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Well, hey you. It's Jennifer. This is another Monday Fire. This is Monday Fire episode number 98. Look how close we are to 100.

It's amazing. Remember when we first started these and they were just, we were like, we're just going to try it for a little bit and see what happens.

Turns out the Monday fires are your favorite and and I love doing them. So we're going to be talking today about a conversation that I had with one of my coaching clients in my better way program.

So we're currently in our program where we're teaching women, you know, how to monetize their social media, how to monetize their business in eight different ways.

So we've got hundreds of women in there. It's fabulous or, you know, we've got coaching calls, Q and A's, etc.

So I had someone raise their hand of the day and come up on the screen and they they had a question for me about essentially it wasn't like the strategy as much as it was.

Hey, okay, so I'm getting ready to launch this thing and I can't remember now if she was talking about launching a course or launching a paid group or launching her blog or whatever.

And she was like getting ready to launch, but now she was second guessing herself and it was a really interesting conversation because, you know, whenever we're doing coaching calls like that, there's lots of people who are commenting in the comment section so I can kind of get the pulse for the group.

And there was lots of people like I know exactly how you're feeling. I feel the same way like now that I'm getting ready to do the thing that I said I was going to do all the sudden I'm second guessing myself.

One of the things that we put into our program this year was actually like asking people to make a commitment at the beginning of the program to not change course anywhere within the eight weeks simply because especially coaching creative women.

I know how many ideas most creatives have. I also know that whenever fear begins to really rise up in an entrepreneur, especially a female entrepreneur, especially especially a creative female entrepreneur that what will happen is you'll start feeling scared and so at the last minute you'll think I just won't do it.

I just like I'll just this is dumb. I'm dumb. Everything's done like I just won't. And what I was telling this precious client on her coaching call is like, look, there's no chicken exit.

Like you've gotten this far. There's no chicken exit and it was kind of like this funny, funny, ha ha little moment where we all giggled. But I really sat with that after our call and I was thinking how many of us want a chicken exit so often when we're building our business.

And maybe I thought of those words simply because I live in Kansas City. I live really close to worlds of fun. If you've ever been to Kansas City, you'll know that that's a huge amusement park.

It's fabulous. I'm actually from Iowa, but our our family used to vacation in Kansas City a lot in the summers. And you know, worlds of fun was just like it was just the best thing ever. You know when you're a kid like amusement parks are like so huge.

Well, there are a few amusement park rides still that do have chicken exits. You get to the top of I don't even know if there's one in Kansas City, by the way, because last year we're in the pandemic.

And the year before that I think is the year my best friend got me on a roller coaster and I like cry the entire way up and I just got thinking I'm too old for this and is my life insurance policy paid like that's all I could think of everyone the whole experience.

But you know, like if you're going to do something scary at amusement parks, sometimes there will be a chicken exit.

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