Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - Cal Fussman: Leading With Certainty Episode 61
Episode Date: June 30, 2020Cal Fussman and host Heather Monahan talk about the power of leading with certainty and the maximization that can occur for others and therefore yourself when we act confident. Leveraging how you know... you can help the world (key word is here: unapologetically KNOW) is how you can attain bigger results. Don’t play small. You are doing the world and yourself a disservice when you do. Lead with certainty and confidence and you will notice things start to change positively and powerfully. About the Guest: Cal Fussman is someone who is always going someplace new.Young people wearing earbuds may only know of him through his podcast, Big Questions, which recently cracked the iTunes top 50 in its first week.People who recognize him in airports because of his Fedora are likely to have seen him speak at conferences and corporate events around the world over the last couple of years. Readers may know him for some time now as a New York Times best-selling author.Magazine lovers may recognize him as the writer who spent a week with Muhammad Ali for an Esquire Magazine cover story, and interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Robert DeNiro and hundreds of others who’ve shaped the last half-century. Wine lovers will know him as the guy who became sommelier at Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center just before it was taken down on 9/11. Relatively few people got to see him as the dad on the practice football field every day from the time his son couldn’t kick an extra point through the day he won a game with a 40-yard field goal in the final moments to the day he could kick them from well beyond 50. Kids in the cul-de-sac saw him as the dad who cooked breakfast for the entire neighborhood on Sunday mornings and beamed when his toothless oldest daughter said with pride: “My dad makes pancakes from scrap!” A select few friends and relatives saw him enter Carnegie Hall to watch his youngest daughter perform with her choir. His three kids see him as the man in the photo above his desk sparring with Julio Cesar Chavez when he was 87-0 with 75 knockouts and junior welterweight champion of the world. Finding Cal Fussman: Listen to his podcast Big Questions Email Cal directly HERE Visit his website: www.calfussman.com Twitter & Instagram: @calfussman To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/ Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you! My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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After no sleep, I'm ready for my close time.
I am welcome back.
I'm so excited that you're here with me.
So this has been an interesting week for me.
I'm launching my first ever.
Well, when you hear this, I'm already going to have done it. But for me, I'm launching my first ever, well, when you hear this, I'm already gonna have done it,
but for me, I'm recording this a couple days earlier. I'm usually a few days ahead of you,
but right now I'm almost a week ahead of when you're hearing this. So I am conducting my first ever
live workshop with a Harvard professor tomorrow for a group of people who've bought tickets to attend.
I've never done anything like this before, right? And this all stemmed from the pandemic happening,
speaking engagements canceled, revenue dropping. I launched this May mentoring program, which has evolved
into me learning all about this online coaching seminar, master class,
mastermind business that if you're like me, I had no idea was a business, much less,
it's multi-billions of dollars.
And actually more and more people are moving learning online, as I believe everyone is
right now, right?
So it's just how can we repackage our value prop and bring it to market virtually.
Sound simple, however, it's not.
So my mentoring program was kind of, that was easier.
It's me coaching people one-on-one and then once a week as a group, which is, you know,
essentially what I did in corporate America.
So that's easy, but this is different.
Number one, because I've partnered with another person, right?
So anytime you partner with somebody else
You're gonna bring their strengths and talents however. They're uncertainty or questions or you know
Disagreements or whatever the person I partnered with is a wonderful human being. I absolutely love John amazing guy
So talented, but you know, it's our first time working together in this capacity
We both want to deliver value so it's taking up quite a bit of time.
We've had some run-throughs. We've had a number of changes to the deck.
We, you know, I've been in charge of the marketing end.
And I'll tell you, marketing right now, there's so many things to look at.
So, yeah, I might have a career in sales and marketing, but everything is different now.
Number one, number two, I don't have a team of people
to hand things to.
So you have to assess in your day,
where can I walk away from a few different things
and invest time and effort into this right now?
Cause that's what I need to do.
I needed to really get behind.
How am I gonna market this?
Who am I marketing it to?
Who's the right fit?
Can I get testimonials from him and I to share online?
Can I target specific people?
Are there people out there that could help me?
Are there businesses I should be going after,
which is sort of a new taking this instead of B2C,
business to consumer, now taking it B2B business to business?
It's probably the better approach we're learning as we go.
And I want you to know, everyone just needs to be learning
right now, and that means sometimes failing, and sometimes making mistakes. And yeah, I'm sitting here
right now saying, gosh, I put a ton of time into this. The ROI will not be there for me
and not for John on this one. But we did have a call today that now that we figured it out or
are figuring it out, it can become more of a low touch productouch product. We are more comfortable working together.
It's part of the process, right?
The journey.
So we'll reevaluate after.
And obviously our goal be to extrapolate testimonials,
social proof, because social proof drives new business.
As well as one of the ideas John had was,
maybe we ask on the call, guys, who here
is works for a company that they could connect us with,
that we could create or customize a specific class for you and for your team.
So I think that's an interesting idea because businesses are looking for ways right now
to support employees, invest employees, and help them decipher how to communicate during
this very challenging time.
And I see some people doing it successfully and some are not, right? And every advantage we can give to ourselves
to our companies to business right now is a game changer.
It's that small sliver of a difference
that can make a huge impact.
And I noticed this when I was running
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But if you don't speed up and do something different, that 10 seconds after 10 laps has
grown immensely and you are so far behind.
