#48 Wine, Women & Well-Being's Lisa Webb shares how to turn your fears into into a thriving community
Have you ever decided to host an event? You set up the Eventbrite page, created the Facebook event, maybe put up some posters on local bulletin boards, and all the while you're feeling...
If you're like Lisa Webb and most other women I've talked to, you are feeling a perfectly normal feeling: fear of failure.
How did Lisa go from feeling afraid that no one would show up to her first event to leading a massive female empire? Listen to this episode to learn the steps she took to create a fun and welcoming environment for thousands of women across Canada starting in 2019.
Why did Lisa feel the need to grow a community in 2019 and call it, "Wine, Women & Well-Being"?
Lisa had just become a Canadian Expat Mom after 10 years in France, Indonesia and the Congo. Now in her homeland, Calgary Alberta, she was feeling a familiar feeling: a need to surround herself with like-minded women.
After building and leaving and rebuilding her community countless times over 10 years, Lisa was up for the challenge. In this episode and in her book Becoming French, Lisa shares how she combined her community building lessons from childhood and her love for parties to build a safe, fun and welcoming place for women.
Learn all about the exciting things Lisa is working on, including a cross-Canada tour with Jess Tetu and Kaitlyn Bristowe, a new book series and her ongoing book club events at winewomenwellbeing.com!
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Episode #48 Transcription:
Lyndsie: [0:01 - 0:06]
Hello Fempreneurs! Today's episode is super duper jam packed with awesome tips tricks, true stories from a fabulous Fempreneur named Lisa Webb. She has grown a massive female empire simply because, well, as she said in this interview, she likes to party! She likes to party with fun people and really, if you like to get together with fun people and you'd like to create great experiences for them, uplift them, make them feel awesome, you really should be doing that in your day to day life, in your business, on social media. Through the DM’s on Instagram, through emails, through a Youtube channel, through everything that you do, you should be creating a fun atmosphere that people want to be a part of for a long, long time. Which is also called “Building A Community”, and as we've discovered over the last year, having a community is essential to being an entrepreneur that makes money. So if you don't have a community and you launch something out to the world, whether it be an event or a course or a new book or a new podcast, you will need to be pounding the pavement, building a community while launching your product or service out there because once you have a group of like minded people - that niche audience - it's so much easier to build things for them and to have people actually buy those things from you and show up for those events. Lisa Webb is going to share an incredible story with you about building community in this episode. Let's dive in!
Lyndsie: [1:49 - 2:18]
I am really excited to dive a little deeper into your story today. I was just saying when you hopped on, we've all learned over the last year that having a community is more important than anything right now and it feels in a lot of ways like our communities have been yanked away from us. So I think your story is going to inspire people to reach out to open themselves up to making new friends and hopefully inspire them to have new ways to do that. Will you please tell us a little bit about you and how you started “Wine, Women & Well-being”, and what it is?
Lisa: [2:18 - 4:19]
Okay, so my story, if if I'm trying to make it the quick version, um, so I'm an educator here in Calgary and when I first met my husband, I was an assistant principal and he very shortly after we got married said, you know what? I have this opportunity for a new job, but it's in France. And that sounds like a really exciting, but when you actually go to a place like that where you don't speak the language, it's really hard to connect with people and build new relationships. So I lived in Paris. I lived in the south of France and then after that we went to Indonesia, we went to the Congo and so we were living all over the world and every time we made one of those those moves I had to build my community over again. I had to make new relationships, build new connections and I really realized the power of community and what a game changer that could be for anyone. And so when we came back to Calgary about a decade later, I thought, “I wonder if that would work here?” because selfishly I wanted I wanted to rebuild my community here in Calgary. It's something that I personally needed and so I thought let's let's see because I don't think it's just people who are living abroad or who are new to a city. Oftentimes it's people who are living in the same city they've always lived in, but our jobs change and our places in life change and we need community no matter what. So I gave it a shot and I thought let's see if this works in Calgary and it most definitely did. The proof is in the pudding in that it's not it's for everyone, it's not just for people in big cities, so it's not Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto that have branches, it is tiny little towns all over Canada that are popping up because women want community no matter where they live. So that is in a nutshell where we came from, what we're about. And the sisterhood is pretty strong.
