July 13, 2025 • 30 mins
Caroline Biesalski welcomes Tim Branyan to discuss his journey from early beginnings to empowering content creators. Tim shares insights on navigating changes in platforms and offers valuable advice for new creators. The conversation explores how he defines success and overcomes personal challenges. Tim highlights the importance of setting goals and writing them down, sharing his upcoming projects. The episode wraps up with reflections on entrepreneurial challenges, emphasizing the significance of embracing the journey and continuous learning. Caroline teases the next episode with a special offer announcement, concluding with a farewell and a call to action for listeners.
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Have fun, understand that it's moldable, itdoesn't have to be work, it should be natural,
where I think step 1 is, you know, what are thewhat's the low-hanging fruit, and what I mean
by that is what are the things that are justyour God-given talent?
Welcome to Inspired Choice Today.
I'm your host, Caroline Biesalski, here tobring you authentic stories, surprising
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lessons, and powerful takeaways to fuel yourjourney in business and life.
In each episode, I'll take you from oneinspiring guest to the next, blending their
experiences with my expertise to uncoverpractical strategies you can use right away.
Whether you're starting out or stepping up,stay tuned for insights and actionable tips
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that make a difference, and stick around untilthe end for a special freebie just for our
listeners.
Hello, and welcome inspired podcast community.
This is your new episode.
My name is Caroline, and my today's guest isTim Branyan, and I'm so happy that he said yes
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to our interview.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great, Caroline.
Thanks so much for having me on, and I'mexcited to dive into a conversation.
Thank you so much for being here, and I wouldlike to introduce you, of course, to the
audience.
You are a tech entrepreneur and Air Forceveteran who has launched hundreds of apps and
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platforms driving millions of users andrevenue.
Passionate about empowering others, you shareexpertise on scaling projects, building
systems, and achieving success.
Your latest venture, True Fans, you have tohelp me with the pronunciation here, a content
creator platform now boasts over 623,000 globalusers, offering creators enhanced earning
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potential and top-tier features.
Welcome to the Inspired podcast, Tim.
Yeah.
Thank you.
How do you pronounce this True Fans?
That's it.
You you nailed it.
That's it.
You never know.
Thank you so much.
And my first question is, you started yourjourney with just $6,241.56 and no formal
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education.
What inspired you to take that leap, and whatlessons did you learn from your early
challenges?
Yeah.
So what inspired me was a desire for freedom,and I was, you know, working a job.
I liked my job, but I could see the, you know,I saw the career progression and didn't like
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the thought of, you know, retiring in 30 or 40years, dedicating that much time to that
specific job that I was in.
I was in the military.
And through that restlessness and discontent, Istarted working my job, minding my freedom, and
working towards a plan that at the time wouldhelp me yield the result that I was imagining.
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It was all in my head.
It was all an imaginary sort of destination,and you know that destination started to take
shape I think initially just because of thatpure desire for ownership of my own life and
freedom.
So my definition of success has definitelychanged over the years, and I think it should,
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and it's okay to be malleable, like in yourdesign or in your sort of life vision, but
yeah, that was really it for me was just thispursuit of how do I own my time, how do I own
my life, how do I make half of the money thatI'm making now but not have to trade hours for
dollars, and, you know, in the military shavemy face and report for, you know, duties and
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formations at 5 in the morning or 4 in themorning and in some cases put my life on the
line in hostile, you know, hostile areas of theworld and, yeah.
So I did just that.
Wow.
What a great answer to start with, and I lovehow you implemented the term imaginary
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destination.
Yes.
And that when you take the first letters, thenit is ID.
This could be your ID as well.
Oh, I love playing with words.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for inspiring me already withthe start of your journey.
And my next question is your platform,TrueFanz, is revolutionizing how creators
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monetize their work.
How do you see it empowering the nextgeneration of content creators?
Yeah.
Good question.
I mean, it already is.
So I get to have a real-world sort of look atthat.
Not only, you know, from a dollar standpoint,we're helping creators make more money than
they've ever made, ever, and, you know, we'reseeing them sort of develop their brands not
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only from a creative standpoint but from abusiness or an economic standpoint.
So we're really creating kind of this creatorentrepreneur hybrid and teaching them how
valuable community building and contentcreation is not only to their own bottom line
but also to some of the major platforms too.
So, you know, you look at Facebook, you look atInstagram, you look at TikTok and all these
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platforms, the only reason that they're asvaluable as they are is because of content, and
the only reason content is there is because ofthe individual producing it, editing it,
sharing it, and you know, that is what amassesthe audience.
So I think as the years continue to go by,creators are going to continue to be empowered
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by that reality and that understanding thatthey are the oil to the engine, if you will, in
that sort of social media world andunderstanding some of the money and the
economics behind how these platforms are worth1,000,000,000 of dollars and participating in
that is really the goal and what's happened notnot only, you know, from the, you you know from
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our platform sort of leading that charge and inthe paradigm shift of content creation and
creator economy but others as well, right, thathave almost forced these bigger platforms to
treat the creators different and pay themdifferently and enhance some of their control
over their audiences and their sort of brand.
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So we're really proud of that, and it's beensuper rewarding just to build the relationships
with these entrepreneurs and creators and thenhave a platform where we really just listen
with the intent to engineer, to create featuresand functions that mean good for them and their
audiences, and that's really our goal ishospitality to the creator and then their
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subscribers or their audiences.
