How to Position Yourself as an Authority to Increase Sales with Renée Warren
- Amy Traugh
- Apr 11
- 25 min read
Updated: Apr 12
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How to Simplify Your Sales Strategy and Increase Conversions Without Overcomplicating Your Business
You don’t need more offers or platforms—you need a clear, sustainable sales strategy that actually works.
Introduction: Why More Isn’t the Answer
If you’re feeling stuck in your business and tempted to throw another offer out there or jump to the latest social media trend, pause. Adding more isn’t the answer—it’s often the very thing keeping you stuck. I see this all the time with solopreneurs who feel like they’re doing everything but still not getting the results they want. The problem isn’t that you’re not working hard enough—it’s that your sales strategy is too complicated or unclear.
Complexity Kills Consistency
Here’s the thing: every offer you create needs its own messaging, strategy, and sales process. So when you have multiple offers, your efforts get diluted. You’re marketing different things to different people, which makes your messaging muddy and your conversions lower.
Trying to grow multiple offers at once is like trying to train for a marathon while also learning to swim competitively and taking dance lessons. You’ll make some progress in each, but you won’t truly master any. The same goes for your business. Focus breeds growth. Simplifying your strategy gives you clarity, confidence, and consistent sales.
Focus on One Scalable Offer
The solopreneurs I work with often feel burnt out, overwhelmed, and like they’re constantly hustling but still not seeing traction. When we dig into their business, the first thing I ask is: what is your core offer?
If you're not sure—or if your answer changes depending on the day—that’s a red flag. You need one clear, scalable offer that becomes the go-to solution for your ideal client. This makes your marketing easier, your messaging stronger, and your sales process smoother.
A simple, well-structured offer can be positioned in multiple ways, solving different pain points without creating entirely new programs. You don’t need six offers—you need one that’s built to scale.
Create a Simple and Repeatable Sales Process
The second piece to this puzzle is having a sales process you can rinse and repeat. Most solopreneurs overcomplicate this, trying a little bit of everything without really knowing what’s working. That’s a recipe for burnout and inconsistent revenue.
Instead, take a step back and ask:
How are people finding me?
What’s guiding them toward my offer?
Where am I losing them?
When you track your data—even something as simple as Instagram DMs or conversations during networking events—you start to see patterns. These patterns help you improve what’s already working rather than guessing and starting from scratch.
And remember, your sales process doesn’t need to be fancy. A simple funnel built on trust, clarity, and consistent action is more powerful than a complex, high-tech one that’s poorly executed.
Ditch the Drama and Get Strategic
When you look at your business through a strategic lens—treating it like an experiment—you shift out of emotion and into intention. You’re no longer reacting; you’re making decisions based on data. This is how you create sustainable growth.
If something isn’t converting, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means you’ve gathered data. Now you can tweak your messaging, adjust your process, and test again. That’s what a strategic business owner does. That’s what a Metrics Mavendoes.
Final Thoughts: Sustainable Success Comes from Simplicity
You don’t need to be on every platform, sell five different things, or completely reinvent the wheel. You need clarity, focus, and a strategy rooted in data—not drama.
Start by simplifying your offers. Clarify your messaging. Track what’s working. And build a rinse-and-repeat sales process that supports the life you actually want—not just a business that looks good on the outside.
If you’re ready to stop guessing and start growing, it starts with simplifying your sales strategy.
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Transcript for Episode 409. How to Position Yourself as an Authority to Increase Sales
@0:00 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Okay, where would I record and I'll be good. All right, ready? Cool. How often as a solopreneur are you putting in all of the work, but you just feel like you're blending in with noise?
The one thing we all need and are craving is just having that authority to be viewed as the go-to expert.
But how do we build that? And in today's episode, we are going to unpack exactly that with our guest Renee Warren.
She is the founder of the Pink Skirt Project and she helps FEMA entrepreneurs unapologetically step into their greatness and release what is holding them back.
