Are your business values guiding every decision you make—or are they still sitting on the “someday” list? In this episode, Laura shares why defining core values, vision, and mission is not a branding exercise, but the foundation of a business that creates lasting impact and legacy.
Laura explores how personal values shape company culture, customer relationships, team development, partnerships, and long-term growth. She reveals how mission-driven businesses create deeper client loyalty, stronger leadership, and greater contribution when values are lived consistently rather than simply written down. Through stories from her own entrepreneurial journey, she demonstrates how generosity, action, partnership, and purposeful growth become practical business strategies.
This conversation also challenges women to stop delaying their leadership, clarify who they serve, define who they do not serve, and build businesses that extend beyond their individual efforts. At its core, the episode is about creating alignment between who you are, what your business stands for, and the legacy you are here to leave.
The invitation is simple yet powerful: build a business that reflects your deepest values and allows your impact to continue far beyond yourself.
What You’ll Hear:
- Core values become the lens through which every business decision, partnership, customer interaction, and growth opportunity is evaluated.
- Sustainable business growth emerges when personal values and company values are intentionally aligned rather than developed as separate identities.
- Mission-driven leadership requires clarity around who is being served, what challenges they face, and the transformation the business exists to create.
- Legacy businesses are built through systems, teams, and shared vision that allow the work to extend beyond the founder.
- Purpose-driven entrepreneurs often discover that contribution, generosity, and profitability can strengthen one another rather than compete for attention.
Resources
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Strategize Your Next Best Step: Schedule a Clarity Conversation with Laura http://schedulemycall.today
Meet the Host:
Laura Gisborne, founder of Limitless Women, empowers female entrepreneurs to create businesses that are both profitable and purposeful. With 30+ years of experience, from building multi-million dollar enterprises to guiding small businesses, Laura understands the challenges of scaling beyond solopreneurship. She's a sought-after speaker, business growth strategist, and author of "Stop the Spinning – Move from Surviving to Thriving" and "Limitless Women." Laura's focus is on mindset, authentic leadership, and integrating social impact into business models. The Limitless Women community has raised over $750,000 for charities, reflecting Laura's commitment to "profits with purpose."
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What I want to say to you is this: core values
Laura Gisborne:in your business are usually something that people think
Laura Gisborne:about later, and I encourage all businesses to think about it
Laura Gisborne:today, if you haven't, or have already thought about it,
Laura Gisborne:because it's so very important, and it really informs everything
Laura Gisborne:that you do in your marketing, it informs how you partner with
Laura Gisborne:strategic alliances and people that want to help promote for
Laura Gisborne:you. It informs how you have relationships with your
Laura Gisborne:customers. Do you see what I'm saying? There's so many
Laura Gisborne:different places in all the different areas of your
Laura Gisborne:businesses. This is really important when we look at your
Laura Gisborne:personal core values. That's something that we can do, that
Laura Gisborne:can take quite a while, right. And I'm happy to share with you
Laura Gisborne:mine, and how they inform my daily gratitude practice, and
Laura Gisborne:how I use them, and exactly what they are. What I'll say is this:
Laura Gisborne:what makes your business different is going to be one of
Laura Gisborne:the first questions you want to ask yourself when identifying
Laura Gisborne:your company's core values, right. So Angela asked me the
Laura Gisborne:other day in a legacy leader call. Could you just give us
Laura Gisborne:what makes you different? What's my number three? We are
Laura Gisborne:philanthropy first. We're not strategic philanthropists, we're
Laura Gisborne:not looking to look good. We really, of all the people that
Laura Gisborne:I've met in the marketplace, I don't meet many people who do
Laura Gisborne:what we do, the first dollars that come from our company are
Laura Gisborne:donated to charity. That's how we've raised $750,000 for causes
Laura Gisborne:that support women and children on five continents. And
Laura Gisborne:hopefully I'm going to go to Australia this year. They will
Laura Gisborne:have six. I don't know what we're going to do with the
Laura Gisborne:Antarctica, because I just really don't know how many
Laura Gisborne:people live there. But you guys hang in with me, okay? So, what
Laura Gisborne:makes your company different, and how do you have a core value
Laura Gisborne:that's attached to that? So, the way that I want each of you to
Laura Gisborne:think about this is, I want you to look at some role models. You
Laura Gisborne:can look at Whole Foods, I love, I love their core values, I
Laura Gisborne:think they're one of the best that really is a mission-driven
Laura Gisborne:company that's been very successful. You can look at E
Laura Gisborne:Women Network, and they have really well written out their
Laura Gisborne:core values is right on their website. Right, I want you to
Laura Gisborne:think about that. The way that ours evolved was through a lot
Laura Gisborne:of practice, but I want to say you don't want to have 25 core
Laura Gisborne:values, you want to have five to seven core values, and they'll
Laura Gisborne:usually be tied in somewhat to your personal core values. So,
Laura Gisborne:the short exercise for you to do, if you haven't done this in
Laura Gisborne:a while, is to sit down and write down what you value,
Laura Gisborne:what's important to you, and then I want you to ask yourself
Laura Gisborne:why, and for most people, in their personal core values, it's
Laura Gisborne:usually around a few things, health, if they're aware that
Laura Gisborne:that's an important thing, and health is one of those things
Laura Gisborne:that you're only aware that's important when it starts not
Laura Gisborne:working right. Wealth, abundance, being able to have
Laura Gisborne:access to resources, and whatever languaging that comes
Laura Gisborne:in, love and relationship with others. In my personal core
Laura Gisborne:values, I have a strong core value for contribution. It's
Laura Gisborne:such a big deal in my life, because I grew up very
Laura Gisborne:differently than I live today, and for the grace of God, and
Laura Gisborne:some really amazing women who saw me when I could not see
Laura Gisborne:myself, I was able to receive access to resources that I
Laura Gisborne:probably never would have had if I just been in my zone, right?
