Miriam Laundry 0:00
I truly believe that we can we can change the world with quality children's books. And I love the picture book category because children are four to eight. And by the time children are eight studies show that they've already made up their minds on who they are in the world.
Sarah Fejfar 0:16
How are entrepreneurs like us daring bravely to build a stage? Ditch the sweat pants and step up to the mic? How do we create our own transformative events? So we can get our message out into the world in a bigger way. It's not only profitable, but it's actually something we can be proud of. That's the question and the answers are inside this podcast. My name is Sarah Fejfar. Welcome to greenroom Central. Today I run into greenroom central studios Miriam laundry. She's the founder of ml publishing the author of five best selling and award winning children's books, and a TEDx speaker, not to mention a Guinness World Record holder. It is Miriam's mission to give authors the knowledge and confidence they need to publish their children's books and make a positive impact on the younger generation. Miriam, welcome to Greenroom Central studios say hello to Linchpin Nation.
Miriam Laundry 1:15
Hi, Sarah, and hello, everybody.
Sarah Fejfar 1:19
I'm so excited for this, Miriam because we're both moms. And we're both entrepreneurs. And we both love learning from my favorite podcast host, Chris harder. And so I just I've listened to you on other people's shows, and you have just such a warm and kind heart. But I can also tell that you're a total badass. And so I just really excited to have a conversation with you today. I'm excited to be here. And to hear more. I didn't know we have the same mentor. We listened to the same podcast. I don't Yeah, I love his podcast. I it was funny last year at the end, you know how Spotify will give you your unwrapped and share like your top listened like playlists and podcasts. And it said that Chris's was my top podcast, and it said it was in the top 3%. And I was like,
why am I not like the top 1%? And then I was like, Well, I haven't listened to absolutely every single one this year. So there's that.
But pretty close. Yes,
Miriam Laundry 2:28
that's pretty good. That's pretty good. So
Sarah Fejfar 2:32
I thought we'd have some fun at the start here and ask you to share a story. So this podcast is built on the belief that being in the room is everything. And a little backstory for you. I made it into my very first four day personal development seminar about six and a half years ago now. And it completely changed my life. Within 11 months of being in that room. I had left my 16 year corporate career and started my own business. I had sold our home and moved our family from the Midwest where we'd been our whole lives to the Pacific Northwest. We had paid off all the debt that we'd been under for a decade and a half, it was such a massive shift and result of being in that one room. And I wonder, is there a room that you've made it into that's changed the trajectory of your life?
Miriam Laundry 3:26
Honestly, how much time do you have? Because I can I can pinpoint every big, big goal that I've achieved has come as a result from being at a conference at a mastermind at an event. So I love that your podcast is all about this. Like I'm talking back to 2012 I went to a Jack Canfield seminar. So I'll start with that that was breakthrough to success. And on the flight home is when I wrote my first manuscript, I had never thought of writing for children. But there, I wanted to come home and teach my four children a little something from what I had just learned. And I thought the best way to do that is to write a children's book that started a whole career for me. And then, and then I remember coming back from a Tony Robbins events with my husband. And we looked at each other and we're like, he said to me, why are we still waiting on getting our dream house? And we were planners, but he at that point, he's like, why keep waiting? Let's just do it. So we bought the house that we raised our family in. And then more recently, since you've started mentioning Chris harder, I was in sign up for fast foundations. This is 2020. So March 2020. I was in the room. I had just started mentoring a couple of authors, right, but I didn't have a publishing company. I was in the room. I left there and I and I thought to myself, I'm going all in. I started the publishing company in that where I am today, I wanted to empower authors to believe in themselves to fulfill their dreams to leave a legacy. In that publishing company next week, we are celebrating 100 books that we have published through that company. And, like 1000s of students that have taken my courses, but that was a result of being in Chris Harders room in the mastermind, fast foundations. And then from there, I've moved up to elite mastermind entrepreneur, which I mean, you just cannot help but grow when you put yourself in the room with people who are who are driven, who are motivated, who are clear on what they want to do next, you cannot help but rise with them, right? So I put myself in the room very strategically.
