5 Truths I’ve Learned From 5 Years of Podcasting

After 5 years, 200+ episodes, and hitting the top 5% of podcasts globally, I’ve learned a few things…In this special episode of Beyond Common Business Secrets, I’m sharing the Top 5 Truths I’ve learned from 5 years of podcasting. These aren’t your typical tips—they’re the kind of hard-earned, behind-the-scenes lessons that only come from experience. We’re talking energetic alignment, authentic consistency, sales as service, and growing into your truth.

If you’re a creative entrepreneur, coach, or business leader trying to find your voice, attract aligned clients, and build something lasting, this episode is your permission slip to do it YOUR way. 🎙️ Tune in now and let’s celebrate how far we’ve come—and where we’re going next.

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Transcript

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Hello! Hello!


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Hello, beautiful friend! Welcome back to beyond common business secrets. I'm your host, Traecy Watts Cirino. And today's episode


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Tracey Watts Cirino: is incredibly


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Tracey Watts Cirino: close to my heart and very, very special. So for those of you that are new around here, we are celebrating 5 years of this podcast so yes, that's right beyond common business secrets has been around for almost 5 years right now. Can you believe it? So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: from the bottom of my heart I want to say, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for making us one of the top, 5% of all podcasts created in history.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Thank you for growing with me, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: thank you for being here. So I


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and I I hope this just all continues right. So I want to thank you personally and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and let you know that this doesn't happen without you. So continue to share. Continue to


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You know, message me with your insights, your questions continue all of that because we are growing together.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So why, I believe this podcast really matters is


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Tracey Watts Cirino: when I really look at this. It's like, I, I'd have to say that in so many ways


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Tracey Watts Cirino: podcasting has really changed my life in business, in so many ways. And today, I want to pull back the curtain and share with you some of the real truths, like just real deep truths. I've learned through this process. So these truths have helped me grow.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: not just as a pod like, not just as a podcast like, not just as the show, not just as a host, but also as a business owner, as a mom, as a wife. It's like we are all the layers of our business. Right we are. We are all the layers of who we are as a human, we are not just our business. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because of podcasting, I have the blessing of owning and operating a business that I love waking up to every day because I


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Tracey Watts Cirino: own my schedule, for, like the 1st time in my life, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I get to work with amazing clients that I love and adore. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it is part business. But we are multifaceted humans. And when we get to layer all of that beauty and goodness together, that is what really creates a life right, a life in business that we are so excited to wake up to and wake up for every you know, every day of our life. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: these are just my personal truths. They've come to me through journaling and my morning meditation, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it's something that has revealed itself throughout these past 5 years of podcasting. And


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I've really taken these lessons to heart and gone deeper in my morning reflections. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'm thinking that maybe they will help you, too, and you'll get something equally beneficial and amazing for yourself. So truth number one would be.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Oh, this one's like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: gives me all the feels. Because, I wish I knew this before I started podcasting. I wish I knew this before I started a lot of things in life. But


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Tracey Watts Cirino: this time. I think I've got this lesson down, so I hear you God, I got this. So truth number one is what works for others may not work for you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and what works for you, you know, may not work for others. So yes, consistently. Consistency creates trust.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: but not at the expense of your authentic self. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you don't have to have, like the energy of a generator, to be consistent. You get to do it your way, and that's the magic. Now for those of you that are familiar with human design. If you are a generator, it doesn't mean you have to use up all your energy doing what works for everyone else. You have to feel it in your body of what aligns and what is right for you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So if that's not the case, then you don't move on. You don't have to explain it. You don't have to apologize. It's okay. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: ask yourself before heading out on this path of doing what everybody is telling you works for them like before you head out on that path. Make sure you're you ask yourself like, is this something that I feel called to do is this something that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: feels right for me? Because if it's not, that's okay, like you don't have to do it. And I I really needed to give myself permission on that one because


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I did not do it that way@firstst Right? It was like, Oh, you have to do it this way, and it has to be like this. And this is the consistency. And


