Welcome to the premiere of Real Talk with Robin!
For our inaugural episode, we will address one of the most pressing issues of today: Women Empowerment. Women have a right to gain a share of the world’s wealth and opportunities. Yet, compared to their male counterparts, their chances of hitting the million-dollar income is lower. Why? What resources do women lack? What misconception do we have about success and failure, and how can understanding their nature help us to pivot? What can help us take the leap toward our dream? Find answers and solutions as Robin chats with our very first guest, Sandra Yancey, the Founder of eWomenNetwork, a company with a mission to help a million women make a million dollars per year.
“When you go big no one’s left behind. I would rather dream really big and not hit the goal, then dream really low and nail it.” -Sandra Yancey
Highlights:
02:33 Where Success Comes From
04:25 What is Failure
08:42 A Million Women and A Million Dollars
12:46 Find Yourself a Great Advisor
How would you like to be one of a million women with a million-dollar income? Be empowered to reach the next level as Real Talk with Robin premieres with @eWomenNetwork founder, Sandra Yancey. #realtalk #podcast #dreambig #financialdvisor… Share on X
Quotes:
02:46 “Your dream comes from within you, but your success comes from who is beside you.” -Sandra Yancey
04:42 “Failure and success are on the same road. Success is a little bit farther down and those things that we interpret as failures are lessons that we’re supposed to learn.” -Sandra Yancey
06:40 “We get into our stinking thinking and listen to that small talk that has a big job to keep us in our smallness. The benefit of having a great financial advisor is to guide you. Not everything is going to turn out perfect but if you stay with it, you’re way better off than trying to do it by yourself.” -Sandra Yancey
09:52 “Good people that make good money do good things with it.” -Sandra Yancey
10:06 “When you go big no one’s left behind. I would rather dream really big and not hit the goal, then dream really low and nail it.” -Sandra Yancey
Meet Sandra:
Sandra Yancey is an award-winning entrepreneur, life, and business transformation specialist for the Emmy award-winning TV show “The DOCTORS,” multi #1 bestselling author, movie producer, and philanthropist. She is the Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork the premier women’s entrepreneur business community with over 500,000 women connected through 118 chapters across North America. Sandra is recognized by the International Alliance for Women as one of the world’s 100 Top Difference Makers and by CNN as an American Hero. The eWomenNetwork Foundation she created has, to date, awarded cash grants to 115 non-profit organizations and scholarships to 167 emerging female leaders of tomorrow.
Transcriptions:
Robin Edgar: Welcome to Real Talk with Robin, where grace and business sense come together to help you create abundant life. Thank you for joining me, and I’m really excited to have you here today with my first guest, Sandra Yancey, by Premier’s first podcast. And it’s really fitting for all of you that are going to be listening to this today because Sandra is the reason why I’m here. Her organization, eWomen has been instrumental in my career, and in my life, and their team is the ones that helped me put my strategy together that helped me get to the book, to the podcast, and everything that’s going on. So I want to welcome you, Sandra. Thank you so much for being here.
Sandra Yancey: I’m so excited to be here with you and for you.
Robin Edgar: Yeah. It wasn’t that long ago when you and your team and I were sitting right here in Dallas, in your conference room strategizing about what the next steps look like. And really, you know, how I can make a greater impact and create a better legacy, a bigger legacy. Thank you so much.
Sandra Yancey: You had it in though, you know, so you had it in you. It was really your big dream. And sometimes we’re just so close to it we can’t see all that others can see around us. So you stepped into a big way. Some ways it feels like yesterday, in other ways, it feels like so long ago, because you’ve just done so much, right?
Robin Edgar: I know. And I just really think which we’ll talk about a little bit. But having a coach, having a mentor, having people in your life–
Sandra Yancey: Yes.
Robin Edgar: — that can see those things that you don’t see, which is what I’ve helped people do in the financial world.
Sandra Yancey: Yes.
Robin Edgar: And you’ve helped people do in the entrepreneurial world for 20 years. Congratulations! 20 years of success. You just celebrated your 20th anniversary.
Sandra Yancey: I know. I know. It’s hard to believe.
Robin Edgar: Especially during a pandemic where you had to go through that.
Sandra Yancey: I know.
Robin Edgar: But helping over 500,000 entrepreneurs around the globe. 118 chapters over 2000 meetings a year before 2020.
Sandra Yancey: Yeah. Crazy.
Robin Edgar: Yeah. 2020. How does it make you feel about just your legacy because it’s been such a huge thing for so many women entrepreneurs in particular?
