Back To Business with Mia Moran

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Michelle Abraham: 00:00:44

All right, guys, I'm so excited to have a very special guest here with us today. Oh my gosh, my friend Mia Moran is here today. She's been on our show before, and this is so exciting because Mia and I have met in person, which is awesome. Always love having guests on that we've met in person and we've met online, then we've met in person. Now we're back online again. We've collaborated before, we've worked with each other before. I can't wait to dive in. I really want to take me as planning program. I know I've heard so many great things from so many people about it, so I'm lining it up, and I'm hoping the stars are aligned, that I can dive into your program this year too, and just heard so many amazing things about it. So Mia has got an amazing podcast called plan simple. And this week we are actually promoting a really cool new project that Mia has got coming up with. I like over 50 entrepreneurs, I think are involved in it. It's pretty crazy. It's called back to business. So we're going to talk about that today too. So lots of fun things lined up for you today. Mia, before we get going, tell us a little bit about your podcast and how you guys started podcasting.

Mia Moran: 00:01:50

Okay, I mentioned that right now, but we remind me, because I'm not going to be able to concentrate. Like, how did we meet? Do you remember,

Michelle Abraham: 00:01:56

How did we meet? I don't think. No, I think we met. I remember you being in our podcast, super Profit program, like, long time ago.

Mia Moran: 00:02:06

That's how we met. We met through Dan, and he's like, that's how we met, right? Okay, we're like, our quick, I, like, quickly fell in love with you, and then, like, you know, it's like, my feeling, okay, got it? I just asked. Like, you know, it's like, one of those loops that I met couldn't close, yeah, yeah. So, because they went

Michelle Abraham: 00:02:23

So far back so many years ago, there's been starting different things since then. So thank you Dan Morris. Thank you Dan Morris and his podcasters kit for introducing two amazing people.

Mia Moran: 00:02:36

Oh, my God, that's so funny. All right, so the question was about how I got into podcasting. Yes, so I it's interesting. I would not have ever thought that I would be into podcasting or interviewing people, for that matter, like I have really always identified as introvert and so I like so it's surprising to me that I have, you know what, we're about to hit 500 episodes, which is unbelievable, how I think, but the relaunch at like, 300 but we're about to hit 500 episodes. And it started really because what? So I'm a designer by trade, and I had a graphic design company for, like, I don't know, 11 years or something, and then I had this health crisis and health transformation, and that's what inevitably led me to sort of coaching, and, you know, this whole online world, and in there when I had sort of this health crisis, and this was, like, just to give you some timing, like, at this time, because internet time was so fast, but at this time, there was no Instagram. WordPress was, like, super clunky, and not everybody, like, had a blog. So it's, like, a lot of these things that we know now didn't exist at this time, and now

Michelle Abraham: 00:03:45

we dating ourselves here. I know it's, like,

Mia Moran: 00:03:47

Really bad, but the point of it is, is that the internet was really ugly, like, things were really ugly, and I wanted to, like, promote health, and there was no nice things about health. So the seed was really planted for me and becoming an interviewer, because I created a magazine. So I would like, interview all these, like, men who were into health, and like, then I would basically, like Martha Stewart eyes their, you know, hippie healthy content, and put it in this magazine. But it just planted the seeds of asking people questions and, like, getting answers and and other and me being able to make something out of other people's answers, if that makes any sense. So when, like, podcasting became a thing, like, I first started listening to podcasts and I heard about it, like it was very quickly. I was like, Oh my gosh, I want to learn how to do that. Like, I would love to do that. That seems like the next level of this. So that's kind of like, how I got into it. And I I just really like I wanted to, I had so many questions of so many people and and so many interesting people would say yes to being on a podcast.