Lyndsie: [4:20 - 4:43]
Oh my gosh, I love it. Okay, so I want to know more the nitty gritty of like how you did it, you've definitely done a great job of explaining why I'm sure so many women watching this and listening to this on the podcast can relate to the need for community and why they want community, but how do you actually go out there and build a community of women? Like how have you done this? What are the steps you took that? You know, looking back were the keys to your success?
Lisa: [4:44 - 7:13]
Um I think, and I say this often, I think the key to my success is not overthinking things because it is so easy to get in your head and think who the hell do you think you are? Like, why do you think that you should be able to do that? And I think once we step away from that and think, why not me? Someone's gotta do it, why is there is there a real game changer? Because as I speak to women across Canada who want to build out these branches, they're like, I'm just nervous, I don't know if I can do it, why not? Have you ever had a dinner party? And they're like, well, yes, I've had a dinner party and basically like I treat and as the new girls joined in that and I have conversations with people who are going to start new branches, I tell them think about it as if you're hosting a dinner party. So when people come to your event, mainly your job is just to make everyone feel welcome and that if someone comes by themselves, your job is to make sure that you introduce them to someone, oh have you met? So and so you can sit with them or make sure that everyone feels welcome. And if you can do that, if you can host a dinner party and make sure that everyone feels welcome in your house, you can make sure that everyone feels welcome in your community. And I think you just, and if you start thinking of it as oh I need to do all these things that I need to connect people in my city and if we just need to start small, do you have one friend you can invite or do you, are you able to start an instagram account? Like what is the smallest first step that you can take? Let's start the instagram account, let's connect with a couple of those people online. Like don't think big picture, like if I would have started this thinking how am I gonna make Across Canada tour with giant celebrities and make it happen in six different cities. That would have been very overwhelming 2.5 years ago or two years ago I guess now. But that's not where I started and sometimes we don't need to know the end game. We still don't know where we're going and what we can grow into. But I think that it's really important to just focus on what can I do now? What is my first step? Why not me? And don't overthink and overcomplicate and worry things that about things that you don't know how to do yet because we learn as we go and we can learn anything on google,
Lyndsie: [7:14 - 7:15]
right? Oh, I
Lisa: [7:15 - 7:56]
love it. Yes. Like if you don't know how to make a website. Well that's that's not that's not your biggest problem. That's We just had our book club last night. I was going to say that's figure out about because we did marry for Leo's book, but it is figure out of all. Um so you can learn things as you go and you don't need to be 100 ready when you start something. I think it's important to remember just try take baby steps towards where you want to go and just know that you're going to grow and you're gonna figure out things as you go. You don't need to be 100 ready when you start. Well, cool. Yeah,
Lyndsie: [7:56 - 8:13]
I really wanted to come to your event last night. Um I do youth group every Wednesday, so I can't do Wednesday nights. Um but I would love to know more about how it went last night. What did these, you've been running these book clubs for a long time. It sounds like because you you were part of a really fun book clubs when you were overseas. Is that kind of how it started or?
Lisa: [8:13 - 10:32]
Um I always joined Book club overseas because these women's communities that I was a part of, they always had a book club, that's something that they did often times, I didn't even read the book and I would just go for a glass of wine and for the community funny enough, so I started, I was blogging, I blogged as Canadian expat mom for a whole bunch of years and wrote for the Huffington Post and did all kinds of writing things. I wrote kids books on travel while we were away. And so writing has always been a part my degrees in english teacher, writing has always been a part of what I do. So um while I was overseas I created um expat anthologies. So books with the collection of stories from women on their experiences of living all over the world. And so that's something I did in my past life and as one woman and well being kind of evolved one of the women who was in those expat anthologies, who is also an expat and she was living in Kuala Lumpur, I was living in Indonesia. We both happened to move to Calgary, we met here in Calgary for the first time and that is Mercy and now Marcy runs our Book Club because Mercy then moved on to texas and she said you know what, I'd really like to get involved, what is something that I can do? And I thought well what about Book Club? So it's Marcy who runs our Book Club and she's got her own page now and she's editing our books and doing all the things related to books and so kind of like those expat anthologies now, we're doing three different, well we had our first three books and now we're doing a second three books um for women anywhere in Canada, anywhere in the world really, because we've had women who have submitted stories from all over the world. Um So we're creating a six book series. Um so at first we had, I'm gonna put myself on the spot now, Sisterhood, Motherhood and Finding Yourself, those were the first three books that Mercy is in the process of working through right now. And then our next three books are love stories, adventure and resiliency. So we're currently in the process of collecting stories on on those topics and those into books. So kind of like a chicken soup for the soul. Yeah, so that's part of the wellbeing branch of wine women. Well being
Lyndsie: [10:33 - 11:15]
awesome. So you are because you started your community around the time why CFM Preneurs started and I think we, we might have followed similar paths and really live events were so fun and so easy and like, like you said, you see someone that doesn't know anyone and you go over and you introduce them to five people and that kind of stuff and that was, I think we were both probably quite lucky that we got to build a really strong foundation before, you know, a year ago. And so how have you shifted, how you're doing things like a year ago when you started to see that maybe live events weren't going to be as, as you know, um I guess we wouldn't be possible. Maybe I didn't think that a year ago, that's for sure. I was like, oh, this is a
Lisa: [11:15 - 11:16]
little pause
Lyndsie: [11:16 - 11:26]
in the super fun live event, I did not think that it would, we would still be dealing with this right now, but what did you do to kind of shift the way you were like connecting your people?
