Importance of following your passion and monetizing it - with Olivia Blain | Epi.10

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[00:00:24] Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Active Action Podcast. Depending like where you are in the world and how you're hearing to this podcast, is it by YouTube or Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or even from the ActiveAction.fm website? Depending on where you're hearing, it might be your day and night.

[00:00:48] But a very good morning to everyone, because today in Edmonton, Canada, it's a morning and it's Saturday. So today I have a wonderful guest with me. So I'll just introduce her when I bring her to my platform right now. Good morning, Olivia Blain. How are you doing? Good morning. I am doing well. Thank you.

[00:01:16] Thank you. Very nice to hear that, Olivia. So today, dear audience, our topic for this podcast is the importance of following your passion and monetizing it. But before we take a deeper dive into the topic, let us know a bit about from our guest from today's episode from herself. So, Olivia, if you can kindly let our audience know who you are and where you're from.

[00:01:46] So, yeah, just let's get beginning. Thank you. Oh, sure. Absolutely. So as you said, my name is Olivia Blain. I'm from Wisconsin. I live in Kenosha, Wisconsin, from the originally from the Menominee Reservation.

[00:02:07] And so I guess to start with that for a little bit about myself, I did grow up on the reservation and then left for several reasons. But I am currently an assistant in a school setting still was a school counselor, but I'm working on like an online thing.

[00:02:30] So I consider myself more as an entrepreneur because I'm trying to start this business and put educational materials out there to help my fellow counselors and also to help people, because that's something that I'm very passionate about is being able to help people, which is why I came up with this idea of starting to share this with people, because I'll take it back for a second.

[00:02:59] So this is how kind of a little bit how this, I guess, the catalyst for this was I was a school counselor for three years before I left. And I was it was a little bit of a difficult time in that, but it was good. I learned a lot of things from that and I got some experience under my belt.

[00:03:25] But there's a lot of stuff that was involved in like a lot of work, red tape and some things like that, that compiled, if you will, I guess. Yeah, that's a good way to say that kind of compiled. And. I started to realize that it wasn't aligning with me.

[00:03:49] And I really didn't like I don't know, I was starting to get really sad and depressed and unhappy, and I didn't even I found myself missing a lot of work and waking up in the morning and thinking like, oh, my God, I don't want to go to work today. I don't want to go to work today. Just try or even just waking up trying to get myself to be like, OK, you got to get out of bed. You got to go do this.

[00:04:14] You got to, you know, you got to do this because, well, you know, obviously I had to work. I have to work because I have to pay the bills. I got a mortgage to pay for and everything. But I'm like, also, there were days when I'm just like, I got to go because I got to go see these students and deliver these important lessons and talk to the students because they look forward to seeing me when I do come into the schools. When I was a K.A. counselor, I had like four different schools I went to.

[00:04:43] But like I said, that that feeling of it was like a feeling of being trapped. And I felt like I felt really sad, depressed. I didn't think I could go anywhere else because I struggled so hard to get my master's degree. OK. My counselor license. It took me like five tries on the practicum test to get that.

[00:05:06] And I was like, and I can't quit this because how am I going to pay for everything if I go, you know, if I just quit and I go do something else, how am I going to end all these thoughts were just coming to me. And I don't know, I felt stuck. I really felt stuck. But I found I had reached out to some people. So I was a part of a group and I had some people that I guess you could say took me under their wing because they went through the same things like that.

[00:05:39] And one day I was when I was joining in the virtual meeting, like I thought I was hiding, but I really broke down. I was crying really, really bad, you know, just driving to I was driving to work because I talked myself into going to work. I was just like, I don't know. I was a mess when I was driving to work. But somebody noticed that and they said something and like everybody started being so like, oh, my gosh, are you OK?

[00:06:06] And the message is like sharing all these good things, like passing on the good vibes. And somebody reached out to me and we started talking and she was like, yeah, remind me of myself. And, you know, it started to help me, I guess, pick myself up. Yeah, that's it. Like pick myself up and figure this out. And then I started to think like, you know what? Hmm. Why am I why am I even thinking this? Why am I why am I like this?