Michelle Abraham: 00:04:49

Yeah, that's so cool. I love that modality, too, and just talking to people asking questions. And it's funny, I was remembering too that I actually got to interview you for a feature. In podcast magazine under the kids and family section, right? So that was really cool. I would remember all that, and your podcast has been so, like, popular. It's been really like, can you be really consistent with it? And you've grown, like, a really great audience from your show. So now tell us a little bit about, like, how you've taken your podcast, or how you how you've incorporated your podcast into your business, because you've done some really cool things with your business as well that I'd love for our listeners to hear.

Mia Moran: 00:05:26

Okay, so I'm trying to think, if I have a smart answer now I've incorporated my podcast. So I feel like I've really, I feel like I really, it's I really, definitely started my podcast from this place of like I wanted to do it. It it was almost like, I mean, it's related to my business, obviously, but I did it less as a business move, and more of like, I could imagine that this would make me happy, kind of who so I think that's really important. Because there was a moment, like, 100 or so episodes in where I was like, Wait, what am I doing? You know, because I'm fighting a lot of work, put out a podcast, and at that point, like, you know, putting money into it, and I wasn't sure, like, what was happening, like, what was coming in. And so, you know, at the same time, I was developing what we were doing, and I started to see how I could look at it differently, and it could really be a marketing platform of, you know, connecting me to the people who I was interviewing to audiences. So then there, there was sort of like a whole section in there where that was sort of my philosophy and what I was doing. And then I was like, oh, people do solo shows. Because it took me, like, I didn't do solo shows for a long time, but I think you were actually one of the people who were like, teacher content. And so then there became a moment when I was like, oh, like, I can do both. And so we sort of amped up what we were doing. So I really, I used it to to meet great people, to create great partnerships, you know, to share what we're doing and along the way. And actually, I think this is how I originally started it, now that I think about it. So I became obsessed with the idea of summits. I don't know I really liked it, and I think, like the magazine I had started was supposed to work like a summit, except I didn't know enough about online business to realize that this is how it was working. Because I was like, interviewing all these people. And if I was smart, I would have been like asking them to share and collecting those leads. But I wasn't hard enough at the moment, so it was a little bit of an expensive hobby. But the first time that I did, like, sort of a summit, which is basically like a series of podcasts all at once on a topic, right? That's how I launched the podcast, like, that's how I got enough content to have the courage that I have enough episodes.

Michelle Abraham: 00:07:39

And so how I launched my first podcast too, with this family Summit? Oh, it's totally not related to what

Mia Moran: 00:07:46

I do now. Oh, god, so good. Yeah. And some of them, I've also had the same podcast the whole time, which you might tell me is the but when I sort of kept the same podcast and we just sort of like pivot, little by little, I mean, not that much has changed at the time I started, I was my business was plan simple. It was more food based. So it was called plan symbol meals. And then we moved into being plan simple. But, yeah, it's just been this, like, amazing ride, and it does serve more as, like, a connection. And really, like, I haven't necessarily monetized, like, right podcast, like, as itself, yeah,

Michelle Abraham: 00:08:19

but I've seen, like, some of the some of your guests from your show have become clients, or guests on the show have been like, contributors in the program and like, because I love seeing like, that correlation between like, how like, yeah, the podcast and the business don't necessarily like, they're not intertwined totally, but they really like the podcast is like, you're kind of using Like, my very first, like, my very favorite way of, like, thinking about a podcast as, like, the best, like, networking tool in the world. It is, like the connector of all things so and

Mia Moran: 00:08:52

I actually find it's really hard to have conversations with like humans out in the world sometimes, because I, like, on a podcast, it's like, you just go right in there, like you're focused, and even you're focused, you're like, honest, like, it's not about the weather, and like, I find it actually really challenging to be like in real life, my daughter plays volleyball, and I'm always, you know, talking to all these people, and I'm like, gosh, I just wish I could pretend like this was a podcast, so much more interesting. So I love it, just like I do feel like it creates deeper connections so much faster than, like, any other way that I have found,