Laura Gisborne:So people who reached out and said, "Hey, doesn't have to be
Laura Gisborne:this way, and they lifted me up and educated me and brought me
Laura Gisborne:to a new level. So, in my personal core values, what that
Laura Gisborne:looks like is I have a core value around enduring
Laura Gisborne:contribution. This started because I was gratefully giving
Laura Gisborne:back for what I had received, but I got really clear that I
Laura Gisborne:don't want to just have a one-time thing with people.
Laura Gisborne:Right, you'll notice if you hang out on a playground, how much we
Laura Gisborne:talk about the lifetime relationships you have with
Laura Gisborne:clients.
Laura Gisborne:That's really important, not only for the lifetime value,
Laura Gisborne:dollars and cents for your business, but also for the ease
Laura Gisborne:and grace of your experience, and the deeper healing that
Laura Gisborne:happens when someone stays with you year after year. Right,
Laura Gisborne:they're going to get a solution to their problem. They may have
Laura Gisborne:something else, Gabrielle, that they need help with. They may
Laura Gisborne:have somebody else in their family. You become, as Patricia
Laura Gisborne:said, kind of like the trusted advisor for people, right? And
Laura Gisborne:we have people at this point who have been with me since 2012
Laura Gisborne:It's now 2024 That's pretty remarkable, right? So
Laura Gisborne:philanthropy first is one of our company core values. The next
Laura Gisborne:one for us is love is in the details. I believe that there's
Laura Gisborne:something so important about how we do things and how we care for
Laura Gisborne:people, and when we don't, and when we really care, and just
Laura Gisborne:like even doing this work, you know, you could zip over this
Laura Gisborne:and this could be one more thing, you're like, okay, I'm
Laura Gisborne:gonna go and then we get back to my to-do's, but if you really
Laura Gisborne:sit down and think about what you care about and why you care
Laura Gisborne:about it, it will make a big difference for you. I'm going to
Laura Gisborne:give you what love looks like in my personal values, just as an
Laura Gisborne:example, that will kind of move through the rest of these. When
Laura Gisborne:my children were small, when I crafted my what I call now my
Laura Gisborne:circle of life, which. Encompasses all of my core
Laura Gisborne:values. I had not experienced safe nurturing relationships
Laura Gisborne:elsewhere, and they really were these beautiful babies that were
Laura Gisborne:safe and nurturing and loving. And when I got divorced from my
Laura Gisborne:first husband, I was very aware of, like, how much I miss being
Laura Gisborne:with them, and how much that broke my heart, and what I
Laura Gisborne:experienced with them was a level of intimacy and sharing.
Laura Gisborne:Right, I'm sharing their sharing is in this give and take, really
Laura Gisborne:beautiful peer to peer conversation, even though I'm
Laura Gisborne:the mama and they're the baby, right? And also compassionate,
Laura Gisborne:nurturing. My children are the most compassionate, nurturing
Laura Gisborne:people you're ever going to meet in your life. They literally are
Laura Gisborne:just beautiful givers, their father is a beautiful giver,
Laura Gisborne:right? So they've grown up, that's, you know, for me the
Laura Gisborne:ideal in a relationship is intimate, it's sharing intimate,
Laura Gisborne:meaning like the mask is off, not intimate sexually, right?
Laura Gisborne:There's compassion and awareness for each other, and it's a
Laura Gisborne:nurturing environment, so when we look at how that translates
Laura Gisborne:into our business, I have an incredibly intimate relationship
Laura Gisborne:with many of you. We really do. We have a deep trust, a deep
Laura Gisborne:relationship, a deep love. It comes because we made it a
Laura Gisborne:priority in our company to make sure that you know that you're
Laura Gisborne:loved, right? Whether it's your birthday gift, whether it's your
Laura Gisborne:welcome calls, whether it's a handwritten note, we really look
Laura Gisborne:at, like, how can we give you an awareness of how much you
Laura Gisborne:matter, right? And we really, you know, we - I think we knock
Laura Gisborne:it out of the park, we get to events, because we do chocolate
Laura Gisborne:kisses, we do all kinds of cool stuff for everybody, but we're
Laura Gisborne:just even in our day-to-day practice. I mean, if we're not
Laura Gisborne:on it, I'm on Leanne. She's like, you know, that's why she's
Laura Gisborne:doing client care. She's fantastic. She really is a
Laura Gisborne:person who lives love us in the details in her own life. So, you
Laura Gisborne:want to think about how your values are going to be
Laura Gisborne:experienced by your customers and clients, and how your team
Laura Gisborne:members have to match, so we recently brought somebody on.
Laura Gisborne:Our next one is generosity in everything we do. Everyone who
Laura Gisborne:works our team gives first, they're givers, right? We're
Laura Gisborne:givers, they're givers. You want to surround yourself with people
Laura Gisborne:who value what you value. So generosity in everything we do
Laura Gisborne:is something I look for when we're bringing on new people to
Laura Gisborne:our team. I also listen for this when I'm interviewing potential
Laura Gisborne:clients, and I want you to understand that there is no
Laura Gisborne:lack. Whatever it is that you want to experience in your
Laura Gisborne:business, whatever that dollar and cents is, whatever that
Laura Gisborne:impact is, it's available when you have clarity.
