re467: "Whatever It Takes" with Martha King.

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Martha King, so nice to have you here. [00:00:07] Speaker C: Very good morning. I'm thrilled for this conversation. Thank you for having me. [00:00:13] Speaker B: It's so fun because we've talked so much in the past many months and now I feel like this is our recap day and we're, we're having this little chat about your experience. And so today we're going to talk about your books and then a little bit about the process. But I'm as I just warned you before we hit record, I want to start with something that I want to talk about later because it'll make sense for everybody. So. Hi everybody. Bradley Schravino here, by the way. I didn't introduce myself. One thing I do as a nonfiction book coach, I'm actually really enjoying YouTube these days, which is why I like interviews like this on YouTube. So I've gone a little bit from writer to more speaker, presenter, video audio guy. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Right. [00:01:01] Speaker B: And Martha King here, we have been working together. I've helped her with her books, which you can see behind her there on the shelves. And we're going to talk about her books and the process. But I want to start with this after. So we just finished a few weeks ago or months ago or so, and everything's published in Success and Yay. And we'll talk about that too, of course. And then Martha wrote this super long WhatsApp message to me and I'm reading through it and she has this grandiose idea about how we can have this six month program and we can basically, I mean, to put it in like Hallmark or Disney words, it's like make your dreams come true, right? You have an idea or a book or a story or something. Or maybe you're a parent and like in Martha's case, you're a parent and you want to share a story with your kids or something. And you have this idea and you're holding it in and you haven't expressed it or written it down or shared it with the world or shared it with the people you want to share it with. And you're holding this in. So Martha's idea is to run a program. Like you can tell me more details but you know, six month program or something. And we, Martha and I are going to help you create your book. You know, bring your, your dream to life in the form of a book. And here's. Okay, here we go. Are you all sitting down? Audience, are you, are you ready for this? Because here comes like the harsh reality of Bradley Charbonneau in 2025. And that is I'm like, martha, I love it. Great idea. I am absolutely on board with this. I think it's a fantastic idea. There's only one little thing, and that's you are Martha King and you are a powerhouse of energy and enthusiasm and inspiration and get down and do the hard work and you made it happen. And you published your. Not only your four books, but it's really more like 12 because there's like four times three. I mean, you basically did like 12 books in a matter of months. And that is like a herculean accomplishment that is so big and so huge and so. But now that I know you a little better, I know you can get it done and you're the one I can trust and you're going to get it done and it's going to accomplish it and we're going to succeed and it's going to be great, Right? But then, and this is a little bit my, I don't even know how to phrase this, my like harsh reality or my experience, but most people are not like you. And most people are not going to get to the finish line. And if they come into our six month program, I mean, to challenge me wrong, prove me wrong. Audience, you know, if you think this is a fantastic idea and you're watching this and you see those books behind Martha's head right there and you like, I have a dream, I have a book. I have a book idea. I want to get it done. Can you, can you two, you know, lead me and do this right? Pitch us, right? Because this maybe, maybe I'm like jaded in my 39 book publishing experience, right? And I run programs and I run courses and I run workshops. And this is one reason I'm working on my current books which are talking about villains and the villains that hold us back, like procrastination Patty and perfectionist Pearl and imposter Irene. These sweet little voices that say, you know what? There's one called Manana Ma and he's like, let's just do it tomorrow. Tomorrow's fine. What can we not do tomorrow? I know that we need to do today. Come on. So, okay, this has been a really long introduction, but I think it's very relevant because what Martha and I are going to talk about, let's just make it simple. It's not easy. It's a lot of work. And I think a lot of people don't realize how much work is involved. Even Martha didn't realize how much work is involved because remember, she did like 12 books. I mean, we'll get into the details. But she did so much work and she got it done. And that is just a huge accomplishment. And I applaud you, Martha, because you are, you know, one in a thousand of people who actually take it all the way and have those books sitting behind you on the shelf. Okay. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Wow. [00:05:06] Speaker B: I feel like I'm on a soapbox and I just gave this big old, like political, you know, impassioned speech. But that's what, you know, your. Your big WhatsApp. It sort of triggered me. And I like to use trigger in a positive way. It triggered me that I love helping people. I love guiding them and bringing them along to success. But challenge me, people, if you think I'm wrong. But most people do not take action. Okay, I'm done. Hi, Martha. [00:05:37] Speaker C: Hello. Yes, I love it because everything what you have said is very true. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:05:45] Speaker C: And as you know, I work with those energies. This is the core of work. I help people to overcome the progress donation. I help people to guide them and to realign with the goal. The minute they are in alignment, they can create. They cannot create because they are misaligned and is only one missing component, really. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:06:19] Speaker C: The way we interact with others obviously shape us our outcome. If we feel fearful, if we feel unworthy, if we feel shut it down and then procrastination kick in, the personality kick in, and we cannot overcome this obstacle. You know what? I also have them. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we all do. [00:06:52] Speaker C: To get this book. And over. Over some time, I. I've been creating short meditations for people to listen on a YouTube to. To get realignment. And there is one particular one which called Whatever it Takes. And that was inspired by my hugely successful friend, Fabian. She is inspiring, powerhouse. And one time she said, when I started, my husband and I, they were always insane. Whatever it takes. Take a breath. Whatever it takes. And one day I sat and I wrote Whatever it takes. This was like, I think over a year ago now. When I'm done, when I'm unsure, when I'm myself lacking direction, I go to my own recording and I listen. I said, okay, get on with this. Whatever it takes. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. Yeah. [00:08:09] Speaker C: I leave my work. The second inspiration was my son was approaching a birthday and I was like, as a mother, I was thinking, what shall I give it to him? I can buy him next Lego. I can buy him, I don't know, whatever choice he would like to have or train or anything book. But I would like more than that. I would love to give him a love, but love that he will cherish. And carry later on in the life. I want to give him a gift that he will grow to was synchronicity. Actually I was. I was open for inspiration. I asked universe to inspire me. And I went to stillness. I went to the void. I went to the place of choosing. It's a number 12 on or above. That's why we celebrate 12 midnight and all that we must celebrate, we must pause. And in this pause, in this void, I was able to hear. We need to shut down the chatter and clutter of everyday life. When we are busy, we cannot listen. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. [00:09:46] Speaker B: I like that. When we are busy, we cannot listen. It's good. [00:09:51] Speaker C: We need to pose it. It's like going to the woods. It's meditation on its own. We don't need to eat anymore. I'm meditating. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:03] Speaker C: No, no scrap. If you are not ready for it, don't do it. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Because you're gonna hit frustration. [00:10:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:10:16] Speaker C: For a walk. Calm down. First you need to take a step. At the time when you pause it, you open to listen. And then I created meditation called awaken the flow. And it was like celebration of a gathering with my friends from energy codes which we studied the book from Dr. Sumorta. And I love her work and I'm her student and I was so inspired that I create this. This little recording which I dedicated to my friends. And then one of my friends said to me, I wish my mom could read something like this when I was small. And then I thought, oh, universe, just give me a message. Because I was able to listen. And then I put two together and I sat with my own pegs when she commented on. And I said, okay, how to dilute this for the kids. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:44] Speaker C: How I can guide them to the high frequencies. How I can teach them to pause. How I can teach them to reset all the noise of devices. Then you will believe or not. I was painting a house. Like painting and decorating I love. [00:12:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:14] Speaker C: It's very therapeutic work. It's almost holistic. And with my brush and paint, you know, I've been rolling the wall. And then I start getting this. This shape up ideas about those books again. I was open channel. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:38] Speaker C: I was not sitting and meditating. I was literally painting the world. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Wow. Wow. [00:12:48] Speaker C: My body relax. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:51] Speaker C: Mind was set. And then the message arrived. I pushed down, you know, all these tools and I had to quickly, I remember, write down few bits and pieces for my books. And that's literally. That was literally when this started. And it was May 24th. End of May 24th by December. The book's been done and dusted. The text was done. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. Wow. [00:13:32] Speaker C: I found amazing editor Lisa, and then I spoke to her and she said, you like Oxford or. Oxford English. American English or Cambridge? Okay. So I learned that. Yeah, we obviously had the process of shaking up the books. She, she sent them back to me and I was looking for Illustrator, and that was the very painful experience for me where I really hit wall. Well, as you saying from your experience, many people possibly could have the same. [00:14:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:28] Speaker C: I didn't know what to do with this. The wall was pretty big. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:33] Speaker B: And because you, you had an illustrator. But then I can't remember the details. But then you did not have an illustrator. [00:14:39] Speaker C: Yes. I spoke to few people all along, but I was, I was in the mindset. I knew what I want. I didn't want this to be too childish. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:57] Speaker C: Because those books are for a little bit older kids and adults. I wanted the illustration to be more grown, not fully grown up, but just like for like around 10 years old. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:18] Speaker C: They passing the, the big eye stage. And that was, that was a bit challenging on its own. Anyway, eventually I had, I felt really good illustrator, but artists, they, they, they, they struggle with the time skills. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Dead deadlines and stuff. [00:15:45] Speaker C: Yeah, totally. Totally. I said the deadlines, I said what I would like, and I, I clearly said, how many pages we need to do per week. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:56] Speaker C: And then I was understanding as well. I knew for a fact the artists, most of them had to work with them on the deadline anyhow. Despite all that was around 20th of May, one month before. For my final deadline print, I had 11 illustrations. I had no covers. [00:16:30] Speaker B: You had 11 illustrations, but how many did you need? Total? [00:16:35] Speaker C: 72. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Wow. [00:16:44] Speaker C: The covers, they were just temporary. Still by that point, which I kind of quickly put on, as you see behind me, there are paintings. I got few more paintings around the house, which we painted by my son when he was 2, 3 years old. And, and so I used to go to the shop and buying them, you know, a bunch of acrylics and a big camper. Literally. We had the ball painting those. I want to capture the energy of the child. No matter what it is. That's. It's energy. And what I start doing, I start taking pictures, snippets from his painting and using them as a background. And then I Photoshop. Hello. My background in photography. Thank God. That was 20th of May. Yes. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:50] Speaker C: And by this point we were working together. You were helping me to set up the back end to go through the process of editing Book. But let me pause for a minute. I'll go back to that one. I'll finish talking about the illustration. And then. And I. I sat and I said to myself, goodness me, no one will take such a mammoth task in the last minute. I knew that there's no way. [00:18:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:27] Speaker C: Only the person who can put all the time, effort and basically stand on eyelashes must be me. Yeah, you know, I'm a yoga teacher on the end, but I can't stand on my lashes. So I sat and I said to myself, I can't draw. I've been drawing last 30 years ago and how to overcome this obstacle. And then I sat and I said to myself, okay, because I'm a photographer and I'm, you know, pretty okay with Photoshop, I will take a pictures of myself. And I got in certain poses or just took a pictures which I had in my phone from the past. I said, okay, this will be okay. This, I can use it. And I trace these pictures. So I am not an artist and I'm not claiming to be one. But I done all what I could to complete this time. And that's how they were born. Saying that because I was in control what I was doing. And coming back to your procrastination point. Everything is vibration. We vibrate energy. Our procrastination is vibration. Our fear has a vibration. The love any of everything. And I remember once when I was guiding the workshop, I went to the void with my group. We were coming down and my human brain was thinking that when we will descend from that void, everyone will go in the same level in the same way. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Okay. [00:20:40] Speaker C: No, it's not that way. That's why we're treating over. Am I? Exactly. So while we're tripping over, we coming down. Descending is actually in this book. Are we descending as. Oh, it's a mirror view, like a spiral. You see, that's why. