Kickstart · Your First Clients — The Interactive Workbook
Kickstart

Your First Clients

A super-condensed version of the whole system, so you can start earning while you learn.

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Part 1

Which Door You Came In

Ninety seconds. So that nothing after this feels like it is for somebody else.

There are three ways people arrive here, and all three work. Choose the one that is true today.

That third one is worth a word. The spa owner who wants to teach other spa owners how to run a profitable spa full of clients they love. The candle maker who gives part of every sale to a cause, and wants to show other people how to do that. Both are teaching what they already live.

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Part 2

Who You’re Here For

One person. Not a market.

Not an audience, not a demographic. One woman you could picture sitting across from you.

My mentor Grace used to call this her ice-cream-on-the-kitchen-floor moment—and I love it, because you can see it. That moment where the thing she is carrying takes her flat out, and she ends up on the floor by the fridge with a spoon.
Before you move on · go and ask

Whatever you have written is a first draft, and the only way to finish it is to ask her.

Three or four people this week. Not a survey; a conversation. What is hardest right now, what have you already tried, what would you want instead. Then the most useful sentence in this work: is there more? The first answer is rarely the real one.

Write down her words exactly as she says them, including the ones you would never have chosen. Those are the words that go into your talk, your invitation, and eventually your program.

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Part 3

Your Unique Brilliance

The thing you already know, without the word expert anywhere near it.

There are three doorways in, and any one of them is enough. Choose the one that is true.

Why all three count. Because you may believe you have to have arrived, and you do not. I knew a healer who built an entire body of work around one miscarriage—the feelings, what to do, how to move through it, how to grieve in a healthy way. She was not the most experienced person in the room. She was the one who went deep on one thing and served the person right behind her.

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Part 4

Pain and Pleasure

Two lines that make everything after this easy to write.

Pain represents the urgent problem people come to you with. Pleasure represents the first major result they crave.

You will open these two again in Module 2, and again in Module 4. Written once here, they carry all the way through.

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Part 5

Your Hot-Selling Topic

The one thing. Everything above, in a sentence.

Look at what you wrote in Parts 3 and 4, then say the thing you help with in one sentence.

This becomes the spine of your Signature Talk, and you will refine it more than once. It does not have to be right today; it has to exist today.

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Part 6

Your Steps — A to B to C

The important one. This is the whole of your system, in rough.

What are the five or six steps you had to take to get from A to where you are right now? And if that is too much—just the first part. A, B, C.

Beside each step, one line: what changes for her at that step. The small transformation.

You do not start over in Module 4. You open what you wrote here and go deeper—each step broken into three or four smaller ones, and the whole system named. This is the fast pass.
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Part 7

How You’ll Deliver It

Turning the steps into something someone can book.

All three sit under your Visionary Program. And the reason to choose one today is this: whichever you choose, the people who show up will tell you exactly what they need. That is how you find out what you are actually selling. You are not guessing in private any more.

Choose the shape that fits the season you are actually in

The right shape is not the most profitable one. It is the one that fits the life you have this year.

There are seasons where one-to-one is difficult—where a schedule cannot be promised to anybody because someone at home needs you, and you do not know which hours will be yours. A group can work beautifully in that season: you show up once a week or every other week, and fill in around it with guidance that feels personal without having to happen live.

Same expertise, same clients, a shape that bends around the season instead of breaking in it. And seasons change. The shape that is wrong this year may be exactly right in two.

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Part 8

Your Invitation

The words that get someone onto a call with you.

Five beats to hold in your head on the call itself

One. Where are you now, in your own words. Two. Where do you want to be. Three. What has that distance been costing you. Four. May I tell you how I think I could help with that. Five. A clear yes, or a clear no, and both are good.

Module 6 teaches the whole conversation properly, step by step. Five beats is all you need to hold your first one.
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Part 9

Your Opt-in

This one assembles itself. You do not write it—you watch it appear.

Four lines, and three of them come from what you have already written.

And then where it goes: onto your scheduler page, in the description field, above where someone picks a time. No website needed. You could be taking bookings this afternoon.
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And then

What You Walk Out With

Your talk is already here, and so is the rhythm that fills it.

How these parts become your talk

You did not write a talk today. You wrote the material of one, and it is already here.

Part 3 · Unique BrillianceWhy you are the one saying this
Part 4 · Pain and PleasureThe opening—the problem you name out loud
Part 6 · One of your stepsThe teaching—one step, all the way through
Part 8 · Your invitationThe close

One step. Not all six. Choose one—step one, or step three, whichever you can give the most in—and go all the way to the bottom of it. Then name the others in a sentence each, with what changes for her at that step.

Here is why that works, and it is the opposite of what you expect. A talk that skims five steps leaves her with a diagram. A talk that walks her all the way through one leaves her with something that worked, in her own life, today—and the direct experience that you know what you are doing.

She will not think now I do not need her. She will think if one step did this, what would five do.

Withholding creates suspicion. Completeness creates trust, and trust is the thing you are actually building in those forty minutes.
And the rhythm that carries it · the 3-3-3 Method

One rhythm underneath everything, small enough to keep in a difficult week.

Three pieces of content. Three conversations. Three invitations. Each week.

One idea, three ways. Take one idea, small enough to be useful on its own, and teach the whole of it. Then give it three shapes—something to read, something to watch, and one line that can be caught in three seconds.

Three conversations. Not three sales. Three actual exchanges with a real person about the thing you help with. A reply that answers her rather than thanks her. A question answered properly in a group. A voice note instead of a typed reply. If you are shy, start where nobody is watching you begin.

Three invitations. The one everybody skips. An invitation is not a pitch; it happens in an email, a message, a comment, across a table. I thought of you when I was putting this together. I keep a couple of hours open on Thursdays—would you like to talk about this properly? Every one of those counts.

Nine small actions a week. Some weeks you will do nine and some weeks you will do two, and the two-week is not a failure; it is a season. The rhythm is here to hold you, not to grade you.

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Create from the soul. Serve from the heart. Receive from the universe.

Debra Larson