Laura Gisborne:And then you do the actions to bring people back again and
Laura Gisborne:again to the solutions to their problems, right. So the next
Laura Gisborne:thing in our world is we believe that action changes everything.
Laura Gisborne:So I look for team members who take action, I look for clients
Laura Gisborne:who take action. Why do you think I do that? I am in
Laura Gisborne:business partnership with my clients, I cannot do it for
Laura Gisborne:them, I can do it with them. Anybody who's been married
Laura Gisborne:understands, and you have a successful relationship, it's
Laura Gisborne:not about what you do or what they do, it's about how you
Laura Gisborne:partner, right. And so, in order for our clients to achieve great
Laura Gisborne:results, that's when I talk about the 123, who are they,
Laura Gisborne:what are they struggling with, how do you uniquely partner with
Laura Gisborne:them, that's important in our core values, is the power of
Laura Gisborne:partnerships. What we know is that when we partner with the
Laura Gisborne:right people, everybody wins, right? So love is in the
Laura Gisborne:details, generosity in everything we do, action changes
Laura Gisborne:everything. We really believe in graceful growth, and that lives
Laura Gisborne:in my own personal values, and also in the values of our
Laura Gisborne:company. We're not on a race to hit a revenue goal for the sake
Laura Gisborne:of hitting a revenue goal. The next book that I want to write
Laura Gisborne:is Give Your Way to Millions, and I want to do that. We're at
Laura Gisborne:750,000 I feel like we'll go over a million dollars in
Laura Gisborne:donations, and then we'll hopefully be giving and giving
Laura Gisborne:and giving as the community grows long beyond me, me here,
Laura Gisborne:right? It will happen in God's timing. It will happen
Laura Gisborne:gracefully, and what's most important is that we recognize
Laura Gisborne:that our businesses are here to support our lives, not our lives
Laura Gisborne:are here to support our businesses. This happens so
Laura Gisborne:often for women that we don't allow ourselves to have time
Laura Gisborne:freedom, we don't allow ourselves to rich relationships
Laura Gisborne:elsewhere, because we're on a mission, and we've got strong
Laura Gisborne:mission-focused businesses, right? They're pulling us
Laura Gisborne:forward. We've got to build the boundaries and build the
Laura Gisborne:boundaries and decide when are we going to work. So, the final
Laura Gisborne:value I want to share with you is that exceptional experiences
Laura Gisborne:provide the environment for transformation. We did our first
Laura Gisborne:little mini event in 2010 I did not have a list, I had no idea
Laura Gisborne:what I was doing. We brought in 19 people, 14 of them signed up
Laura Gisborne:for our $97 a month program that we had at the time, and then
Laura Gisborne:four of them signed up. For our $5,000 program, and then one, we
Laura Gisborne:just lost that person. I don't know how, but you know, we go
Laura Gisborne:for 100% fulfillment in the room when we have a live event, not
Laura Gisborne:100% conversion that they come to our party to move forward,
Laura Gisborne:but that the woman who's there has an awareness and an ability
Laura Gisborne:to make a contribution to a cause she cares about, whether
Laura Gisborne:it's the charity partner for the event or different, that she has
Laura Gisborne:clarity on her next steps, that she knows when she leaves that
Laura Gisborne:event she has had an environment that was safe and nurturing, so
Laura Gisborne:she can go out and have the confidence to take action, and
Laura Gisborne:then the third goal for us is that those who are in our party,
Laura Gisborne:I mean, you guys are here today. If you're not in a program with
Laura Gisborne:us, of course, we would love to have a conversation with you to
Laura Gisborne:see, do you want to play with us? Is there some place that our
Laura Gisborne:company can partner with your company to create a greater
Laura Gisborne:impact in the world? So, your core values, I want you to work
Laura Gisborne:on them. I want you to do this as a homework assignment. If you
Laura Gisborne:want my help on that, send them back to me. Let's look at them
Laura Gisborne:together. Often, what helps is to tie core values to language
Laura Gisborne:that will anchor it in your brain. Right? When I talk about
Laura Gisborne:I value love and relationships, I don't say I value love and
Laura Gisborne:relationships, I say I value intimate sharing, I value
Laura Gisborne:compassionate nurturing in the world, and I have that with my
Laura Gisborne:clients, I have that with my team, I have that with my
Laura Gisborne:children, I have that with people in my community, right?
Laura Gisborne:Like, it's really cool.
Laura Gisborne:So, choose your words to anchor something that's going to really
Laura Gisborne:matter for you. It'll make it easier for you to remember.
Laura Gisborne:It'll also make it easier for you to live through it. Next, I
Laura Gisborne:want to move to your vision statement. Now, this again is
Laura Gisborne:something that could be. Let me just tell you, how women take
Laura Gisborne:themselves out of the game. Let me just pause and tell you what
Laura Gisborne:I see as a possible objection that you haven't even brought up
Laura Gisborne:yet, but I'll tell you that the objection I get from people is
Laura Gisborne:I'm confused, I don't really understand who am I to do this?
Laura Gisborne:I'm not ready. I'm going to wait until I get xyz or q or r
Laura Gisborne:figured out, and then I'm going to move forward to the action.
Laura Gisborne:Each one of us has a gift, and we have a reason we've been
Laura Gisborne:called. That's why we're in mission-driven businesses. We
Laura Gisborne:have something that's calling us forward every time we play small
Laura Gisborne:and hold ourselves back, it's actually not a generous act,
Laura Gisborne:because we're making it about ourselves. It's a human
Laura Gisborne:condition. Okay, we're doing our best. Everybody on this call has
Laura Gisborne:done a lot of hard work in our personal development, in our
Laura Gisborne:professional development. We are here to lead, because we've been
Laura Gisborne:called to lead, we would not be called to lead for our time.
