The Re:DEFINE Podcast

Send us Fan Mail When you’re feeling overwhelmed and perhaps like an impostor for even thinking about trying to accomplish the things you’re trying to accomplish, there are things you can do to help you press on.  Feeling this way in normal.  Once the initial excitement wears off and all we’re left with is work, we can feel like tossing in the towel and giving up. So what should we do? 1) Grow sel...

Send us Fan Mail The honeymoon phase will wear off and with it the excitement and enthusiasm you have for the new goals you set at the beginning of the year. The next phase you’ll experience is called the Deception Phase.  This is when you’re left with none of the excitement but all of the work. Your mind will create all sorts of stories telling you that it’s not worth it, that it won’t work.  You...

Send us Fan Mail Do you want your business to grow?  Or do you want to grow your business?  Of course the answer to both those questions is YES.  As deceptively similar as those questions seem, they actually address very different things.  It’s a matter of what season your business is in. Early on, yes you will be responsible for growing your business.  As entrepreneurs and business owners, we sta...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s a principle that will help make your prospecting and marketing much more effective. When strategizing and working to maximize our prospecting and marketing efforts, we rely of categorizations — labels with which we can organize groups of people.  It’s a natural way of operating.  Everything is ordered into categories.  However, if we think of people in the context of what c...

Send us Fan Mail Sales principles that are the most effective ultimately ensure.  There are some that originated in the early 1900’s that marketers  still using today And I see them using these sales tactics online ALL THE TIME. This episode is me telling you just because a tactic works, doesn’t mean you have to use it. I make no judgements on how you choose to achieve results in your business.  I...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve gotten some resistance for advising daily content publishing.  And rightfully so.  It’s a lot of work that we’re unaccustomed to.  And that’s on top of our already busy workloads. But it’s a necessary part of the process to achieving your goals.  Moreover, it’s only one of many seasons you’ll pass through on your journey.  So don’t worry, you won’t be in the Content Churn for...

Send us Fan Mail Followthrough.  There’s lots of reason why people lack it.  One is that they get too distracted by the next new thing.  And that’s normal. Newness is fun.  Newness is exciting. When we start a new venture or a new strategic plan, it’s easy to to show up every day because it’s new, it’s fresh.  It’s a break from the humdrum that results from not living with intentionality. But the...

Send us Fan Mail I hear this a lot when it comes to network marketing events and trainings — “the content, the talks and speeches, they’re so REPETITIVE.”   Now, I’m starting to hear the same about content creation.  The concern is that with such frequent publishing how does one avoid being repetitive. The simple answer is, YOU DON’T And here’s why: - There’s always a new audience and since your g...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re using the internet, especially social media as part of your marketing, then you have to be keenly aware of your presence — the “face” if you will that you present to the world. After all, as the the public representative of and for your business, you are the “face” of the company. So what presence are you creating with your content?  Are you just broadcasting your offeri...

Send us Fan Mail Much of what we do in business today involves public speaking.  From videos on social media to arena engagements, from live-streams to living rooms, we all have to face the speaking in front of people and the inevitable nervousness that comes with it. ================== Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ronniecruz11 ============= 🔗Join our Facebook community h...

Send us Fan Mail We always hear that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to others.  And of course it’s sound advice. Often, that advice is given when talking about looking at our results compared to others.  Feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness can come from looking at the lives we THINK others are living compared to our own.  Much less obvious is  comparing others to ourselves — in other words, JU...

Send us Fan Mail I love sharing my insights.  All thought leaders and coaches have the well-intended desire to share lessons and ah-ha moments with their audiences.  It’s what we do. But before screaming your latest insight from the top of every social media platform, stop and ask yourself: Is there a broader principle here that people can learn from or is it a specific to  ME  perspective? I’ve b...

