🎙️48. Unleash Your Potential: Introducing The Ascend Hub for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Unleashing Your Potential: Introducing The Ascend Hub for Aspiring Entrepreneurs (Part 2)

Episode Description:

In this episode, host Michael Devous dives deeper into The Ascend Hub, a community designed to empower aspiring entrepreneurs on their journey to launch and success. Michael emphasizes the importance of community and collaboration, sharing his own experiences of feeling isolated as a solopreneur and how connecting with a tribe transformed his business. He highlights the key features of The Ascend Hub, including curated content, expert mentorship, collaborative opportunities, and exclusive events, all designed to help you unlock your full potential and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams.

Key Highlights:

• Overcoming the Overwhelm: Michael acknowledges the common feelings of overwhelm that aspiring entrepreneurs face and offers The Ascend Hub as a solution.
• The Power of Community: He emphasizes the importance of connection and collaboration, sharing how finding his tribe changed his entrepreneurial journey.
• Curated Content: Michael details how The Ascend Hub provides carefully selected resources to help entrepreneurs at every stage of their launch.
• Expert Mentorship: He discusses the value of personalized guidance from seasoned entrepreneurs and coaches who can help you navigate challenges and build confidence.
• Collaboration and Innovation: Michael highlights the power of collaboration to spark new ideas and solutions, emphasizing the collaborative environment fostered within The Ascend Hub.
• Exclusive Events: He mentions the unique events, workshops, and live podcasts available to members, fostering learning and growth.
• Beta Testing Opportunities: Michael invites listeners to become beta testers and help shape the community before its official launch.

Impactful Quotes:

• "What if there were a supportive community designed specifically to address these anxieties and help propel entrepreneurs towards a better and more successful launch?"
• "The Ascend Hub is more than just a membership platform; it's a transformative journey where conquering our fear meets launching with confidence."
• "No entrepreneur is an island unto himself or herself... The Ascend Hub connects you with experienced founding leaders."
• "Collaboration is a key to a successful launch for anybody."
• "Your ambition deserves a place to flourish. You don't have to do it alone, and you don't have to be overwhelmed. The Ascend Hub is going to be that place."

Key Takeaways:

• The Ascend Hub is a valuable resource for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to overcome fear, build resilience, and launch their businesses with confidence.
• Community and collaboration are essential ingredients for entrepreneurial success.
• The Ascend Hub offers personalized guidance, curated content, and a supportive community to help entrepreneurs thrive.
• Exclusive events, workshops, and live podcasts provide unique learning opportunities for members.
• Beta testing opportunities are available for those who want to join early and shape the community.

Transcript

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Hey there everybody. 

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And welcome to Fearless Thinking, a 

podcast designed to help you navigate

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authentic leadership and the 

entrepreneurial journey. 

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I'm your host, Michael Devous.

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And these are my thoughts, lessons and 

insights from my entrepreneurial 

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journey into coaching workshops, 

motivational speaking. 

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And of course, what I picked up from 

interviews with inspiring leaders and 

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entrepreneurs along the way.

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My mission is to help people unlock 

their untapped potential by using fear 

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as a catalyst for powerful change

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and growth,

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so they can step into the greatest 

version of their most authentic selves.

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All right, let's get into some fearless 

thinking.

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Hey, there fearless thinkers.

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Welcome back to fearless thinking 

podcast. 

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I'm your host.

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Michael Devous

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Episode 48, woo, 48,

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that's two fours and two fours.

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That's a four and no it's four and two 

fours.

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You know, my lucky number 4.

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I love it, 48

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Unleashing your potential, introducing

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the Ascend Hub

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again,

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for aspiring

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entrepreneurs.

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Potential.

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You know,

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if you're ready

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to turn your entrepreneurial dreams 

into a reality,

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there are a lot of things you're going 

to need along your,

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you know, road to get you. 

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going to be it's not just your ideas 

and your thoughts and your experiences, 

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it's not just your product and your 

services.

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Everything that you need to get to 

market, to go to market,

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um, they're

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so much.

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And the potential that you've got to 

just unleash out onto the whole world 

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is huge.