So because of that, we've seen success.
We've made millions of dollars, but moreoverthan that, we've paid millions of dollars to
creators in every part of the world.
And, it's just exciting to see that evolutionand really participate in it.
Wow.
What a great answer.
Thank you so much.
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And you mentioned that the platforms have topay the creators differently, and I would say I
would add to that also to pay respect.
Not only money because the platform is theplatform.
Right?
I love that.
And that's been valuable too is the creators,you know and you're kinda seeing this shift now
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is, you know, platforms changing some of theirterms of service and changing some of their,
you know, rules and regulations as far asbanning accounts and sharing and receiving data
and all this is happening.
I mean, literally just last I think it was lastweek, Mark Zuckerberg gave a statement about,
you know, how he had been working with thefederal agencies and how he, you know, was
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sharing information, how he was being almostforced to change features and functions to,
yeah, maybe enhance a political candidate overanother and, you know, suppress information.
And it's good to see that stuff coming tolight, that sort of truth and that
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accountability, and then, it seems as thoughthe people are winning in a way.
Yes.
I understand what you mean.
So we live in a constant motion of change, butwe don't see so not everyone sees it.
It's behind the scenes as well.
Yes.
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I love it.
Okay.
My next question for you.
You often talk about helping others achievetheir own version of success.
What advice would you give to someone juststarting out and dreaming big?
Have fun.
Understand that it's moldable.
It doesn't have to be work.
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It should be natural.
Where I think step one is, you know, what arethe what's the low-hanging fruit, and what I
mean by that is what are the things that arejust your God-given talents?
What are the things that you're just naturallygood at?
You can take assessments, you could ask yourfriends and family and, you know, kind of take
a poll, or you may just already know whichthat's gonna be valuable is just already
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knowing what are the things that I'm justnaturally good at.
I'm a great healer.
Right?
People come to me for advice and they oftentell me, you know, I should do this or what are
people maybe telling you that you're ignoring?
Or the things again that just come natural?
And then once you know those gifts, I thinkaligning those gifts with a result for an ideal
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body of people that you want to serve is notonly going to create funds for you, but more
importantly, it's going to create fulfillment.
And fulfillment is an amazing sort of rocketfuel to stay on the path that's necessary as
you're building and you're gaining sort of yourentrepreneurial muscles and the characteristics
that it's going to take to get to scale andhigher levels.
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It's like if you're not genuinely passionateand fulfilled in what you're doing, then you
won't last because there's going to be thingsthat knock you off course, that hurt your
feelings, that don't go your way.
And I think the rocket fuel, quote unquote, offulfillment is very fundamentally helpful for,
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you know, hurdling obstacles and gettingthrough some of those layers of challenge.
So that would be it.
Go introspective, learn about the things thatare your natural gifts, double, triple,
quadruple down on those in the service of amarket, in the service of others, and then
start imagining and have fun with the idealversion of yourself that's doing that in a big
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way.
So it's like, you know, I tend to dream in,like, five-year increments.
It's just easier to think about, okay, if I dothis activity, these sort of objectives for,
you know, five years, how many days is that,right?
How many hours a day could I dedicate to doingthese crunches or doing this direct outreach or
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filming a video or uploading a podcast oruploading a YouTube video?
If I do these activities for this amount oftime, what's it—what am I gonna be like?
Like, what's my imagination?
Like, what's this—I'm gonna turn into asuperhero speaking, right, or I'm gonna be, you
know, so just play with that and imagine yoursort of superhero self and realize that that's
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the catalyst, that's really the differencebetween folks that make it to their dream and
people that never, you know, take that time toreally start planning out.
It's easy, I think, as we get older and as westart developing our belief systems to lock
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into those belief systems and not realize thatyou can change them.
So very important.
I think, you know, step one is believe inyourself.
Anybody that's at some, you know, maybe thelevel that you're trying to attain to, they're
not necessarily special, they just did some ofthe work, the mental and the work and the heart
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characteristics work.
So, yeah, that's kind of a longer answer to acomplex sort of challenge for some.
Yeah.
There was a lot.
So first of all, we have to take a look at ourgifts and talents, and this was exactly the
question in my first 33 episodes.
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I had the same five questions to everyonebecause I wanted to find this out for myself.
Let's say, like, one year ago, I would havesaid I have no gifts and talents.
But just because I did not know it's, like, I'mnot statement or something because I have this
shift in career or something like you.
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And I dedicated my life to podcasting now.
This is my talent, I think.
And I recorded over 640 episodes within oneyear.
And I think what you told us about the fiveyears when I thought because I would do over
1,000 in two years.
And then in five years, where am I, who is thisperson?
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Right?
This was your question.
Then coming back to your definition of success,you said everyone has their own or has to
create their own definition of success.
What is your definition of that?
Yeah.
So mine is alignment with purpose.
So I know that I'm good at solving problems.
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I know that I like to help people.
I know that I tend to be able to lead peopleand rally them around a vision or an idea, so
my biggest success is using those powers forgood and creating outcomes that are helpful and
creating outcomes that are, you know, valuedand be a good steward of my gifts and my, you
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know, sort of characteristics is my highestlevel of fulfillment.
