 Hi everyone, I'm here with one of my clients, Carolina Putnam, who is going to be sharing with us some of the lessons she's learned in our work together. Hopefully this will inspire you and show you what's possible. And let me begin with Carolina's intro. First of all, hi Carolina. Hello. So Carolina is a Louisiana native and she's the founder and director of an organization called Revivalution, which is an intercultural organization that's dedicated to sharing indigenous traditions in the heart of modern culture. She now lives full time in the sacred valley of Peru, which is near where Machu Picchu is, and she works closely with her family of the Kero Nation, the indigenous nation, to support individuals and communities in sustainable and purposeful living. So her organization Revivalution and her Kero family, they offer indigenous ceremonies for individuals and groups. So any of you watching this can actually travel to where they are and have an authentic indigenous experience with the spiritual ceremonies and the teachings and the transformational retreats there. They also provide service team work exchanges to build what they're building right now is an eco sanctuary. And they also provide intensives to teach individuals how to apply indigenous wisdom to modern living. So welcome Carolina, great having you here. We can actually hear the birds in the background, which is really cool. That's authentic being out there in nature, living out there. So let's talk about some of the lessons you've learned. Some of them have been surprising to you. Some of them have been delightful that you learn in our work together. So one of the things you mentioned to me as we were talking about this is about what you've learned in terms of content. So maybe you can share a bit about that. Can you hear me? I know my internet seems to be freezing a little. Yeah, now I can hear you. Okay, so you asked me what are some of the most valuable lessons that I've been learning with you. Well, I definitely know one of the ones that was most surprising to me was actually he showed me how to check in on the back end of Facebook at the business side and looking at the ads and looking at the posts. And I was really surprised to find out that most 70 or 80% of the people that are following a revolution are women. I did had no idea. I did have an idea about the age bracket, but not as pinpointed as you helped me to see. I thought our age bracket was quite a bit more broad, but it seems that our age bracket actually is between the age of 25 to 35 and sometimes into the 45. And they are women that are in between 25 and 35 that love festivals that like plants and alternative healing. And so yeah, it was just kind of cool to be able to check in from the back end and get more pinpointed to who some of our fellow allies are. I actually thought you were reading my, my profile of things that I had done this year because it was all artists that I had seen this year through our work and, you know, herbal companies that I love. So I mean, I guess I'm like my own target audience here. Which is great. Yeah. And yeah, that was really nice for me to understand because it helps me to to consider a bit more whenever I am thinking about the educational content. And that was another biggie for me that I learned from you and actually that was the reason I decided to become a client of yours. I read the first page of your book. I didn't even get through like, even two pages into the chapter and I was like, I'm going to call him and see if he has an extra an extra space right now. Because I felt that it was so valuable what you were sharing, particularly around the approach of sharing educational content. And so sharing educational content has been really impactful because it actually allows me to go deeper into the teachings that I'm learning here and to form them and how to articulate them and then to share that with others. And so it naturally invites the right people to come and be with us. Excuse me. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah. And you can also notice that that of the different types of postings you've done. It seems like the videos are working well for you guys. Significantly more. I mean, sometimes if I do a writing, maybe 50 people like it. Now if I do a video about 1500, I mean, yeah, 1500 people to 2000. We'll see it. Yeah, we'll watch it. Yeah. Maybe like somewhere around 50 people or I guess including my messages, there's like a back and forth of messaging around like 50 messages on each video. Yeah. Wow. Amazing. And I think just for everybody watching this, like it isn't always the case that video will work for every business. It really is important for every business to test out the different forms of media, video, images, text only articles, and maybe shares to various links or whatever it may be. But different forms on social media so that you can let your audience tell you what they see as the best fit for your brand, your style. And in this case, Carolina, your videos where you share your understanding of the wisdom makes a lot of sense because that's sort of the mission of Revivalution is to bring Indigenous wisdom into modern culture. So you are essentially acting as the bridge between those two worlds. Therefore, when you share it, it's an authentic, you know, with your own self, multimedia, then people say, oh, yes, I can relate to her from, you know, based on the fact that she grew up in a modern culture. And I am intrigued by the wisdom she's learning now being part of the Indigenous culture. So it's really cool. I'm glad you're doing that. I really like that point. Please try to interrupt. Please go ahead. I really like that point. And that's one of the points that has stuck with me a lot is let your audience tell you what they love and appreciate and let them show you what they what they're wanting. And that's one of the biggest takeaways, I think that I've received from listening to you and have it repeated over and over too. I'm watching you use that model like and knowing that it works because I signed on for it, you know, and I don't feel that I'm being like worked in any way. I'm like willingly signing on for it. I would love for people that want to work with us to feel that same way. They genuinely feel that they're being benefited through the work that we're sharing and through what we're interacting with, you know, they're sharing exactly what they want to see more of. And so oftentimes I'll make videos based on questions that people actually ask us in a class or in a ceremony and the ones that repeat over and over. I'll have to make a video about that. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. And you've also been learning a bit about the importance of partnerships. Do you want to say a bit about that. Yeah, I've really this is something I've been exploring. I can't say that I've landed them 100% but I love that idea. Actually just made a video today about collaboration or reciprocity and that's this is one of the things that you're actually sharing. It's both a spiritual concept as well as a business concept as well as a friendship thing. And so, for instance, right now we're about to build an eco sanctuary. And I definitely felt how much of a city person I am today when my husband is showing me how to rake up the dirt to plant the corn and I'm doing it all wrong the whole time. But that process for me to understand what do we do to build an eco sanctuary, you know, we're hosting every treat in April to do a permaculture design certificate course, and I know nothing about gardening. I mean, I know a little, you know, I know how to be the bridge and to do the coca and to do the ceremonies and I bring those messages out in a spiritual context, but in terms of the land, I'm not quite sure. So one of the partnerships I've been exploring recently is with my friend Tom LeBlanc, who was one of the first people that came down to Peru to support us. And he is a permaculture design, like landscaper. And he's also wanting to expand his business. So we've been speaking and we're going to do a mock workshop next week. And the partnership would be that he he does know permaculture and knows those steps. And I'm the ideal client of someone for him, you know, and I'm also can can bring in the spiritual aspect of how permaculture is united with indigenous wisdom. And so we'll be doing a workshop to share how Andy and wisdom and earth wisdom can actually benefit even a modern lifestyle in in the city. And so we're testing it out with my service team that's already here next week. And then we hope to have it really dialed in for to invite everyone to come starting in January. So once a month we'll be offering a permaculture design and Andy and wisdom workshop online. And that's a good partnership where we're both growing. Yeah, absolutely. I'd love to just take a moment and have you Oh, by the way, I'm hearing some noise from the microphone. I don't know if there's something wrestling around. That's okay. Okay. Yeah, that wrestling there. But anyway, I'd love for you to show us. I mean, you live right there, you know, like in in just amazing beautiful nature. Do you want to show us like just on on the screen, like out your window. Okay, you're showing this earlier. This is out directly out my desk window. It's corn and the mountains there. And then right outside my little balcony door is this mountain. Oh my gosh. It's the real deal. It's very incredible. One of the other things you've been learning is about, of course, joyful productivity, which, which, which we talk about. And let's see here. I can hear you. Yeah. And so tell us what you're learning in terms of joyful productivity. And I know it's always a work in progress. But what are you, what are you getting from it? Well, I'm still trying to bring the joy into it. Yep. But yeah, one of the things that I've really appreciated it through your joyful productivity workshop is creating a schedule. So I live in Peru. And I can't even tell you how challenging it is to work with indigenous people and to also be on Skype calls and be with Australia and with Europe and United States and have clans and newsletters and at the same time being doing both. And I was really confused for many years. How do I, I felt really confused. How do I stay up with all of these tasks? And I felt that I couldn't even, you know, eat dinner peacefully with people because I've just like, should I be doing something else right now? Just really thinking that I was falling behind. And so one thing I learned with you is to make the categories. So in having categories now, I know whether I follow it to a T or not, having a schedule in place for the week really supports me. So whenever there are people that call that are potential clients or participants, then I know to accept them on Tuesday or Thursday between four and six p.m. And whenever we are talking about a partnership or a JV, then I know that I do that on Wednesday. And so it's not so confusing. And I know that if I want to do newsletters, I do that on like every other Friday or Friday. So just having that in place helps me to feel confident that I'm not slipping. And even if it happens like today, today I did not do some of the things that were on the schedule exactly because it was necessary to go through corn and to do the land. But I did a video at the same time. And so if I have a whole day where I need to go to Cusco and do lawyers and do, you know, notaries and all of these things which take an entire day sometimes to here. I know that in the back of my mind that I'm not missing. And I know the next time that I'll be able to get to it. And the categories like you shared, rather than filling up my calendar with tasks, I have categories in lists on my phone. Yeah. And can you still hear me? Yes. Okay. So I have categories in lists on my phone. So