October 9, 2024 • 27 mins
It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you...
We're back after our summer hiatus! Catch the recap of host Chrissy Miller's summer grind, including Essence Festival, event management life, and even an unexpected, but very necessary pink slip!
Change can be scary, but necessary to reach your full potential. Don't ignore when life is throwing those hints of discontentment and frurstration. It's a sign that it's time for you to LEAP into your new season. Ask yourself questions like:
Am I doing what I'm really passionate about?
Does my current job fill my tank?
How is what I'm doing making an impact or building legacy for my future family?
Let's finetune our path so that we can tap into our Zone of Genius and start living the thriving creative life we deserve!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Rise, grind and Shine, a podcast for
creatives and entrepreneurs whoare on their grind, crushing
their goals and determined tolive their best life.
This podcast is brought to youby the Creative Mill and I'm
your host, chrissy Miller,founder and owner.
In every episode, we're here tohelp you create space for your
(00:25):
greatness to shine, inspire youto launch into action and teach
you how to grind towards yourgoals responsibly.
So come on this journey with usas we rise, grind and shine
together.
Let's jump into today's episode.
Episode what is up, my goodpeople, we are finally back.
(00:48):
Welcome to episode three of theRise, grind and Shine podcast.
I am your host, chrissy Miller,and now I know it's been a hot
minute.
We started the podcast back inMay of this year and cranked out
two episodes, and here we arein October, rolling out episode
(01:08):
three.
Nah, don't y'all do me bad andtalk about me bad, because it
has been quite a journey in thepast four months since the last
episode dropped.
You know, I thought in my ownsuperhero powers that I was
going to be able to maintainrecording my podcast through
(01:31):
Essence Festival and through allof the summer travels and all
of the things that have happened, and I couldn't.
And you know that's one of therealities of entrepreneur life,
or just adult work life ingeneral is that sometimes life
just happens and we have to takeour moments and pick up the
(01:53):
pieces when we have to.
Pick them up and pivot when wehave to and that's really what
we're going to be talking abouttoday on the podcast is knowing
when it's time to take a leap, apivot, a shift, whatever you
want to call it.
Sometimes things just need tochange and it's time.
But we are going to catch youup today on what's been going on
(02:16):
at the Creative Mill.
So last time we were togetheron the podcast, we were
interviewing my dear brother,terrence Christopher, talking
about our journey from povertyand the projects into purpose
and prosperity.
And you know, I've just beenseeing that lived out each and
(02:37):
every day.
This has actually been probablyone of my most successful years
to date as being anentrepreneur and I'm going to
share all of those things withyou guys.
So, man, where do we start?
I guess we're going to startwith what took me away from the
podcast, which was my annualoffering to the cultural scene,
(03:01):
which is Essence Festival.
So if you tuned in and if youdidn't go back.
Start with episode one so youcan learn what in the world is
the Creative Mill and who in theworld is Chrissy Miller.
And you will hear all about thefact that I have been working
with Essence Festival of Culturefor 10 years now.
(03:22):
Actually, 10 festivals over thepast, like 12 years, because
y'all know those COVID yearsdon't count right but I am the
director of talent movement overat the convention center.
If you've ever been, you knowit's a.
It's a big footprint.
If you haven't been, shame onyou.
It is such such an experiencethat I think is beneficial not
(03:46):
just for the dope, music and allof the experiences, but you can
learn so much.
There's so much culture,there's so much educational
opportunities and there's awhole bunch of free stuff.
So if you are not up on EssenceFestival and you don't know all
the things, I just want to plugthat there is a lot of free
(04:09):
opportunities and content.
It's not just the concerts atthe Superdome, but we have free
programming three days straightat the convention center.
They should love me for doingthis plug for them.
We have three days of multiplestages and activation booths
(04:29):
from various large corporatepartners like Coca-Cola,
mcdonald's, target, so manythings and they have an entire
film festival going on.
There's just so much happening.
Film festival going on, there'sjust so much happening and my
team has the awesome privilegeof getting people on to every
single one of those stages.
(04:50):
So in our talent movement,world celebrities come, whether
they're speaking or performingor doing interviews.
They literally all gettransported to every stage and
every corner of that conventioncenter by my team.
And it was incredible to see forthis 10th festival of mine that
(05:15):
our team grew to 80 people.
You heard me right y'all eightzero.
I remember the early days wherefirst it was just me and a
couple of people, me and randomstrangers and it has literally
grown.
Sometimes we only had like 15people, 20 people and now
(05:35):
literally 80 people.
