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Hello, hello, hello. My podcast people and thank you for joining me for your day, another episode of my favorite Online Business podcast. If you're tuning in, listening, watching on the day that it drops, it is Monday, December one. Welcome to December, folks. Been the longest and the fastest. You're all in one.
Today we are talking about having the tenacity to change and we're gonna jump pretty much right into the episode 'cause uh, I am recording this before heading back east for Thanksgiving. Big fucking stokes my favorite holiday. I wish it was the only holiday. I don't need any other ones. No, I'm not fucking celebrating.
The bullshit of the holiday. I'm celebrating the fact that I'm thankful I can be with my family. It is literally my favorite image. It's just about eating. There's no presents shit to be dealing with. It's just the fucking best. So it's gonna be freezing. Not looking forward to that, but we head back two days from now.
I record on Monday. Uh, we head back on, we, Lex and myself head back on Wednesday only head back east on Wednesday. The only sad part is that we have to leave Rupi. Uh, but. He it is what? It's, he doesn't want anyone here with him. Uh, so I'll report back about that after we come back. Um, but I got one biz announcement which will actually segue well, and that is that Cyber Monday Maestro?
Nope, that's backwards. Cyber Maestro Monday Sales are live. Uh, so go forth and save them monies. I will, we will link that in the show notes. Thank you. Courtney, thank you, Jojo. Uh, as I was saying that I didn't have this in, in the outline, but I did go with Lex to a place called Kam On last week, on Friday, our coach gave us tickets, our volleyball coach, because his daughter's in the NCAA tournament.
She's a goalkeeper, uh, and they keep winning. And so he couldn't come back to go. And it's basically like an imax, like it's a big theater, and we watch Willy Wonka and they have like the whole screen going. It was really fun. But in Willy Wonka, in, uh. When they go to the factory, he like says something backwards and he's like, wait, no, flip that.
That's what made me think of that Cyber Maestro Monday, not Cyber Monday maestro, but your choice. Either way, go check it out. Uh, but the segue here that it's not such a good segue anymore 'cause I talked about it fucking a few minutes ago, uh, is that I spent like 11 billion hours in the computer leading up to Cyber Monday, uh, learning how to use chat, GPT.
To build sales pages. Now, honestly, I don't need to do this. I don't need to do that. I could have gone my traditional route and sat there and built them and built them out on Kajabi. It's not like the worst thing ever. But I really do believe in the tech, in ai, in chat, GPT, uh, and with all the, the deep dives I've been taking for my chat.
GBT Curious Podcast, shout out. Go, go. Listen, uh, I wanted to deep dive into this functionality. So when I say deep dives, I read a lot about AI in general, all the different LLMs. Um, I'm subscribed to a bunch of newsletters. I watch a lot of YouTube videos. Just I, I am in, in the, in the space. And my good friend Kay, put out an a blog post about it, about using Gemini three just came out and he was talking about, he cutted, like mock up a website for him.
And I was like, what, what in the, what, what? How can chat GBT do this? Like what is going on? So I took a deep dive to figure out the functionality and how to use it, and I was like, yo, I could get this thing to code sales pages for me and I would just paste that code into Kajabi and fun. But it did take a long time, a lot of effort.
A lot of effort was expended. Uh, my eyes were broken, my back was a little bit broken, but it was worth it. We know that change takes time. I my ability to learn that stuff and be proficient with it, it's going to take time. One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is Eat, train, prosper, eat, train, prosper.
And one of the hosts, Aaron, he put up a story on Instagram today and it just solidified why he's one of my favorites. So he got his IFBB Pro card, I dunno, a few months ago, and then he went and placed, I believe it was 10th. At his first pro show, which is like fucking incredible and unheard of. But he said that his lagging body part, mind you dude, looks like a fucking action figure, like an action hero.
Um, but he said his lagging body part was his upper back. And so today's story, and it's been a bunch of stories, but today in particular, he's on his honeymoon on, they were at a gym, his wife is, is into fitness and health and stuff as well. So this wasn't like some weird thing, uh, to like be at the gym like they are in Japan.
Maybe they're traveling around just like going to gyms and it's, they're having a great time. But she's in, he's in the gym, and the story stated that the next 12 to 18 months, his focus is gonna be on his upper back. And I was like, yes. Immediately. Fucking yes. 12 to 18 months, right? Immediately fucking.
Yes, change takes time. We all know this. I'm preaching to the choir here, but if you're listening to this, you're probably in the movement world and movement adjacent, health, wellness, fitness, something like that. You fucking know this, even if you don't wanna accept it, you know, change takes time. But what I wanna highlight in this episode is that change also takes tenacity, and I think we perhaps accept that change takes time.