[00:06:35] I have a master's degree. I have worked so many other jobs. I can do so many other things. I got through this counseling thing flailing, but I figured things out. I'm very resourceful and very resilient. Why am I still here? Why am I putting myself through this? For no reason. And I was like trying to do a marketing agency only for the money.

[00:07:03] But I couldn't do it because I knew it was for the wrong reasons. I didn't have a big enough why and this and that. So I quit that because one day, I don't know, just out of the blue, when I woke up and I was getting dressed and it came to me like, you know what? You need to go out and do this. Do your do your stuff like put up put together a podcast and help people get through this. Do this because you're going to get through this and this is going to be great.

[00:07:32] You're going to be able to make it through this. And I started thinking about that. And I had because I had already put out a journal and inspiring journal with some decorations. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. Really cool journal that I sold. And another. Oh, I went to. So I went to a lot of web, not webinars. Excuse me. I went to a lot of workshops and I've spoken, you know, met people and I met some of the people in person from that group.

[00:08:00] And we were talking about that and they inspired me to really. They're like, yeah, you should just go and do it. And I was, you know, things like that really started to build up for me. And I started thinking on that more. And I'm like, you know what? They're right. I don't need this. This isn't me. This isn't my. And the whole moment or this, you know, I can, I can totally do more. I don't have this isn't who I am. This ain't 100% me. I know I can do something else.

[00:08:29] So I started thinking about that a little bit, chewing on that. And then all of a sudden. So we have as school counselors, they have we have these EEs. They're called educator effectiveness. These forms that we have to do. And I was talking with one of my supervisors. She was saying, asking me questions because they see they do announced. They do an announced observation and she was at, you know, she was telling me, yeah, your classroom lesson teaching was great and this and that.

[00:08:58] But then they wanted to know what my future was going to be as in like where I'm at right now in the school year. Like would I have gone back was were my plans to become a school counselor still? Because if so, they they didn't feel like I was doing a good enough job. And they said, well, we want to put you on a plan. And that was just the moment. I feel like it really just all solidified. Like, you know what? I was thinking in my head while she was talking, I'm sure she said some other things. I don't know.

[00:09:27] I know some people must relate to that where you had where you had those moments where you like puzzles pieces start coming together, if you will. And next thing I remember here saying is, like, do you think you're going to come back next year? And I didn't even let her finish saying whatever she else she was going to say. I was like, no, I'm not coming back next year. Like it just flew out of my mouth. I, my brain didn't even have time to catch up. I was like, no, I'm not. She's like a serious, how serious?

[00:09:56] Like one to five, five being like, or one, like, I'm super serious or something like that or five, like, or something like that on that scale. And I was just like, no, five, not coming back. I'm not, I'm going to do something else. I know it because, and then she's like, okay, because we'd have to put, like I said, we'd have to put this plan together for you and dah, dah, dah, dah. And I'm sure I can just kind of elaborate on that a little bit.

[00:10:21] People know whenever at work or some people don't, they say that they put a plan in place for you. That really means that you're, they don't like your performance and they want to see, you know, see if you'll follow it. And I already knew that since I didn't, I had some guidance, but not as much as I could have.

[00:10:43] I already could see like down the, down the line in a way, I guess, not, I hate to say it like the future, but like I could make sense of how that was going to go. And I could already see them like letting me go because they're saying I missed too much work. Cause that was another thing too. I missed a lot of work. I burned a lot of my sick days cause I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't, there were a lot of days I just couldn't go.

[00:11:05] I called in and I either I'd get fired for missing too much work or they'd have something to be like, yeah, you know, we don't like your performance. You didn't follow it X, Y, and Z. And then put me out and I'm like, and get fired for what? What, you know, this isn't right. So that's why I knew, like, no, I know that I can do this. Um, and I create, I had created a lot of, um, my own classroom materials that I use.

