Your GRADUATION Story
I was having a challenge in organizing my expertise to be a paid product, I wasn’t sure what to do systematically. I joined EPM and it was good having bite-size steps to move forward. I got clarity and was able to graduate and finish modules 1-3.
Your MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Story
I was overwhelmed, I wasn’t sure what to do to start. I joined EPM and I learned I could start with a paper-plane version/minimum viable product and work my way to awesome. I did and I am now on my way to making my dream come true.
I've wanted to launch a group training program for quite a long time, but wasn't sure where to get started. I joined EPM and got the structure and accountability to actually create a product. I now know what I need to do to create and launch a group training program.
Your GRADUATION Story
"I was in a state of suspended animation since finishing my last high end residential project as an interior designer in NYC . After working in this profession for over 20 years I was wanted to make a difference is someone's life . A person that felt a calling to creativity but did not pursue their dream .
My last client was so interested in the design process . I kept thinking how do I teach design, can I inspire someone to follow their calling to express themselves creatively . All I had to do was think back how I felt when I made the leap into Interior Design and had no mentors or guidance in any manner . The online courses that were offered to learn design were always missing something that was essential , creativity and passion.
I joined EPM when I learned that Marisa was the person that created the programs for The Brave Thinking Institute and Sonia Ricotti's UNSTOPPABLE. These personal development programs were the catalyst for inspiring change in my life in a significant way . After experiencing the robust EPM webinars I could identify the structure that Marisa clearly defined in both these programs. The hours long sessions with the most amazing content secured my decision to say YES .
I realized that the support I was being afforded was like nothing I had experienced previously . I had studied with Suzanne Evans years prior and was completely cheated.
The experience was so traumatic I stopped pursuing any courses with a so called """"coach"".
I confess to stopping the day I saw her name as a business model . I know I am not alone in this experience .
Marisa was a person of complete integrity from day one. The coaching sessions and additional sessions twice a week enforced my commitment. Not to mention the specific seminars with the social media experts. They were all of the same caliber and professionalism, simply the best.
The most essential lesson was to embrace imperfection. Perfection paralysis has been my affliction for far too long. At this stage, I still feel the need to pivot on my teaching platform but I realize the only way I can find the destination is by walking the path , embracing the fear of sharing what the fee is for my one on one sessions, and remembering who I am serving. Recognizing how much I have to share and how directly I can teach the process of transformation.
If I can inspire the next generation of change makers to express their gift of design one room at a time, my work has meaning and significance. "
Your MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Story
I was experiencing endless frustration on how to create an online course in design, I wasn't sure what to do, I spent endless hours creating content for an imaginary person. I joined the EPM program and discovered how the experience method of learning is the catalyst for realizing change in your life , I created a six week one on one course to launch my new career as a design coach to create interiors that are launchpads for creativity to elevate how you , Work , Live and Restore.
What's been the biggest change in your business?
It is a new business entirely . It feels very liberating and free . I can support other peoples success in a collaborative way .
How's EPM and your success impacted your life?
Empowered me to see how committed I can be .
What's your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Yes I can do it , after breakdown , after breakthrough to come to a visionary place within
What's now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
A more free lifestyle not being tied down to a project for months on end
Your MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Story
"For the past 20+ years I've dreamed of being a social entrepreneur again, this time by helping people who struggle with chronic health issues to believe that they can heal themselves by shifting the way they think about their health and everyday lifestyle choices. I believed I was uniquely qualified to both inspire and support because of my own healing from a debilitating chronic illness in my 40's, after being advised by my medical doctors to file for permanent disability. Instead I launched myself into learning everything I could about my health from a natural and holistic approach to my body, mind and spirit, and actually reclaimed my energy, fitness and happiness, as well as an almost complete reduction of my chronic pain and migraine issues.
Fast forward to 2023 and many years of struggling against not trusting my ability to learn how to run an online business, ""imposter syndrome,"" many life changes that I allowed to distract me into other endeavors, and I still didn't have my business created. I was incredibly frustrated and unfulfilled, even though I was regularly helping friends and family who would ask for my direction for their health challenges! I wasn't get the message out to the many other people I knew in my heart could benefit from everything I've learned, or channeling my time and energies into financially supporting myself by doing so.
I joined EPA in October 2023, and during the past three months I've finally come to realize how valuable what I have to offer is, and why it's imperative that I share it NOW with the people who need the support! I've learned that ""done"" is lightyears better than ""perfect,"" and I have now CREATED AND LAUNCHED my Beta Wellness Lifestyle Coaching virtual business!!! I'll be presenting 1:1 for the first 2-3 months with my 3-6 Beta students, and even though I don't have my first sale in the bank yet, at least three people are considering coming on board with me in February. I'm still honing my ""sales"" chops, doing my best to reframe it in my mind as ""sharing,"" as this is the area I've had issues with all my life. My business is, and hopefully always will be, a work-in-progress... continually growing and adapting to the needs of my clients. I'm so excited to start coaching in February!!!"