Michelle Abraham: 00:09:30

right? Like you mentioned, if you doing those, like, coffee chats again, like, just to you know, you meet someone at a networking event, like, hey, let's have a chat. Like, no, none of that anymore. We're going on to a podcast review, because I can learn so much more about you. Then, then, then, like, then having three more of these coffee chats. So much, so much more valuable. So that's, that's awesome. So tell us a little bit about your business. So you're, you started off in like, meals, like healthy meals for families. You help. You start really out in the help. You. Health space, and you kind of expanded into planning over your whole life with with a couple different pillars. So what was that progression like? And now, how do you serve the clients in your in your community? Yeah,

Mia Moran: 00:10:13

Well, the food like, literally, now, looking back, was, was genuinely like an expensive hobby. It was just I had this crisis, I solved it, and I wanted everyone in the whole wide world to know about it, but I hadn't really thought about it as logistically as I probably should have. That looks really good. And so So I and so what happened was, like, long story short, a whole bunch of different things. There was a magazine, there was a course, there was just trying to monetize a blog at some moment, but it all inevitably led me to write a book called plan simple meals, which also was its own. It was its own thing. The book came about. It was like a seed planted in my head. I was a designer. I designed tons of other people's books. I never thought I would write one ever right? And then, like, as I was on this health journey, I was like, I could see how I could see how I could make a book, I could see how I could make a book. But I'm, I'm, don't consider myself a writer. I'm dyslexic, and I just whatever. Didn't even think about it. And so one day, I took my kids skating, and I broke, shattered my wrist, basically an emergency surgery, and I ended up, like, on the couch with my hand above my head for like, an entire eight week period around Christmas curator, right? So I couldn't write, but I had a lot of thinking time, and, like, literally, the whole book, just like, landed in my head, and I, like, couldn't use my hand. And two things happened, I got an email from a publisher who said he wrote books that you could speak pay him $30,000 and then I got Amanda Palmer wrote this best selling book right at the time, because she had launched the first million dollar Kickstarter, which had really affected, like, the music industry, and both of those things, I was like, I'm going to afford this guy, and I'm going to do it, have a Kickstarter to have it. And that really actually kick started, like, the whole, like, the the money working, and I did that, and we weighed way more than I needed, paid. The guy did the book that way. But then, when is We? We? I wrote the book. It was a lot about how to be with your family around food, and I wanted to go on a book tour, because this was, like, way pre pandemic, and I was like, I can't be in California talking about dinner while my kids are in Boston. Like, there's like, a disconnect, you know, because I agree, for now a bit, they're in high school and college, but at the time, they were like, you know, little and I was supposed to be there with them. And so I took them out of school for a year, and we went on this book tour. And what happened in that year was I, I really had to, like, I really had to show up, both to my kids, but also, right, I had taken them out of school, so it's like, I had to make it work. And so ended up meeting so many people, because I just kept getting booked to speak, and I just had so many conversations with so many women, and it was really California that tipped me, because I just kept looking out into these audience. I would do a lot of talks, like the Evening Talks at schools. Oh yeah, I would look out at this, like, group of moms, and I would be like, there's no way that I know more about food than these women. Like, they're beautiful. They definitely have green smoothies in the morning. Like, what am I doing here? Like, the imposter syndrome was huge, and I would just have these conversations with them, and they would all uninvitably take out their phone and just be like, Mia. Like, literally, I know how to go to the farmer's market. I do know what kale is. But like, there's no time. Like, I end work here. I'm supposed to have gotten to my kid a half an hour earlier. Dinner is supposed to be in 15 minutes. And, like, I don't even know how to do it. And that was when I realized that, like, my piece of all this was the time piece, and that that's what I had always kind of been obsessed with. I just didn't see it. And so sort of went to solving that part and realizing that, like, you know, as I had this. I had always been an entrepreneur because my graphic design company had been mine. So it was like there were these pieces of work and health and spirituality and family that I really thought needed to, like, be thought through together for most women, in order for us to really figure out how to do all the things we want to do and we and at the, you know, at the time, I was seeing how siloed we thought about the things. It's like, we say yes kids, yes to everything work, yes to wanting to be healthy, but like that didn't like nothing working together, because hadn't thought through it that way. And

Michelle Abraham: 00:14:33

Then whatever's left over is for, like, our own health,right?