And that aligns with my spiritual journey,right?
As a Christian man, I'm always trying todisciple myself and discipline myself against
myself and my flesh.
Like I, you know, I tend to want to indulge inthings that I shouldn't, or I tend to, you
know, get distracted in things that aren't onmission or on target.
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But, you know, in order to realize that, youhave to first have a target and first have some
sort of operating system that's, you know,pushing you towards your ideal goal or your own
ideal fulfillment.
So for mine specifically, it's how do I alignmy gifts and talents as a form of stewardship
and love in honoring my God.
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And so in that, I don't work for men.
I don't work for people.
I'm working for, you know, worship, and thathas given me more motivation and more power,
wind in my sails than any dollar amount couldor any title could, and I'm my biggest
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competitor.
So, you know, I've been very introspective overthe last few years and finding out the things
that I enjoy and things that I like, and thetruth is I am my biggest enemy, and I think we
all, I think many will agree with that, likeyou are your biggest adversary, and you know
being okay with that, starting to competeagainst that person is where things will really
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start to change for you.
If you can be if you can be radically honestabout the things that are going well and the,
you know, sort of the internal talk that youhave that isn't going well and the internal,
you know, the actions that you're taking thatare positive and yielding the things you want
versus not, that's when I think theentrepreneur is really gonna, or person in
general, is gonna really start seeing quantumleaps in their life and their behavior and
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their thoughts.
So for me personally, the thing that reallyrevolutionized and changed my life was
Christianity, my faith.
I totally agree with that, and I'm impressedand inspired.
Now what you said, it's true about the quantumleaps.
They happen first in the mind or in the mindfirst.
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Yes.
And then you see it on the outside.
And what you said about, yeah, I heard a quoteonce, but I don't know if I remember entirely.
It is that, yeah, God's gift to us is, or Godgave us so many gifts and talents, and our task
is to develop them over the lifetime.
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And, yeah, this is a true gift.
Thank you so much.
Where can we find you when people want to reachout to you after listening to this episode?
Sure.
Yeah.
I'm pretty active on LinkedIn.
It's Tim Branyan on LinkedIn.
If you Google Tim Branyan, typically my socialmedias will pop up or my website,
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timbranyan.com, and yeah I have a lot ofvirtual assistants that work for me so if you
reach out and you need to specifically talk tome just, you know, maybe say that.
If you're reaching out to different, you know,platforms and such.
I'm fairly easily findable, I think.
I try to be.
And if I can be of help, just know that I'dlove to be.
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So whether you're, you know, you've been anentrepreneur for a day or you're thinking about
becoming an entrepreneur, please reach out, Ican probably help you or connect you or at
least share some ideas that would serve, Ihope.
And then if you've been in business a longtime, you've made millions, I like to think
that I can help some of those folks as wellwith resources or other connections that I
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have, and it'd be my honor.
So, yeah, timbranyan.com is a good place andthen pretty much just Google Tim Branyan and
that should pop up across most social media.
I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Yes.
I put it in the show notes, of course.
And I have one last question for you.
It is about your goals.
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Do you set goals for yourself or intentions?
And you talked about the five years already.
And what is one of your next projects?
Yeah, good question.
So my sort of New Year's resolutions or goalsetting has changed over the years.
I used to have, you know, a big vision or a bigidea and I'd write those down and, you know, do
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affirmations and do sort of like that exercisework on that, but I never really got into the
ingredients of how I was gonna do them, likewhat the actual exercise looked like daily for
a consistent period of time.
So outside of all that, where I first start thenew year is getting very light.
So I go through my phone and delete apps Idon't use.
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I go through my emails and unsubscribe from allthe junk that I don't want to see or don't want
to have pop up.
I clean my closet, I clean my car, I clean mygolf bag, I clean my work bag, I clean my
office.
I want January to be just trimming the fat ofmy life.
I want everything out that isn't serving me oris distracting me.
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I want to take accountability of that.
So across, you know, all aspects, mytechnology, my desktop if that's messy, I need
to delete and remove things.
I already mentioned apps and messages andemail.
But, you know, moreover than that, I try to getclean too.
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I try to trim my beard.
I try to get a haircut.
I go get a pedicure and a manicure.
I get fresh, and how you feel is how youperform a lot of times.
So on that sort of, like, I guess in the themeof it being January and a fresh new start, I
try to really embody that as I'm preparing forthis, you know, my goals and these action
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items, like going to the gym, if you will, ofmy goals.
I love having a year calendar, so I have a yearcalendar where I intentionally put time on for
my family, intentionally put time on that I'munreachable and like recharge times throughout
the year, and they're just nonnegotiable.
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It's like this is when or this is where we'regonna be.
This is what we're gonna do.
These are the adventures we're gonna have, so Itake time to do that.
And then, you know, it's also fun to thinkabout, you know, what's one amazing thing you
want to do in the year, just one or you couldhave multiple, but it's like, oh, I wanna go to
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India and visit some of my team members againor I wanna go to the Philippines and meet some
of my folks, you know, out there and bring mykids and show them, you know anyway, whatever
it is for you, just put one big adventure onyour calendar a year, and then over time, I
think you'll be really glad you did that.
But as far as goal setting, it really is justas simple and complex as deciding, okay, here's
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what I want to be like and be doing and beacting and be building or working on or working
with in five years, and then get into the macrosort of action items that are required to get
that outcome.
