Hello glorious game-changers!! 🙂
Thank you for joining me for ongoing support around the pop-up experiment of JFDI with Bon!
Before we get to the links to all the JFDI with Bon replays you’re retaining access to, here is your Zoom link for all of our 2022 JFDI hotseat sessions. Keep this handy! And keep an eye on my events calendar for our dates (time will always be 11:30am Pacific). So excited for where we’ll GROW from here!
2022 Zooms: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85965793555
The replays of all our 2020 and 2021 Q&A Zooms are at the same Q&A page we used for JFDI, OG… where it all began. Head over there for SO many replays of SO MUCH inspiration, the epic chats, and of course an open comments area for you to continue the workout.
Meanwhile, keep the convo going with one another in all the places (including of course the comments in the ongoing months’ pages) and keep tagging me and/or using #JFDIwithBon out on social to get my eyes on your creations! I’m so excited to continue celebrating you as we grow-grow-grow your baby pancake into a mighty stack (of CASH)!
Woo HOO!
This is how we celebrate money in the Gillespie-Johnson household. We send each other movies and photos every time we’re interacting with our stacks like this (at least monthly, as we move money around between our corporation and our individual accounts).
As we expand beyond the OG JFDI experience, we’ll start doing more money mindset and manifestation work. 😉 Ready?
Love y’all.
Beautiful people! Hello!
Welcome to the inaugural edition of JFDI with Bonnie Gillespie! That’s me! 😉
If you missed the live webinar in which we did “B-School in an hour” with the lovely Thalma and her meditative-music business idea, please be sure to set aside some time to watch the process of speed-walking through our five modules together now.
We are going to now do a much deeper dive of each of these five modules — and get you ready to take your business idea out into the world — together.
REPLAYS OF OUR MEETINGS, MARCH THROUGH JUNE 2020
~ Module 1: What’s Your Undervalued Superpower? (This is when we figure out what business you’re going to build!) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ Module 2: Who Benefits from Your Superpower? (This is when we use Bon’s famous targeting method on your buyers!) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ Module 3: What’s the Best Way for You to Deliver the Goods? (Our most techie module; this is when we geek out together!) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ Module 4: How to Price Your Offering (Here, we’ll tackle money mindset, your values around value, and practical pricing.) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ Module 5: Let’s Launch! (Ooh, baby, here’s where we get you marketing your new offering in totally non-icky ways!) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ BONUS Zoom: Content Creation Like a Mo’ Fo’ (Learn how to plan your year using my soon-to-be-famous 5×5 content planning method!) WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS HERE
~ Q&A Zoom: WATCH THE 4 REPLAYS + OUR ONGOING 2020-2021 MONTHLY REPLAYS HERE
Remember, your only limit will be how much YOU put into the work away from this space. But for this time we share, you’ll have our support in an unprecedented way for a part of business we’ve only ever made available to private coaching clients and one single entrepreneurial mastermind group that’s been meeting fortnightly since 2014.
Why not take this bizarre time in life to experiment and see if we can get more people headed toward the kind of success we know is possible when we validate a business idea and use the Self-Management for Actors principles to target and market the dang thing?!?
So here we go!
You’ll need to REGISTER for each of our live Zoom sessions so please take care of that little detail now (so Zoom can send you the reminder email). The replay will always go on the module page, where we’ll continue to do the homework for that module together in the comments.
We’ll also have a monthly Q&A Zoom session in which the convo can go far beyond the module’s topics should we need that extra room to wiggle. We’re figuring this out as we go! 🙂 Woo HOO!
Even if you feel “behind” or lost, please join us on the live Zooms — because isolation never feels fun, and our creative energy may be JUST what you need (in ways that have nothing to do with your offering). This is your gym… even if your workout today is Shavasana.
REMINDER: You have through June 30th to access all this gloriousness, rewatch the replays, interact in the comments, bookmark the resources. IF you are staying on with us for the Pancakers’ Playhouse monthly membership, you’ll retain access to everything here in the JFDI with Bon course as well as enjoy a monthly Zoom hotseat session with me to work out these muscles and continue to the convo of this brilliance as you bust through blocks and get your gifts OUT into the world!