Michelle Abraham: 00:14:37

Totally after that, if that even made the list, anyway, exactly, oh my gosh, and it's, and that's a pandemic in itself, that is like a like, not specific to the US, not specific to Canada, that is specific to like, the whole world, where I think that we that time management piece when we're trying to, you know, get everything accomplished that we were meant to get a. Accomplished, plus work, plus kids, plus self, plus business, plus plus plus.

Mia Moran: 00:15:05

And I think we think it's gonna add some point. And that was the other gift. Is I started meeting women sort of of all you know, at that time my kids were little, so I would look up to women whose kids were in eighth and ninth and seventh grade, and I'd be like, oh, like, by then, it's all different. I kept seeing that it wasn't. And I can tell you that in the past eight years, I've been coaching a lot of women. Like, I get a lot of emails from women who are past all this and like, it doesn't work itself out. Like, they're like, Can I can I come because, you know, I'm still doing these things. Like, the whole habit really hard, and it's not like, all of a sudden the kids grow up, you know, we're making money, whatever's happening, and it's all balanced, like, it doesn't work like that. And so we really do need to solve for this, like, as soon as we can,

Michelle Abraham: 00:15:56

Yeah, and so, so tell us a little bit how you solved that problem. Then, for for the women that come together in in your program, because it sounds like you've got, like you had, so you had such a great learning experience that year, like learning from women across the country of what wasn't working. So that must have inspired a really great program.

Mia Moran: 00:16:18

Yeah, that was fun. Well, I when I what I really realized when I sat down with it, because, like, you know, I took a lot of good notes and and that whole thing was a blur, because I had three little kids driving cross country, but what I did was I actually went back and I reverse engineered, like, so when I got healthy, I did something kind of extreme and culinary, and I didn't know how to cook the day before, but, Like, I literally overhauled my health in like, a week, and then when I wrote the book, like, I just felt like I shouldn't have been someone who wrote a book like that. Felt like that not a possible thing. Yet it became very possible. And then same with the tour. And so I was like, What did all these things have in common? Like, how did these things come together? And what I realized was there's just so much noise in our lives, and that's only gotten worse, right? This lies. So I'm talking like 10 years ago I was realizing, or 15 years ago, I was realizing how much noise was in my life and and, you know, we weren't like we were right now, and it's with Instagram and text and smartphones and things that happen. So it's really noisy, and I was just seeing how easily distracted I was being by everything outside of myself. And in those three moments, what I did was I just like I was listening to the inside, like all the choice was coming from the inside out. It was like I had either by choice or not by usually not by choice, but had some sort of pause, you know, breaking my arm or whatever, like, I don't wish breaking their arm on any that point, like it had forced this pause and had really caused me to sort of center and get really clear on my vision. So that's where we always start in our program, just starting from our own like, no crowdsourcing at the beginning. What we've done as women is we've sort of like flip flopped the model that works best for us. So we're like, taking in all the things we think we're supposed to do, like the kids are supposed to do this, we're supposed to be eating this, we're supposed to do entrepreneurship this way, like we're taking in all this noise, and then, like, having to fit in a certain amount of it into the day we have. And it always feels overwhelming, because we're always sure there's other things we're not doing, but if we flip that and we start with, Okay, I'm getting centered. I'm really clear about what I want, and these are the things I'm going to pull to, like, get there. These are the things that feel really aligned right now, and we're really coming from that place. There's no overwhelm, because those are the things that fit right now. But then what happens in the other way is that we end up, like most women, do most things alone. It's like you don't even always ask our spouses to help us with our kids, you know, like we operate businesses by ourselves. We do all these things on our own. And so I think it's like, it's just backwards. It's like we need to come into what we want on our own, but then we really need the village. Like, in order to make it all happen, we need the village. And so really, what we created in in our business was like the pathway to make all those choices and then the village to really see through the follow, you know, help with the follow through. That's so cool because

Michelle Abraham: 00:19:23

You know, it's interesting that when we that's that overwhelm of like, it never seems to like be done the list or the chores, or like the things that are that need to get done. So I love the way that you guys have kind of flipped that around, and where it's like, this is what we're focusing on. And then there's that completion feeling in cycles in it that really helped that.