Lisa: [11:27 - 15:14]
Well I believe the date was March 12 or 13th of last year, we had a giant event with Julian Harrison, we were riding this high, it was, it was basically the last night that anyone in Calgary went out because the very next day the world closed down. So we had this giant momentum going and we were so excited and people wanted to open new branches and then all of a sudden nothing was like we weren't allowed to do anything and when you build your community on, like we were literally saying last year our community is built on connecting in real life, that's what we said, that was our thing and then now we can't connect in real life anymore. Um so the thing was from my time overseas, I knew that connection is connection, my kids only knew their grandparents through Skype for the first seven years of their life and that connection was very important and they still very much had a relationship with their grandparents even though they lived on the other literally on the other side of the world from them. And so when things went like when we had our first lockdown, when we were first told well you can't have events anymore, I think that was the opportunity to make a choice and I could have said well okay one women and well being doesn't exist anymore, but I was like that never actually ever crossed my mind not once because well I still need community, I still need connection. Just how am I going to connect? Well, I'm going to connect online because I've been doing that for 10 years because I have lived on the other side of the world from everyone that I know for the past 10 years. So it was Skype and Facetime and now zoom. So I was like, what is this something? And I remember lockdown the week after that Jillian Harris event was when we had our first zoom. It was just like, okay, well this is just a new thing that I have to learn. This is a little hurdle and I'm going to figure it out and I'm gonna buy a zoom account and I never heard of them before in my life, but this apparently is the thing to do. And we partnered with Go Clean Co because everyone was paranoid about germs at that time and go Clean Co was exploding. I think they had 10,000 people on their account at that. Like when I first started talking the next week, they had 20,000 people when we were having our event. Now I think there are over a million people on their account, which is crazy because I didn't know how to work zoom and we had An event where zoom at that time. Their capacity was 300 people. We have 300 people at our first zoom event and I didn't know how to work zoom and we really were like, talk about doing something before you're ready. I was like, I have no idea what I'm doing. Um, so we've really come to embrace zoom. It's not perfect. It's not our ideal. But a good example was last night at our event. We had book club that we've created and getting messages from people that say like thank you for what you've provided me through pandemic because you've kept me going, you've kept me connected. And that wasn't the plan. When we had that first zoom event, the plan was let's figure out how to get through this first event, was there times where we were really sick of Zoo? Absolutely, of course we would rather be in real life where you can cheer someone and give them a hug. But if that's not an option, you have to make the most of what is available and for us right now that is zoom and I don't plan on going anywhere, so we're just gonna keep going until they let us do what we really want to do. Yes.
Lyndsie: [15:15 - 15:17]
Right. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Lisa: [15:17 - 15:18]
so that is so cool. So
Lyndsie: [15:18 - 15:50]
when we talked last week, I wanted you to and I wanted you to talk a little bit more about the sort of the start up success tips and you've talked a lot about that about, you know, just kind of getting out of your own way and not overthinking it and all that kind of stuff. Is there anything else that you would give as advice for a woman who wants to start some sort of community? Maybe it's a book club with five women or and she's a little nervous or she doesn't know what to do. Is there any anything else that you can can share that you can teach about right now?
