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Welcome back! Kathi and Michele share the next three steps on how to meet a deadline that seems impossible.  Kathi shares about how setting up collaboration with a few  to help you with both the creative and practical side of life when you have a difficult deadline. 

Have a deadline to meet? Want help with the practical side of getting it done?  Join Kathi and Michele as they help you to align the practical side of your life in the process.  Save up those coffee cards for “such a time as this”! 

• How to utilize practical help in the short term to meet that deadline.  
• The importance of accountability with a few people you really trust. 
• Last but not least, when to consider if it is necessary to renegotiate. 

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Kathi and Michele share 6 ways to meet a deadline.  Home remodel, DIY, and other commitments can make a deadline seem “extra” impossible. Today you will learn how to work to make any deadline possible.

Kathi and Michele share their crazy home remodel antics while keeping book deadlines.  Check out Michele’s “mobile” office shown below. 

• How short sprints of work are beneficial to your strategy. 
• The importance of small rewards. 
• How to consider creative help in completing your project. 
• How tools like Voxer can help you in brainstorming.

Michele shares with us about her mobile office in the middle of a deadline!  Here what it looked like in reality:

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Welcome back! Thank you for joining us in part 2 of “Finding Your Niche” with Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt. Last week you learned why it’s important to find your niche and today you’ll learn how to find it. 

Kathi shares two very specific questions to help you with this. Even if you don’t know what your passion is and as Michele says, “When you can’t see the forest through the trees,” Kathi encourages you how to find out what your niche is in a very simplified way. If you’ve been wondering what your message is and how to pinpoint it and cultivate it, today’s episode is just for you.

• What the 2 questions are that Kathi asks when it comes to finding your niche. 
• Why asking yourself what your passionate about can help you find your specialty. 
• What an example of expertise looks like when it comes to finding a niche. 
• What it means when people keep asking you the same question. 

As promised, here is Kathi’s helpful sentence when narrowing down and clarifying your niche. Fill in the blanks with your own answers to help you find yours.

“I can offer ______ to ______ who are ______ about ______because _______.”

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Kathi and Michele talk about something that is so important to all of us; finding your niche. It’s hard to narrow down our message from just wanting to help “everyone” to something very specific that we want to speak into the lives of others.

Kathi says there is something about each of us that makes us memorable and we don’t want to spend the rest of our lives with a message inside of us that needs to be shared.

• Why it’s important to find your niche. 
• Why finding your niche helps make you memorable. 
• Why finding your niche actually makes you an expert. 
• Why finding your niche helps you get a book contract. 

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The post Eps. #121: (Part Two) New Year, New Plans – The 3 Key Questions Every Communicator Must Ask Before the New Year Year appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Kathi and Michele sit down in today’s podcast to talk about Part 2 of their strategies for the New Year. They talk about the fun things that come with launching new things and the reality of needing to let go of other things. 

• How to talk to yourself about whether or not your project is “worth it.”
• Why money is not always the answer when deciding whether or not you should be continuing a project.
• The 3 questions to ask yourself going in to the New Year.
• What it means to be in your “lane.”

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