So you can imagine the load andthe weight of being a little
entrepreneur who has to level upbig time and in such a big way.
This is the first year we've hadsuch a large team and I could
not have done it alone.
So I definitely want to give ahuge shout out.
(05:56):
I hope they're listening to allof my festival leaders on our
team.
They do all of the really hardlifting throughout the festival.
I'm just the one who makes sureeverybody gets paid and I
answer the big questions.
So this was an incrediblefestival of seeing the team grow
(06:18):
.
It's one thing to be focused onyour own growth, but when you
can watch, over a period of time, other people around you grow
and continue to give peopleopportunities, it's just such an
amazing experience and itreminds me why I do what I do,
why I sit on the calls all thetime and why sometimes I'm
(06:42):
stressed out and ready to pullmy hair out, toss my wig across
the room.
It's because I get to giveopportunities to people who
would not normally have thoseexperiences.
So it's been really dope to seepeople growing into the roles
that maybe they weren'tqualified when we first started
Shoot, I wasn't qualified whenwe first started, but we've all
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grown into these roles and it'sbeen really incredible.
And this year Chrissy walkedfully in CEO mode and it was
great because I had such a sharpleadership team to handle all
the things.
I could be the owner of thebusiness, I could be the
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director, I could step away andyou know if I never made it down
to make sure things were okay,the ship was still sailing, the
ball was still rolling and it'san incredible feeling to get to
that point where you know youjust put on the big girl draws
and you make sure that thingshappen so that your team is
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supported.
So Essence Festival was a big,big lift this year, but I think
and I've heard it echo many,many times that for our talent
movement team, this wasliterally the best year that
we've ever had.
So kudos to them and I'm justgrateful for the opportunity to
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keep getting to do this.
So that took up basically Aprilto July, and then we went on
lots of trips because it wastime to chill out and it's so
important to rest.
We go through the ebbs andflows, especially as creatives
and entrepreneurs.
Sometimes we grind, grind,grind, grind, grind, but we
(08:31):
don't balance that with seasonsof rest or opportunities of rest
, and in future episodes Idefinitely will get into my
grind responsibly, because Ifeel like there is a healthy way
to grind towards your goals.
It doesn't have to be the work,work, work, work, work don't
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ever sleep culture of hustlingthat we have, but we are focused
on our goals and we'recommitted to getting them done.
So that's what we've been doingover here at the Creative Mill.
We've been working.
There are a couple morefestivals that I did over the
end of the summer.
And then, man, just when Ithought life was about to calm
(09:15):
down and I said, oh, I'm soexcited to get back into my
podcasting.
And then, out of nowhere, inSeptember, y'all all of the
events hit that I just had noclue were definitely going to
come through and I was hustling.
That's what was reallyhappening.
I hustled unexpectedly and, man, I have to say that it was the
(09:38):
most financially productive timeof my life, but it, yeah, it
was challenging, bouncing around, often not being home for large
chunks of time and just livingon the road, but we made it and
I'm going to testify that I hadalways been doubtful.
(10:01):
Now, we if you're in thecoaching world, digital products
world people always rave aboutlike 10K months or I had a
$100,000 month and they offerthese high ticket offers and
things like that.
I've always heard that and I,somewhere in the back of my
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brain and my limited thinking,never believed that would happen
for me.
I think that some of thatpoverty mindset you hear people
that are like killing it andmaking a lot of money and even
though you want to think thatthat could happen to you.
You don't really believe thatthat could happen to you and, if
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I'm honest, that was me.
But God and all of this workproved me wrong gonna say that I
had a over 10k month inSeptember which totally blew my
(11:08):
little small town girl mind,because we in a big city now we
have.
We have grown and we havematured and we have put in sweat
equity to get to where we are.
And the crazy thing is is that Ican honestly say that all of
the work that I was able to doin this past month wasn't
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because I started really pushingmy business and my brand.
I've been working on it, I'vebeen putting together the
materials and the things are ontheir way, but this was all
residual relationship product.
I don't know if that's a thing,but I just coined that the
result of just working well withpeople and them remembering
(11:54):
like, oh hey, chrissy could dothis, oh, the creative mill
could do this, and that's whatit was.
It was last minute projectsthat came up, events that I
could work on.
I've been stage managing andproducing events and it's just
been so incredible.
But with all of that, all ofthose changes, comes sometimes
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the need to shift and pivot.
One of the things that didn'treally go as I planned coming
into the end of this year was,as many of you know, I teach
music lessons and that's reallybeen kind of the foundational
support for my life.
