June 19, 2023 • 23 mins
Are you tired of the daily grind and dreaming of starting an online business? Want to set your own schedule and work from wherever you choose? Are you dreaming of having the freedom to travel to wherever you want?
Maybe you have a business but haven’t seen the success you wanted. Maybe you don’t even know where to start.
What do you need to kickstart your dream of working for yourself? Here’s what you DON’T need: a large following, a website, an email list, the perfect Instagram feed, or a sales funnel.
In this episode, I share valuable insights on entrepreneurship and three essential tips for a successful online business.
- Don’t wait until you’re 100% ready because you never will be!
- Be willing to invest in yourself.
- Take massive action - don’t let anything stop you from achieving your goals, no matter how many times you ‘fail’ along the way.
With the help of these self-improvement tips, you’ll learn what it takes to beat self-doubt and step into your next level. It’s time to learn the three things every entrepreneur needs to cultivate a successful online business!
If you know that you’re made for more, and you’re ready to commit to yourself and commit to your business and make your dream a reality, then you won’t want to miss this episode!
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Lindsay (00:09):
How many times have you thought about quitting your job
and starting a new life?
Hey, i'm Lindsay, the girl whoactually did that, and now I'm
on a mission to change the 9-5narrative that dreading Monday
and working for the weekend isnormal and acceptable.
My goal is to help you see yourpotential beyond your
(00:29):
credentials, gain clarity onwhat it means to live life on
your own terms and build theconfidence to go after your
dream career.
I'm here to prove to you thatit's possible for you to do work
you love, make a positiveimpact on the world, make even
more money than you're makingright now, and live a deeply
fulfilling life.
So let's dive in.
Hello, my love, happy Monday.
(01:01):
I hope you're having an amazingday.
So today I thought I would talkabout the three things that you
need in order to have asuccessful online business.
So if you're someone who hasbeen dreaming about working for
yourself and making money onlineso that you can set your own
(01:23):
schedule, work from home, workfrom wherever, have so much
freedom, travel whenever youwant to and just live your best
fucking life, then this is foryou.
And before we get into it, ihave to let you know I decided
to open up two spots for myprivate one-on-one coaching and
(01:44):
I want to work with you.
If you are someone who has beendreaming of working for
yourself, so maybe you've hadthis dream for months, but you
haven't started your onlinebusiness yet.
Or maybe you have started it,you've started your side hustle,
but you want to finally go allin on it so that you can be able
(02:05):
to fully support yourself andquit your nine to five and make
your dream life a reality.
So I want to work with you andhelp you overcome all of the
self-doubt, all of the anxiety,all of the fears that come along
with making this type of movein your life.
(02:25):
Because I've been there Andfrom what I have seen and what
I'll talk about in today'sepisode, what's going to matter
most for your success is yourmindset, is overcoming all of
those limiting beliefs that aretelling you why it won't work,
that are telling you you won'tmake enough money, that are
(02:46):
saying who are you to start abusiness?
who are you to ask people to payyou for this?
you can't do this right now inthis economy.
Who's going to pay you?
what if you fail?
what are your parents going tothink?
what if people don't supportyou, like all of the mental
drama.
So if you know that you aremade for more and you're ready
(03:06):
to commit to yourself and committo your business and make your
dream a reality and start movingtoward this life of freedom
that you know is possible foryou, then I want to work with
you.
So you can go to LindsayHansencom, slash apply or click
the link in the show notes toapply for private coaching.
(03:30):
I'm only taking on two privateclients for this month.
That is all that I have thecapacity for right now, so don't
wait to apply.
If this is something thatyou're interested in, don't wait
.
Spots are going to fill outfast.
Okay, any questions?
you can send an email toinfoatlindsayhansoncom or find
(03:51):
me on Instagram or LinkedIn andsend me a DM.
Okay, so let's dive into threethings.
You need to have a successfulonline business And, to start, i
want to talk about what youdon't need.
Here's what you don't need inorder to start making money
online.
You do not need a big following, whether that's Instagram,
(04:16):
facebook, youtube, your podcastbut, like you, don't need a big
following.
When I started my business, theonly platform I was using was
Instagram and I had less than200 followers And I got five
clients in my first month.
You don't need a big following.
You don't need a website.
I still don't have a website.
Like you don't need a website.
(04:38):
You don't need Facebook ads.
You don't need an email list.
You don't need perfectly editedphotos and videos.
You don't need to have the bestmarketing strategy and sales
funnels and all of this shit,like you.
Just you don't need thosethings.