So for me, mine, I want to sell 10 countieshere in the United States, a platform that
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helps their communities get connected to theright resource at the right time.
We built a tool and it's very helpful tocommunities to learn from their community
leaders rather to learn from their communitymembers and help them find the right zip code
level resource at the right time and then learnfrom like what's being searched for, what's
being found, what's not being found.
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So some of my just to explain the macro view,some of my daily exercises will be to do direct
outreach to various community leaders that I'mtargeting in those areas.
So getting on LinkedIn and sending a videomessage every day to somebody that I want to
connect with will result in a large amount ofnew potential connections and opportunities to
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serve or give or help and maybe even earn atthe same time.
So it's like you got to have the big vision andlike the numbers and the things that you want
to do for a bigger reason than just that, likejust hitting numbers, and then you have to set
up your workout routine that you're gonnacommit to that actually, you know, the actual
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work it's gonna take just to have a betterchance of making that a reality, and that takes
time.
So just one sort of caution to folks is thatand everybody knows this.
It's like we're all distracted.
You know, it's easy to get a notification thenend up on Instagram Reels for the next hour or
scrolling TikTok or reading a book or watchingTV or playing a video game, whatever your
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distraction is.
You just have to be aware of that and giveyourself time to be bored in a way to then go
through the motions of your plan with theclassic pencil and paper.
And if you don't do that, then, you know, Idon't know statistically what doesn't get
planned and doesn't get accomplished.
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I mean, it's just that simple that the statsshow that even if you write your goals down,
then you have a—I think it's a 60 percentchance increase that you're actually gonna see
them to fruition just by writing them down.
So you know I hope people do that.
I hope, I hope people give them—I hope peoplelove themselves enough and will fight
themselves enough, like compete with themselvesenough that they'll do that work that most
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won't.
Yes.
That's so true.
That comes from the article, "The CommonDenominator of Success," by, I think, Dr.
Ian Gray or some name like that.
Yes.
That reminded me, and I'm impressed andinspired.
And I love what you said about the one thingyou want to experience in the year.
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It takes the pressure off a little bit.
And when you said about you clean the wholeJanuary, then it's not only one day.
You take your time and then you are determinedand decisive as well, and then you clean.
And what you forgot to mention, no.
I want to add also contacts.
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You know?
When you clean contacts in your phone, likeyeah.
You can
Yeah.
Decide whether you want to maintain therelationship, friendship, whatsoever, or you
can delete or block, even block.
We can block people as well.
Sometimes it is necessary.
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Yes.
Sometimes.
Yes.
Thank you.
That's good to get light.
It's good to get clean, and that you can takethe whole month of January.
You can take January or February if you needto, and everybody's, you know, light is maybe a
little different than mine, but that's justwhat works really well for me.
And then what's fun is like as you're goingthrough your content, as you're going through
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your phone apps, as you're going through yourmessages or emails with this sort of mentality
of what's serving me, what's not, what can Iunpack, it'll oftentimes jog your memory of who
you need to reach out to or what conversationswere going where.
It's a good sort of reminder, you know, goingthrough things with that sort of filtered
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mentality of what's gonna make me light andwhat's gonna serve me.
So yeah.
That's a great answer.
Thank you so much also for our interview, andnow it's time.
And I know you already mentioned your thoughts,but not your final thoughts.
Now it's time for your final thoughts to theaudience, please.
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Yeah.
So I work with entrepreneurs every day, everyweek, every month, 100 and 100 a year, and I
love that.
And oftentimes they fall into three differentcategories.
Like as entrepreneurs, it's either A, theydon't believe in themselves, they haven't
stacked enough evidence to really truly believein themselves, and that's something that they
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should work on; B, they don't have a productthat is so good people are silly to say no to
it, and they haven't really taken the time toproductize and be empathetic to their customers
and develop something that's easy for theircustomers to get that's so good that they're
silly literally to say no to it.
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And then if they have those two things,typically the third thing that they struggle
with is distribution.
They maybe don't know, they maybe have anamazing product, they believe in it, they
believe in themselves, they just simply don'tknow how to get people in the door to buy their
thing or to demo their thing, and that's verycommon.
There are exceptionally intelligent people withamazing products that people just don't know
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about.
And, you know, so I guess my final thoughtwould be to figure out what category you're in
and then reach out to folks that can help youget definitive on the things that you need
assistance with and start doing yourreconnaissance on those items.
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There's plenty of information out there thatyou'll have to filter through.
There's plenty of people out there that you'llhave to filter through, but there's definitely
an answer once you know the thing that you'retrying to accomplish.
So, and know that it's possible.
I think, you know, the more successful that Iget, the more and, you know, the more
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achievements that I've acquired, the more Iwonder, like, what do I actually know?
It's like getting to realize that everybody'sjust doing their best at a tactical freestyle,
no matter what level they're at.
It's kind of this reassuring thing that givesyou, hopefully, it gives people listening to
this inspiration to realize that you don't haveto have it all figured out, you're never gonna
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have it all figured out, and to enjoy thejourney as you're learning and adapting and
building relationships and, you know, yeah,acquiring the characteristics that will yield
success.
It's love that part, and know that, you know,you're not alone.