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:00] Speaker C: That'S why. This is the piano keyboard and that's why you got the musical notes here. Because when we come from the void, when we come from meditation, when we come from place of choosing, we're going down the spiral and we're hitting the notes and we can hit the note a lot. Frustration creation and not really. They're going down, down, down. Some of my participants had gaps. There were no notes. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:21:40] Speaker C: No sound. The minute they will create, they complete the notes. When they go note by note, they create a certain vibrational pattern. They align. When they not hitting every thought, you are out of tune. [00:22:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:07] Speaker C: Makes sense. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Every step Has a color and every step has a vibration. That's how I saw. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Oh. [00:22:22] Speaker B: And if by vibration do you mean a tone, a sound or not? [00:22:28] Speaker C: Also you can, you can. You can sense it, hear it, feel it. That's why visual. Every color has it. My son, for example, when he plays music, he see colors. So I know when he plays, when he wants it to. He switch on the rainbow. That's right. And. And thinking of it, when you sitting in. In a place where you got finally all the senses switched on and you're listening to the music, you're getting happy, you can get sad, you can get emotional. [00:23:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:17] Speaker C: Yes. That's the vibrational pattern. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker C: It comes to your body. That's why tuning forks, they work. We are kinesthetic. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:31] Speaker C: We perceiving with all ourselves and ourselves looking. Like when I tune and when I scan, they look like a bubbles. Like. Like kids are blowing bubbles. [00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:53] Speaker C: And they constantly moving and they responding from what they got around. If the wind blow one direction, they will go there. That's a procrastination. Hello. And the creativity blow. There you go. We're in a creative flow. See, we. We just kind of goes and they just. Just floats. We think our body is dense because it is, but it's actually made of this like billions and billions and billions of bubbles. And each single bubble has frequency. And then we come into the quantum fields and all this theories and all the sciences. It's. It's all big. [00:24:49] Speaker A: But yeah. [00:24:49] Speaker C: Simple terms for me, I'm not the scientist, I see bubbles. That's how I see us as a human. [00:25:02] Speaker B: So do the colors. Because your books are different colors as well. [00:25:06] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:07] Speaker B: And so the colors do they. They match up with the frequency? [00:25:12] Speaker C: No. [00:25:14] Speaker B: No. [00:25:15] Speaker C: Well, yes, they obviously they got certain frequency. But because I run out of time and I'll be totally honest with you, I had not even chance to put my head around. I just. Because by. By pure. By accident the. When I. I had to cover and put the COVID first. [00:25:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:41] Speaker C: Just put something. I had image. I said okay, this will do. And. And then when. When I complete. Had to complete. I said I run out of time now. Time to go back. It was too late. I already start advertising on social media and it was too late to change the. In this one, for example, I will show you. Let's. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Oh wow. [00:26:15] Speaker C: I see it my Photoshop version of this one. You see. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Wow. [00:26:20] Speaker C: Because we doing this things and we like painting. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:27] Speaker C: And they come like. Like. Yes, that. That's what it is. Really. That's the story. Okay. We got this, this, this, this process of drawing. Ah. I learned new skills to. To draw. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:48] Speaker B: You know, I love that you, you sort of like you said, whatever it takes. Right. [00:26:53] Speaker A: Are you. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Or you did it anyway. [00:26:56] Speaker A: Right. The. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Because also you had a deadline. You had a deadline of your son's birthday. And that made the difference between, oh, let me perfect this. You know, color matching so that the vibration of the color is accurate for the different letter of the book or whatever. And that could have taken months or years or honestly, like, never. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Right. [00:27:23] Speaker B: And you did it and you did it anyway. And because you had a. I. I think it's really important you had a deadline. A lot of people don't. You don't have a deadline if your deadline is someday. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Right. [00:27:34] Speaker B: I. I often say or joke that someday does not exist on a calendar. And so you can't just say you don't really have a deadline if it's someday. It's just like might as well say never. But you had a deadline and that made a big difference. I saw it. I remember your deadline. [00:27:51] Speaker C: I think you, you hit the nail because we like to moving our goal post. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:58] Speaker C: We forget about committing to ourselves. It was obviously. And if I would say, okay, you know what, if not this birthday, I will move to the next one. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:11] Speaker C: Or I will do Christmas. Someone told me, you know what, Martha, you can always give him for Christmas. No, I won't be true to myself. I need to overcome this obstacle of mine. Despite the fact that English is my second language, I can't draw. Illustrator let me down. Okay. I still delivered on time. [00:28:42] Speaker B: That's a perfect list right there. You said, English is my second language. I can't draw. And my illustrator let me down, and you still completed it on time. So there you go. That's because those are. Those are perfectly valid reasons to delay or to, you know, cancel the whole project or make it for Christmas like you said. But you did it anyway. Whatever it takes. [00:29:11] Speaker C: Whatever it takes. Just focus and switching off the clutter chatter. [00:29:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:20] Speaker C: Just focus on two, three things in one day. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker C: Just be clear. Be honest with yourself. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Hey, could you show us just like for the camera, the different covers? [00:29:37] Speaker C: Of course. [00:29:38] Speaker B: So we can see the L, O, V, E. And just for. Because I keep mentioning 12 books because it looks like four books. But you did four paperbacks and I think, I think you. Four hardcovers too. Right, like that. [00:29:55] Speaker C: Well, and then. [00:29:56] Speaker B: And four audiobooks. [00:29:58] Speaker C: Yes, that's the. Let's be. Let's see. That's. Well, you said 12 because you know that that will be eventually 12 books. Yeah, that's why we kind of say but they not published yet. Yeah, books is coming and they are, they are in a process of making. But just give me a break. This is the, this is the first print of soft cover and I also got a premium edition. Beautiful. [00:30:37] Speaker B: Oh, look at, look at the spine. I hadn't seen that yet. [00:30:40] Speaker C: Yes, you haven't seen it yet. It's so nice, the quality. I'm so happy with the book. They had a bit, bit difficult time. Just actually I think maybe got a broken server or something. And just when I submitted my books and I wasn't even sure they would come on time, I can tell you everything that happened did happen. This was, this is the hardcover and there is a picture of, of my background which my son obviously painted for me. And that's the, this, that's, that's a little mountains and the sky, I guess. And that's the sea and the beach. Sand. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker B: You know, I, I just have to comment here that what you have done, people watching, they're going to say wow, look at that gorgeous book. [00:31:39] Speaker A: Right? [00:31:39] Speaker B: That's. How in the world do you do that? And then also they must think. Not must, but they probably think it was really expensive and you had to order a thousand or something. And that's sort of the beauty of the publishing industry these days is that with, with POD print on demand now you, you can order one book through, you know, different companies and, and I mean you can go completely fancy like you did hardcover, that interior opening two pages, the final two pages with a full image. I mean that's, you did it. And, and, and it tells you how to do it, but you still have to do it. And you have the interior color pages too, right? [00:32:23] Speaker C: Yes, yes. The pages looks like this. [00:32:26] Speaker A: Wow. Wow. [00:32:27] Speaker B: Oh, and it's full, it's called full bleed. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Right. [00:32:31] Speaker B: When it goes all the way to the edge. It looks so nice. [00:32:33] Speaker C: Yeah, it looks so good. Pretty good print. I like the colors. Obviously you can play with the text nicely. I even got a note from Dr. Sumorta which I was super thrilled. I am. Oh, I feel very honored. [00:32:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Let me tell you, in these books, you not only having the illustrations because as I said to you, you, I, I, I hidden a little bit messaging system within them. And when I said to you about the sound and vibrations and how we emanate the colors, for example, this one, they comes from outside to us to our body. And this, this child here is holding central channel the Place where we are, where we are lining. [00:33:40] Speaker B: The illustrations look so good, like magical. [00:33:46] Speaker C: Here is for example, a pyramid. Pyramid. And it's also element of fire creation from solar plexus. And you also can, can learn to burn what doesn't serve you any longer. It's tapping to the gut feeling, to your emotional patterns. That's why it's so, so important. When I teach about the breath and I teach about the sound, the. Oh. That's why I sunk within. The all rises from the bottom. I'm not sure you see it. [00:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:34:27] Speaker C: Often go to your solar plexus and off you go. There is, there is something to see for adults who can see. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:41] Speaker C: Beyond. They are not only booked for kids. [00:34:45] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:34:48] Speaker B: You know, the amount of work, if people are watching this and thinking, wow, she has illustrations on every other page and she has the opening two pages and the last two pages and the covers and the spine and everything. And they think, wow, that looks like a lot, a lot of work. Are you ready for the answer? It is a lot of work. You did it. You did it all, though. You really did it all. It's great. [00:35:13] Speaker C: Yes, thank you. But you know what? That's where I was stuck when, when I had. Okay, I, I could do the text. Okay, I can, I can do the Photoshop. And when we met, I remember the conversation and I also sense that you had like so many people before me and you know, everything inside out. You straight away told me, okay, your size, your format is not mainstream. What you want. Yeah, I, I possibly could bend to the mainstream kind of Amazon Publishing, but they got certain sizes and you straight away said to me, no, no, you need to go there or there and you help me to get the book vault and you guide me richly set up for, I mean, all this behind the scene, which I wasn't aware how, which way. Even the simple thing like a payment for the books and how to. It just was a little bit too much to navigate on my own. [00:36:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:35] Speaker B: It'S a ton. It's a lot. [00:36:36] Speaker A: It's. [00:36:37] Speaker B: Well and like people are probably figuring out, you know, you have a very complicated or complex sort of version of what you did. [00:36:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:49] Speaker B: Because you did the square book. That's the non traditional format. So that was really difficult. And then even like getting the square book sort of for sale is also because the traditional online bookstores won't carry it because you can't deliver it to them sort of. And still you did it all, you know. Could you tell us just a little, just a little about each of these books, just super short, like a little blurby blurb. Because there's four books and they all have their own character or characterization and can you just briefly tell us about them? [00:37:31] Speaker C: Yes, I can. The Light Inside Me is the first book from the series. In this exactly what they say, finding the light in your body, how to do it. Because I see those bubbles, how they're moving and they are made of light. They are healing, they are calming, they resetting us. And that's all what it is. Let me read you just the beginning to get the feel of it. Imagine you are sitting in a pool of light, soft and warm and shining bright. Close your eyes and breathe in deep. Find the light below your feet. I will not spoil the book. But that's what it's all about. Letter O is the second song, the song within. And we spoke about a sound and how the sound is shaping us in vibrational pattern. We tapping here to the sound. Next we learning letter O. And the O comes deep inside you hidden away Leaves a sound gentle as day. It start down low in your belly's hold A quiet hum, a story untold. Welcome to read about letter O and find out your sound. That's here. V is V is close to my heart. Because I can see a lot of kids already shutting down their greatness. They are afraid to. To step out to get the confidence. And I would love them to know that they allow to be themselves. This is very brave me. It's not about the bravery. We think. Can we see the COVID Oh, sorry. It's a very brave me. And on that one I especially I took a picture of a stone or the volcanic stone actually. And this storm came from La Palma and I thought that would be amazing Grounding energy to ground in a presence and to be. To be settled. To be already firm on the ground, stable, anchored. That's why the stone is here. If someone ask inside of you. So calm and true is a quiet gift known by few. It rest just here within your chest. A V of courage, peace and rest. That's letter V for you. And the slowest book actually meant to be read really slow. The path of breath. Here we're learning to tap to our breath. And here we are. Sit still and soft in a quiet place. Feel the air, feel the space. Take a breath, just one, nice and slow and notice where it wants to go. Here is recipe for life. If you unsure, just pause and you will receive. [00:42:03] Speaker B: And you also. You recorded the audio books for these, right? [00:42:07] Speaker C: Yes, I did. Oh gosh. Again English is my second language, and there's so many words I cannot. I just cannot pronounce. I can't. Okay, but then uniform has pushed me to, like, do this YouTube meditation. You need to do them. Then my friend said, martha, you got to record your books. I. I learned to overcome my own fears. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:42] Speaker B: I can't believe you recorded audiobooks too. I mean, I have clients and they do ebook or paperback or audiobook. You did all three. No, no, no. You did four things because you did ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook because they are sort of four products in a way. Right. Not to mention four products times four books. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Right. [00:43:07] Speaker B: EBook, paperback, hardcover, audiobook, and not to mention stuff like audiobook covers are square. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Right. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Well, your book was great. That was, that was odd. And then you had a hardcover and a paperback and an ebook. [00:43:20] Speaker C: It's four months. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it is. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Wow. Wow, wow. [00:43:28] Speaker B: So which, as of right now, what's available? [00:43:32] Speaker A: What. [00:43:32] Speaker B: What could people buy? Can they buy. Can they get the audiobook already? I can't remember. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Of course. It's almost 30 platforms right now. [00:43:42] Speaker A: Wow. [00:43:43] Speaker C: The obvious one, the Spotify and, and Audible, and I can't even count them, to be honest with you. But I, I'm getting the emails. Your. Your book is available. [00:43:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:43:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I know audiobooks are pretty, pretty widely available. And ebooks on Amazon, you're very welcome if, if anyone got access, monthly subscription, that's for free for them, then you go to soft cover. As I, as I mentioned, this, this books, they. They could come as a set or, or singles. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker C: And you got hard covers which are more as a present or anyone wish to have more substantial book, but they, they present. That's what it was in the first place. Meant to be a present for myself. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Wow. [00:44:52] Speaker B: I'm overwhelmed even just thinking about everything. You did so much. [00:44:57] Speaker C: You helped me so much. And I, and I, and I. I know that without your help, I would get lost. Yeah, I was, I knew what I want. I had deadline, I had a vision. But I haven't had this thing in between the, the sequence. The little kind of nitty gritty. Oh, you need to do this, you need to do that. [00:45:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:33] Speaker C: You know, the ISBN, the. The I don't know how to even resize for every single format and where to upload. What. What is priority, what is not priority, what we need to watch out for, all the project management. It's. It's a lot. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:45:59] Speaker B: I often tell, like potential clients, I say, hey, look, there are a thousand things I Could tell you that we need to do or not need to do, but could do. But you. No one wants to hear that they're going to run for the hills. And even if I tell you a hundred things, I mean, you absolutely did 100 things easy, right? But if I just say here's 100 things. No, go for it. [00:46:26] Speaker A: Bye. [00:46:26] Speaker B: There's no way. I need a map and a guide and a plan, timeline, deadline. [00:46:34] Speaker C: I learned very valuable lesson. You need to be honest with yourself. You want to do it. [00:46:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:45] Speaker C: You have to have a valid reason in your heart, not in your head. In your heart. [00:46:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:53] Speaker B: Because your head is going to give up pretty quickly when they see there's a hundred things to do. [00:46:58] Speaker C: Head will give up very quickly. [00:47:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:03] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. That real alignment with your goal is a crucial and is always kind of. Of missing ingredients. Like you. You missing a flower in your cake. [00:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:17] Speaker C: You can't bake the cake without the flour. No, I got Ingr. I got excellent sugar and baking powder. No, no, no, no, no. You need a flower and a flower. It's the. Is the realignment. It's not the even physical thing. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:36] Speaker C: You know pretty well with human design, how we operate and you know from your coaching career, how many people trip over because they got missing steps. [00:47:50] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:52] Speaker B: For sure. [00:47:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:53] Speaker B: Missing steps or don't know all the steps or they think they're done or missed a crucial thing. Like you said, missing the flower from the cake. [00:48:02] Speaker C: It's. [00:48:03] Speaker B: It's not. It's not a cake. [00:48:04] Speaker C: If. If I wouldn't met you, I just. You see, again, it was the universe. It. I never knew you. Okay? And I was open and I set intention. I literally said intention. I said, well, universe, I got this job, okay? And I know what I want, but I need someone to be with me on that journey. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Please send me someone with wisdom and knowledge and understanding. I exactly specify what I want. I wasn't. Oh, I need someone. No, no, no, no. I was very precise. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:51] Speaker C: And when I met you for the first time, we knew we can communicate. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker C: We knew we are on the same page because frequency matched us. [00:49:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:49:06] Speaker B: It's important. [00:49:07] Speaker A: You're right. Yeah. [00:49:10] Speaker C: It will not. If will not match up. For you. We pain working with me. And for me, before frustration pain working with you. There's no point. [00:49:18] Speaker A: Right, Right. [00:49:23] Speaker C: And you brought a lot to the table. The things which I was not sure about. And when. When people are thinking of the book, they really need someone behind Them. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:36] Speaker C: And I, I, I don't mind. You know, I, I love my, my family, but obviously they are behind me. But it's not this kind of relation. Yeah, you need like, oh, you're right. You could do tomorrow. No, no, you need to do for, for tomorrow for me. [00:49:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:55] Speaker C: You know. Yes. We need someone who also ask us, have you done this? Have you done that? Have you done that? [00:50:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:50:08] Speaker B: You're, you know, it's interesting family, like, they're behind you, helping, pushing you forward. But then you need a guide to lead you forward, to show the path. [00:50:21] Speaker C: In a professional. So we have to kind of allow and, and, and also switch off your own brain and you may think, you know, all. Yeah, I switched off. I was listening. Yeah, because I was listening. Then I like, okay, Bradley said this. Okay, okay. I can process that. And then I can change and I can embody. I can, I can have a think. Okay, that makes sense. It will work. I felt in my body this will work. That's why our collaboration work. [00:51:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:51:14] Speaker B: Well, I have a weird comment, but I couldn't have done it without you either. I mean, in a way, you couldn't have done it without me. But I, I've learned a lot from you too. Also from like you say, like, just whatever it takes. Know you wanted, you wanted your square book. I originally said like, okay, it's possible, but really difficult. You're like, yep, let's do it. Like, okay, we're doing a square book. [00:51:45] Speaker C: And I ever even sense and felt in the first. Okay, next one, next author. Okay. I will meet her how she is. I was kind of expecting that. [00:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:59] Speaker C: Totally prepared. [00:52:01] Speaker A: And. [00:52:04] Speaker C: Maybe a few people was like, okay, it's not for me. He think I'm, you know, I can't do it. I'm like, well, he doesn't know. I'm proving wrong. [00:52:14] Speaker B: You sure did. [00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. Wow. [00:52:20] Speaker B: Martha. [00:52:21] Speaker C: Yes. [00:52:22] Speaker B: It's been, it's been a pleasure, it's been a joy. And, and I seeing your books behind you, it's just in everything we've been through along the way, it's just a pleasure to have done, to work through this with you. It's just been a joy. And I, and I, we talked about this as well. But the idea of celebrating, right, you have truly accomplished something huge. And I know you, you know this, and you're celebrating and I just want to remind people to celebrate their wins and you have all the right to celebrate because you really, you really did it. You really succeeded, whereas most people would have given up so many times. [00:53:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:53:05] Speaker B: You had so many reasons. You had valid reasons to delay, and you did. So that's amazing. That's amazing. [00:53:14] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:53:16] Speaker B: Okay, I'll put links down below where we can buy your books. And Martha, it's been a pleasure. It's been great talking with you and great working with you. And, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing where it takes you. And. And then, like, what's next? Like, you know, what's your next project is. I'm curious, I hope. [00:53:34] Speaker A: Right. [00:53:35] Speaker C: Thank you very much for all the help, because as I mentioned, it takes more than one brain to go through. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:53:48] Speaker B: Okay. Great. Martha, thanks for being here. [00:53:51] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Bye for now. [00:53:54] Speaker C: Bye. By.