THE INSPIRATION PLACE PODCAST
Natalie Bradley: People are like, You’re Natalie Bradley, you’re the artist from Perry. And I’m like, hey, but it’s from the emails and from TV and from all these crazy things that are happening as a result of putting myself out there, like over and over again.
Miriam Schulman: They happen because you’re the type of person who puts the work in and you’re not afraid. Maybe it won’t work out right, but a lot of the times it does. So yes, you’ve made this happen. This isn’t luck.
Natalie Bradley: No, it’s not luck for sure.
Speaker 3: It’s the Inspiration Place podcast with artist Miriam Schulman. Welcome to the Inspiration Place podcast, an Art World Insider podcast for artists by an artist, where each week we go behind the scenes to uncover the perspiration and inspiration behind the art. And now your host Miriam Schulman.
Miriam Schulman: Well hey there, this is Miriam Schulman, your curator of inspiration, and you’re listening to episode number 338 of the Inspiration Place podcast. Today’s guest is a watercolor artist living in Georgia. She specializes in painting homes, houses of worship, wedding venues, vacation spots, and home towns. Growing up with a single mother who was an interior designer, she lived and breathed beautiful home design and it became a part of her. Her ultimate goal is to be artfully skilled at telling the story of a place through watercolor. Please welcome to the Inspiration Place, Natalie Bradley. Well, hey there Natalie, welcome to the show.
Natalie Bradley: Hey, thank you for having me.
Miriam Schulman: Well, you’re just one of these go getters. And, you know, every once in a while, we get these artists in the program where they take every piece of my advice, they run with it. And just like from the get go, you proved yourself to be such a go getter that I really. I knew my audience would want to hear from you.
Natalie Bradley: Absolutely. That’s how I’m wired. I’m like, what’s the point of buying a program if you don’t if you don’t implement it so well?
Miriam Schulman: People ask me, they’re like, what percent of students get results? I said 100% of the ones who do what I say. Absolutely. You know, like that’s that’s it.
Natalie Bradley: It works. But you have to work it.
Miriam Schulman: Have you always been an artist, Natalie?
Natalie Bradley: No, no, I took one class, I think, when I was like 11 and I was okay, but I just wasn’t, I wasn’t interested, I was interested in other creative avenues. My mother is an interior designer, and I started out the first half of my life in rural Georgia, and then we moved to the Atlanta area so that she could actually make money. Okay. And so I think that somehow, like, it became a part of me, like seeing him doing something in the medical related industry, he made money easily and my mother doing something in the creative industry, she struggled until she didn’t. And then she was very successful. But I think it just scared me.
Miriam Schulman: Now I know I’m preaching to the choir, but. But I will just say this, that it’s not because she’s in a creative industry. It’s because she’s a business owner. And being a business owner, no matter what your industry is, is a lot harder than being a W-2 employee.
Natalie Bradley: Well, and she became very successful. It’s just, you know, but you have to.
Miriam Schulman: Figure out how to run a business. And that’s a set of skills. It’s people don’t realize that there’s a lot of people who go into business for themselves, have the same struggles, whether it’s a creative business or not.
Natalie Bradley: Absolutely. And I mean, even with event planning, I mean, I started my first company when I was 22, and I just I saw a need that wasn’t being met. And I didn’t plan on starting a company that early. But, you know, I went after it. And, I mean, I hit all my goals and I did everything that I wanted to do. And then I had my daughter when I was 28, and I was just starting to get bored, you know, because I had checked off all the things. So I became a coach to other wedding planners and wedding professionals and did online marketing. And then I had this weird urge to create art that came seemingly out of nowhere. I cannot explain it. I had no training, no idea what I was doing. I just started painting and I mean, like, the first pieces were horrible. They no longer exist, but I loved it. I got frustrated sometimes, and, you know, I wanted I was comparing myself to people that had been doing it for years, but I just kept taking classes and working with local artists and, you know, learning what to do, what not to do, and just kept at it, kept at it, kept at it. And then finally, one day I wanted to paint my own house and it just clicked. It was the weirdest thing. And I was like, oh, duh, architecture. There we go. Like, that’s my thing. So I just, I love it, I absolutely love capturing homes and wedding venues and churches and temples and whatever those special places are. The older the better, because architecture to me is more interesting and the older architectural styles and I just, I love it. I love studying the different things. So.
Miriam Schulman: And you also do a lot of local scenes too, right? Because I spent some time on your website. Yeah, I do.
