Hello and welcome to the Inspired Woman Podcast Show.
And today I'm excited to share with you a woman
who has inspired me in so many ways.
Karen McGregor. Hi, Karen.
Hi, Sam. Good to be here.
I know, I'm so excited for our chat.
So, Karen is an amazing lady who
inspired me to share my story from the stage,
and she is an international speaker
and a three times, three times guys bestselling author.
She has shared a message of impact entrepreneurship on stage
with Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, David Wolf, John Gray,
and so many other thought leaders.
And her, her TEDx talk garnered over a million views,
and she's been featured on Wait for it, CTV News,
reader's Digest, breakfast Television, US Today,
Florida Weekly, and many other media outlets.
And one of her books, the Tower of Influence,
ancient Wisdom from Modern Leaders
and Entrepreneurs, is a Wall Street Journal bestseller,
and it was awarded one
of the top 21 books in Canada in 2021.
Karen, I'm so thrilled to have you here,
and I have to share that when I ask Karen to do this podcast
with me, I asked her
how she inspires others, and she blushed.
Can you believe that with that biography? It's amazing.
Karen, you are certainly an inspiration for me,
and I know that inspiration for me is a feeling.
I know that if I'm inspired, I have the ability
to inspire others.
And it is a feeling that I get when I, I'm in flow.
And I know for you, the thing that inspired you,
inspires you is impact.
Can you maybe elaborate a little bit on that?
Absolutely. Well, thank you, Sam, that that was a great,
uh, introduction and yes, I am blushing.
I do, I really do believe
that impact is like a natural human desire.
You know, it fulfills both the person giving
and the person receiving.
And, and it, it really, you know, if it's true impact,
I think it lights us up both when we're
giving and receiving.
And to me, it's almost like a divine energy circuit.
Mm-hmm. And if you break that circuit, it, it breaks
for both the giver and the receiver.
So, you know, those of us
that say we wanna create impact in the world,
if we have no one receiving that impact,
or even, you know, like the planet receiving,
if we don't know that, that that impact is happening,
it can be really, um, a, a struggle.
Uh, as an example, just yesterday, a lady said to me,
you know, I got your book as a gift, the DA of Influence.
And, um, and I thought, okay, well, most people get,
you know, gifts, uh, as books.
They, they don't read them.
And, and, and, and she says, she says, wow, you know,
I just want you to know that
I tell everybody to read your book.
I have read your book so many times,
and it's one
of the best books I've ever written, have ever read.
And, um, and, you know, as an author, we toil away
for hundreds of hours, you know, hoping, just hoping
and praying that people are gonna have,
there's gonna be an impact.
And so just her saying that gave it,
you know, it fed me.
It, it, it made me blossom like a
flower in August, you know?
Mm-hmm. Just like, it, it was a beautiful thing.
And I think that we as people, so often,
we miss that opportunity to let the other person know
how that impact, you know, had landed with, with them.
And, uh, and so I think it's both important
to receive and give
Yeah. That beautiful balance.
And it's the same with inspiration.
You know, like, I started, you know, opened up this, this,
this, this episode
and said that, you know, how do you inspire people, Karen?
Oh, do I, that I'm blushing.
That means that I must inspire people.
We don't tell people often enough, you know,
and give them the kudos that they deserve.
And there are so many women out there
who are inspiring others with little gestures
that go unnoticed,
and uncelebrated is
that word uncelebrated not celebrated anyway.
But you know, that impact,
creating impact is a little bit like that inspiration.
So I I love that. I love that.
So one of the biggest inspirations for me
was you encouraging me
to share my story, right?
Yes. Yes. Tell me a little bit more that I know
that's at your heart, that's in your heart.
You know, I think that we, all of us
are made of story.
We, we live a story in our mind.
We experience a story, you know, from day to day.
And, and, and it's so remarkable, the story itself,
but also how we think about our own story.
Um, and, and it, it doesn't, it doesn't often
go public, shall we say, right?
Mm-hmm. And, and so often we have the opportunity, again,
it comes back to impact
and inspiration, to share our story with someone
who could really just, even if they just need to know,
oh, I'm not alone.