Laura Gisborne:It's my understanding that God's timing is the divine timing.
Laura Gisborne:What we need to do is not get in our own way. Okay, so I'm
Laura Gisborne:telling you this because I want you to really think about your
Laura Gisborne:vision statement as number one, something that your company
Laura Gisborne:represents, not you personally, because I'm in the business of
Laura Gisborne:building businesses, not in the business of building
Laura Gisborne:self-employed people. We have lots of women in our community
Laura Gisborne:who are doctors and lawyers and accountants and CPAs and
Laura Gisborne:financial planners and all kinds of different companies, right?
Laura Gisborne:But when you build a business, it's something that's going to
Laura Gisborne:live beyond you, and this is your legacy work. So, we can do
Laura Gisborne:thinking about legacy when you think about a vision statement,
Laura Gisborne:and I'll tell you what our vision statement is. Our vision
Laura Gisborne:statement of Limitless Women is a world where business is a
Laura Gisborne:force for good. Our businesses partner regularly with public
Laura Gisborne:needs to provide resources as needed. All people from all
Laura Gisborne:walks see themselves as valuable and others as worthy and
Laura Gisborne:valuable. So this is my ideal for where business is actually a
Laura Gisborne:vehicle for change. That's what we stand for in our vision. What
Laura Gisborne:does your business stand for in the world? What is it that you
Laura Gisborne:see in the world that you'd like to see more of? So, if you had a
Laura Gisborne:magic wand, what would your company be contributing to in
Laura Gisborne:the betterment of humanity, and that's a big one. My loves, take
Laura Gisborne:15 minutes right now, and write your vision statement. You
Laura Gisborne:should have a copy of hours, just as a template or swipe,
Laura Gisborne:whatever, to give you some kind of inspiration. What is it that
Laura Gisborne:your company stands for, the company that you're building,
Laura Gisborne:that's going to take your message beyond you. It's for
Laura Gisborne:those of you that are thought leaders, that you are the ones,
Laura Gisborne:and so you're writing the books, and you're teaching your
Laura Gisborne:modalities, and you're doing your piece. The way that your
Laura Gisborne:thought leadership gets to be a legacy business is when we get
Laura Gisborne:it out of your brain and out. Of your mouth and into systems that
Laura Gisborne:can be delivered by other people. Okay, the way that I see
Laura Gisborne:this statement, and you guys should have the statement, you
Laura Gisborne:have the short versions, right? And then you have this longer
Laura Gisborne:elaborated one. This elaborated one is where the sweet spot
Laura Gisborne:lies. This is in the languaging, so in our mission statement,
Laura Gisborne:that's more elaborated, that we use for our marketing language,
Laura Gisborne:you're going to hear, especially not been friends for a while,
Laura Gisborne:you've seen this stuff again and again and again, because that's
Laura Gisborne:the beauty of what we're doing right now. Anybody that's
Laura Gisborne:willing to sit down and spend 90 minutes to two hours doing this
Laura Gisborne:work will have so much freedom on the other side, and that's
Laura Gisborne:how life is, isn't it? Right, we did the work, okay.
Laura Gisborne:So our mission statement is that we help, it says I help, but we
Laura Gisborne:help mature, spiritually connected, mission-focused women
Laura Gisborne:business owners to get out of overwhelm and finally find
Laura Gisborne:profitability and freedom in their businesses, so that they
Laura Gisborne:can give to themselves and others, and I want you to just
Laura Gisborne:write this stuff down. For number one, what you want is the
Laura Gisborne:who. Who is it? And what we know in our world is that the what,
Laura Gisborne:which is number two of number one, AB, I guess it should be
Laura Gisborne:number B. Is when someone comes to me and they say I need help.
Laura Gisborne:They are intelligent. They are spiritually connected. I think
Laura Gisborne:that's probably because we're philanthropy first organization.
Laura Gisborne:We're not attractive to people that don't have a spiritual
Laura Gisborne:component, and I don't know how to say that, other than, you
Laura Gisborne:know, it's my belief system that has me give, because I can. But
Laura Gisborne:people come from all different walks of life in our world. It's
Laura Gisborne:not just about being Christian or Jewish or Buddhist, or you
Laura Gisborne:know, but I'm saying it's not about that religion, it's about
Laura Gisborne:the knowing that we get to give, and that I can see that as a
Laura Gisborne:spiritual component. Okay, so who is it that you really want
Laura Gisborne:to spend time with? What are they struggling with? The two
Laura Gisborne:things that show up in our world are time and money. Now we know
Laura Gisborne:that we all have exactly the same amount of time. However,
Laura Gisborne:what happens in our world is that women are smart, they're
Laura Gisborne:educated, they're working hard, and they feel tired at the end
Laura Gisborne:of the day. They do not get the results they want. They feel
Laura Gisborne:like there's more they have to do. That is a symptom. Now I'm
Laura Gisborne:going to put my doctor hat on, Dr. Caroline, and I am not a
Laura Gisborne:doctor, but as in my business, if I was going to be a business
Laura Gisborne:doctor, I'll tell you that is a symptom, it's an evidence of an
Laura Gisborne:underlying problem of the poverty consciousness. The
Laura Gisborne:poverty consciousness shows up in two ways in our world. It
Laura Gisborne:shows up in no matter how hard I work, I can't get ahead, there's
Laura Gisborne:always more. The second one is this feeling about not having
Laura Gisborne:money. The first time I had somebody say to me, I don't know
Laura Gisborne:if I can afford to work with you. I only have $500,000 in the
Laura Gisborne:bank. I was like, wow, I didn't have $500,000 in the bank. I
Laura Gisborne:thought that was mind-blowing. I've had multiple women say to
Laura Gisborne:me since then, I'm afraid I can't retire, I only have a
Laura Gisborne:million dollars, and I'm like, wow, here's the deal, the fear
Laura Gisborne:is really driving their actions and holding them back from being
Laura Gisborne:in leadership. Do we feel the fear? We do it anyway. I think
Laura Gisborne:Nike, whoever we give credit to for that one, we go, we do it,
Laura Gisborne:and then we walk in faith, right? So, there's a spiritual
Laura Gisborne:component for us again. Okay, so why people come to our world is
Laura Gisborne:so that they can give to themselves and others. That's
Laura Gisborne:the results that a woman wants when she comes into Limitless
Laura Gisborne:Women. She is wanting to build a business that provides
Laura Gisborne:efficiency for herself, for the people she cares about, for her
Laura Gisborne:community, and she is desiring to give from the overflow. If
Laura Gisborne:she doesn't have that, we're not a match. If she's too cool for
Laura Gisborne:school, we're not a match. She's already got it all figured out.