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That's true.
You are not alone, and the fun is in findingout how to get it.
It is.
Okay.
Thank you so much for our interview.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
And see you in the next episode.
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Keep making those inspired choices.
See you in the next episode.
Have fun, understand that it's moldable, itdoesn't have to be work, it should be natural,
where I think step 1 is, you know, what are thewhat's the low-hanging fruit, and what I mean
by that is what are the things that are justyour God-given talent?
Welcome to Inspired Choice Today.
I'm your host, Caroline Biesalski, here tobring you authentic stories, surprising
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lessons, and powerful takeaways to fuel yourjourney in business and life.
In each episode, I'll take you from oneinspiring guest to the next, blending their
experiences with my expertise to uncoverpractical strategies you can use right away.
Whether you're starting out or stepping up,stay tuned for insights and actionable tips
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that make a difference, and stick around untilthe end for a special freebie just for our
listeners.
Hello, and welcome inspired podcast community.
This is your new episode.
My name is Caroline, and my today's guest isTim Branyan, and I'm so happy that he said yes
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to our interview.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great, Caroline.
Thanks so much for having me on, and I'mexcited to dive into a conversation.
Thank you so much for being here, and I wouldlike to introduce you, of course, to the
audience.
You are a tech entrepreneur and Air Forceveteran who has launched hundreds of apps and
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platforms driving millions of users andrevenue.
Passionate about empowering others, you shareexpertise on scaling projects, building
systems, and achieving success.
Your latest venture, True Fans, you have tohelp me with the pronunciation here, a content
creator platform now boasts over 623,000 globalusers, offering creators enhanced earning
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potential and top-tier features.
Welcome to the Inspired podcast, Tim.
Yeah.
Thank you.
How do you pronounce this True Fans?
That's it.
You you nailed it.
That's it.
You never know.
Thank you so much.
And my first question is, you started yourjourney with just $6,241.56 and no formal
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education.
What inspired you to take that leap, and whatlessons did you learn from your early
challenges?
Yeah.
So what inspired me was a desire for freedom,and I was, you know, working a job.
I liked my job, but I could see the, you know,I saw the career progression and didn't like
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the thought of, you know, retiring in 30 or 40years, dedicating that much time to that
specific job that I was in.
I was in the military.
And through that restlessness and discontent, Istarted working my job, minding my freedom, and
working towards a plan that at the time wouldhelp me yield the result that I was imagining.
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It was all in my head.
It was all an imaginary sort of destination,and you know that destination started to take
shape I think initially just because of thatpure desire for ownership of my own life and
freedom.
So my definition of success has definitelychanged over the years, and I think it should,
(03:43):
and it's okay to be malleable, like in yourdesign or in your sort of life vision, but
yeah, that was really it for me was just thispursuit of how do I own my time, how do I own
my life, how do I make half of the money thatI'm making now but not have to trade hours for
dollars, and, you know, in the military shavemy face and report for, you know, duties and
(04:06):
formations at 5 in the morning or 4 in themorning and in some cases put my life on the
line in hostile, you know, hostile areas of theworld and, yeah.
So I did just that.
Wow.
What a great answer to start with, and I lovehow you implemented the term imaginary
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destination.
Yes.
And that when you take the first letters, thenit is ID.
This could be your ID as well.
Oh, I love playing with words.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for inspiring me already withthe start of your journey.
And my next question is your platform,TrueFanz, is revolutionizing how creators
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monetize their work.
How do you see it empowering the nextgeneration of content creators?
Yeah.
Good question.
I mean, it already is.
So I get to have a real-world sort of look atthat.
Not only, you know, from a dollar standpoint,we're helping creators make more money than
they've ever made, ever, and, you know, we'reseeing them sort of develop their brands not
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only from a creative standpoint but from abusiness or an economic standpoint.
So we're really creating kind of this creatorentrepreneur hybrid and teaching them how
valuable community building and contentcreation is not only to their own bottom line
but also to some of the major platforms too.
So, you know, you look at Facebook, you look atInstagram, you look at TikTok and all these
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platforms, the only reason that they're asvaluable as they are is because of content, and
the only reason content is there is because ofthe individual producing it, editing it,
sharing it, and you know, that is what amassesthe audience.
So I think as the years continue to go by,creators are going to continue to be empowered
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by that reality and that understanding thatthey are the oil to the engine, if you will, in
that sort of social media world andunderstanding some of the money and the
economics behind how these platforms are worth1,000,000,000 of dollars and participating in
that is really the goal and what's happened notnot only, you know, from the, you you know from
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our platform sort of leading that charge and inthe paradigm shift of content creation and
creator economy but others as well, right, thathave almost forced these bigger platforms to
treat the creators different and pay themdifferently and enhance some of their control
over their audiences and their sort of brand.
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So we're really proud of that, and it's beensuper rewarding just to build the relationships
with these entrepreneurs and creators and thenhave a platform where we really just listen
with the intent to engineer, to create featuresand functions that mean good for them and their
audiences, and that's really our goal ishospitality to the creator and then their
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subscribers or their audiences.
So because of that, we've seen success.
We've made millions of dollars, but moreoverthan that, we've paid millions of dollars to
creators in every part of the world.
And, it's just exciting to see that evolutionand really participate in it.
Wow.
What a great answer.