Natalie Bradley: A lot of I call them community watercolors and those I love that those are my best sellers because I sell prints of them. And I can make, you know, off of one piece of artwork, because my business model is a little different from a lot of the other people I’ve met in the program. I mostly sell off of prints, and I do commissions as well. But, you know, one community, whether it’s a college campus or a town or a city, I can make thousands of dollars off of one. And it’s just it’s neat because I get on social media and I ask people, you know, what places do you want to see in your town or on your campus? And so they tell me what they want. And so I’m not guessing and I’m giving them that. And I have a really good relationship with the collectors, and it makes it so much more fun when you take the guesswork out of what they want to see and what they want to buy. Of course. Yeah. Okay.
Miriam Schulman: And I want to just put like a timeline on this. So how long ago did you start monetizing your art?
Natalie Bradley: Let’s see. Probably 2016. Okay.
Miriam Schulman: So you’ve been doing this for eight years now? Yeah, about 7 to 8 years. Okay. Beautiful. All right. And as we mentioned, Natalie just joined the program a few months ago. And like from week one, you were like, I can’t believe it. It’s already working. Here are my wins. I was like, oh, great. And then a month later, like, and here are more wins. And this is working. And here’s the other wins. Yeah. So let’s talk about those first early wins. What did you do? That’s what people really want to know. What did you do? Yeah.
Natalie Bradley: So like the to me, the lowest hanging fruit that was super easy to go after were the consistent emails. So that was the first thing. I already had my email list. It was small, but I knew that, you know, it was what.
Miriam Schulman: Was the size? We like to put like some numbers on things about one.
Natalie Bradley: I think it was 186 to be exact when I started, but I knew that they were repeat collectors and that they would also forward the emails to their friends. If I tweaked it a little bit and I was being lazy. And I can admit that, like, I just was all in my feelings about not wanting to do it continuously. And I knew it had worked in the past, but I’m not really sure what my hesitance was. Maybe some was just not being clear on exactly what I wanted to do, or what I wanted to get out of it, and having like a calendar of like, what exactly are you promoting? What’s the reason for reaching out to them? So then once I got that on the calendar and I was just following, I can’t remember what it is that you give us when we’re in the program, but it’s that roadmap of, you know, the order that you take. And so that’s all I did. So I started Success Plan. Yes. Which hello. Obviously it works. It’s successful.
Miriam Schulman: Yeah.
Natalie Bradley: So you know I send emails every Tuesday. And so I just noticed it was seriously like the first email that I sent out. But it had more clarity. It had, you know, a note from me at the top, a call to action and like events that I’m showing up and and all clickable. Easy. I tested it, made sure everything was good. Did the subject line the way that you suggest that you do it made it feel like a, you know, like a newspaper or magazine article title that kind of, you know, drew you in. And I had about $500 sale off of that one email, like multiple people, because, again, you know, they’re mostly prints. Yeah, but with a teeny tiny list. Like. That’s really good. No, that’s really good. That’s really good.
Miriam Schulman: What is your list grown to now?
Natalie Bradley: I have just under 500 now. I’m not sure what that number is, but yeah, I’ve just been, you know, I’ve done a few, like, paid ads on social media to give them a call to action to come to my website and sign up for my emails. I’m not saying sign up for my emails, but, you know, actually giving them something that they want. Yeah. Then I do three large markets. I’m going to do more next year, but three large markets in the fall. And so I used your little magazine style email sign up cards. And that worked a lot better than the clipboard way that I’ve done in the past, because that privacy piece that you talked about is so true. And, I mean, they didn’t even think about it. And I even put the physical mailing address, and I cannot believe how many people gave me their whole address, like, these are strangers. And they were like, oh, we’re so excited. We can’t wait to hear from you. So I’m going to also send them postcards occasionally, get them to my open studios and things like that that I’m planning for the spring. So that was huge.
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Natalie Bradley: The next thing that was really big. Oh, we did the perfect pitch competition within the different accountability pods.
Miriam Schulman: And yeah, let me just pause for a moment because you and I know what we’re talking about. But people my listeners aren’t all in the incubator program. So I started Accountability Pods in 2024, which was in time when Natalie joined. And so what is the name of your pod, Natalie?
Natalie Bradley: We’re the Sherman squad.