Mia Moran: 00:19:45

And there's a discomfort still that you can't do everything, but it's like have to come to terms with that discomfort before. And when I when you come to just the terms with the discomfort before you're doing something, rather than at the end of the day. Know,

Michelle Abraham: 00:20:00

Like it's intentional, yeah,

Mia Moran: 00:20:01

It's different. It just like feels different, like you're like, I've done everything. I've done everything I said I would do, versus, you know, I've been working all day, but it doesn't feel like I got anything done, because there's like, 100 other things

Michelle Abraham: 00:20:13

I could do. Yeah, so just having that community of people and support, I would imagine, is like, so much helpful, and seeing people, you know, get more, I would say there's, there's usually a lot of anxiety for me, anyways, that comes with that, like overwhelmed feeling. So when you've got it reverse engineered that way, and you've got the community of support, I'm assuming that the anxiety levels go down, stress levels go down. The people feel supported. They feel see like older, seen here, heard, right?

Mia Moran: 00:20:42

Yeah, more taking people through all those steps. I mean, that's a part of it. Like, so when you're alone, you're not really alone. We get more through that process to, like, really tap in, like, not crowdsource from the very beginning. What it is that life is supposed to be,

Michelle Abraham: 00:20:56

Right? That's so cool. So where can people find out more about that? And then we're going to jump to what's happening right now in back to business. As the kids are going back to school, we're going back to business because it doesn't really feel like you take the take time. Well, I try. I was still trying to work during the summer, but it just, I feel like everyone I was taking the time off. So I was like, why am I doing this? I might as well just take the summer off and get back to business in September.

Mia Moran: 00:21:20

Did you pick the summer off?

Michelle Abraham: 00:21:22

No, I kept trying to, I get, you know, I did work a lot less than I normally do in the summer, because I finally was just like, you know, my kids are young. I'm going to take the time with them, go swimming, going to the lake. And so I worked mornings. I rigged my schedule so I got up early before these lazy bums on summer vacation. We're getting up. My kids are sleeping till 10am I was like, what's going on? I'm going to take advantage of that and work from like seven till 10. Get three hours working for anyone up, nobody even noticed. It was perfect. So that's how I felt better about working this summer, yeah, making it work for me.

Mia Moran: 00:22:02

Okay, you asked, like, a multi pack question, so anyone can find us on plan, simple.com so I'll just say that that's the easiest way to find it. And you always know what, what's current, you know? So

Michelle Abraham: 00:22:10

So find our podcast there too.

Mia Moran: 00:22:13

Definitely find our podcast there. We're not we. Our program is not always open for enrollment, so it's not always up there, but there's always a pathway in and you know, then you can find out more. We have a free course there. So the other question was about the event, is that what you want?

Michelle Abraham: 00:22:26

Yeah, we're going back. We're going back to business as everyone's going back to school.

