"I have not made Mission Accomplished YET, but I am thrilled to Graduate!"I learned of EPM after taking the Profitable Product Idea challenge last fall – I don’t remember how I learned about PPI. It was definitely a case of “when the student is ready the teacher appears”. On the first day of PPI, as an educator myself, I immediately saw the framework behind the Xperiencify platform combining adult learning, connectivism, and gamification theories. I was super impressed and wanted to learn how to do that in my teaching and proposed business. I had been considering launching my RN-led integrative health coaching business for years, and now was my time to do this. On Day 1, logging into EPM and seeing the countdown for 90 days, it seemed there would be plenty of time to meet Mission Accomplished. And now it’s down to the wire with less than 3 hours to go. It turns out my ideas were more nebulous than I knew. I pivoted 180-degrees not once, but twice which felt like a waste of time. Yet I knew that the time to pivot was better done upfront with coaching and not later on by myself. @CoachMatthew was the voice of calm and reason and encouragement and possibilities during that time. I fell behind in December, swirling in my own MF, feeling stuck. Much of my activity was cerebral, working it all out. Also, it finally dawned on me that Marisa makes EPM accessible to multiple styles of learning. When I finally sent off the transcripts and worksheets to my local print shop so I could read and write all over them, I started to make fast progress. Here’s me with my two 3-inch binders of EPM transcripts! Once I ditched the videos for transiptscr, I easily met the points for graduation. I have not made Mission Accomplished YET, but I am thrilled to Graduate! I am still working my milestones and have a new target of meeting M.A. by the end of February in time for LYM Live – which I will attend with 3 friends! This has been – by far – THE BEST online learning experience ever! Thank you Marisa, Murray, Matthew and #STARS, Emily, Arshe, all the coaches, the EPM community, and all my new and amazing friends met here, where WHYs happen. The world is a better place for finding expression in living our messages! Stay tuned to see what happens with my Self-Health Academy!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Stop prepping. Just do! I am finally beginning to believe I have enough information already and am enough just as I am, and that someone needs what I have.
How did EPM help you become successful?
Walked me through step-by-step basic business and marketing principles that I never knew. Made it easy to understand, too! And always, high marketing, sales, and business ethics. Thank you for the ethics.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I actually have more confidence, centered confidence, in myself.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Probably the structure, what was once time-limited 1:1 live coaching, to include online courses for my coaching topics, also pivoting topics (probably) to include Covid long-haulers for health recovery.
What is now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
This last week, a new idea blossomed of an expanded business model to market custom self-health courses to senior living centers in a B2B model, and that I may actually move beyond a sole entrepreneur program to actually owning a business and hiring other nurses!