0:00

So, if you have been really wanting

0:00

to get to a point in your business

0:03

where you're no longer drowning

0:03

in the constant client work.

0:06

You're really ready to scale and

0:06

grow, but you just don't know where

0:08

to start with hiring a team, how to

0:08

restructure your offer to really grow

0:13

the company, because maybe you priced

0:13

by whatever a guru who had told you

0:17

that didn't think of the growth in mind. Didn't think about the future

0:19

plans of you needing to hire a

0:21

couple people to support you. And if you want to really deep dive

0:23

into what systems are the most important

0:26

systems for you to focus on and how to

0:26

truly remove yourself from the day-to-day

0:30

work, then this episode is for you. And this episode I'm going to

0:32

be talking about and sharing our

0:35

power to breakthrough bootcamp,

0:35

which is going to be hosted from

0:38

March 4th, through March 8th. And it is absolutely free, but if

0:40

you're really just unsure, if this is

0:43

the right bootcamp for you, or this is

0:43

the first time you're hearing about it.

0:46

Then, please feel free to listen to this episode. I'm telling you that if you are

0:48

drowning in the day-to-day work, as

0:51

counterintuitive as it sounds, then

0:51

it is so important for you to slow

0:55

down and speed up and take the time

0:55

because you need to make the time.

0:58

Because no time is going to be a good time. So I really hope that you

1:00

enjoy today's episode.

1:02

And I hope that you join us in the bootcamp. This'll break down everything

1:04

that you need to know of who it's

1:07

for and everything in between. If you've been feeling a sense

2:04

of overwhelm inside of your

2:06

firm and you just really want. To level things up and get

2:08

yourself back to a good place in

2:11

your business where you love it. You want to continue building it.

2:15

You want to continue serving all

2:15

of your clients, but maybe right

2:18

now, you just need some support. Maybe that's mindset support, maybe it's

2:20

support on restructuring your pricings.

2:24

That way you can afford the

2:24

team that you need in order to

2:27

continue growing and removing

2:27

yourself from the day-to-day work.

2:30

Maybe you just need to implement better

2:30

systems to help you really level things

2:34

up and take things to the next level

2:34

for you and get more off your plates.

2:37

Is that where you can outsource

2:37

and easily get support.

2:40

And if that sounds like something

2:40

that you really, really need right

2:42

now in your business, then I really

2:42

encourage you to continue listening

2:46

to this episode, because in today's

2:46

episode, I'm going to be breaking down.

2:49

One of our bootcamps that we have

2:49

coming up, that's absolutely free.

2:52

It's called the power to break through

2:52

bootcamp and we're going to be hosting

2:55

it from March 4th, through March 8th.

2:58

And it is going to be so comprehensive.

3:00

So hands-on, it's just

3:00

going to be so amazing.

3:02

We've hosted this bootcamp one

3:02

time before in the summer of 2023.

3:06

And people loved it. All the different from

3:08

owners that came in. We're managing a lot of clients who

3:10

are just stressed out and overwhelmed,

3:13

really wanting to make a change

3:13

and just could no longer handle the

3:17

clients that were knocking at the door. They loved this bootcamp and

3:18

there's a lot of great wins from it.

3:21

A lot of great support. So I figured I would actually like create

3:22

this episode to dedicate some time to

3:27

explain what to expect from the bootcamp. Especially if you're on the fence of this.

3:30

Like I said, free bootcamp, especially

3:30

during the middle of tax season.

3:33

I totally understand. And totally get it.

3:35

But the whole point of this episode is

3:35

really just to show you why it might be

3:39

the most important time to take a step

3:39

back and join us here in this bootcamp.

3:43

So, like I mentioned before, the bootcamp is called the power to break through boot camp.

3:46

It's hosted by myself, Alyssa link. I'm actually the owner and

3:48

founder of workflow queen.