Miriam Schulman: The Sherman squad. Very nice. So that one’s named after Cindy Sherman, who is a photographer. They’re not all named after female artists, by the way, in case anyone’s wondering, but it is a diverse group of artists. Okay, so the accountability pods, there are groups of five you meet the same time, same day, every week with the same people so that you can build trust with each other. And you’re going to tell me a little bit more about the pods in a moment, but I just want to make sure the listeners know what this is. And I was doing the challenges every month, and then somebody let me know, you know what, Miriam? I don’t think you need to do these every month. They’re not even challenges. They’re contests because the winners of each contest actually get prizes. So it for some people they That really helps push them to know that they’re going to win something. So the one that Natalie’s about to tell you about is the perfect pitch was to get people to create a press release for themselves so that they can use it to get features or get on podcasts or whatever it is they need to do. Okay. Now that they have the background to tell us about your perfect pitch experience. Yeah.
Natalie Bradley: So the irony was I was like, oh, I don’t have time to do this right now. You know, I’m so busy. But I was like, I’m doing it anyway because I need to have this, you know, in my arsenal of stuff to pull out later. So, you know, I created it. I actually pitched I think it was like for basically like a Southern Living style magazine because that’s my target market. And so I decided to go after, you know, like that kind of podcast. So things always work out for me like this. It never fails. So since then we didn’t win. But it was okay. We were all, you know, even though I’m a highly competitive individual, I was okay with it. But I think it was a week or two later, I had a brand new market that I was participating in, and it’s huge. And it was like the first time I’ve ever done this one. And we’re setting up like, I’m seriously sweating. Like I look like a hot mess. I’ve got like, a t shirt on sweatpants. Like we’re lugging all of our stuff in and setting up our ten by 20 space. And my husband and my daughter, my 17 year old daughter are there and they work with me.
Natalie Bradley: And we see this news anchor from our area walking back and forth with his cameraman. And no one will talk to him like he like everybody is like, you can watch them. They’re hiding. Yeah. Like they immediately gasps and I also so I do community development work, my day job right now and public relations work. And so I’m like this is ridiculous. And I’m looking at this man and I’m like, no, this is so dumb. And you know, so and I’m not afraid to do things on the fly because I’m used to it. So I saw him and I said, hey, we watch you every day on the news because I was thinking, perfect pitch, like, you know, make him feel really good about himself. And, you know, make sure that he understands, like, I’m local and people come from all over the country for this market, you know. So I was thinking like, okay, what can I do to get his attention? And so I was like, we just love you so much. You’re so down to earth and you’re great, and we’re so glad to have you in the area. Didn’t you come here from Texas? You know, so I started like, you know, you really.
Miriam Schulman: Showed them how you knew about their show. Yeah.
Natalie Bradley: I mean, because it’s like walking by me as I’m saying this, and he’s like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So then he does like a U-turn and comes back and I didn’t realize that they had come back. I was like, okay, well, it’s fine. I made a connection. It’ll come back later. And so my husband sees him and he starts talking to him and he goes, so would you be willing to do a live interview with me, like on the air for the news, like in 15 minutes? And my husband said, no, but she will. This is her company. It’s not mine. Yeah. So he goes, oh would you. And I was like, I mean, I look horrible, but if you’ll like, make me look somewhat better if you.
Miriam Schulman: Add some eye filters, like if.
Natalie Bradley: You help.
Miriam Schulman: Me.
Natalie Bradley: So, you know, my daughter’s like shoving art in my hands. She’s like, mom, hold this so that people know what your art looks like. And I’m like, God, you are so well trained, I love you. Yes.
Miriam Schulman: And she’s had her media training.
Natalie Bradley: She’s amazing. And so I’m holding my art, and he interviews me. And I kid you not like the first person. And we’re like, literally the first booth when you walk in to this giant market and I’m talking like there’s tens of thousands of people that come through in three days. The first woman that comes through goes, I saw you on the news last night, and I’m here to buy my church painting because you mentioned that you had Macon area churches, and mine has to be one because it’s like one of the oldest. I was like, yes, ma’am, it’s right here. She bought almost $500 worth of prints and ornaments of her church to give her little Bible study group. I mean, like, right. It was crazy. And I over the course of the weekend, I had at least 50 people come up to me and they said, we were looking for you because we saw you on the news.
Miriam Schulman: That’s amazing.
Natalie Bradley: So yeah. So that was just like one of those moments where I was like, I, I love me so much. Like, it was just great because if I hadn’t practiced it, you know, I don’t think that I would be as good on my feet. You know. Right.
Miriam Schulman: You knew what the elements were for pitching so that even though this wasn’t an email pitch, a written pitch, you knew what needed to be there.