And maybe sometimes also use the fact that it takes time to not do the things like it's gonna take too fucking long. I don't wanna do it. It's totally fine. Or we let the fact that it takes time sabotage us, right? Because it takes time and we start out, we start out real hot. But because it takes so long, it's so easy to slip back into our old habits over that time period and just be like, ah, it's just easier to do it how I was doing it.
I, this is where the tenacity piece comes in. How much are you willing to work for it? Not just how hard are you willing to work for it? Because I think that that can kind of get us into that trap of like, you go out so hard, I'm, I'm gonna work so hard. But like, what kind of grit do you have? What frustrations are you willing to work through?
What setbacks are you willing to push through? Do you have tenacity? The definition of tenacity according to the internet. Is the quality or fact of being very determined, and I picked this word tenacity because of my, my bestie Jill. And she talks about tech tenacity. Of course, you know, if it's got good liter, wow, if it's got good alliteration.
You know, the Jill came up with it. Um, but she talks about tech tenacity and it's, it's a prerequisite for being in the online space. Like unless you have a gazillion dollars, you're just gonna fucking outsource everything. But for the rest of us, it is a prerequisite. You gotta have the tech tenacity and be like, I'm gonna push through this.
I'm gonna figure it out. I'm gonna deal with the setbacks, have I'm determined, chose that word because this is exactly what is needed and. Obviously fits into what my, my plight was with the chichi BT. So, like I referenced earlier in the episode, I spent many, many, many hours of the past week just deep in the computer.
It looks like the matrix breaking my eyes, predict my back, looking at code, figuring out why things weren't rendering, troubleshooting, why things were breaking. Learn, trying to learn how to use Chachi PT to, to design and build my sales pages is full on tech tenacity. In some regards. It would have been easier to just do it my original way.
Just like got like it works. I've made a, a ton of pages that way, like I can just do it. Fortunately for me, my brain literally doesn't work that way. And as soon as I get an idea or get onto something like this, it is actually harder for me to do it the old way, right? In information acquisition is my drug of choice and I gotta get my fix.
I literally sit up till 4:00 AM one of the nights just messing around with things. Moose also had water poops, so it was fortuitous I that I was saying up. I was like, oh, I can take you out anyway. It doesn't matter. Uh, but. I will stay up just acquiring that information, just getting those dopamine, dopamine hits.
It is harder for me to, to stop trying this. But my point here is that when folks say the phrase change is hard, they're not lying. And there's a good chance that many of you listening to this are rolling your eyes like, duh, nice row. And to that, I say that I really haven't ever wanted to change anything when the current path was equally viable.
I, I, I really have not. I'm gonna say it one more time. I have not wanted to change anything when the current path was equally viable. Yes. I wanted to leave my job. I wanted to move because that shit was killing me. It was literally killing me. I was like, I will go work at Costco. I'll do anything. I don't wanna be in this job.
I needed to get out of the living on the East Coast. It's too fucking cold. It was killing me. Yes, I actually wanted to gain weight when I was doing CrossFit because the bar was literally killing me. That 1 35 pound bar, that's more than me. I'm not a big person. 1 25 on a good day. Right. It's killing me.
So I wanted to change, right? Because the current path was not good. I haven't had situations where the current path is good and I'm like, but I wanna just change this to change this. Or maybe that's better, right? For me, if things are good, I let them be good. If things are great, I let them be great. And Kajabi is that, it's great.
I'm like, this is, this is great. So with the tech tenacity required for what I was specifically doing for Chachi pt, you know, coding those pages, I don't hate making sales pages. I don't really love it either. It's fine, but it's not killing me. It's not like I have this impetus to be like, I gotta find a better way.
But I do think that AI has the ability to expedite this process significantly and even make it, dare I say, fun. That feels worth it to me. But it definitely requires tech tenacity when shit doesn't work and it's not fun. 'cause there were times when I was like, this is not. Working, but that dopamine hit for me.
I was like, I got it. I gotta get it. It very much felt like and feels like, like pulling a slingshot back and it's like, how hard are you willing to work to get that fucking thing back so you can slingshot for it? Right. I will say this, for any of you listening and watching who are wondering about incorporating AI into your workflow, it takes tech tenacity in general.
I think that it, it is super helpful. I think that it can, is going to continue to be even more helpful. I. But you gotta fucking train this thing. Like you gotta be willing to troubleshoot. My daily driver is chat, GPT, but I tried out Gemini three. Um, that's actually what like prompted me to try and use chat GPT for building the pages.