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Tracey Watts Cirino: at some point there just became a moment of.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Yeah, that's awesome. That's so great that that works for you that way. But this is what works best for me, and the more I started trusting that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: that's when I started to realize that you get to do it your way. And that's where the beauty and the magic lives. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: launching the podcast from the beginning is like, Yeah, I didn't have this massive following right? But of course we have well over, you know, 10,000 downloads and so on. Now. But it's it's like we had to just get started and and go forward. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: don't get stuck on the fact that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it's got to work for you the same way that it does for someone else. Like, if you have a coach or a mentor, or there's even just a guru that you're following on social media, if if you're doing it exactly like exactly as they say, and and it is not working.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: don't get all dug in and hard on yourself about it. You get to do it your way. And and that's what is going to really resonate with people. So truth number 2 is, life happens like life happens and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you have to go with that like, perfection is the enemy of impact. So I've had this mantra going probably since the very beginning of starting the podcast it's like done is better than perfect. Because if we had waited for everything in life to be perfect and everything to be the way that everyone tells you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Then we would still be waiting right? And here you go. I had no idea what I was doing. I don't know if we had the right equipment, the right. This I just literally went out and interviewed a bunch of people and asked them how it was working for their podcast which is


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Tracey Watts Cirino: funny. Looking back like, I didn't realize at the time if that was the right thing to do. But that's probably what got me really good at interviews, or I had always been good at interviews. I don't know, but the thing is is that sometimes just got to go with your gut on what feels right for you, and it could be as simple as turning on the microphone and just getting started. So know that life happens. So we


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Tracey Watts Cirino: have been consistently producing content for 5 years, but


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Tracey Watts Cirino: at 1st it was like, Oh, it has to be exactly on Tuesday, exactly at this time. Blah blah! And we've gotten flexible with that like, sometimes the podcast goes out on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Oh, you know what people know it's coming this week, and they're really happy about it. And now we're heading into this 1st pause that we've ever done in the history of the podcast and we're going to adopt more of a seasonal model to work


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Tracey Watts Cirino: better with our energies. So this is all good like this is things that we've discovered along the way. But you have to get started. So life happens like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: if I was still so dug in on the fact that it has to be every Tuesday. Well, 2 months ago, when our puppy was really sick and had to go to the emergency room. What would I do? Say? Oh, sorry, kids, I can't take you to visit him right now, because I have to do the podcast well, that's the beauty of being on your own schedule. Like, yeah, we're consistent. But we can wiggle a little, and that is a beautiful, wonderful thing.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: people need your message, not for you to be perfect like you can show them what you're doing along the way. So this is like what you know, if you're on our email list and that you're following us on social channels like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: life happens and we share more of our life as we go, because people


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Tracey Watts Cirino: want to hear your message like that's super impactful, not like, oh, it's all perfect, tied up in a bow for you. Right? Another thing, I think, fits in here, too, is like sales like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: sales, is not sleazy, it's in service. So when you believe so when, when you believe in your offer, you shout it from the rooftops, because you know your people need it. So you know I


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Tracey Watts Cirino: work with clients that love to pay me right. I work with clients that love to pay me and see my value, and by that happening they see my value. And we create the most amazing results for them together in the stuff that we work on


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Tracey Watts Cirino: this podcast is a way of letting the people know so that they can find me right. If if I chose not to do that, then it would be so much harder for people to find me. So that is part of like.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You don't have to wait till it's perfect. You don't have to wait till it's done. You can share from where you are, and you get to sell your offers, because that is how you are in service


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Tracey Watts Cirino: to to others, to the world. Right? It's for it's good for you. It's good for them. It's good for the world. So that is really really important to me. And I think I I really


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I've always known that if I have something that has changed my life in any way like a product, a service, something I've done. I always want to tell everybody right. I'd never have kept that stuff like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: behind a gate. I always want to share it, even if it's other people's stuff. So it's the same thing with your own stuff. So I think that's always been true like that. I look at sales rather than being sleazy. I look at it as this is how this is a service that I'm giving the world.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and whether it's like, Oh, my goodness, you have to see this movie or go to this restaurant. It's so awesome, or you have to use this new skincare, or Oh, my goodness! Have you read this book, or Oh, have you checked out my book? I think it'll really help you and resonate with you. Or Oh, you're still struggling with feeling like you're, you know.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: wasting time every week. Oh, have you checked out the CEO Power code. This program I created to help you save 10 h or more every single week for the rest of your life. Right? So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'm excited and passionate because I know it's helpful, like when I 1st created the beyond common essentials course. It's like, I know, this is the foundational success habits that can help anyone when they're 1st getting started in their career or their business, and that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it radiates like energetically. You feel it when you take the course, whether you're, you know, taking it at midnight home alone, or you were part of the group calls.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You feel the impact of it, and that is really important, which brings us to the truth. Number 3, which is your voice, is much more powerful than you think. So when you have something to say that you know something that's impactful to say.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You show up and you say it. You show up when you are afraid, you show up when your voice is cracking and quivering. You show up, and you say it courageously.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and your aligned audience will hear it. They will hear it, and you don't need millions. You just need your people, and they will resonate with it. And and this is so true, because I know I've shared this before. But you know, for 20 years of speaking on stage and teaching people everything I ever learned. Like, I learned it today, I'm gonna


