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your values for counseling, your values
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for for people and growing people into
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the best counselors they can be.
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I think that I still fall back and rely
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on my main value words, which were like
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I said were authenticity and compassion.
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And I think that if I'm operating in a
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way that doesn't emulate those values,
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then I'm not in line with who I want to
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be. And you know, as a business person,
0:24
obviously you have to make money,
0:26
otherwise it's not a business. And I
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think that because my values have always
0:29
been about like service. I mean, I was a
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teacher for 15 years. Like, these are
0:32
not professions where you think you're
0:34
going to make a lot of money. And so,
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it's never really been my primary
0:37
driver. I mean, obviously, I would like
0:39
to be paid, you know, for my time and I
0:41
would like to benefit from all the work
0:43
that I do to be the business owner, but
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it's not been my primary driving force.
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And I think that in order to be a
0:49
business owner, you have to understand
0:50
where your gaps are. And so, I've I've
0:52
hired consultants. I've hired business
0:55
coaches to help me with the blind spots
0:57
and the areas that I'm not naturally
0:58
skilled with because I think that, you
1:00
know, one, I owe it to the people that
1:02
work for me to have somebody who helps
1:04
me be better at it so that it can then
1:06
be better for them. And, you know,
1:08
obviously just bouncing things off of
1:10
off of our team. We have a leadership
1:12
team now that is really helpful because
1:14
I'm not just trying to figure everything
1:15
out by myself or just with you, but we
1:17
have, you know, a lot of brilliant minds
1:19
that are that are plugged into, you
1:22
know, all aspects of the business and
1:24
they can tell us things that we need to
1:25
improve on or change or or things that
1:27
are going well. And I think that again
1:29
back to the last episode where, you
1:32
know, learning to ask for help has been
1:34
an area of growth for me. That's the
1:36
other that's what I have to do as a
1:38
business owner as well is recognize I I
1:40
can't do it by myself and I don't want
1:42
to. I really don't want to.
1:43
So, one of the things that that we often
1:46
support our clients with is walking
1:48
through, right? Is is seeing where a
1:51
change needs to be made and making that
1:53
change and it's scary, right?
1:56
And and you had a bunch of different
1:59
careers in your life. You've recurered a
2:02
couple of times. you've started a
2:05
business, a podcast, you're starting,
2:07
you know, a an app for therapists and
2:11
stuff. So, so how have you walked
2:14
through the fears, right? And how how
2:17
has walking through the fears changed as
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I'm assuming you're old you're older and
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I mean, I don't get older. I just pretty
2:28
much stay the exact same age. But um no,
2:31
I I think that I used to be a little bit
2:34
more leap and then look where I leaped
2:36
and hope for the best and
2:38
maybe trust in my capabilities to figure
2:40
things out as I go along. And um I did
2:44
more of that at the beginning. I mean,
2:45
we took out a huge loan to to start the
2:48
business and we like it's it was crazy
2:51
just thinking about the risk that we
2:53
took to to start Infinite. And then when
2:55
I think about what I didn't know, I
2:58
mean, it was a lot of risk, you know,
3:00
like I really didn't know what I was
3:01
doing. I hadn't ever been a business
3:03
person and I'd been a counselor for five
3:05
seconds. Like I really didn't know. I
3:07
just knew that I'm a strong leader and
3:09
that I look out for people and those two
3:12
things could be beneficial as a business
3:14
owner and leader. Um, but I really
3:16
didn't know much else. So when I think
3:17
about fear, I mean, gosh, I'm I'm always
3:21
afraid. I'm always afraid. every every
3:24
time I run a basic training course, I'm
3:26
afraid like are we going to have enough
3:28
people? Are is it going to be a strong
3:31
enough uh you know delivery of the
3:32
content that they're going to employ
3:34
what they learn? Uh or is it going to be
3:36
a waste of their time? I mean, I'm
3:37
always walking through fear, you know,
3:39
thinking about the software company.
3:41
Will it benefit us at Infinite 100%. I'm
3:44
positive about that. But will I know how
3:46
to get it out so that other people can
3:48
benefit and it will be awesome, you