Thank you so much.
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And you mentioned that the platforms have topay the creators differently, and I would say I
would add to that also to pay respect.
Not only money because the platform is theplatform.
Right?
I love that.
And that's been valuable too is the creators,you know and you're kinda seeing this shift now
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is, you know, platforms changing some of theirterms of service and changing some of their,
you know, rules and regulations as far asbanning accounts and sharing and receiving data
and all this is happening.
I mean, literally just last I think it was lastweek, Mark Zuckerberg gave a statement about,
you know, how he had been working with thefederal agencies and how he, you know, was
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sharing information, how he was being almostforced to change features and functions to,
yeah, maybe enhance a political candidate overanother and, you know, suppress information.
And it's good to see that stuff coming tolight, that sort of truth and that
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accountability, and then, it seems as thoughthe people are winning in a way.
Yes.
I understand what you mean.
So we live in a constant motion of change, butwe don't see so not everyone sees it.
It's behind the scenes as well.
Yes.
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I love it.
Okay.
My next question for you.
You often talk about helping others achievetheir own version of success.
What advice would you give to someone juststarting out and dreaming big?
Have fun.
Understand that it's moldable.
It doesn't have to be work.
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It should be natural.
Where I think step one is, you know, what arethe what's the low-hanging fruit, and what I
mean by that is what are the things that arejust your God-given talents?
What are the things that you're just naturallygood at?
You can take assessments, you could ask yourfriends and family and, you know, kind of take
a poll, or you may just already know whichthat's gonna be valuable is just already
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knowing what are the things that I'm justnaturally good at.
I'm a great healer.
Right?
People come to me for advice and they oftentell me, you know, I should do this or what are
people maybe telling you that you're ignoring?
Or the things again that just come natural?
And then once you know those gifts, I thinkaligning those gifts with a result for an ideal
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body of people that you want to serve is notonly going to create funds for you, but more
importantly, it's going to create fulfillment.
And fulfillment is an amazing sort of rocketfuel to stay on the path that's necessary as
you're building and you're gaining sort of yourentrepreneurial muscles and the characteristics
that it's going to take to get to scale andhigher levels.
(10:25):
It's like if you're not genuinely passionateand fulfilled in what you're doing, then you
won't last because there's going to be thingsthat knock you off course, that hurt your
feelings, that don't go your way.
And I think the rocket fuel, quote unquote, offulfillment is very fundamentally helpful for,
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you know, hurdling obstacles and gettingthrough some of those layers of challenge.
So that would be it.
Go introspective, learn about the things thatare your natural gifts, double, triple,
quadruple down on those in the service of amarket, in the service of others, and then
start imagining and have fun with the idealversion of yourself that's doing that in a big
(11:11):
way.
So it's like, you know, I tend to dream in,like, five-year increments.
It's just easier to think about, okay, if I dothis activity, these sort of objectives for,
you know, five years, how many days is that,right?
How many hours a day could I dedicate to doingthese crunches or doing this direct outreach or
(11:31):
filming a video or uploading a podcast oruploading a YouTube video?
If I do these activities for this amount oftime, what's it—what am I gonna be like?
Like, what's my imagination?
Like, what's this—I'm gonna turn into asuperhero speaking, right, or I'm gonna be, you
know, so just play with that and imagine yoursort of superhero self and realize that that's
(11:52):
the catalyst, that's really the differencebetween folks that make it to their dream and
people that never, you know, take that time toreally start planning out.
It's easy, I think, as we get older and as westart developing our belief systems to lock
(12:13):
into those belief systems and not realize thatyou can change them.
So very important.
I think, you know, step one is believe inyourself.
Anybody that's at some, you know, maybe thelevel that you're trying to attain to, they're
not necessarily special, they just did some ofthe work, the mental and the work and the heart
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characteristics work.
So, yeah, that's kind of a longer answer to acomplex sort of challenge for some.
Yeah.
There was a lot.
So first of all, we have to take a look at ourgifts and talents, and this was exactly the
question in my first 33 episodes.
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I had the same five questions to everyonebecause I wanted to find this out for myself.
Let's say, like, one year ago, I would havesaid I have no gifts and talents.
But just because I did not know it's, like, I'mnot statement or something because I have this
shift in career or something like you.
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And I dedicated my life to podcasting now.
This is my talent, I think.
And I recorded over 640 episodes within oneyear.
And I think what you told us about the fiveyears when I thought because I would do over
1,000 in two years.
And then in five years, where am I, who is thisperson?
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Right?
This was your question.
Then coming back to your definition of success,you said everyone has their own or has to
create their own definition of success.
What is your definition of that?
Yeah.
So mine is alignment with purpose.
So I know that I'm good at solving problems.
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I know that I like to help people.
I know that I tend to be able to lead peopleand rally them around a vision or an idea, so
my biggest success is using those powers forgood and creating outcomes that are helpful and
creating outcomes that are, you know, valuedand be a good steward of my gifts and my, you
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know, sort of characteristics is my highestlevel of fulfillment.
And that aligns with my spiritual journey,right?
As a Christian man, I'm always trying todisciple myself and discipline myself against
myself and my flesh.
Like I, you know, I tend to want to indulge inthings that I shouldn't, or I tend to, you
know, get distracted in things that aren't onmission or on target.