Natalie Bradley: And it works the same.
Miriam Schulman: Yes.
Natalie Bradley: It works the same. So, you know. And I made it about him first, and I he told me what he needed me to say. And I stayed on point and I didn’t ramble. You know, I mean, we literally had 20s, So I knew I couldn’t, you know, deviate. So I mean, that was incredible. And then we had way more say I mean, it was just everything has just been like click, click, click, like just falling into place. It’s been incredible. We have an art gallery that’s about 30 minutes away. I’ve never put my work in an art gallery because I’m not a classically trained artist. So I’ve had this weird, like I’m not really afraid to do things like I always act in spite of fear, however, and I don’t even know if it’s a fear thing. I think it’s more of an insecurity thing where I was like, well, I’m not a I’m not a classically trained artist, so I don’t know, it’s.
Miriam Schulman: Imposter syndrome, right?
Natalie Bradley: I yes.
Miriam Schulman: Newsflash, it never goes away, right?
Natalie Bradley: Yeah.
Miriam Schulman: And the the higher you go, it’s like, I’m just waiting for people to find out I’m a fraud. Yeah. You know, I don’t deserve this. So especially women have it more than men. But men. I think men have it too.
Natalie Bradley: Yeah, I could see that. So, I mean, there was a call for small artworks, and I had three originals that I made specifically for these markets. Instead of them being commissioned like my originals normally are. And so, like, I’m looking over here and I’m like, I have three originals that are just sitting in my art studio. Like, it would be great if I could get paid for them. And so, you know, I had to send her a pictures of the artwork and you could submit up to three and they would let you know what they would take. And she said, I want all three. And I mean, I was like, what? Okay. You know, and I was trying to be all cool. Like, yeah, that’s wonderful. Of course, of course you want. Obviously you.
Miriam Schulman: Do. Right? Obviously.
Natalie Bradley: Oh, and then, you know, we had to go get them framed and, you know, take it and drop it off. And I went to my very first like reception at the gallery and met all these people. And then my husband was doing another market. He was dropping off more artwork because they accepted more for the next show coming up. And I said, I need you to go look and see if there’s a red dot next to any of my artwork, because I hadn’t heard anything, so I just assumed that meant I hadn’t sold anything. And I was like, it’s okay. It was my first one. Well, I sold stuff like I just got the check, like legitimately like 45 minutes before you and I got on this. So I’m just like, this is so much fun. It’s great. It’s just so much fun. And people are starting to come up to me in the grocery store. I’m like, I have to wear makeup to Publix now when I go because people are like, You’re Natalie Bradley, you’re the artist from Perry. And I’m like, hey, but it’s from the emails and from TV and from all these crazy things that are happening as a result of putting myself out there, like over and over again. That’s right.
Miriam Schulman: I’m glad you finally said as a result of because before you’re saying, oh, these things always happen to me. But no, they happen because you’re the type of person who puts the work in and does the things, and you’re not afraid to. Okay, maybe it won’t work out right, but a lot of the times it does. So yes. And you’ve made this happen. This isn’t luck.
Natalie Bradley: No, it’s not luck for sure. And you know, with the emails, I was joking around with the accountability part because, you know, some of them are just now getting started with it. And I said, y’all just do it. Like, don’t wait for it to be perfect. I’m a ready, fire, aim kind of person. Yes. And I said tweak it later because I’m telling you like, it blows my mind. Every week when I send these emails, they respond and they think I’m sending it because a lot of my clientele, they are over 50 years old, over 60 years old. And so these collectors, they will respond to my emails and say, you are so sweet to invite me to fill in the blank or, you know, that’s right.
Miriam Schulman: Like my.
Natalie Bradley: Mom.
Miriam Schulman: My mom forgets that this email goes out to 20,000 people and she’s like, oh, I can’t make it that, you know, she acts like it’s just her. It’s like, that’s what I say.
Natalie Bradley: Oh.
Miriam Schulman: But that’s because, like in my MailChimp, you know, her name is Sarah. It says mom in the name field. It says mom. So it says Dear mom. So she thinks I wrote it just for her, you know. I love that.
Natalie Bradley: Yes. But I mean, it’s the personalization and making sure that you write everything to your person and.
Miriam Schulman: In a way that they feel like that you’re writing to one person, you’re not saying, hey, guys.