So get ready because this episode is going to be filled with so much fire, knowledge, and it's just going to leave you feeling like you know exactly that.
with what you need to do to get seen. So Renee, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm really excited to dive into this topic because it's something that so many entrepreneurs are dealing with right now.
@1:14 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Well, thanks for having me, Amy. And this is something that I love talking about because I spent over 13 years in the world of public relations.
So I'm a thing or two. It's just a thing or two. Yeah.
@1:29 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Why is it that so many people right now are just feeling like, you know what, I'm just the best kept secret.
Those other people out there, they must have just gotten lucky. They know something that I don't. What's going on?
@1:42 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Well, first of all, I don't know that I necessarily believe in luck when it comes to these sorts of things.
So I'm a big believer in God and spirit. I do believe that, you know, people have these ideas. They have the things that they're good at.
They've been doing for a while. The difference between between the people that seemingly are lucky and those that are still struggling is that the lucky ones just went for it.
They went for it. There could be people that are grinding it out and I want to talk about this idea about experience versus expertise because I talked about this on my podcast episode two that the people that are getting notable and the people that are gaining that authority are the ones that are understanding experiences necessary but they're actually carving out a niche to create their own expertise.
the difference being that I use the example of like a teacher or a doctor. A doctor who shows up clocks in does their work and doesn't do any sort of personal or professional development might have a lot of experience.
Maybe they were a doctor for 20 years. I don't know if you ever walked into a doctor's office and the doctor's like I've been doing this for so long so I know what it is.
But they never actually go out and try to learn different ways of doing things or understanding different perspectives. Somebody who has expertise has the experience, but tries things differently.
They try to solve a problem that exists for their clients or customers. They're trying to create something new to fill that void.
So a teacher, for instance, it's such a polarizing metaphor. But essentially, the teacher who goes and gets their teacher's degree, they start teaching, might be in the industry for 20 or 30 years and think that they're the best teacher because of the time clocked.
However, if they're not actually looking at the fundamental ways in which kids learn and trying to teach them according to outside of the standards, then they only have experience they don't have expertise.
So, the way to really gain authority, and we'll talk about what that even means, and to grow it. is to couple your experience with your expertise and the entrepreneur is the epitome, the successful entrepreneur is the epitome of somebody who does both.
So when you look at somebody who is building authority, has gained authority, becomes the go-to in their industry, why do you think that is?
Amy, tell me, do you think, why do you think that is?
@4:26 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
You know, it's reframing, re-say your question for me.
@4:32 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
when somebody is the people that are successful in business, they've gained, they've created authority, they're building that momentum, they're becoming notable for what they do in their industry, how are they different than the other person who may have even been doing it for longer?
@4:48 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
They're willing to stand out. They're willing to be noticed.
@4:51 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
They're willing to be seen. Yeah, not only that, I feel like that's just absolutely the table stakes. They are consistent.
Consistency is your currency, the only thing today that will make you successful in anything that you do. If you're losing weight, to gain muscle, become a good parent, write a book, is to show up consistently, to show up on days you don't want to be there, to show up on days when you don't know what they have you're doing, to show up on days when you've been hit by a bus and to still go through with emotions.
And I know that we're in this day and age of like the anti-hustle culture, get it, but it's gone so far the wrong way that people are literally sitting on a couch thinking, why aren't I making a million dollars?
No, you have to put in the time, the effort, you have to be willing to make mistakes, you have to be willing to be criticized, which is number two, consistency is your currency, number two is willing to be criticized.
The more you put yourself out there, the more the unhealed people will show up and have things to say that.
that you don't agree with. With their only mission is to bring you down. So a lot of people will stop right before the finish line because they're worried of that critique and it could be from friends, family, somebody very close to you, husband, wife, kids, people you don't know.
And so in order to be an authority in this space, you need to have experience in expertise, you need to be consistent, you also need to be okay putting yourself out there and being criticized by people that you might respect and not letting it get to you.