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But, you know, in order to realize that, youhave to first have a target and first have some
sort of operating system that's, you know,pushing you towards your ideal goal or your own
ideal fulfillment.
So for mine specifically, it's how do I alignmy gifts and talents as a form of stewardship
and love in honoring my God.
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And so in that, I don't work for men.
I don't work for people.
I'm working for, you know, worship, and thathas given me more motivation and more power,
wind in my sails than any dollar amount couldor any title could, and I'm my biggest
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competitor.
So, you know, I've been very introspective overthe last few years and finding out the things
that I enjoy and things that I like, and thetruth is I am my biggest enemy, and I think we
all, I think many will agree with that, likeyou are your biggest adversary, and you know
being okay with that, starting to competeagainst that person is where things will really
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start to change for you.
If you can be if you can be radically honestabout the things that are going well and the,
you know, sort of the internal talk that youhave that isn't going well and the internal,
you know, the actions that you're taking thatare positive and yielding the things you want
versus not, that's when I think theentrepreneur is really gonna, or person in
general, is gonna really start seeing quantumleaps in their life and their behavior and
(16:32):
their thoughts.
So for me personally, the thing that reallyrevolutionized and changed my life was
Christianity, my faith.
I totally agree with that, and I'm impressedand inspired.
Now what you said, it's true about the quantumleaps.
They happen first in the mind or in the mindfirst.
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Yes.
And then you see it on the outside.
And what you said about, yeah, I heard a quoteonce, but I don't know if I remember entirely.
It is that, yeah, God's gift to us is, or Godgave us so many gifts and talents, and our task
is to develop them over the lifetime.
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And, yeah, this is a true gift.
Thank you so much.
Where can we find you when people want to reachout to you after listening to this episode?
Sure.
Yeah.
I'm pretty active on LinkedIn.
It's Tim Branyan on LinkedIn.
If you Google Tim Branyan, typically my socialmedias will pop up or my website,
(17:37):
timbranyan.com, and yeah I have a lot ofvirtual assistants that work for me so if you
reach out and you need to specifically talk tome just, you know, maybe say that.
If you're reaching out to different, you know,platforms and such.
I'm fairly easily findable, I think.
I try to be.
And if I can be of help, just know that I'dlove to be.
(17:58):
So whether you're, you know, you've been anentrepreneur for a day or you're thinking about
becoming an entrepreneur, please reach out, Ican probably help you or connect you or at
least share some ideas that would serve, Ihope.
And then if you've been in business a longtime, you've made millions, I like to think
that I can help some of those folks as wellwith resources or other connections that I
(18:20):
have, and it'd be my honor.
So, yeah, timbranyan.com is a good place andthen pretty much just Google Tim Branyan and
that should pop up across most social media.
I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Yes.
I put it in the show notes, of course.
And I have one last question for you.
It is about your goals.
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Do you set goals for yourself or intentions?
And you talked about the five years already.
And what is one of your next projects?
Yeah, good question.
So my sort of New Year's resolutions or goalsetting has changed over the years.
I used to have, you know, a big vision or a bigidea and I'd write those down and, you know, do
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affirmations and do sort of like that exercisework on that, but I never really got into the
ingredients of how I was gonna do them, likewhat the actual exercise looked like daily for
a consistent period of time.
So outside of all that, where I first start thenew year is getting very light.
So I go through my phone and delete apps Idon't use.
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I go through my emails and unsubscribe from allthe junk that I don't want to see or don't want
to have pop up.
I clean my closet, I clean my car, I clean mygolf bag, I clean my work bag, I clean my
office.
I want January to be just trimming the fat ofmy life.
I want everything out that isn't serving me oris distracting me.
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I want to take accountability of that.
So across, you know, all aspects, mytechnology, my desktop if that's messy, I need
to delete and remove things.
I already mentioned apps and messages andemail.
But, you know, moreover than that, I try to getclean too.
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I try to trim my beard.
I try to get a haircut.
I go get a pedicure and a manicure.
I get fresh, and how you feel is how youperform a lot of times.
So on that sort of, like, I guess in the themeof it being January and a fresh new start, I
try to really embody that as I'm preparing forthis, you know, my goals and these action
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items, like going to the gym, if you will, ofmy goals.
I love having a year calendar, so I have a yearcalendar where I intentionally put time on for
my family, intentionally put time on that I'munreachable and like recharge times throughout
the year, and they're just nonnegotiable.
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It's like this is when or this is where we'regonna be.
This is what we're gonna do.
These are the adventures we're gonna have, so Itake time to do that.
And then, you know, it's also fun to thinkabout, you know, what's one amazing thing you
want to do in the year, just one or you couldhave multiple, but it's like, oh, I wanna go to
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India and visit some of my team members againor I wanna go to the Philippines and meet some
of my folks, you know, out there and bring mykids and show them, you know anyway, whatever
it is for you, just put one big adventure onyour calendar a year, and then over time, I
think you'll be really glad you did that.
But as far as goal setting, it really is justas simple and complex as deciding, okay, here's
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what I want to be like and be doing and beacting and be building or working on or working
with in five years, and then get into the macrosort of action items that are required to get
that outcome.
So for me, mine, I want to sell 10 countieshere in the United States, a platform that
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helps their communities get connected to theright resource at the right time.