Natalie Bradley: Yes. And I pretend, you know, I have my person in my mind that I’m thinking about when I’m writing. Yeah. And because if I don’t do that, then I’ll have, you know, inevitably say like, hey, y’all or something like that, right? You know, and then it’s like, we’re out of here, you know? So they’re not, you know, invested in that email anymore. So it’s just it’s it makes it so much more fun to do the work when you know that it’s going to return your investment, whether that’s time, money, all of the above. It just it makes it fun. Like, I feel like a little kid, you know, like what’s going to happen next? It’s it’s a joy to be able to, you know, do those things. And I’m working towards, you know, it’ll be my full time endeavor again. You know, I’m a business owner at heart. And so some days it’s very hard for me to go do my day job. But I love my day job. So right now I’m just not quite ready to leave. But it’s not from a place of fear. It’s, you know, I’m waiting for the time to be right, and it just doesn’t feel right yet. But my husband and I were just having a conversation and I was like, look at the numbers. Like, like this can happen. Like, this can happen real money we’re talking about. Yeah, yeah. So that is fun. And it helps fill in the gaps of, you know, the calendar when you know it’s going to be slow and you know that you don’t have those sales, I can go ahead and forecast and say, that’s what I need to do an open studio, or that’s when I need to fill in with, you know, let’s see if I can get a feature in a magazine, you know, forecasting out or something so that it can help drive those sales and not have that feast or famine feeling as an artist.
Miriam Schulman: And that and I’m sure you’re going to send pictures of your artwork for some of these upcoming markets to the local newspapers because.
Natalie Bradley: Yeah, if.
Miriam Schulman: The as seen on whatever the name of that TV show. Right, right. That should be everywhere right now, all over your website. As seen on. Yeah, yeah. I’m so happy for you. So I am a proud collector of Natalie’s art as well. That’s right. I love your VW bus. And what else did I get from you?
Natalie Bradley: You might have gotten the Love bug too. Yes, I’m obsessed with stickers.
Miriam Schulman: I’m also obsessed with bulldogs. So if you come out, I mean, okay, this is really the hypocrisy though. Natalie knows I always tell my artists, oh, there’s no money in stickers. And yet, what do I buy?
Natalie Bradley: Exactly. Well, yeah, I have a sticker addiction, and I really made the stickers for myself. My husband won’t let me buy a VW because he says they’ll always be in the shop. And so I’m like, well, I’ll just keep painting them and write them on everything. So you have to look at them all the time. So I love them.
Miriam Schulman: Hey friends, I just have to take a moment to talk about Natalie, who you’ve been hearing from in this episode. You’ve heard how she’s absolutely crushing it since she’s joined the Artist Incubator program. Whether it’s landing media opportunities, growing her email list, or turning her art into a sustainable business. Natalie’s results are incredible, and they’re no accident. So let me ask you this. Are you ready to turn your art dreams into a reality? If you’ve been stuck wondering how to grow your art business, how to sell more art, or get noticed by collectors, galleries, and the press, the Artist Incubator program might just be your answer. It’s the roadmap you’ve been looking for. Inside the program, you’ll get access to the proven strategies and frameworks that are helping artists like Natalie hit their goals. You’ll also get support from me, an amazing community of like minded artists to help keep you accountable. And the best part? You don’t have to figure it out on your own anymore. So let’s make 2025 your breakthrough year. Go to SchulmanArt.com/AIC to learn more and apply. I love to be your guide to help you supercharge your success and build the art career you’ve always dreamed of. Again, that’s SchulmanArt.com/AIC. Now don’t wait. Your creative future is calling. Now let’s get back to the show. So anyone who’s a Georgia fan, she does have a bulldog. You have that as a print, right?
Natalie Bradley: I do, and we have. So I don’t know if this is a thing in New York, but in the southeast, especially, acrylic tabletops are what they’re called. And so I’ve made a lot of my artwork, especially the mascots for the sec, into acrylic tabletops. And they are like, I don’t.
Miriam Schulman: Know what that is. Please explain.
Natalie Bradley: Yeah. Okay. So it’s. I have a local printer that prints the image, like on the back side of acrylic, so it looks like glass until you get up close and you touch it and it’s clear acrylic, but it makes light come through it. So this it’s an acrylic. So the back is where it’s printed and then it makes the light. I don’t know if you can see it like it makes the light shine through it. And people are obsessed with them. Like, these are like five by seven size and it’s contoured so it’s cut out around extremely cool. The artwork. Yeah, it’s just funky. It feels like pop art, but especially the VW. And I’ve got like nutcrackers for Christmas and.
Miriam Schulman: Oh wait, do you have that in a bulldog?
