🎙️47. The Power of Community: Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Need a Tribe

The Power of Community: Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Need Their Tribe

In this episode, host Michael Devous dives into the vital role of community in the entrepreneurial journey. He shares his own experiences of feeling isolated as a solopreneur and how finding his "tribe" transformed his business and mindset. Michael explores the four key benefits of community for aspiring entrepreneurs: shared struggles, collaboration opportunities, accountability and motivation, and learning and growth. He introduces The Ascend Hub as a vibrant online community designed to empower entrepreneurs by connecting them with like-minded individuals, experienced mentors, and valuable resources. Tune in to discover how to find your tribe, overcome isolation, and accelerate your entrepreneurial success.

Key Highlights:

• Michael's Personal Journey: He shares his experiences with isolation as a solopreneur and how finding his tribe changed everything.
• The 4 Benefits of Community:
  • Shared struggles: Finding people who understand your challenges and can offer support.
  • Collaboration opportunities: Connecting with potential partners, co-founders, or collaborators.
  • Accountability and motivation: Setting goals and staying on track with the support of a community.
  • Learning and growth: Expanding your knowledge and skills through shared experiences and resources.
• The Ascend Hub: Michael introduces The Ascend Hub as a platform designed to foster community, collaboration, and growth for entrepreneurs.
• Pre-Launch Specials: He mentions the upcoming pre-launch specials for The Ascend Hub, encouraging listeners to take advantage of this opportunity.
• The Importance of Collaboration: Michael emphasizes how collaboration can lead to innovation and exponential growth.
• Call to Action: He encourages listeners to find their tribe, join The Ascend Hub, and help others on their entrepreneurial journey.

Impactful Quotes:

• "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, you go together."
• "It's about the journey. To me, if you're stepping out of that road, risking everything, you have to build your dream and bring it into the world...you're an entrepreneur."
• "Two heads are better than one... a community that collaborates together is a great breeding ground for innovation, ideas, and partnerships."
• "The Ascend Hub is more than just a membership site; it's a community designed specifically to connect, inspire, and empower you."
• "The Ascend Hub can't be successful without you. We are better with you."

Key Takeaways:

• Community is essential for overcoming isolation and achieving entrepreneurial success.
• The Ascend Hub provides a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to connect, collaborate, and grow together.
• Collaboration leads to innovation and helps entrepreneurs find solutions to their challenges.
• Finding your tribe can provide invaluable support, accountability, and motivation.
• The Ascend Hub offers pre-launch specials for those who want to join early and help 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 fearless thinkers welcome back

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Episode 47, I'm your host, Michael 

Devous.

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This to day we're talking about the 

power of community,

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why aspiring entrepreneurs need

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their tribe. 

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Find your tribe.

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Finding your tribe.

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You know,

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there's different times at different 

points of along my journey

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where I have found different tribes.

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Interestingly enough,

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you know, when you're younger, you try 

to find your, click,

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your group. 

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I never fit into any of them.

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I was one of those persons who, like 

every single week, I would wear something

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different like one week I was cowboy. 

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One week I was jock. 

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One week I was preppy.

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One week I was valley.

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One week I was.... and for those of you, um 

valley and preppy

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millennials probably don't have a clue,

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you know who you are, you know what I'm 

talking about.

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I was valley

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I was preppy

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I had,

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you may remember the prep handbook, the 

preppy's handbook,

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the valley, the valley girls guide to...

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How to be valley, how to speak, valley 

and

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ah, these were

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the gahhd that's so silly, it's so funny.

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But anyway,

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everyone needs to find your tribe. 

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Now that I'm older, providing my tribe 

has become a different thing. 

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Like I find,

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you've got your life friends, you've 

got your people.

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But

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when you're an entrepreneur and you're 

stepping onto that

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entrepreneurial path,

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it's a different tribe. 

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Now it's a resource tribe

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It's a

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data tribe.

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It's people with knowledge and skill 

sets

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that complement and support

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you where you

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on your journey.

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And you know the saying:

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"If you want to go fast, go alone, but 

if you want to go far, you go together."

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Well, that couldn't be more true for 

entrepreneurs.

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Gosh. 

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It can be a lonely journey.

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Today we're diving into the power of 

community, obviously, and why having a 

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tribe is absolutely essential.

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For aspiring business owners and 

entrepreneurs,

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and for your success.

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You know, I remember

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when I,

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well, it's funny,

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when I started my entrepreneurial 

journey,

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which I officially called it my 

entrepreneurial journey in 22,

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late 2022,

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I was struggling with this

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definition of entrepreneur. 

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Like, what does it mean to be an 

entrepreneur?

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How do you define yourself as an 

entrepreneur? 

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Can you just label yourself an 

entrepreneur regardless of where you 

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are on your journey? 

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Do you have to have to have a million 

dollars in your bank? 

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You have made a million dollars, have a 

beautiful house with four cars and a

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jet. 