Mia Moran: 00:22:30

Yeah, absolutely. So I so I'm really excited about it, because I realized, so there's, like, sort of two sides to it. There's the side of, like, as mothers, we, you know, took care of everybody else, got everybody else back to school, you know, with entrepreneurship, and then it's like we're just sort of like, I just feel like the quiet is almost eerie when the kids go back to school. It's like, think we should all of a sudden be able to concentrate and do all these things, but it's actually really sometimes hard to concentrate. It's like we don't have any plans. It's like they're landing back in a structure, but we're not. And sometimes, as entrepreneurs, we don't really want structure, but there's just, there's no landing place. And so that was really what I was responding to. And then just sort of like I was thinking about my kids this summer, and I have two in college and one in high school, which is unbelievable, but that's a whole other story. And they also started their next thing at different times. So I was just really aware all summer, a summer of like, getting them each ready for their next thing. One of my my son is abroad, and so it's like we were like, organizing and getting the supplies they needed and decluttering some, and then we would have, like, a goodbye dinner, and we would like honor the next phase. And when they came home, we would congratulate them for finishing the thing. And I'm like, Who does that for entrepreneurs? And there's something really nice. It's like a rite of passage, you know, it's like, it's like, okay, yeah, this phase is over, and now I'm heading into this phase. So part of it was really just like having a place to land before it's q4 you know, when the kids are back in school and just really getting our grounding. Because I think what happens to a lot of us who are balancing all the things, you know, family and entrepreneurship and ourselves and just all the pieces, is that the holiday season can really rush toward us, and not literally, but it can feel like that. And I think there's a way that it doesn't have to, that we can be really intentional and really use this time, and not just like, you know, get busy for the sake of busy right now, but really use that. I think there's something about the fall that, like, calls us to be productive, but that doesn't have to be but sometimes when we just get busy, we're not really being productive. So a lot of this was about, like, how do we have a pause? How do we learn, like, new tools and really, like recenter, what's important? What's going to make a difference in our business? Like, how can we connect with some new people and and really do it as a group? Because that's the piece that I think can be it can be pretty lonely in the fall as an entrepreneur. Yes.

Michelle Abraham: 00:24:59

Especially your houses are like, quiet all of a sudden, like, kind of perfect. Where'd everyone go? I heard this really great, great quote the other day on social media. It was like, parents, if you're wondering what you should do the first day your kids go back to school is take the day off. You deserve it, and you made it through the summer, take the day off and enjoy. And I thought that was hilarious. I was like, that's funny, because we just, like, dive back in and like, Yeah, let's go, go, go. So I love how you set up this. You've got 50 entrepreneurs who have all done something really cool on this little video we've done. So tell us about how this is this Back to Business Week is gonna work.

Mia Moran: 00:25:39

Okay? So, so obviously, as a productivity person, like, I'm always thinking about, okay, how can we, like, actually, you know, make the group piece work, but also just really honor everyone's time. Like I always they want to honor everyone's time. So I, you know, thinking about this a lot. And this is not obviously my first summit, but this is the second one where we've done this thing, which is that each speaker is speaking for five minutes, and so we can go deliver 12 really impactful shifts, tools, strategies, like, they're all a little bit different a day we I definitely orchestrated the schedule like, so I was very like, I curated what was happening. So it was like, day one was, is about marketing. Day two is about sales stuff and buyers line. Day three is about sort of expanding your business capacity. Day four is about mindset, and the fifth day is about how your body and home can support your business. And so I really wanted all those pieces in it, and then I sort of built it based on, you know, there's a whole application process involved. But the interesting thing about so there's 12 a day, all that was to say that there's 12 a day. And in 12 five minute videos, it's it's an hour, like, it's not more than an hour. And I have now watched all of them, obviously. And every time I watch them, I literally cry, and my husband's like, you're watching about how to, like, do Instagram? Like, what are you talking about? Even, like, it's like, it's literally, like, fine bends, because it's really, you got to make one. So you probably have the other side of story. But it's like, it's like, unbelievable to me, that only I have to check, like, my phone to, like, make sure that it's really only been five minutes. I mean, the video ticker says it's only been five is always really surprised by how much actually fits into five minutes, right? Everybody is really focused what it is that they're sharing. So it just feels really like it just feels beautifully packed with just the right amount of information that someone could take in. So that's a piece of it. And every morning, at 6am those get released for the day, the 12 get released for the day. And so somebody could just take that and like, you know, do their normal day, see a client and then have five minutes and watch a video like it could going on. But my real intention was that people challenge themselves to take a little bit longer than usual, to be working on their business instead of in their business. So there really was a week of like, analyzing and being like, okay, how can I use AI right now? What do I want my social media strategy to be like? You know, do I need to write some SOPs? Like, all of these things are things we're going to cover and taking the time to actually do them. So every afternoon we're going to have a 90 minute co working session. I'm going to operate in the way that we operate for our clients, sort of, except we don't usually break it up into such small parts. But just to really show how one could focus in a different way and get things done, our get it done sessions are kind of like, I don't know they're somewhere between like, co working in a yoga class, because we guide you through whole process of, like, centered and getting really focused on what you're doing in the week. Time you're doing it, you make happens. And, you know, there's not a lot of space to go down rabbit holes in our in our sessions, and so we're doing that every afternoon, so that by the end of the week, everyone really feels like they got something done. And then we'll challenge, of course, everyone to like, you know, really only be working on their business. So there'll be more. But those are the those are the important pieces.