So if you are someone who'svery wrapped up in, i need to
(05:00):
grow my following or I need tohire someone to edit all my
videos and pictures and I needto start a podcast and I need to
hire someone to create mywebsite and I need to invest in
ads.
Like you don't need any of thatshit.
I'm not saying don't do thatstuff.
If you want to, that's great,but if don't let those things
(05:20):
hold you back, don't not startyour business because you don't
have a big following.
Don't not post something onInstagram because it's not a
perfectly edited, professionallooking photo.
Don't not start making offersbecause you don't have a website
yet.
Okay, those are the things youdon't need.
(05:40):
Here's what you do need.
Number one you need to bewilling to start before you feel
ready.
You need to start before you'reready.
Okay, if you are out there andyou're waiting to start your
business and you're waiting tomake an Instagram post and
create an offer and startcoaching people or selling your
(06:02):
product or whatever type ofbusiness you have, if you're
waiting until you feel ready,you are never going to get
started.
You're never going to feelready.
This is something that youlearn as you go.
It's something that is outsideof your comfort zone, so you're
not going to feel ready.
You just have to start.
Like nothing in me felt readyto quit my job and launch an
(06:28):
online fitness coaching businesswhen I was not even certified
as a fitness coach yet.
I was not ready.
I was not ready.
I didn't do it because I feltready.
I did it shitting my pants,fucking terrified, because I
knew if I kept waiting, i wouldbe waiting forever.
You have to make the Instagrampost before you're ready.
(06:51):
You have to put yourself outthere and make offers to people
Before you feel ready.
It's going to be really fuckinguncomfortable at first and the
more you do it, the more you'regonna get used to it, the more
you're gonna learn, the morethings are gonna start to click
and start to work, but you haveto start before you're ready.
(07:11):
And here's how you know if thisis where you're stuck.
If you have been dreaming aboutworking for yourself and
launching your business Andmaking money online for months
or years even, but you haven'tstarted yet.
You still haven't started.
You haven't made any offers,you haven't gotten any clients,
you haven't made any money.
It's still just a dream.
(07:31):
If that's you, then this iswhere you're stuck, and you
might be Thinking that you needmore knowledge first.
You need to learn more thingsfirst, whether that's knowledge
about how to start your businessand start making money online,
or Knowledge about whatever yourarea of expertise is like.
If you want to be a coach, youfeel like you need some sort of
(07:55):
certification first, or you needto learn more about coaching.
Learn more about Fitness if youwant to be a fitness coach.
Learn more about life coachingif you want to be a life coach,
like whatever, and Like yes, ifyou need a certification to do
what you want to do, then getthe certification.
But that doesn't mean there'snothing you can do right now to
start.
Before I had my personaltraining certification, i was
(08:17):
posting on Instagram lettingeveryone know I was gonna be a
fitness coach, posting myworkouts, posting my food,
posting things that were helpfulto people, because You already
have enough knowledge to helpsomeone.
And even if you can't Take onclients yet because you do
actually need a certification,then great, get your
(08:38):
certification.
But in the meantime, thatdoesn't mean that there's
nothing you can do.
That doesn't mean you can'tstart today, right now, okay,
and most of the time You don'tactually need a certification.
It's just a matter of you notfeeling qualified, you not
feeling ready, and you feel like, well, once I'm certified, then
I'll feel ready, but you'restill not going to.
Once you have a piece of paperthat says here, you are now
(09:01):
qualified to do the thing, areyou still gonna feel ready?
No, like once, just because Ihad my personal training
certification, i still had nevertrained anyone in my life like
I still didn't feel ready Justbecause I was able to pass a
multiple choice exam aboutPersonal training, like it's not
gonna make you feel ready.
(09:22):
You're not gonna magically feelready once you have that piece
of paper, right?
so if this is you and you arespending all of your time Doing
their research, following allthe people who have online
businesses and seeing whatthey're doing and learning from
them and listening to all thepodcast, listening to this
podcast, but you are notimplementing any of this
(09:44):
knowledge, you're not takingaction.
You haven't actually startedyet.
Then this is where you're stuck.
It's because you're waiting tofeel ready, and that day is not
coming, sis, you have to starttoday.
You have to start right now.
You have to make the Instagrampost.
You have to let the people knowthat you want to be a coach.
You have to just do the thing.
Anything.
(10:04):
Start today.
Okay, so that's the first thing.
You need to have a successfulonline business.
Here's the second thing youneed You need to invest in
yourself.
I do not know a singleSuccessful entrepreneur who does
not have Her own coach, who hasnot invested tens or hundreds
(10:27):
of thousands of dollars Intoherself and into her business.