Sarah Fejfar 5:49
Yeah, I'm hearing that is a lot of intention. And I it's so true, you can't help but grow if you surround yourself with other growth minded individuals, oh, so many great rooms that you've been in, and really big things coming from putting yourself there. Wow. I know that you host an event called believe live for aspiring and published authors. And as I was reviewing your sales page, I noticed something really interesting that you've dedicated the event to establishing an unshakable author mindset is what you call it. And you didn't. You didn't put out a writing retreat. You didn't put out a workshop on how to get published, you very intentionally decided to talk mindset. And I wonder what have you learned in working with so many published authors that made you want to host an event for them dedicated to mindset?
Miriam Laundry 6:59
Yes. Well, you can learn all the how tos, right? I can teach you how to write a children's book, I can teach you how to publish one how to market one. But if your mindset is not in the right place, you're not going to be successful at it. So it's really important for us to get to the mind first before we go for any goal. And because events have changed my life. That's why I put together believe last year was the first one I had put the first one I hosted and this year, I'm hosting another one. But you know, I'll say that events are a lot of work. I underestimated how much work they are. But I kept what I kept thinking about how my life was transformed, and how the people that will come to the events how their lives will be transformed. So though, so that helped go through all the work and the stress of putting a big event together. I mean, on the other side of it, I am so so happy that we did but but I was stressed I was stressed the weeks leading up to it and wondering, why did I say I was gonna do this. But I just kept remembering my why because the people in the room that went last year, I know that they're changed because they continue to tell us on social media, or they send us emails, I learned this from you or I learned this at the events. And now this is what I'm doing. Or I met this person. And we are accountability partners, or we just saw each other for coffee and right. It's the people that you surround yourself. It's like I heard something recently. It was Laurie harder shared that she said your environment is stronger than your willpower. Your environment is stronger than your willpower. Because we can have all the goals, all the goals, but if we don't put ourselves in the environments of people growing are in that environment where people are going to hold us accountable, or in an environment where we're going to be inspired to rise up like the others are, you know, if we leave it all to willpower, I know that for me, it won't work, it won't work. So our environment is so so much stronger than our willpower. So that's why I put together believe because of their mindset is stronger than they will succeed as authors.
Sarah Fejfar 9:21
Wow, that's really powerful. I'm thinking I'm taking through all the places in my life where that's made a difference of one in particular as we joined a gym instead of just using peloton at home this past year, and it's so interesting what it does to put yourself in that environment where you're seeing other people working out and we're working harder and it just, it's like well, that's what everyone's doing. So let's do it. And I believe that same thing about events is you just you put yourself in there and then you're almost like putting blinders on yourself in the best way where you're curating what you see and you have Anyone else is pushing to, you know, grow and learn and evolve. And okay, so I'm gonna do that too. I'm not very intentional about the feeds that I consume and sure
Miriam Laundry 10:13
is one of them. For sure. And that's so smart, right? So you're rising, like they're rising. But also, that's where you're meeting. That's where you're meeting your support system, you're, you know, so from being in Chris's mastermind, we have a text list. But then there's also a small group of us that just went to Mexico in January, I was so I was so thrilled I was invited to join this group of entrepreneur ladies to go and now we've got it's a sisterhood, we text each other when, when there are days like that, we wonder why did we go into being an entrepreneur? Or when our family issues come up? Or, you know, even funding somebody yesterday in the group just said, It's my 15th anniversary? Ladies, I need some help. What are some things you've given your husband's for? Anniversary gifts? But so what I'm saying is, it's just it's forming that community, those people that are going to support you in the tough days and also celebrate you on the good things? Mm
Sarah Fejfar 11:13
hmm. Oh, that's so special. I wonder, when you go home after when you went home after your first event last year, and you were with your husband and kids, what were you just wanting to rush home and share with them that you were proud about?
Miriam Laundry 11:30
Well, I'll tell you, the first thing I did is I stayed an extra night at the hotel. And just and just let it and I let it like I just wanted to sit with it, I wanted to journal about it. I cried a lot, because it was a dream that I had had for many years to host my own events. And then to put it together and just remembering all the faces of the people that were there. And the growth that I saw and the tears that I saw. And like the happiness that I saw that that was special. So I stayed, stayed there for an extra day. And then when I came home, I mean, I think I was just like just telling them all about it. They did come to my last on the last evening, we have a come as you'll be party, come as you'll be in five years from now. So five years from now, when all of the goals that you have set this weekend have come true. Come in for 30 minutes, we are in character five years from now, my book came out I was here, this many people were impacted and powered by the book, you know, whatever. Some people came, also a lady came dressed up as if she would like a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses. And she's like, I'm living in the Caribbean. So you come and play the part for 30 minutes. And then we we dance and have fun. But for that I invited my husband and my kids to come. I wanted them to see what I had done. And I mean, they got a little glimpse of it just the ending, but to see all the people and and the impact that we can all have. Right?
