WDA Live Strategy Call 05/07/24


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00:01:06 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Swag is so much fun!
00:02:11 Anika Loewen: Sent out two Stationery quotes. I actually charged what I should instead of “feeling bad” because what they awnt is expensive. It’s not my responsibility to offset their costs because what they want is $$
00:02:31 Katheryn Symington: hello!
00:02:43 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Sort of a win? The person I thought said “yes” actually said “I need to think about it” and she said “not right now” but wants to work with me in the future. So the win is my response to it. I would have mentally deflated in the past, but NOW, I just thought “next” and “later” for her, and am moving forward.
00:03:00 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Sent out two Station…” with 🥳
00:03:01 Katheryn Symington: My win – After stalking Shannon for 1 year I finally decided to join. yay.
00:03:10 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Sent out two Station…” with 👍
00:03:13 Erica Nash: Replying to “hello!”

We’re so glad you’re here!
00:03:14 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Sort of a win? The p…” with 👍
00:03:18 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “My win – After stalk…” with 😀
00:03:19 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Another win in a personal capacity: Still going to the gym daily!
00:03:28 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Sort of a win? The p…” with 🙌
00:03:31 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “We’re so glad you’re…” with ❤️
00:03:46 Angie: Reaching out to 3 people every day. Doing it scared. Also sent my first proposal using the Patrick. Not sure I did it 100% correctly… but I did it
00:03:48 Erica Nash: Question link: https://airtable.com/appBKMODI6rJUNuPk/shrQMjgC7CiiWTBsh
00:04:02 Pauline Wiles: win – I did a paid discovery session and although the client wants to keep going with DIY, I loved the insights + education I was able to offer, over and above the time in a free consultation.
00:04:09 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Sent out two Station…” with ❤️
00:04:11 Erica Nash: Reacted to “My win – After stalk…” with 🥳
00:04:14 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Replying to “hello!”

I LOVE this.
00:04:21 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Another win in a per…” with 🥳
00:04:28 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Reaching out to 3 pe…” with 🥳
00:04:34 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Reaching out to 3 pe…” with 👍
00:04:36 Erica Nash: Reacted to “win – I did a paid d…” with 🥳
00:04:44 Diana Richards: Reacted to “Reaching out to 3 pe…” with 🥳
00:04:50 Diana Richards: Reacted to “My win – After stalk…” with 😀
00:04:52 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “My win – After stalk…” with ❤️
00:05:06 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Replying to “My win – After stalk…”

I did that too, Katheryn. Listened for a year
00:05:15 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: ❤️
00:05:16 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “I did that too, Kath…” with ❤️
00:05:23 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “Sort of a win? The p…” with 👍
00:05:27 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “Sent out two Station…” with 👍
00:05:50 Angelica Hidalgo: Had a meeting for the small Shopify job I got, they were over the moon and said it looked so much better than it did before!! In front of the marketer that’s business built it initially 😂
He also called me last Friday because there’s the opportunity to build a 250 page website for a national company!! He’s still in talks with them but fingers crossed it works out. It’d be a massive 4 month job!
00:06:00 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Oh… one more win – I have some “practice” sessions set up with my Mom (who is so awesome) – we’ve made up a few businesses and we’re going to walk through my process so I can get comfortable verbally and test things, etc.
00:06:13 Chantel Rudden: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:06:16 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with 🙌
00:06:20 Chantel Rudden: Replying to “Had a meeting for th…”

yassss
00:06:30 Erica Nash: Reacted to “Oh… one more win – I…” with ❤️
00:07:01 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:07:07 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Replying to “Had a meeting for th…”

WOOHOO!
00:07:10 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:07:18 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “Sort of a win? The p…” with 🙌
00:07:21 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “Another win in a per…” with 🥳
00:07:25 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “Reaching out to 3 pe…” with 🥳
00:07:29 Pauline Wiles: Replying to “Had a meeting for th…”

wow
00:07:29 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “win – I did a paid d…” with 🥳
00:07:40 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “Oh… one more win – I…” with ❤️
00:07:45 Anika Loewen: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:07:55 Anika Loewen: Replying to “Had a meeting for th…”