And that's what we're seeing happening right now in business and with innovation or lack
of innovation.
Small changes are really impacting business and the ones that aren't changing are going
to be left behind in the dust.
So this is why I'm jumping into this seminar and this online virtual world.
I've got to change.
I've got to evolve my business.
Some of it's going to go great and some of it's going to cost too much time and effort
and money and not going to be worth it.
But I'm only going to learn if I do it.
So I'm in that as since I got fired, that's my new thing.
Step into fear.
Fear is a green light that means go,
and we're gonna make it work.
So we did offer a money back guarantee,
which I think for everyone right now is really smart.
We need people to trust us and feel safe with us.
That is paramount.
Those are the two factors everyone is interested in.
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So we've got to answer those two questions first and foremost.
Money back guarantee does that, right?
And establishing some credibility with these people.
So I'm really looking forward to tomorrow no idea how it's going to go.
I put quite a bit of time into it, hoping that it goes great. And if it doesn't, that we evolve it into something better and bigger from here, just go bigger.
I was reminded that today on a coaching call with one of my mentees, she was explaining to me
that she's just having this epiphany that she hasn't been wanting to go bigger. For fear,
she would hurt other people or intimidate them and that she's finally getting
to this place of freedom where she realizes
she's gotta show up as the real her
as big as that can be.
Otherwise, she's not shining her light
to bring brightness and positivity to others
and that's an epic fail.
So just go bigger, just take the chance.
It really will pay off for you
but you've gotta move through that fear moment,
which I'm constantly doing.
Okay, so one of the ways that I do that
moving through the fear,
I got frustrated a couple of days ago,
I wasn't selling enough tickets for this,
and I had set up my page on Shopify,
which is pretty simplistic and straightforward,
and I've got all the credibility in the world on there.
My book's on there, my testimonials.
My partner is from Harvard, he's a Harvard teacher.
He's got testimonials on there.
We've got so much credibility and experience between us.
However, we weren't converting.
So I look at the pricing, I look at the call to action,
I look at the incentive, I look at the audience
I'm communicating with.
I tried a number of different things.
Posting on social, obviously.
Obviously, right, that's the simple answer,
which I did at frequency,
and I didn't see a big conversion on that.
So I thought, okay, if it's not working on social,
I've got to look at email, right?
And I don't like to overwhelm the people in my email list
because I send them one email a week.
My goal is to add value to them
and tell them a story that's gonna inspire them
and or give them a tactic or teaching they can apply to their life.
So I don't want to lose them because I'm trying to push a product.
That seems short-sighted to me.
So I didn't want to send out just a standalone email on this and bombard them.
I went to social media and I sent a bunch of DMs to people that I either have been a
guest on their podcast and given up an hour out of my day to support them or whatever
Done things to support other people. I reached out to a few people just to say hey, you know
If there's any chance you could help me or you have any ideas how could I market this better?
What am I missing?
Right give me some feedback because sometimes we're too close to something to see where it may be flawed and
It was so funny. I reached out to my friend Brandon and I said, I don't know
what to do. I'm freaking out. I haven't sold enough tickets. And he wrote that. Did you forget
what my business is? And I had. And he owns a software company that's a search engine that can
pull contact information email addresses included on anyone by job title, by industry, by company.
I mean, by anything and everything.
It's amazing.
It's called seamless AI.
This is not an ad, by the way.
I'm just sharing with you the solution he presented me with.
So he said, let me set you up with an account
and set you up with a training, which, you know,
of course took time.
But I was able to pull 2,000 emails to people
who are in sales or sales management positions
and target them.
And it's just one of those moments where you say,
how much is out there that I don't know?
How much have I even come in contact with
that I've forgotten that I'm not applying
to my business right now, which is overwhelming,
and why the goal is obviously to amass a team
of experts in different arenas,
so that they can be focused on those things,
understanding what the best practices are,
and the most innovative products and services.
I'm just lucky that my friend was willing
to share that with me and set me up.
So now I've got this account,
I've got this ability to search for people
based on their job and or industry and or company
and then pull their email addresses in large fashion.
I was able to reach 2000 people000 people in one email blast.
And now here comes the work, right?
You start looking at what copy are you using?
What is the open rate?
What value are you providing inside?
Are you allowing for opportunity to convert there?
Are you speaking to that right niche?
Are you addressing their concerns, their pain points?
Are you offering a solution? Is it a valuable one? Do they feel comfortable with a price point? You know, there's so many things
that we can go back and look at through analytics and try to understand and continue to evolve and
improve. And I'm really leaning into looking more at my open rates and my emails, looking more at
how much value I'm adding, getting feedback from people, and seeing am I getting people, and subscribing, as well as putting new funnels out there
to drive people to sign up for my email list.
And what I've found is a free ebook or a free accountability program, some type of free
service that we're providing to others is a great call to action and or contesting,
you know, works really well too.
So, you know, this whole cycle, it just,
it takes a lot of work, I'm gonna be very candid with you.
It takes a lot of work.
I'll let you know next week if it was worth it.
I think that it will be,
I think we're gonna get some great feedback
and strong testimonials.
I will ask everyone to give me a testimonial, of course,
as you should always,
should always be updating your testimonials
and reviews on LinkedIn.
You know, LinkedIn's interesting.