Sarah Fejfar 13:06
Oh, that's wonderful. I'm glad that they could share that moment with you. What a cool experience to create for your guests to really help them step into the vision.
Miriam Laundry 13:17
Yes, exactly, to step into the vision and to live it for 30 minutes. So when they were seeing somebody else, they pretend that they hadn't seen each other since the event five years ago. And I mean, the conversations are so fun to just walk around and hear and to see how lit up they all were like they're excited they just achieve their goals. So that was that's, that's a fun thing.
Sarah Fejfar 13:43
It's making me think about one of my favorite coaches is Rob Murgatroyd. And he helps me with lifestyle design work and then he often talks about how to to step into that vision to get it so clear, not only on paper but on you know like your vision board but then also to go and live it in some way. So that it just becomes more and more clear and just who you are and what you're going to do and it's just solidifies it and feels like you're doing that in that party. So cool. Thank you. I never heard anything like that happening at an event.
Miriam Laundry 14:27
Well, I learned that I have to give credit to Jack Canfield. He does that this that his events and it was always my favorite thing. So one of the other big things that came out of another event that I went to have of Jack Canfield I had just published my first book and I wanted to empower a lot of children. And I set a goal there to empower 100,000 children to believe in themselves with my book I can believe in myself. And that led me to going to go in for a Guinness World Record Yeah. And at that, at the end of the week, or at the end of one of the weeks there, I brought a mock up Guinness World Record frame, something that I had framed, and I pretended I lived as if I had already achieved that Guinness World Record. And months later I was able to achieve it. But it's, it's very impactful, right? It's it's living that visualization of what it'll feel like you're holding it, telling people, all of those emotions. Yeah. So Jack Canfield, I'll give credit to him. That's where Okay,
Sarah Fejfar 15:33
okay. I haven't spent any time learning from him. But I do believe I read that book. Yeah. Chicken soup, right.
Miriam Laundry 15:42
Chicken Soup for the Soul the success principles love
Sarah Fejfar 15:45
the most. Yeah. What fills you with the most gratitude as you think about helping students inside your, your children's book masterclass, or even your publishing mastermind.
Miriam Laundry 15:59
I'm full of gratitude when I see them living their purpose, when I'm on social media, and I see our authors at a school visit or surrounded by children or at a book signing, just sharing their book with the world. That fills me with gratitude. Because when they started publishing mastermind, for example, the program that's a 12 month program, when they start that they have a dream, they don't know how they're going to do it, and we're here to support them. But I see the growth in them from month one, up to month 12. Or, you know, whenever they publish their books, some of them do it a lot quicker. I see their confidence, I see them grow. And then when I see them actually in front of children sharing their book, I mean, I'm full of gratitude, full of gratitude for the journey. And also for them, because they've entrusted me with this. Something so important that I get to be a part of.
Sarah Fejfar 17:00
Yeah, yeah. And deeply personal. It's a bucket list item for me as well, I have a children's book series on personal development in me, I know it.
Miriam Laundry 17:13
I love it. I love it. Well. So let me ask you, why is it that you want to write a children's book on personal development?
Sarah Fejfar 17:23
It's probably because I met Personal Development at 36. Yes. And I believe that's too late. Yeah. And I think that we're all we choose, and I've chosen, and I think you have to, to, to work towards touching the rim of our potential. And I think that it is a disservice to our children, if we are starting them, or if we're not starting them at the beginning, with personal development principles. I believe so strongly that emotional intelligence is a massive key to our success in life. And it just was not part of the curriculum in my household growing up. And so I, I want to take the stuff that spend like, oh, my gosh, I wish I totally didn't even know there was a thing. And that's a really big deal. I want to put that into a series. Yeah.