Lisa: [15:50 - 18:38]
I would say don't be afraid to lean on the other women in your life and I have learned this the hard way because a lot of times you think, well I can do it all and actually when you accept that you don't need to do it all and I always felt bad and the girls who are very close to me, who run branches will know um that this is true that a lot of times and they've come to know me and say, hey lisa, I can do this for you. Like, would you like me to do this job? Because a lot of the times I don't ask and I just think, oh, I can do that, I can do that. And all of a sudden the things that I can do and I need to do are a mountain. And when you lean on your girlfriends and ask for help turns out people are way better at things like um like online things or making documents or helping with your website. Like why did I just kill myself over doing that when I have someone who is so close to me who was so good at doing that. So why don't we share the wealth and give credit where credit is due and and say like, this person is really good at doing that. Ask for help. Use the people in your community and if there was the example, you use, someone wants to join a book club, but they don't know where to start when I first, and this is what I tell to our branch directors and what I did personally here in Calgary, uh when I had my first event, I thought, oh my God, this is going to be so embarrassing if nobody shows up, if if no one comes and it's like me and my mom, I'm gonna be really embarrassed that I put this on instagram. Like I made it a page, I made it a thing and now nobody's here. Like that's a big risk, right? That's the scary thing to do that. And I thought, okay, do I know for people? Yeah, I know four people. Can I ask for people to come? They don't have to come forever, but I really want them to come for this first time. Like can I call in a favor and like ask for girlfriends to come and if they want to bring a girlfriend with them, that would be awesome because that would make eight people and then that wouldn't be so bad. And then maybe a couple of strangers will come and maybe I'll put in like, I'll put up some and I did this, I put like early days before one moment and wellbeing existed. I went into nova coffeehouse and I like made printed out the, the event, right thing. And I stuck it up on their, um, like on their community bulletin board, stick it if you're having a book club and you want people to come stick it on your community billboard or you know what I mean by that, right? Like coffee shop postcard thing, old
Lyndsie: [18:38 - 18:39]
school marketing, you
Lisa: [18:39 - 18:57]
know, like ask, ask strangers to kind of, you know, like start conversations, build relationships, hey, I'm doing this thing, tell people about it. No one's gonna know if you don't tell them and ask, ask your friends for support because the worst that can happen is they say no, sorry, I'm busy that night.
Lyndsie: [18:58 - 19:28]
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. One thing like, I'm just curious to know if you kind of, if you agree with this, I definitely have felt that fear of what if no one comes and I've experienced that when no one comes and um, I also know that it's really not that big of a deal in the moment. You feel kind of defeated, but on the bright side, the whole marketing experience of talking about an event on social media, putting flyers out there. You're growing your community even if they don't show up. So do you find that too?
Lisa: [19:28 - 21:47]
Um so we've had events online, for example, recently during pandemic where we have, like I said with go clink, oh we have 300 people because that's how much space at that time Zoom. That was their capacity. And we've had other events where four people have signed up and you're like, oh my God, only four people are coming, what are we going to do? But something very cool happens and Christine and Halifax and I have talked about this once because she, when she first started, she has an event and there wasn't many people signed up and she's like, I don't know, should I just cancel? Like is this going to be awkward? And so I'm sitting over here in Calgary and I'm like, I know what's happening. I'm like, she's in Halifax right now, she's having her first event. I know she's nervous and I'm like so there with her without physically being there with her and I'm just waiting for it to be over so that she can call and tell me how it went. And she called like I got that phone call and I could just hear it in her boy. She's like, it was amazing. Yes, yes. Because something like the event is definitely a different field zoom as well. When you have a much smaller group, maybe it's not the big giant. We had 100 and 50 people at our event. Maybe you're not getting that piece, but those people connect in a different way and you really build community, you get a chance to know each other. And so even though maybe it's not exactly how you imagined it or envisioned it happening, there's always a silver lining. There's some takeaway people meet each other in a different way. And so I think he's just got to push through that. She could have canceled that event and not had it, we could have cancelled our zoom because there was only four people. But then you miss out on what could have been, even if there's three people like you and I right now we're only two people, but I'm connecting with you in a way that I wouldn't have if we didn't do this at all. So, you know, going out for coffee with one girlfriend is better than sitting at home and having coffee by yourself. So I just think don't be too hard on yourself if you're planning something and it didn't turn out the way you want it to what's what's the takeaway, what can what can you learn from it, what can you do different next time and what good came out of it anyway.
