Community, it is my joy to introduce the first two recipients of the RISEhigHER Elevation Award, made possible by our friends at 2020 Counseling Professionals. Myra M. Harris, Founder of Horn of Oil Publishers, LLC (Maryland) @Myra Harris Myra is an author, educator, faith based teacher, and mentor with more than thirty years in education and more than twenty years in pastoral leadership. Horn of Oil Publishers creates books, journals, teachings, and Gatherings for people rebuilding after grief, illness, or loss. Her work helps people move past surviving and start rebuilding with hope and purpose. She has lived what she publishes, and it shows on every page. Diane Sue Payne, Founder of Sew Extra Fabric Co. (Illinois) @Diane Payne Diane is a mom, grandmother, entrepreneur, and lifelong creative leader. Sew Extra Fabric Co. offers precut sewing kits, custom quilts, quality fabrics, tutorials, and accessories for anyone who has ever stood over a beautiful piece of fabric, scissors in hand, too nervous to make the first cut. Diane makes that first cut for you, so you get to the fun part. Fun, personal, and a little extra, just like her. Each winner will use her award to carry out her own 90 Day Impact Plan, and we'll cheer them on every step of the way. Here's what I want you to take from this. Neither of these women won by sounding big. They won by being honest about where their businesses stand and clear about what they would do next. Say the smaller true thing. It wins more often than we think, and the Lord seems to like it that way too. Applications open again in Q4. The application, dates, and rubric will be posted right here before anything opens, so stay close. Drop a 🎉 in the comments and help me celebrate Myra and Diane. Women rise. Lives are lifted. Coach Jenn

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Hey friends, Tonight, in the live room I am announcing the winner of the RISEhigHER Elevation Award. Come celebrate her with me. She earned it. Then I am going to do something that matters more for you. Here is what the scoring showed in this round. Every single application lost the most points in the same place: the 90-Day Impact Plan. It is also the highest weighted section on the rubric and the one tied to the second half of the money. So the thing standing between our people and a funded plan is not talent, and it is not the business. It is one section that nobody has ever been taught how to write. So tonight I am teaching it. What a 90-Day Impact Plan actually is, what a reviewer is looking for, and the three mistakes that cost every applicant in this round real points. Now the part you need to hear. Applications open again in Q4. Because I am teaching this tonight, the 90-Day Impact Plan will be scored more closely in that round than it was in this one. The bar goes up, because you will have been shown where the bar is. That is only fair to the people who show up. If you plan to apply in Q4, be in the room tonight. 7pm CST in the live room: LINK See you tonight. Jennifer Murchison, M.Ed. Founder and Principal Consultant The Murchison Consulting Group, LLC Let's rise together.

@Diane Payne set a goal for August and she exceeded it. The move that made the difference was where she chose to spend her time. She shifted her energy toward the platforms where people are actively searching for what she sells and are ready to buy, rather than the ones that simply hand out views. Attention and buying intent are two different things, and she stopped trading one for the other. She also works the lessons in this community every week. She is not just taking in new information, she is applying it, and you can see it in her business a few days later. As a Boardroom member, Diane uses her text access to me consistently. Some weeks it is a win she wants to share. Other weeks the message is simply that she is over it. I want you to know that some of her strongest strategy this month came out of those honest moments, because she reached out before she had it figured out rather than after. That is what this is evidence of. The resources here work when you use them, and being candid about where you are stuck is what makes coaching useful. Congratulations, Diane. I am proud of you, and I am looking forward to what September brings.

@Ayanna Smith hit her goal for the month. Then she went past it. Here is what she did. She stopped spreading herself thin and put her attention on the business that actually pays her. Then she sat down and looked at her leads. She found seven people who had already raised their hand and were still sitting there, waiting on her. Seven. Not seven strangers. Seven people who had already said they were interested. She followed up. The goal fell. In her words: focus and follow up. Most of us are not one funnel away. We are one follow up away. The opportunity you have been praying for may already be sitting in your inbox waiting on you to say something. So go look. Open the notes, the DMs, the missed calls. Count how many people you left hanging, then go close that gap this week. Congratulations, Dr. Ayanna. Keep rising. 👏