Laura Gisborne:We're not a match. We've been friends, but we're here to grow
Laura Gisborne:with purpose. We are literally entrepreneurs growing profits
Laura Gisborne:with purpose. That's what our subtitle is on our Facebook
Laura Gisborne:page. Okay, so the first section you want here, this first
Laura Gisborne:paragraph is, Who is it? And the more succinct we can get with it
Laura Gisborne:and play with it. I'm here for you. What are they struggling
Laura Gisborne:with? What are they aware of? Right, my women are aware of
Laura Gisborne:overwhelm. They are aware of not having profits. They may be
Laura Gisborne:having businesses again that it's similar to some of you. It
Laura Gisborne:looks good on the outside. I got a business that's bringing in
Laura Gisborne:20,000 50,000 100,000 200,000 500,000 and I'm not paying
Laura Gisborne:myself. Okay, there's something wrong there. The second
Laura Gisborne:paragraph is this: I only work with, and everybody write that
Laura Gisborne:down right now.
Laura Gisborne:If you're going to do your company, do we only work with if
Laura Gisborne:you're going to be your self-employed person? Right, I
Laura Gisborne:only work with no right or wrong here at Limitless Women. We only
Laura Gisborne:work with women business owners, that's really an important
Laura Gisborne:distinction that I want you guys to take a minute and catch here,
Laura Gisborne:because these tiny, tiny ties and nuances are the big game
Laura Gisborne:changer in your company. When you see me writing emails,
Laura Gisborne:freezing Fridays for eight years, some of you've been on
Laura Gisborne:waitlist for a long time, I. Speak to women business owners.
Laura Gisborne:I've been coached to talk to female entrepreneurs, this and
Laura Gisborne:that. I'm like, listen, I'm talking to women who are here to
Laura Gisborne:build a business, so that it can give to themselves and others. A
Laura Gisborne:business is something that goes on beyond your life. We've sold
Laura Gisborne:six businesses. We did not sell six Laura Gisbornes. Well, they
Laura Gisborne:wouldn't make, okay? So I only work with women and business
Laura Gisborne:owners, see the difference, who have a proven track record.
Laura Gisborne:Everybody in this room is successful, very humble. We tend
Laura Gisborne:to attract a very humble community. Probably you're also
Laura Gisborne:spiritually connected. I'm here to lead leaders, so I know that
Laura Gisborne:our company is a leadership development company. We want to
Laura Gisborne:work with people who are personally responsible. They
Laura Gisborne:have a track record of growing their business through serving
Laura Gisborne:the clients spiritually connected. Now, this is where I
Laura Gisborne:want you to get this: three different distinctions that you
Laura Gisborne:know about your person, and what are those distinctions of the
Laura Gisborne:deeper who? But I think that's the piece we want to look here.
Laura Gisborne:So, in our world, number one is they have a track record through
Laura Gisborne:serving, right? There are a people that are servants, it's
Laura Gisborne:not a new concept for them. Number two, in our world is that
Laura Gisborne:they are spiritually connected, right, and spiritually connected
Laura Gisborne:results in them being personally responsible, often, and they're
Laura Gisborne:really committed to growing their profits, so that they can
Laura Gisborne:give back to others. Right, I'm saying the same thing to you
Laura Gisborne:again and again. I apologize, that's why I gave it to you in
Laura Gisborne:writing, so you can play with it. But I want you to get the
Laura Gisborne:distinctions of all the tiny distinctions, and you'll write
Laura Gisborne:something like this, and you'll rewrite it, and you'll rewrite
Laura Gisborne:it, and you'll rewrite it as your company grows, because you
Laura Gisborne:will change as a founder. The team that you have around you
Laura Gisborne:will be fulfilling the promise, right? The goal is for you as a
Laura Gisborne:founder is to be the messenger, to be the person with the vision
Laura Gisborne:to bring this, you know, leadership to the world. The
Laura Gisborne:team, when we get into that in school, is all I mean, the team
Laura Gisborne:is the most robust thing. That's why we made business school a
Laura Gisborne:lifetime program, because you're alive and breathing, you are
Laura Gisborne:going to be done with it, right? Until you sell this baby, or you
Laura Gisborne:decide to exit, this company is going to be run by a team of
Laura Gisborne:other individuals, so that you can create greater impact in the
Laura Gisborne:world, right. We've got to get it out there next. So, we've got
Laura Gisborne:three distinctions in the deeper who, that's number two. Number
Laura Gisborne:three is the one that ladies don't like, but we're going to
Laura Gisborne:hang in there and do it anyway. And number three is, Who do you
Laura Gisborne:reject working with? And I will ask you, I've got to hear in one
Laura Gisborne:sentence, but I got to tell you, you know the stories behind the
Laura Gisborne:story. You don't have to give the context in your mission
Laura Gisborne:statement, you got to be really clear about who this work does
Laura Gisborne:not work for. In 12 years, we've had two people that came through
Laura Gisborne:that were psychologically not well. It's in our contract. We
Laura Gisborne:are not doing therapy here, that you know, I mean, we're really
Laura Gisborne:not. We're that in the contract for a reason. Out of 10s of
Laura Gisborne:1000s of people, right, that we've met at this point, that's
Laura Gisborne:not too bad. Okay, but you got to think about the clues for the
Laura Gisborne:people that are not going to be good for you, or good for your
Laura Gisborne:community, or good for your team, or good for themselves.