Natalie Bradley: Oh yeah. I sold it last weekend at my market.
Miriam Schulman: Gonna buy one. I love shopping for my artists. I do it all the time. It’s so.
Natalie Bradley: Much fun. I collect a lot of art, too. We had a lot of fun, but we’ve been selling them like crazy this weekend. And then Georgia Tech has this thing called the Ramblin Wreck, and nobody does Georgia Tech. So, you know, just a lot of mascots that have figured out different things or symbols from their schools that I can get away with or either go through licensing for certain things. Yeah, yeah.
Miriam Schulman: So I mean, a bulldog is a bulldog. Yes. So you should be able to paint a bulldog like, I mean, I think if it had the logo of the school that’s different.
Natalie Bradley: But yeah. Yeah. So I have to be very careful. But you know I’ve done it.
Miriam Schulman: Can you get away with that for Georgia Tech or.
Natalie Bradley: No I well I stayed away from buzz because everybody does buzz. So I did the car instead. And that’s what they call the Ramblin Wreck from Georgia Tech. Yeah.
Miriam Schulman: So in case anybody doesn’t know or hasn’t guessed, I used to live in the Atlanta area. So I’m very familiar. But also my New York accent, you would never know. But I do have a very flat like orange like. And that’s also from Florida. Like there’s a couple words that like, Will sneak in. And my brother in law, he used to live in Woodstock, okay. And now they live in white Georgia. But but all his kids went to either University of Georgia or Georgia Tech.
Natalie Bradley: My aunt lived in Woodstock for a while, so my high school years I lived in Roswell.
Miriam Schulman: Oh, I know, not too far away.
Natalie Bradley: Yeah, yeah, not too far away. So that’s where I went to, like, the Street of Dreams and stuff with my mom when she was an interior designer, and I had my little caterpillar sleeping bag to take with me. Yeah. So, yeah. Talk about immersive experience. It just stayed with me.
Miriam Schulman: Okay. So do you have anything else on that checklist that you. It looks like you’ve made a list, which I love. Oh. Anything else you wanted to share there?
Natalie Bradley: I wanted to make sure that that I shared all the fun things with you that I have done. Oh, so I don’t know if. Well, you probably do the way that I found, you.
Miriam Schulman: Know, I don’t know how you found me. Or you may have told me and I forgot. How did you find me?
Natalie Bradley: So I heard you and I don’t know what podcast it was on, but you were a guest on someone else’s podcast that I was listening to, and you mentioned this podcast. So then I started following this podcast. Then I bought your book, read the book twice, and then I joined the Artist Incubator program. So I’ve been listening and reading your work for not very long. I think I actually discovered you maybe, maybe in May. It hasn’t been that long, but.
Miriam Schulman: And that just shows the power of publicity. Like I did the thing too. And just like collectors are finding you through publicity, and I’m sure there’s some Atlanta, Georgia area listeners who are going to be definitely checking you out. Just NatalieBradley.com. We’ll make sure we link to that in the show notes.
Natalie Bradley: Awesome awesome. Thank you.
Miriam Schulman: Is there anything else you want to add before we call this complete?
Natalie Bradley: I just I really appreciate everything and I’m excited and I like sharing the wins that I’ve had, you know, in our our Facebook group, because I know that people get discouraged sometimes when things aren’t working, but sometimes it’s just because the timing isn’t right or you haven’t done it enough times or whatever that thing may be. But I don’t know. I think I’m a cheerleader for people just in general, and I don’t like to see people give up because it’s like that. I think Napoleon Hill, like the three feet from goal kind of mentality, is like, you cannot throw in the towel like right before you get there. I would encourage everybody to just keep doing the things that you say to do, and do it in the order that you’re recommended. There’s a reason why you have this success plan is that’s your low hanging fruit. That’s the easiest to get your return on investment. So don’t try and reinvent the way to go about it when you’re already telling us like, this is what’s going to get you the results quickest. And that’s just and I haven’t even gone through the whole program yet because I’ve had such a busy fall, I’ve made it probably about honestly like a third of the way through and I’m already having this much success. So just imagine once I have time to get through all of it, which I’m going to be doing a lot of in the next few months, and mapping out, you know, 2025, you know, before I get there and it’s plug and play. So I’m excited about that. All right.
Miriam Schulman: Natalie, well, thank you so much for spending this time with me and our listeners. All right, my friend. So thank you for being with me here today. I’ll see you the same time, same place next week. Until then, stay inspired. Bye for now.
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