And I'm not saying you have toput down a hundred thousand
dollars today and invest in acoach, but what I'm saying is,
if you're not willing to investin yourself, in your business,
in your own personal development, especially if you do want to
be a coach, you're gonna keepyourself stuck for a really long
(10:51):
time.
And so here's how you know ifthis is What's been holding you
back.
Right if you consume all thefree things, all of the podcasts
, all the free challenges, butyou never take that next step
and put money down and hire acoach or sign up for a course or
a program Or whatever you feelcalled to do.
(11:14):
Right if you're willing toconsume anything That's free but
not willing to put money down.
And then you're going to staystuck.
Because true transformation,true up leveling, getting to
that next level of Yourself,moving into your highest self
and where you want to be in yourlife and in your business, can
(11:36):
only happen when you have skinin the game.
And I'm not saying don'tconsume the free things, like,
yes, learn from the free things,but understand that That's not
what's gonna actually push youto your next level.
And if you are always saying,well, i'll hire a coach once I'm
making more money or I justcan't afford it right now, that
(11:56):
is backwards thinking that'sgoing to keep you stuck.
And I've been there like I getit.
I mean, there were a lot oftimes where I was like I just
can't afford it right now, butonce I'm making more money then
I'll hire another coach.
But the thing is what I neededto do in order to reach that
(12:19):
next level where I was makingthe amount of money I wanted to
be making was hire a coach.
Like it was not okay, i'll makemore money and once I'm making
more money I'll hire a coach.
It's like no girlfriend, youneed to hire the coach so that
you can step into that nextversion of yourself and be at
the level where you're makingthat amount of money.
Like that's how you get there,it's not what you do after you
(12:43):
get there, it's how you getthere.
And once I realized that, irealized that the idea I
couldn't afford it right now wasjust alive from my ego.
It was an excuse.
It was me keeping myself smallbecause it was scary for me to
invest that money.
But once I did it once I hiredmy life coach and I was really
(13:05):
fucking terrified anduncomfortable with the amount of
money that I invested to hirethat coach it all made sense.
I was like, oh, this is exactlywhat I needed to do to get to
my next level.
And if I had kept saying tomyself I can't afford it right
now, i'll do it once I'm makingmore money, then I would have
stayed at that small level ofnot making enough money to
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afford a coach.
Quote unquote afford a coachAnd just the transaction alone.
Before we even started coachingme.
Putting that money down, thatwas a really uncomfortable
amount of money for me Andfeeling like I was, i could
literally feel myself likestretching.
(13:50):
I felt like I was stretchingmyself.
I was pushing myself to my nextlevel because I was getting
outside of my comfort zone andmaking that investment and
saying yes to myself and bettingon myself, and I was literally
telling my ego listen, bitch, idon't have time for you today.
(14:11):
I'm done listening to you.
I'm done letting you keep mesmall.
I'm going to my next level.
That's the only option, becausethere's no way in hell I'm
putting this much money down andnot seeing a return on that
investment.
The best thing you can ever dois invest in yourself, whether
you want to be an entrepreneuror not.
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It's the best investment you'reever going to make is on
yourself and your own personaldevelopment.
But especially if you want towork for yourself and especially
if you want to be a coach or ifyou are a coach, this is so
fucking important because howcan you expect others to invest
in you if you're not willing toinvest in yourself.
(14:54):
Right.
It's like you can't afford notto hire a coach if you're
feeling stuck right now, becauseuntil you invest in yourself,
until you stretch yourself andget out of your comfort zone,
you're not gonna reach your nextlevel.
So it's not a matter of waitinguntil you're at your next level
and then making the investmentwhen it feels comfortable.
(15:16):
It's about making theinvestment because it feels
uncomfortable and therefore it'sgoing to stretch you into your
next level.
Okay so, number one startbefore you're ready.
Number two invest in yourselfeven when it feels really
uncomfortable.
Especially when it feels reallyuncomfortable.
Basically, all you need to havea successful business is be
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willing to get really fuckinguncomfortable all the damn time.
That's really it.
In case you haven't caught on,these are not three practical
things that you need, like awebsite and a perfect Instagram
feed and an email list, andthat's because the practical
things are never a solution.
(15:59):
They really are not.
Like, yes, learn aboutmarketing, learn about selling.
Yes, the more people you reach,the better, because you have a
service or product that can helpthem.
Like, yes, do the practicalthings.
But the practical things arenever going to get you to
success if you're not doing theinner work.
(16:21):
If you're not investing inyourself, if you're not working
on your own personal development, if you're not working through
the underlying limiting beliefsthat are telling you it's not
possible, if you're listening toyour ego, that's telling you
not to do this because it'sscary and it's uncomfortable.