I've gotten a couple of different prompts
in the past week to test out if you want to add your services
which I did add and that have people messaging me.
So I continue to take advantage of any offer
that LinkedIn gives me because I want my profile
to populate for others. So the more views you get, the more people you get checking out your services, what you offer, and hopefully engaging with your content and then potentially being converted into customers.
So getting them in that pipeline and that funnel. guest is actually a friend of mine. He is Cal Fussman who is beyond famous because of his podcast,
his journalistic work, his books, and the amazing storyteller that he is. And it's so funny to
be that we get into his whole fear around selling his whole reframe that we needed to create. And
I've been seeing that a lot lately with people, the importance of reframing. I was actually just working with one of my mentees on dropping I
think from her repertoire. So let me show you what I mean by that. Instead of
saying, I think that this is a good idea we move forward with saying, this is a
good idea we move forward with. You make yourself a lot more powerful when you
drop some of these filler words. So I'm going to challenge you to do that this
week. Stop saying, I'm sorry, instead, thank people. Stop saying I think and start
just owning what the statement is. Put yourself in a position of power and watch how people
respond differently to you. I guarantee they will. Okay, whole tight. We're going to be
right back with my friend, Cal Fussman. And yes, you're gonna love him. You're a different guest.
Each week,
one more time.
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
I'm so excited for everyone to meet my good friend,
Cal Fussman.
He's an American journalist and author,
writer at large for Esquire Magazine.
And let me tell you a couple of the people he's interviewed.
Michele Borbaccio, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos,
Richard Branson, Jack Welch, I mean, the list goes on and on.
And of course, the podcast host of big questions.
Cal, thank you so much for being here with me.
What a great introduction.
Thank you.
We are laughing because the first time we met
was when you came to my house over a year ago
and interviewed me for your fantastic podcast,
big questions, and we sat down
and had a very interesting conversation.
The same view.
I'm looking at you the same way.
Is it interesting?
This time through Zoom.
Brutum. But this just this time through Zoom. It's just this time through Zoom. It's just this time through Zoom.
But this time you're actually closer.
I think we're like 18 inches above.
I know, right?
That is that so funny.
Well, we were connected through a mutual friend
who thought that we would hit it off and we did.
And what was so interesting and you discussed this
on your show was that while our polar opposites were actually so much alike,
we've just come at business from opposite angles, me coming from the chief revenue officer position,
you coming from the talent position and both of us pivoting and becoming entrepreneurs and the
challenges we both had to face along the way. And you lifted me off the ground.
I felt like a rocket ship as I was living in your home.
And now we've had this virus and everything has changed.
And I feel like I'm in the booster rocket phase here.
And I need the fuel to go off into space and you are just the person to give it to me.
I am here for you, my friend. Now tell me, I want you to share because everybody else might not have heard this episode,
which if you haven't, you got to check out the big questions podcast. It's a great show and this was a really great episode.
I've gotten so much feedback from people that gleaned some good sales tips from us.
You were struggling at the time with pitching yourself, pitching yourself for business. It was a
role and a position you had never been in previously and you and I sat and tried to talk about some
different ways that you could step into that. It worked so well as having my best year ever.
And really was poised.
I was speaking for companies at conferences,
going around the world, everything,
it couldn't have gone better.
And just as I was about to go off into the stratosphere,
boom, Spirors hits every speaking gig canceled or post-pone.
And like you're suddenly looking around
and what happened?
Where do I go from here?
And I've come to realize I've got to go virtual.
I've got to go through the computer,
which was always one of my biggest fears.
I'm getting better and better at it. Technology. Why are you afraid? Technology has always been
something that from day one has just knocked me off balance. So the best way I had to describe it. When I first tried to get an email, I was on
customer support for like four hours to just try and get an email and the poor person on the
other end, like half of the day was spent working with me and he just doesn't get it. Like what's
wrong? Like you've done everything you need to do,
and it's not working.
And then we realized that I was putting like,
calphustman.com, I was spelling DOT. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha So you ask me why I'm a tech foe, but it starts right there. All right, we're going to solve some problems here.
So number one, this is so interesting.
I come from corporate America where I had a whole IT team in
department and they were a button away, right?
So I would press a button and say, having technology problems,
fix this, who's coming over and people come running and they
support you and take care of it.
Now that I'm on my own, it's obviously very different, right?
And I do understand the fear.
However, in my coaching program,
one of my mentees owns an IT company,
a virtual IT company,
I was venting to him Cal the other day.
I said, Warren, I'm so frustrated right now.
Something's wrong with my email.
And I Apple's not open because of the pandemic
and I really don't know what to do.
And he said, hello, that's what I own a company
that does that.
I will have someone call you the minute we hang up.
And so, Cal, I'm gonna connect you
just so you have them on speed dial.
They're amazing to work with.
But my point is that there are so many solutions out there
that sometimes we're not even aware of
that we could just have a person on speed dial
to use when we need them.
That is where I have to go.
And as a matter of fact, the next place I move into,
I am setting up like a Zoom studio
so that I can communicate with all parts of the world
because the reality is that once I started my podcast, I started
to work this stuff pretty good.
And I give people explanations how to do a podcast.
And so it doesn't scare me anymore.
It's just that every time something new pops up at same old DOT come fear bubbles up in me.
So having that number would be great.
It's just great advice to have your help
a quick touch away.