3:50

We help bookkeepers and accountants

3:50

from around the world to implement

3:53

tech systems and automation so that

3:53

they scale bigger, higher, better,

3:56

and break through to the next level. My team will be heavily involved

3:58

in the creation and the execution

4:02

of the bootcamp as well. And also we have an additional

4:03

coach that is actually a coach

4:06

inside of one of my group coaching

4:06

programs called Breakthrough.

4:09

Her name is Brooke Swan. So she will be joining us during the Q&A.

4:12

So let's get the logistics out of

4:12

the way of what to expect from this

4:15

bootcamp, as far as your time commitment. And as far as like when

4:17

you need to be there. So the bootcamp starts from March 4th,

4:19

through March eighth, which is March 4th

4:23

is a Monday and the eighth is a Friday. So it's going to be a five day bootcamp.

4:27

And each day is strategically planned

4:27

to help you get from overwhelmed

4:31

and exhausted in running and

4:31

managing the current client list.

4:34

You have into how to have a plan

4:34

of execution to start removing

4:38

yourself from the day-to-day work. So you can really step into

4:39

that CEO version of yourself,

4:42

and you can really start to see

4:42

progression in the business again.

4:45

So during these. Five days, we're going to have two

4:46

sessions every single day and do not

4:49

worry if you cannot make it live. That's totally okay.

4:52

There will be replays available. And we typically will have these

4:54

replays available for, I think

4:57

up to two weeks following the

4:57

last day that we do the bootcamp.

5:02

So don't worry. There's plenty of time for you to be able

5:03

to get access to everything, to be able

5:06

to go back and kind of rewatch things. So essentially what happens is during

5:08

this bootcamp every single day of

5:12

the bootcamp, We have what I like to

5:12

call the morning afternoon session,

5:15

which is the live teaching session. This is where you're going to get the

5:17

bulk of just me on screen with other

5:21

people in the Facebook group, because

5:21

it is hosted through a Facebook group.

5:24

Where essentially you will

5:24

learn the concepts of that day.

5:27

It's about an hour a day. That you want to chunk out.

5:30

And typically there's an

5:30

introduction at the very beginning.

5:32

I talk about what to expect for the day. Then we dive into the actual content.

5:36

We do some workshopping if necessary.

5:38

And then we move into a Q&A towards the

5:38

end of that session for just in case

5:42

anybody who attended the live session. Has any questions that they

5:44

need to get answered right then

5:47

and there without waiting for

5:47

the QA that's later in the day.

5:50

That morning session or afternoon

5:50

session is at 12:00 PM EST.

5:53

And like I said, it runs for

5:53

about an hour and that's daily,

5:56

March 4th through March 8th. And so each of the days you're

5:58

probably like, what can I

6:00

expect of each of these days? So Monday is going to be all

6:01

about building a powerful mindset.

6:05

So, if you are one of those

6:05

business owners, who's like, oh

6:07

my God, I just can't handle. the idea of trying to hire a

6:09

team or implementing these systems

6:12

like nobody's ever going to do it

6:12

the way that I'm going to do it.

6:14

Or no, one's going to care about my

6:14

clients, the way that I care about them.

6:18

If you've been struggling with those

6:18

sorts of mindsets where you're like,

6:20

I can't charge what I'm worth, or I'm

6:20

not worthy of making over 75 K like

6:25

whatever that mindset issue is, we need

6:25

to tackle that first because in order

6:29

to really break through and grow in your

6:29

business, you need to tackle the mindset.

6:32

So on day one, we're going to

6:32

tackle the mindset day two.

6:35

We're going to talk about your offers. So we call this optimized offers day.

6:38

This is where we're going to take a step

6:38

back, because if you have been in business

6:41

for quite some time, then the problem

6:41

is you probably maybe took a program or

6:45

went to school or learn from someone in

6:45

some format of how to price your clients.