I can always revert back toteaching music.
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It's always there.
I have really incrediblestudents, whether they were in
school setting or in privatelessons, and right now I've only
been a private music teacherfor the past two years, which
has been really awesome.
But I started feeling the pullof I don't know that this is
something that's going tocontinue forever and it's hard,
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because I love my students and Ilove sharing the gift of music
with people and helping them todiscover their own gifts.
But there is something that Idiscovered a couple of years ago
, as I was kind of in my seasonof epiphany and self-discovery
after I moved out here to Vegas,was that I had gotten so burnt
(13:29):
out on teaching and I just feltlike it wasn't quite the right
fit.
I love music and I'm passionateabout music and I enjoy
impacting people's lives, and Ithink that the crossroads of
that was being a music teacher.
Am I really good at it?
Sure, is it exactly what Iwanted to be doing?
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Not exactly, and it took a longtime for me to figure that out,
that it wasn't exactly what Iwanted to be doing, and so I
find myself at that same spaceagain.
I love my students, I lovemusic, but I don't know that
teaching is the thing.
I loved coaching people andhelping them to recognize their
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potential and helping them tosee new opportunities for them
to thrive in their purpose.
And what I've noticed as we aregoing in that direction and
growing our event managementbusiness is that it does not
have the flexibility that, orthe teaching doesn't have the
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flexibility to be able to do allof those things.
And that's what I want you tothink about today, as we're
talking about shifting andpivoting and taking the big leap
and I'll talk about a book Iwas just reading over the
weekend Is that, you know, evenin the success of working a lot
of events in the past month, Ihad something that was not
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successful and that was ateaching gig, that I had
something that was notsuccessful, and that was a
teaching gig that I had at alocal studio here and over the
weekend, in full transparency, Igot a call and they let me go,
and I was.
I wasn't shocked.
I've just never been firedbefore y'all.
I'm gonna tell the truth, Iain't never been fired from a
job before.
I don't think one of my friendscan call and check me on that
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because I have the worst memoryin the world, but I'm pretty
sure I have never been fired,and so this was kind of a
surprise in that way.
But because I worked so manyevents in the past month, they
need a consistent teacher, and Icompletely agree, and I was
already thinking it.
They just kind of beat me tothe punch, honestly, and so I
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was not shocked and I said OK,thanks, I totally understand
that.
No problem at all.
That needed to happen and Ijust had not had the courage to
step up and do it.
Yet.
That's really what happened.
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And so in the mix of havingthat decision made for me and
making that space, it forces meto get on the grind and figure
out what's next.
Business is growing and hasgreat potential, but at the same
time, like any otherentrepreneur who's still fairly
new in the journey, there comessome fear, and that's something
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you really have to get over isthat sometimes your safety nets
have to go away and sometimesyou really have to trust Now, by
all means, if you are juststarting off in your
entrepreneur journey and youain't got no money saved on the
side, you don't have any plan.
Please do not quit your job.
(16:51):
Do not say Chrissy got on thispodcast and told me to quit my
job and embark on myentrepreneurial journey with no
plan and no safety net Literallynot.
What I am saying is that I amin a good place at this point in
my life.
Thank you, jesus, that losing asmall bit of income was not
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going to be too much impactfulwas not going to be too much
impactful.
I have the grace and the spaceand some extra finances to take
some time to figure out what thenext steps in the next season
is going to look like.
But this shift, this tug that Ifelt, even just in the past few
months, in the past few months Ifelt it before and you have
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probably felt it before thatfeeling of being kind of
discontent, kind ofuncomfortable, like I feel like
there's supposed to be more thanthis.
My job doesn't satisfy me, thecareer that I've chosen just
doesn't seem to fit anymore, andI'm going to challenge you
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today to lean into thatdiscomfort, lean into that
discontent, realize what isn'tserving you anymore.
So the job that you had it mayhave worked really great for the
past few years.
You have probably paid yourbills, you had extra funds to go
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on a little trip or something,and that was great.
But is that really what isgoing to fill your tank for
years to come?
Is that really what is going toset you up for success, to
build a legacy for your family?
Does that really feel like thething that wakes you up in the
morning and you get so excitedto do?
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If you don't get those feelingsabout what you're doing now,
chances are it's about time foryou to start shifting.
I've recognized this, like Isaid many times in my past few
years of yeah, this doesn't feelgood anymore, this doesn't feel
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right anymore, and that feelingwas never wrong.
Whether I liked it or not, sometype of shift was always on the
horizon.