[00:11:32] And I got encouragements from other teachers and I sought feedback from other teachers for like how I could do it better or to make it really good. And, um, like, so I created some games to play with the kids to teach them about careers. And one teacher was like, you know, you should really sell that stuff. That's great. People would love that. And it was just a bunch of things that kind of stacked together that made me, that made it realize, made me realize like, yeah, this is not me. I don't have to do this. I got other paths.

[00:12:00] I just gotta be willing to, I guess, go, go through it. And it's been some time now fast forward from that time back in February last year when that happened. And honestly, I don't hold any bad feelings about that. Like, no regrets, no, no resentment or anything like that, because I thought of how great that was. And I needed that.

[00:12:27] Um, sometimes we need that push out of our comfort zone like that. We need those things to happen to springboard us to the thing. Um, and we need to be able to see that and turn it into something positive because when you're comfortable, like I know if they had not done anything like that, I can say with certainty that had they not started that. And that wasn't a thing.

[00:12:53] And I might have just kind of meandered along, if you will, in the counselor path for a few more years before I decided to do something else and, or maybe stay. I don't know, but that was a good thing. Like, so there's always lessons to learn. I'm, I'm finding that out that I don't even like to say losses anymore. So when people, like when people think about taking an L or something like that, like they try to make, put that positive spin on that.

[00:13:21] I'm like, yeah, it's not a loss. It's a lesson we have. There's lessons to be learned in that. And now I've, I've, I've just been able to, so going as an assistant, I've been able to take the time, have the time to get my materials developed. Now I have all my materials developed. I need to figure out a way to print them and all that, but I'm so super excited about that.

[00:13:41] So I'm gonna get this stuff out there and get people get these materials out there to people, teachers and staff and parents that are going to love this stuff for their kids to talk about careers, how to get to a career and things like that. So, and my heart is so happy right now. I, I can't even tell you. So I was like, people ask me that too. They're like, how could you leave that job? How could you take such a pay cut? And I'm like, you know what?

[00:14:07] My mental health, I realized so much more important than the money. And then what I wasn't even going to go to work anyway. So how was I even going to get the money? But yeah, I'm just so, so I'm so grateful for a lot of things that happened the way they did like that. And I, thank you so much for sharing the experience, Olivia.

[00:14:27] And I really kind of resonate with that and appreciate it because I feel a fear for many of the people is that what will I, what will happen if I leave my stable job? If I live like a, you know, like a guaranteed security.

[00:14:44] Um, but in those like security and stable and in those vortex of thoughts and words, whatever we say that we get lost and we forget that we, ourself would have a passion. We, ourself would have, um, something that we would do something that we would really like to do.

[00:15:06] And, um, we kind of like are very afraid to follow that, especially, uh, in terms of, you know, like small businesses or even entrepreneurs. I, I really recommend the entrepreneurs because they are very courageous. They did. They took that one extra step, that one big step out of their career. Um, just try out something new, but more importantly, like be happy, feel happy while doing that.

[00:15:35] And, you know, I know, like, I know people like they have been working on their job and I'm not saying that any of the desk jobs or any of the regular jobs are doing is bad. Everything is like, everything we do is like to our, our livelihood to pay our bills, to put food on our, on the table for our family and ourselves. But, um, there are certain things that if you, um, when you're working, if you don't enjoy it, there will be definitely an impact of that in your life.

[00:16:05] If you want, if you don't enjoy your work, your work, you, you will definitely not deliver good results. So, uh, I know like it's a very risky step. Like as Olivia mentioned that she was thinking about like what's going to happen in the future, but she was thinking about like all those like things that the paycheck cuts, but she didn't care for those, you know, because it's very important. Like comment you for that.

[00:16:30] And I, uh, I'm, I know like my audiences will take some inspiration, uh, especially audience. If you feel that, um, if you're stuck in a vortex of a job where you don't like it, but you have to do it anyway, in terms of, in order to like support your family and things, uh, maybe like try out something new, maybe keep that. But also, but try out is a part in a part time of something new.