Send us Fan Mail “Going all out” and “going all in” are phrases we hear a lot in peak performance.  Whether it’s about business, or health, or relationships, there’s a constant call to making full commitments to the thing you want to achieve.  After all, you can’t realistically expect positive and lasting change to come from half-assed effort.  Then why is it that I see so many people this time of...

Send us Fan Mail With the new year just a day away, here is an episode that will teach you exactly what you need to do to make your resolutions actually stick.   Coz haven’t we all been through it enough times?  Setting our New Year’s resolutions only to fall off the wagon just weeks into January? In today’s show, I give you three simple tips that can make your new year goal setting much more effe...

Send us Fan Mail Despite what you hear and see on the internet, despite the advice you get from your favorite guru and coach, the world isn’t out to get you.  People aren’t JUST out to get things from you.  Sure people might want things from you and that’s totally ok.  We’re all doing our best and often we need to enlist the help of others to get through.  At least that’s a healthier and perhaps m...

Send us Fan Mail I got into network marketing to be my own boss.  But I’ve noticed recently that as much of an independent and free thinker as I consider myself to be, I’m actually much more dependent on things than I care to be.  In network marketing, there are three things we can unknowingly develop a dependence on: - our company - our upline leader - our own teams One of the best ways to server...

Send us Fan Mail Now that we’re nearing year’s end, it’s a good time to look back and reflect on the last 12 months.  Examine what habits and mindsets might be anchoring you to unwanted repeated results so that you can work on moving forward to create new healthier and more productive habits moving into the new year.  ============= 🔗Join our Facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/rede...

Send us Fan Mail There’s no doubt that publishing online content daily has tremendous impact on growing your presence, reach, and influence. But beyond that, there are some amazing benefits you may not have considered.  Publishing content daily will: - require your growth and learning to be able to come up with content consistently making expertise in your field inevitable - the habit of learning...

Send us Fan Mail When sharing our stories, we’re always advised to be as vulnerable as we can and are willing to be.  But when it comes to social online content, especially social media, is there a line between being vulnerable and too much information and if so what is it? In my opinion, it’s actually simple.  Are you sharing just to share or does the piece of content you’re about to publish serv...

Send us Fan Mail Building on our conversation yesterday, today we discuss a few more things you can do to make sure you’re taking care of yourself.  Again, it’s important that you not neglect taking proper steps to ensure your well-being.  So here are two more tips: - exercise/physical activity - ask for help Add these to your self-care toolbox and you’ll be able to ensure you mitigate the risk of...

Send us Fan Mail Burnout is a real thing.  And with depression, anxiety, and stress statics trending high among entrepreneurs, we all run the risk burnout of we’re not careful.  It’s important then to make sure you’re checking in regularly with your own well- being.  Some things I do are: - get plenty of sleep - proper nutrition for your body and for your mind - switch off; when your work is done...

Send us Fan Mail Of the myriad ways to grow your online business, most will fall into two categories: Organic Growth and Paid Growth.  There’s the growth that happens as you create and publish content, and refine your online marketing funnel.  This growth happens naturally through those (mostly) free efforts and that’s why it’s called organic.  Then there’s growth that you can acquire through ads,...

Send us Fan Mail Iterative growth is a step by step process that you go through as you progress towards your goals. And though some might think it’s a natural part of the growth process that just happens as you go, it actually requires a high degree of intentionality.  Iterative growth is the result of methodically taking small manageable steps just beyond your comfort zone and gradually expanding...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a hot topic right now and as admittedly unexcited I am about it, building an online business means I can’t avoid the conversation about AI AI has been at the top of many conversations lately in the content creator world especially but eh wake of mass consumer adoption of some of these applications. (If you been on Instagram at all in the past 3 weeks, you’ll know what I’m tal...

Send us Fan Mail To be content creators means being purposeful and intentional about the content we create and publish. So we must be clear then the purpose and function of that content if we are to be more intentional with it.  I boiled in down to these 3 Purposes of Content: - Grow your audience - Grow your influence  - Lead people to the next step 3 Functions of Content - First impression - Bui...