Miriam Laundry 18:28
I love that. Sarah, you sound like the thoughts that go through my mind. So I'm on that flight home when I wrote that first manuscript, that's exactly what I was feeling. I had just spent an amazing week learning all this. But I kept thinking, I wish I would have learned this younger, where where would my life be? Had I learned this at a young age? And now where are my children's lives gonna be if they learn it? So that's exactly why I wrote, you know, it's my books, and they all have a little message that I want to share with children. And, I mean, I get to do that with my books and with the authors that we help. Because I truly believe that we can, we can change the world with quality children's books. And I love the picture book category, because children are four to eight. And by the time children are eight studies show that they've already made up their minds on who they are in the world. And of course, they can change it later. But it takes a lot of work. So they've made up their minds about how they fit in, if they're smart or not, if they're good looking or not athletic or not. So I want to get to kids before, you know they get out of that stage. So I love that you want to do that too.
Sarah Fejfar 19:41
What a great intention. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited. It's not a now thing. The vision isn't even fully formed, but I've had it for many years now that it's a thing that I will do, so I'm excited about it. Yeah. And I'll probably be knocking on your door. I'm happy to help Pharrell. Yeah. So I want to talk about money for a little bit. Because if we're both huge fans of Chris harder, involved, like money, we also like what we can do with it. And I wonder, I really believe wealth isn't about the money. It's about generating the money and growing that into the wealth that it affords us and not, you know, I think it allows us to become more of who we are and experience the freedoms that are on our hearts. And, and so I wonder how is the monetary wealth that you've generated from diving into the online coaching space or with your publishing company or even in real estate early with your husband in college? How has that monetary wealth created wealth in other areas of your business and personal life?
Miriam Laundry 21:00
That's a good question. How was that created? You know, I'll tell you the things that were running through my mind as you were asking it, and I don't want to sound. I don't know how this will sound. But I sat in gratitude yesterday a lot, because yesterday, I was watching one of my team members. So a person that has been on my team for 10 years, when I started writing children's books. And for her 10th anniversary, I gifted her a trip to Disney World with her little girls, because like they had never been. So this week. I mean, I'm like, glued to her stories, because I'm living like, I'm just so so full of gratitude that we're in a place that we can do that for her, and her family of four. So, so happy about that. And then, also, last night, my brother in law, who is the biggest soccer fan in the world, we had tickets to go see a game in London, England, we were just there in March Break. So I bought my husband and my son a ticket, but the game was changed to tonight. And my husband's like, I'm not gonna go back to England. He is a fan, but not a diehard fan, like my brother in law. So I said to my brother in law, why don't you take the tickets, he's like, I, you know, I don't have that in the budget to go all the way there. I'm like, I'll pay for your flight, just go enjoy the game. So I sat in gratitude yesterday thinking about that, like he's in the UK, doing something that he didn't know when he was going to ever do. And then thinking about my team member in a Disney World. So when you ask what does money do? Obviously, my love languages gifts, so I, I, I'm so happy to do those types of things.
Sarah Fejfar 22:51
Mm hmm. No, it just allows you to be more of who you are, like, just in what I'm getting is super generous, super kind, super caring. And I love that you're doing experiences, I just am such a experiences over things kind of person. And those are my very favorite gifts. Yeah, beautiful to be that those both of those experiences happening this week, I can see why you would want to sit in a lot of gratitude and really, like, take that in. Mm hmm. Wow.
Miriam Laundry 23:23
Yes. And Sarah, I will I will also tell you that the word that's come up for me, and I did not understand this until recently, is that I am an ambitious person. My the lady who has been with me for 10 years, she said, Because I'm like, Why do I think of these big goals? And then we're going for it. And there's always a moment where you're super stressed. And I was I was saying, Why do I do this to us. And she's like, because you're ambitious. And I've had, I've had a couple of months to sit with that. And now I'm owning and I am an ambitious person, I always want to be growing. And that means growing, when I know growing my business growing the amount of authors that I help growing the impact that we make. So I've come to terms with that work. I'm owning love.
Sarah Fejfar 24:11
I really love that word for you. Because just listening to your story here today and on other shows that I've listened to your story on i i didn't know how to put a word to it. And that is that does feel perfect. To me. It just it's you it's it's not to say it's not the normal path that people take in life, what you've chosen and that ambition has created so much beauty in your life, it seems like and I wonder, how has that ambition kind of helped you live? Or like are you living your version of success right now? Because of that ambition?