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Tracey Watts Cirino: share it. I'm going to teach about it tomorrow people would always say, Oh, do you have a radio show? Oh, do you have a radio show? And I literally was just like, No, oh, that's so sweet. I'm so flattered like it did not resonate that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: people were asking me for 20 years to start a. Podcast it's like, Oh, I'm sorry. I was really a slow learner on that one. Obviously I have something impactful to say.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and the more I show up and say it, my people hear it, and that is really important, that you understand


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Tracey Watts Cirino: how powerful your voice is. Right. Your voice helps you manifest your thoughts into being, into being in this, like, you know reality. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: the power of your voice, when you have something impactful to share is so important. Do not ever


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Tracey Watts Cirino: shove that down or think that you have to dull your light or quiet down. You are perfectly beautiful as you, as loud as you want to be and share, share, because we want to hear it right. We want to hear those things, and we want to hear it from you your way in your voice. So that is something that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it's a truth I know to be true, and it's been proven in my life and my businesses time and time again. But it doesn't mean that automatically. I'm like, Oh, power pose! Let's do this. I'm ready to go, you know. I still have to dig in and get courageous


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because I will still have people ask me every single week. Well, how are you so confident to speak on stage? How are you so confident to write your books. How are you so confident to speak on that topic with so much conviction and so much authority like I took your course, and.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: like I love. How powerful your message is.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I want to be that confident.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: The magic is.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Confidence comes when you're courageous enough to show up and do it


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Tracey Watts Cirino: even when you're not sure, even when it the path isn't clear, even when you don't know what to say. Your voice is quivering, you just kind of show up and start speaking through.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: The clarity comes with every action you take. So the reason I'm confident now is because I


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Tracey Watts Cirino: was bold enough to take that 1st courageous step and keep doing it even when no one was listening, even when nobody cared, even when I'm like, Hello! Is this thing on? Are you out there right like, when all that is happening in your life, and you're still courageous enough to do it, anyway, because you have a mission. You know I have a mission that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: women get to write their own paychecks right? Women get to do work that they love.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: they enjoy and be highly compensated for it like that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: has been my mission since the beginning of time.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I have transitioned into different avenues and done different businesses, you know, multiple times, but that core message is true, right, and in every industry I ever have been in or ever will ever be in. From now until the end of time, as far as I can see, it is that I will


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Tracey Watts Cirino: always have clients that love to pay me, that see my value and that appreciate that we create amazing results together.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: That's how it will always be. And I believe that with every fiber of my being so when I got to work with a client. It has to check all 3 of those boxes, and that is why I love what I do so so much like. I get so excited, and I speak with my hands, and I think I just knocked over my microphone. So that's like the Sicilian in me. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: be bold, show up courageously when you take these little actions when you're afraid, and you do them, anyway, and you're just being courageous. Eventually the


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Tracey Watts Cirino: confidence comes. But we don't know when that's gonna be. So you can't sit around and wait for it, because


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Tracey Watts Cirino: if I was waiting till I was ready and knew how to do any of this, how to connect the technology, how to do the back end this and da da build this like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: we had so many crazy technology issues, breakdowns, challenges that you cannot even imagine like, there are days I wanted to


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Tracey Watts Cirino: lay down and pull the covers back over my head and just cry, you know, in bed on the bathroom floor in the ground like wherever I could, and you know sometimes that the struggle was real, and I needed to take those moments to pause and cry. But I got back up again so just like the song says


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you get back up again. When you keep doing that you will eventually get to that place of being confident, and that is where the magic happens. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: number 4 is energetic. Alignment always wins. Now, friend, I wish I knew this way early in my life. This one I've just probably I would say in the past


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Tracey Watts Cirino: 3 and a half years really feel like I get it like, I've learned this lesson. I get it. You know I'm moving on to like mastery at this point. But I'm telling you what, when I think back in life and business, and so many decisions that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: if I really checked in with myself to make sure I was energetically aligned with stuff.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Oh, wow! Could I have saved myself so many hiring mistakes? So I mean, I can go back way way before dating mistakes right like, if you want to put it in life, skill, stuff, friendships that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: were totally not right for me, because I didn't know that I was quote unquote, allowed to give myself permission to do things that were energetically aligned for me like if something doesn't feel right. It doesn't make you a bad person. It's like, Hey, that's not for me. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: when I say this like, and as like my