@6:35 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Which is easier said than done, right? Oh my gosh.
@6:39 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Listen, and I talk about this. I talk about this to the ends of the earth. I am not ashamed to say this is not really a business related example, but an example about rumination and the stories we tell ourselves about something thing that we think might happen, which most of the time never does.
Yeah, almost a year ago, I got a job. And it had been something I've been wanting to do for 30 years.
And I was like, oh, I don't want to be that person. Ah, I was judging those people. So first of all, take judgment aside.
Then I thought, I am going to insult people. I'm going to, people are going to think, gosh, if she thinks she needs to do that, she probably thinks that I need to do this stuff too.
I didn't want people to feel ashamed of themselves. But the worst thing and the only thing that really stopped me from doing it was I thought to myself, what will my parents think?
They're really close to my parents. They're pushing 80 years old. And I'm in my 40s, like my body, my choice.
But I respect them. And I thought they're going to think they'll be insulted. They'll be insulted because they gave me this anatomy.
I look like them. So gosh, it took me five years to find the right doctor, five years to just get through the process of finally book the appointment, do everything.
Two days before I left because we had to drive five hours. to the appointment two days before i left i finally called my parents and i told them and i lost sleep the night before i just oh they're going to be so angry and insulted i kept telling myself the stuff and then when my dad answered and i told him right away he's like oh it's about time and i was like excuse me and he's like oh jeez we knew you'd want to be doing this for for so long but it's about time you finally go and do it i mean i love your nose the way it is but we always thought you'd go and do this anyway and it it stopped me dead in my tracks because i'd spent all these years thinking they're going to disown me and it was the opposite they checked in they wanted to see pictures all so when we stop ourselves just before the finish line of actually putting ourselves out there because we think all the things you know people are going to say crap anyway whether you do something or you don't realize that those stories are so much more worse than they than the reality of
really happens. You can be the most splendid human being in the world. I love Mel Robbins so much. I think she's an exquisite human being.
And now there's this thing going around about how she probably copyrighted somebody else's idea about the let them theory.
People are desperate to bring people down because they don't feel worthy. And so their sole mission is to make sure that other people feel like crap because they're successful and seemingly happy.
And they think to themselves, well, they don't deserve that. So I'm going to bring them these people show up everywhere.
They show up from out of the sewers, literally. They show up from other sewers. It's not a lot of people from becoming the authority.
And so in all the years that I did public relations, most of work I did was just encouraging women to do something, to polish their messaging, to find a platform that works for them and start sharing their expertise.
Because the world needs more of it. world needs more of us openly healing ourselves to help others heal to be able to find the confidence and courage and bravery to step into our gosh darn power.
Guys, I'm doing other people a disservice by not showing up in the manner that we can.
@10:18 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Yeah, you know, it was a few years ago, I heard Lindsey Swartz say something that's very similar, very aligned with this.
You have to be willing to be misunderstood by a few in order to impact many. And that is so true.
And it's all rooted in exactly what you just described. We tell ourselves these stories. We tell ourselves stories to keep ourselves safe because of some deep rooted belief that is hiding in there that when you start to step into the spotlight, it makes us nervous, especially as women.
And so we step back because it makes us feel like we're safe. But like you said, you're doing a disservice to
All of the people that you could impact. So how do we navigate this? How do we work through this duality of, okay, I know I have an impact to make.
I know that I can change lives. I'm scared.
@11:17 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Yeah. Be scared.
@11:18 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
mean, to care.
@11:19 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Yes, feel those emotions being nervous. Who cares? We all go through that and we might fail. That's all right.
But no one really is shows up and is looking at the world based on anything other than how they feel.
So, for instance, I'm putting on a big event in Kelowna, my first big event, 350 women June 12th and a little quick plug of the pink skirt project.