Miriam Laundry 24:57
I am in many ways But I don't feel like I'm there yet. So especially this week, I'll say some things have come up with my business that require extra attention and a little bit more on the, you know. So this group of entrepreneur women and I we keep sending each other these these videos of like an somebody on a roller coaster, they're on a high they're low or, or if you've seen the little girl who's doing the zipline, and she's like, This is amazing. This is amazing. And then she starts yelling, oh, no, oh, no, I'm gonna crash. And then this is amazing. That's what the last couple of weeks I have felt like for me as an entrepreneur with different things that are happening. So I don't feel like I'm, I love I absolutely love what I'm doing. But I'd like to start taking a little bit more time off, to focus on like having more time freedom for my family. Not that I don't have it. Because next week, I'm going away for a week and gave myself a vacation. But to do that more freely, so not 100% there because we're always, always growing right?
Sarah Fejfar 26:12
Have you read the book? The gap in the game?
Miriam Laundry 26:15
Yeah, I have not. I have not. But I've recently just heard of it.
Sarah Fejfar 26:20
I want to invite you to read that one. Because it really was life changing. For me. I think it's is it I call it the trilogy. I think it's the second in the trilogy between Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy with like, who not how the gap in the game. And then 10x is easier than 2x and l outstanding. But the gap in the game. What I got from that was that as entrepreneurs, we're constantly wanting to measure against the goal against the it's a horizon line that's constantly moving. So we'll absolutely we'll never get there. Because we're ambitious, and we keep resetting the line. Like once we get there, we're like, well, but it gives me this much better. So the line just keeps moving like a rainbow. And he said that his life changed when he started and this is Dan Sullivan when he started measuring backwards. And the way the practice he does is every night he jots down three things that three wins from the day and also forecast three wins for the next day. And then the next morning, he reviews the three wins from yesterday. And those that practice grounds him in constant forward motion, a constant sense of accomplishment, a concept of winning. And we started that at the dinner table a couple of months ago as a family. And it's it's amazing. They really is amazing. And I do it in my own journal. And I I just I feel like a better more of a sense of like ease and peace because I am like you like very ambitious and like a chaser and just keep going no matter what. It.
Miriam Laundry 28:05
Yeah, I love that I wrote it down for sure. For sure. And, and, and I will say of course there's a lot of I'm so thankful for the things that I'm doing. It's a week where, you know, we have we just brought on three new staff members. It's just busy with all that. But it's exciting. It's also exciting. It's also exciting to be able to do that and to work with new people and to bring them into our environment. And what that LLC like one of the ladies that started this week, she broke down a couple of times this week, and she just she was just so happy. She was like, I can't, I cannot believe that I'm working in a place like this. Whereas in her other work, there was somebody knocking at the bathroom door saying you've missed the call, you know, like things like that. So well first of all, we need to change work environments all over the place. And just
Sarah Fejfar 29:00
and just make a getting started on that. Yes.
Miriam Laundry 29:04
Yeah. Anyway, yeah. So very exciting. I will look for that as it's like
Sarah Fejfar 29:09
a good problem to have, right? The busyness that comes with growth and ambition. For sure. Yeah, measuring that with time with family and I I love your I love your why behind authoring your first children's book really wanting to bottle it that wisdom you got from personal development at an event and sharing with your children. And it makes me wonder, because we're both entrepreneurs and I think ever since becoming one myself, it's given me a different lens to look up parenting and I, I think differently over the eight or so years that now that I've been an entrepreneur about kind of the lessons that I thoughtfully want to impart on my daughter and I think about things like wanting to teach her that you can create wealth outside of have the traditional nine to five, because I didn't know that that was above the fold front page news to me at 37. And also how to grow that wealth, also something I never learned until probably 38. And then also things like self awareness and self compassion. None of those were things that would have crossed my mind before entering the space of personal development and entrepreneurship and online coaching. And I wonder, what are you working on with your children? Lessons that you want to make sure that you get across to them as they're growing?
