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Coffee Social | Social Media Marketing, Content Creation, & Entrepreneurship
How to Empower Yourself: Stop People Pleasing and Command Respect | S2 E8
How to Empower Yourself: Stop People Pleasing and Command Respect
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Do you ever find yourself wanting to say no to someone, but you just don’t want to disappoint them or hurt their feelings? It happens!
In this episode of Coffee Social, Jonathan, the brain behind Success on Social, and Mimi, the guru of audio marketing, share real-life scenarios and strategies tailored for coaches and entrepreneurs. Whether you're dealing with unwanted collaboration requests or just need to protect your precious time, you'll learn how to maintain your professional integrity without coming off as a villain.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
We go through 3 common scenarios.
: Someone wants to collaborate but you just really don’t want to…
: Someone who just connected with you wants to hop on a coffee chat via Zoom and you’re not really excited…
: Someone is always trying to get free information in the DMs w/o ever paying for i
DON'T FORGET TO ANSWER…
Are you Team Ignore Them or Team Tell Them No?
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How to say no professionally, Setting boundaries in business, How to turn down a business request, Work-life balance tips for entrepreneurs, Creating personal boundaries at work, The art of saying no politely, Why setting boundaries is important for mental health, Self-care strategies for entrepreneurs, How to prioritize your time in business, Saying no without burning bridges, Boundaries in business, personal boundaries, saying no, work-life balance, self-care, mental health
All you need to say I'm sorry, no, doesn't fit my schedule right now, it doesn't fit my timeline right now, it doesn't fit what I'm doing right now. It's Coffee Social, the podcast, all about social media and business. And now here are your hosts, jonathan Howard and Mimi Langley.
Speaker 2:Well, hi everyone. Hello, mimi Langley, it's so good to see you today. It's so good to see you in your dark coffee. What are you drinking?
Speaker 1:It's not dark. My cup is silver on the bottom.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, so the bottom is not really coffee. Well, I'm confused. The bottom of the glass is silver.
Speaker 1:I can't tip it far enough.
Speaker 2:Don't tip it, please. You'll hurt your fancy equipment. But we hear the gulping which ASMR See it's light. Oh my goodness, you guys we have to try to get through this episode in like seven minutes. So, jonathan, stop sipping.
Speaker 1:I'm done now.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm ready to go. You guys, this is going to be a blast in the glass. I'm just telling you, Jonathan, this episode in particular. I feel like you're going to make me laugh through every scenario. So we're basically talking. We're not sure what the title is yet, but we know the premise is how to say no. No is a complete sentence, no should be enough, right, and I know a lot of people struggle with it because we just don't want to hurt people's feelings.
Speaker 2:And so we're like, let's just have, let's just have an episode on it. Oh my gosh, See, we're already started. So I have three different scenarios and I want Jonathan to you know, obviously go first and then I'll kind of tell you how I've done it in the past. But real quick, do you want to tell people who you are? Can you do it in like 15?
Speaker 1:seconds or less? Sure, Absolutely. My name is Jonathan Howard. I'm the owner of Success on Social and I help successful female coaches reach their ideal clients by developing their signature style. Over to you, Mimi.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, hi, I'm Mimi Langley. I teach women in business how to utilize social audio, aka audio marketing, like LinkedIn, audio Clubhouse, all of them. It's a great way to really stand out from the same old, same old content that we're used to seeing. So, uh, okay, jonathan Howard.
Speaker 1:Okay, mimi Langley.
Speaker 2:We have to take this seriously, okay, people are they need answers because you don't say no.
Speaker 1:I really scared a lot of people. I will provide them with the answers.
Speaker 2:Okay, cause if not, you'll be hearing about it later from me. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:You guys see, that's how I was. I was being very strict with him Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm very serious will DM you out of the blue sometimes and be like hey, I talk about this, you talk about that, I would love to collaborate. Or maybe they've been following you for a long time and they're a fan and they want to work with you. Okay, so they ask you, but you just really don't want to do it. But you don't want to be mean. You still want them to like you.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, no.
Speaker 2:No, but how do you answer it? Is that literally?
Speaker 1:all you say I'm sorry, no, that's all you need to say. I'm sorry, no, it doesn't fit my schedule right now, it doesn't fit my timeline right now, it doesn't fit what I'm doing right now. I have other things going on that are more important than you, or I don't give a rat's ass about what you're doing. I don't want to work with you, whichever one you want to do, but the answer is no, and I wouldn't recommend the last one.
Speaker 2:Obviously let it come out of your mouth the way that you would say I've had people like I know people. Not I have.