Michelle Abraham: 00:29:12

That's cool. I think it's such a unique concept, because I appreciate your convincing time for us, because we in five minutes. We can learn a lot from someone. And my experience recording those videos exactly what you said. I was like, close like, that was five minutes. Like, wow, that like, I was like, thinking I was gonna have to speak really fast and, like, to run them. It all into like, short period of time. And I was like, Wow, you got they. And it made me think of like, how much time do we waste in what we're doing or what we're saying? Like, I probably would have given that same content in like, a 30 minute or 20 minute talk, because

Mia Moran: 00:29:49

It was so funny and it's interesting, because I feel like there's a space for that. Like, I feel like people listen to podcasts, for example, and it's like, it's like, if you want to be more. Conversational mode and, you know, and I don't like sometimes things get shared in podcasts that are like something I might want to implement, but it just, it's like a different it's just a different vibe. But one of the inspirations behind the five minutes and why I started thinking about it, was because that year that I went on the book tour and home, I bought all these, like books, and I really unschooled my kids. I'm not going to call it homeschooling, because I really had to read and journal and, like, whatever. But my son, my oldest, was in seventh grade at the time, and he at some point in April, was like, Mom, I think you actually have to teach me the math, because otherwise I'm going to go into eighth grade and everyone's going to think I'm dumb, and I really need to learn whatever I was supposed to learn this year for math. He's like, I don't care about anything else, but I want to learn the math. And I was like, okay, so I got my mother, I got the book of like, what they were learning the whole year in math, and I got my mother in law, and she started by just coming an hour a day, and in four weeks they were done. And I was like, thing all those kids are sitting there for an hour every day for an entire year, right? And so it's like, so like, and, you know, it was one kid versus 20 kids. But I was like, wow, there's a lot of inefficiencies that I think we build in to the learning process just because, like, you know, we just take what happened before. And so I was like, how can that be better? Like, be different? Yeah,

Michelle Abraham: 00:31:21

I was, like, so interesting. I think a few home your kids is like, less than two hours a day of school work when they sit in classrooms for eight hours a day. Is really forgot. No, I don't homeschool my kid, but I I did for like, a year when we were in the RV but they are so little, it was like, kindergarten. So it was not like, it was not, was not real homeschool. It was just, it's good, totally