So proud of you!!!!!!
00:07:56 Angie: That’s amazing Angelica!
00:07:57 Maddison Manente: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:08:01 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “Had a meeting for th…” with ❤️
00:08:45 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: My daily mantra: “I will not let the place I am in, make me doubt the purpose I carry!”
00:08:59 Erica Nash: Reacted to “My daily mantra: “I …” with ❤️
00:09:13 Maddison Manente: Reacted to “My daily mantra: “I …” with ❤️
00:09:53 Laura Nurse: Reacted to “My daily mantra: “I …” with ❤️
00:10:10 Diana Richards: Reacted to “My daily mantra: “I …” with ❤️
00:10:24 Diana Richards: Replying to “My daily mantra: “I …”

This is sooooo good
00:11:06 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “This is sooooo good” with ❤️
00:11:52 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: SO inspiring!
00:12:13 Erica Nash: SO excited for you, Angelica!
00:13:20 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Replying to “Oh… one more win – I…”

That’s a good idea! LOL
00:13:25 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Replying to “Oh… one more win – I…”

I’m going to record everything too
00:14:10 Angelica Hidalgo: Replying to “Had a meeting for th…”

Thank you everyone!
00:14:13 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “yassss” with ❤️
00:14:15 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “WOOHOO!” with ❤️
00:14:18 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “wow” with ❤️
00:14:20 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “So proud of you!!!!!…” with ❤️
00:14:22 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Thank you everyone!” with ❤️
00:14:25 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Thank you everyone!” with 💞
00:14:35 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: 😄
00:14:39 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “SO inspiring!” with ❤️
00:14:41 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “SO excited for you, …” with ❤️
00:14:50 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “That’s amazing Angel…” with ❤️
00:14:55 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Also morbidly called the “hit by a bus” plan LOL
00:14:57 Angelica Hidalgo: Replying to “That’s amazing Angel…”

Thank you Angie!
00:15:04 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Also morbidly called…” with 😂
00:15:33 Angelica Hidalgo: Replying to “SO inspiring!”

Thank you Tracy!
00:15:41 Angelica Hidalgo: Replying to “SO excited for you, …”

Thank you Erice 💛💛
00:16:05 Pauline Wiles: I've been thinking about back-up / what-ifs for a while. With clients paying deposits in advance, I want to feel OK they wouldn't be ghosted.
00:16:11 Kaitlyn Unger | KTU Designs LLC: Looking forward to learning more about Next Level!
00:16:16 Angelica Hidalgo: Also, thank you everyone for listening to me cry all the time, and all my problems. This group means the world to me. Love you all to bits!
00:16:23 Shannon Mattern: Reacted to “Also, thank you ever…” with ❤️
00:16:23 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Also, thank you ever…” with ❤️
00:16:38 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Also, thank you ever…” with 💛
00:17:09 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Thank you Tracy!” with ❤️
00:17:49 Angelica Hidalgo: YAY let’s be besties
00:18:36 Kaitlyn Unger | KTU Designs LLC: Great idea!
00:18:43 Maddison Manente: Reacted to “YAY let’s be besties” with 😃
00:19:33 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Also morbidly called…” with 👍
00:20:15 Angie: Love this
00:20:43 Angie: I heard a few references in the modules about co-working sessions, do you still offer those as well?
00:22:29 Erica Nash: Replying to “I heard a few refere…”

Hey Angie! We don’t actually offer co-working sessions anymore as our attendance numbers didn’t support continuing them 🥲
00:23:36 Erica Nash: Here’s the link to the biz bestie form! I’ll share it in a future email also. If you’d like to participate, please submit the form by EOD May 21. https://airtable.com/appBKMODI6rJUNuPk/shr0YX4uEisMZS2SQ
00:23:54 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “Here’s the link to t…” with 👍
00:25:09 Katheryn Symington: Replying to “I heard a few refere…”

