 1: it's just like magic to your heart. I listened to
Speaker 1: a lot of podcasts so like Super Soul Sunday, a
Speaker 1: lot of super Souls. My faith, it's she's the best.
Speaker 1: Obra is touched by God, like, thank God we have
Speaker 1: over on this world right, thank you. Maryan Williamson is amazing.
Speaker 1: She's you know, an o G but great. So I
Speaker 1: do I just I try to read a lot so
Speaker 1: I wish I could surround myself even more so with
Speaker 1: just amazing people at all times. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: not enough time in the day, enough time of the day,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do. I try to just really find
Speaker 1: awesome people to learn from, whether that's in person or
Speaker 1: just online or through books. Julie, So you're a constant seeker,
Speaker 1: You're a constant grower. You are serving people with your
Speaker 1: own gifts. You're taking the time to self discover and
Speaker 1: better yourself, which in turn is bettering all of us
Speaker 1: who get to know you and experience your wisdom. So
Speaker 1: I am so appreciative that you join me and shared
Speaker 1: all of this with me today because I feel like
Speaker 1: you are such a great example um influencing, but being
Speaker 1: an authentic influencer while awesome, having all of your soul
Speaker 1: there too, which I think is such a crucial point
Speaker 1: to being a great influencer. So I'm just so thrilled
Speaker 1: you join me. I always like to leave with one thing,
Speaker 1: and this whole interview has been inspiring, but I always
Speaker 1: like to leave leave your life. So just basically, if
Speaker 1: you had, if you the Julie Solomon message that you're
Speaker 1: wanting to speak loud and proud to everyone, especially maybe
Speaker 1: younger people who are trying to find themselves, get involved
Speaker 1: with their career. Whatever, What do you want to say
Speaker 1: to these young seekers or these people out there? What
Speaker 1: would your big message be if you could leave one,
Speaker 1: I would say that, you know, purposeful influence because we
Speaker 1: all influence, right, I mean throughout the our days, right,
Speaker 1: all day long, we're influencing or we're being influenced right,
Speaker 1: either by someone or something. So I think that a
Speaker 1: purposeful influence is a decision that we make um And
Speaker 1: you know, you could always ask yourself in those moments
Speaker 1: of like does this bring more joy into the world
Speaker 1: or does this diminish joy in the world? And the
Speaker 1: world can be within you, because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times that fear will get in the way. So
Speaker 1: when we start with the with those limiting beliefs and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, just stopping and saying like is
Speaker 1: this bringing more joy into my world? Or is this
Speaker 1: diminishing more joy in my world? And then from there
Speaker 1: you can choose the path that you want to take.
Speaker 1: I love that to say you have no path? What
Speaker 1: do you start with? Just what you're curious about? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What lights you up, who inspires you? I think that, um,
Speaker 1: Glenn and Doyle Melton says, and it's resonated with me.
Speaker 1: She goes, tell me who you're envious of, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what you should be doing, And tell me
Speaker 1: what breaks your heart, and I'll tell you who should
Speaker 1: be serving Hi, I mean chill. So those are the
Speaker 1: two questions that and I go back to that all
Speaker 1: of the time because it's so true that, like, tell
Speaker 1: me who you're envious of? Because she always that she could.
Speaker 1: She hated reading books, like she didn't want to look
Speaker 1: at it. A new author would write something and she
Speaker 1: would be like, but it's because she wanted to be
Speaker 1: doing that. So use your envious positive It's like positive
Speaker 1: envy because you're like, I love this, I want to
Speaker 1: do Okay, So who are you envious of? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: at this moment, I would probably say people that I've
Speaker 1: gotten actually into my community. I think that my my mastermind.
Speaker 1: I'm in a mastermind, um, which is it's it's like
Speaker 1: a it's a group of ten female entrepreneurs were with
Speaker 1: each other all year. We kind of like it when
Speaker 1: we're led by this one, by our mastermind leader. I
Speaker 1: know it kind of sounds really our mastermind leader. I'm
Speaker 1: not a mind leader led by Melissa. And then there's
Speaker 1: there's ten of us that kind of like support each
Speaker 1: other throughout the year. So I think that I'm probably
Speaker 1: envious of all of them to some degree, but in
Speaker 1: a good way. They're inspiring because they were so inspiring
Speaker 1: and I'll see something and I'm like, oh, that's such
Speaker 1: a good idea. Okay, oh oh oh, So I think
Speaker 1: everyone in my mastermind group, I'm so happily envia SUV
Speaker 1: and I love them. How great to be in a
Speaker 1: group that you are so inspired by? Yeah, it's pretty special.
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. Melissa Griffin is our mastermind leader. She
Speaker 1: um is an incredible, incredible woman. Super envias of her,
Speaker 1: super inspired by her. UM breaks your heart, um Cash,
Speaker 1: you know, a literacy breaks my heart. Uh, anything relating
Speaker 1: to poverty and children break my heart, especially you know,
Speaker 1: I came. I was born in a really small town
Speaker 1: in middle Tennessee where it's like I think it's like
Speaker 1: the community is illiterate. Um. Most of them have like
Speaker 1: a second grade reading level, very low income, UM, and
Speaker 1: they're just kind of stuck. So that breaks my heart.
Speaker 1: So I know I need to do something there. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of working towards that with something philanthropically UM to
Speaker 1: to serve that community I came from UM. That definitely
Speaker 1: breaks my heart. So, Julie, you're amazing. So you're you're
Speaker 1: such a good person. Like I been talking to you
Speaker 1: and being with you, I love love being in your
Speaker 1: energy because you are so good. And by good I
Speaker 1: mean you're just striving for good things in all areas
Speaker 1: of your life for people, and it's so wonderful to
Speaker 1: be around that goodness. Thank you. It's wonderful to receive
Speaker 1: your goodness too, it's right back at you. It's just
Speaker 1: reflecting what's already there for you. Well, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to take your class. Literally, I'm going to sign up
Speaker 1: because I need to figure out how to pitch myself.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just not learning how to make money on
Speaker 1: all my stuff. I'm like, gosh, canl You're such a
Speaker 1: no no counting You're you are growing gracefully into your business.
Speaker 1: You're learning every day. You're learning every day, learning every day.
Speaker 1: But thank you so much for your services. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for chatting at me. This is the end
Speaker 1: of the Influencer series. Julie, you are my final one.
Speaker 1: You guys, that wraps up the End Fluncer series. I
Speaker 1: hope you loved it as much as I did. I
Speaker 1: learned so much from every single girl. I really did.
Speaker 1: I learned so much about all of this. It's a
Speaker 1: wild world out there, so I'm so grateful that these
Speaker 1: girls came on here and shared all of their knowledge
Speaker 1: with me and with y'all. And just make sure you
Speaker 1: follow all of them to keep up with them, because
Speaker 1: they are on the cutting edge and they know what's
Speaker 1: going on. So that wraps my Influencer series. I hope
Speaker 1: you loved it, and I will be back to you
Speaker 1: with more podcasts with more exciting guests coming your way
Speaker 1: next week. See then, Bye,