Mia Moran: 00:31:46

I totally could not do seventh grade math. So I was like,

Michelle Abraham: 00:31:50

Yeah, that's, that's so interesting that it was done so quickly. Yeah, that's, that's incredible. But I love the productivity for like, looking at it then from our business perspective. So where are we inefficient in our productivity, in our business, and I bet in a lot of places, and I know for sure, and going down all those rabbit holes, like, you know, you go to social media to post something, and then an hour later, you're like, Okay, I didn't post that thing, and I was totally lost and consumed by something else, and I bought some program I didn't need, and off, and now I'm off in a different like rabbit hole. No, so having that focus time is so great. So I'm looking forward to participating, not only as someone that presented that has a five minute video that people are going to watch. Mine is all about the three things that you need to know about getting media ready so that you're ready when Oprah calls, which was super fun to get that together. And I and those are all mistakes that I made, so that was a fun one to put together. I'm like, Yeah, I did all of these things wrong the first time out, and now I've learned from it. But that's the cool thing, is that I think of these videos are going to really help us take these strategies and really implement them in a quick way. And I love how you've added that integration piece to the whole week, which was super cool, so

Mia Moran: 00:33:10

Like and fun. The other thing about five minutes is that they're all like, they're all kind of like, I was thinking about this the other day because I was like, Well, what would happen if someone just tried to take this week and just teach you know how to get back to your business in September. Like it could be that some coach just did this alone and and I feel like the like, the vibe would be very different. Because what's really fun is that, like, each one is very specific, and they don't necessarily all string together. They're all tangible, and they're all really impactful. And it almost makes it like, it feels more like a game or more fun. Like, every like, everything, if you if we all just went and made those things or like, you know how to, like, knew that we had that whenever we were pitching something, we're going to be like, it's like, we need like, that's we're going to be so ahead. And yet, if it's part of this, like, bigger thing that was very serious about, you know, all the things you had to do, I don't know if it would be as easy to implement. So there is this aspect of, like, you know, there's, like, all these little things that, together are going to add up to this really sort of fun, big change, being ready for your business. That's cool. It's like a trainer map, feeling like we have a bingo game. Actually.

Michelle Abraham: 00:34:29

I love it. That's so cool. So I will link down below into our show notes, where you guys can sign up to the back to business. You can go check out all my social media profiles too, and to have the images on links also on there. And, yeah, how else can Well, we can find you on your website. And anything else you want our entrepreneurs to know before we let you go today.

Mia Moran: 00:34:50

Just like, allow like, I just want everyone to consider how just slowing down and I. And making a plan for, like, what's coming through is what you want, like, how that could get you to the next, your next level. Because I think so often we're just running sort of with our eyes closed, and when we just open them for a minute and slow, it's weird, like it's this, it's like, the five minute video, but it's this weird thing that if you just slow down, you can actually get way more accomplished. On the other side, not only, like, you know, I'm not talking about hustle, I'm talking about you could get way better night's sleep, or you could eat better dinners. Like, it's not all about the business, but I just think it's such a powerful time to do that. So whether you come to our event or not, it's like, just take that minute to assess, you know, what's next.

Michelle Abraham: 00:35:50

That's so good. I have an example of that in my business, where I was sending everyone these podcasts, guest stuff like manually. Finally, I connected it to my calendar. Had the questions on there. Now I just send them the calendar link, and the whole process is done. It. I had to slow down to do that. Not slowing down for like, you know, two days to do that is now getting me back so much time and energy and effort. Now things go to my assistant automatically. I It's all in my calendar. It's all there, like a Holy smokes. Like, why was I taking so long to slow down and do that?

Mia Moran: 00:36:25

But I tell you, scary sometimes it feels like if we do that, we're gonna, like, miss everything and just really the which is, why doing it with someone else, or doing any community, I think, is so powerful, because then at least it feels like a little safer.

Michelle Abraham: 00:36:38

Yeah, friends don't like. Friends don't let friends do business alone, and they don't go but they don't let friends go into September alone either. Come back to business friends don't let friends do September alone. I like that. I'm going to use that in my social posts. Well, thanks so much, Mia for being here with us today. I'm excited for us to connect again next week, during the Back to Business Week, and Thanks for Thanks for being here today.

Mia Moran: 00:37:06

Thank you for having me so fun.

Michelle Abraham: 00:37:08

You're welcome. All right. Amplifyou and high vibe leaders. CL, next week, thanks for being here today.

Michelle Abraham: 00:37:17

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