In all the mental drama, ifyou're caught up in all that, it
doesn't matter what practicalthings you're doing.
(16:43):
You're never going to reach thelevel of success that you want.
You just won't.
It's a combination of both.
The practical and the thoughtwork always.
So here's the third thing thatyou need in order to have a
successful online business, andthis might be the most important
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one You need to take massiveaction.
Massive action means you decidewhat your goal is and you just
keep going until you get there.
It's actually really simple intheory, but it can be really
hard in practice.
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So you decide what your goal is.
My goal is to be able to fullysupport myself with an online
business so that I can quit mynine to five and work for myself
and have freedom and all thethings right, and then you just
don't give up until that is yourlife.
That's it.
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That's massive action.
It is just a matter of notquitting.
It's a matter of not quitting,no matter how many times you
fail, no matter how hard it gets, no matter how impossible it
seems, no matter how many timesyou make an offer and no one
signs up, no matter how manysales calls you get on and the
people say no, no matter what,you just keep going, you pivot,
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you learn from whatever you didthat didn't work, you try
something new and you keep goinguntil you get there, no matter
how long it takes.
And the biggest reason whypeople don't achieve their
dreams is because I think welive in a world of instant
gratification, right, and so wehave an idea of how long things
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should take and we think Ishould just like start my
business and it should just workand be successful right from
the beginning.
And if it's not, then I justwasn't meant to do this, i
wasn't made for this, it's notgonna work, i should just give
up, right.
But that's not true.
There's no universal law oflike how long it should take
until you're successful, and ifyou don't have a successful
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business after two years, thenit's just not in the stars for
you.
You should give up.
Like.
There's no timeline on this.
There's no like, okay, try fourdifferent things And if they
don't work and you don't have asuccessful business yet, then
it's time to quit.
Like no, you just keep goinguntil you reach your goal.
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That's it.
Successful people are notsuccessful because they never
failed.
They're successful because theywere willing to fail.
They were willing to failmassively and every single time
they failed They continued toget back up and keep going, no
matter how much they wanted togive up, no matter how easy it
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would have been to give up.
I can't tell you how many timesin my business I felt like
giving up, like I felt likenothing was working.
I was putting in a hundred and50% effort just to see zero
results.
It wasn't making enough moneyto support myself and it would
have been so much easier To justthrow in the towel and go back
(20:01):
and get a corporate job and say,oh well, i tried that online
business thing and it didn'twork.
So how You know if this iswhere you're at is maybe you put
yourself out there And itbackfired, so you haven't tried
again.
You know You made an Instagrampost about the fact that you're
a coach and no one messaged youto sign up for coaching.
(20:23):
You Launched your program andno one signed up.
You or maybe you gotapplications, but everyone said
no, that it was too expensive.
You don't have any clients,right?
if you tried something, ormaybe a few things, and they
didn't work and so You haven'ttried anything again.
This is where massive actioncomes in.
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You have not failed.
It's not that you're not meantto be a coach or have an online
business or whatever it is youwant to do.
It's that you thought it shouldhave worked the first time you
tried, or the first few timesyou tried, and it didn't.
So then you think it's time togive up.
But that's not true.
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If it, if you're not at yourgoal yet, it's because you
haven't tried enough things.
You haven't stayed in the gamelong enough.
So what can you do differently?
What can you try next?
and maybe that next step isinvesting in yourself, right,
but here's what you need to knowthe person with a successful
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business is not the person withthe most knowledge.
It's not.
I know plenty of Seven figureentrepreneurs, seven figure
business owners, who never evenwent to college or dropped out
of college.
It's not that you need abusiness degree or a master's
degree or some type ofcertification.
All you need is A willingnessto get out of your comfort zone.
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Start before you feel ready.
Invest in yourself and takemassive action, because the girl
who waited until she felt readynever started her business in
the first place.
And the girl who wasn't willingto invest in herself Stayed
small.
She stayed stuck forever, maybemaking a little bit of money
and enough to get by, but nevergoing beyond that.
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And the girl who wasn't willingto take massive Action gave up
at the first sign of failure,gave up the first time something
didn't work, or she lookedstupid And wasn't willing to get
back up and try again.
So if you know you're made formore and you have been keeping
yourself stuck, either Notlaunching your business because
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you don't feel ready, or maybeyou started and you had some
success, but now you feel stuck.
You feel like there's somethingblocking you from reaching your
next level, you're not seeingthe results you want, you're not
making enough money to fullysupport yourself yet and you're
ready to go to that next level,then I want you to apply for my
private coaching.