6:50

But little, did you know that the way

6:50

that they helped you price your clients

6:53

was without growth in mind, but maybe

6:53

you are at this point in business where

6:55

now you can't afford a team member

6:55

because you've been the same way for

6:59

four or five years or even one year

6:59

that now you're at this growth phase and

7:03

you can't even afford these new hires

7:03

because you're not pricing correctly.

7:06

So optimize offers. Dave, we're really going to take a step

7:07

back and say, How much can we actually

7:11

afford to be hiring a new person

7:11

for like, what is it that we can do?

7:15

What can we implement? What type of price increases

7:16

can we put into place?

7:19

To be able to afford that

7:19

longterm growth of the team.

7:21

What does that team member going to cost you? And how much can you expect?

7:25

There are some resources that

7:25

we're going to give on day two.

7:27

That are going to help you in this factor. Day three is going to be on Wednesday,

7:30

which essentially is going to be

7:33

all about world-class systems. And this is where we're going

7:35

to take a step back and say, what is our current bottleneck?

7:39

If you don't know what a bottleneck

7:39

is essentially, what is the thing

7:41

that's standing in your way? What is the curdle current

7:42

bottleneck in the business?

7:44

And what's the current system that's

7:44

really beating the business down.

7:47

Slowing you down, it could be

7:47

things like your onboarding system.

7:51

It could be things like your cleanup system. There's a lot of different systems

7:52

in the business that are running.

7:55

You might not have them documented. You might not have them out of

7:56

your brain, but they do exist.

8:00

But we need to find out what is the

8:00

core bottleneck of the business?

8:03

What is stalling? The business from growth? Where do you need the most attention?

8:06

So day three is all about

8:06

taking a step back because

8:09

there's chaos in the business. You're busy. I totally get it, but

8:10

there's a lot of chaos.

8:13

So we need to take a step back and learn

8:13

how to analyze what's going on in the

8:16

business to identify the bottleneck. Because if you can tackle

8:18

each of these bottlenecks.

8:20

and then you move on to the next one. And I'm going to teach you how to identify

8:22

the bottlenecks, to know which one to

8:25

work on to then move on to the next one. When you fix it.

8:28

So day three is all about the

8:28

different core systems you have.

8:31

We're going to talk about how to plan

8:31

for those core systems and tackling them

8:34

head on, and some suggestions around

8:34

the different systems and processes

8:38

that I have in place at my firm as well. Day four is going to be all

8:40

about empowered company culture.

8:43

And this is where we're going to really

8:43

dive into those of you who are ready

8:47

to hire, but they're just like, oh

8:47

my gosh, Alyssa, no one can do it.

8:50

Like I can. I'm really scared that the quality

8:51

is still not going to be there.

8:54

The reason why you fear that is

8:54

because nobody in this industry at

8:56

this point, when you've learned how

8:56

to become a bookkeeper, you learn

8:59

how to do the accounting that you do. No one's taught you to

9:01

include quality control.

9:04

essentially between you and another

9:04

bookkeeper to make sure that the

9:07

quality of the work that gets cranked

9:07

out is up to par with what you expect

9:12

until a lot of you have probably hired

9:12

someone at some point in the business

9:15

and just gotten so mad because they

9:15

didn't do it exactly how you want it to.

9:19

They produce the reports. They said to the client, now you're on

9:20

this call and the client's looking at you.

9:22

Like you're stupid because

9:22

something's not accurate.

9:25

It's because you failed. You have to take a step.

9:27

You failed. As a business owner to put

9:29

quality control in place.

9:32

And then it's not your fault

9:32

that you didn't do this.

9:35

It's because you were never taught. What quality control is and why it is so

9:37

important to have when you do start to

9:42

bring on team members and you do start to

9:42

have someone even for five hours a week.

9:46

Helping you with just the books or

9:46

helping you crank out the tax returns

9:49

or whatever that looks like for you. So on day four, we're going to heavily

9:50

dive into quality control, which

9:55

essentially is the way that you are

9:55

going to put some things in place

9:57

and some checkpoints in place to make

9:57

sure that the work that's produced

10:00

by your team is actually up to par

10:00

with the quality of work that you

10:04

want to produce for your business.