My first time ever doing this and I'm in this process. Now we're right at the time where any big thing that needs to be ordered or blocks that need to be done need to be done in the next week or two.
So it's like crunch time right now and I up thinking, I might fail at this. What is the worst case scenario that this thing flops?
A, the sponsors aren't happy and they might ask for more or a refund. Ticket sales might plummet. People want to refund on their tickets.
think of all these worst case scenarios. Guess what? Write them out. Do you have an Instapot or pressure cooker at home?
@12:24 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
I sure do.
@12:25 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Okay. Amazing tool to cook food. It works based on creating an intense amount of pressure to cook your food.
And what do you do when the chicken or other rice is done? You release the valve. Right? it lets out all this steam.
So think of your worries and your doubts like an instant pot. Everybody has these, but some people are much better at releasing the valve than others.
The best way to do it is to journal. Write it out. We just did a month long trip to Australia and Bali.
I was nervous. First leading up to this trip because I had never done anything like this with my kids before.
So leading up to the day before I left, I wrote out all the things that are keeping me up a night about this trip, every single one of them.
And I just looked at it and I was like, oh, plane could crash. What's the probability? Okay, very small.
Actually, these days, who the hell knows? There seems to be so many worries in the world of aviation, or we could have super jet lag.
can get sick, we could have delayed flights or a luggage wouldn't arrive. Like all the worst case scenarios. And then I wrote down, how could we fix this?
Right? So lost luggage. could buy new stuff with the most important things we carry with us. So when you think about those worst case scenarios, write it down, burn that sheet of paper.
What I did was I came back to the journal after a month and I looked at all the things I worried about.
Nothing came true. Not a single thing came true. We put so much more attention on how things could go wrong.
wrong as opposed to how things could go right. And the person in the process of getting their name out there, of building authority, of growing their business, should be focusing on the impact as opposed to the few people whose feathers are going to ruffle.
Does that make sense?
@14:17 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
I hope I answered your question. Yes, no, you absolutely did. Because I think until we work through the mindset behind it, those beliefs that we hold, until we really have that awareness, all of the strategy in the world isn't going to get us closer to our goal, because there is that disconnect.
But speaking of strategy, once we've really controlled our mindset, you have this amazing authority accelerator framework that if you're willing, I would love for you to walk us through how we can really amplify ourselves and become that person with the expertise, not just the experience.
Because like you said, expertise is key.
@15:03 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Expertise is key. So experience is also important, but like the layer on top of that is how you're doing things differently or better.
Like you think about all these supplement companies that are launching. think about all these beverage companies that are launching.
It's like there's so much competition, but who is doing something better? There's so many things to unpack, but in the world of expertise, could be like, here's a doctor who realized there was this one supplement missing for women going through perimenopause.
now we've built this whole program around it. That's expertise, right? is the doctor just being the doctor and not creating a better solution.
So I actually want to bring up my framework of the authority arc. So this is just as potent. And what I've, this is what I've used with clients to get them big media coverage, to get them on top podcasts in the world.
of like an arc, or so maybe a rainbow, because I love rainbows. The first part of it is Oh my gosh, this is totally slipping my mind now, because it's been a long while since I talked about it.
So there's three components out of it. Essentially, you're setting up your system, the beginning. The top is like you're building your reputation, and the third part is the consistency.
So really claiming your messaging. How are you different? How is the thing that you're doing different, and who does this matter to?
So my example of my event coming up, the pink skirt project. At the end of the day, it's a conference for female entrepreneurs.
And yes, there's a dime a dozen of those, especially in this entrepreneurial community. So we had to make it different.
The way I describe it is like the future of this event is like the silk decelerate for business events.
It's about a fully immersive experience surrounded by curated people, curated sponsors and speakers. So you not only get really great keynote speakers, but you get the courage, the inspiration, the motivation, and you get possibility breathed into you.
Because nowadays with things like AI, you can create any strategy for any business. What's missing is the internal work of actually being courageous enough to go through with it.