Someone else has experienced what I've gone through.
And, and a lot of times, um, Sam, I remember when you
and I worked together, you know, some people will say, well,
my story's not as remarkable mm-hmm.
Right. As the next person's story.
But truly, um, you could have the most remarkable story
and not impact anyone.
Um, because the, the, it's, it's not in
the details of the story.
It's in the emotion that
that story creates, that resonates with your listener.
And, and so, yeah, you could have gone to the moon and back
and, you know, done some extraordinary things
in your life in that way.
Um, but if someone doesn't resonate emotionally, then
that impact and, and, you know, inspiration is lost.
Mm-hmm. And in this world, I mean, when you're saying
that, I'm thinking so many people are closed off as well,
to feeling emotional and,
and needing to keep everything inside.
I mean, a, I'm not gonna go down the patriarchal route here,
but very often, you know, I was, I,
I was actually in an interview the other day
and I was talking to somebody
and I was saying, being British, the stiff upper lip keep,
you know, you know, pull up your big girl pants
and move forward and, and keep that stiff upper lip.
So people are reluctant to share.
And I think maybe, um, sometimes people feel
that they're not interesting,
or, like you say, their story isn't very, you know,
impactful or inspirational.
So I hope that people listening to this podcast
and reading your book
and learning more about your work, they'll start to realize,
oh, maybe I have got something to share.
You know? Um, I love to speak to people,
and I know you've been living in Mexico
for the last three years,
and so I know that you will have done this as well,
but I just love to speak to people who I've never met before
and strike up a conversation.
And people are shocked when you actually do that,
right? It's
Like, You've got any
interesting stories from Mexico.
And tell us a little bit about Mexico.
I I want to say where you were living, but I can't say it.
Africa. Well, you know, AHI, Mexico, it's on lake,
which is the biggest lake in Mexico.
It's, uh, one hour, um, no, uh,
one hour inland of porta Vallarta in terms of a flight.
Mm-hmm. And so that,
that usually places it fairly well for people.
Yes. I moved to Mexico three years ago,
and, um, speaking of our story, you know,
when you talking about the stiff upper lip, I, uh,
I discovered while I was in Mexico that
not only do we all have our own story
and that we need to share that story,
but in, in taking a sabbatical from my work,
I realized so many of my childhood stories,
and I know you know, this too, Sam, um, that so many
of my childhood stories were
rearing their ugly heads, so to speak.
Uh, and having me face myself in a really challenging way
such that, you know, I, I thought that, um,
I loved myself as an example.
Mm-hmm. But as I sat there and,
and, uh, had, had nothing to do, you know, like I, I,
I left my, you know, I left my country, I left my,
my career, um, everything basically shut down.
And so that left me with myself.
And I thought that would be a great thing.
However, However, you know, all those old, uh, memories
and experiences came up to, to challenge me
and say, you know, you are not,
you are not a good person if you're not working,
if you're not, you know, contributing to society.
And so it also made me realize, well,
what is the definition of impact?
And why am I, why am I being beaten up by my past?
Because, you know, as, as a German, uh, child, the,
the message was, you have no value unless you work and,
and you have to work until you're dead.
And then you get up and you work some more.
So, so that, that really, you know,
what is like truly what is impact.
And, and so I started to realize that, um,
that it's hard to have impact in the world if you don't
truly, and at a deep level love yourself unconditionally,
whether you are working
or not, whether you are considered successful.
And, and, you know, as you know, uh, people thought of me
as very successful and, and,
and that it, people wanted my life and my lifestyle.
Um, but none of that mattered when it came to
sitting there in a, in a different country, having no
identity whatsoever.
Nobody, not even one person cared who I was or what I did.
All they cared about was, is she kind? Is she loving?
You know? And, um, and, and, and so it woke me up.
And, and the second thing it did in terms of story was that
it forced me to realize
that I was dismissing how bad things were in my childhood.
And I, and anyone who's listening, I want you
to really hear this.
There's a difference between playing the victim
and going down that road and feeling sorry for yourself
because of your childhood.