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You know, all these people that you see,

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Grant Cardone and all those others, 

whether

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just, you know, tut top,

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Tai Lopez

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oh, I just forgot his name. 

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Anyway,

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you know, where they're standing in 

their living room, they're walking 

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through their garage, or showcasing and 

showing off all of their millions of 

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dollars, whatever, they've done.

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Awesome! Good for you. Congratulation.

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But I think

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being an entrepreneur it's not about 

how much money have in bank accounts,

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not about how much success you have. 

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It's about the journey. 

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To me, if you're stepping out of that 

road, risking everything, you have to 

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build your dream and bring it into the 

world.

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You're an entrepreneur. 

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That's the entrepreneurial spirit.

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Now, are you a successful entrepreneur? 

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Ok, I can see where we might want to 

define what success

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means,

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you know, that you have reached  

certain milestones,

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reach a certain goal.

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I spent

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a lot of isolated evenings, days,

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weeks, burning the they say "burning 

the midnight oil."

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I was burning the oil all day.

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It was morning oil, midnight oil, 

afternoon oil

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doesn't matter. Making all of the 

decisions coming up with all the

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designs, the logos, the concepts,

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the

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marketing material,

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the framework

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the...

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all of it, you know.

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And I felt the weight of the world on 

my shoulders to bring all this to bear

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in order to bring my dreams and my 

passions into the world.

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And I have,

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I'll just give you the litany

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from performance,

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in my youth, you know, when I was young, 

in my 20s, I was a performer.

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So there's a lot of stage theater 

performance practice there, how to 

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adapt and adopt

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characters,

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ideas,

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storylines,

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things like that. Moved into production,

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behind the scenes,

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then into event production, then into 

media broadcast marketing and promotions.

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Now into

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what I'm doing now. 

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So

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I have a lot of skill sets that really 

I bring to bear in order to

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bring my message,

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which is turning my mess into my 

message. Making Fear Your

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Friend.

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And then from that,

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doing podcasting, and from that, taking 

it even further into workshop coaching and

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professional development.

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And now, of course, into launching the 

Ascend Hub, which brings all of these

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things together under one roof.

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With my tribe,

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right?

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My tribe of community, fellow 

entrepreneurs

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and leaders and motivational speakers. 

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Having them in my corner, having them 

in my life, has changed everything with 

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regards to

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the way that I view success, how I view 

my journey and what I want for myself 

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and everybody else. 

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Right?

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So

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part of that is shared struggles. 

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We all have doubts and setbacks and 

moments of feeling

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overwhelmed.

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That was one of the things I wanted to 

help solve with the Ascend Hub that

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feeling of overwhelming isolation.

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Having a community means having people 

who actually get you where you're at 

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get you, you know, they understand, 

they can offer

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an ear and a shoulder to lean on, but 

they also offer insight and perspective

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from various different viewpoints

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in various industries of focus and 

interest.

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And that, I think, is extremely 

valuable.

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It helps me feel,

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first of all, not alone, but second of 

all, like I can reach out to people,

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and I can understand, like, I can say, 

I've got this challenge with this 

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website, I've got this challenge with 

this software tech. 

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I've got this challenge with designing 

this. 

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I've got this challenge with marketing, 

messaging

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to frame this out, what my strategy 

needs to look like to

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bring this to market,

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policies, SOPs,

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all of that stuff.

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Having your tribe and individuals who 

focus on and have different areas of

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expertise is really, really helpful.

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Second, in my tribe is collaboration.

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Look, two heads are better than one. 

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You know,

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that's what they say,

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unless those two heads are,

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I know,

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I can't think of anything funny to say 

two heads are better than one. 

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It's just that simple.

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You know, a community

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that collaborates together it's a great 

breeding ground for innovation, ideas 

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and partnerships.

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And they think the ascent hub is going 

to be,

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which launches in August, is going to 

be a great place and space for that 

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exact thing collaboration.

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You would be amazed

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when you get together and you have a 

brainstorming session or a huddle 

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session or a think tank,

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and you want to go through certain 

ideas when spitball some things 

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whiteboard, some ideas

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about where you think you're going with 

your messaging, your USP, yourUVP,

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your brand, your

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pitch, your sale,

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whatever it is, if you need to

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practice

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and get it out there. 

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What I love about the Ascend Hub is 

that, because we're all fellow aspiring

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entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs,

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regardless of where we are on our 

journey, one of the things we commit to inside

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that space is the protection of your 

ideas.

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We will help you formulate them, create 

them, get them built, whatever. 

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But we will not take

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your ideas and run with it. 

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That's something we all agree upon

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together, is that we won't do that. 

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We will help support you and help

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you ideate, create, innovate,

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but we're not going to steal.

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That's

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not a good thing. 

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That's never

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going to happen with us.

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But I love

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the breeding ground that gets created 

because out of the ideas that we might 

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be helping you create around your 

particular product set of services, or 

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your business model.