I made a post just a day agoabout a song that I love to sing
, a worship song that's calledI'll Make Room for you, and we
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often say that we're going tomake space and we want to move
ahead and push forward in ourcareers, but sometimes it's not
comfortable to actually make thespace.
Sometimes it's not comfortableActually most of the time it's
not comfortable to actually makethe space.
Sometimes it's not comfortableActually most of the time it's
not comfortable to make theshift and make the move, quit
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the job and start something elseor pursue the hobby that you
have that could really turn intoa full career.
But it's necessary and if youare a believer like me and
asking God to help you make thatshift and allow him to do the
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things in your life that you'resupposed to be doing, sometimes
he gonna make that shift for you.
I prayed and asked and told Godthat I would make room and I
would be willing to go and doand be whatever I was called to
be.
And in this season, when I saidthat I was slow to the punch to
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make that room, and God said,okay, I'm gonna make it for you
and the space is now made.
So I want to challenge you toask yourself a couple of
questions.
Ask yourself am I doing whatI'm most passionate about, what
I really feel called to do?
This is a question that Iliterally have on my wall and I
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have these huge, like conferencesize papers that I stick on my
wall and I've asked thesequestions and I wrote out the
answers and I always say what amI passionate about doing?
And from time to time I have tolook up at that and say, am I
doing those things I also haveunder that, what do I not like
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doing?
And then from time to time Ihave to check that list and say,
oh, why am I still doing that?
Why am I doing that task?
Why am I still holding on tothat job or that part of a job?
And I have to hold myselfaccountable.
So I'm going to ask youaccountable.
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So I'm going to ask you are youdoing what you are most
passionate about?
The next one is does the careeror job that I have right now
really fill my tank?
And what's that mean?
Do you feel fulfilled when youend your day?
Do you feel completely drainedwhen you wake up in the morning?
Is it a chore and a task?
Now, I understand sometimesit's just hard to get out of bed
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, even doing what I love to bedoing.
Sometimes it's just hard to getout of bed.
But do you just like?
Grind your teeth at the idea ofgoing into work?
If you feel that way, chancesare you're not in a place where
your tank can be filled.
And then you should ask how iswhat I'm doing making an impact
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or building a legacy for myfuture or my future family?
What you do now is sowing seedsfor your future, for your
tomorrow.
We want to set ourselves up forsuccess in our future, for our
future family, for your future,for your tomorrow.
We want to set ourselves up forsuccess in our future, for our
future family, for your futurekids, and so we have to make the
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decisions now, not even just inour career, in our finances,
but even in our health.
Those seeds that you are sowingnow being stuck in a dead-end
job, not taking care of yourbody, speaking negative things
over your life those things arejust seeds being sown and
they're going to manifest atsome point in your life.
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You may not see it right now,but down the line you are going
to see the product of the thingsthat you are doing right now
and I want you to think based onthose answers is it time for my
life to shift?
Is it time for me to dosomething different?
I felt that way, and then Imoved across the country.
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I'm not saying you got to moveacross the country or even leave
your job.
But something has to change.
You deserve to be the bestversion of yourself.
You deserve to have a thrivinglife.
You deserve to wake up and lovewhat you do and who you are.
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So it's time to start makingsome changes.
So it's time to start makingsome changes.
In the next couple of episodesof this podcast, we are going to
talk about what that looks like.
I have been reading and y'all, Iread a whole book in a weekend
and that's a big deal.
If you know me that I sat downlong enough to read a whole book
and I read the hard copy.
(24:16):
I sure did, and it was calledthe Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
and it really.
I've heard pieces and parts ofthe concepts, but this really
was kind of the foundationalbook that got started on things
like finding your zone of geniusand living past your upper
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limiting, problems and beliefsand all of those things.
Oh man, they just reallyrevolutionized my way of
thinking, even over the past fewdays, and I am so excited to be
able to share those things andwalk through those things with
all of you.
But I want you to start thinking.
Google it, youtube it, findanother podcast episode about
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your zone of genius.
That is when you are doing whatyou are absolutely passionate
about doing and can do to thehighest level of your abilities
and it impacts other people.
If you are not doing that, evena fraction of your time and of
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your life, then it some cash inyour pocket.
You are not in your zone ofgenius.
You are in probably what peoplehave called the zone of
(25:48):
excellence, which is right underzone of genius.
So you're doing stuff reallywell and you might make good
money for it, but you're not atyour fullest level of joy and
you're not living at yourfullest potential.