Well, it gives you that confidence
that if a problem's gonna arise
and I'm on with Mikhail Gorbachev
or whoever amazing person you're interviewing,
you don't wanna drop that ball
and lose that opportunity.
And however, one thing that you did for me today
and a lot of people have been willing to do this,
which is so fantastic,
is everyone who's doing these Zoom meetings and interviews,
they're recording on their own end,
which is another great solution.
I didn't even realize, and then emailing files over.
So again, just going
back to, there are always solutions out there. It's about us just asking the questions as
you do to find them. It's really simple when you know what you're doing.
Isn't that the truth? See, that's the beauty of the last conversation we had. Is you just
gave me the basics. I don't know that I could have
handled more than the basics at that point, but the basics of Cal, you're going
into hotels all the time. Next time you go in and every time you go in, I want
to ask for an upgrade. And you remember I'm like fighting with you. I can't do that. What do you mean? I just get an upgrade and
I get it and I got an upgrade. Literally, literally you left my house. You went to your hotel.
You asked for the upgrade at a hotel that you hadn't been to. They gave you the upgrade and since then
you've been getting upgraded. I've been upgraded ever since. And when I don't get it, I'm not upset.
I get it.
At what you warn me about, don't take it personal.
And you don't have to twist anybody's arm behind your back.
Just ask nicely.
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So you and I are both in this pivoting moment
where we're both really pressed to completely change
our business.
As is everyone listening, I'm sure.
The majority of people did not operate virtually before.
What are some of the things that you've done or where are you getting stuck now?
I don't think I'm stuck because I've done some chats virtually and they've gone over very well.
And I know two things.
Number one, the way a company tells its story now is more important than ever because if you're
not touching somebody you're connecting with them, it's your story that's got to do the
connecting.
And so I know I can help people tell their stories.
So there you have it.
I should be in a great place because I have what people need.
Number two, I have pivoted many, many, many times in my life. And I've talked to the icons who've
shaped world history over the last 70 years and heard all about their pivots. So I'm actually a pretty good person to talk to about pivoting. And I have all the
stories to make people think. So here I am, I have the material. But now I have to re-brand it or
reframe it and let people know what I'm doing so that I can sell
because I was getting to this point
over the last year where basically everything was incoming.
I wasn't even having to go out and hustle for leads.
I was getting as much as I could do.
And then all of a sudden, it just stops.
So what would you say is the big
move to make to let people know, okay, this is what I'm doing. If you need my help, I'm here,
but now also, I got to figure out pricing. It's a whole, I don't know how this works. I don't know if these companies have any money.
And I've been told that even with when you have companies with a lot of money,
they don't know if in November or December,
the virus is going to come back with a fury.
We're all going to be in the same place again.
So everybody's kind of hoarding what they have
to prepare for any eventuality.
So I don't know.
I haven't been in these conversations before
and I've got to figure icing out as well.
Okay, so this is such a good conversation.
I love this conversation.
First of all, what we need to do is look at your opportunities.
Obviously, your podcast is a massive audience
for you to connect with.
They trust you.
Number one, they feel safe with you.
That is your biggest, in my opinion,
your biggest opportunity to market to and monetize
to convert into business opportunity very quickly
because you have a large audience, they trust you,
and they're safe with you, right?
So that's a great start that most people I don't think have.
Number two, we need to look at how can we repackage the opportunity that you have to drive
potential revenue for companies and or individuals, Cal, because right now, a lot of people as
senior leaders are struggling because they're not feeling good having to furlough people.
They're not feeling good knowing how to lead in a crisis.
You have information on how they can represent themselves to their employees.
These people are millionaires.
They will pay $15,000 a month, $30,000 a month to have a weekly call, one-on-one with you,
to help for you to advise them and help reshape their strategy
moving forward.
I see two different opportunities there.
Also the engaging with employees right now, doing virtual summits for companies.
A lot of companies are reaching out right now.
It might not be at the rate you were getting for your speaking engagements before, but
you can still touch hundreds of people on these Zoom calls and teach all of them the power of their story
why to tell it and how to tell it.
So number one, I think you need to lead with certainty, right?
So they absolutely need your services right now
and you not providing them,
you're doing the world a disservice
because if the faster you can connect with these people
and help them to tell their story,
the better their business is going to go, the sooner their culture is going to improve
and the more positive people will feel about wanting to work with them and you'll bring that
person more revenue, right? So we've got to have crystal clear certainty. It's not, I don't know
if people want to work with me. I know people need to work with me and the time is now. And when we come across with that confidence and certainty in our capabilities, our expertise
of which you have vast expertise and knowledge that you can impart and help others, that
comes clear through the Zoom call or phone call to someone else.
So they say, wow, Cal is right.
I really do need this.
However, if we don't leave with that certainty,
they kind of walk away from the call saying, well, it's something to think about. And then
someone else follows up, you know, and takes that pool of money that you were just going
for and may not deliver the same kind of results that you can. So I go back to it's our job
to help and serve. And we've got to be crystal clear and the certainty that we know we can
deliver when we approach someone. It's interesting because I put out messaging on my podcast letting people know I'm going to pivot
is what I'm going to do. And I got a lot of response, but it's generally been from individuals
saying, can you help me? Do you do one-on-ones? And so I have to think that way.
But again, what really gets me is I know people are hurting now.
