Hey everybody, it's Nick and I'm just popping in real quick because I don't want you to panic when you hear the focus on this music because this episode does feature Michael and Megan talking with Courtney about some exciting news that they have to share and we definitely want lead to win listeners to hear it.

So just sit there, walk there, listen, whatever you're doing, don't press stop, listen to this episode and enjoy.

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of focus on this, the most productive podcast on the internet.

I'm Courtney Baker and we're bringing you this very special episode because I've got some amazing news for all of you full focus planner users.

I am really so, so, so very excited to help me share the news. I've got some special guests with me today are very own Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller. Hey guys. Hey Courtney. Hey Courtney. This is so fun. It's like Louis Union. Yeah. How do you feel about being on the focus on this podcast?

It's an honor and a privilege just to be anywhere with you, but to especially be on this podcast. Yeah. You know, we talk about you all the time on the podcast and I always wonder if word gets back to y'all or not or if you're just only the bad, you're along for the ride. Only the bad stuff.

And the good news is that's only about once a week.

Well, it's really good to have both of you with us today. I'm really so excited to share this news with everybody. But first, Michael, can you give a little background on the full focus planner?

Sure. Yeah. So we launched this planner back in 2017, if you can believe it. And initially we thought, gosh, if we could sell, man, if we could sell 25,000 copies or 50,000, man, we would be in what we call in the south here tall cotton.

Because we, you know, many of us came from the book publishing world where that would be a best seller. But we've sold over 850,000 copies so far and it keeps increasing every single year.

And almost from the beginning, Courtney, we started getting requests from people who wanted to be able to teach it to their employees or their colleagues or even to use it with their coaching clients or their training clients.

And essentially what they wanted, even though not all of them used this language, they wanted a certified program where we would authorize them and license them to use our content, our training materials and go out there and help other people become as productive as the full focus planner made them.

But we kind of drug our feet on this whole program because we wanted it right.

You know, if we were going to launch a certification program, we wanted to make sure that all the teas were crossed, all the eyes dotted, we wanted to make sure that the program was, you know, enormously helpful, tremendous value and really helped our customers and clients accomplish their goals.

So today, drumroll, we're announcing the full focus planner certification program.

So this is your opportunity to become a certified pro and that's the language we're using a certified pro to kind of be an ambassador for the whole brand and at the same time help other people maybe even help yourself a little bit as you do this.

Yeah, you know, it's really a way for full focus planner power users to go even deeper, which I mean, you guys are enthusiastic about this, right?

I mean, you don't want to just, you know, many of you use it only for yourselves, you want to be able to teach it to other people, you want to be able to maximize your experience of it and really go all in on the planner.

And so what we have loved here is kind of creating this pathway where you're able to take the expertise that you learn and the certification process to your customers, to your colleagues, to your potential employers, those of you who might be looking for a new job right now or thinking about that in the future.

This is a great way just to leverage your expertise and the expertise that's wrapped up in the full focus brand, you know, to develop opportunities for yourself and those that you're serving in your context as a bonus.

We wanted to highlight a select group of full focus planner power users and help them stand out as a trusted productivity resource within the full focus planner community, which, you know, y'all are right here with us on the podcast today.

Yep, that's right and we wanted to give our most enthusiastic supporters visibility on new products, a direct line to provide feedback on solutions well before they're available to everybody else.

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