Yvonne‘s Crazy Adventure December 11, 2025 · Women's Empowerment Community

Yvonne‘s Crazy Adventure December 11, 2025

Afternoon walking thoughts – Summit continued

Today was day two of the summit - I’ll say five amazing speakers even though I was one of them. I messaged Mary after who’s a fellow speaker and asked her how my talk was and she said I did really well and she wouldn’t lie. She told me she wouldn’t lie because she says it as it is because that’s part of her business.

A bit disappointed at the support, but that’s my own fault. When we know, we know - and when we expect something else, that’s on us. This has been a great life lesson for me. Awareness is everything, and not everybody has awareness.

I only had one technological glitch, and everybody messaged me, but I couldn’t see the message until finally Heather came off of mute and told me that they couldn’t see my screen share or hear sound.

It took 10 minutes for them to get my attention, and I told Kimberly next time that happens to simply yell because that would’ve gotten my attention, but she had messaged me on messenger. I certainly wasn’t looking at messenger. I was already trying to share screen and be my own co-host. It’s super important that whenever possible to have a co-host.

I also talked to Mary after because I wanted her feedback on how to get more eyes on the summit. She also gave me some really good pointers. I told her I wanted to have four summits per year. She says I’m competing with people like Tony Robbins and she listed a bunch of names of people who also have Summits that are a few days, and people just don’t have the time.

She gave a bunch of suggestions. Some are to cut it into shorts for social media. I could go back to my original idea of emailing them, although I noticed not very many emails get clicked, but I’ll figure it out. I am going to create a funnel, just like the VIP page, for the short form of replays, and maybe release them three at a time. Actually maybe two at a time I’ll have to figure that out. It could even be one at a time. Mary also had the suggestion that may be do the interviews on a specific day of the month like for March do it every Monday in March and do three interviews. That would be about one hour 45 minutes. That still seems like I’m competing with Netflix. OK obviously I’m indecisive on this one and we’ll just trial and error until it works.

But what we do know doesn’t work is a three day summit all in a row, and taking into account all the different time zones. Now I understand why Tatiana always does a one day summit. Kimberly always says it’s really a workshop, but now I understand it’s simply that a longer summit does not work. It just takes too much of people’s time.

I will figure it out though. I think one of the luckiest people is the girl who actually bought the VIP, because the interviews were really insightful.

I also love that the summit is evergreen because I didn’t put a date on any of it. That is very helpful. They can be released at any time. I just need to make sure I respect the VIP, so I will just release the 30 minute versions and VIP will continue to get full length. That will keep it separate. And because of the way I did them, I can do exactly the same anytime even with the same interviews.

Tonight I have to edit the three interviews and they’re all 50 minutes long. I have no idea how I’m going to cut 20 minutes out of them. The last three are Heather Boers, Tatiana Ivanova, and Tasha Elliot. All three of these women rock. So editing it’s going to be challenging tonight, just because I love the interviews so much. It’s easy enough to do the long version. I’m walking Scruffy while I’m waiting for YouTube to download Heather’s long version. It takes me about three hours an interview, so I’m already seeing midnight coming. Lol.

I know it’s totally worth it, and I will never allow myself to get into this last-minute situation again, so I say. I still have to edit all the let’s talk about videos, but if I do one day, I will catch up in six weeks, so the theory is. I will be good to go in about three weeks without killing myself. I’ll aim for January 31.

I’m also going to have to post a lot more in my community. It has to be my priority. I also have to be sending regular emails out. I think I will be attaching some interview sessions.

I just had a brilliant idea. I can send an interview out a week with my newsletter, or create another newsletter maybe on Sunday Short Stories that attaches one of the interviews with a theme. Maybe I’ll do that.

And this is why I go for walks and talk into my phone. It helps me sort out my thoughts. And it gives Scruffy a walk. Not to mention it gives me a walk.

I remember what survival mode is like, especially when you don’t even realize you’re in it. People are put here to help us grow, and we are putting other people’s lives to help them grow. If you agree with everything someone does or says, chances are you’re not growing. That’s a great way to be stagnant or inauthentic.

One more lap around the yard with Scruffy. I’m going to focus on her and not my phone.

1:12am… Do you know where your children are? Probably sleeping, while I’m finishing up editing. Kimberly made grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner - a good comfort food was perfect. It tasted extra good.

It was so hard to edit to the short videos - almost painful. Heather’s I finally just scrolled to 29 minutes, then added her free gift. I couldn’t do it any other way. I guess that’s why there’s a VIP upgrade. The other two, I just cut me out.

Bedtime for me. Morning comes early and I have a summit to host!

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