Lyndsie: [21:47 - 21:49]
Yeah, absolutely. And I think,
Lisa: [21:50 - 21:50]
I
Lyndsie: [21:50 - 22:18]
think the ripple effect from even just, you know, even if we were just having this conversation um like we did last week when it was just the two of us and we didn't publicize it. Like there's a ripple effect that comes from that conversation because I brought you up in so many conversations since that conversation, so more people Know about you and you know like so yeah, so just connecting, whether it's one on one or whether it's like you said you in front of 300 people, uh there's always different types of connections, but it's all connection and it all has ripple
Lisa: [22:18 - 22:20]
effects. Exactly. I
Lyndsie: [22:21 - 22:37]
I want to pull a couple more stories out from you before we, before we stop this because I really love this interview with you so much. I know you've been through so many cool things um to share. I'm just curious to know more like to go way back to your childhood. You've obviously got some
Lisa: [22:37 - 22:38]
skills when it comes
Lyndsie: [22:38 - 22:49]
to welcoming people and holding events. Did you grow up in a household with a family that was really like bringing people into the home a lot or holding events? Where did you kind of get that from?
Lisa: [22:50 - 27:11]
Um I always like to party. Yes. Is that all that trouble I got in as a teenager is paying off. Yes. Never been asked that question before. Okay, so let me think about that for a second. My mom worked at the college in Thunder Bay. I grew up in the Thunder Bay. My mom worked at confederation college and it wasn't uncommon for her. I mean she worked in the back end office um of the cafeteria. She worked in residence, She worked in the student Success Learning center. And so she got to know the students a lot and she got to know them like through the learning center if they were struggling when she worked in the cafeteria, like in the office side of things, she got to know when they didn't have any money left on their meal plan. And so it wasn't uncommon to have a random college kid at my dinner at my table at home for dinner because they didn't have any more money on their meal plan. And there was a week left till the end of the month when their parents automatically refilled their meal plan card, so without knowing it. Um, and my mom also worked, she volunteered bringing in refugees to Canada and so we would go and set up their houses and welcome them into our city. And so Maybe that's where my comfort level with the expat traveling around the world then came from maybe that. I also had a big family. Um I had 16 cousins within my exact age range and so we did have a lot of big family dinners and yeah, I've never really thought about it, but I've always liked getting together and then I, I like having people over in a way that like not in a sense where I want to make a big fancy, like I've never probably put on like a big dinner party. I don't like that. I don't like to make the table look all instagram mobile, that's not me, like, like the starter plate and the fact I hate setting the table. I hate preparing a three course meal for a whole bunch of people, but I love to have a party. Like I just like, let's like everyone come over and we'll just put a bunch of appetizers on the island and like, let's just eat and drink and like, I'm not setting the table for you, I'll get you your first drink that you're responsible for the rest of them just come over and hang around with me. Like I like that. So my wedding was the same way and a lot of people said your wedding was so fun. My wedding wasn't about the decorations, my wedding wasn't about the centerpieces. Like I don't even, I didn't care. I didn't put any planet was probably really ugly wedding to be honest, It wasn't ugly, but it wasn't like I didn't have an instagram of a wedding. I don't even think I was on instagram at that time, but it was more about, I just wanted all of my people to be together. So I think I've always been good at bringing people together being a bridge for people. Like I always like my friends like growing up, like I was a Ukrainian dancer. So like my dancing friends knew my school friends and they knew my cousins because I liked connecting people. So probably like when I had my first one woman and wellbeing event, it wasn't about, let's make this like beautiful, let's make the space amazing. That's not what it was about. It was about, let's build community, let's connect the people. Which is why. So when I thought about manifest this tour that we're doing, it was not about, I'm so thankful that Sarah from blush and Co has joined us and she is going to be designed on all of these events because it will be instagram mobile, but not because of me, it's because of sorrow because that's Sarah's strength. That's not my strength. Mine is about. Let's connect to the women all across Canada. Let's let's bring the people together. And I've always had that. Maybe it came from my childhood. Um, but for me it's, that's more important than what's on the table or like what the centerpieces, I don't care about the centerpiece, I care about the people at the table,
Lyndsie: [27:12 - 27:21]
awesome, awesome. So talk about this, a cross country tour that you're doing right now. I'm not really 100% sure I even understand it. So please just explain it.