Laura Gisborne:Get the idea.
Laura Gisborne:So, in our world, we absolutely reject working with somebody
Laura Gisborne:who's a victim, if they are not personally responsible, which
Laura Gisborne:was up here in number two. I can't do it for them, but we can
Laura Gisborne:do it with them, right? So, somebody comes in and they got a
Laura Gisborne:story and a drama and a drama. No, thank you. Another way we
Laura Gisborne:look at that is if they're closed-minded. Same thing,
Laura Gisborne:Caroline. If somebody comes in and they already know
Laura Gisborne:everything, do not waste your time. Please don't bother. Love
Laura Gisborne:them, as Sandra says. Bless and release them, and let them go
Laura Gisborne:find their solutions elsewhere, or let them be deeply addicted
Laura Gisborne:to their struggle. Not your job, okay? And the third one is being
Laura Gisborne:addicted to personal drama, this little card that my son gave me.
Laura Gisborne:No drama from Mama. Keep it right here to remind me, in case
Laura Gisborne:anybody comes across my purview. It's all dramatic. We don't talk
Laura Gisborne:to that. We have a mission. There are people in the world
Laura Gisborne:that are really having real problems, not the problem that
Laura Gisborne:they get a million dollars in the bank. They're trying to feed
Laura Gisborne:their children, they're trying to figure out how to get
Laura Gisborne:education, so they can better their families and heal cycles
Laura Gisborne:of poverty. These are real problems. This is not, you know,
Laura Gisborne:I only have a million dollars when stock markets down, not my
Laura Gisborne:person. Okay, who is not your person? Please write it down.
Laura Gisborne:That's number three. Now number four is what happens if they
Laura Gisborne:don't get your help. So let's say we've got a person in our
Laura Gisborne:world who's personally responsible, who has got a great
Laura Gisborne:track record, who really cares, who shares our core value about
Laura Gisborne:giving, and she is not profitable. She is not in a
Laura Gisborne:place where she can take care of herself and others. What's
Laura Gisborne:happening? What happens is she continues to feel overwhelmed.
Laura Gisborne:That's not. One, number two, she continues to work too hard. You
Laura Gisborne:guys hear me say this often, and one of the reasons we created
Laura Gisborne:business school is that there's such an art and a science to
Laura Gisborne:doing the right things in the right order in business. And
Laura Gisborne:when you get the visit, like in the house, when the house is all
Laura Gisborne:built, it's great, but you can't put in the windows when there's
Laura Gisborne:no framing right, so teaching women to do business in the
Laura Gisborne:right order, it frees everybody up right, so if they are working
Laura Gisborne:too hard, that doesn't equate to working, doing the right
Laura Gisborne:activities, and they're struggling to get ahead,
Laura Gisborne:personally and professionally. This is the paragraph. Without
Laura Gisborne:my help, these women continue to feel overwhelmed, work too hard,
Laura Gisborne:and struggle to get ahead in their lives, personally and
Laura Gisborne:professionally. In that section, what I want you to do is to
Laura Gisborne:write under section number four what happens without your
Laura Gisborne:assistance or without your company's assistance, and I want
Laura Gisborne:three distinctions there, and I'll tell you, I keep going:
Laura Gisborne:three distinctions, three distinctions, three
Laura Gisborne:distinctions, because in your email marketing, in your social
Laura Gisborne:media marketing, in your sales conversations, people can
Laura Gisborne:remember three. In your talks from stage, I'm going to tell
Laura Gisborne:you three things today. Okay, blah blah blah blah. Tell you
Laura Gisborne:that, and then I tell you what I told you, and then I'm able to
Laura Gisborne:go through number one and number two. These are two things I told
Laura Gisborne:you, but before I tell you number three, I'm going to tell
Laura Gisborne:you this other thing, and then I'm going to go back and recap.
Laura Gisborne:The brain can handle it. You can write this stuff out one time,
Laura Gisborne:and then your team can use it again and again and again and
Laura Gisborne:again. So now number five is kind of sticky, but I think this
Laura Gisborne:is one of those things that's worth a little time on your
Laura Gisborne:part, and I'll tell you what happens in this one. So number
Laura Gisborne:five in our world is you're going to go deeper, you've got
Laura Gisborne:what happens. I'm just going to read this to you. So, what
Laura Gisborne:happens with people in our world is they feel overwhelmed, they
Laura Gisborne:work too hard, and they struggle to get ahead. Those are like
Laura Gisborne:sound bites, right? But what happens underneath is that their
Laura Gisborne:life becomes a living hell.
