Bonus: 1-Minute Wisdom From Book Launch Party Guests

Erin Aquin  0:01  
Okay, I promised that we were doing something a little different this week. Hopefully you had a chance to listen to our last episode, where we talked all about what it takes to build a more generous business, along with downloading the PDF quick start guide that's going to give you ideas for how to do that in your client delivery, in your marketing, in helping future customers get ready to work with you a more creative approach to testimonials and reviews and all that stuff that I personally, as Steve said in that episode, I'm allergic to, but like how to do that in a generous way, and how to really support your customer facing team. So hopefully you've had a chance to listen to that, if not, be sure to listen and download the PDF. Quick Start at besuperbound.com/generous

Steve Haase  0:59  
and this episode is a bonus episode. It is one of the most fun ones that we have done. We had no idea what was going to happen. It was at our book launch party that we held recently here near our home. And we had together some of our mentors, friends, family. Everybody came to the party to help launch Superabound the book into the world, and we ask them all kinds of questions about how they are superabounding in their own life. And we can't wait to share some of the wisdom from our world, from from the people in our world with you today.

Erin Aquin  1:34  
So as I was putting this together, it was really fun, I think especially for me, because I got to relive the party a little bit, but I highly recommend this. It's there. I kind of give you some more details about this. I'm going to teach you how we put this all together inside the quickstart guide. So make sure you get that. But basically, we made this as part of our Superbound scavenger hunt, and we called the one minute podcast. Not every single interview is one minute. Steve kind of took the style of asking pretty I think you asked everybody that you enjoyed the same question. I went all over the place. I was just having a good time the audio. I follow the rules. Yes, I made the rules and then I break them. He followed my rules that I didn't follow, just how we often, how we roll. But you will hear that it's a busy room. Zoom does a really good job of noise canceling, actually, surprisingly, really, really happy with that, but we are yelling into the microphone at each other. You'll hear background noise. These are just going to kind of cut into one another. You're going to see us at the party, hanging out. And if I wouldn't want to offer for everybody listening is if you hear someone, because we didn't do introductions to everybody, some people, we just jumped right in. But if you hear someone where something really resonates with you and you want to get in touch with that person. You want to find out about their business, about how they work. I just want to invite you to email us at Hello@besuperbound.com, and if that person has a business and you can work with them, or they're open to being in touch, we will absolutely put you together. So I hope you enjoy, kind of the being behind the scenes at our party and being a fly on the wall for some of these short and sweet conversations with some of the people who were there.

Steve Haase  3:34  
Yeah, and the video is super fun, so check out the video if you are in a position to

Erin Aquin  3:40  
do so, yeah, head over to the show notes at besuperbound.com/podcast and they will be there in this bonus episode. 

Patti Mara

Okay, first of all, Patti Mara, very amazing entrepreneur. The first thing I noticed about you in getting a chance to work with you is how warm and non stuffy you are as a human and which I love in a business coach. It's been very inspiring to me to just let my actual energy come out in my coaching and not be a corporate drone. I want to know how it has that always been who you are, or is that something that you do intentionally as a coach,

Patti Mara  4:20  
I would, I would say, I would say, it's a combination of both. Um, so I really have been trained to be a coach through being a coach with Strategic Coach, right? And so I've had fabulous development, you know, asking questions rather than telling is, you know, one of the great things and the ability, the whole idea of unique ability. So even though the content is the same for each of the workshops, how we deliver it is completely unique based on our unique ability and what we bring. So I've had this complete freedom, almost like a play box, to be fully who I am. And that has also allowed me to bring it to my own business. So I'm a business coach. I work with retail and service businesses. Of course, what we're really excited about is we're launching an E commerce platform for locally owned businesses. We want to level the playing field for local businesses, and shift the whole power dynamic back to local we want to bridge the gap. You know, it's not easy for local businesses to reach their marketplace or there's no local newspapers, there's no local search engines, and it's not easy for local consumers to find what they want to buy locally. We want to bridge that gap, but bring the ease of shopping on Amazon to local shop, 24/7, next day delivery. We launched this fall in Guelph, Ontario. Our lantern to use. This lantern is to be in 10 communities in Canada in five years, in 50 communities in North America and 10, okay, yes, thank you and empower local Thank you, and congratulations on Superabound. What a beautiful book and a contribution to all of us. So thank you,