Miriam Laundry 30:40
Yes. Oh, another topic I could talk about for a long time. Yes, I have four children, ranging from 11 to 20 years old. And so I'll speak about a couple of things that we've done. One is they need to see you living it, they need to see you living it. And the publishing company came out of a conversation that I had with my daughter, my second daughter, she was 14, I was driving her to a volleyball practice. And I had, I was on a sabbatical, I had given myself a break. Because it was busy with the kids driving them around. And on that drive, she said to me, I've decided I don't want to have any children. So I asked her why why would you say that? Or why are you thinking that? And she said, well, because I've noticed you can't be she said, You can't be a mom and have a business. And yes, I looked exactly like you're looking at me right now. Because I believe she said that I had been writing all these empowering books so that, you know, so she feel empowered. But I said, Honey, why would you say that? What makes you think that? And she told me? Isn't that what you're doing? Right? I was being a mom, which is a beautiful thing. But she knew that I'm an ambitious person. I always talked about business or having a business. So immediately after that conversation is when I joined fast foundations and when the publishing company started. I had had prior businesses, but she was too young to see that. And during that time, I was home, I was manager of her volleyball team. I was the co chair of parent council I was, I was doing a lot of great things, but she couldn't see the two happening together. So now that daughter is 19. She's told me she wants to have children, which is great. I love being a grandma, I want to have more grandchildren. And she also she's in her. She's going to be celebrating her second year in business. So she has her own business. She does eyelash extensions for like through high school, and now she's in university. So, you know, without us conversing about it. I see that me living my truth being an entrepreneur and a mom has. Well, I hope that that has helped because now she wants to have children and she has her own business. So I don't think she has that limiting belief anymore. But it came from me living it. Yeah. The other thing? Yes, yeah. Sarah, the other thing that I want to tell you that I did, and I'm not sure how people are going to take this, but when the kids started around high school, right, I have three very close in age. They stopped reading altogether. They didn't want to read, they're out there doing sports, friends, all of that. And that summer, my husband and I said, it's not gonna be a whole summer have like, you guys not doing anything. They had little jobs. But so we put out a whole bunch of self esteem books and powering books on the counter. And we said every book you read, you'll get $40 And you have to choose one here from the from the counter. So we had Tony Robbins. We've got we had all these amazing books. Rich Dad, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Yes, Stephen Covey, all those things, how to win Dale Carnegie. So they started picking books and reading them through the summer. And yes, we basically bribe them. But but after that summer, they read their own books, Christmas time, birthday time, they're always asking for a motivational book. And sometimes it's books I haven't even heard of. So I'll go into them, I think, Oh, that's great. So that helped. But now they're in that world of wanting to know more. When also I'll say because you believe in events so much as soon as they were old enough at 14 and 16. I took the girls to Jack Canfield seminar. I planned to this year, go to a live Tony Robbins event. We did the online one with the kids through COVID. And my second daughter is joining us at the dinner series with Chris harder. So putting them in those environments. It's just opening Yup. You know, like you said, we wish somebody would have done that for us when we were younger. So there's a lot that we can do as parents, you know, and I'll have to bribe them but encouraged them to read those books.
Sarah Fejfar 35:11
I love that idea. Yeah. I love that idea. Because I didn't, I really didn't think I didn't perceive myself as a lifelong learner. I didn't think books were for me, I thought I could just read House Beautiful magazine. But it turns out when I met personally, because all the books I had ever been handed in school, and college didn't resonate with me. But then I met personal development and entrepreneurship and audible, I learned that I read best when it's being read to me on I can't stop reading. I love it. It's just opening up the world to me. And I want that for my daughter, too. She loves to read. Actually, she loves to be read to. That's our favorite bedtime thing. And I want to impart the personal development books like that gift on her but, and also, it's on the back of my mind that as soon as she's age, appropriate that I get her into rooms. My my gateway drug, as I like to say is that Brendon Burchard for a personal development event, and yeah, I just want to get her in those rooms, because that's life changing. What age is your daughter that's going with you to the dinner series?
Miriam Laundry 36:29
She's 19 She's the one that has the business. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Sarah Fejfar 36:35
What a neat experience for her it.
Miriam Laundry 36:39
It is, and I don't think she quite understands it. So I, I've been telling her to listen to Chris's podcast. Chris, I want to say that Chris is such a generous person. I did not buy a ticket for her. But in through conversations, I said to him, Oh, my daughter's coming up with me to LA in May. Because I also when I'm traveling like that, I like to bring one or two of them. Enjoy the hotel. And let's go see Los Angeles, right? We're in Canada, we don't go over there. So I said to him, my daughter is going to be with us. And I'm staying a couple of extra days. And he said, Bring her to the dinner series. And I said I couldn't possibly he's like, of course you can. Let's register her right now. So I asked my daughter and of course, she said yes. And he's just so generous. He's He's so generous. And I know it's going to be impactful for her at 19.