Like I said, i'm only taking onTwo badass women who are fully
(22:58):
fucking committed to up levelingand making their dream life a
reality.
So, if that is, you go toLindsay Hansen, comm slash,
apply or click the link in theshow notes, and I cannot wait to
work with you.
I appreciate you so much fortuning in today, and if you know
someone who Has an onlinebusiness or has been talking
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about starting an onlinebusiness and working for
themselves, please share thisepisode with them.
You can always take ascreenshot and post it on your
Instagram story.
I love seeing that you'relistening and be sure to tag me
at Lindsay M Hansen.
If you want to a Libre review,you can go on to Apple Podcasts
(23:41):
and do that.
I, i love you and I will talkto you next week.
How many times have you thought about quitting your job
and starting a new life?
Hey, i'm Lindsay, the girl whoactually did that, and now I'm
on a mission to change the 9-5narrative that dreading Monday
and working for the weekend isnormal and acceptable.
My goal is to help you see yourpotential beyond your
(00:29):
credentials, gain clarity onwhat it means to live life on
your own terms and build theconfidence to go after your
dream career.
I'm here to prove to you thatit's possible for you to do work
you love, make a positiveimpact on the world, make even
more money than you're makingright now, and live a deeply
fulfilling life.
So let's dive in.
Hello, my love, happy Monday.
(01:01):
I hope you're having an amazingday.
So today I thought I would talkabout the three things that you
need in order to have asuccessful online business.
So if you're someone who hasbeen dreaming about working for
yourself and making money onlineso that you can set your own
(01:23):
schedule, work from home, workfrom wherever, have so much
freedom, travel whenever youwant to and just live your best
fucking life, then this is foryou.
And before we get into it, ihave to let you know I decided
to open up two spots for myprivate one-on-one coaching and
(01:44):
I want to work with you.
If you are someone who has beendreaming of working for
yourself, so maybe you've hadthis dream for months, but you
haven't started your onlinebusiness yet.
Or maybe you have started it,you've started your side hustle,
but you want to finally go allin on it so that you can be able
(02:05):
to fully support yourself andquit your nine to five and make
your dream life a reality.
So I want to work with you andhelp you overcome all of the
self-doubt, all of the anxiety,all of the fears that come along
with making this type of movein your life.
(02:25):
Because I've been there Andfrom what I have seen and what
I'll talk about in today'sepisode, what's going to matter
most for your success is yourmindset, is overcoming all of
those limiting beliefs that aretelling you why it won't work,
that are telling you you won'tmake enough money, that are
(02:46):
saying who are you to start abusiness?
who are you to ask people to payyou for this?
you can't do this right now inthis economy.
Who's going to pay you?
what if you fail?
what are your parents going tothink?
what if people don't supportyou, like all of the mental
drama.
So if you know that you aremade for more and you're ready
(03:06):
to commit to yourself and committo your business and make your
dream a reality and start movingtoward this life of freedom
that you know is possible foryou, then I want to work with
you.
So you can go to LindsayHansencom, slash apply or click
the link in the show notes toapply for private coaching.
(03:30):
I'm only taking on two privateclients for this month.
That is all that I have thecapacity for right now, so don't
wait to apply.
If this is something thatyou're interested in, don't wait
.
Spots are going to fill outfast.
Okay, any questions?
you can send an email toinfoatlindsayhansoncom or find
(03:51):
me on Instagram or LinkedIn andsend me a DM.
Okay, so let's dive into threethings.
You need to have a successfulonline business And, to start, i
want to talk about what youdon't need.
Here's what you don't need inorder to start making money
online.
You do not need a big following, whether that's Instagram,
(04:16):
facebook, youtube, your podcastbut, like you, don't need a big
following.
When I started my business, theonly platform I was using was
Instagram and I had less than200 followers And I got five
clients in my first month.
You don't need a big following.
You don't need a website.
I still don't have a website.
Like you don't need a website.
(04:38):
You don't need Facebook ads.
You don't need an email list.
You don't need perfectly editedphotos and videos.
You don't need to have the bestmarketing strategy and sales
funnels and all of this shit,like you.
Just you don't need thosethings.
So if you are someone who'svery wrapped up in, i need to
(05:00):
grow my following or I need tohire someone to edit all my
videos and pictures and I needto start a podcast and I need to
hire someone to create mywebsite and I need to invest in
ads.
Like you don't need any of thatshit.
I'm not saying don't do thatstuff.
If you want to, that's great,but if don't let those things
(05:20):
hold you back, don't not startyour business because you don't
have a big following.