Speaker 2:I know people who use ChatGPT to give an answer Whatever you got to do no, but for me I'm actually like, when you were mentioning your schedule, I'm the same way, because usually, like I am all about routine and I things my, my calendar fills up pretty quickly, so there's not really a lot of room for extras, I mean, unless it's like a really big extra like Oprah, like okay, oprah, I'm moving everything off my calendar for you, or Taylor Swift, but you know what I mean. So, yeah, I like the whole. You can always bring up that your schedule is just a little bonkers right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, too much going on. Sorry, that's not my focus right now. Whatever you want to do, and don't lie, hey, that's a good one too. Yeah, don't lie about it, Just tell them what's going on. Yeah, I like that. That's a really good response, though.
Speaker 2:Sorry, it's just my focus right now, you know. So, okay, let's go on to the next scenario. Gosh, we could probably do the part two of this, like you guys, if you want more answers.
Speaker 2:Come on, we're already at five minutes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So someone I'm thinking about LinkedIn when I wrote this someone just connect, someone who just connected with you. So I'm thinking LinkedIn, but it could be anywhere. They want to hop on a coffee chat which, if you've never heard of that before, it's just they want to like talk with you like over zoom chat, kind of get to know one another. How can I help you, how can you help me? Blah, blah, blah, but you just don't want to do it.
Speaker 1:No, they want to pick your brain. Pay me.
Speaker 2:Is that really what you've experienced? Because I've had some horror Pay me. I have PTSD from previous coffee chats so I don't do them anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, thank you. I'm sorry, I'm not interested right now. If you need to pick my brain. You can pay me. Here's my paid link. I send people my paid link. I have a paid scheduled appointment link.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's just pretend for a second, because not all coffee chats are to pick your brain. I really do think that people just it's like a part of networking, like they just want to like say hi, introduce themselves.
Speaker 1:You know, we're face to face kind of, or virtually face to face Network with me first on the platform. Okay, that's my answer Network with me first on the platform and then, if it goes somewhere on the platform and it's not just a pitch, then we can talk, because that's the other thing.
Speaker 2:They could just be doing it to pitch you. And that's what gave me PTSD, because I'm not kidding you. Way back in the day, I remember I would get on a ton of coffee chats because I'm like, well, this is what everyone's doing, so I need to do it too. And it was like one after the other. I'm like this is just wasting my time honestly.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good, set up a paid link if they want to book time. No, we're going to talk about that in the next one.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay but in the next okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But yeah, for that one, for me. I just I'm honest with them. I because of previous experiences, but I would love to still get to know you through the DMs. That's what I do, Okay. The last scenario Okay, Someone is trying to always get free information from you in the DMs without ever paying for it. So when is enough enough for you? How do you approach them?
Speaker 1:for it. So, like, when is enough enough for you? Like, how do you approach them? Two questions is enough If I've given you two questions, two answers to questions and I give fairly significant information when I'm providing the you know answers to questions. So I would say two questions, and then I say you know, at this point it's time for you to get on a call if you want more information, and I send them the link to my call, and I have a 30-minute call that's very reasonable in price. I think I have one that's $79. So that's what I would do. Now, here's the thing, though and I know we talked about this a little bit Giving an answer yes, no, or get out of here, no matter what that answer is it's still better than ignoring them, because you never know what they might come back with.
Speaker 2:You don't want to like, not like burn a bridge, but again, you want it to be. I agree with you 100%. I always respond, even if it takes me a day, because you don't have to respond right away. Away, like, you can give it 24 hours. Like don't think that they're like waiting by the phone for you to say something. I mean, they might be well, okay, they might be, but but yeah, you can take some time. Okay, you can take some time and really think about it before you just jump, jump into whatever um make sure it makes sense.
Speaker 1:Make sure it makes sense for your business. Number one, Like if it's a collaboration, if it's, you know, picking your brain or whatever it is, don't do things that are out of alignment with who you are and what you want to accomplish in your business.
Speaker 2:Well said and we're going to leave it at that only because this is a micro episode and I Jonathan is just spilling the gems, as always. I've said that to Jonathan plenty of times.
Speaker 1:If you are enjoying what you're listening to or you've enjoyed our other episodes and you haven't given us a rating yet on iTunes, on YouTube, wherever you can give us ratings Spotify OnlyFans make sure you rate us a five. That's a five because we don't want Mimi to cry. She wants you to get the reviews in people. Get the reviews in All right over to you, mimi.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to end it with the most important question of them all and for this episode. The question is are you team ignore them or team tell them no?
Speaker 1:Tell them no.
Speaker 2:Tell them no. Tell them no.
Speaker 1:Tell them no. Tell them no.
Speaker 2:All right, you guys, thanks for listening and watching. We'll see you in the next episode and don't forget to check out other episodes that we have on Coffee Social. All right, bye everyone, bye Jonathan Howard, bye Mimi.
Speaker 1:Langley Cheers Outro Music.