There's a difference between that.
And not looking at your childhood
and actually acknowledging how painful that really was,
because I had dismissed quite horrific things in my,
my childhood.
And it, it came back to to be a vicious
egoic, um, you know, voice that,
that just would not, would not let me go to the point
that I, I, I really became depressed in Mexico.
I was, I really, I just lost my zest for life.
And, uh, and it wasn't until I realized, Sam,
how much we as women dismiss how bad things really were.
And, and, and,
and how that affects us
in our later years is also very fascinating.
So I hope everyone listening out there,
if I can create any impact today mm-hmm.
It's to say, be truthful with
how you have perhaps dismissed things
that have happened in the past.
I love that. Yes. I agree.
And I mean, you know, my background and my story. Yes.
And it's very similar in that I got to my, my early forties
and my marriage had fallen apart,
and I thought it was, you know, it, I could fix it.
And then I realized, no, I need to fix me.
And there were things in my life, like you say,
that I'd underestimated,
or I had, um, dismissed them,
but also become the victim.
Like you say, you know, poor me, you know, I had a,
a really bad relationship with my mother, poor me, you know,
and but never really looked at it closely
until I was in therapy.
And, uh, I had three years of EMDR therapy
and relived many of those experiences
and unraveled my childhood.
Now, it wasn't for the purpose of saying, you know, uh,
apportioning blame, you know,
now I've reached this beautiful place where
I'm actually in gratitude for everything that happened
to me in my childhood, no matter how hurtful
and emotionally, you know, abusive.
It was, I actually have gratitude
because that was my journey.
And from there, I'm now able to share that story.
And you helped me to learn how to share that story,
to inspire other women to speak about their stories
and their childhood, you know, mother-daughter relationship.
So Yeah. I, I love that.
And the other thing I love about what you've just said,
Karen, is about being alone with yourself.
Yes. Right.
You know, away from all the hustle and bustle of life
and the image that we have built for ourself,
all the roles that we have, you know,
I'm, I'm a good mother.
I'm a good partner. I'm a good friend. I'm a great worker.
I'm successful. I have material objects that show
that I've achieved.
And, you know, and that is what society, oh, I'm all,
I'm getting angel bumps now, but,
but that is what a lot of society, the pressure
that is placed upon us as women to do all of that.
And men, you know, but when you take all of that away
and how often do you get the experience
of actually being able to take that all away
and then sit with yourself as a person?
Wow.
I mean, that to me, that is the ultimate impact
that you can have, because other people are seeking
the depths of that wisdom that you just mentioned.
And it's so hard to get there fully.
I mean, there's many people out there that offer advice and,
and, uh, it's helpful, you know?
Mm-hmm. Um, but it's different than wisdom.
I think wisdom comes from deeply facing yourself.
And, and I think those stories that yes, they're,
they can be very painful when you get into them, but,
but like you, Sam, you learn to have gratitude for that.
You would never want it to happen again. Certainly not.
Mm-hmm. Um, but,
but the depth of understanding of who we are at our core
can't be given to us in a book
or on a silver platter.
We actually have to experience it.
Mm-hmm. So can you maybe give some tips
to our listeners as to how they can experience that?
I mean, Not everybody can run away to Mexico.
Not that you run away, but you
know what I mean. I'm thinking.
Yeah. Right. Well, yes.
Well, and you know, I think the healing for me,
um, and,
and I really did stumble upon it, that's why I'm
so passionate about story now, is that the healing
for me started when I forced myself to start to write
the stories of my life.
And I could, as I started to write those stories,
I could see patterns of, oh,
wow, yeah.
I, this, this is how I've been treated,
or this is how I treat people when this happens.
Or, you know, Hmm. Interesting.
You know, isolation
or betrayal might come up over and over again.
Look at that. Where, where is that, uh,
store origin story, so to speak.
Um, and just in the writing of those stories,
I think anybody, if you really just sit with yourself,
you'll cry at how, uh,
heartbreaking anybody's story is.
It's, you know, in hu we are human. Mm-hmm.
To be human means that we're gonna have our heart broken,
and it's not gonna be beautiful.