Lisa: [27:22 - 31:20]
Um, so just to to who is out of Saskatoon and she's just an incredible woman. I saw her for the first time at women and wealth in Calgary and she was opening for Jillian Harris and I remember sitting at the table listening to her story and I remember thinking this woman is incredible. She has an amazing story. Never in a million years, there was 1800 women in that room that she was talking to. Never in one million years did I think that a year later I would be where I am and have just take you in my life in a way that is just like so different from a year ago sitting at that table. So time time marched on and when there was that time in september where we were allowed to go out in the world again and it felt like the pandemic was kind of over even though it wasn't remember that time I'm going to have a water. So just 80 was coming to Calgary and her assistant reached out to me because we have planned for her to speak at one woman and well being and her assistant reached out to me and she said jess is going to be in Calgary. Do you want to, she wants to know if you have time for to go for a drink, Yeah, I want to go for a drink with just a two. And so we went for a drink and I came home that night and I said to my husband, I remember her exact title. So Jess has the title of Um in 2019 she got awarded one of Canada's most powerful women or empowering women. And I came home and I said to my husband while I sure know how she got that title because I left that happy hour with her feeling so empowered. I was like, I think this chick just changed my life and she absolutely has because we were just talking and we were having this conversation and she's like, for someone who's been in Canada for such a short amount of time, I mean I'm Canadian obviously, but been back in Canada and only at that time, been back for a year and a half or something and two years maybe, but she's like you have really become well connected and I said it's just through this community really, it's not, me personally, it's it's the sisterhood, it's what we stand for. And so she was like, well you have all of these branches across Canada, you should go on tour, I'll go with you, let's go on tour. And I was like, oh my gosh right here. I was like s yeah let's go on tour. And so I came home and I was like kev I'm going on tour. He's like what are you even talking about right now? And so I just came home fired up and I'm writing things down in a notebook and I didn't know how it was going to happen and I had no idea. And I was just writing down all these city names like where could we go? How could make this happen? Because we do we have now girls on the ground in all of these places across Canada, which is a really cool thing and they want to be connected. And so we just started reaching out to people to see who would be interested. And so Caitlin Bristowe who is originally from LaDuke and she went on to be the Bachelorette and now she's the co host of The Bachelorette and she just won, Dancing with the Stars and she has stayed in Sparrows and is doing all these really amazing things. She's going to be coming with us and we just kind of started in Vancouver and so we thought okay Vancouver Kelowna Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon Toronto, let's do it. And then next time let's do it even bigger. So we're not just thinking like this is a one time thing. We are like we don't know how we're going to go bigger, we don't know where, but we are like this is this is our trial run and then next time we're going to do it even bigger and so like pretty great for our trial run. And so now we have um just A two is gonna open for all of them. And dr Jody Carrington is joining us and we just have a lot of really cool and exciting women who are joining us for this movement across Canada. And it's just I'm a thing in the most amazing way. Cool. So
Lyndsie: [31:20 - 31:24]
when when do you go on tour? When does this all start?