“Your dream comes from within you, but your success comes from who is beside you.” -Sandra Yancey
Sandra Yancey: Yeah. Well, you know, it’s kind of like what you do in financial services, right? Your dream comes from within you, but your success comes from who’s beside you, right? And that’s what you do in financial services, get people really clarified on what is their dream? What do they want to accomplish? What do they want the end to look like and then reverse engineer, right? And the same is true with eWomenNetwork. I mean, in many ways, our journeys and our purposes and our alignments are very much in, I want to say syncopation with each other, right. And it’s such an honor isn’t it when you work with somebody that has a vision for themselves, and they understand that they can’t get there alone, no one makes it alone. And they just joined beside you to help them see what they can’t see in themselves, or on those low days we all have them when you don’t want to, you just don’t feel like you want to go on and you need somebody else to encourage you to keep going.
Robin Edgar: And I think a lot of people get stuck in the failure which is one of the things I wanted to bring up because I think that when you look back over a career, I’m assuming you also, there’s just a lot of things that did not go the way that we intended them to grow. And yet, when I look back, I really see that as the leap forward that helped me to see, okay, I just wasn’t heading down the right road, I needed to kind of take another turn and come back and go a different direction. And I always, always, in the past have found something greater, found that other road. How do you help women get through that? Because I think that’s a big part of the struggle. Once they’ve seen some failure, or things not go right they don’t continue on.
“Failure and success are on the same road. Success is a little bit farther down and those things that we interpret as failures are lessons that we’re supposed to learn.” -Sandra Yancey
Sandra Yancey: Well, I think you nailed it. Just what you said. I mean, when you had a struggle or something that didn’t work out, you realize that this was an opportunity to learn something, right? So I think in the Western culture, we’ve been taught that the opposite of success is a failure. And what I’ve discovered is that failure and success are on the same road. And it’s just that success is a little bit farther down and those things that we interpret as failures are really just lessons that we’re supposed to learn. It’s causing us sometimes when they go so fast to stop and take pause and say, why is this happening? What might I learn from this? And as a result of that, you know, how can I be better so that when you see it again, the likelihood that it might happen again, you have the benefit of wisdom, right? And the knowledge of, I’ve seen this before, I know how to handle this better, and down the road, the stakes could be higher, right? So very important to be able to have that experience, I think.
Robin Edgar: Yeah. And I think having people beside you and coaching you and helping you that have that wisdom and experience and that have already had that happen, I think, can be the missing link for a lot of people that don’t engage that level of help early enough in their career. And they think the coaching is just about, like, they look at it just from a dollars and cents standpoint.
Sandra Yancey: Yeah. It pays for itself, you know, 1000 times over, right? It’s an investment in being able to compress I think the number of errors that you can make and to hit the accelerator when you need to go fast. And I think many entrepreneurs I think build their business with one foot on the brake, and one foot on the accelerator at the same time and wonder why it feels like it’s such a start and stops struggle, kind of thing. I mean, you know, now that I have the benefit of a granddaughter, what I’ve learned is that as she begins to move, if she starts to walk, and she falls, you don’t say give up. When you failed to stop trying that, you know, kind of thing, you encouraged her, and you try to show her what she’s done differently, right. And you encourage her to get up and get going and keep moving. And I think that’s the benefit of a coach because we just get into our stinking thinking and listen to that small talk that has a really big job and that’s to keep us in our smallness, right?
Robin Edgar: Right.
“We get into our stinking thinking and listen to that small talk that has a big job to keep us in our smallness. The benefit of having a great financial advisor is to guide you. Not everything is going to turn out perfect but if you stay with it, you’re way better off than trying to do it by yourself.” -Sandra Yancey
Sandra Yancey: And I think that’s the benefit of having a great financial advisor as well is to just kind of guide you and not everything is going to turn out perfect but if you stay with it the long haul, it’s in a way better off than trying to do it by yourself.
Robin Edgar: Correct. And you can’t see your own blind spots.
Sandra Yancey: Exactly.
Robin Edgar: When it comes to financing, or whatever you’re doing for a living, I think having someone in your corner that can help you see those blind spots and have real talk, it’s really important, because there’s a lot of people in both of our industries, I think that look at things and speak like in tongues, it almost feels like I’m not understanding anything that you’re saying. It’s not resonating with me. And I think getting down to the basics of real talk in really every profession is what’s so critical for helping people to move to that next level.
Sandra Yancey: No question. That’s where the real relationship really starts to cement, right? When you are having that conversation that also is in a language that your client understands, right? You have to know the savviness of the client that you have, not everybody just like entrepreneurs, they’re not all in the same place. They don’t all have the same experiences. So being able to adjust I think is the secret to a really great coach in any way.
Robin Edgar: Yeah. I’d like to spend the last few minutes we have really talked about your kind of signature effort that you’re putting together with helping a million women reach a million dollars.
Sandra Yancey: Yes.
Robin Edgar: I really just think my audience and I want to have you back on, you know, a couple more times to really talk about this in more detail. But tell me where that vision started and really what kind of prompted you to really see why this is such an issue right now and why you’re kind of taking that head-on.
