Whatever stage you’re in, this is the worst that you can be! Humans have unending potentials, and you have yet to discover the entirety of yours. What can help you unlock them? How important is it to take every opportunity to hone your genius? In what ways are you becoming an obstacle to your success? What can help you reach the next level? You have it in you! Whatever stops you right now is evidence that you still have an exciting journey ahead of you. Extend your empowerment experience as the conversation continues with Kym Yancey, the Co-Founder of eWomenNetwork.
“I have never seen someone push a door open and not benefit from it. And that door can be limiting beliefs… Your self-esteem expanding and the way you approach challenges are affected by stepping forward and moving.” -Kym Yancey
Highlights:
02:16 The Greatest Enemy of Potential
05:52 Sentence Stem
07:37 Open the Doors
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Quotes:
03:44 “The best of you is always going to be what emerges from the pressure.” -Kym Yancey
07:37 “I have never seen someone push a door open and not benefit from it. And that door can be limiting beliefs… Your self-esteem expanding and the way you approach challenges are affected by stepping forward and moving.” -Kym Yancey
08:27 “Your repetition is your reputation.” -Kym Yancey
Meet Kym:
Kym Yancey is the Co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and President of eWomenNetwork, North America’s premier women’s business network with over 500,000 women connected through 118 chapters spread across the U.S. and Canada. His company is founded on the principles of “giving first and sharing always,” and through the eWomenNetwork Foundation, has awarded 108 cash grants to support non-profits and 161 scholarships to emerging female leaders of tomorrow. Kym is recognized as one of North America’s premier marketing and innovation thought leaders. He has a legacy of success and brings an avalanche of creativity, passion, and business savvy to everything he touches. Kym is also a gold record-winning composer/producer with Capitol Records, where he performed as the drummer and one of the lead singers with the legendary funk band “SUN”, frequently appearing on Soul Train and in sold-out concerts throughout North and South America in the 70s and early 80s. He is also the executive producer of the GLOW Project a powerful film heralded as one of the most inspiring movies ever created for women by the Orlando Film Festival. As a finalist for Inc. Magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” and countless other top business achievement awards, Kym understands the twist and turns that we all face in our business and personal lives. Kym Yancey’s transparent, authentic and engaging personality is an experience that will expand your vision and inspire you to be “All-In”…. standing taller, moving bolder, and becoming braver than you ever imagined.
Transcriptions:
Robin Edgar: Welcome to Real Talk with Robin, where grace and business sense come together to help you live an abundant life. With me today, I’m welcoming Kym Yancey from eWomenNetwork. I am very excited to have Kym here. Kym is a leading part of why I’m here today. The strategy session that I had with him and his team, and quite frankly, his marketing genius. He is an expert in helping people with their marketing plan, and really helping bring out the best of what they have to offer to the world. So with that, Kym, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you coming and getting a chance to introduce you to my family in the podcast show land. And really just publicly thank you for everything that you’ve done for me, and where you’ve helped me get and this amazing logo and all of these things that I’ve done, you and your team have just been amazing.
Kym Yancey: It’s a great collaboration because you know what? Here’s the thing, you can’t do it without fantastic talent and you brought it to the table, so it’s mutual. All of it.
Robin Edgar: Well, you saw on me right away that I was ready to kind of take my legacy to the next level. And at my age, you know, and I think what you and Sandra helped me to see was what you’ve been able to do, and that you’re focusing on legacy too. And you know what’s happening, talk a little bit about maybe one of the struggles or biggest issues you see with people like me or potential talent where people can rise up and they don’t do that. What are some things that people should really be focusing on to help themselves get to that next level and create the marketing and information around them that can help them,
Kym Yancey: You really have to create an environment that supports your dream for yourself. When we first moved here, we went to a Dallas Cowboys game. And I remember going to the game, and I’d never been to a professional football game, actually. And seeing all the people walking into the stadium with other football players’ jerseys on their backs, right? They’d have Romo or whoever the player was. And I was watching this, and then they paid to get into the stadium, and then before the game starts, they’re already standing up in the stands clapping and all of a sudden, the players come out, and then they just jump up. They’re just screaming up and down. Go go go go go. And I realized those guys, those players, great guys, none of them have ever babysat my kids, invite me to be over for dinner, if I had any interaction with them, have they done anything to help my career but they’re filled of dreams. And we are in the stands jumping up and cheering for them, right?
Robin Edgar: Yeah.
“The best of you is always going to be what emerges from the pressure.” -Kym Yancey
Kym Yancey: So here’s the question, when’s the last you walked into an office, and the people in the office jumped up and scream, Robin it’s you! The point of the matter is we don’t have that. So you got to create an environment for yourself that allows you to expand your thinking. It’s easy when you don’t have anybody cheering for you just to retreat to a safe place. And then that safe place is, you know, always a place that doesn’t bring out the best because the best of you is always going to be what emerges from the pressure.
Robin Edgar: Yeah.
Kym Yancey: That’s where you’re going to find the best.
Robin Edgar: Yeah. And you definitely know how to do that. You have probably pushed me to points that I would have never ever envisioned that I could go.
Kym Yancey: And then it resets you. Have you noticed that?
Robin Edgar: Yes.