Lisa: [31:24 - 32:33]
Well, it is happening starting March of next year because Covid, we moved the I haven't actually told like the instagram world this, but that date that is now out in the world is actually the third date we initially like when we first started talking about this just and I was like, let's do it next year at this time. Well that would mean that we'll be going on tour in september, which I'm very glad is not the case. Um because we're not ready together In 1000 people at a time. So then we moved into january and then I thought before we release this puppy out into the world, I want to make sure like the vaccines are rolled out and we're okay together and everyone is comfortable. So yeah, so it's actually like a lot later than when we first anticipated having it, but we wanted to make sure that it was safe and everyone will be vaccinated and we would have time to get comfortable to get to a place where we're gathering in that size again. Mhm. So we're doing like three cities in March and three cities in April
Lyndsie: [32:34 - 32:40]
awesome. That is gonna be an amazing event. I can't wait to attend. Um Maybe more than one of
Lisa: [32:40 - 32:42]
them. That's
Lyndsie: [32:42 - 32:44]
awesome. Okay, well that's cool. So,
Lisa: [32:44 - 32:45]
um
Lyndsie: [32:45 - 33:23]
yeah, a couple of things that I wrote down um you just said, you know, you've got to make the balance happened, you've got to find the time and you've got to have the lady balls to just do it. And so I think that that message has been abundantly clear. Um, you're listening to your stories and just, you know, looking around online and what you've built in here on instagram and just seeing who you are and and how passionate you are about healthy women, feel connected to other women. And I think a lot of us have, you know, very opposite experiences to that growing up. I know, I sure did. I was terrified of the idea of starting a community of women and I just can't imagine my life without my friend printers. So,
Lisa: [33:23 - 34:30]
um, yeah, don't get me wrong in like, this lisa could have never done that in high school. I wasn't that person who was like, like I wasn't her and maybe my expat experience forced me into going to events by myself for the first time because I didn't have a friend to go with. So that's why I always tell ladies that come by yourself. If you're listening to this message, you know someone who you can come and say hi to because when you move to a new country, you have to go somewhere by yourself because you don't know anyone and you have to do that awful feeling like when you're going up to a group of women and introducing yourself for the first time, like, hey, I'm lisa nice to meet you. I don't know anyone here. Like that's the hard thing to do. And so when I see people coming in to do that, I can recognize that like maybe if I was a military kid or an expat kid, I could have done that in high school, but I was not like I couldn't have done that as an adolescent, but now I, I very much see the value in it and thank you for referencing my lady balls because I do talk about them all the time. I wrote down
Lyndsie: [34:30 - 34:30]
like
Lisa: [34:30 - 34:40]
I'm getting quoted about that. Men can say why can't we like warming up? Right, woman up.
Lyndsie: [34:40 - 34:54]
Love it. Yeah. Well, you're such an inspiration and everything you're doing is so cool. Um, go to Wine Women. Well being dot com to learn more about lisa and all the chapters that are all across Canada. You have some in the US too. Right?
Lisa: [34:55 - 34:56]
Not yet. No.
Lyndsie: [34:56 - 34:58]
You have to have someone in texas. You were saying
Lisa: [34:59 - 35:09]
Marcy's in texas. Our book Club is based out of texas. She's actually ST Albert girl who was living in Calgary and now Okay, yeah, but online event, so it works. So everyone's welcome.
Lyndsie: [35:09 - 35:21]
Yeah, yeah, Yeah. The Book Club looks amazing. I definitely want to check that out soon. Well, thank you so much for letting me interview you for sharing all your awesome stories and for being on the podcast and I look forward to connecting again with you student the stuff.
Lisa: [35:22 - 35:24]
Thanks very much. Thanks for having me.
Lisa: [35:28 - 35:29]
Thank
Lyndsie: [35:29 - 37:44]
you so much for listening to this episode and for sharing it with other women who you know, need some confidence. They need some inspiration. They need some tangible tactical steps that they can actually take to move towards the life they want just stepping into that leadership role to stepping into serving others and of course stepping into the financial security that comes with all of that. So yeah, thanks for being here. Thanks for sharing the podcast. This episode was brought to you by phone printer land dot com. The place where you can go to find everything. You need to get your business off the ground if you need live events to just simply connect you with other women like you. So you have that moral support and those live cheerleaders, That's what you're going to get there. You're also gonna get events where you can go and learn about marketing and leadership. Some are paid, some are free. We do also have a brand new membership platform launching in May 2021. We tried the patreon thing for a while and it wasn't quite what we needed. So we've moved off Patreon and we're about to launch on a brand new platform, which is really super exciting. So make sure you are on the phone printer land email list so that, you know, as soon as that becomes available to you, that's going to be an incredible, incredible place for you to build real relationships and grow your business beyond what you ever thought was possible. I'm also working on my third book right now about building community. I would love to interview you if you are a thought leader of tempera ture who has built a community and has some awesome tips and tricks around building community. This book will be not only my story of how I built the fem printer land community, but also I wanted to be a collaboration of other temperatures who built communities and their tips and tricks. So if that's you or someone you know, starting point is of course a podcast interview. So I would love to interview you or someone you know for the podcast and from there turn that interview into like a page or two in the book with those key points. So thank you so much again for being here and I'll see you next week and every Tuesday when a new episode hits the podcast player where you listen to your podcasts. All right, bye for now.