Steve Gaebel

Erin Aquin  6:17  
Steve, you are a very wise soul. You help a lot of people on their journeys, and you're super fun. I want to know if you have any advice or wisdom for someone who's like feeling called in a direction, but they're scared. I

Steve Gaebel  6:41  
That's a really good question. Erin, and because I've experienced that a lot myself going on your journey. So you have to have patience, you have to have stamina, and you have to be kind to yourself. You have to love yourself. You have to I'm going through the journey right now of learning that I can't love others unless I love myself. I also can't love myself unless I love others. There's a big correlation. There I was. I was at the beach the other day, and I've been working on right now on, how do I feel more relevant? And I came with a deep realization there that I have to for me to feel relevant, I have to acknowledge everyone else is relevant, but in this day and age of social media and a lot of negative, negative energy out there, it's really hard to just acknowledge the beauty in someone else without this negative dialog going on. So my advice would be to work in that negative dialog, get rid of it as best you can, but be kind to yourself and love yourself, because it's not easy. It takes decades. Maybe some people are born that way, but didn't happen for me and so, um, yeah, love yourself. That would be my advice.

Erin Aquin  8:16  
Thank you. It's really beautiful.


Katie McClelland

Steve Haase  8:21  
I'm here with Katie McClelland, the very first patron of Erin Aquin's First Yoga Book. She's very famous honor.

Katie McClelland  8:29  
That's that's an honor. Actually, she's so accomplished to think that I bought the first copy of her first book. I feel honored and special. Yeah. So

Steve Haase  8:39  
Katie is also a visionary business owner and Katie, I want to know about a time when your vision has helped you get through a challenging time in your business or life.

Katie McClelland  8:49  
The tools that are offered through the practice of yoga and mindfulness and meditation, I feel like they come in handy every single day if you choose to see the correlation of what you learn on the four corners of your yoga mat and how it translates into your daily life. Basically, yoga poses are uncomfortable, so they bump you up against all of your internal stuff, whether it's like impatience or self criticism or wanting to bolt or wanting to check out whatever it may be and many situations in life do the same thing, whether it's an argument with somebody, a breakup, a misunderstanding, something that we've done to self sabotage or punctuality issue. I mean, over and over and over again, I feel that what I do in my business is relevant in my daily life and in my sometimes to the point where I wish I was blissfully ignorant, because the awareness can be tiring, especially when you keep repeating you know the same thing, and you have trouble breaking free of it. But eventually you know, you go to the next level. And so I feel lucky to be in the business that I'm in, because it makes life. Rich and more interesting.

Steve Haase  10:03  
Thank you very much. It's beautiful.


Collin Brown

Erin Aquin  10:06  
Okay? Collin. Collin Brown, very famous man, you gotta be in the know. What is something that you've created in your life that you're really proud of?

Collin Brown  10:20  
Obviously my children are probably, yeah, we have to say that, um, I have created, geez, just a solid house, you know, for my family. And I would say, have I created anything good, you know, career wise, I've called it solid career, stable career, you know, just a happy life. You know that's, yeah,

Erin Aquin  10:51  
I think that's very true. You actually seem like a genuinely happy person. There's some people that kind of feel like happy ish, or they're faking it. You actually seem like genuinely, deeply happy. How have you managed to do that? Oh, I managed to do that. Or how did you like? What is your mindset that allows that to be my mindset.

Collin Brown  11:13  
I cherish my friends the most out of my in my life, and I've always said, you know, I'll never turn down a beer with my friends. I'm just very easy going. And I will try to, if people like even this, this is my first book launch that I've been to, so this is new for me, but I'll just, I'll try to say yes and have a positive I'm definitely a half cup full kind of person, so that's what it is. Yeah.

Erin Aquin  11:37  
May we all be like Collin, yeah, yes, saying yes, yeah, thank you. Thanks for being you.

Collin Brown 11:42  
Congratulations on your book launch, and this is your lantern. Technically, this is a lantern. Yep,



Amelia Pleasant Kennedy

Steve Haase  11:54  
I'm here with Amelia Pleasant Kennedy, life coach, entrepreneur, professional organizer and amazing human being. Amelia, I want to know how your vision has helped you get through a challenging time in life.