But that's what I'm working on. So then there's a reputation building. How are you building and maintaining your reputation?
If there's one piece of business advice that could give you 2025, that hands down will help you grow your business is intentional networking.
And I'm not talking about showing up to an event and handing out 50 business cards. I'm talking about finding somebody in your industry that you want to get closer to and building a deeper connection with them.
I just did this in Tulum, cliched business retreat and Tulum. Here's how we approached it is I, my friend Anna lives in Mexico and she's like, want you to come down to visit.
And I said, perfect. The condition is that I bring other people with me. She's like, okay. So, we rented this really beautiful villa, and it had 10 rooms, we just got our own room, had the whole place to ourselves.
And I looked at the list of people that I want to get to know more, of our close friends, some of our acquaintances, former business coaches, and I invited them to this one week in New Mexico for a mastermind, no cost.
The only thing is they had to pay for their own flight and their own, like, chip into the accommodation and food.
The mastermind itself was free to attend. And why I did this was because the value of being in that room was more than the money that I could make from these people paying me curating this.
That I know is a game changer in my business, because I have, I gave, gave, gave, gave, I curated this event, we co-hosted it, we made sure that the right people were connecting and it was the right women in that room.
To know that almost anything that I ask for in business, they will be there to help me out. The key is that reputation piece, so I've built a reputation.
I'm kind, I'm nice, I'm generous, I have boundaries, I just love people, but I know who I am. So the reputation is important.
You cannot get anywhere in business without your network or community. I don't know a single person who has, there's nobody that's a billionaire without a community.
Regardless, even if they're the mafia, the mafia has a community. Even if you're drunk smugglers coming across the border, have teams, right?
Think of worse people in the world, have teams. You need to have your cheerleaders, you need to have people that are saying good things about you and rooms you're not in, that's a reputation.
the last part of the arc is really building out the system that allows you to be consistent, it allows you to pitch yourself to be on shows, to show up on social media, to create partnerships
operations, you're setting the foundation for people to want to say yes to you. That is the epitome of building authority.
You're not only become the go-to person, but everybody says yes to you, because they know, like, and trust you.
@20:16 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Yeah, it's the power of relationships. It really is, because the law of reciprocity is powerful. And like you said, it's having people mention your name in a roomful of opportunities when you're not even there.
Like, there is no price tag you can put on that. And that's why this is so critical. Yet, people don't take time to do this.
Why do you think people aren't doing this? mean, it sounds so easy. sounds so obvious that people don't make the time to do that.
@20:52 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Wow. No, they don't. Well, obviously, they think it's just such an old-school business method. But there's two things to this.
One is people are very self-conscious. Sometimes their worthiness doesn't allow them to walk into the room. But what I see more often than not, number two, is they don't even know what they're selling.
They don't know the problem or the solution to the problem. So, and there's a lot of incredible people out there that have a business, but they still don't know what they do.
And if you do know what they do, they haven't really solidified the messaging around that. So, imagine having the courage to walk into a room and you're so with conviction, know what you do, it makes it a lot easier.
And that's also the problem with authority building is people that do way too many things for way too many people.
It's like, what do you do? You have this, this, and you do that, but like, how do I introduce you to somebody?
So, if you go to Renee Warren dot com forward slash press, it's my media page, of which I curate and tweak all the time.
I've refined my bio million times, because it has to be specific to what it is that I do because you can't be an expert if people don't really know what you do.
So if you're one of these entrepreneurs that have a million different offers or a million different businesses, it's really hard to introduce you to a crowd.
And I don't know, like a podcast house, when we ask people to do the intake form, their bio has to be a hundred words or less.
if you struggle to write a really short bio, you're doing too much. Your messaging isn't clear. So you really need to refine that.
I use the cloud. I use chat GPT. There's so many tools out there. There's no excuses to get clear on what it is that you do.