And so it's hard for me to go in and ask for a lot of money.
I'm just not.
I wasn't constructed that way and I have to rewire my brain to think like that.
This is what I'm worth and this is the price.
I'm sitting there thinking almost like a journalist.
I wonder, are they on the edge?
Are they just getting by? I don't want to take advantage of them.
So I'm looking at your eyes and they're saying, oh my god, I got it.
Val, you know what you need to do? You need to go read your testimonials, your reviews and
recommendations of your work. Go back and look at that. Go back and look at the value you deliver
to other people because somehow you're forgetting that right now.
Yeah, I don't even think about it. I'm thinking about them. But you're really not. And let me tell you why,
if you were really thinking about serving them, you would focus on your deliverables and how you can
increase revenue for them once you teach them your teachings. Focus on that. You are doing them a disservice,
not giving them the opportunity right now.
Allow them to make the decision,
but companies that are struggling
that aren't telling the brand story,
that aren't telling the founder's story,
that are disconnected from their audience,
you can come in there and fix that for them.
What is that word?
You're right.
You're a million percent
right. And I would I just taken from what you've put out in front of me is I really just
have to look at this and feel bad if I'm not going out and saying let me help you. And being as assertive as I possibly can.
You know, this is a strange thing that happened.
And it comes from being a journalist.
I know it because I was talking to a guy who's an agent now
and who represents a lot of broadcasters
and he makes gigantic fields.
And I asked him, Steve, where did you get started?
And he said, well, I delivered newspapers as a boy.
And it turned out we had both delivered newspapers
for the same newspaper in Long Island.
And he said, when you deliver newspapers,
you're knocking on doors every Friday to collect your money.
And they're often have bonuses.
If you can bring in the most new subscribers,
you get a pair of roller skates.
And he said, that's what I grew up in.
And I realized, yeah, I lived in that world.
But when I got to college and became a journalist,
I was just separated from the business side
by this code of ethics that I was taught.
And so I've been smashing down this wall now
for a couple of years.
And I thought I had got it to a place where I could easily walk over it,
but I see that the virus has brought out something in me that is like caring about them in a way
that I would be caring about them more if I actually said, look, let me help you.
Let me give you all these stories that have accumulated
over the years and show you how the world's leaders
have responded to situations like these
and how they grew to greater heights.
I need to think like that.
And already you've, you've already flipped the switch in my mind.
Now, is there, is there a way that once I let them know what I can do, and I also try
and do it in a custom way, like a tailor, let me make this suit just for you. So I go out of my way to give them the best. When it comes time
to actually make the sale, close the deal. Is there something that I need in my mind to just
have that confidence that you're talking about? And do it. And I know you're right because somebody I was dealing with when I gave them a price,
they said to me like, in their voice, their tone of voice was like, are you sure? Because like,
in their mind, they were anticipating that I was going to ask them for a lot more.
Yeah, we don't like to leave money on the table.
Yeah, so we don't like to leave money on the table.
And I've heard of that is there a way of thinking
to not leave money on the table. Well, you know, first of all,
there's market research that we can do, right?
So we know with keynote speeches,
they start at $5,000 and they go to $500,000.
So just being familiar with that, how wide the gap is and what people are offering, you can pretty
much feel confident going in that whatever your number that you think is big, there are
people offering the same services for much, much more.
So know that you're not the highest price point.
And I know that factually, I have the opportunity to speak with a lot of different people
across the country over the past year.
Some of them were getting $150,000 on the same stage I was on
and I was getting $15,000.
So I've learned that lead with the higher price point,
here's a thing, Cal, you can always negotiate down, right?
Say you go into a meeting and you're asking,
here's my virtual speaker fee. Let's take a look, one of the ways I like to close is let's take a
look at what dates work for you, you know, so you put the fee out there and then
you ask for the date and then they'll say to you, Cal, wow, that's a little bit
more than what I had budgeted. And that's when you say, great, great, what did
you budget? What had you budgeted? And then they come back to you with a number.
So when they come back to you with a number,
and I just had this situation the other day,
and I ended up actually walking from the deal
because I had done my homework,
and I had spoken to another speaker
that had spoken for them the prior year.
That woman had charged 30,000.
During the pandemic, I'm on the call with this company,
and they wanted me to speak virtually for them. And so I asked my friend, I said, what do you think of therapy is it's
pandemic? I said, I think 10's fair. And she said, oh, yeah, they, I mean, for sure, I said,
okay, great, I'm just going to do that to get it done. I want to get this close. I'm on
the phone with the woman. And I said, okay, so my, I've reduced my in person speaker
fee to my new virtual fee, which is now 10,000, and
I'm actually adding on for every attendee, I'm gifting them my video course, so they have
some follow-up work they can do at home to advance themselves after the event as a bonus.
What's the date?
Let's get the thing on the book, because I'm actually filling up with my virtual speaking
right now.
And she said, Heather, I have to be honest with you, that is way more money than we had anticipated.
I said, you're kidding me.
Now remember, I have the knowledge of what they already paid, which that knowledge is always
power.
And I wasn't going to back down.
And she said, well, we assume we're getting speakers for free now that it's the pandemic.
And I said, well, I'm sure you will get some speakers for free.
However, for me to put the time and effort into
what it would take to do this,
I can go on LinkedIn and offer a seminar
for a couple hundred dollars and make a lot more money
than I would make with you.