I’m so excited to jam with the spectacular people we have collected here and I want to THANK YOU for investing in yourself during this confusing time. We’re going to use some of that chaotic energy to build things for the world that not only serve THEM but help keep YOUR LIVELIHOOD feeling as vibrant and solid as possible in an ever-changing world.
Talk about a win-win, huh?
Love you beautiful people!
Please introduce yourself below and share a bit about what a-ha moments you might have had during the webinar or what sorts of ideas you’re batting around for the business you’ll craft with us during this time.
All my love,
The information provided as a part of your JFDI membership is intended to educate and inspire you as you find joy in your creative journey using Bonnie Gillespie’s enoughness principles. Confidentiality is expected out of respect for all participants here. Should you choose to share your experiences, please do not couch it as advice but instead as something that worked for you, nothing more. While we occasionally touch on topics of financial or business advice as well as mental and emotional health in our work together, nothing we provide is intended to replace care that is better received from qualified professionals in the financial, legal, medical, and psychiatric fields. JFDI is not a substitute for a medical or clinical diagnosis or treatment. You are expected to know when your needs expand beyond *our* capacity as your facilitators. 😉
I’m going to get my big ole enoughness pants on and be the first to say HELLO! Hi gorgeous people! I’m excited to be surrounded by you all as we tackle the tangible and intangible. ☺️
~Alex
WOO HOO! Love your vibe, leaderlady. Thank you for kicking us off here.
Hi Everyone.
I’m excited. I signed up for tomorrow. I do have rehearsal but I’m going to try and catch it
hey Remy!
here we are again. together. yay!
so glad your rehearsal is still happening!
Hey Remy, great to see you here!
So glad you were able to join us, Remy. 🙂
Hi Leaders!
I am so excited about this. I have so many ideas and can’t wait to start to formulate them into something concrete. I have no idea where this will take me but I’m so ready for the journey!
So cool Laura! My brain bounces between being full of ideas and just empty! Looking forward to receiving assistance!
So excited that you’re here, Laura! LOVE your ideas!
Thank you Bonnie!
My first business was selling hot dogs with my brothers at outdoor concerts in the 70’s! lol we did alright and got to hear lots of great music. Next I made rope belts, these very fancy braided belts, me and a a couple of friends and we sold them at craft fairs! lol. All during the patched jeans era I was the “go to” seamstress for all kinds of patches, I had boxes of fabrics in all colors and patterns. 50 cents a patch if you can imagine that.
I think I’ve done more odd jobs than anyone I know. I used to sew the bindings on the old bank passbooks when they existed. It was temp work. I also worked in a kennel and in a breeding lab for guinea pigs and rats also as a temp gig. Every job I ever had I ended up running the joint or being asked to. I seem to leap through the learning (even when I am not ready and haven’t really learned nearly enough to claim any kind of mastery) and get to a certain level then…stay there. I am often the “right hand man” the ‘second in command’ “the backbone of the operation” I have so much fire in my chart so I have vision and am great at starting things up – I also have so many fixed signs in my chart that it’s no wonder I am the heavy lifter shepherding projects. I am seeing that I need to take more ownership of what I do. Step into that big ol 5 leadership and create something that is uniquely me and stick with it for awhile.
So right now my businesses are Jupiter House Productions, my film making production company. I have Reiki on Hudson, my oils and reiki, meditation, workshop leading, vision boarding and yoga therapy business. Those are all currently very up close and personal businesses not online with passive income potential businesses and right now none of them are generating significant income.
In terms of infrastructure, I have my self tape studio and my VO closet and of course the LLC and the ability to exchange money, payment etc. I have websites for both Jupiter House and Reiki on Hudson. And now I have some time on my hands! Yay!
I’ve been thinking about the call yesterday and how best to integrate these assets to launch some sort of GUIDESS kind of thing online where maybe I record some videos and VO’s and put them to beautiful images and do some sort of roundup of my daily dose of spiritual teachers. The Guidess Roundup or some such.