And say you are a successful entrepreneur, a business coach, you own a landscaping business, and you have a membership for women that go to church.
I don't know. This is random. Choose the thing you want to be known for like the church thing might only make sense in your small community.
That's fine The landscaping business. That's great. you don't really have to talk about it. making you money, but like what is the thing?
So there's a beer company in Toronto, Canada They used to for the longest time used to only make one kind of beer.
It's called steam whistle brewery and They bought this really cool old train round house. There's downtown Toronto and They're beer.
don't know if they still do this. You used to carry there. They only had green bottled beers It you would carry it out in this little case.
looks like a toolbox It's very iconic and their motto used to be do one thing really well Because they only made one kind of beer a pilsner and People wanted loggers.
wanted IPAs. They wanted all this stuff and they said no, we're gonna do one thing, we're going to do it really well until this reaches a critical mass.
We aren't changing anything. That's the difference between expertise and experience. That's the difference between somebody who's building authority and not.
Doing one thing really well, owning it until the depths of it has come to fruition. It's like the marathon.
You're not going to stop halfway through and say you finished a marathon. No, you're going to go through to the end.
When their days suck, when you have months when you're in the red, when you have people quitting, when you still got to keep going.
Because somebody who's built authority, somebody who has experience, they're not necessarily the billionaires or millionaires in the world. They're the ones that know their mission, they know the purpose of their life, and they're going through with it, even when it sucks.
@24:57 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Yeah, and that's hard. That is hard. hard to get to that point. And you are, I love your strategy that you just said about, you know, be able to articulate that in 100 words or less.
Like in one sentence, we have that on my intake form for the podcast as well.
@25:11 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
In one sentence, stay what you do.
@25:13 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Because it's short, sweet to the point, you need to know what you do. you don't nobody else will. And that's something, a lot of times you see people ping ponging all over the place.
like, what the heck are you even doing? But if, you know, going back to your doctor analogy, I want to go see the specialist.
I want to go to the doctor that specializes in rhinoplasty, not a general surgeon if somebody's going to be touching my nose.
We need specialists and that's where you really can leverage your expertise to be the specialist so that when people are having conversations, you pop up, you come to mind because people know exactly what you do and who you do it for because you're so clear in your messaging.
That's it.
@26:00 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
But you get clear in your messaging when you get clear on the service that you're offering or the product that you're selling based on the solution to a problem.
And these are people, like the authorities, the people that are the experts, understand there's competition, but they don't look at them and think, oh gosh, like they're winning or why would people buy from me compared to them?
No. No. They just look in their lane and they say, this is what I got to do. I don't care what else is going on in the world.
I believe in this so much that I'm going to do it.
@26:36 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Yeah. And have the discipline, even when life gets hard, when life lives, because it will, especially as an entrepreneur.
And I think that's a huge differentiator between those that succeed and those that fall flat and quit before the finish line, because it is hard.
It's hard because life's going to life and there's no one other than you holding you accountable.
@26:55 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Yeah. And you got to build that emotional fortitude to be able to get back.
@27:00 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
those days.
@27:01 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Think about your triggers. Every trigger in your life, whether it's a competitor, whether it's a family member, your kids, those triggers are simply people holding up mirrors to you.
There is a reason why that triggers you and it has nothing to do with them. Zero. So stop being the victim.
Look at yourself thinking, why is this bothering me? Why aren't I moving ahead and as fast as they are?
Why haven't I figured this out yet? It's all on you. Nobody else is going to save you. And if you're not doing the work, in our work, for everything, for marriage, for parenting, for your business, you're going get Think about those people.
I open up my phone. I look at all these like Debbie Downers or Karens, if you want to call them.
And I used to be triggered by them. And now all I think about is I want to give them a hug because they have the audacity to say something so terrible a human being to summarize an entire
women's existence based on something they don't agree with, it has nothing to do with the person they're talking about.