10:06

And then we're going to dive into

10:06

some different roles that you can be

10:09

hiring for inside of your business. And then the last day is one

10:11

of my favorite days, it's

10:14

called the removable CEO day. And so the removable CEO day is all

10:16

about us taking a step back and saying,

10:19

how can we unplug from the business? With trusting the team that you

10:22

end up hiring, trusting your

10:25

mindset, knowing that everything's

10:25

going to be okay, knowing that

10:27

your bottleneck is being served. How can we get you from constantly

10:29

working in battling this like hamster

10:33

wheel and get you into a place where

10:33

you were feeling good and confident

10:38

about your team, about the execution,

10:38

about everything that you're doing,

10:42

and if you're not ready right. This second to be hiring

10:43

that team member that's okay.

10:46

But putting these things in place that

10:46

you learn from days one through four is

10:50

really going to help you get to that. Long-term goal of not having

10:51

to be stuck in the business.

10:54

Every single morning session

10:54

is going to be 12:00 PM EST.

10:57

And that's the live teaching session. Why we'll teach you each of the core

10:59

concepts, the mindset offer systems, team.

11:03

Or removability over the course of five

11:03

days, then there's a live Q&A session

11:07

that happens every single night at

11:07

5:00 PM EST for about an hour as well.

11:12

You can expect to find myself

11:12

and my coach over at my group

11:15

coaching program breakthrough. Her name is Brooke Swan.

11:17

She will be there as well. And we will be hosting this via zoom

11:19

where you can either join us live in

11:22

the Facebook group where we'll be live

11:22

streaming the session for the live

11:25

Q&A, or you can join us in the zoom

11:25

rooms that way you can unmute yourself.

11:28

And we could talk through your problems. People love the Q&A session.

11:33

I think a lot of people sign up

11:33

for the bootcamp thinking that what

11:36

they want is the content that's

11:36

in the day's training session.

11:39

But it's actually what happens in the

11:39

Q&A because people bring in some great

11:42

questions about their unique scenario,

11:42

that us, myself, and our coach.

11:46

Coach Brooks Mon can also go

11:46

through and coach you through Brooks

11:49

bondsman, owning her from since. I believe wow.

11:53

Since like 2017 or 2016. It's grown wicked, wicked fast for her.

11:57

She's an incredible leader for her

11:57

team and her business has just kind

12:01

of blown up as the bookkeeping side. And it's just so incredible to watch.

12:05

As someone who is she's near and dear to

12:05

my heart, I also own my own firm as well.

12:08

It's called magnetic bookkeeping consulting. And so I have years of experience as well.

12:12

This is my second firm that I've ran. And this is why I created workflow

12:14

clean was to help other people remove

12:17

themselves from the day-to-day work. And so you're probably asking,

12:19

well, who is this bootcamp for?

12:22

So I can tell you right now that

12:22

this bootcamp is really geared

12:24

towards those of you who are going

12:24

through issues in the business.

12:28

This is really not a bootcamp,

12:28

unfortunately, that has meant for newbies.

12:31

We do have other boot camps that

12:31

we offer and challenges that are

12:34

great for newbies in the, in this

12:34

space, in the bookkeeping world.

12:37

But unfortunately, if you are a newbie,

12:37

it might be overwhelming to hear

12:42

everything we're going to talk about,

12:42

because what we expect from people

12:45

who joined this bootcamp, or those

12:45

of you who are experiencing problems,

12:48

You're experiencing bottleneck issues. You're just itching to almost burn the

12:49

business down because you're just so tired

12:54

of being sick and tired of like having

12:54

to do what all these clients, because

12:57

you're so overwhelmed, you're overworked. You could barely even sign up

13:00

for the bootcamp because you're

13:02

so busy and I totally get that.