[00:16:55] And if you see like that is working out for you, you can definitely like take that, um, as a big kind of thing, you know, a major kind of thing. I know like YouTubers and others like who had like regular job, text jobs, but they're just like YouTubing a lot. So, um, they have just like quit their job and now doing content creation full time.

[00:17:16] So there are things that, um, there are things that we can do to keep our mental, uh, and even like our, uh, health, uh, good in a good condition and in okay condition as well. Um, Olivia, I would like to like ask you a bit about, because I know like you have been like an entrepreneur. So, and that, that was your passion. So how do you know, like what your passion is? Can you please like tell me?

[00:17:46] Oh yeah, sure. And if I could just kind of step back a little bit for that too. Yes. I don't want to make it sound like you have to leave your job or that having a regular job is something bad. Um, cause I, I am, I had to stick my, um, my last few months out in my job because I would have had to pay to leave. Um, to break my, um, to break my contract, but, um, I found ways to make, you know, do my job, but then like kind of still balance it.

[00:18:16] So that's definitely, like you said, I like that you said, you mentioned that, that, you know, do your, do your stuff and do what you got to do, but like really focus in on, um, what is it that you liked? Yeah. Yep. That's how we go. And then leading it that's, so then that's kind of a good segue to this. So how do you know what your passion is?

[00:18:39] It's, I, it seems like it might be hard to figure out what it is, but if you just like take a look at maybe write down stuff that you like to do, how much time you spend on stuff. Let's say, if you see, like you see me, I have, um, I got Canva and I bought the premium subscription. What is it like $13 a month or something like that.

[00:19:02] And I create things like every single day and I see myself creating things and I helped people, um, create images, create posters and stuff like that. And I didn't even, you know, like the time would go by and it was like, Oh wow. I just, I just went through three hours creating stuff on Canva. Wow. It's already, you know, it'd be like, I go on at six o'clock when I come home and I'd be like, wow, it's already nine o'clock. Hang on. It's time to go to bed.

[00:19:29] And I couldn't believe how fast the time would go by, but I'll even every little bit of time that adds up. Like you see, it'll show you what you're, that's how you can see what you're passionate about. Cause you get in there something and you do it and you just like, you just go, you just do it. And then the time is you're, you can't believe how much time you spent on something. Cause the time goes by like that. You really enjoy it and you can feel the difference too.

[00:19:56] Like I said, when I tried to do that marketing agency and I joined this multi-level marketing thing, and I was going to do that. I was going to do this agency for, to like help dentists get people. But I just could not get myself to make those calls too much to reach out to people, you know, to like find dentists. And like, it was so tough to do that. Forgive the pun if you will, but it was like pulling teeth. Okay. It was hard.

[00:20:25] Like I could not get myself to do that. So I, I started thinking, I'm like, you know what? I, I don't know. It comes to you. I really only want to do this for the money. And then I'm, I don't really even care about this. And that's a hard thing too. I've, I've been noticing with, um, that I've heard from other people and I've noticed firsthand that if you don't have, you don't feel good about doing it and you have to force yourself to do it.

[00:20:50] Um, you know, that's not the right thing for you, but sometimes it takes a lot to just admit it to yourself out loud. Like I, why am I doing this? I don't even have a good why behind it. I don't, I don't like this. So I need to stop doing that and focus it on something else. That's going to be more productive for me. Thank you. Thank you so much, uh, Olivia, for that thought and perspective.

[00:21:17] You are listening to the active action podcast, visit active action podcast.com to explore all episodes. Active action podcast where voices inspire and entertain. Uh, I also feel like, um, passion is something that you just feel good doing. I can relate to your experience with Canva because I use it too. And you know, like how we create like stuffs and materials, visual materials in Canva.