So I'm going to challenge youto find what that looks like and
I want you to stay tuned to thecoming podcast.
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Stay tuned to all of the thingsthat we're going to be
releasing over the next fewmonths out of the creative mill,
because I'm really, reallypassionate and really excited to
help people find their zone ofgenius, find your unique
abilities, find out what reallydrives you to be your best and
help you to get to that space.
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Welcome to Rise, grind and Shine, a podcast for
creatives and entrepreneurs whoare on their grind, crushing
their goals and determined tolive their best life.
This podcast is brought to youby the Creative Mill and I'm
your host, chrissy Miller,founder and owner.
In every episode, we're here tohelp you create space for your
(00:25):
greatness to shine, inspire youto launch into action and teach
you how to grind towards yourgoals responsibly.
So come on this journey with usas we rise, grind and shine
together.
Let's jump into today's episode.
Episode what is up, my goodpeople, we are finally back.
(00:48):
Welcome to episode three of theRise, grind and Shine podcast.
I am your host, chrissy Miller,and now I know it's been a hot
minute.
We started the podcast back inMay of this year and cranked out
two episodes, and here we arein October, rolling out episode
(01:08):
three.
Nah, don't y'all do me bad andtalk about me bad, because it
has been quite a journey in thepast four months since the last
episode dropped.
You know, I thought in my ownsuperhero powers that I was
going to be able to maintainrecording my podcast through
(01:31):
Essence Festival and through allof the summer travels and all
of the things that have happened, and I couldn't.
And you know that's one of therealities of entrepreneur life,
or just adult work life ingeneral is that sometimes life
just happens and we have to takeour moments and pick up the
(01:53):
pieces when we have to.
Pick them up and pivot when wehave to and that's really what
we're going to be talking abouttoday on the podcast is knowing
when it's time to take a leap, apivot, a shift, whatever you
want to call it.
Sometimes things just need tochange and it's time.
But we are going to catch youup today on what's been going on
(02:16):
at the Creative Mill.
So last time we were togetheron the podcast, we were
interviewing my dear brother,terrence Christopher, talking
about our journey from povertyand the projects into purpose
and prosperity.
And you know, I've just beenseeing that lived out each and
(02:37):
every day.
This has actually been probablyone of my most successful years
to date as being anentrepreneur and I'm going to
share all of those things withyou guys.
So, man, where do we start?
I guess we're going to startwith what took me away from the
podcast, which was my annualoffering to the cultural scene,
(03:01):
which is Essence Festival.
So if you tuned in and if youdidn't go back.
Start with episode one so youcan learn what in the world is
the Creative Mill and who in theworld is Chrissy Miller.
And you will hear all about thefact that I have been working
with Essence Festival of Culturefor 10 years now.
(03:22):
Actually, 10 festivals over thepast, like 12 years, because
y'all know those COVID yearsdon't count right but I am the
director of talent movement overat the convention center.
If you've ever been, you knowit's a.
It's a big footprint.
If you haven't been, shame onyou.
It is such such an experiencethat I think is beneficial not
(03:46):
just for the dope, music and allof the experiences, but you can
learn so much.
There's so much culture,there's so much educational
opportunities and there's awhole bunch of free stuff.
So if you are not up on EssenceFestival and you don't know all
the things, I just want to plugthat there is a lot of free
(04:09):
opportunities and content.
It's not just the concerts atthe Superdome, but we have free
programming three days straightat the convention center.
They should love me for doingthis plug for them.
We have three days of multiplestages and activation booths
(04:29):
from various large corporatepartners like Coca-Cola,
mcdonald's, target, so manythings and they have an entire
film festival going on.
There's just so much happening.
Film festival going on, there'sjust so much happening and my
team has the awesome privilegeof getting people on to every
single one of those stages.
(04:50):
So in our talent movement,world celebrities come, whether
they're speaking or performingor doing interviews.
They literally all gettransported to every stage and
every corner of that conventioncenter by my team.
And it was incredible to see forthis 10th festival of mine that
(05:15):
our team grew to 80 people.
You heard me right y'all eightzero.
I remember the early days wherefirst it was just me and a
couple of people, me and randomstrangers and it has literally
grown.
Sometimes we only had like 15people, 20 people and now
(05:35):
literally 80 people.
So you can imagine the load andthe weight of being a little
entrepreneur who has to level upbig time and in such a big way.
This is the first year we've hadsuch a large team and I could
not have done it alone.
So I definitely want to give ahuge shout out.
(05:56):
I hope they're listening to allof my festival leaders on our
team.