Don't not post something onInstagram because it's not a
perfectly edited, professionallooking photo.
Don't not start making offersbecause you don't have a website
yet.
Okay, those are the things youdon't need.
(05:40):
Here's what you do need.
Number one you need to bewilling to start before you feel
ready.
You need to start before you'reready.
Okay, if you are out there andyou're waiting to start your
business and you're waiting tomake an Instagram post and
create an offer and startcoaching people or selling your
(06:02):
product or whatever type ofbusiness you have, if you're
waiting until you feel ready,you are never going to get
started.
You're never going to feelready.
This is something that youlearn as you go.
It's something that is outsideof your comfort zone, so you're
not going to feel ready.
You just have to start.
Like nothing in me felt readyto quit my job and launch an
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online fitness coaching businesswhen I was not even certified
as a fitness coach yet.
I was not ready.
I was not ready.
I didn't do it because I feltready.
I did it shitting my pants,fucking terrified, because I
knew if I kept waiting, i wouldbe waiting forever.
You have to make the Instagrampost before you're ready.
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You have to put yourself outthere and make offers to people
Before you feel ready.
It's going to be really fuckinguncomfortable at first and the
more you do it, the more you'regonna get used to it, the more
you're gonna learn, the morethings are gonna start to click
and start to work, but you haveto start before you're ready.
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And here's how you know if thisis where you're stuck.
If you have been dreaming aboutworking for yourself and
launching your business Andmaking money online for months
or years even, but you haven'tstarted yet.
You still haven't started.
You haven't made any offers,you haven't gotten any clients,
you haven't made any money.
It's still just a dream.
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If that's you, then this iswhere you're stuck, and you
might be Thinking that you needmore knowledge first.
You need to learn more thingsfirst, whether that's knowledge
about how to start your businessand start making money online,
or Knowledge about whatever yourarea of expertise is like.
If you want to be a coach, youfeel like you need some sort of
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certification first, or you needto learn more about coaching.
Learn more about Fitness if youwant to be a fitness coach.
Learn more about life coachingif you want to be a life coach,
like whatever, and Like yes, ifyou need a certification to do
what you want to do, then getthe certification.
But that doesn't mean there'snothing you can do right now to
start.
Before I had my personaltraining certification, i was
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posting on Instagram lettingeveryone know I was gonna be a
fitness coach, posting myworkouts, posting my food,
posting things that were helpfulto people, because You already
have enough knowledge to helpsomeone.
And even if you can't Take onclients yet because you do
actually need a certification,then great, get your
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certification.
But in the meantime, thatdoesn't mean that there's
nothing you can do.
That doesn't mean you can'tstart today, right now, okay,
and most of the time You don'tactually need a certification.
It's just a matter of you notfeeling qualified, you not
feeling ready, and you feel like, well, once I'm certified, then
I'll feel ready, but you'restill not going to.
Once you have a piece of paperthat says here, you are now
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qualified to do the thing, areyou still gonna feel ready?
No, like once, just because Ihad my personal training
certification, i still had nevertrained anyone in my life like
I still didn't feel ready Justbecause I was able to pass a
multiple choice exam aboutPersonal training, like it's not
gonna make you feel ready.
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You're not gonna magically feelready once you have that piece
of paper, right?
so if this is you and you arespending all of your time Doing
their research, following allthe people who have online
businesses and seeing whatthey're doing and learning from
them and listening to all thepodcast, listening to this
podcast, but you are notimplementing any of this
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knowledge, you're not takingaction.
You haven't actually startedyet.
Then this is where you're stuck.
It's because you're waiting tofeel ready, and that day is not
coming, sis, you have to starttoday.
You have to start right now.
You have to make the Instagrampost.
You have to let the people knowthat you want to be a coach.
You have to just do the thing.
Anything.
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Start today.
Okay, so that's the first thing.
You need to have a successfulonline business.
Here's the second thing youneed You need to invest in
yourself.
I do not know a singleSuccessful entrepreneur who does
not have Her own coach, who hasnot invested tens or hundreds
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of thousands of dollars Intoherself and into her business.
And I'm not saying you have toput down a hundred thousand
dollars today and invest in acoach, but what I'm saying is,
if you're not willing to investin yourself, in your business,
in your own personal development, especially if you do want to
be a coach, you're gonna keepyourself stuck for a really long
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time.
And so here's how you know ifthis is What's been holding you
back.
Right if you consume all thefree things, all of the podcasts
, all the free challenges, butyou never take that next step
and put money down and hire acoach or sign up for a course or
a program Or whatever you feelcalled to do.