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Tracey Watts Cirino: number. 4, th biggest truth, energetic alignment always wins.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because when you try to override it, you create such chaos. So I have learned that my piece, my piece my inner like peace


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Tracey Watts Cirino: in my being like that I feel in my body, where I create the ultimate safety for myself. My piece is a non-negotiable period the end. I do not explain further than that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: if I don't want to.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: My piece is a non-negotiable. I have learned to say no to anything or anyone that drains me. I've learned to say no to clients clients that are high paying, but if they're draining, it's a no for me if it's like, Hey, this is what I can offer you, and they're like, no, no, you're going to do this, this and this when it's not energetically aligned for me. Oh, I love you, but it's a no for me. Friends, family, all of it. If it is


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Tracey Watts Cirino: not aligned with my personal piece within, it is a non-negotiable for me.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because when I feel at peace and I hold that space in my body, I get to show up as the most authentic version of myself for my family, you know, for my children, for my husband, for my clients, for my friends, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: when that's in alignment, then


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Tracey Watts Cirino: everything I do feels better, and that's how I enjoy feeling so. It is one of those things that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I had to work really hard at getting comfortable with the word? No, because it was really challenging. So now I know that energy is first, st right, like energy is first, st and it's okay. If I don't feel energetically aligned. It's not. It's like not a negative to that person. I still love you. It's just a no for me right now. It's not right at this moment.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: It doesn't mean it won't be later. And I'm not being judgy. I'm just protecting my own peace and taking care of myself because I have every right to do that, and that is what I teach. My clients like. Your energy is 1st


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and yes, like, I consider myself a strategist. And I know, like these weird things, of how they connect better. And I can see patterns in things that are really complicated, that people are like, what are you talking about. I'm like, I don't know. I just kind of see all these wires coming together, and this is how we're going to build it. Does that feel aligned for you, because that is what feels right for me in this situation. It's a collaborative effort when I'm working with clients. Here's the thing, though.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: even knowing that I'm highly intuitive and really good at strategy. And and I can simplify really complicated systems, making them very clear and simple.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: It's still for me now that I've really learned this lesson fully is energy, 1st strategy, second period. So when


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Tracey Watts Cirino: someone has this great idea about the strategy, if it's like not feeling aligned energetically like, Okay, I am never going to be the person ever that shows up consistently on social media every single day of the week all the live long day. It's never happening ever.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So if that's the strategy, it's an F. No for me. No. So that's where I get to say, Okay, energy, 1st strategy, second period, and that is really powerful like, I don't think 5 years ago, when we 1st started, I would have said that I would be like oh, I mean I'm still willing to do whatever it takes, but I check in with my energy where I'm energetically aligned, so


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I never quit, and I will do whatever it takes


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Tracey Watts Cirino: to be successful in service of the greater good, and my energetic alignment in my personal piece is part of the greater good.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So that's the nuance to that that. I hope that you catch that, because that is where the juicy part lives of really embodying this for yourself.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Then that brings us to Number Truth number 5.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You grow as you go right. So I used to get caught so caught up in that niche drama, thinking I had to figure it out, I had to box myself into oh.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: what's the like? One thing? What? What's your one thing? And all this stuff like boxing myself into this niche, and I have to tell you that that cost me so much time, energy, and money.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because that's never gonna be right for me.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I am committed to being a miracle worker that shows up in the world to help make a positive impact. I trust that my people are smart enough to get it.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and I lead with value and deliver results. Time and time again I work with some clients on marketing. I work with some clients on energetics. I work with some clients on visibility. I work with some clients on how to put together a great speech, create your content, write a book.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I still have a few clients that are from when I was in the beauty industry. But we work on the leadership right?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: If I waited to. Oh, I'm only gonna do one thing. It literally felt like you were cutting off all of my limbs.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: enforcing me to be one thing. Where? Here's here's the real truth of this.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You get to grow as you go, and if you absolutely only have one thing go all in. Maybe that is the energetically aligned strategy for you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: but for me I am multifaceted. I am highly creative, and I look for the beauty in the art, in all business


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Tracey Watts Cirino: that is a layered effect, and I am not going to cut off all my limbs of who I am, because this is the way I get to serve people in a deep, meaningful way. So I encourage you. By all means be all of yourself.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: because that's where the true magic is. Be all of yourself. And yes, the Internet is different than in person. But you get to be all of yourself, and I just want, if there's anything that I drive home more than anything


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you get to be all of yourself,


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and the. And you have to trust that you have to trust that what you're thinking is right like if you hear this.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you only can pick from one of these niches, because that's like where the only place people will spend money. Or oh, this is the only way people will ever find you on the Internet, really, because I've been able to


