Mindful Coach Association Relaunch is Almost Here!

This is a letter I sent to the Mindful Coach Association membership yesterday.

If you're interested in this, follow me and send a DM.

Quick Summary:

• New website almost ready! Days away. More on this very soon.
• Paid advertising to attract potential clients in the works.
• Ask: Need testimonials - reply to this email with 1-2 sentences "Why should <you> join the MCA?" Could be featured with your profile on a key page.
• Monday Community Meeting is on! Link below.

?Hello all you Mindful Coaches, Therapists, Teachers, Trainers, Doctors and all the great professions in our organization. TL;DR: Some fun stuff below, don’t miss out!

You gotta read this because you’re involved. ??

This past spring, I got fed up with the outdated platform we were using to host and deliver The Mindful Coach Association.

?It was clunky, time-consuming, and required a ton of specialized knowledge just to get anything done.

And frankly, that went completely against my technical sensibilities.

So no, I wasn’t going to keep spending hours (or hiring experts) just to manage basic tasks.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. ??

In a fit of madness (or inspiration?), I decided to take on the kind of deep technical challenge that after far too long to admit in technology, I swore I’d never tackle again: build the Mindful Coach Association website from scratch, just the way I envisioned it.

But I didn't plan on doing this myself. I hired not one, but two developers.

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And within 3 weeks, they failed.

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Determined, I found another one—who then ghosted me. ??

Very mindfully… ARRRGHHHHH. This sucked. I finally decided, I'm evidently going to have to do this myself.

Ugh.

So, I dug in. Then something completely unexpected happened. I was having a blast.

My passion for creativity and tech lit up the night sky.

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So all summer and even now, I’ve been working late nights [seriously, like 2am] (a salute to you fellow night owls!), and to my surprise, I’ve been having an amazing time doing it.

I’ve even dreamed up solutions that we’ve actually implemented! ??

A significant breakthroughs came after 10 days of struggling to get an "Add to Calendar" button working for events.

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You’d think there’d be a simple solution, right? Nope. To my suprise, I found a plugin that did a lot of the heavy lifting, Yeah! but to my dismay, it was buggy. Boo. To fix this would, i would need some custom code.

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Now, my coding days are far behind me—I can follow what’s happening, but I’m not coding from scratch anymore.

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So I turned to another developer. Another fail. I was stuck.

Then one night, I thought: Can ChatGPT help me write PHP shortcodes for WordPress using JetEngine?

Crazy specific, I know.

But when I asked it and it responded: “Sure, no problem.” And then generated the code I needed.

Could this be a thing? Does this actually work? (Queue clouds parting, theme music rising) - It did.

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OMG. This is game changer.

Who knew? ChatGPT isn’t just a content creator—it’s an awesome developer too!

This helped me solve a lot of problems that were way above my technical expertise.

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And now we're almost ready have you update your profile, post events, articles, expert presentations, and more.

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What does this mean for you?

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You already have a profile on the site, and in a few weeks,

we’ll start paid advertising to attract potential clients in a few weeks.

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One of the Mindful Coach Association's main goals is to help you succeed.

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Client's that find your profile can connect with you directly—no fees for you or the client. So you're going to want your profile buffed up before this happens. But we're not quite ready for that yet.

You’ll receive more emails soon about logging in, updates, etc.

But here’s my ask right now: Testimonials.

Are you aligned with our mission? Reply to this email with a 1-2 sentence testimonials on why someone should join MCA.

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If selected, you'll be featured on the registration page, along with your name, title, maybe a picture, and a link to your profile/business.

I’ll help polish your profile so it's buffed up when we start promotions.

And don’t miss our community meeting this Monday at 10 AM PST! Links are below. I can’t wait to connect with you all and share more!

Warmly, Brett

Founder, Mindful Coach Association

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