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Right if you're willing toconsume anything That's free but
not willing to put money down.
And then you're going to staystuck.
Because true transformation,true up leveling, getting to
that next level of Yourself,moving into your highest self
and where you want to be in yourlife and in your business, can
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only happen when you have skinin the game.
And I'm not saying don'tconsume the free things, like,
yes, learn from the free things,but understand that That's not
what's gonna actually push youto your next level.
And if you are always saying,well, i'll hire a coach once I'm
making more money or I justcan't afford it right now, that
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is backwards thinking that'sgoing to keep you stuck.
And I've been there like I getit.
I mean, there were a lot oftimes where I was like I just
can't afford it right now, butonce I'm making more money then
I'll hire another coach.
But the thing is what I neededto do in order to reach that
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next level where I was makingthe amount of money I wanted to
be making was hire a coach.
Like it was not okay, i'll makemore money and once I'm making
more money I'll hire a coach.
It's like no girlfriend, youneed to hire the coach so that
you can step into that nextversion of yourself and be at
the level where you're makingthat amount of money.
Like that's how you get there,it's not what you do after you
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get there, it's how you getthere.
And once I realized that, irealized that the idea I
couldn't afford it right now wasjust alive from my ego.
It was an excuse.
It was me keeping myself smallbecause it was scary for me to
invest that money.
But once I did it once I hiredmy life coach and I was really
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fucking terrified anduncomfortable with the amount of
money that I invested to hirethat coach it all made sense.
I was like, oh, this is exactlywhat I needed to do to get to
my next level.
And if I had kept saying tomyself I can't afford it right
now, i'll do it once I'm makingmore money, then I would have
stayed at that small level ofnot making enough money to
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afford a coach.
Quote unquote afford a coachAnd just the transaction alone.
Before we even started coachingme.
Putting that money down, thatwas a really uncomfortable
amount of money for me Andfeeling like I was, i could
literally feel myself likestretching.
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I felt like I was stretchingmyself.
I was pushing myself to my nextlevel because I was getting
outside of my comfort zone andmaking that investment and
saying yes to myself and bettingon myself, and I was literally
telling my ego listen, bitch, idon't have time for you today.
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I'm done listening to you.
I'm done letting you keep mesmall.
I'm going to my next level.
That's the only option, becausethere's no way in hell I'm
putting this much money down andnot seeing a return on that
investment.
The best thing you can ever dois invest in yourself, whether
you want to be an entrepreneuror not.
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It's the best investment you'reever going to make is on
yourself and your own personaldevelopment.
But especially if you want towork for yourself and especially
if you want to be a coach or ifyou are a coach, this is so
fucking important because howcan you expect others to invest
in you if you're not willing toinvest in yourself.
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Right.
It's like you can't afford notto hire a coach if you're
feeling stuck right now, becauseuntil you invest in yourself,
until you stretch yourself andget out of your comfort zone,
you're not gonna reach your nextlevel.
So it's not a matter of waitinguntil you're at your next level
and then making the investmentwhen it feels comfortable.
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It's about making theinvestment because it feels
uncomfortable and therefore it'sgoing to stretch you into your
next level.
Okay so, number one startbefore you're ready.
Number two invest in yourselfeven when it feels really
uncomfortable.
Especially when it feels reallyuncomfortable.
Basically, all you need to havea successful business is be
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willing to get really fuckinguncomfortable all the damn time.
That's really it.
In case you haven't caught on,these are not three practical
things that you need, like awebsite and a perfect Instagram
feed and an email list, andthat's because the practical
things are never a solution.
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They really are not.
Like, yes, learn aboutmarketing, learn about selling.
Yes, the more people you reach,the better, because you have a
service or product that can helpthem.
Like, yes, do the practicalthings.
But the practical things arenever going to get you to
success if you're not doing theinner work.
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If you're not investing inyourself, if you're not working
on your own personal development, if you're not working through
the underlying limiting beliefsthat are telling you it's not
possible, if you're listening toyour ego, that's telling you
not to do this because it'sscary and it's uncomfortable.
In all the mental drama, ifyou're caught up in all that, it
doesn't matter what practicalthings you're doing.
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You're never going to reach thelevel of success that you want.
You just won't.
It's a combination of both.
The practical and the thoughtwork always.
So here's the third thing thatyou need in order to have a
successful online business, andthis might be the most important
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one You need to take massiveaction.
Massive action means you decidewhat your goal is and you just
keep going until you get there.
It's actually really simple intheory, but it can be really
hard in practice.
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So you decide what your goal is.