So when I evaluate my time,
it's just that's not worth my time.
And I opt it out.
So they wanted you to do it for free.
Even though they previously were spending 30,000 plus for a keynote.
That's not fair. I haven't been in that situation. I think the difference here is that
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I don't know if people have the money,
don't want to spend it,
or if they don't have the money.
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So I completely understand and I was in that same situation.
May 1st, I launched my first ever mentoring program.
It was for 10 people.
It sold out immediately and I found out why.
I didn't charge enough.
So sometimes the only way you're going to find out
is by stepping into it.
So I stepped into it.
I gave too much value for too little of a price
and I let everybody know.
I'm a team.
My team called the end of the month.
I said, guys, I want to let you all know.
The price has accelerated and I'm pulling some
of the offerings back.
However, I'd still love to have all of you back
and I hope that you still will see the value.
Half of the team resigned up,
a new five came in now at a higher rate
and so I was able to weed out the people
that couldn't afford it, which was fine,
but you know, continue to increase my price.
And the next thing I learned, Cal,
which has been really interesting,
is there are different individuals
that will pay differently,
meaning you'll wanna have a discount code for the people that you do wanna help is there are different individuals that will pay differently, meaning,
you'll wanna have a discount code
for the people that you do wanna help
that you can see are really struggling,
and then you could offer them a discount privately.
No one needs to know about that, right?
Then there's other people that are gonna come to you
and say, Heather, I don't want the team part.
I don't want, you know, the daily email.
I just want the one on one.
And what I've learned as I research their profiles on LinkedIn, those are typically CEOs, those are typically, you know, lawyers
at very large firms, those are people making a lot of money. And so that's when you jump
on an individual call with them, I wanted to jump on a call and understand your needs
and what you're looking to accomplish in this relationship. They'll tell you, you know
you can do it. And then you lay out a very specific,
a very different plan, which is much, much more money.
So a lot of this is doing a research,
which I'm accustomed to that,
and asking around,
because like I hear a lot of things,
I hear that some of the companies are basically seeing say
two to three thousand dollars as a range
for their virtual talks.
And this is just what I'm hearing from people.
And so I guess what you're telling me is
just reduce the fee
to say 10,000.
And if somebody says, oh my goodness,
I couldn't possibly do that right now in our dilemma.
And look, the sponsor to my podcast,
all of their earnings, or most of it, like 90% came
from NBA games, came from concerts. I know what they're going through.
And so my heart is with them and they are my sponsors and we're moving forward together.
But I know how difficult it is for them.
And this is where I guess my struggle is
because I don't know how difficult it is for everybody.
I mean, for instance, you can have a gym
that has closed down and you're bringing in no money.
But if you sell pull-up bars that people are putting in
there always, you're probably doing pretty good. It's like the people who sell yoga mats. They're
probably doing great too, yet at the yoga studios, they've been closed and not bringing anything.
So do you recommend that I actually look for those companies that I can see or doing well
and reaching out to them?
And do you recommend because I kind of got to a place where it was all incoming and I
could relax from that.
But now I see that I have to go out and be a salesperson and generate lead and make either cold calls
or warm the cold calls up is all new to me. But I'm the beauty of talking to you is every
time I talk to you, turn me into more more salesperson.
That's my goal in life, Cal. The first thing that I would do if I was in your situation, you have an existing audience
with the podcast, right?
So we can always, this is your low-hanging fruit.
It's right in front of you.
You have their trust.
They believe in you.
They know you're a good person.
You will deliver.
Converting those on the podcast into clients is something you can do immediately next week
when you launch your show.
So my suggestion to you would be to create
an offering for individuals, right?
Like you said, you've got people DMing you, messaging you after,
and have it be one specific option.
Don't give people a lot of options
because they'll do nothing, right?
People are in this uncertain time right now.
You wanna come with certainty, you wanna have a solution to a problem,
you wanna list an emotion out of them,
hitting on that fear, that pain point that they have,
let them know, I've got the solution to this.
You know, click the link in my bio to take you directly
to the opportunity there are limited seats available.
I'd love to work with you in July.
And have a conversion mechanism set up
so that they can sign up for your program,
pay you immediately for your program and you can get to work on coaching them.
Okay, so now I need one of those credit card converters. Okay, so there's two options on this.
The easy, there's a really easy one that doesn't look that good and that's utilizing PayPal,
where you just go, you set up a PayPal account so easy and you just set you send them an invoice
from there. Once they click the link and say, pal, I want to sign up, you just
invoice them directly, they pay you, it goes right into your PayPal account and
then you can move your funds from your PayPal account to your bank account
seamlessly. It doesn't cost anything, it's so easy. Then there's another upgraded
opportunity,
which is a Shopify account, which is what I have now. And that's where you basically have a landing
page that someone would design for you, and I have someone that can do it for you. And it's a really
beautiful looking page that has your offering on there. It's the picture like your website,
calp usman.com, with just the offering. Be your little picture of you there.
Here's what you're getting.
Click here to buy now.
And then it all transpires and converts inside a Shopify.
Shopify gives you all the data and analytics.
You can see how many people visited on what days,
who went into the cart, who abandoned cart.
People set their emails up in there to get more info from you.
So it's a really seamless solution
that has been working great for me.
Oh, that sounds great.