Kym Yancey: That once you hit there, you know, that level of you is up-leveled, that’s the lowest that will be. I tell people all the time, this is the worst you’ll ever be, and I mean that in a complimentary way that this level here is the worst that will ever get because there’s no place else where you go to the next level. You will automatically move yourself emotionally to that next spot.
Robin Edgar: What are some of the key things that people should be doing to help themselves, a team? What kind of people should they be looking for? If we’ve got people right now that are watching and listening and saying, you know, I really think I have it in me and I have some things I want to do and a bigger stage that I should be on. What are some of those key things that people should really do in those instances?
Kym Yancey: Well, it’s really the reason why we started that new division and even the network called Celebrity Science. For that very question you just asked me is that first of all you got to network. You’ve got to start to surround yourself with other people who are doing really wonderful things, reading books, or looking at stuff on YouTube that will inspire you and uplift you. You’ve got to get out of the pattern of doing the things the same way you’ve been doing them over and over and over again. And you got to say yes to some things. You got to say, “You know what? I’m good in these three areas. But where I fall down is, you know, my branding, how I’m showing up on how I’m being received by the marketplace.”You got to pay attention to the clues that you’re getting every day. Why is it, I’m talking to these customers, I’m telling them about what I do, but no one’s buying from me, no one is engaging with me. You’ve got to start to ask those questions. One of the things I encourage people to do all the time is, and I love it, a doctor by the name of Nathaniel Branden, a Ph.D., is an expert in self-esteem. But it really applies to what’s in the way for a lot of us, and that is this whole notion of a Sentence Stem. And that’s where you do the beginning of the sentence, for example, the Sentence Stem might be, you know, if I’m really honest with myself, the reason why I’m not where I want to be is, and that’s called a Sentence Stem. That’s the first part of it. Then you complete it. And I find that when you do a Sentence Stem, that there’s a different kind of truth that emerges from you, that makes you say, you know, the reason why I’m not where I want to be is because I’m not meeting new people. I’m not stepping out. I’m not engaging with new people. I’m not trying new things. I’m not listening to my truth. You know, I’m nervous, and I have to get past this nervousness. Sandra always says, like, you got to get comfortable with the discomfort of doing things.
Robin Edgar: Well, starting the podcast, and being here live.
Kym Yancey: Exactly.
Robin Edgar: All of that is, you know, all morning you’re getting ready, and you’re thinking about what am I going to dAnd how’s it going to look? And how are people going to, you know, take what we’re trying to share with them. And then once you start doing it, you’re like, Okay, that’s right. Well, didn’t come to an end and things went, Okay. And also, when you said that, it reminded me of something that I’ve shared a lot that I think is so critical, is you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with, right, which so many of us out there know that this is something you hear people talk about. But I’ve really loved that when I really decided and said, I really need to uplevel like, who I’m talking to who I’m getting advice from, you know, who I’m hanging out with, all of those things started to open my eyes to Oh my goodness, you know, I’m capable of doing this at such a much higher level that I’m pretty much similar to all of these people that are already doing it. What’s holding me back from doing that
“I have never seen someone push a door open and not benefit from it. And that door can be limiting beliefs… Your self-esteem expanding and the way you approach challenges are affected by stepping forward and moving.” -Kym Yancey
Kym Yancey: I have never seen someone push a door open and not benefit from it. And that door can be limiting beliefs, that door can be on my good enough that door can be I don’t have the talent of the other one is I’ve got the talent, but I’m too scared to move forward. You know, I mean, it all of that as an impact. I’ve not met or seen any situation where you step forward, and you’re scared, where it doesn’t turn into a good thing. Again, your own self-esteem expanding the way you approach challenges. I mean, all that is affected by just stepping forward and moving. The universe really does realign itself, and let you in. And people see you who normally wouldn’t see you and all of a sudden, there you go. The other thing is consistency. I tell people all the time, you know, your petition is your reputation. You know what I mean? So you’ve got to be repetitive. You’ve got to keep your face of the place, so to speak. It’s like a radio station. I mean, there isn’t a number one selling recording artist who doesn’t have repetition, right? I mean, they get this song being played day after day, week, after week, it has its run. And then they got to come up with a new song. So you just keep flowing with the new message, the new song that you just keep bringing the new and once you develop those kinds of muscles, it starts to happen naturally for you, you just got to get started, get the ball rolling?
“Your repetition is your reputation.” -Kym Yancey
Robin Edgar: Well, you have certainly been an instrumental part in helping me to reach out, reach up. And just think beyond where I was thinking, you know, even two or three years ago. And if people want more information on how they can get ahold of you and eWomenNetwork, and just talk to you if they want to talk to you about this. To see if some of the programs that you’re doing, especially the Celebrity Science program, which I have absolutely, it’s been one of the biggest life-changing things I’ve ever went through and I want to thank you again. But how do people you know, get in touch with you, or what do you recommend that they do if they see themselves really wanting to take that next step?
Kym Yancey: Yeah, sure. So the good news is celebrity science.com. So you can just go to that website or ewomennetwork.com. Either one, you’ll find me and get a hold of what we’re doing and get plugged in to what we’re trying to do.
Robin Edgar: All right. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate everything you’ve done and I want to encourage all of you to reach out. Kym is a marketing genius. I cannot say that enough and he is exquisite at what he can help you do. So I really appreciate Kym you being here today.
Kym Yancey: Thank you, Robin.
Robin Edgar: Thank you and everybody have a great day.