13:04

And so that's why it's so important. If you tell yourself right now, and you're

13:06

listening and you're saying let's, I

13:09

don't know if this is right fit for you. My suggestion is if you find yourself

13:11

constantly battling whether you want

13:15

this thing or not, you're constantly

13:15

battling like just the client's knocking

13:19

on the door, but you cannot serve any

13:19

more people because you're at capacity.

13:23

Or you're just really desiring bringing

13:23

on someone even for five hours a week.

13:27

And you just don't know

13:27

where to start then.

13:29

This is the right bootcamp for you. And I promise you that if you are

13:31

in a space and you're listening to

13:35

this right now, and you're saying,

13:35

you know what, I just legitimately.

13:38

Cannot afford to take the time to be a

13:38

part of this bootcamp during tax season.

13:43

Then it's all the more reason

13:43

to actually do the bootcamp.

13:46

And so that sounds very

13:46

counterintuitive, but what I mean by

13:48

that is you'll always have an excuse.

13:50

There will always be a season in this

13:50

industry, People tell me all the time,

13:54

Alyssa, why would you do a bootcamp

13:54

free challenge or a specific offer

13:57

that you're doing during tax season? Well, because no matter what

13:59

season it is, everyone's going to

14:02

tell me it's not the right time. And so I found this commonality

14:03

between what everyone would

14:06

tell me, which is Alyssa. I don't have time that, well, maybe

14:07

you need to make time to create the

14:11

space to give yourself future time. And I know that sounds really

14:13

crazy and just seems unfathomable.

14:17

But I promise you, the people who

14:17

took our bootcamp in the summer

14:21

of 2023 they took the bootcamp.

14:23

They were heavily immersed,

14:23

have already done some really

14:25

breathtaking and amazing things. And then a lot of those people ended

14:27

up joining our group coaching program,

14:30

which is called breakthrough because

14:30

yes, at the end of this bootcamp,

14:33

I am going to offer a very special

14:33

offer for you to join us in my group

14:37

coaching program called breakthrough. And in that process, we've had people

14:39

who joined it in the next six months.

14:43

They're already removed from their company. We had one of those students who joined

14:45

us in the bootcamp, who then joined our

14:48

group coaching program, who ended up

14:48

literally just left on maternity leave

14:52

and didn't have to worry about anything. She hired the right team members,

14:54

put the right processes in place.

14:57

Reanalyzed her offers and she

14:57

literally didn't have to do

15:00

anything during her maternity leave. There's so many incredible wins from

15:02

this kind of stuff, but they had to stop.

15:06

And I always like to say

15:06

slow down to speed up.

15:09

If you don't take the time and you are not

15:09

intentional about slowing down, putting

15:14

in the work and putting in the time that

15:14

you need to truly expand the business and

15:19

get yourself back on the right footing,

15:19

then you're just going to continue this

15:23

vicious cycle and stay on that hamster

15:23

wheel and never be able to get off

15:27

because you're not putting in the time

15:27

that you need to truly grow the business.

15:30

This bootcamp is a great opportunity. You're also surrounded by tons of other.

15:34

Students who are in the same bootcamp. Where other bookkeepers and accountants

15:36

from around the world who are also in

15:39

the same room as you in the sense where

15:39

they're overwhelmed, they're overworked.

15:44

And so you're not alone in this space. And so during the bootcamp week,

15:46

you can really expect that my team

15:49

and myself and our other coach,

15:49

Brooke, will be supporting you

15:52

inside the Facebook community. If you're not in the Facebook community,

15:54

we do have a dedicated recap page.

15:57

You just won't be able to attend

15:57

live, except you can attend the

16:00

live Q&A, since it is via zoom. But we will have a dedicated recap

16:02

page, which is super organized.

16:05

So if you've ever been a part of

16:05

a challenge, Or some sort of an

16:07

event inside of a Facebook group. It's so messy in my opinion.