Um, and, and so, you know, picking up those pieces
and, and, uh, sharing it in, in the, in the form
of a story is so very important.
Um, I can't stress this enough.
I do think for our listeners that going through that,
and you don't even have to go through it,
through the intention of ever sharing it publicly,
but it's tremendously healing
because it does show you just how beautiful
and vulnerable our hearts are
and how open they are, um,
when they become hurt, you know?
And then, and then the heart start, starts to close
and essentially repeat those patterns
that have not been helpful, uh,
for sometimes an entire lifetime until we just start
to open up to those, to, to the truth,
to the truth of those stories.
And when I say truth, you know, we all have our own filters
of course, in, in how we share that story.
But what I did with my own story was my mom
and dad, of course, were a big part of that was
to look at the story from my mom's eyes,
or look at the story from dad's eyes.
And, and that was really powerful.
'cause my mom and dad were, were war children.
So, so they were eight, nine years old, uh,
when the war World War II ended in Germany,
and they were Germans.
And, uh, so they carried, um, that generational guilt.
Mm-hmm. Uh, they carried the trauma
of seeing dead soldiers in ditches, um, you know,
the sound of bombs.
Um, and so when I think about how
those two people came together,
didn't really love each other, were fighting a lot, um, I,
you know, I had so much compassion for them as, as a child,
watching them argue and fight.
Um, it was the first time when, when I,
when I told the story through their eyes, I started to cry
as well, because their humanity, their heartbreak
as young children, um, you know, it's, it's only inevitable
that, that they would have ended up where they were
in the story of my lifetime.
Um, and so I think it's a tremendously healing exercise
to do both, uh, to tell your story
and to tell it from someone else's point of view.
I love that. I mean, um, a lot of our, my, the interviews
that I'm conducting, women are saying about being empaths
and being able to feel from the
perspective of somebody else.
And this is sometimes seen as being, you know, a problem
because we can take on too much
and end up depleting ourselves.
And of course, this is where you dive into self-care
and how you need to shield and protect yourself.
But one of the things that I was always told in my early
nursing, I remember a matron, yes,
we had matrons in those days,
but I remember a matron saying that to be a good nurse,
you need to be able to walk in a patient's shoes.
And I, and that has always stayed with me.
And I think that what you are,
when you're explaining this about mom and dad,
and the story from their point of view, their perspective,
that is me thinking of a patient.
What is a patient feeling?
You know, how can I address their needs in
accordance with how they're feeling?
Um, and, and, and it is huge.
But then the important piece is to be able to take
that step back and recognize that you are not that patient.
You are not your mom and dad, you know, and understand.
I think that it's, that understanding that is so huge.
And that's, that was the same for me as for my mom,
you know, learning to, instead of blaming
and bashing her for it, was understanding
the generational trauma that she was carrying in
what I now know to be her nervous system at a deep cellular
level, and that, that was passed down to me,
and then I could pass that down to the next generation.
And I think that when you do the healing
that you are describing, I think
that you're actually helping to heal the next generation.
And how beautiful
and powerful it is current to do this work
at some point in our lives before it's too late.
And that's when I come to my stop existing, start living,
you know, that's the, my mantra for my business, you know,
to inspire people to stop existing in their lives
and really live them.
And I feel that you can't really live your life
unless you've actually experienced it
and felt it, you know? So Yes. Right.
Beautiful. Yes.
So inspirational, all the words you're saying.
And I love your connection to nursing too,
because I think that caregivers of if of any, you know,
all sorts of caregivers mm-hmm.
That, um, you know, you hear the horrific stories
of abuse and whatnot.
And, and I think that when I, when I look at that,
it's also, you know, coming back to their own, uh,
triggers and their wounds.
And, and, and boy, if those have not been looked at
and dealt with and, and, and recognized, um,
and have empathy for their own horrific things
that happen to them as children, then we can see
that, wow, okay.
Sometimes that that trigger can turn ugly.
On the other hand, your, you know, the, the matron,
you know, saying walking in a patient's shoes has such a
powerful impact.