The biggest change in my business is that I actually have one now; I own the fact that I AM a Wellness Lifestyle Coach... and the many notebooks, scraps of paper, Word docs, unfinished online course workbooks, etc, have now been transformed into a comprehensive, cohesive Experience Product! EPM walked me through a step-by-step process to take my scattered ideas and focus them into a viable product that I am excited to share with people who will benefit from it. This has now repositioned me to become a self-supporting entrepreneur again - at the age of 68 - with a business of "doing good" for others that will enable me to "do good" for myself into my many happy, healthy years ahead! That Done is better than perfect, and that people need me to step out of my fears and hesitations to share the ways I can help them live happier, healthier lives. My Experience Product is making it possible for me to finally purchase an RV and spend the next chapter of my life as a "digital nomad," traveling, visiting family and friends, enjoying extended time in Nature with my beloved dog Zeke... all while "working from home" in my comfy, cozy house on wheels!
Thank you so very much to Marisa, Coach Matthew and Coach Mel, Murray, Heather and all of Team Marisa for the inspiration and guidance to finally be achieving my dream!
Graduation Story - I got into EPM after having taken Ryan Levesque’s Quiz Funnel Masterclass – a waterhose of training that was, at that point, way over my head. I didn’t quite complete the funnel, but got most of it together. Then I signed up for Product Launch Formula and did, maybe 1 week before I found Marisa’s EPM. Already strapped for cash, I took the plunge, signing up on the payment plan as my only option. (WISH I HAD FOUND YOU FIRST!). So I started immediately on my journey, and could barely wait until the next trainings dropped. I was chomping at the bit to keep moving, but had to wait for the next trainings to be released. I had a slight idea of what kind of niche I was in, and intended to create an on-line course. I had NO idea what I was getting in for! Whereas I had signed up for the QF Masterclass mainly because I was supposed to “find my niche” (like another course I had signed up for and have never finished), I came into EPM with the same hope – to finally get clarity on what course I should create. So when I stumbled on the “Start With You” training it seemed like what I had really needed first. I signed up for my free report and was put on the email list for Start with You, as well as EPM, and started receiving emails from both. I got confused and unsubscribed from the Start With You emails. Unfortunately I figured out later (maybe a month later) that I had unsubscribed from the EPM emails as well, by accident, so I missed both Jump Contests, and lost my way a bit. I got off track around the holidays, going over and over my bird’s eye view and features & benefits statements. I got behind on the training videos as well, but at least attended all of the coaching calls. Finally I got everything straightened out and back on track, and started watching the videos again, even if I didn’t move forward on all of the actions, but it was very late. I did put the basic course outline into Experiencify and set it up for payments but I am just finishing up the marketing preparation now and still need to get my launch plan finalized - but I have a business, a product, and I know what I need to do to move forward. I have not given up, and I know I will keep on track. This has been the absolute best class I have taken – and I do not intend to abandon ship. I already signed up for the 2 year Experiencify bonus as there is no other place I would ever host a course again. I will be at the Jumpstart seminar, at LYM Live and who knows what else. Thanks Marisa and team - you’ve been great! Onward and Upward to Mission Accomplished!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
That I can actually DO This!
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM helped me become successful in my journey from - Never had a business thought in my life - to - I have something valuable I can offer which will help my clients while also providing me income. It has done this by providing clear, do-able action steps and easy to follow worksheets, as well as encouragement, a sense of community, tons of coaching help, understanding, excitement, fun and a way to help others - even my co-students - with feedback, encouragement & instructions. It HAS been an experience, and an inspiring one. It has made me feel as if I am surrounded by so many people, ready to help and encourage me as I struggle through. I have never felt alone on this journey, even though thousands of miles away from my closest colleagues. I have made important friendships with other students in faraway places in the world, and will work to sustain them as much as possible. I feel successful because I am almost there, and WILL finish this race very soon!
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has made it possible for me to begin seeing myself as an enterpreneur after working all my life as an employee, and enabled me to find at least something in my life that I can use to help others.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Just getting clarity on what I am actually offering and getting it put together
What is now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
I can help others find peace of mind while building structure and mini-systems into their life to help them get the things done that are most important to them. I can contribute something important to others, and can also have more money available to do the things I want to do as well as make more and bigger donations to the charities I support.
Really enjoyed the course. My coach Lucas was awesome, and the classmates super supportive! I narrowed down my niche, and started my product creation.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
I can create an experience product
How did EPM help you become successful?
making "getting started" options
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
positive experience with great action-oriented people :)
What has been the biggest change in your business?