I loved all of the comments yesterday. So happy to be here. I was thinking maybe I could talk about a yoga pose, an essential oil, a chrystal and some teachings that all support one another for the specific issue. So for example, if you are dealing with heartbreak, diffuse some rose oil (give the properties and links) use a rose quartz, place it on your heart and read this.. or that or this and that and put in links — or for depression try legs up the wall etc etc so sort of pull it all together by topics? Well that’s some brainstorming right here on the page!
I couldn’t comment online because I was logged in on my phone and couldn’t figure it out but what a WONDERFUL call.
HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL!
And HELL YEAH Bonnie you can do a whole coaching in 15 minutes. A whole coaching and then some. It’s a joy to watch you in action!
I love all this amazing work, Laura! Yes, yes, YES!!!!!! I totally see a beautifully integrated set of offerings with all sorts of ways to bring in revenue off different elements of them all. Yay! 🙂
I’m excited about this!!!
Meeeeee tooooo!
hey fierce ones!
it’s all getting super-real & crazy here in NYC. my partner & i have been batting around several ideas for sometime now, but we could never find clarity on whether they were merely marketing/branding concepts or if there is something more. i suspect the latter, but having difficulty deciphering the what & how of it all. and then, as so many of our gig jobs evaporated in the past 5 days—well, wowza! i’ve really got to figure out how to make some passive income happen and hopefully it is tied into our marketing/branding ideas. hence, this is wonderful timing.
woot!
thank you so much; can’t wait!
and please stay safe & healthy everyone.
smooches,
Z.
p.s. i’m really excited about digging in more with tomorrow’s topic; that undervalued superpower is a bit of a doozy to clarify. in many ways, this feels like the most difficult step in this process.
So glad you’re here to dive in on all of this with us!
Hello, lovelies! Can’t wait to get started on this new offering. 2020 is my year to kick my business stuff into high gear so this is perfectly timed. <3
Woo HOO! LOVE your ideas so much!
Hi everyone! Looking forward to some intense work on my business. This was the exact time I was setting aside to work on it so the timing is perfect and I’m excited to dig in!
Woo HOO! 🙂 So excited!
Hello to everyone. Was planning to use this time to complete something that I’ve been toying with for a year. Ready to climb these 5 steps one at a time to get where I want to be. I’ve been around the awesomeness of Bon for over a dozen years and I know this is going to be an amazing ride.
Love having you with us, Dave! 🙂
Hi ninjas, looking forward to JFDI and see you all thrive in your businesses.
So glad you’re here! LOVE that you’re already building things, right after our module 1 Zoom!
Hello!! I’ve had the spark of a new side biz VERY recently and now have an abundance of time to dive in. Looking forward to support you all and the discoveries we’ll make along the way!
Yayayayayay!
Hi everyone! Great Zoom! 🙂
As I launch my new business, I worry about the saturated market that -but hearing “why not room for one more” towards the end of the call made me feel a bit better.
Looking forward to learning and sharing with all y’all!
xo,
~v
Think about someone like Oprah, way at the beginning of her shift from a news anchor to trying her hand at her own show. She was entering a saturated marketplace (Donahue and Merv DOMINATED the space) and of course no one who looked like Oprah had ever had her own show.
Have you read the 1000 true fans concept? The idea is that — with 1000 true fans — you can make all the money you’ll ever need because that’s enough momentum for a movement. I, of course, am living proof of that.
Also (re-)watch my livestream on the population of thirds. Your work is to find the folks who are already in your fanbase (and were, even before you’ve created a thing for them). Keep those folks supplied with offers. They will take care of you!
You’ve got this!
Well, I loved that Zoom like crazy even though if I allow some of the suits to come in, I get anxious bc I’ve had so many coaching niches/side businesses of doing resumes, and ish like that. So I’m looking at it as, “I’ve tried different things and every experience is for learning.” Woooooo… breathing through this and so excited!!
Nice!
Great reframe! Remember the concept of “failing forward.” If every single thing you’ve done has taught you something you’ll never have to learn the hard way again, think of how much quicker you’ll get to the good stuff each time from here! Love your energy, Gladys. You’ve got this!
Hello again!
I am still keen to create something in these months. I have a pretty good idea what I want to do and got a lot out of the first 3 calls in the series and then dropped off the calls because I got involved in standing up a non-profit Mask Making Group to support healthcare workersin the past three weeks! It’s been rewarding and many hands make light work as the saying goes and now it’s operationalized and I am back!