Sandra Yancey: Well, it’s a great question, Robin. And right now, it’s really cool to be a very pro-woman, but I’ve been pro-woman before it was cool. I think, what was it Barbara Mandrell said, I was country before country. You remember that right?
Robin Edgar: Yeah.
Sandra Yancey: And I think the same thing is for me for 20, almost 21 years. I’ve been so Pro, I’m not anti-male, I’m just very pro-woman.
Robin Edgar: Correct. There’s a difference.
“Good people that make good money do good things with it.” -Sandra Yancey
Sandra Yancey: There’s a big difference. There’s a big difference. I love being a woman, I love being a lady and I love honoring my dream and my talents, right? And what sad is that women are starting businesses at the rate of two to one to men, but only 2% of all women are ever breaking the million-dollar mark. And I just believe we haven’t had access. We’re smart. I mean, if it all it took was knowledge, honestly, you would never have to leave your computer and you could just Google. There’s tons of information. So it just begs the question, what don’t women have access to that is not making the conversion for as hard as we’re working. And I just always looked at it like if I was going to be away from my family and kids and working on my business, then I want to make the best of it. And what I know is that good person that makes good money do really good things with it, right? So I just have this dream that we do all the things that we can do to help women break that million-dollar mark. And it’s kind of like when you go really big no one’s left behind. So not all women want to build a million-dollar business, and that’s okay. But I would rather dream really big and not hit the goal, than dream really low and nail it.
“When you go big no one’s left behind. I would rather dream really big and not hit the goal, then dream really low and nail it.” -Sandra Yancey
Robin Edgar: That’s correct. That’s how I’ve always been [inaudible] my goal setting. And even if you help someone move from 100,000 to 150, or whatever those levels are but they really want to get to that can create impact and confidence on their finances that’s just the most critical piece and I really applaud you for making that effort on and I’m [inaudible]
Robin Edgar: Thank you. And you too. We’re in such alignment with our different professions. It’s just so aligned, right? Because the truth of the matter is, and you know this, right? When people set a goal for a certain amount, and they get it, then they just feel revved up for what’s the next level, which is the next school I can set. And you start surpassing, sometimes even that initial goal and that’s really fun, isn’t it?
Robin Edgar: Yes. It’s so much fun. And the connections through eWomen are really how I found my publisher, and my creative partner is all through last year during COVID, during connections. Tell us as we wrap up here, like, what’s the best way for people to get in touch with you and to get involved in eWomen Network and learning more about how they can connect with all of us, women that are–
Sandra Yancey: Yeah. Well, we’re on all of the social media channels, as you can imagine, every single one of them eWomen Network. And then, of course, ewomennetwork.com is our website, we have 119 chapters across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. And we’re doing business online. So all of our events are online right now and we’re going to continue that even as COVID begins to transition out. We go back to more in-person engagement, which quite frankly, I can’t wait for, because there’s nothing like the need in the face-to-face, heart-to-heart connection.
Robin Edgar: I agree.
Sandra Yancey: But we’ll stay online. So if you’ve got a business that you can take a customer anywhere, you know, you can connect with an Australian chapter or UK chapter or a Minnesota chapter or wherever it is.
Robin Edgar: It’s been a blessing for all of us to have those deep-rooted connections and have that network during COVID. I think it kept many of us, really in the game. It kept us emotionally connected to those people that we know love and trust that we’ve met. And I’ve met people from all over the world.
Sandra Yancey: Yeah. I know, right?
Robin Edgar: All those strategic business introductions. And I just really applaud you for being able to pivot, your team did a wonderful job.
Sandra Yancey: Thank you.
Robin Edgar: And I would really encourage people to check it out. It’s been an organization I’ve been affiliated with for many, many, many–
Sandra Yancey: Many years, many years. And you’ve been such a great supporter of the foundation as well, which is another reason why, you know, when you align with a great financial advisor, I mean, you start to create either this dream that begins to manifest and it gives you opportunities to support your causes. So.
Robin Edgar: When you do get back 10 fold of what you give, which has been my life lesson.
Sandra Yancey: Yes. Me too. Me too.
Robin Edgar: It’s very important to me and I’ve been really honored and blessed to be able to help you with your foundation. I really appreciate it.
Sandra Yancey: Thank you so much. Yeah.
Robin Edgar: So if anybody would like more information about eWomen Network, you’re going to have that information in our podcast notes. And you can always reach out to me and or Sandra. I really, really appreciate you being here today Sandra on my first ever Real Talk with Robin podcast and show, and I just really thank you for everything you’ve done for me and my family.
Sandra Yancey: I wouldn’t have it any other way. I adore you.
Robin Edgar: Thank you so much.
Sandra Yancey: You’re welcome.