[00:21:43] It, you know, the hours just when go by really fast and it doesn't feel like you don't do, you don't feel exhausted to be honest. Like when you do that, I, I myself, I don't feel exhausted and I really enjoy it. Like, you know, creating visual presentations on Canva. So part of that be part of the reason might be because it's not my work.

[00:22:06] It's not my, it's not like earning my bread, but I'm actually like doing something that is that I really like for my pleasure and my passion. But, and this is something where I'll come a bit later, uh, about monetizing your passion. So if you can somehow like earn from your passion, that is the best thing that you can have in your life. You're doing something that you love, but at the same time you're earning from that.

[00:22:32] So I'll definitely like come, come up to this point about like monetizing, but, uh, I just want to like ask you a bit, um, Olivia, why do you feel like, why is it important to follow your passion? How, what do you think about that? Well, I say it's important to follow your passion because if you think about in terms of like, okay, I'm just going along with doing.

[00:23:03] What I have to do, um, doing a job because it pays well, but then you start to not be as, you know, you, you lose that happiness. And cause I've always been a really bubbly person and really, uh, you know, just so outgoing. Cause I just like do. And when I got, get stuck in stuff that I don't like, and you, you can kind of lie to yourself or whatever you could, whatever, whatever you want to say.

[00:23:32] I'm going to call it and act like, you know, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm okay in that. But like you, you can feel it in your body that, um, you, you don't feel good. You have those moments where you're just like, Oh my God, I don't want to go to work today. And you're just like, is it Friday yet? Working towards Friday, working for the weekend. And when the weekend comes, you're enjoying it. But then when it's Monday and you're like, Oh my God, I got to go back to work. And you just dread the, you have those dreading feelings about that.

[00:24:00] Um, and when it makes you depressed, I feel like that really can lead to depression when you don't have a purpose and you don't have a passion and you're just doing something because people are like, you got, you have to get a job. You have to do this, you have to do that. Um, and you don't get time to do anything that you want.

[00:24:22] And that's really tough to be, um, go through the bouts of depression, um, and battle with that. Actually, you know, um, I'm thinking about looking, I'm actually looking for a school. Um, I want to, I think I'm going to go for my PhD cause I wanted to do that too, um, but I didn't know what I wanted to get it in.

[00:24:45] Um, cause I didn't have a dissertation that I really would be able to defend, but I think this is what I want to do is, um, find some stuff about depression because, um, I, I think that there's something in relationship to that, that when you have your passion and you're doing what you love and you, you know, even if you have to do some stuff of what you don't want to do, cause you know, let's face it in every, every job there's portions too, when you're just like, you just have a day where you're like, I don't want to do this. I just want to goof around or whatever. Anyway.

[00:25:15] Um, but for the most part, you feel really good. Like you, you can feel it in your body all over your body feels good. You don't have that tense feeling. You don't feel all locked up. Um, and you know, you, you can't wait to wake up in the morning. Like I wake up early in the morning now. Cause I'm just like, yes, I want to start get working on this a little bit before I go into work. And then when I come home, I want to work on this. And you, you just, you, you get that feeling back.

[00:25:37] And I think there's something to that, that you don't, if you lack that some depression sets in and, um, we can really be wasting away because of that. Um, and so I don't know exactly how I want to state my dissertation, but that it's going to be along those lines. And, um, I don't know. I'm just like, I don't even know how I'm going to pay for my PhD, but I just know like my whole projects with my things. I just know that like, look, I need to do this.

[00:26:07] The world needs it. And so I'm just going to go out there and put on the work and do it because the world needs this. For sure. I, I love that perspective, Olivia. And thank you so much for explaining to the audience, like, why is it like important to follow your passion? And what considerations do you have to take when you do that?

[00:26:29] At this moment, I'll be moving on, um, to a very interesting part, which I just mentioned about monetizing your passion. So I just want to know from you, Olivia, and your perspective that how do you actually monetize the work that you love? Well, I, I've already, um, like I said, I've already started. Um, I have some examples.

