Well, hey, friends, this is Jennifer. And this is the Jennifer Allwood Show, the podcast for women who want to find freedom in both their life and in their business.

I own a multi-seven figure a year coaching business. I'm also a certified life coach. So I have the honor of helping thousands of women every single month, make money in the online space and help them to get unstuck from whatever is holding the back, all without sacrificing their

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Well, hello there, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. We're going to be talking about

Instagram stories today. Okay, let me just say this. Instagram stories are one of my favorite

things about social media. They're probably what I look at the most and also probably what I

partake in the most. Like even if I don't get something posted on my

Facebook page, you know, on a particular day or go a couple days on Instagram without

posting it to the feed, I always do my stories, except for when I'm intentional about

not or, you know, have something major going on. But I love Instagram stories. And so what I

want to talk about today is three reasons I think you you should be using Instagram stories if you're not.

I had a client who is in one of my upper tier coaching programs. And we do Voxer coaching with these clients. And I know a while back she said to me, Jennifer, like, I don't do stories. You know, and she gave me the reason why, like, she's nervous and doesn't want to talk to the camera and all these things. And I'm like,

look, I get it. But we convinced her to start stories. She's an interior designer. She is

doing stories now. I'm getting so much better, so much more comfortable. I watch her stories. I need to touch base with her and find out,

hey, are you getting any design clients based on those? But she is doing some other things,

you know, that may be unintentional, but, you know, that are certainly included here in the reasons

why everybody should be doing stories. So I want to go over three things. The first one being

stories on Instagram are there only for

your current followers. Okay. Does that make sense? Like you're not going to get any new followers

from your stories unless I see something funny, entertaining, interesting or whatever on your

stories. And I forward it to like a girlfriend or a

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