We built a tool and it's very helpful tocommunities to learn from their community
leaders rather to learn from their communitymembers and help them find the right zip code
level resource at the right time and then learnfrom like what's being searched for, what's
being found, what's not being found.
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So some of my just to explain the macro view,some of my daily exercises will be to do direct
outreach to various community leaders that I'mtargeting in those areas.
So getting on LinkedIn and sending a videomessage every day to somebody that I want to
connect with will result in a large amount ofnew potential connections and opportunities to
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serve or give or help and maybe even earn atthe same time.
So it's like you got to have the big vision andlike the numbers and the things that you want
to do for a bigger reason than just that, likejust hitting numbers, and then you have to set
up your workout routine that you're gonnacommit to that actually, you know, the actual
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work it's gonna take just to have a betterchance of making that a reality, and that takes
time.
So just one sort of caution to folks is thatand everybody knows this.
It's like we're all distracted.
You know, it's easy to get a notification thenend up on Instagram Reels for the next hour or
scrolling TikTok or reading a book or watchingTV or playing a video game, whatever your
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distraction is.
You just have to be aware of that and giveyourself time to be bored in a way to then go
through the motions of your plan with theclassic pencil and paper.
And if you don't do that, then, you know, Idon't know statistically what doesn't get
planned and doesn't get accomplished.
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I mean, it's just that simple that the statsshow that even if you write your goals down,
then you have a—I think it's a 60 percentchance increase that you're actually gonna see
them to fruition just by writing them down.
So you know I hope people do that.
I hope, I hope people give them—I hope peoplelove themselves enough and will fight
themselves enough, like compete with themselvesenough that they'll do that work that most
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won't.
Yes.
That's so true.
That comes from the article, "The CommonDenominator of Success," by, I think, Dr.
Ian Gray or some name like that.
Yes.
That reminded me, and I'm impressed andinspired.
And I love what you said about the one thingyou want to experience in the year.
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It takes the pressure off a little bit.
And when you said about you clean the wholeJanuary, then it's not only one day.
You take your time and then you are determinedand decisive as well, and then you clean.
And what you forgot to mention, no.
I want to add also contacts.
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You know?
When you clean contacts in your phone, likeyeah.
You can
Yeah.
Decide whether you want to maintain therelationship, friendship, whatsoever, or you
can delete or block, even block.
We can block people as well.
Sometimes it is necessary.
(25:33):
Yes.
Sometimes.
Yes.
Thank you.
That's good to get light.
It's good to get clean, and that you can takethe whole month of January.
You can take January or February if you needto, and everybody's, you know, light is maybe a
little different than mine, but that's justwhat works really well for me.
And then what's fun is like as you're goingthrough your content, as you're going through
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your phone apps, as you're going through yourmessages or emails with this sort of mentality
of what's serving me, what's not, what can Iunpack, it'll oftentimes jog your memory of who
you need to reach out to or what conversationswere going where.
It's a good sort of reminder, you know, goingthrough things with that sort of filtered
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mentality of what's gonna make me light andwhat's gonna serve me.
So yeah.
That's a great answer.
Thank you so much also for our interview, andnow it's time.
And I know you already mentioned your thoughts,but not your final thoughts.
Now it's time for your final thoughts to theaudience, please.
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Yeah.
So I work with entrepreneurs every day, everyweek, every month, 100 and 100 a year, and I
love that.
And oftentimes they fall into three differentcategories.
Like as entrepreneurs, it's either A, theydon't believe in themselves, they haven't
stacked enough evidence to really truly believein themselves, and that's something that they
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should work on; B, they don't have a productthat is so good people are silly to say no to
it, and they haven't really taken the time toproductize and be empathetic to their customers
and develop something that's easy for theircustomers to get that's so good that they're
silly literally to say no to it.
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And then if they have those two things,typically the third thing that they struggle
with is distribution.
They maybe don't know, they maybe have anamazing product, they believe in it, they
believe in themselves, they just simply don'tknow how to get people in the door to buy their
thing or to demo their thing, and that's verycommon.
There are exceptionally intelligent people withamazing products that people just don't know
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about.
And, you know, so I guess my final thoughtwould be to figure out what category you're in
and then reach out to folks that can help youget definitive on the things that you need
assistance with and start doing yourreconnaissance on those items.
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There's plenty of information out there thatyou'll have to filter through.
There's plenty of people out there that you'llhave to filter through, but there's definitely
an answer once you know the thing that you'retrying to accomplish.
So, and know that it's possible.
I think, you know, the more successful that Iget, the more and, you know, the more
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achievements that I've acquired, the more Iwonder, like, what do I actually know?
It's like getting to realize that everybody'sjust doing their best at a tactical freestyle,
no matter what level they're at.
It's kind of this reassuring thing that givesyou, hopefully, it gives people listening to
this inspiration to realize that you don't haveto have it all figured out, you're never gonna
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have it all figured out, and to enjoy thejourney as you're learning and adapting and
building relationships and, you know, yeah,acquiring the characteristics that will yield
success.
It's love that part, and know that, you know,you're not alone.
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That's true.
You are not alone, and the fun is in findingout how to get it.
It is.
Okay.
Thank you so much for our interview.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
And see you in the next episode.
Thank you for listening to Inspired ChoiceToday.
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