I know that when it's JV time, I go to the JV category and I know where my next one, who's my next JV to speak with and to approach. And that's been really helpful for me. And being that it's all virtual too. If I do have an entire day where I'm doing the land or, you know, working with my students here, then I can just move the slot over. And they can mix and match and move them around. And for me, that's been really helpful. I feel a lot less stressed, you know, and feeling a lot more useful of how to adapt that to the type of lifestyle that I have here. Yeah. Wow. Fantastic. So maybe we'll just kind of start wrapping up the call and two things. One is, I'll definitely want you to mention your offerings as we close the call. But one other thing that in our work together, I mean, in part due to our work together, you're starting to see your courses fill more and do you want to talk a bit about that? Yeah, it was really interesting. What happened when the more I put out content, people started asking us to fill our courses. So I noticed that the people that are most attracted to us would rather me not set a date for our retreats, they would rather us have this ongoing package. And they let us know when they're available and one person will sign up. And then I put that date out there and more people sign up. So that was really surprising to me. I'm still trying to wrap my head. My mind still wants to structure everything. Uh-huh. Yeah. And I'm still just, it's been really nice. Every time we end one course, other people are recommended and it's happening now three months in a row. Wow. Yeah. It's been really nice. Yeah. Awesome. So tell us what what the courses are coming up and anything else you want to, you want the audience to know about. Yeah, that's yes. So, um, yeah, the ongoing course that we do that a lot of people have been signing up for. It's called applying Andy and wisdom intensive. And this is where we share five days of how do we integrate indigenous practices into daily life. And how do we use some of the tools that are around us all the time, whether I'm at the computer, whether I'm in on the road, whether I live in the city, whether I live on a farm. How do we do some very simple practices and many of them actually, many people are actually introduced to already such as smudging and people maybe know a bit about tobacco. Some of the plants that we work with, I realized are some of the more controversial plants in the world. We work with coca leaves. We work with tobacco and we work with alcohol, all his offerings. And so what we do in this course is share how making offerings and formulating our own prayer and connection to the earth can really support our work and our passions. And from there we kind of build up. So that's the base course. That's the intensive and from there we do a 14 day retreat, which is this is the base course with an additional trip out to the jungle. And to meet the master weavers and learn more about how to do the dyes and the plants and crafts in indigenous traditions is a way of meditating, keeping the mind present and creating gifts that reflect nature. And then we do an herbology course in that. So it's all about plants and our third immersion or course is the same that we just shared for two weeks. And with an additional permaculture design certificate course with Penny Livingston, Jr. bulliness. And so this is where we learn where these offerings and these practices came from originally. It came from our connection to the gardens and to support us to to be in connection with the earth. And so all of this is to support everybody to, you know, find whether we're moving more into the plants and to nature or whether we're living in the city. How do we cultivate practices that can really enhance our lives today in time. And so all of those courses are posted online on Revivolution.net. Yeah, wow, I love it. I will be sure to put the link and as well as your Facebook page, both of that into the notes of the video, I really encourage everyone to go check it out. I mean, it really is an extraordinary type of organization and experience that you guys can have if you decide to work with them. And maybe just to end the call, can you tell us a little bit about coca leaves? I mean, because I know that's such a big part of the tradition. I think it was the wrestling you were hearing before. Oh, okay. Yeah, open them here. And yeah, so the coca leaves are a spiritual practice around the Andes, and it's seen as the mother of wisdom and a connection to the earth. And so I'm going to grab three of them here, which is called a kintu. So I put three together. And if we're sitting here in the same room, then I blow my good intentions and I pass them to you. And I say, what's means we sit, we share the same life force. And so this is a way of establishing community we share and we sit and after about 20 minutes, our conversation elevates into a certain space. And we have a really, really beautiful conversation. So this is a tool for communication, both personally with the earth and amongst people together. So if you come to a service team opportunity here or to, of course, then which you click all day. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, this is great. And you actually have a video where you go more in depth into that. So people can find out on your Facebook page. Well, thank you, Carolina. I really appreciate your time and your just diligent application of some of the things that we've been working on. And I just look forward to seeing Revivalution grow and thrive in 2018. Thank you so much. Thank you. I really appreciate our time. I look forward to it every two weeks. Yeah, totally. All right, well, everyone checking this out, go and take a look at the links in the notes of the video and perhaps you'll have a chance to go and enjoy the actual experience with Carolina and the caro nation out there. All right, bye everyone.