My goal is to be able to fullysupport myself with an online
business so that I can quit mynine to five and work for myself
and have freedom and all thethings right, and then you just
don't give up until that is yourlife.
That's it.
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That's massive action.
It is just a matter of notquitting.
It's a matter of not quitting,no matter how many times you
fail, no matter how hard it gets, no matter how impossible it
seems, no matter how many timesyou make an offer and no one
signs up, no matter how manysales calls you get on and the
people say no, no matter what,you just keep going, you pivot,
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you learn from whatever you didthat didn't work, you try
something new and you keep goinguntil you get there, no matter
how long it takes.
And the biggest reason whypeople don't achieve their
dreams is because I think welive in a world of instant
gratification, right, and so wehave an idea of how long things
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should take and we think Ishould just like start my
business and it should just workand be successful right from
the beginning.
And if it's not, then I justwasn't meant to do this, i
wasn't made for this, it's notgonna work, i should just give
up, right.
But that's not true.
There's no universal law oflike how long it should take
until you're successful, and ifyou don't have a successful
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business after two years, thenit's just not in the stars for
you.
You should give up.
Like.
There's no timeline on this.
There's no like, okay, try fourdifferent things And if they
don't work and you don't have asuccessful business yet, then
it's time to quit.
Like no, you just keep goinguntil you reach your goal.
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That's it.
Successful people are notsuccessful because they never
failed.
They're successful because theywere willing to fail.
They were willing to failmassively and every single time
they failed They continued toget back up and keep going, no
matter how much they wanted togive up, no matter how easy it
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would have been to give up.
I can't tell you how many timesin my business I felt like
giving up, like I felt likenothing was working.
I was putting in a hundred and50% effort just to see zero
results.
It wasn't making enough moneyto support myself and it would
have been so much easier To justthrow in the towel and go back
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and get a corporate job and say,oh well, i tried that online
business thing and it didn'twork.
So how You know if this iswhere you're at is maybe you put
yourself out there And itbackfired, so you haven't tried
again.
You know You made an Instagrampost about the fact that you're
a coach and no one messaged youto sign up for coaching.
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You Launched your program andno one signed up.
You or maybe you gotapplications, but everyone said
no, that it was too expensive.
You don't have any clients,right?
if you tried something, ormaybe a few things, and they
didn't work and so You haven'ttried anything again.
This is where massive actioncomes in.
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You have not failed.
It's not that you're not meantto be a coach or have an online
business or whatever it is youwant to do.
It's that you thought it shouldhave worked the first time you
tried, or the first few timesyou tried, and it didn't.
So then you think it's time togive up.
But that's not true.
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If it, if you're not at yourgoal yet, it's because you
haven't tried enough things.
You haven't stayed in the gamelong enough.
So what can you do differently?
What can you try next?
and maybe that next step isinvesting in yourself, right,
but here's what you need to knowthe person with a successful
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business is not the person withthe most knowledge.
It's not.
I know plenty of Seven figureentrepreneurs, seven figure
business owners, who never evenwent to college or dropped out
of college.
It's not that you need abusiness degree or a master's
degree or some type ofcertification.
All you need is A willingnessto get out of your comfort zone.
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Start before you feel ready.
Invest in yourself and takemassive action, because the girl
who waited until she felt readynever started her business in
the first place.
And the girl who wasn't willingto invest in herself Stayed
small.
She stayed stuck forever, maybemaking a little bit of money
and enough to get by, but nevergoing beyond that.
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And the girl who wasn't willingto take massive Action gave up
at the first sign of failure,gave up the first time something
didn't work, or she lookedstupid And wasn't willing to get
back up and try again.
So if you know you're made formore and you have been keeping
yourself stuck, either Notlaunching your business because
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you don't feel ready, or maybeyou started and you had some
success, but now you feel stuck.
You feel like there's somethingblocking you from reaching your
next level, you're not seeingthe results you want, you're not
making enough money to fullysupport yourself yet and you're
ready to go to that next level,then I want you to apply for my
private coaching.
Like I said, i'm only taking onTwo badass women who are fully
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fucking committed to up levelingand making their dream life a
reality.
So, if that is, you go toLindsay Hansen, comm slash,
apply or click the link in theshow notes, and I cannot wait to
work with you.
I appreciate you so much fortuning in today, and if you know
someone who Has an onlinebusiness or has been talking
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about starting an onlinebusiness and working for
themselves, please share thisepisode with them.
You can always take ascreenshot and post it on your
Instagram story.
I love seeing that you'relistening and be sure to tag me
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I, i love you and I will talkto you next week.
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