They do all of the really hardlifting throughout the festival.
I'm just the one who makes sureeverybody gets paid and I
answer the big questions.
So this was an incrediblefestival of seeing the team grow
(06:18):
.
It's one thing to be focused onyour own growth, but when you
can watch, over a period of time, other people around you grow
and continue to give peopleopportunities, it's just such an
amazing experience and itreminds me why I do what I do,
why I sit on the calls all thetime and why sometimes I'm
(06:42):
stressed out and ready to pullmy hair out, toss my wig across
the room.
It's because I get to giveopportunities to people who
would not normally have thoseexperiences.
So it's been really dope to seepeople growing into the roles
that maybe they weren'tqualified when we first started
Shoot, I wasn't qualified whenwe first started, but we've all
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grown into these roles and it'sbeen really incredible.
And this year Chrissy walkedfully in CEO mode and it was
great because I had such a sharpleadership team to handle all
the things.
I could be the owner of thebusiness, I could be the
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director, I could step away andyou know if I never made it down
to make sure things were okay,the ship was still sailing, the
ball was still rolling and it'san incredible feeling to get to
that point where you know youjust put on the big girl draws
and you make sure that thingshappen so that your team is
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supported.
So Essence Festival was a big,big lift this year, but I think
and I've heard it echo many,many times that for our talent
movement team, this wasliterally the best year that
we've ever had.
So kudos to them and I'm justgrateful for the opportunity to
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keep getting to do this.
So that took up basically Aprilto July, and then we went on
lots of trips because it wastime to chill out and it's so
important to rest.
We go through the ebbs andflows, especially as creatives
and entrepreneurs.
Sometimes we grind, grind,grind, grind, grind, but we
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don't balance that with seasonsof rest or opportunities of rest
, and in future episodes Idefinitely will get into my
grind responsibly, because Ifeel like there is a healthy way
to grind towards your goals.
It doesn't have to be the work,work, work, work, work don't
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ever sleep culture of hustlingthat we have, but we are focused
on our goals and we'recommitted to getting them done.
So that's what we've been doingover here at the Creative Mill.
We've been working.
There are a couple morefestivals that I did over the
end of the summer.
And then, man, just when Ithought life was about to calm
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down and I said, oh, I'm soexcited to get back into my
podcasting.
And then, out of nowhere, inSeptember, y'all all of the
events hit that I just had noclue were definitely going to
come through and I was hustling.
That's what was reallyhappening.
I hustled unexpectedly and, man, I have to say that it was the
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most financially productive timeof my life, but it, yeah, it
was challenging, bouncing around, often not being home for large
chunks of time and just livingon the road, but we made it and
I'm going to testify that I hadalways been doubtful.
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Now, we if you're in thecoaching world, digital products
world people always rave aboutlike 10K months or I had a
$100,000 month and they offerthese high ticket offers and
things like that.
I've always heard that and I,somewhere in the back of my
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brain and my limited thinking,never believed that would happen
for me.
I think that some of thatpoverty mindset you hear people
that are like killing it andmaking a lot of money and even
though you want to think thatthat could happen to you.
You don't really believe thatthat could happen to you and, if
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I'm honest, that was me.
But God and all of this workproved me wrong gonna say that I
had a over 10k month inSeptember which totally blew my
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little small town girl mind,because we in a big city now we
have.
We have grown and we havematured and we have put in sweat
equity to get to where we are.
And the crazy thing is is that Ican honestly say that all of
the work that I was able to doin this past month wasn't
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because I started really pushingmy business and my brand.
I've been working on it, I'vebeen putting together the
materials and the things are ontheir way, but this was all
residual relationship product.
I don't know if that's a thing,but I just coined that the
result of just working well withpeople and them remembering
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like, oh hey, chrissy could dothis, oh, the creative mill
could do this, and that's whatit was.
It was last minute projectsthat came up, events that I
could work on.
I've been stage managing andproducing events and it's just
been so incredible.
But with all of that, all ofthose changes, comes sometimes
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the need to shift and pivot.
One of the things that didn'treally go as I planned coming
into the end of this year was,as many of you know, I teach
music lessons and that's reallybeen kind of the foundational
support for my life.
I can always revert back toteaching music.
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It's always there.
I have really incrediblestudents, whether they were in
school setting or in privatelessons, and right now I've only
been a private music teacherfor the past two years, which
has been really awesome.
But I started feeling the pullof I don't know that this is
something that's going tocontinue forever and it's hard,
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because I love my students and Ilove sharing the gift of music
with people and helping them todiscover their own gifts.