Laura Gisborne:They're embarrassed, they're ashamed that they're not farther
Laura Gisborne:along, because they've lost connection to their loved ones
Laura Gisborne:who don't understand why they're working so hard. These husbands,
Laura Gisborne:these parents, these kids, the neighbors are like, "What do you
Laura Gisborne:do? Nobody has any idea. And then, when you're not paying
Laura Gisborne:yourself, they're like, "Why are you working a million hours? And
Laura Gisborne:then you're still not profitable. What's going on
Laura Gisborne:here? Right, something needs to be addressed. They're physically
Laura Gisborne:exhausted, right? So the physical manifestation starts
Laura Gisborne:showing up. So our women come to me, they come to me weary, they
Laura Gisborne:really do. They come to me weary, they come to me tired,
Laura Gisborne:and they don't have any place they're allowed to let
Laura Gisborne:themselves be that way until we get on a conversation. It's not
Laura Gisborne:uncommon for women to say to me, I have been, I've been dealing
Laura Gisborne:with this for a long time, and I haven't had anybody talk to
Laura Gisborne:about it, and I'm not a therapist, so what I'm here to
Laura Gisborne:do, I'm here to partner with you, you're here to change the
Laura Gisborne:world, but our women come weary, they're physically exhausted
Laura Gisborne:from overworking and from living on a financial roller coaster,
Laura Gisborne:the ups and downs, and the ups and downs. Okay, we've talked a
Laura Gisborne:lot about this in business school, and if you guys are
Laura Gisborne:okay, I'll just say that is, I'm saying, please watch what we're
Laura Gisborne:doing. Since I came back to work, two years off, it's a long
Laura Gisborne:time, great luxury. We kept going, lots of followers, it's
Laura Gisborne:very blessed, but we kept doing what we could do gently. But I
Laura Gisborne:wasn't going to bring clients in if I couldn't support them, and
Laura Gisborne:you watch me like come back to work this year. Be like, okay,
Laura Gisborne:I'm back. And then we started growing, but watch what we're
Laura Gisborne:doing behind the scenes. Open our emails, please. It helps our
Laura Gisborne:open rate. Look at our social media stuff, like it and
Laura Gisborne:comment. Okay, because what we're doing is bringing the
Laura Gisborne:awareness consistently, and that's what your marketing has
Laura Gisborne:to be. It has to be consistent, and it has to keep bringing. Are
Laura Gisborne:you struggling with this? Let's have a conversation. I'm here
Laura Gisborne:for you. Okay, so in this section, I want you to go deeper
Laura Gisborne:about what happens. Are women are physically exhausted,
Laura Gisborne:they're living on a financial roller coaster, they always
Laura Gisborne:worry about money. Now, this is the part that freaks me out,
Laura Gisborne:where I'm saying, like, how can you have a million dollars in
Laura Gisborne:the bank, and being worried about money. Guess what, you can
Laura Gisborne:surprise. Okay, because the underlying poverty consciousness
Laura Gisborne:is not enough, and no matter how much it is, you can get $10
Laura Gisborne:million I don't know, I don't have $10 million but you get a
Laura Gisborne:$10 million and feel like not enough. You feel scared, it
Laura Gisborne:feels real, right? Your people are dealing with something. Next
Laura Gisborne:section, number, we're on number six right now. What could happen
Laura Gisborne:for your respective client if they said yes to themselves?
Laura Gisborne:What could happen in our world? Our women develop systems for
Laura Gisborne:healthy recurring revenue, because they move to owning a
Laura Gisborne:business that has consistent systems for marketing and
Laura Gisborne:bringing people in, right, and we teach them things to help
Laura Gisborne:them convert sales, right. So, what we want to have for our
Laura Gisborne:leaders is healthy recurring revenue working way fewer hours.
Laura Gisborne:Course, getting rid of the overwhelm, and this frees them
Laura Gisborne:up, not only financially, it frees them up emotionally. They
Laura Gisborne:start to see themselves, this identity conversation we had
Laura Gisborne:becomes a completely different identity, and part of the
Laura Gisborne:healing in the action in our world is by inviting you to
Laura Gisborne:give, we invite you to make a contribution, because you start
Laura Gisborne:to see yourself empowered if you've been feeling
Laura Gisborne:disempowered, get to make a difference for somebody else,
Laura Gisborne:right. Okay, so what are the three things that can happen for
Laura Gisborne:your prospective client when they say yes to themselves, and
Laura Gisborne:I want you to remember that when someone comes to work with you,
Laura Gisborne:they're not saying yes to you, they're saying yes to
Laura Gisborne:themselves, they're saying yes, I'm going to invest in getting
Laura Gisborne:what I need, or what my business needs, or what my family needs
Laura Gisborne:to be able to achieve the result that I'm not able to do on my
Laura Gisborne:own, right? So, too full for school, never going to get
Laura Gisborne:there.
Laura Gisborne:Already got anything handled? Never going to get there. Really
Laura Gisborne:clear about this is a problem. Going to ask for help, going to
Laura Gisborne:get there. Remember the addicted to drama. Go somewhere else,
Laura Gisborne:please, and work that out with a therapist. Much better. So, what
Laura Gisborne:the last little group of stuff here, you see, in bullet points,
Laura Gisborne:the way we help them get results is we help them clearly define a
Laura Gisborne:business model that is simple, replicable, and profitable. When
Laura Gisborne:I keep going back to 123, who is it that we're here to serve?