I, I know so many people that have told stories about nurses
that have changed their life,
and they always remember that nurse.
It could be one thing,
and it usually is one thing
that they said or something they did.
And so for those of you out there who are yearning to create
a bigger impact, I think that every person we meet,
and that's the exciting part, isn't it?
Mm-hmm. Um, that we can create that impact
because it's, it's in the love that we have
for, for humanity.
And that shows every time you meet someone new,
if you can step outside of the personal you
and into your, uh, I guess I call it the, the bigger,
the spiritual you, the the one that's not trapped
by the wounds, but has worked through that to be able to
step into a loving situation.
And we all know, you know, you
and I, we both have tempers just like anybody else, right?
But, but, but as soon as that starts to rise,
there's that moment.
I don't know if you have that, Sam,
but I have that moment where you get to choose,
and now you're aware, okay, I'm aware of how I'm feeling
and being, and what I'm saying right now.
And I, I get to choose is this,
is this real, is this truth?
Is this how I want to be in the world?
And, um, and so for me, it's, it's that pause.
Um, it's not that I don't have it,
but I, I pause now more often.
Lovely. Yeah. I think the way, experiencing the way
of life in Mexico, I mean, I've never actually been
to Mexico, but I know in Spain,
their culture was very much about pausing, you know?
Yes. And, you know,
and really, I, it's,
it's just such a different way of life, you know?
And, um, I lived in a, in a Spanish village, so a lot
of the te dad, you know, the older, the older generation,
and so much wisdom.
And I was so aware that I was working at that time
as a school nurse, and I was busy, busy, busy, busy,
busy, busy all day.
And then I would come home
and I used to say it was like running the gauntlet coming
down at my street,
because all of the, the folks would be sat outside their,
their homes and everybody would stop me,
hello Samantha.
And then Ben would be in the car, how are you?
And I'd be thinking, oh, and it gave me that pause.
Sometimes it would be a good half an hour
before I'd actually make a five minute journey
to my front door, because I had to stop
and chat with my casinos.
Yep. Yes.
But there was, by the time I got home,
it was like I was in a completely different world.
I left the crazy behind,
and I was in that take a breath.
Yes. Well, and,
and that's, uh, that's the beautiful part
of being in another country,
because when we're only in one country, we, we,
we sometimes assume that that's how the world is,
and that that's how people relate to one another.
I, I know, uh, definitely in Mexico, I learned to be
more present, more connected to, to, uh, friends,
especially friends,
because I didn't really have a lot of family there.
Mm-hmm. But, but I noticed that families instead of,
you know, being on their cell phones
there out in the park having their picnics, and,
and the kids are playing with each other.
They don't, they're not on their cell phones,
nobody's on their cell phones,
and everyone is talking to each other and laughing
and having a good time.
Um, you know, meanwhile, the people
that just landed in Mexico are, you know, taking pictures
and on their cell phones and no judgment.
It's just that mm-hmm.
When you want to truly connect with both other people
and nature, you know, taking that pause, as you said, uh,
look at how you are doing life, if that makes sense.
Right? Yeah. Because we we're so used to
our life being on our cell phone
that we miss out on 90% of what's going on
around us.
And just, um, talking about impact, Sam, I'm sure that
your way of life in Spain, I know for,
for certain in this last three years,
I've had more meaningful conversations
in these last three years than I have in my entire life.
Uh, why? Because people sit and they want to talk to me,
and I want to talk to them.
And it's, uh, is very different.
You know, when I was in Vancouver, um, really, you know,
unless you really made a, a strong attempt,
not even a hello, uh, no eye contact, nobody talking
to each other in, let's say in a lineup.
If you're in a lineup in Mexico,
you are gonna be talking to people.
You're not standing there sitting on your phone. Yeah.
You know, everybody's talking to each other.
And, uh, and that just creates a really beautiful, um,
opportunity again, to impact,
to make a difference in someone's life.
Some people, all, all they want is just to be heard
for a couple of minutes or so,
and giving them your presence can be the most meaningful
thing you do for them that day.
It's a beautiful gift, that's for sure.
