What No One’s Telling You About…

 

Now, let me expand on what you just saw in the video.

The fastest, and truly most unique, way to fix your business in the minds and hearts of your prospects is with a story–a story they have never quite heard before that awakens a higher potential within them.

”Those who tell the stories rule the world.”—Plato

Ancient storytelling
Nothing separates you from your “competitors” the way a one-of-a-kind story does. Nothing moves you more authentically to the status of a leader than a story you have conceived that educates. And nothing establishes you more distinctly in the minds of the market. A story will peel you away from the pack faster and more satisfyingly than any other differentiation strategy.

But this particular story we’re talking about teaches. It puts forth a premise that is yours and yours alone, grown from your expertise, unique perspective, and wisdom.

So, rather than being differentiated on such typical ho-hummers as, “great customer service,” “attention to detail,” “really listening to a clients’ needs”—or the flash-in-the-pan fads, gimmicks and “attention-grabbing-bling”–YOU are known for a fresh, provocative idea that has substance.

And as someone here to help change the world—can it really be any other way?

Your Teaching Story offers dramatic tension like any good novel, and supports a strong thesis like any good non-fiction work. Done right, it masterfully satisfies your followers’ left brains with proof and facts, engages their right, holistic brain that senses, feels and creates—and, most important, provokes a paradigm shift in their understanding.

Remember, you are, more than anything else, a transformation artist and so your story, above all, must produce change in your audiences.

So, your story takes them deep inside a world they know, then it shows them how broken it is, and suggests the origins of the problem (every story needs a villain!), and then ushers them (as any good hero does) into a new world, one they’ve never seen before, complete with an original new possibility and solution.

And that new possibility and solution? That’s your brand. What you’re known for. Your Teaching Story is your brand, presented compellingly.

No one else is telling you about this…because no one else is doing it.

Come speak to me about your business…and how your very own Teaching Story is just weeks away. Click here to read more and talk to me.

Session 4 of 8 with 2 Financial Coaches: The Signature Program!

In the last session of this 8-session consultation where I
help two financial coaches Get Clients With a Signature
Program that Sells AND Transforms
, I saw what M&M’s
“brand concept”
could be—a teaching point that would
differentiate them from every other financial coach (and
everyone period, actually). It was a 3-phase ineffective
communication cycle that was the root cause of financial
trouble
for couples who’d been married over eight years.

In this 4th session, we dive very deeply into their signature
seminar event. In fact, I create, point-by-point, M&M’s entire
90-minute portal seminar, using the “Transformation Arc,”
where the couples experience the “ick” they’ve been wading
through for years—an essential part of transformation. We
entitle the program, Feast or Famine: Breaking a Couple’s
Secret Cycle of Financial Breakdown.

In this session, I teach M&M the transformational coaching
tool
I used to use with my clients when I was a personal
growth coach to shift them immediately from one fixed way
of thinking to a completely new, empowered one. This, of
course, is necessary for couples who have been cycling
through these 3 phases of ineffective communication: they
have been rooted in one way of thinking—for instance, the
thought that my spouse will kill me if tell him I just spent
$900 on the kids’ clothes—and must move into another one
that is just as true, but far healthier for the family and their
financial future.

So, in this transformational seminar, not only do M&M teach
the couples what the 3-phase communication cycle is–
creating an awareness they will never be able to forget– but
also how to get out of it, by using this coaching tool to instantly
“boot” them into new beliefs about communicating with
their spouse.

Once the couple moves through this transformation tool,
they can never go back to the Feast or Famine Communi-
cation Cycle. They’ve been changed forever. Armed
now with tools for changing how they communicate, their
couples are ready to look at the next cause of their financial
struggles: budgeting and reducing debt.

Believe it or not, we accomplish the design of their program
quite quickly in this session (I’ve had tons of experience!)
and move on to some very practical issues, namely how to
repurpose” the teaching concept in this portal
program
. “This teaching should be in everything you do,”
I tell M&M. Breaking the Secret Cycle of Financial Breakdown
should be the topic of their opt-in report, what their YouTube
videos, ebook, articles, blog posts—all of their marketing and
promotional material—should focus on. This is why I call it a
“brand concept.” And we spend some time detailing what those
items will be.

So what about you? Do you have a single, powerful
teaching concept
that could become your brand? Have you
given thought to your signature program—and what the root
cause of your market’s main problem is?

Remember, next Tuesday, October 19th, you can
eavesdrop-in on all of these sessions when I release
the 8-Session CD set. Hear every juicy detail!

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