Jill Friday - I'm Writing a Book! (LA 1528)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:

Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about the book she's writing. I can't wait to hear this also.

Jill DeWit:

Cool. So yesterday I alluded to, I talked about this not long ago. I always have three books on my nightstand. I have one, that's a high power, kind of business-related, leadership book. And then I often have a self-help book. And then I have a fun book, one of this fun book I'm reading right now, it's actually really fun for me. It's called Mouse Tales. It's Disneyland behind the scenes. And it's talking about all the stuff that went wrong and all the rats that happened in the beginning, early years and just crazy things that broke, went wrong, stuff he didn't know about, Club 33 is mentioned for those of you know who that is and it's just really kind of fun. It's cool. So anyway, I have all these books on my nightstand. While I'm reading this one book, this is going to tie into this, I promise.

Jill DeWit:

So reading this book from this woman, so I'm going to talk about mine here in the show, but I thought as preface to my book, I've found this book on the nightstand. I'm not going to say who it is because I don't think it's nice. I don't want to name names, but I am not impressed by her book. So she wrote this book as a woman in her late forties to help other young women. So you think it's going to be great. I'm like, I got to hear what she has to say, but as I'm reading the book, I realized, well, hold on a moment. You're beautiful. You've never not got any job that you didn't want. You are happily married, no kids. She's just never failed.

Steven Butala:

No life experience.

Jill DeWit:

That's my problem with this and no real experience. Her parents are still together. No one's been through a divorce. I think her grandparents and great-grandparents are still alive. She's never experienced any kind of serious hardship.

Steven Butala:

Who's that helping?

Jill DeWit:

So what's interesting is, I'm using the word interesting lieu of other words, but interesting is because she has no real experience, the stuff that she brings to the table is kind of fluff. I'm like, that's all you got? Her experiences and here's what I think you need to do to be successful. Have another dress at the office? You can always dress up. That's in there, that's in there. It's stuff have a backup dress for emergencies so you look good.

Steven Butala:

Oh man.

Jill DeWit:

Wait a minute. There's way more I think people need to think about and know about-

Steven Butala:

Before we get into it.

Jill DeWit:

Why are you cutting me off?

Steven Butala:

Because this is the topic of this show. This is interesting. You know why? Because I really want to get into it with you, but let's get the question out of the way. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:

Dana wrote, hi everyone. I joined Land Academy recently and I'm so glad I did. There's a wealth of information available here on discord and the podcasts, et cetera and it's so valuable. That being said, I am often guilty of spending too much time absorbing information and researching. I've been slow to start taking action on my first mailer. I suspect that may also be spending too much time thinking about how I want to brand my company and deciding on a name. I want to set up a domain for a landing slash squeeze page, along with profiles on social media and listing sites. My first thought was using my last name, but I'm having second and third thoughts because it doesn't seem memorable or catchy enough.