16:10

So what we do is we create this one

16:10

landing page that every single day,

16:14

when we're done with each of the

16:14

sessions, my team goes in and downloads

16:17

it and uploads it into the recap page. Including all the links that we mentioned

16:19

any of the resources or we'll be workbooks

16:22

every single day of this bootcamp. This is an opportunity to help you extract

16:25

the information to help you set a plan.

16:29

So that way, at the end of the week,

16:29

you can actually walk away with

16:31

whatever value and whatever things that

16:31

you need in support in the business.

16:34

We will have daily quizzes, which is super cool. So not only will that help you to

16:36

really implement all the different

16:39

things that you're learning, but also

16:39

there's opportunities for cash prizes.

16:43

So every single day, the largest cash

16:43

prize is up to 250 and every day.

16:47

They just get bigger and

16:47

bigger, which is super cool.

16:50

So, as long as you are answering the

16:50

quizzes by the deadline, then you get

16:54

an opportunity to be entered into win.

16:56

So even if you just want to join in,

16:56

win some money, feel free to join.

16:59

If you are someone who's listening

16:59

who might be a newbie, then it

17:02

might not be the best fit for you. Because really, like I said, you

17:03

need to be at a stage in business

17:06

where you do have some issues

17:06

and you need some real support.

17:10

And you need something needs

17:10

to change in the business.

17:12

If you're at the newbie stage I

17:12

would love to welcome you with open

17:15

arms, maybe at a different stage

17:15

in your business when it may be.

17:18

A little bit more down the line than the

17:18

bootcamp might be the right fit for you.

17:21

But I would love for you to join. If you resonated with any part of this

17:23

podcast episode, where I just talked

17:26

about what stage you might be at. It's going to be an amazing time.

17:30

I had so much fun. We created great resources.

17:32

You guys are gonna get access to

17:32

all the slides, all the replays.

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And if you cannot make it

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live, that's totally okay.

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You can seriously catch all these replays. You can even pre submit your

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questions for the Q&A's.

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If you can't make it live,

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we will read those questions.

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Answer them. And you can go back and

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watch the recording. Like I said, you'll have access

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to the recordings for short period

17:49

of time after the bootcamp ends. But enough time to be able to

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catch yourself up no matter what.

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It's never going to be the right time for you. So you need to just do something

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different to be able to change what

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vicious cycle that you're currently in. And I totally get where you're coming

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from, because I've also been there myself.

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And this is kind of why I built

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this bootcamp here to support you.

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So if you have any followup questions

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or you need any support, or if you

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want to just join us here in the

18:13

bootcamp, you can go to workflow

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queen.com backslash bootcamp. I will also drop a link here in

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this lovely podcast episode for

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you to be able to go sign up. And like I said, it's absolutely

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free to sign up for the power

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to break through bootcamp. We will be offering a special

18:26

offer at the end of the week of

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the bootcamp for our group coaching

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program, which is called breakthrough

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for bookkeepers and accountants. So if you've had your eye on that

18:33

program for quite some time, it's a

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great chance to pop into the bootcamp,

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see our teaching styles, see if you

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like the theme and what we're going for. And see if we can help transform

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your business, which I know we

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can, because we've seen it from

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incredible amounts of students.

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Who have taken our group coaching

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program and also just transformed

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their firm and they don't have to

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be stuck in the business anymore.

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I really look forward to seeing

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all of you in the bootcamp.

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If you have any ques feel free to reach

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out to me on Instagram @workflowqueen or

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email me at support@workflowqueen.com.

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And I will be more than happy to

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walk you through whether this is the

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right boot camp for you at this time.

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But I really hope you join us from

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March 4th through March 8th, live

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00 PM. EST live Q&A sessions

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are a 5:00 PM EST daily.

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And all the replays will be available. We have a dedicated recap page and

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we will be here to support you.