my Panera recently got a new manager and the place is changing for the better. I talked to him and then put in my application to working the dining room for lunch hours. He asked me what I wanted to get paid and he said no, I'm going to pay you more. I'm getting paid extra for my experience and this position often gets a decent amount of cash tips. Everyone that works here is so excited to work with me. The reason I started cleaning in the first place is because I had a hard time being in a busy location with lots of people around. However, things have changed and I do very well with the shorter interactions and with being my helpful self. Instead of draining me, it now gives me energy. I can see this building my confidence even more which will be of a great benefit for my business.

My win is that I found a style of posting that's working well for me. I have 270 followers and for the past week have been getting more views/video than I have followers. That's pretty darn amazing! My follower count is slowly growing, which is perfectly ok with me. This morning I turned my daily selfie into a video instead of a picture with text. I think I figured out something that will keep people on my videos longer, which is pure gold. This morning instead of taking a picture, I recorded a still video of me and the only movement you see is the blinking for 15 seconds. The background noise at Panera is the "music". I put some text on the cover, that will last the entire 15 seconds. As I clicked to post I noticed I can select how long the text stays on the screen. So, lets say I have the text stay on for 5 seconds, then I should be able to put more text after that 5 seconds, let that sit for 5 seconds and keep repeating. There's another creator I follow who doesn't talk in her videos much, but mutes the sound of the video, puts text on top and adds some music. I noticed I stayed on her videos longer to read the text, which is where I came up with the idea to try a similar approach. Because I'm the creator of my product, I can turn every video into a shoppable video even though I'm far below the threshold where people can do normally do this for a product. It's going slow, but it's manageable which is the best way to do it for my brain. https://www.tiktok.com/@teamthriveforward

For all the members celebrating Thursday's I'll say: Sure. Happy. It's. Thursday. You know like T.G.I.F. but for Thursday instead. I am very grateful for each of you and the friendship that are growing in the community. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving.

I've been focused on quite a bit of investing recently, both personal and people that insist on acting like I'm a professional and ask for financial advice, which I NEVER give. But after speaking with a few people who are starting to do really well on Skool this week, a similar pattern emerged, and my favorite way to describe it is to say you're getting compounding interest on your consistent, focused activities. So, I decided to explain, to myself and share it with you. I was hired to teach compounding to new financial advisors about 30 years ago, and I can't ever get this out of my head. Let's see if I can make a financial concept clear enough to adapt it to your coaching businesses. It's a long read, so the TLDR version: Compounding efforts are cumulative, but you need to actively engage 5 "levers" consistently to make this work. Honestly, I don't, yet. First, the classic explanation of compound interest (money version). Compound interest is often called “the eighth wonder of the world” because it makes money grow exponentially instead of linearly. The formula is: A = P × (1 + r)^t Where: - A = the final amount you have - P = the principal (starting amount) - r = the growth rate per period (usually yearly) - t = the number of time periods (years) Example with money: You invest $10,000 at 10% annual interest, compounded yearly. - After 1 year: $11,000 - After 2 years: $12,100 - After 10 years: ≈ $25,937 - After 20 years: ≈ $67,275 - After 30 years: ≈ $174,494 Notice that in the first 10 years, you roughly 2.6x your money, but in the next 20 years, you go from $25k to $174k. The growth accelerates because you’re now earning interest on your interest (and on the interest on the interest…). Now, the same formula is applied to growing a coaching business. A coach’s business compounds in almost the same way, but the variables mean something different: A = P × (1 + r^t) - P = Your starting number of clients (or starting revenue) - r = Your compounded monthly (or yearly) growth rate coming from multiple levers - t = Time (usually measured in months or years) - A = The size of your business in the future (clients, revenue, impact, freedom)

Say Hello, Welcome, Hola, Bonjour, and Ciao to @Danielle Beeny, who has decided to join our community. The Welcome post to start with is Here. Looking forward to you sharing your journey and developing it in this community.