I have found with the 100 days and other SMFA that when I don’t complete a lap it’s often beneficial to go ‘back to one’ and refresh so here i am picking back up on this idea for a curated personalized spiritual practice guide business. One to the things I’m learning in this time of Covid-19 is that there are MASSIVE amounts of information about EVERYTHING! I’ve been figuring out ways to discern what will work for me, how much zooming and what kind I can tolerate, what mailing lists to stay on and which ones to trash and I think I may be on to something that I could share. I think that is what I want my business to be. Helping other people discern what is good for them – it’s different for all of us. I want to put together a curated set of practices that people can then pick from based on personal preference, lifestyle, beliefs etc. It will culminate with the offer of one on one coaching. I have lot’s of ideas, now to get to the details!
Laura, I love this idea! A curated personal growth site with something for everyone… hmm. Very cool! Let’s touch base soon, maybe tomorrow?
AWESOME! When I was playing with the word discernment for my own healing journey, I came across the word viveka. It really sings to me. Play with that a bit, perhaps? I’m so excited for all you’re building, always!
Love love love you all! Was about to jump on today’s call (finally!) But I’m not there. I feel the need/desire to attend to other things that require my attention and as much as I want to see all your faces I wouldn’t be present and that’s not fair to anyone.
❤️ See you at the next one I hope!
We’re here when you’re aligned for it, babe. Love you!
Hello fabulous ninja community <3
Fellow Austrian ninja Katharina mentioned this program to me weeks ago… But I guess I was still getting ready to get ready. This morning I felt it was right to sign up and dive in 🙂
I am looking forward to finding out what my superpower could be… I'm not the first person to feel like her passion runs across different areas, and I suspect one of my challenges is going to be zooming in and exploring what you can do in one specific area. So here I am, eager beaver, hahaha, ready to learn!
Hooray for eager beavers! 🙂 So glad you’re here, Julia. Thank you, Katharina, for bringing Julia to us! Excited to jam with you, sweetheart! Woo HOO!
Helloooo!
So this is exciting ! I signed up for this intriguing program this morning on a « this just feels right » impulse! Then of course I started second guessing myself but I’m gonna go with my first impulse ! Looking forward to tomorrow and diving in
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SO glad you’re with us, Anna! You’re going to have so much fun — and, yes, probably face down some fears — as we JFDI together!
hi Bon and our jfdi fam!! I loved brainstorming during today’s call and tracking the historical trends of my undervalued superpower, which I’ve found to be “nurturing creative plants” of friends and family, who often don’t have support elsewhere. They check with me if their ideas are worth investing in (which is always “of course!” if it gives them joy). It’s effortlessly fun for me to listen and yes-and, as I’m absorbed into their worlds, multiplying their creative energy and fleshing out their characters/plots/universes.
This has always been a social process, because I don’t enjoy creating if not with and for someone else. I’ve managed to grow my own plants, by writing in science lecture halls (grafting stories onto soundbites from a prof enthusiastic about something entirely different). And I quit a ghostwriting job, because I knew my skills are worth far more than offered (1% of min. wage), so it’s THE rare thing of mine that I KNOW when to walk away from projected low monetary enoughness.
So my first pancake is “I’ll derive exactly how cool your plant is and lovingly/enthusiastically strengthen what makes it so needed by the world. But if you don’t water it with me, I can’t help bring out its flowers.” This might be already a Level 4/5 on the Triangle of Dave. 😛 because the plant needs to be with someone I can mind-meld with and have mutual trust with in partnership.
I’d love suggestions on what Level 1-3 could be, because I want to avoid grammatical editing (my equivalent to tutoring) but also need existing plants to offer anything (maybe this is low enoughness)? And my own plants might be too close to home D:
ooh, important to mention: plants have included writing/editing/planning for publication for a collaborative novel, performing a spoken word piece created with two pieces interwoven and based on shared history, creating episodes for a mini igtv series based off someone else’s characters and general idea, feedback on a novel and a script-in-progress, encouragement after reading the start of a novel or idea for a music channel (lowest effort for me, but not a soldier that I can set in place to work elsewhere 😛 ), and writing the sequel of a book already written by someone else
and the more hands-on I am, the more the material needs to fit my values (ex. social justice/awareness, psychological exploration, intersectional identities, emotional vulnerability)
So, I don’t want you attempting to do all levels of the triangle at once, of course, because Dave is the example of what’s possible when you have decades in business, an established buyerbase/fanbase, and you’re trying to serve several levels of the population at once.