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It

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gives me new ideas about ways to 

reframe my thinking,

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ways to bring more product to bear, 

ways to do things differently, with 

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regard to my workshops and the ways 

that I present Making Fear Your Friend

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that I hadn't thought of before, right

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getting really creative.

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another's accountability and motivation.

With your tribe

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you can have better accountability and 

get motivated.

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If your tribe is cheering you on and 

helping you set your goals and then

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sticking to them,

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you know,

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the whole journey becomes a whole lot 

easier.

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I need accountability.

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I don't know about you,

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but

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I have my accountability partner is Massimo

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and a few other people.

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And he's really good at helping me pull 

that chord on that balloon and bring it 

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a little bit further down to earth, so 

that I could stay focused

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and be accountable on the things that 

need to be delivered.

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getting

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an accountability partner or set of 

partners

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that you report to. 

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And not because you need to be filling 

them in on where you are or where 

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you're at, but because they're 

interested in your success,

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really helps you stay accountable on 

your journey and maintain your focus 

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and your progress moving forward.

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Another thing with your tribe is 

learning and growth.

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My community, your community, is your 

own

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personal mastermind group.

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In fact, that's what I wanted to build 

with the Ascend Hub originally

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It wanted my own mastermind group.

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And I was researching about how to 

produce that, how to create a master 

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mind group.

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And what I wanted was, I wanted 

something a little bit more broad than 

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just a set of master mind individuals 

and entrepreneurs and executives and 

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leaders. 

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I really wanted to expand that further, 

because I wanted them to be able to 

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give back.

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I wanted them to make more impact. 

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So I wanted to bring in

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leaders, mentors, coaches,

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motivational speakers, all of those 

individuals, to help aspiring

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entrepreneurs, aspiring mentors

apiring leaders,

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who are stepping onto their road. 

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I wanted to combine the two, so that 

you have those who've done it, with 

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those who are beginning,

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those who got it, with those who need 

to get it.

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And

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there's an exchange of value here, not 

just information and experience, but 

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there's an exchange of value

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that really raises all of us up, which 

is where the ascend idea

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came from

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because we were raising each other up 

and helping each other ascend to new heights

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of everything, like

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new heights of our professional and 

personal growth and development. 

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New heights of getting our products and 

services out there into the world

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together, sharing our experiences and 

our resources and our growth

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and our stories,

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creating a bigger, better, more 

impactful story. Which I think is

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pretty cool.

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And the Ascend Hub is

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while, it's an online membership site, 

but it is a community

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designed

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specifically to connect, inspire and 

empower

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you,

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the entrepreneur, the aspiring 

entrepreneur, mentor, leader, executive,

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and to show you where your tribe is, to 

help you find your tribe.

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If you haven't figured it out yet, you 

haven't found them yet.

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Join the Ascend Hub

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come find your tribe.

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I know that it's not launching until 

August, and I get that, but we're doing 

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some major pre-launch specials

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right now

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to get you in the door early.

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We will be offering beta testing 

phases, where you get to see everything 

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before it goes live

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for other people. 

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And you'll help

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us build out the spaces, the exchange 

threads, the areas, how it's going to 

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feel the UX and the UI,

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and that's crucial and important. 

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And by the way that practice in and up 

itself is what you need to for your 

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business, for your business model. 

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How to work together with other people 

to build an iterative process, learning 

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process to develop a better product 

instead of services. 

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By getting feedback, learning how to 

hear, listen and advocate for that kind 

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of feedback

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it's crucial, and it's a business model 

everybody should be adapting to day if 

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you want to succeed and stay not only 

on top of your game, but ahead of the 

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game, right?

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This is your support system, it's 

your tribe, it's your launchpad for

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success, it's all those things.

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But it can't be all those things

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if you're not there.

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It can't be successful without you. 

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We are better with you. 

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Which is why I'm asking you guys to 

join,

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if you're ready to ditch the isolation 

and join a vibrant community, of fellow

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aspiring entrepreneurs, mentors and 

leaders.

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If you want to find your tribe

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that are in your corner,

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just head over to TheAscendHub.com

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and check us out. 

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Man, check out the specials that are 

going on. 

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And let's ascend together. 

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In fact, let's do more than that. 

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Let's do some fearless thinking this 

week

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by helping others find their tribe. 

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Reach out to other people. 

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Let them know about this. 

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Let them know about finding their tribe 

and become

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an impactful tribal leader.

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You will,

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by building your own tribe with the 

Ascend Hub and helping others on their

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journey.

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Because giving back and giving others

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from your own experience, your own 

perspective,

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is a very rewarding

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process.

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So thank you for joining me on episode 

47,

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finding your tribe,

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the power of community, you know, it's 

what we need to succeed.

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Gosh, I made that rhyme. 

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That's really amazing.

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All right, go have a fantastic rest of your 

day and do some fearless thinking, and i'll

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talk to you guys.

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Ok Bye!