You can listen to chat. GBT Curious episode 30, what am I saying? It's not 30 episode 20. Uh, for that full rundown, um, will it even be out by the time this comes out? I don't even know. I might not be out. It might come out the Thursday that this episode drops. So when it comes out, give it a listen. Um, but I also tried out Claude, um, 'cause Lex, Lex and I talk about, uh, AI a bit.
And I, I stay telling her that Claude is basically really at the forefront with coding. And she was like, Hey, you, you keep saying it does well with coding. Why don't you try it out for sales pages? And I was like, that's a good idea. And so I tried it out. And if I just went with that user experience, I would never use ai.
My Gemini was actually pretty good, um, but it was slower than the paid version of chat, bt, which is, I, I expect I'm not paying for it. Uh, Claude asked great questions, but when I asked it to, when I asked it to actually generate the output for me, it shit, the bed, like it was terrible. It wound up getting it done, but would've generated after that.
Not good, but I know that I could work with it and improve it for sure. And also I cannot expect the same output from a free model as the paid one, but that tech tenacity, without the tech tenacity, I would be done in a second and be like, this thing is the fucking worse. I'm not gonna use it. And I, and I can say with full certainty, for any of you that are like thinking about using it, if that's why you stop, you are missing out.
This thing can be incredibly helpful. I'm not trying to push it on everyone. If you don't wanna use it, fine. If you're like, I don't have tenacity, I don't wanna use it, that's totally fine. If you're like, I hate it, totally fine. If you are sitting here being like, I wonder if it could help, you need tech tenacity in order for this thing to be as helpful for you as it can be.
By the way, there is a good chance for those of you that are like, yeah, I wanna use it, or I've been using it, could use some help. There's a good chance that I'm finally gonna be running a workshop on how to use chat GPT for your online business. Um, if I haven't already launched it by the time that this.
Episode drops. Uh, keep your eyes off for that. Otherwise, just DM me if you're like, I don't know, have you lost, have you launched it? Have you not DM me? Text me 3 1 0 7 3 7 2 3 4 5 and I will send you the link. I totally get not wanting to look for the shit because right now I'm not giving you good cues because I'm like, I'm not sure where it's gonna be.
So, uh, where the link is going to be, uh, because this coming out later, you know, I record in the past. It goes out in the future, that whole thing, but. Back to the episode here. I just want you to take the lesson, uh, the, the lesson that you very likely already know. That change takes tenacity. Alright, one more thing, then we'll wrap it up.
At the risk of sounding like the, those fucking whack threads that are side note, how terrible is threads these days? It's just, it's not good. I don't, I can't, I can't be on that thing. Uh, but at the risk of sounding like the terrible whack threads that. They make a point using one example, and then at the bottom of it they go, this is not a post about said example.
And it's like a metaphor for something else, you know? And I'm like, whatever. Uh, if you don't know what I'm talking about, lucky you. But at the risk of sounding like that, the reality, the change takes tenacity is a reality, and we can and should apply it to all the bullshit that is going on. It has been going on for many years, but that's like so just prominent in our faces and heightened right now.
And in case you forgot, or in case you need your daily dose, fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck this whole fucking administration. All of it. All of it. Side note, I love how many of you just be sending me fuck Donald Trump memes or videos or things or just letting into my dms and being like, yes, I agree.
Fuck that guy. Uh, but every day there is into some new shit, right? You wake up every day, there is some new terrible shit. And also, I know y'all are thinkers. You take a step back and you sit and you really think, and you're just like, this is so big and so overwhelming. It's so systemic. It's so pervasive, it runs so deep.
Extractive capitalism is global. Racism is systemic. Like hmm. It's so much, it's so big. It's like today, cyber Monday, last Friday, black Friday, capitalism, extractive capitalism is everywhere. It was like, what? And then it's the other side of you're like, well what storybook boycotting now? And what thing am I supposed to care about now and show up for now and donate to now?
And I get it. It can just feel like a lot. 'cause it is a lot. Um. And honestly, I think with some things it can just feel easier to just keep doing what you're doing and keep doing the same old bullshit. Tenacity, my friends, tenacity. Pick your cause. Pick the thing that you care about and have tenacity.
Change takes time. Change is possible. We know change takes a long ass fucking time. And in that time, during that time change takes tenacity. All right. That's all that I got for you for today. Don't forget about those Cyber Monday deals. It feels weird. I just talked about capitalism. We're talking about commerce here, right?
No extractive capitalism. It's just me. Small little team. Everyone gets paid well, Rupert demanded a fucking raise. We'll see. We'll talk about it. But that is all that I got for you for today. As always. I'm super grateful you gimme the space to talk about this. You interact with me, you gimme your time, your energy, your attention.
Thank you. Until next time, friends maestro. Out.
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