So we have a couple of, just looking at summarizing there,
a couple of really good tips there.
The one was that, you know, to have that opportunity
to be inward, to be, to strip all
of the roles away from yourself and be raw, right.
Be yourself. And then the other part is to actually connect
with other people and be present in the moment, in the now.
So to, they sound very much like common sense,
but we don't do them.
Mm-hmm. And that's the thing, they seem so simple mm-hmm.
To say, but when you go about your day, just, you know, any,
the listeners out there, just take note, how often
do you actually have that meaningful conversation,
or even just be present to someone speaking fully
present for them.
Mm-hmm. And then the other part, of course, is impact
and what that impact is.
And you think about impact, I think of you, the impact
that you created on that stage with TEDx
for an actual fact
that impact can be from just a small gesture
in the grocery store,
or waiting, you know, in a lineup to
take the time to speak to somebody.
And that can create that impact. So,
Yeah, I have a wonderful story.
This sim reminds me of this when I'm in a, he, he,
there's a fellow who owns, um, a gluten-free bakery,
and he's an artist
and, you know, can get, you know, really, um, sort
of de sometimes depressed, um, about life.
And he cares so much about people and situations.
And when I go in, my only goal, I mean, other than
to support him by buying his beautiful products, is
to lift his spirits.
And I will say something or hug him,
or, you know, just lift the vibration,
um, while I'm there.
And that's on purpose. I do that every time I go in, uh,
because I know that that person needs it.
And I think if we live our life like that,
and again, Sam, it's important for us to receive
that very same thing if we're needing it
to fully receive it.
But I think that the giving
and receiving, um, like that circuit I talked about mm-hmm.
Is probably the single most important thing in True impact,
because we can read somebody's bio
and think, my God, they've had so much impact in the world.
And people read my bio and, and think that too.
And yet these last three years in Mexico have taught me that
there is the public impact, which is really important.
And I teach people you know, how to do that.
But there's the private internal impact
that is equally powerful
and is necessary, I think for humankind
to move forward in our evolution of consciousness.
We cannot say we want peace.
We want love, we want joy if we can't even be present
to people who could really use our love or smile
or hug. Mm-hmm.
So when you're talking about
there's like the small impact, which is with yourself,
and do you believe that you need that to be able to create
that bigger impact? I mean, I know a lot.
Well, I think, yeah. Yeah.
And I, and I don't wanna, although I call it small
and big, the thing is, the small impact is,
is I don't mean small as in unimportant.
I mean that it is,
it's like the seed from which everything else
flourishes, if that makes sense.
Yep, absolutely. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. It's the essence within you.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. And we need that in order to even begin to
have that ripple effect.
Uh, I, I'll give you an example.
When, when you and I, when we, you know, you were such a,
and still are such a fabulous speaker.
Mm-hmm. Um, when, when I work with speakers,
I am intuitively present to them
as they speak, whereas other people might be
looking at them from
maybe just a technical point of view,
but I, I, it's almost like I become one with that person.
And, and then as I become one with them,
and I feel, you know, intuitively what they're going
through in that moment of being on the stage, um,
I have a lot more ability to impact them
than if I wasn't present.
And just seeing the outside, you know,
the body, the voice.
Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So the technical aspects,
I, yeah, I, I think I, I get that completely.
It's really feeling, like I said,
the patient walking in their shoes.
It's wanting to really connect and understand
and feel, you know,
and I think as empaths we're able to do that.
If somebody is not an empath, how can they do that?
I know that. Mm-hmm. I don't,
I don't know. Can you help me with that one?
Yeah. And I, I think probably best if the person
doesn't feel they're an empath, that they, they recognize
that everyone is, but some people are, are blocked, uh,
from, from having their full empathy shine.
Mm-hmm. And that again, goes back to, Hmm,
where's the story in that, you know, where's the story in
that, that makes us feel, perhaps that we're not
as empathic.
It's a lot of work to dismantle the walls of our heart.
Mm-hmm. But I really do believe it's possible.
And in the meantime, you know, people who feel
that they're not as empathic.
Um, I think just starting with the practice
of being fully present without having an answer.