But there is something that Idiscovered a couple of years ago
, as I was kind of in my seasonof epiphany and self-discovery
after I moved out here to Vegas,was that I had gotten so burnt
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out on teaching and I just feltlike it wasn't quite the right
fit.
I love music and I'm passionateabout music and I enjoy
impacting people's lives, and Ithink that the crossroads of
that was being a music teacher.
Am I really good at it?
Sure, is it exactly what Iwanted to be doing?
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Not exactly, and it took a longtime for me to figure that out,
that it wasn't exactly what Iwanted to be doing, and so I
find myself at that same spaceagain.
I love my students, I lovemusic, but I don't know that
teaching is the thing.
I loved coaching people andhelping them to recognize their
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potential and helping them tosee new opportunities for them
to thrive in their purpose.
And what I've noticed as we aregoing in that direction and
growing our event managementbusiness is that it does not
have the flexibility that, orthe teaching doesn't have the
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flexibility to be able to do allof those things.
And that's what I want you tothink about today, as we're
talking about shifting andpivoting and taking the big leap
and I'll talk about a book Iwas just reading over the
weekend Is that, you know, evenin the success of working a lot
of events in the past month, Ihad something that was not
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successful and that was ateaching gig, that I had
something that was notsuccessful, and that was a
teaching gig that I had at alocal studio here and over the
weekend, in full transparency, Igot a call and they let me go,
and I was.
I wasn't shocked.
I've just never been firedbefore y'all.
I'm gonna tell the truth, Iain't never been fired from a
job before.
I don't think one of my friendscan call and check me on that
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because I have the worst memoryin the world, but I'm pretty
sure I have never been fired,and so this was kind of a
surprise in that way.
But because I worked so manyevents in the past month, they
need a consistent teacher, and Icompletely agree, and I was
already thinking it.
They just kind of beat me tothe punch, honestly, and so I
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was not shocked and I said OK,thanks, I totally understand
that.
No problem at all.
That needed to happen and Ijust had not had the courage to
step up and do it.
Yet.
That's really what happened.
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And so in the mix of havingthat decision made for me and
making that space, it forces meto get on the grind and figure
out what's next.
Business is growing and hasgreat potential, but at the same
time, like any otherentrepreneur who's still fairly
new in the journey, there comessome fear, and that's something
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you really have to get over isthat sometimes your safety nets
have to go away and sometimesyou really have to trust Now, by
all means, if you are juststarting off in your
entrepreneur journey and youain't got no money saved on the
side, you don't have any plan.
Please do not quit your job.
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Do not say Chrissy got on thispodcast and told me to quit my
job and embark on myentrepreneurial journey with no
plan and no safety net Literallynot.
What I am saying is that I amin a good place at this point in
my life.
Thank you, jesus, that losing asmall bit of income was not
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going to be too much impactfulwas not going to be too much
impactful.
I have the grace and the spaceand some extra finances to take
some time to figure out what thenext steps in the next season
is going to look like.
But this shift, this tug that Ifelt, even just in the past few
months, in the past few months Ifelt it before and you have
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probably felt it before thatfeeling of being kind of
discontent, kind ofuncomfortable, like I feel like
there's supposed to be more thanthis.
My job doesn't satisfy me, thecareer that I've chosen just
doesn't seem to fit anymore, andI'm going to challenge you
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today to lean into thatdiscomfort, lean into that
discontent, realize what isn'tserving you anymore.
So the job that you had it mayhave worked really great for the
past few years.
You have probably paid yourbills, you had extra funds to go
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on a little trip or something,and that was great.
But is that really what isgoing to fill your tank for
years to come?
Is that really what is going toset you up for success, to
build a legacy for your family?
Does that really feel like thething that wakes you up in the
morning and you get so excitedto do?
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If you don't get those feelingsabout what you're doing now,
chances are it's about time foryou to start shifting.
I've recognized this, like Isaid many times in my past few
years of yeah, this doesn't feelgood anymore, this doesn't feel
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right anymore, and that feelingwas never wrong.
Whether I liked it or not, sometype of shift was always on the
horizon.
I made a post just a day agoabout a song that I love to sing
, a worship song that's calledI'll Make Room for you, and we
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often say that we're going tomake space and we want to move
ahead and push forward in ourcareers, but sometimes it's not
comfortable to actually make thespace.
Sometimes it's not comfortableActually most of the time it's
not comfortable to actually makethe space.