Amelia Pleasant Kennedy  12:16  
So one of the key elements, core values of my business is the courage to heal and that larger vision I hold that in terms of so my mother is living with dementia, and I am present with her current state of Mind, her current state of being each and every day. And so that idea of the courage to heal, I feel like I'm making those steps forward in small bits each and every day alongside of her, and it provides me with understanding and empathy for my clients and just the life transitions and challenges that they're going through, both in the short term and in the long term,

Steve Haase  13:13  
that's beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

 

Bev Aron

Bev Aron  13:17  
So I want to talk about Erin, actually, and my lesson is to do with Erin, which is Erin, everything she's achieved, including the book, including this beautiful business, beautiful with her husband and family, are a testament to ongoing, gradual, no rushed work. It's being available for growth, for what's there, for never shying away, but also never pushing out. And we never know where it's going to go.


Jon Haase

Steve Haase  13:53  
Tell me about a time that your vision for what you want to create and what you want to do helped you get through a challenging time.

Jon Haase  14:02  
Oh, that's like my whole life, yeah, yeah, right. One time hold the mic, okay, yeah, no. I had a vision for my life in which I got to serve in the Navy in a way that was really special and unique and hard, and I knew that whatever it would take to get to a training I would do. And I distinctly remember being held underwater while it was very difficult to hold your breath, while somebody was tying up your scuba regulator and not and forcing you into the ground and thinking to myself, I can't give up, or I don't get what I want. And that vision for my future where I got to graduate and go and serve helped me get through water confidence training, which was, in hindsight, a fun, challenging time, but in a moment, it was challenging,

Steve Haase  14:43  
so terrifying. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for serving, and thank you for being here at the book launch party.


Jessi McConnell

Jessi McConnell  14:52  
Hi, my name is Jessi. I am a photographer in Waterloo, Ontario, um, I've been doing photography professionally since 2018, my partner and I actually just started a new production company, so that's called final final co so we're trying to get more into the commercial space and do more, I don't know, with products and business and stuff like that, trying to work our way out of the day to day clients and wedding industry as great as it. Just wanna move on to the next step,

Erin Aquin  15:26  
yeah, because you probably don't wanna work every single weekend of your life forevermore, which makes a lot of sense. And let's be honest, business photography is usually very boring and you are very creative, and so as your partner, the work that you do is just so gorgeous. I'm so excited. I've been looking at your Instagram and like seeing what you're up to. So how do you make it creative? How do you take something where someone would say, this is a brand photo shoot? Here's me standing strictly with my self. How do you I know the answer to this, but like, what is your process as a photographer to helping people loosen up, have fun, really show who they are in a photo or a video? Yeah,

Jessi McConnell 16:12  
great question, because I don't really know. I feel like I just kind of wing it. I go with, like, whatever the the vibe is. I'm very much like. I bounce my like approach off of how clients are like other people are. So it's not like a one approach fits all kind of thing. So I just kind of see where it goes. I just hope that everyone is comfortable. Like, that's my main thing. So I'm like, a little goofy, I'm a little weird. I don't like things to be too like, posed or like strict feeling. So I like when things have more of, like a candid or like fly on the wall kind of feel.

Erin Aquin  16:56  
Yeah, you're an expert at that. Um, full disclosure, I have done boudoir shots. Which is not a comfortable thing for me. I'm really stiff for anybody. And you don't pretend that it's comfortable. And I think that that's something that's really amazing about you. You're really good at coaching people through that. And we're just so excited that the photo that you took of Steve and, I think, on our very first photo shoot together is our little bio image in the book Superbound. So thank you for giving us permission to use it. And if people want to work with you, how do they find you? Yeah,

Jessi McConnell  17:36  
um, so it's probably easier to go through final final co now, depending on what you're looking for. So it's just finalfinalCO on Instagram, that's F I N, A L, F I N, A L, C, O, and that's on Instagram. You can find our website as well as our personal pages and everything through there as well. That's, that's the easiest. Yeah, of course. Thank you,


John Gorrie

Steve Haase  17:59  
I'm here with John Gorrie, friend, tech titan and an all around good guy. And I want to know John, what was a time when your vision for what you want to create or what you want to do has helped you through something difficult.

John Gorrie  18:24  
Well, that's something that's helped me through something difficult, yeah?

Steve Haase  18:29  
Like when your vision has helped you through a difficult time?