Right. And, and some,
and some people, like my mother is with me right now,
and I want to be her savior.
That has been a pattern since I was little.
So I can't, I, it's not that I can't, it's very challenging
to be present,
because my mind is always thinking of
how I can make things better
for her when indeed all she wants
to do is have me see her and have me just be present to her.
Mm-hmm. Spend time with her and listen and talk.
Is she a storyteller?
No, my dad was a storyteller.
He's passed when he was 69, so a long time ago. Mm-hmm.
Um, no, but, um,
but interestingly enough, my son, my younger, uh, the two,
the, the younger of the two, he
and my mom have a very special relationship,
and he will ask her questions about her past.
And sure enough, the stories,
the stories start flowing.
And I'm always amazed by what comes out.
Whereas when her
and I talk, um, she doesn't share those stories.
So she, there may be some reason why, you know,
she doesn't feel comfortable,
but it's really beautiful that I can see that my son has
that kind of relationship with her, where she can feel,
you know, that she can share those stories.
That's beautiful. Yeah.
So, Karen, I know that you're, you're embarking on, um,
a new business venture,
although really it's just an extension of you
and what you've always been doing.
Yes. Um, are you focusing mainly entrepreneurs,
or are you focusing on everybody?
What are you, what, what is your goal
Uhhuh? Well,
right now, I am, you know, I've worked
with entrepreneurs for so long that mm-hmm.
I feel that it's a, you know, a natural fit
for, for both them and me.
Mm-hmm. Um, and, uh, I've created, um,
a Facebook group called,
and a business page called Home of Impact Entrepreneurs.
Um, and what I, the larger vision of what I want
to be doing is to have a show, uh, which
features impact entrepreneurs' dreams,
and how they, you know, sort of their fears
and their obstacles, but,
but in particular, you know, their, their vision
to create a better humanity, a better world.
Um, and through that, you know, through, through the,
the story of their life, as we feature the story
of their life, I also would like to guide them
and mentor them in those different areas
where they need support to make that larger vision
and dream come true.
And, uh, and so I'm really excited about that.
Um, as well, you probably, well, you do know this,
that I am working with entrepreneurs to help them
tell their story across different platforms.
Because right now, let's face it, we've got social,
we've got blogging, we've got videos.
Yeah. We've got emails, uh, we've, we've got all sorts
of social platforms.
So I think that being able to share
not just our core story,
but many stories is the difference between
making, you know, um, a like, like a little bit of an impact
and making a big impact.
Because I don't know if you agree, Sam,
but what I've noticed, um, you know, in the last three years
is that with ai, the advent of ai, uh, there's
so much information that there, the, the, the only thing
that separates us from, from the, you know, the AI sources
is our own personal experiences told through story.
Um, and, and so it's, it's reconnecting us to our
audiences, you know, to, to the people who, who want
and need us, uh, in a, in a different way,
because we can no longer do it solely through information.
I agree. You know, it's that human factor, right?
It's, you know, the experience walking in somebody else's
shoes, knowing how they feel, understanding
how something has impacted them or inspired them,
and in, in what ways and how it has empowered them.
I mean, I love to see women empowered and, you know,
and stepping into their purpose, discovering their purpose.
It's so, so important
and takes us right back to where we,
where we started at the beginning of our conversation.
You know, it's, um, I love the work that you're doing.
I'm excited to be a part of it in the future,
and the ripple effect that it's going to have for everybody
that is out there, you know,
and listening potentially to this, to this podcast.
So, if you want to contact Karen, I am going
to share all of her contact details in the show notes.
But just for reference, Karen,
how can they get ahold of you?
Well, best way is to go to [email protected],
or actually go straight, straight to the website.
There's a form there that you can fill out,
and I'm happy to, uh, you know, chat with people who
have listened to this amazing conversation
and, uh, have some thoughts about it.
I, I really welcome
and, uh, encourage people to reach out to both Sam
and I about your thoughts on this podcast.
Lovely. Thank you so much, Karen.
Continue to inspire and create impact.
Thank you. You as well, Sam. I will. Thank you.