[00:26:55] Um, I made, uh, I made my bingo cards that I'm going to do. And I made my like memory game. So I, cause I wanted to have that. First of all, I didn't want to go to any shows. It seemed weird to not have any examples or not have anything made. So I was like, I need to focus on this. I need to, I need to create this. And I I've created some other things on top of that, just because I don't know if the pieces all come together as you work on it.

[00:27:24] And if you work on, you think you kind of just, it kind of, like I said, it comes together. I can't explain it any better than that. It just came to me like, oh, you know what? So there's American school counselor association in, uh, July this summer. So I'm like, I need to go there and I need to find some other educational fairs.

[00:27:42] I need, or we're like educators meet up or things like that because then I, you know, get a table and not only do I have like my prototype, but I'll have some if people are, when people are ready to buy them. And I'll be in the right crowd. Cause you have to find, um, the right crowd. And you also have to be willing to, I guess, I don't know how to best say this, but like, just really believe, you know, like really just wholeheartedly do this and find the right people.

[00:28:11] Because when you, and maybe not tell everybody, this is something that I just recently pieced together that instead of telling everybody like, oh yeah, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. Just like go out there and do it and make it, you know, make the stuff, make it happen. Then do that. And the right people, like your right audience, because you can tell every, all kinds of people, but you're going to run into people that are like, oh, that's not going to work. Why would you do that?

[00:28:39] Why, you know, just like, even if you say like, oh, I want to be an entrepreneur. I want to start a, I don't know, yoga business or something like that. People say, oh, there's too many yoga studios out there already. You can't do that. This, what about this and that? And too many people with low vibrations like that. And you have to learn how to just be like, okay, I'm not sharing my dreams with everyone because not everyone gets it.

[00:29:06] And there's a lot of people that probably had big dreams, but somehow they got stomped on or whatever happened. And so they gave up on their dreams. And then they try to like make people feel better. Like, oh, but what about this? What about that? When it seems really more like talking somebody out of something. And I've learned a lot of these lessons. And when, when the time is, I feel like you just got to keep working on it, but the time will come and it, it just really does.

[00:29:35] It just kind of clicks and it comes together and each piece comes. And eventually I'm like in a year from now, I'll be like, oh yeah, I sold so many bingo games and this and that. And, you know, just because you got, you got to believe in yourself that much. I told one of my close friends already, I was like, I already see myself at the table in Aska, selling my cards, selling them this and that. And like all this big stuff because shooting for, not just making like little goals, like, oh, I'm just going to do this little thing.

[00:30:05] You have to really be willing to do, like see big pictures. I've learned that too. I've learned some stuff, some things too from Grant Cardone. I don't know the 10X rule. I don't know if you've ever read that book or be obsessed with the average. Oh my God, those books, they changed, they changed my life. They helped me to, they were another thing that helped me to get out of my funk too. And I found out reading a lot of other things like that.

[00:30:33] People that are entrepreneurs, the successful people that are doing it out there, read a lot of books. And they learn things. They're not just like, oh, I don't want to buy this book because it's $30 or, you know, complain about that. Like they'll find something, even if it's a little nugget in there, they'll find something. And it truly is helpful. I mean, I don't know if I, I guess I should ask you if I can talk about that, but. For sure. What is the name of that book again? The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone.

[00:31:02] And then there's another one called Be Obsessed or Be Average. And that really resonated with me because I, I really, I was, am extreme, like take things to the extreme. And I always felt like something was wrong with me for, I was wanting to improve things, do better. And that when people are like, okay, that's good enough. Wow. Really white, you know, simmer down. And I couldn't explain any of that, but just listening to that, I'm like, okay, so now I don't, I am, I'm careful about who I tell. I don't share it to everybody.

[00:31:32] And I just do it because I'm not going to let anybody ruin my, ruin my ambitions, crush my dreams. For sure. For sure. Thank you so much, Olivia, for explaining those. Those, and thank you so, thank you for the wonderful tips and tricks that you shared. I'm sure my audience would find some of those that are really helpful and take inspiration from that. At this moment, I just want to talk to you about a bit.

