The Wild Edges of Being Human
47K Mofos: Stop Wasting Your Freedom with Invisibility
Are you hiding? Is your invisibility holding you back?
Transcript from Live Video Recording:
What’s up, people? Allison Crow, your favorite life coach.
$47,000, bitches. I want to tell you a story, and this is for you… This is about visibility. Let me fix my very sexy bangs with my new gray highlights. Here’s the deal. In all these years, all these years, one of the biggest issues my clients have is this visibility piece, especially on social media. We’re like, “Oh, my god. Somebody might see me.” Maybe you walk out of your house and go, “Oh, my god, somebody might see me,” but the reality is what is it about social media that we’re all getting this comparison thing?
I want to tell you a story way back from my early days of social media, and I want to give you some permission to quit sitting behind your doubt. “What if my Aunt Sally sees me? What if somebody doesn’t agree with me? What if somebody thinks I’m whatever?” The reality is when you sit and hold on to your doubt and you stop your visibility, you are taking away your gift that you have to give to other people.
A long time ago when social media first started, I was a very early adopter. I’m a big computer nerd, always have been. A long time ago, when I was leaving Keller Williams as a coach and starting my own coaching company for that summer, I sold real estate again for the last time. In three months, I sold a ton of real estate. What was funny was Facebook was new. Remember when Facebook, it was like “Allison is,” and so it’d say, “Allison is sitting in Garage Flantastic,” which is what we called our garage at our old house, “drinking a beer with her husband.” “Allison is….” I’d have pictures of dogs, and I would be all coachy, like the voice of the woman from 2008, ’09, ’10 that said these things – it is so weird. It’s out there if you look for it. But she would say these things, and she was inspiring, and she would do this, and she would do that.
At the time, there was only one other Keller Williams on social media. This is a company at the time of 95,000 agents, and there are two of us on social media. One of them I had never actually met in person, even though we were coaches for the same organization, but she and I connected on social media, this thing. I’m like, “Oh, here’s my margarita. Oh, here’s my coachy stuff. Oh, here’s my dogs.” I’m just being me. Just being me.
This agent sent me a message, “Hey, I have a referral from you from an agent in my office.”
She lived in Nashville, Tennessee. A Nashville, Tennessee agent hooks me up with her referral, who is a family coming from South Africa. They are migrating their entire family, so the grandparents, kids, families, and grandchildren. They bought a bunch of houses in Nashville, but they bought three in Austin, Texas. I will never forget someone in those very early days in person saying to me, “Gee, you sure post a lot on social media,” and I just looked at them, and said, “$47,000, bitches,” being funny, obviously. I mean I’m not one to cuss somebody out anymore, but I was like, “$47,000, one month. Would you? Would you?”
Here’s what’s funny. I wrote $47,000 worth of business this October. Collected 22,000 by showing up, by sharing my heart, by showing my work, by being willing to be, I know I’m a coke. Kook. I’m a coke. I do not do coke. I drink Diet Coke sometimes, but I don’t do coke. Never have. I know I’m a kook. I know I have typos. I am just being myself. Yourself is enough to come out from behind your doubt and share your heart and show your work.
Tracy Lee. Tracy Lee loves Halloween.