John Gorrie  18:34  
Yeah, I think I'd probably go back to like, university time, you know, when you're just young and impressionable and you're just really not quite sure, but you've got this vision of, like, finishing this degree and something that you want to be able to accomplish. And say that you've done that. Both parents have done that. So it's something that you wanted to accomplish. And you know, difficulty, like, it's just, you know, you're away from family, you're away from friends, you're starting something new. You're having to cook your own meals. You're doing a lot of different things. And, yeah, you just had to really lean into it, yeah.


Donna Powell

Erin Aquin  19:21  
Okay, oh, what's your next lantern? So the next like vision aligned, kind of goal that you're thinking about.

Donna Powell  19:34  
All right? So the next thing that is really high on my list is to finish the coaching course that I signed up for. Let's promote you. I will be a life coach, but with an emphasis on implementing my human design teacher training, I. To give people some insight on their natural gifts, their natural blind spots, how they function, so that they can have a feeling of equality, freedom to approach the coaching from our perspective of being aligned with their designs, yes. You gotta know me to hire me, because I have no website. Same website here, I'm not on Instagram. I You just have to call me. You have to come through my front window and land in my living room. 

Erin Aquin  20:47  
I like to say She's exclusive. You're she's very exclusive. You have to know somebody, you have to be referred. And that's how it is. That's how it is for now. Thank you, Donna. 


Steph 

Erin Aquin  21:00  
What is something you have done in your life that you didn't think you could do, but now you're like, oh, yeah, of course,

Steph   21:10  
probably everything that I've ever done in my entire life, definitely finishing my master's degree. Yeah, moving to Saint Jacobs, having a kid. Um, yeah, I feel like I just take the path that comes ahead of me and let it lead me to where I need to go. Okay, that's

Erin Aquin  21:33  
a really interesting thing, because I think a lot of people feel like they have to really control it. It kind of feels like that's a self trust that you maybe have. How did you develop, like, that ability to go with the flow, but like, in a more directed way? Yeah, that's

Steph   21:52  
a good question, because I'm a planner. I make lists for like, every aspect of my life, and I love checking things off, but I've realized, like, when I just let things happen, then it takes me to where I need to go. I don't know. I have had some fun trips, um, when I lived out west, and they kind of helped me explore my mind and let me be a little bit more free with what I need to do. And here I am.

Erin Aquin  22:25  
And you're the coolest mom around, by the way, also debatable, so you have a great kid. So yay. Thank you. Thank you for doing the one minute podcast. Always


Jonathan Tufano

Steve Haase  22:33  
I'm here with Jonathan Tufano, entrepreneur, business owner, e commerce expert and all around, great guy. And my question for you, Jonathan is, what emotion that is usually kind of a difficult one actually gives you strength, gives you wisdom and insight. Let's talk about making friends with our emotions. I

Jonathan Tufano  22:58  
Thank you for the prompt, Steve. I'm gonna have to reflect on that for a moment. What emotion I would say, gosh, is frustration and emotion? Yeah, I would say frustration. When I find myself frustrated, it's usually because I feel like something needs to be different than it is, and that propels me to start asking questions, right? I'm the type of person that if there's a stone in my shoe, I'm going to figure out how to get that stone out. Right? That's a metaphor. Could be a lot of things that are manifesting as that stone, but I find that frustration leads to intolerance, and intolerance leads to change.

Steve Haase  23:44  
So it's the catalyst for change that, in the beginning feels like you might be stuck. You might be kind of spinning your wheels, but it's actually forward movement in disguise.

Jonathan Tufano 23:54  
I agree. It's, it's like a little, a little flag being waved, right? And you're like, something's not quite right. I'm frustrated because of the circumstances that I'm finding they're not satisfactory, so I need to change those circumstances.

Steve Haase  24:11  
Anything else you want to share?

Jonathan Tufano  24:16  
Well, I want to be mindful of the one minute limit, but I'll just say this Superabound yourself. If you find yourself to be frustrated, this is what you want to get start here, light your lanterns, climb your mountain, leave a legacy that you'll be proud of, for yourself and for everyone else that comes in contact with you and your legacy, be that your family or others, there's a lot of work worth doing, and it's already inside of you,

Steve Haase  24:54  
beautiful. Thank you for sharing your wisdom

Jonathan Tufano2  24:56  
anytime. Thanks for having me.