I mean, it sounds like they do everything for you.
They do.
And do they take like a percentage of the...
Yes, but it's a small, it's for me, it's worth it.
I don't know how to manage all that stuff on my own.
That's a stuff I don't know how to do.
So I was happy to pay them the percentage.
For me, it's probably a hundred times more worth it because I'm pretty cool with this
of that stuff. But those are great suggestions. And so, you know, this actually leads to
another area because if there are enough of these people that want to get
together and I can bring them together in one place and then I'm understanding that I can actually
separate people so that they can talk to one another and so I can have them do exercises and then
come back to me. I mean I can do this with a lot of
people. Yes. So here's what I'm going to do for you. This is what Dean Graziozi did for me a couple
weeks ago. He gifted something to me. I am going to gift to you a seat Thursday if you can make it.
I'm I partnered with a Harvard professor and we're giving a seminar on how to
communicate in crisis and sell in crisis times because a lot of
people feel the same way that you do that it's really scary to approach people right now and I don't
feel comfortable. So we're going to have breakout sessions on our Zoom room. You'll see how the whole
thing will work and you'll learn specifically from the data the harbor professors bringing. It's
mind blowing and I think you'll love it. So I'm going to add you to
to that event if you can make it. I'm in. Whatever I had canceled, whatever I had set up as canceled.
This is what I need because like not only are you going to give me the fuel, but I think you're going to just show me the available techniques.
And look, I've done this in person. It's not like we're reinventing the wheel here.
It's just that now I know I should be looking at the green light on top of my computer
so that it seems like I'm staring into your eyes because if I stare into your eyes,
it looks like I'm looking a little down.
I do not know that.
After everything you're passing on to me,
Heather, it's the littlest.
I'm getting straight eye contact from you.
Right now.
Right now, yes.
And how, like, can you notice a difference
about looking in the green right now,
as opposed to looking at you now?
Could you see a difference? Yeah, you can see a difference. Okay, well,
that's why it's always good to go green.
Fear is a green light that means go and go faster. That's that's my favorite
saying when it comes to the color green.
I always do what you say. I'll let you know how it works. But I realize I just have to jump
into this and do it. It's going to work. It's worked in person. So if there's a few technological
glitches along the way, we'll easily figure them out. And you know, my feeling is when we're talking about this a little in advance, I really feel like this is going to be the way of the future.
I think it's going to be hard to go back to the old world, especially if this virus comes back with a
fury in November and December, it's just going to change the world.
And once we're used to talking like this, which is great. November and December, it's just going to change the world.
And once we're used to talking like this, which is great.
I love the idea of just being able to sit here and talk with you.
And when my time is up, then I can go talk with somebody else.
I mean, you think about it.
Somebody invites you out for a cup of coffee.
The time that I spent going to the coffee place,
coming back, I could have been sitting down, talking to you.
So I just feel like we are in the beginning
of a complete reconstruction.
I think cities are gonna be different.
I think they're gonna, like, turn into parks.
We're gonna have cars that you don't drive
that just drive around themselves.
Don't need any garages.
The real estate value when companies realize
they don't need the office space,
that's gonna go down and the cities
are just gonna become different.
And I think what we're doing now is, as somebody said to me, it's not the future, it's
the present.
And that's, I'm feeling mighty present right now.
Well, I'm so glad that you are present in here.
And Cal, tell everybody where can they find you, where can they find your show?
So the show's called Big Questions, that's the podcast.
And anybody can reach me at calfussmancalfussmmann.com
and send me an email, go to contact, send me an email.
And I will get right back to you.
I've learned that from Heather.
So, Cal, thank you so much.
And I can't wait for you to join me on Thursday.
And everyone check out Cal's show.
It's unbelievable.
Literally the biggest and best guests in the world.
Cal, thank you so much for being here.
Thank you, Heather.
It's always great.
I leave rejuvenated.
You're ready to go.
All right, Hainteint will be right back.
I asked you to try to find your passion.
I hope you enjoyed meeting my friend Cal as much as I enjoyed
getting to chat with him.
Even though this time he wasn't in my home,
we were over Zoom.
It's so great to reconnect with a good friend.
Okay, so I have an interesting story to share with you
that I'm really excited about.
I interviewed, first of all, I was introduced to a woman
who's a doctor named Amy Morn, a really well-known therapist,
author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People, Don't Do,
which is such a great book.
And I had her on my podcast months back.
She's an amazing guest and has become
an amazing friend. When I was going to give my first TEDx talk, I sent her my talk asking
for feedback and she gave me such positive feedback and then challenged me to do better on my
intro, which I really appreciated because not only was she supportive, but she also said,
hey, I think you could do better here. And she was right, and I did, but I don't know that I would have done it
if she hadn't had approached me in such a positive fashion
and then give me direct constructive criticism
and or feedback, which was super helpful.
And she's just a great person.
So she and I text all the time,
she lives in the keys, not too far south from me.
And during the pandemic, I've been checking on her
because she's living on a boat
and anyhow, we're back and forth and
She sends me a note maybe three weeks ago and says that can I talk to you for a few minutes?
Yeah, of course we get on the phone and she says Heather
I've been thinking about doing my own podcast mind you she's been on the biggest podcast in the world and
her book is
huge and she's extremely successful. And she says, you know,
I'm just wondering people are telling me, and I love this because I heard this too. I should
do a demo reel for my podcast and I should do a couple guest interviews and I should do some
testing and, you know, all this BS that everybody will tell you. And I'm listening to her, listening
to her, listening to her, I'm listening to her,
and she says, but I just, I don't know.