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Tracey Watts Cirino: grow multiple 7 figure businesses over the years without having a million followers. So it's about your


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Tracey Watts Cirino: sometimes they meet you in person or people refer you or you speak on stage, or you tripped over your own 2 feet and drop stuff in the street, and someone helps you, and then they go look on your social.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and then they call you. You never know where it's gonna come from. But you have to trust that you get to grow as you go and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: No, I don't have to be less than myself, and in the 1st few years I really thought that I had to do that, and that really was a giant struggle for me. So if I could go back and like


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Tracey Watts Cirino: what I do differently. If I was starting today I would trust myself more. I would trust myself so much more. I would build slower.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: be less controlling to try to like force myself that I had to like be in a niche right? Because I knew back then that I was leaving the


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Tracey Watts Cirino: like, the beauty industry behind, because it was time for something bigger, like it just wasn't where I was aligned anymore. Now I still help tons of people in the salon, and beauty, industry and fashion


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Tracey Watts Cirino: in that creative space. But it's not the only thing I wanted to talk about. I wanted a deeper, more profound conversation that was more in alignment for me, and what I believe were the real conversations that people wanted to have.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So that is what I would say, and maybe like less worry on whatever others think. If you're doing it different and doing it yourself your own way like, trust yourself.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I would. I would. I would have built my systems for my own energy sooner.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and I would have invested in support that could actually help me instead of support where I was helping them. Because that's what people pay me to do as a coach, right? So there's those little things that were a little bit tangled in the beginning. So those were the things I would do different. And one of the one of the things I would really, really do different is. And this goes back to


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Tracey Watts Cirino: the 1st one, like what? What works for others may not work for you. You know everybody, that in Podcasting says, Oh, you have to interview lots of people. You have to interview people. And I tell you what, when we had a season or 2 where we interviewed a ton of people


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Tracey Watts Cirino: they didn't share. They didn't share our podcast with a lot of people. And so we did not grow as much as we did before. And what's really interesting is that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: we were working like 4 to 5 times harder. I had to hire so many more people behind the scenes. So when we started conducting different surveys and getting more feedback from our audience, from our listeners, we found that you really love like the when, when I give you, like the Tracy, the tea with Tracy, like the things where I go off on a tangent and speak from the heart that seems to be what our audience


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Tracey Watts Cirino: here at beyond common really, really resonates with. So


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Tracey Watts Cirino: we will continue to have guest experts, and we will continue to have guests over time. But it is not the primary focus, because you have spoken. Now, if people speak and it feels aligned, I have no problem switching that up. But know this, if you are a podcast guest, ever.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: if you are ever a podcast guest on our show or any show, and it doesn't matter even if Mel Robbins is on the show. I would love for her to share it right? It's like that's the thing to do. So know that when you are a guest on a show that you should share it with your audience. That is a beautiful, wonderful thing, and if if you are a Podcaster who hosts other people on your show.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You need to tell us like. So I always laugh about this. Tell me by sending me an email or a social media. DM, like, let me know specifically that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: our episode is out. So I can share it. Because if you just tag me, I do not always see it because we get tagged so often. So that's 1 of those things that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I didn't know. But everybody, if you dig into podcasting. Everybody will tell you that that's like the only way. And I would have trusted more that like okay, like, if it feels right, i'll do it. But when it doesn't feel right I won't force it. So that's like some of the things that I would do differently like. But Number one is like I would build systems that honor my energy. That would be the 1st thing. So so, friend.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I hope this was helpful. I hope that you enjoyed this deep dive into, like my heart and soul of my personal truths that I've learned from podcasting for the past 5 years.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And I would really love to know what is your biggest lesson from


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Tracey Watts Cirino: our podcast so far is it from this one? Is it from an episode from the past? I would love for you to DM me on social media at Tracy. Leave a review wherever you're listening to this podcast


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Tracey Watts Cirino: or direct message, me on social, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: let me know, because that I'm really curious about that, especially as we head into our pause, like, we only have a few more episodes before the pause, and I would really love to know, because I will be in deep contemplation about what our next season is going to look like, and all the amazing changes that are headed your way so


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I really would love to know that so definitely reach out. Give me your you know your honest answers on what's been your biggest lesson from any of our podcasts. So far from any of the episodes. And if you're ready to go deeper, check out my mentorship programs


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Tracey Watts Cirino: at tracywatserino.com, or book a deep dive strategy, session. That is always a great place to get started, and I will link those in the show notes, and until next time, remember, you are beyond common, my friend. Stay amazing, and I'll see you on the next one.