Hi @Angie, I'd be interested in coworking if there's a day/time that works. I'm in the UK, so there might be a time difference.
00:27:18 Erica Nash: Yeah, it’s beautiful
00:30:26 Laura Nurse: Replying to “Yeah, it’s beautiful”

thanks Erica. 🙂
00:31:24 Laura Nurse: can you host it on your server until he pays you in full? then you retain control and he gets a site up.
00:31:38 Laura Nurse: and you give him runway to get himself sorted out
00:42:02 Angelica Hidalgo: Hahahaha sorry
00:43:46 Pauline Wiles: I think(?) I recall the conversation was, we shouldn't automatically label $10k as “high end” …. $10k should be a normal, expected, everyday number for a website. 🙂
00:44:07 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “I think(?) I recall …” with ❤️
00:44:24 Angie: Yes I’m still having trouble untying the website from # of pages too because that’s how I was taught innitially
00:45:51 Anika Loewen: Oh man, I would love that so much!!!
00:45:53 Chantel Rudden: Would love this!!
00:45:59 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Absolutely! I’m in!
00:46:05 Angie: Here for that, strategy is my fav!
00:46:07 Angelica Hidalgo: Woo hoo!
00:46:34 Angelica Hidalgo: That’d be super cool
00:47:53 Angelica Hidalgo: Thank you!
00:48:30 Anika Loewen: Replying to “Woo hoo!”

I use Divi. It’s a big theme, and you need to have a good host (I use Siteground) But it is so robust
00:48:39 Angie: I’m with you on that for sure. I’m taking on many freelance clients while my web design biz grows
00:50:20 Angelica Hidalgo: I’m 23 girl
00:50:27 Angelica Hidalgo: Stuff that person
00:50:33 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “Stuff that person” with ❤️
00:50:47 Anika Loewen: There are 11 year olds making millions on YouTube
00:50:48 Angie: I don’t think age has anything to do with it, if you can do the job it doesn’t matter! I’m “old” to be starting this journey but doing it anyway.
00:50:49 Diana Richards: Any sort of “you’re too…” comment says way more about the person who *said* it, not the person they said it to
00:50:49 Kaitlyn Unger | KTU Designs LLC: Agreed! Ignore them!
00:50:56 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: I work two part-time jobs along with building my business
00:50:56 Laura Nurse: @Maddison Manente – were all these people who told you that employees?
00:51:05 Angelica Hidalgo: Oftentimes the way people react or how they view the world is based on their own perception and limiting beliefs
00:51:58 Pauline Wiles: Jeez, and I worry I'm too old! I feel like the world will throw our age at us as a weapon, regardless of the number. (Bet nobody told Zuckerberg he was too young – or if they did, he didn't listen.)
00:52:03 Laura Nurse: Reacted to “Oftentimes the way p…” with 👏🏻
00:52:05 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Yes. What is their motivation behind what they are saying
00:52:06 Angelica Hidalgo: Aw Maddison, I’m so sorry to hear. I experience the same thing with family always telling me to choose the alternative. I’ve been working to cover baseline like mortgage, utilities etc.
Since this recent experience with this marketer. Is there the potential to start building relationships with agencies that you can get their overflow work from?
00:52:25 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Never too young. Never too old.
00:52:32 Angie: Reacted to “Never too young. Nev…” with ❤️
00:52:35 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Oftentimes the way p…” with 👍
00:52:41 Erica Nash: The world is sooooo different now too. If these people are traditionally employed and older and that’s the way it’s always been, they probably don’t understand what’s possible these days. Age has nothing to do with building a life you love!
00:52:53 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with ❤️
00:52:54 Kaitlyn Unger | KTU Designs LLC: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with ❤️
00:52:59 Pauline Wiles: Replying to “Oftentimes the way p…”