[00:32:02] And I know, like, I have to be cognizant about time, but I just want to talk to you a bit that you have our website, Hopeful One. So would you like to speak a bit about that? And also, like. I have to create things. I feel like I don't feel right if I can't express my creativity. So I created the sewing book because I wanted to teach people the basics of sewing because I, I like sewing. I have to sew a lot of my own stuff because I'm short. So I have a lot of my own pants.

[00:32:29] And I thought, you know what, this is a good, this is a good skill for people to at least know how to fix, like, fix a button. If a button breaks on their, on their jacket or something, or somebody else short like me and has to hem their pants, you can hem up your pants. Or you can pay somebody too if that's the case, you know, no worries. But I, I like that. And I've also been refreshing things.

[00:32:54] So I've made some videos of things that I've refreshed, some pants that I fixed that I put lace to, and I put some flowers to, and I made this one. I took a tweed jacket. I cut off the sleeves, added some lace to it and stuff like that because that's, that's, that's the kind of stuff that I like is like kind of unique or a twist on clothes because, I don't know. Like, I like some of the clothes and clothing in the store, but I also do like to put my own spin on things, if you will.

[00:33:22] And yeah, that, that is definitely something that I love to do. I love sewing and creating things. So I wanted to share that with people. And wonderful example also of how passion can look like audience. So this is a wonderful example. Like, if you really like, like what you do, you can do all sorts of things with it. You know, even you can change it to like a money making machine. It's just, you have to be resilient.

[00:33:50] You have to be patient and you have to like work really hard, but not stress yourself out. It's like you're working hard to achieve your passion. So you have to enjoy it while you work. It's not like, oh, I'm like stressing everything and I have to get this done and I have to make money. No, if you, if your end goal is like to make money, everyone's end goal is to make money. But if your sole purpose is to get, is to make money and just be all time stressed about that, that won't work out.

[00:34:19] That won't get you much money. So you have to enjoy your work in terms of like getting your true inspiration and true actions into that work. So when you enjoy it, you will get good results, excellent results, and you will make money. So just wanted to like, thank you.

[00:34:36] So thank you a little bit again to come to this podcast and speak a bit about yourself, about your passion and inspiring our audiences on how they can actually, you know, break their fear or follow to their passion. And even like how they can put some monetizing aspect of that, make some money out from those passions.

[00:34:59] Just before we end this podcast, I just wanted to ask you, is there like any way my audiences can reach out to you and by how? Oh yeah, sure. So I have an Instagram. It's at Olivia Marie Blaine. I have Facebook. It's just Olivia Blaine. And I think you can, I think you can like do chats with me too.

[00:35:25] Cause I also started a YouTube channel a while ago, but I'm get, I didn't know where the direction to take it, but now I got direction for that. And I'm building that. And I think it's just Olivia Blaine on YouTube. I forget what the, what, what the handle is for that.

[00:35:42] But I'm so excited about that, that channel and doing that to help people that that's a little bit about to help people like learn how to build boundaries and burn those bridges that you need to burn and get away from people that you need to get away from that are holding you back and things like that. Okay. Thank you so much, Olivia, for sharing that.

[00:36:04] And I also wanted to let you know, dear audience that like every guest, Olivia Blaine would have her webpage in our website. So if you just go to the, our website, activeaction.fm, A-C-T-I-V-E, A-C-T-I-O-N.F-M for the one who is, who are hearing this. So go to that website and there is a section called guests.

[00:36:28] If you see guest speakers, you will see Olivia's name, click on that webpage and you will have information about her and all her links to the social media. So again, have a great rest of the day, Olivia. And thank you so much again for joining this podcast. Thank you. It was great to be here. Thank you, Olivia. Yeah. So my dear audience, take care. I'll meet you in the next episode.

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