For your first pancake, consider what you could teach someone else about HOW you do the active listening, HOW you always “yes, and…” others, HOW your hear their ideas and see them as plants that can be nurtured. All of these are skills you have that you undervalue and you could teach someone else — through downloadables or mini-courses or even through articles or tip sheets — how to cultivate this sort of superpower. You could also create guides for people who feel as though they’re never understood. How could they learn to communicate their ideas in ways that get them feeling HEARD?
Brainstorm stuff like that. 😉
ooooh, thanks, Bon!
At module 3, I feel like I accidentally started making a layered cake, instead of pancake, and I feel the overwhelm creeping in. I simplified my superpower to listening well, and I listed examples of bad vs. good listening that I’ve experienced. I realized that my examples of bad listening are rooted in the listener wanting to shut out/down the emotion of the person sharing, by either saying something cliche or using an empathetic technique, like reflective listening, as a bandage to slap on and pat themselves on the back for being “understanding.” Good listeners are willing to sit in the discomfort and emotions of the person sharing with them. I don’t want to market towards the problem (“Are you a bad listener? Here’s why!”), and thought I could make low-stress tip graphics on instagram. Module 2 taught me that my ideal person (and several 75% versions) are NOT on instagram or even involved on social media much, and instead prefer watching videos that address these situations narratively or vlog-style. Part of me isn’t sure that I’ll have enough material to fill several videos, and a suit is doubting whether I’ll be able to make enough consistently or well to gain or sustain interest, because of similar past projects that fizzled due to overwhelm.
All of which to say, I wanted to double-check with you (Bon and jfdi fam!) if I’m on the right track and just need to buoy my enoughness or if I found my way back into something far too much for a first pancake. 😛
Thanks!!
Okay, this is great. You’ve definitely shared enough info for me to be able to help you with the next step, which should help you answer the question as to whether you’re on the right track. 😉 And as for your enoughness, you’re there once you get back to single pancake level with this. You know that! Just takes resetting now and then.
Could you look at some of the vids on YouTube that are images with voiceover? I’m thinking things like The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: Einstein Time and How does your brain respond to pain?. I feel like you could blend what YOU want to do (create low-stress Instagram graphics) and where your buyer is (YouTube) this way.
But keep in mind, people who might be a lot like your person probably love Instagram accounts like Amber Rae and Christine Rai. If I’m understanding your person, of course. You let me know!
Let’s see where this lands and go from there! 🙂
When you think of me …. (Dang it, after our latest Pancakers call, I realized that I answered that prompt with a well-rehearsed answer, like the good student, good girl version of me. The answer wasn’t a *wrong* answer — I DO want to be in a private villa somewhere living a creative life and making a creative life without losing my mind or my health! — but it wasn’t my *true* answer, if that makes sense. The vision that needed to be voiced.
So I’ll state that version here:
When you think of me … I’m holding space
For people around the world
to process their grief
+
tell the stories of their loved ones
in a beautiful
healing
restorative
inspiring
way
so they can live their fullest lives
unburdened by unnecessary suffering
and unprocessed grief and pain
That’s the vision I want to be working toward. Love ya!
Love this. Love you for coming back around and sharing it with us. Beautiful! I see you!
Thank you so much, Bonnie! I just went to my Reddit account and counted up how many users I’ve made supportive or outreach comments to in the various grief-related threads over the last year, and counted 78! Commenting on Reddit posts doesn’t always feel like much or “enough” but that’s at least 78 human beings in pain I reached out to, and hope that even more read the comments and found some solace. A big part of my grief work in the background. Inspiration to be just a bit more visible, to help even more people.
I think that’s lovely and wonderful. Like you! 🙂