Laura Gisborne:What are they struggling with, and how are we helping them?
Laura Gisborne:Right, this is business, and energy exchange happens, money
Laura Gisborne:changes hands, everybody wins. The next thing that we do is we
Laura Gisborne:teach women how to have easy sales conversations. If you guys
Laura Gisborne:are on the journey with me right now, we're playing along, we're
Laura Gisborne:going to do sales with ease this summer, you're going to see it
Laura Gisborne:in August. All of our thing, we got the 90 day revenue
Laura Gisborne:accelerator coming up, so excited to do that with you,
Laura Gisborne:moving into sales with ease, it'll be a perfect match for
Laura Gisborne:what we're doing, the 90 day revenue, and it's a perfect
Laura Gisborne:invitation for business school students, because it's one of
Laura Gisborne:their most common struggles. So, what we look at is, we can help
Laura Gisborne:them clearly define, and we help you clearly define which actions
Laura Gisborne:you need to take, and all the things you'd let go of. Part of
Laura Gisborne:our self-care acronym is all a subject you let go of, it's not
Laura Gisborne:essential. We help you build a team when you're ready to do
Laura Gisborne:that, that supports you and pays for itself, right? Because you
Laura Gisborne:execute and you bring clients in, we teach you the systems
Laura Gisborne:around your numbers. If you don't know your numbers, that's
Laura Gisborne:what we're here for, right? To analyze your numbers, and you
Laura Gisborne:want to start tracking what's got when you get a little, you
Laura Gisborne:know, your numbers, have them be your friend. That's a big part
Laura Gisborne:of our healing in Limitless Women. Often, women are not
Laura Gisborne:comfortable with their numbers. It hasn't been their playground.
Laura Gisborne:They haven't had that education. They've deferred that, and
Laura Gisborne:somewhere they got a message that, hey, maybe that's not for
Laura Gisborne:you. So, the final thing that we have in here, the in our
Laura Gisborne:results, the steps - these are actually this section number
Laura Gisborne:seven are the steps you take someone through to get the
Laura Gisborne:result that you're going to get, so again in your world, Gabby,
Laura Gisborne:you can probably see the different steps that you take,
Laura Gisborne:there's probably a discovery, there's some clarification,
Laura Gisborne:there's some things that have to be done to get provided, to get
Laura Gisborne:prepared, and to be qualified. I'm going to imagine there's
Laura Gisborne:steps, right? So we want to do is put language to those steps,
Laura Gisborne:so that you can use this language in your enrollment
Laura Gisborne:conversations, and because I have this language right in
Laura Gisborne:front of me, I can make it really easy when I'm having a
Laura Gisborne:sales with these conversations. I can say to Lacey, you remind
Laura Gisborne:me so much of my client, Mary Jo, who had a very similar
Laura Gisborne:experience. This is what she was struggling with, and this is how
Laura Gisborne:we helped her, and as soon as she got the systems in place,
Laura Gisborne:and she understood her numbers, and we helped her build a rock
Laura Gisborne:star team, she had all kinds of freedom to go and scale her
Laura Gisborne:company and go to multiple locations, but this is what,
Laura Gisborne:what do we do, how do we do it, what do we do, how do we do it,
Laura Gisborne:number seven is how do we do it. What are the steps? The final
Laura Gisborne:thing we have here, which is usually something we don't get
Laura Gisborne:to talk about very often, unless we're like in this environment
Laura Gisborne:or in a live event, is that we co-create with our clients a
Laura Gisborne:business that not only sets them free, it becomes a part of their
Laura Gisborne:legacy that they can be proud of. You get that book written,
Laura Gisborne:you get those clients healed, you get those kids scholarships,
Laura Gisborne:you get this work in the world. You feel great. I was pleasantly
Laura Gisborne:surprised when I went to Ecuador. I didn't expect to even
Laura Gisborne:see Veronica. I really didn't expect to hear about 400 babies.
Laura Gisborne:Hot dog, what is celebration? celebration. I'm giving
Laura Gisborne:gratitude for that every day.
Laura Gisborne:What it brought me about in the world, we probably should brag
Laura Gisborne:about a little bit more, but I think it's a, you know, that
Laura Gisborne:place, not because it's not me. We did that, that's what our
Laura Gisborne:community is capable of, saving lives with me. So that's what I
Laura Gisborne:got for the long. Version of the mission statement. The short
Laura Gisborne:version is here on your sheet underneath the vision statement,
Laura Gisborne:and I think at least I hope if I did a good job today it will
Laura Gisborne:make sense to you when I say our bigger mission is to heal the
Laura Gisborne:poverty consciousness. Is literally what I do all day,
Laura Gisborne:every day, is love women into loving themselves, and yet women
Laura Gisborne:don't comment to me for that, which is why we have this one,
Laura Gisborne:and this is the sweet spot. This is the language that you need
Laura Gisborne:for the website, this is the language you need for social
Laura Gisborne:media, this is the language you need for enrollment
Laura Gisborne:conversations, this is the messaging that matters for your
Laura Gisborne:business, and I still know that I know what we do. I know that
Laura Gisborne:in the healing, women become incredible leaders, they become
Laura Gisborne:incredible contributors, and they often are just not ready
Laura Gisborne:for that conversation. Just like that last one, the legacy part,
Laura Gisborne:people are like, "Oh, wait, I'm not ready for legacy, someday
Laura Gisborne:when I get there, I'll do that. So, by giving them opportunities
Laura Gisborne:to give and grow as they grow, it's really sweet stuff. Thank
Laura Gisborne:you so much for making time to be with me today.