I mean, sounds like a lot of work,
and then you still don't know if you get it,
because there are different options with the podcast.
You can just flip a switch and launch your own podcast,
which I did for my girlfriend, Kelly,
when I went to visit her in the summer,
we just flipped a switch and started recording her,
and she was up and running.
Or you can go to podcast companies and sell and pitch yourself and they can do, you know,
the execution side, you do the speaking side and they do the support side.
So I definitely have seen both sides of this and knew there was potential and either one.
And I knew more importantly that when I wanted to launch my show, I was being told the same stuff she was.
Do this and test this and here's the bottom line.
No one's gonna wanna take a risk on you, but you.
Even though this woman is this proven huge
command me right now, which I wasn't shocked by,
just because I know there's trepidation
and fear everywhere in business, especially now.
So I said to her what she probably knew,
I was gonna say to her, which you know I'm gonna say,
I said, listen, do you buy that? Do you think you're not going to give a great podcast because
you've been on every major podcast in the world. You're sought after guests. People love
you. Why wouldn't your podcast be great? You go on these other shows and they show up
higher in the ranking than ever. Come on. What do you think is going to happen when you
turn that mic on and start interviewing people? You're a trained therapist. You're going to help other people. Isn't
this worth doing? And she said, yeah, I really think it is. I said, well, then you shouldn't
just maybe do it. You have to do it. And people need you now, right? This is the time now.
We're in a pandemic and people are struggling and there's anxiety and there's depression
and people need to hear from you and consistently be able to rely on you and know you're going to be
showing up each week for them.
So I said, here's the thing, if you go out there and I would go out there with conviction
and certainty to pitch myself to these companies and say, I'm going to be honest with you, this
show is coming out.
I'd like it to be with you.
However, if you're not in a position to launch the show, I will be launching it with someone else.
You know, hit the marketplace and hit these individuals.
It's a short list of companies.
With that conversation and let them know with conviction,
you are bringing this show to market.
It is happening.
And she said, Heather, that is all I needed to hear.
Thank you. I'm doing it.
Okay, so that was maybe a month ago.
I am so excited to tell you that tomorrow,
she is coming to Miami, she's got a studio set up
and I am going to be one of her guests
tomorrow on her new show.
She's been interviewing a number of people
from her boat in the keys.
And since Florida's a little bit opened up,
that's a whole different conversation right now,
but she's able to get a situation
where we can be safe and record and socially distant tomorrow. So I am so excited to go support
my friend who supported me by coming on my show, and I'm grateful to get the opportunity
to go on her show. She's also launching a new book around supporting children and the 13
things mentally strong children don't do, which I will be bringing her back on my show for sure.
And you will hear her again, because I think it's really helpful to not only hear
the things we can do for ourselves, but also for the people around us. That's one of the
biggest ways we build confidence is in helping others, and I was reminded by that just the
other day. So I'm definitely going to bring her back on. I'm so excited to go on her show,
but I also want to tell you, tomorrow is gonna be
the craziest day and here's why.
And these are the things people don't know
that go on behind the scenes.
I'll wake up first thing in the morning,
get the house ready, you know, get my son ready,
do breakfast, and then I'll,
I jump down, do my social media,
I do my morning email that I send out
to my mentoring team.
Then I will do a quick workout, get ready.
I'm gonna do the Harvard seminar.
So that's a few hours, that's three hour window right there.
Then I'm going to run downstairs, jump in my car,
drive 35 minutes north of here to go meet my friend,
Aby, and do this recording.
Then I'm going to drive back here.
That'll probably be a couple of hours
that I'm gonna drive back here. And'll probably be a couple of hours that I'm going to drive back here
And I had promised one of my
Mentoring team members from May that I would do his show when he got it live
He's got alive. I'm super proud of him
And so I'm doing his show tomorrow as well
And then I'll do my mentoring individual calls after so my days are so different now. They're definitely hectic,
but I don't leave the house much,
which I guess I'm really lucky to have
that set up in situation, but I'll go back to it's
because I created it, I pivoted my business.
It's so different.
There's a lot less interaction with me,
with other people, which I miss.
I have it in Zoom, which I'm not trying to cheapen
that that still is valuable, but I do miss
in person.
So I'm super excited.
So I'm going to get to see my good friend who I haven't seen in months in person.
It's going to be really exciting.
And it's so funny how things change that I get this excited about just getting to see
somebody and be in the same room with them.
Even if we can't hug, we can be near each other.
And that seems worth celebrating.
So I'm hoping you have something that you're looking forward
to this week.
I'm hoping that you have something that makes you feel
really excited and that you're pushing yourself
beyond your boundaries.
Because tomorrow I know my girlfriend is
and I am going to be cheering her on.
Make sure you have people cheering you on
because you deserve it.
Okay, until next week, I'll be back here
creating confidence.
I hope you're doing the same
and I can't wait to see you then.
I decided to change that thing
and I think about it.
I couldn't be more excited
for what you're gonna hear
start learning and growing.
And inevitably something will happen.
No one is 16 to learn.
You don't stop and look around once in a while. You can miss it.
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