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What you bring with your message, your 

services, your products, or what have you,

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that's your potential.

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You're

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behind this. 

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It's like you are the fuel for that 

rocket ship going into space.

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And

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I want the Ascend Hub

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to be like you're all-

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in-one launchpad for your 

entrepreneurial success.

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Some of the things I want to talk about 

that we're going to have

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at the Ascend Hub that I really feel 

like can help you

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unleash your potential

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is

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curated content. 

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You know, forget about scouring the 

internet for hours on finding good, 

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handpicked articles, videos and 

resources to help fuel your growth.

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We

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together with your support and your 

help,

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will be curating relevant resources. 

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area of focus and expertise will have a 

resource library. 

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We're starting out small, by the way, 

we're starting out with just a few 

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specific libraries and areas of focus 

and expertise.

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And we will begin to build from that

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as we go. Mostly because I want your 

feedback.

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I need your feedback to let me know 

where you are on your journey. 

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What you need,

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if you need resources

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on finance and funding, if you need 

resources on sales and marketing, if you need

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resources on content curation and 

development and production and media.

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If you need resources on logistic 

supply chain and operational flows and

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SOP's.

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Yes, I could put them all together.

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Now I can try to put everything in 

there,

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which I do have almost a bit of 

everything.

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But what I need really is for your 

feedback to let me know what's relevant 

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to you at the moment.

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You know, I could get a bunch

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of new members, 100 of them. 

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And forty of them

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need something that

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I didn't put in there. 

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And so I need that feedback in order to 

make sure that we have relevant, 

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curated content that speaks 

specifically to you where you are on 

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your journey. 

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And during your launch,

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expert mentorship,

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we will have personalized guidance

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seasoned entrepreneurs and coaches and 

executives that are coming in as our 

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founding leaders to help us provide you 

with the support that you need to get 

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you where you want to go.

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A lot of these individuals,

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I will say, have a lot of experience 

with

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presentation,

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performance, coaching,

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executive leadership,

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those kind of things. 

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And

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most of us, I think, when we're trying 

to step onto this road, as entrepreneurs,

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getting our feet underneath us, and 

having that confidence to step out under

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the world with our message and our 

mission and our product and our 

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services, a lot of it does come from 

having,

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building that confidence

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that our idea just isn't a pipe dream, 

but it's something real.

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And I think those of us inside the 

Ascend Hub

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your tribe, your members of supporting 

community, can help you really

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ensure that your message and your 

mission are on point.

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You can test drive

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those ideas and those thoughts and 

those things with us

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to make sure that you're really on 

target when you're ready to get it to 

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market. 

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And getting that mentorship and 

guidance, that professional 

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personalized guidance, I think is 

crucial from individuals who have 

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already been in your shoes before, 

having done and launch their own businesses,

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a community of collaboration. 

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Now, this is the other part that I 

think is brilliant.

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And I love collab, collab, collab!

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Like we

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together...

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It's Me To The Power Of We.

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That's what I keep saying that's going 

to be the nonprofit side of it.

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Me To The Power Of We. Once we get to 

a place where we're ready to start

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giving back to communities

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and helping others in underserved

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areas,

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but collaboration together,

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when you're connected with a vibrant 

community of like minded and like 

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valued entrepreneurs

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who understand where you're coming 

from, understanding what you're trying 

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to do with your mission, your message 

and your product and services.

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When you gather together, in forums, 

workshops, networking events,

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brainstorming sessions, live 

whiteboards,

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huddle sessions,

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you can really come up with some 

incredible things together that you

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couldn't do just by yourself.

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And that collaborative spirit

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is something that we

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definitely be promoting

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at the Ascend Hub.

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Exclusive events!

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That's me, baby, that's what I do.

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I do events.

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I've done events for thirty years. 

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I've produced all kinds of events, from 

private, small, little things to really 

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big ones.

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And

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this is the part that I really

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enjoy.

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That's why I named myself Chief Fun 

Officer

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at

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the Ascend Hub

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It's my job to bring the events. 

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It's my job to bring the fun. 