and their own experiences and preferences, totally.
00:53:06 Diana Richards: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with 💯
00:53:19 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Any sort of “you’re …” with 👍
00:53:28 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “I don’t think age ha…” with 💛
00:53:36 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “There are 11 year ol…” with 👍
00:53:39 Angie: Reacted to “Any sort of “you’re …” with 👍
00:53:45 Chantel Rudden: Hahah meanwhile I feel im too old to be a web designer, BUT I know that’s because I used to follow a lot of GenZ crazy good designers
00:54:06 Laura Nurse: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with 👏🏻
00:54:32 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with ❤️
00:55:04 Katheryn Symington: There are so many people in the world that were told that they couldn't obtain their dream job… and then they did it in style. Just keep your eye on your goals and dig in.
00:55:18 Kaitlyn Unger | KTU Designs LLC: Reacted to “There are so many pe…” with 👍🏻
00:55:31 Angelica Hidalgo: My immigrant Dad always mentions that maybe I should go be an accountant or do something else. I know it’s out of love and he doesn’t want to see me struggle like he did. But it fuels my motivation to make this work because I truly believe that I this should work.

We’re capable of anything we put our mind to. Age doesn’t mean anything. There’s no blueprint for life, just because someone else followed a certain path doesn’t mean you have to follow that too.

Also you’ll align with someone perfectly and the way that you are and your experiences will be exactly what people need.
00:55:41 Katheryn Symington: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with ❤️
00:55:42 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “There are so many pe…” with ❤️
00:55:46 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Hahah meanwhile I fe…” with ❤️
00:55:54 Chantel Rudden: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with ❤️
00:56:00 Erica Nash: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with ❤️
00:56:04 Erica Nash: Reacted to “There are so many pe…” with ❤️
00:56:29 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with ❤️
00:57:05 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Hahah meanwhile I fe…” with ❤️
00:57:06 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “and their own experi…” with ❤️
00:57:20 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with ❤️
00:57:44 Angie: Reacted to “My immigrant Dad alw…” with 👍
00:58:12 Chantel Rudden: Replying to “Hahah meanwhile I fe…”

I will say I have muted their accounts and feel a lot better mentally!
00:58:15 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “There are 11 year ol…” with 😂
00:58:27 Laura Nurse: “two young” lol… that’s 🐴💩
00:58:31 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Any sort of “you’re …” with ❤️
00:58:34 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Agreed! Ignore them!” with ❤️
00:58:36 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “I work two part-time…” with ❤️
00:59:04 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Jeez, and I worry I'…” with 😂
00:59:07 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Jeez, and I worry I'…” with ❤️
00:59:20 Maddison Manente: Reacted to “Never too young. Nev…” with ❤️
00:59:20 Laura Nurse: if i were you, I’d talk to some business owners/entrepreneurs. We ARE a different breed you know.
00:59:36 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “The world is sooooo …” with ❤️
00:59:38 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “Never too young. Nev…” with ❤️
01:00:06 Laura Nurse: 🦄
01:00:21 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “🦄” with 🎉
01:00:27 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to ““two young” lol… tha…” with 😂
01:00:33 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “if i were you, I’d t…” with ❤️
01:00:37 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Reacted to “if i were you, I’d t…” with 👆
01:00:42 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “I will say I have mu…” with ❤️
01:00:50 Erica Nash: Reacted to “🦄” with 🦄
01:01:02 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “🦄” with 🎉
01:01:12 Angelica Hidalgo: Go Maddison! You got this!
01:01:18 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Go Maddison! You got…” with 💛
01:01:21 Chantel Rudden: Yayyy love Amanda and cass!!!
01:01:38 Erica Nash: I wish I would have started at 24!
01:01:42 Angelica Hidalgo: Reacted to “I wish I would have …” with ❤️
01:01:53 Angelica Hidalgo: Bye everyone!
01:01:57 Pauline Wiles: Reacted to “Bye everyone!” with 👍
01:02:10 Tracy Trathen • e design studio, LLC: Have a fantastic week everyone!!!