I commented on this guy named Nyx, um, real months ago about he has real was about how he believes that men should be the default breadwinners, especially if you're in a relationship that you want to raise children.
Because there's a lot that goes on with women and we and society of this day is like, oh, women, got to be tough.
no, there's no research that come out now that women actually don't fully recover from childbirth for 10 years. So anyways, he talks about it and I and I read wrote a comment and I just said, yeah, I feel like in understanding this isn't apply to everybody, but a woman can really dip into her feminine and actually create a warm home and nurturing environment.
A safe place to call home when she's feel safe. And if that means the man goes out and makes the money to provide, then that's cool, something on those lines.
It has now almost 6,000 likes, couple like hundreds of comments, I'd say 95% of them are good. Guess what?
it first dropped and all those comments, I went to look at the ones people are saying terrible things. And the comments were things like men were saying, yeah, sure, until she asks for divorce and takes you for everything that you're worth.
I'm like, oh, my reply, sorry, you went through that because that's not my experience. So coming back to the criticism thing, because I do think that this is one of the biggest pieces that stop, especially female entrepreneurs from really putting themselves out there, to know and understand and appreciate that there's going to be some negative things said about you publicly and in private.
People are going to talk crap about you in rooms you're not in that's Gonna make those people believe them.
So now there might be an entire room of people that think ill of you because of one thing somebody said.
But if you believe in the power of karma and if you stay true to yourself, all that stuff goes away and it comes back to you stronger and better.
So you might get one negative comment, but a hundred great ones every single time I tell the world I'm done with my podcast.
I think I'm good five years and 340 episodes and throwing in the towel. Literally every single time this happens somebody shares on Instagram a story about how this one episode changed their life.
And more and more I get comments every single day about how something I said or did or how I showed up has had a positive impact on people.
That's what keeps me going. Not the Steve who thinks I'm the worst person in the entire world. Steve like you don't even know me Steve.
We've right or the people that see them husband and I were a huge philanthropist. We've we've big checks for charity comments like, Oh, that's all you've given.
And like, and I'm like, well, how much have you. So people that are triggered, they're just holding a mirror up to themselves.
It's up to you to just keep showing up. And if you need to delete those things and mute those people and block them, go ahead.
There's no rule around what you need to do to protect your energy and your frequency. And if it means blocking the leading, then go ahead and do that.
One thing I don't encourage you to do is to feed the trolls. Ignore it, ignore it.
@31:49 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
Oh my gosh, I love it. And it's such a powerful reminder that we all need to hear over and over, because you're right.
know, the more known you become the more people. will judge, but you just have to learn that it's not a reflection of you.
It's not a reflection of your worth. And yes, those, like you said, those negative comments do stand out. And it's just how we're wired as human beings, but the quicker you learn to mitigate those and view all of the positive feedback, all of the lives you're impacting, the difference you are making in the world, the faster you will build your authority and you will stand out and make a difference in the world.
Renee, thank you so much for providing us with just this kick in the pants that we all needed to hear.
How can we get into your world? Listen to your podcast, tell us all the things.
@32:46 - Renée Warren (Renée Warren)
Oh, you can get into my world on Instagram. Renee underscore Warren. So R-E-N-E-E underscore Warren. And if you like making a trip up to Cologne, of British Columbia on June 12 and hosting an incredible event with some world
class speaker that we are slowly announcing. This is my baby right now, it's my big focus, as well as my podcast into the wild.
So come check it out, you have any questions about the stuff, direct message me on Instagram probably the best place to connect.
And I just, I answer every single message that comes in. I really do believe in the power of reciprocity, and I just want everybody to be happy and to be following their passions.
@33:26 - Amy Traugh (Amy Traugh)
I love it. Oh my gosh, we need more people like you in the world. And if you're interested in learning more about the event, we will definitely link up the details in the show notes as well, because I'm sure it is going to be an amazing room to be in.
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