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It's my job to enhance the ambiance in 

the environment,

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so that you have an incredible 

experience. 

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When you're there you'll have master 

classes, conferences, workshops,

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featuring industry leaders. 

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I'm going to be bringing in people that 

are going to talk, guest, speak and share

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live coaching sessions

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and workshop sessions that we host on 

the platform,

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where you can either join, obviously, 

you can sit and listen, but there will 

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be opportunities for you to jump in and 

get in the hot seat. 

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If you have a particular

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struggle obstacle issue with regards to 

your business that you want some 

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focused attention on,

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you can get it during one of those live 

sessions, you know, there's live

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events. 

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And there's going to be fun podcasts. 

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I'll be doing all these podcasts in 

there, I believe, moving the podcast 

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and the recording of the podcast into 

he Ascend Hub.

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So I'll be recording it live and 

streaming it there so that all members

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get to see it first before it goes out 

to the public.

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So that's sort of like, you know, the 

Disney thing. 

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It all goes into the vault.

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So all these will be going into the 

Ascend Hub vault

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and be pulled from the public. 

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And only certain pieces and clips will 

be available

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to the public.

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Well, later on, you get access to it 

first. 

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Then it goes out to the public.

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We will be developing online courses. 

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So out of all of this, in phase three,

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we will be taking the experiences, the 

content, the curated content, the 

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access, the workshops, all the things 

we've learned together, and start 

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building online courses inside the 

community

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in phase three to really start getting 

a much more robust set of experiences 

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to take us even further.

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So yeah,

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it's going to be a collaborative effort 

all the way across the board.

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And we do believe in personalized

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and professional growth. 

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Collaborative connections and 

unwavering support.

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There's

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always going to be ways that other 

members will be

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participating and supporting you where 

you are.

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But you can do the same for them. 

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Remember, you're not just coming here 

to get something. 

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You're coming to give.

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You have something important to share. 

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You have a talent, a skill, an idea, a

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thought, a perspective

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that is hugely important, your 

perspective,

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and you sharing that with us helps us 

grow and become better entrepreneurs on 

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our journey as well. 

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So please don't forget that is 

valuable, valuable.

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So anyway,

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yeah, this is a short little episode, 

just a little bit, you know, bringing a 

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little bit more information about some 

of the features and things. 

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I will be putting up

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clips and things on the main landing 

page site.

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Now, we are building out some of the 

spaces already,

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and I'll be doing some videos about 

what that looks like, so you can see

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inside the space, and you can see 

what's going to look like in there.

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And I'll be inviting some select groups 

of individuals and people to come beta

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test for me

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inside the space, which means you get 

to join for free.

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And those invitations will be going out

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within the next couple of weeks,

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just to get people in the door. 

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So yeah, maybe you'll be one of the 

lucky ones you want to d and me and 

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become a beta tester. 

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Go ahead. 

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DM me at

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TheAscendHub.com

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You can do it on Facebook. 

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You can do it on

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LinkedIn. 

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I've got many profiles there,

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and reach out to me. 

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I'm happy to to add you as a beta 

tester. 

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That'll be

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fun. 

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So, yeah, your ambition and your dreams 

deserve

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a place to flourish. 

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And you don't have to do it alone, and 

you don't have to be overwhelmed. 

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And the Ascend Hub is going to be that 

place to help you unlock your potential

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while you're beginning to do your 

launch while you're becoming an 

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entrepreneur, or while you're already 

an entrepreneur. 

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And you want to give back and you want 

to make a bigger impact.

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So come do that

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with us. 

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Make a bigger impact

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together. 

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We thrive

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better together.

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Go fast. 

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Go alone.

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Want to go farther?

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Do it together.

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The Ascend Hub.

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Ok.

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Get out there do some fearless  thinking this 

week, my friends. Love on one another.

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Enjoy your week and help each other 

ascend whether you're going to do it

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with me or what they're going to do 

with somebody else. 

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Find your tribe and collab.

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Get together, make connection. 

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Ok, take care of yourselves. 

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I'll see you

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next episode.

Bye.