starting
What is now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
I will feel more confident about getting started and iterating my way to awesome
I launched a course in 2020 which has been performing really poorly - a few sales trickled in and completion rates were abysmal. I joined EPM because I wanted to create a better, premium course that people would complete and love and tell their friends about. After 12 weeks, I started to see what a premium course looks like and so my program "QUESTEXCELLENCE: The OKR Masterclass for Manager" was forged with: 1) a clear niche: Managers who want to build high performing and engaged teams that consistently transform vision and strategy into excellence. 2) a clear mission statement: design and deploy an OKR-based strategy execution system in 12 weeks and build a reputation for themselves as the gal/guy the company goes to for "Mission Impossible" assignments. 3) a proprietary system - Questexcellence. 4) high impact onboarding sequence. My biggest win in this program has been my coach Melanie Gow. Her coaching has been priceless and even at this moment when I feel self-doubt, I just go back to the comments she made in the tracking doc and I rekindle my inner fire. I have a clear path with specific steps to getting it right and I feel confident that this will work ... for now Chatterboxing is the hill I die on ;-)
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I need to fight my inner urge to focus on the product rather than on the marketing.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I feel more confident that I can create the best training in this niche in the world.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Feedback --- in any form is the most underrated aspect of online courses. My coach Melanie Gow made this an extraordinary experience for me. I loved (and will steal) this document feedback model in my own course. Thanks.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Apart from my gratitude to my coach: Melanie Gow. I HATE Marisa!!! --- Through this whole course and her live sessions, I hate that she's given me an answer to every possible excuse I can come up with. I love HATE how logical and perfectly paced the course is. I HATE that I don't have an excuse not to succeed and that's why she's a brilliant teacher and I won't be buying another course in this category. Sh'kran Marisa for giving me a standard of excellence to aspire to (yes i know ... it takes time to get there.).
I knew that I had a message (Better Living Better World) and that I wanted to have a business around it. But I didn't know where to start. I bought courses and I learned things from them but I still didn't have an offer of any kind. For years I chased my tail trying to figure out how to grow my business and what to offer. Thanks to Experience Product Masterclass I launched my first offer, College Without Sacrificing Your Future. It's a 6 week 1:few course to help college bound teens and their parents navigate how to pay for college with minimal student debt and without parents derailing their finances. I haven't made my first sale yet but I have strategies to help with marketing and a strategy for finding out what my target audience wants and needs. If I need to, I'll shift my messaging and if that doesn't work I can pivot my offer - which doesn't scare me because I already see several ways of pivoting the current offer to be slightly different for either the same audience or a different one. The pivots for a different audience could also become future product offerings, so that's given me a vision of what my future business could look like. Thank you Maria, Team LYM and Coach Debra!
Your GRADUATION Story
"I am an early (self) retired family office wealth specialist and finance executive with a speciality of helping wealthy families create succesful multigenerational wealth plans. After leaving the corporate world, I reflected that most of the insights I applied and guided my previous clients on, are insights and principles which can be applied by disciplined savers wanting to leave meanigful financial legacy for multiple generations of their families.
However, I was having this challenge of family, friend and past clients (falling within this disclipled saver profile) constantly asking for my guidance whenever they got advise from their financial advisors, which lead to me providing mentoring and guidance services on how to create strategies, together with their families, financial and legal advisors, which safeguard successful multi-generational wealth transfer through blueprint plans mostly for free!
I joined EPM so that I can move this guidance and mentoring, that I was providing mostly for free, to being a service which my clients should pay for and which equips them with the tools and foundations necessary for them to have a multigenerational wealth blueprint within 12 weeks. I realized that by not charging my friends, family and past clients for these blueprints, I was robbing myself (and my business of the revenue), and quantifying the extent of this issue was an eye opener for me!!!
EPM, gave me the tools and guidance to know how to pitch and launch this service to my clients and prospects. With the help of EPM, once I found the right words and appropriate charge for this serviceI was able to easily get 12 clients to signed up for my service. I plan to lauch my first professional mentoring session with my clients after the Summer break (August 2022)! "
Your MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Story
My initial mission accomplished story was to have my MVP
Your FIRST SALE Story
My husband and I went on holiday for a cousin's 50th a few weeks back with 10 other couples and 5 single friends. On one of the nights we were talking about what we each do. I shared my professional experience and whats been keeping me busy since self retirement with the party asked the party to please assist me by filling in a survey which I had set up to test the value offering. After they completed the survey and hearing my mission statement 6 couples and 2 of the single friends asked if they could be my clients!! And they didnt even blink at the cost!!
Your PROVED CONCEPT Story
My proved concept story is linked to my first sale story and is answered above.
Your AND MUCH MUCH MORE... Story
I had expected to just crystalize my MVP and get at least 1-3 clients; what happened has been mindblowing for me..
"For several months up until October, I would ask myself every day ""am I working on the right things?"", and realized I didn't know, which basically means no. I was already enrolled in a very expensive coaching and facilitation program and had promised myself I wouldn't enroll in any further courses until I started earning some money, as I had retired my first career 10 months prior to focus fully on launching this one. After having taken 4 different courses on defining niche/audience etc., I still didn't have those basics in place, and had no idea how to write messaging. So I went searching and found Eben who immediately earned my trust, and with incredibly serendipitous timing, he introduced me to EPM just a couple weeks later. I almost missed enrollment, however my roommate had it playing, and even though I walked into the room more than halfway through, I didn't even hesitate to sign up - it was just a knowing. Thank goodness, as I now have clarity on my niche, my audience, their problems, and how to craft and deliver messaging. My business has gone from zero income to 2 full price enrollments in the last week, and I'm now fully confident that I'm on the right track, and that I'll become a 'working coach' within months. The level of gratitude I have for Marisa and team helping me to actualize my life mission is beyond words!
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