Sometimes it's not comfortableActually most of the time it's
not comfortable to make theshift and make the move, quit
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the job and start something elseor pursue the hobby that you
have that could really turn intoa full career.
But it's necessary and if youare a believer like me and
asking God to help you make thatshift and allow him to do the
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things in your life that you'resupposed to be doing, sometimes
he gonna make that shift for you.
I prayed and asked and told Godthat I would make room and I
would be willing to go and doand be whatever I was called to
be.
And in this season, when I saidthat I was slow to the punch to
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make that room, and God said,okay, I'm gonna make it for you
and the space is now made.
So I want to challenge you toask yourself a couple of
questions.
Ask yourself am I doing whatI'm most passionate about, what
I really feel called to do?
This is a question that Iliterally have on my wall and I
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have these huge, like conferencesize papers that I stick on my
wall and I've asked thesequestions and I wrote out the
answers and I always say what amI passionate about doing?
And from time to time I have tolook up at that and say, am I
doing those things I also haveunder that, what do I not like
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doing?
And then from time to time Ihave to check that list and say,
oh, why am I still doing that?
Why am I doing that task?
Why am I still holding on tothat job or that part of a job?
And I have to hold myselfaccountable.
So I'm going to ask youaccountable.
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So I'm going to ask you are youdoing what you are most
passionate about?
The next one is does the careeror job that I have right now
really fill my tank?
And what's that mean?
Do you feel fulfilled when youend your day?
Do you feel completely drainedwhen you wake up in the morning?
Is it a chore and a task?
Now, I understand sometimesit's just hard to get out of bed
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, even doing what I love to bedoing.
Sometimes it's just hard to getout of bed.
But do you just like?
Grind your teeth at the idea ofgoing into work?
If you feel that way, chancesare you're not in a place where
your tank can be filled.
And then you should ask how iswhat I'm doing making an impact
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or building a legacy for myfuture or my future family?
What you do now is sowing seedsfor your future, for your
tomorrow.
We want to set ourselves up forsuccess in our future, for our
future family, for your future,for your tomorrow.
We want to set ourselves up forsuccess in our future, for our
future family, for your futurekids, and so we have to make the
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decisions now, not even just inour career, in our finances,
but even in our health.
Those seeds that you are sowingnow being stuck in a dead-end
job, not taking care of yourbody, speaking negative things
over your life those things arejust seeds being sown and
they're going to manifest atsome point in your life.
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You may not see it right now,but down the line you are going
to see the product of the thingsthat you are doing right now
and I want you to think based onthose answers is it time for my
life to shift?
Is it time for me to dosomething different?
I felt that way, and then Imoved across the country.
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I'm not saying you got to moveacross the country or even leave
your job.
But something has to change.
You deserve to be the bestversion of yourself.
You deserve to have a thrivinglife.
You deserve to wake up and lovewhat you do and who you are.
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So it's time to start makingsome changes.
So it's time to start makingsome changes.
In the next couple of episodesof this podcast, we are going to
talk about what that looks like.
I have been reading and y'all, Iread a whole book in a weekend
and that's a big deal.
If you know me that I sat downlong enough to read a whole book
and I read the hard copy.
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I sure did, and it was calledthe Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
and it really.
I've heard pieces and parts ofthe concepts, but this really
was kind of the foundationalbook that got started on things
like finding your zone of geniusand living past your upper
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limiting, problems and beliefsand all of those things.
Oh man, they just reallyrevolutionized my way of
thinking, even over the past fewdays, and I am so excited to be
able to share those things andwalk through those things with
all of you.
But I want you to start thinking.
Google it, youtube it, findanother podcast episode about
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your zone of genius.
That is when you are doing whatyou are absolutely passionate
about doing and can do to thehighest level of your abilities
and it impacts other people.
If you are not doing that, evena fraction of your time and of
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your life, then it some cash inyour pocket.
You are not in your zone ofgenius.
You are in probably what peoplehave called the zone of
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excellence, which is right underzone of genius.
So you're doing stuff reallywell and you might make good
money for it, but you're not atyour fullest level of joy and
you're not living at yourfullest potential.
So I'm going to challenge youto find what that looks like and
I want you to stay tuned to thecoming podcast.
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Stay tuned to all of the thingsthat we're going to be
releasing over the next fewmonths out of the creative mill,
because I'm really, reallypassionate and really excited to
help people find their zone ofgenius, find your unique
abilities, find out what reallydrives you to be your best and
help you to get to that space.
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Until next time, keep shining.
Thanks for listening in totoday's episode.
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