In this podcast episode, Kim welcomes guest Nancy Michelle to discuss their recent achievements and insights. Kim shares her experience of becoming a number one international co-author and participating in a collaborative book project. They discuss the process of quickly creating and publishing a book, emphasizing the importance of not giving power to the "Gremlins" or self-doubts in our lives. The conversation then shifts to the value of creativity in the corporate world, with Kim and Nancy highlighting the need for engineers to maintain their creative spirit when transitioning into the corporate environment. They discuss the importance of good writing skills, practicing those skills, and how education and work environments can either foster or hinder creativity. The episode concludes with a commitment to explore and develop the missing creative elements in the workplace, emphasizing the importance of art and creativity alongside science, math, and technology. The hosts look forward to future discussions on these topics.
Episode Notes: "Exploring Creativity and Self-Empowerment"
Introduction:
Achievements and Empowerment:
Creativity in the Corporate World:
Importance of Writing and Practice:
Closing Thoughts and Future Explorations:
Conclusion:
This episode of Soundbit's podcast is a conversation that encourages self-empowerment, creativity, and the revival of the creative spirit in professional environments. It highlights the importance of writing skills and continuous practice for effective communication and influence, and it lays the groundwork for future discussions on fostering creativity and innovation.
Kim: Welcome to Soundbit's podcast, where we explore the unspoken and clear up the misunderstood. Hi, it's Kim. Let's get started. All right. Hello, everyone. We have Nancy Michelle here. She's our guest today to banter back and forth. How are you doing, Nancy?
Nancy: Good. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like things are really starting to flow at me right at the moment.
Kim: So nice. Tell me about that. Yeah. So what wins have happened for you this week?
Nancy: I am now a number one international co-author. She asked, would I be interested in being an author in her co-lab book? It's a fast.
Kim: She does a workshop, which basically brings everyone together to talk about the stories and then write for two days over the weekend. And then she publishes it. That's how fast it goes. She's an editor. She edits it. She does her stuff. Her works her magic. She already read my piece on Saturday and gave me comments, which is like amazing. Quick, she just turned everything around. And yeah, so it's out there. It's called My Pieces the Gremlins. And it was on Kindle for $0 and then I don't know if it's on and then now there's a soft cover that's out as well. But it's all the book itself or this chapter I wrote about, which is all related to what I'm doing is the Gremlins that I empower. I make powerful. I give them my power. And I talk about all the Gremlins that show up in our lives and they're just harmless. And I just talked about the stories around that. And then how I, they're always going to continue to show up. It's either choose to walk through them or give them your power, which I choose not to anymore. So it's that self-talked story because the Gremlins are tangible, putting something tangible in our stories.
Kim: So let's see, rattled awake, volume three, where we wrote. And then last week is when it became a bestseller, international bestseller. And then we were on shows and stuff we were like brought on to talk about our little stories. And so on Friday night, it was on a thing. They just called rattled awake, volume three, RATTLED awake. Thank you for doing the masterclass. I learned from every person that came on. The last person that came on was getting everyone's Q4 finances in order. And one of the things that I left from that was. I was in it. We both made the agreement and commitment to meet for 15 minutes each morning to just go through a bank accounts every day and go through all the negatives and show and start switching those. What you focus on will happen, right, which is the finances.
Nancy: As we started that on Friday, and she starts off with an intentional meditation prayer, whatever you want to call it for five, one minute. And then it clears the air. And then from there, each of us just go through our bank account and we're very clear about it and true about it, promising I called two high schools and she said, can you make it five? So I said, sure. So I call five different high schools and I also reached out to a university connection that I went to here and I'll call the Paul as well. But so today. So I got some good responses and I have to do callbacks today because a lot of them are they rotted me to someone, but I had to be a voicemail. There is I reached out to her on Friday and she just getting back with five people that are that I can talk to to get the program into the school daughter and I went to the ballet. And what I didn't realize is that she's she actually talks to people board of directors be executives on there that aren't the executives in the company. And those are the positions I want to I have always dreamed to be at least associated somehow to that. And part of my vision is to be on a few boards like that. But here she is my daughter is already there. Talking to these people and she didn't say it to me. She's just like, well, and I'm the reason I'm saying this is because it led to getting that understanding. Oh, my goodness. People on the board. Okay, so she and I have always been. Work is, you know, you don't, I don't get involved. She tells me about her life and work and all the things she deals with, but, and then I share some coaching and consulting because she knows what I do. And, and in fact, there's many times she'll say, we need you in, in here fixing up our, our, you know, we need you in here fixing this up.
Kim: I asked her the successes that I asked her because we always have a mom daughter day is ballet, go to lunch, coffee, whatever we spend time all day today together. And during that time I had made the intention to ask her for her advice. What am I not seeing and the marketing because I don't have someone to hire. And I won't be able to have someone to hire for a while. Right. For marketing.
Nancy: And she told me that she gave me exactly what I could do. She's first of all, she said, I can never do what you're doing because you're doing what you do. So then it's like, the point is this. And she showed me an example of what I need to do, which is get a press release out to all the different agencies, the APs. She said, because, and this is the format you need to do to get there. And I'm not going to do it now until my app is done, because I have an app. It's called the pause power app. And it's in development since August. And the intention there is to switch people's behaviors by pushing the button. And then it tells them to unplug turn your device over and then wait for 15 minutes pause, go away and pause, whatever your pauses. And then I'll walk through and do it. Right. And, and there are apps out there. And everyone else says, well, what's the difference with the difference is it's a behavior modification app. It truly is. Right. And so they've already loaded it on my machine about four weeks ago, but they're redesigning the graphics. I wanted certain graphics and they're testing it out right now because there's an app. An administrative app that I have along with it where it, she was able to give me something that is, is to fill the gap. And I'm going to do that once the app is in, because, and then what I learned in the success of this is while we're watching the ballet, my mind's already thinking as a monthly subscription. And then the other success is Stacy told me my target audience validated and told me, because she said, well, who are you talking to? And I said, well, I talked to the high school and in the. Universities, but I've been kind of not sure. And she goes, and I said, but really you are my target audience. I said to her. My 35 year old