Welcome to this edition of Build Your Tribe, all about focus.

Welcome to Build Your Tribe with your host, Shaline Johnson.

You are in for a treat today. You'll be hearing not just from me, but countless other experts,

specifically sharing their hacks on how to stay focused as busy entrepreneurs.

Okay, so here's how this went down. Just a few weeks ago, I was preparing for the marketing

impact Academy live event. It's an event that we put on once a year. It's a big deal.

And it's three and a half days of tons of content live on stage. It's myself,

it's other presenters, and it's really important. It's not just important for me to

deliver great content and keep people entertained and engaged, but it's really important for me to

deliver content that people can take action on. And then also to make sure that

whatever speakers and experts we have on our stage, that the way they're delivering content

fits with our theme, our message, and that, again, people aren't just being motivated or they're

not just learning a new technique, they're actually able to implement it while they're there.

So I have to be incredibly focused in the day's prior to this live event.

And I've got to get my sleep, and I've got to be on point. So as I was preparing for this event,

I was thinking to myself, I know what I have to do, and I'll share that with you in order to be

focused. But I wonder what some of my friends who are entrepreneurs do. Rather than reaching out to

those who are, you know, do exactly what I do, I decided to reach out to a variety of them

so that no matter where you are in your business, these tips and hacks are going to be applicable.

Okay, and here's what's really cool. I didn't tell them exactly what I was looking for. I just kind

of reached out to them as a friend and said, hey, listen, can you share with me how you stay focused?

I mean, there's so many demands for your time, and there's so many things we feel like we need to be

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