Sarah Fejfar 37:33
Yes, it will. What a gift. I I remember one of the Brenden events that I went to and he's very He's famous for getting people into small groups throughout the day is where just getting a group of five and you each have one minute to share, you know, something you learned and something you need help with. And so you're constantly meeting new people and sharing really intimate ways. And one of the groups I got into was a grandmother and her granddaughter. And I remember it just being so impactful to me that in that moment, like wow, what a what a gift to give your grandchild to be in this room. And she doesn't know it yet. But she's one of the lucky ones. Yeah. So as your sorry, your kids, it sounds like
Miriam Laundry 38:20
Yes. And Sarah, same with you like so. So really, of our kids are watching us live this, they'll always they will grow up just knowing it like truly just knowing and it's part of, it's part of who we are. It's part of the dinner conversations that we have at home, right? Yes, I had to bribe them at the beginning. But it was just that summer, and now they pick out those books to read. And the girls are 20 and 19. They love sitting out by the pool, but I love I don't mind they're doing nothing because they are they have a book with them that they're reading. So your kids will learn just fry it just by watching you. That's
Sarah Fejfar 38:58
a beautiful lesson. As we wrap up Miriam, I've got one last question for you. And given your line of work, this could either be a really easy question to answer or very complicated so it we'll see which direction it goes. I value lifelong learning so much and I subscribe to the school of thought that that we have to design our own curriculum with intention I keep a list of like what's happening next to next so that I don't get distracted by shiny objects on social media. And I know what is learning next and what book it's going to be and and so before we wrap up here, I'd love to know three parts. What book are you reading right now and why did you pick that book? And what's one thing you've learned?
Miriam Laundry 39:40
Okay, I'm like you I have a list of books that I want to read. Yeah, I want to get to I have been reading a lot of it's a three it's a series also on. I have a picked right there to go with us. It's how to be a great boss. I want to leadership Grab it. So, yes, genius, Gino Wickman and Rene Bower, but the other two books that he has are all about how to structure your business and your team. What's the book of it's traction, traction, and that those books have really helped me the last couple of months as we continue to grow our team, and how to structure the different departments, and I just hired my first CEO. Oh, and We've restructured again, going from two departments to four. So I'm really reading business books, that helps me and this one is packed for next week when I'm away how to be a great boss. Other ones that I have I keep hearing about 10 10x is easier than one, two, and Laurie.
Sarah Fejfar 40:50
Easier than 2x. Yep. So good. just
Miriam Laundry 40:52
mentioned and again, Laurie, harder than mentioning that. And I'm like, Why haven't I bought it already? But I'm, I'm, I'm like you I like listening to things. I love podcasts or the audio. It's so much easier when I'm exercising or going for a walk than finding the time to sit and read. Yeah,
Sarah Fejfar 41:11
yeah, I dedicate since I'm the chief dog walker in the family. And I dedicate that time to reading every morning I just do already decided like, that's what I do, I get up and walk the dog. And while I walk the dog, I read the book, and then I am able to move through so many. I'm scrolling through my list right now. There's like this leadership book that I read. That was oh, you might you might love. You might love powerful by Patti McCord. She's like that she was the head of Netflix or something. And it's all about it's called building a culture of freedom and responsibility. But that's one of my favorite leadership books that I've read. Of course, like Seth was it's who says is it Seth Godin has the one that's Oh, leaders eat last? Oh, no, it's Simon. Simon cynics leaders eat last. Those are my two favorite. Well, I actually have three favorite leadership books, culture code, and then the powerful and then that leaders eat last. Those are my favorite
Miriam Laundry 42:16
love that love that I've written them all down on my growing list.
Sarah Fejfar 42:23
That's either a good thing or a bad thing. Miriam, what have you got going on right now that we should know about? And where can Linchpin Nation find you?
Miriam Laundry 42:30
Well, our events believe it's called believe it's happening in September, Niagara Falls Canada. Perfect. A perfect excuse to get to Niagara Falls to see the fall. Yeah, and we you talked about already what it's about, I structure it like this. First day is believe in your community. Second day is believe in your vision. So you can imagine all the things we worked on. And then the third day is believe in your action. So believing in ourselves and then going for the things that we want. And you can get information on my website, Miriam laundry.com. Forward slash believe.
Sarah Fejfar 43:08
Love it. I will link all that up in the show notes. Miriam is an absolute pleasure to have you here today. Thank you so much.
Miriam Laundry 43:16
Thank you so much. This was great.
Sarah Fejfar 43:18
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