Episode 3 - bonus
Unfiltered Interview: Rethinking How Launching Works for You
Unfiltered Interview: Rethinking How Launching Works for You
For this special episode of Launch Style Stories, we’re flipping the script! Instead of me, Tracie, asking the questions, my friend and podcast guesting strategist Natalie Koussa takes over the mic to interview me.
I’ve been guiding you through different launch stories, helping you see what works, what doesn’t, and how launching isn’t one-size-fits-all. But today? We’re getting into my launch journey—where it all started, what I’ve learned the hard way, and why I created Your Launch Style.
We’re talking about:
- My very first launch (spoiler: it wasn’t glamorous, and it definitely wasn’t a webinar!)
- The biggest misconception about launching and why most people don’t even realize they’ve already launched
- Why launch strategies fail—and the four elements needed to make them work
- How to create a launch style that fits your energy, your offers, and your seasons of business
- How knowing your style helps you match with the right kind of support in your business
- The real reason I don’t believe in the “give the what but not the how” advice (this one gets me fired up!)
Resources Mentioned: Join Your Launch Style and create a launch strategy that actually fits YOU: https://www.traciepatterson.com/yls
Your Next Steps:
- Work with Me: https://www.traciepatterson.com/connect
- Ask Me Anything About Business: https://traciepatterson.com/ama
- Connect on Social: https://www.instagram.com/thetraciepatterson
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Music ColourfulSounds
Podcast Editor Maia McLachlan
Transcript
..., tracie: and your listening to
digital business, your way.
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:Welcome to our special limited series.
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:Launch style stories.
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:In this series, we're diving deep into
the true stories behind launching what
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:it's like to find your way, the hard way.
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:And what happens when you finally
discover a launch style that fits.
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:You'll hear from entrepreneurs who've been
through well, some miserable experiences.
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:Those who are still figuring it out.
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:And those who found their groove and
finally feel like they're thriving.
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:Because launching isn't one size fits all
and there's not only one way to do it.
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:And I believe it doesn't have to
feel like denying yourself to make
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:money or just feel exhausting and
something that you have to get through.
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:This series is all about exploring what
works, what doesn't And how you can
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:cut through the guesswork quicker to
find your way and your style sooner.
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:So settle in because these stories
might just change the way you look
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:at launching and your business.
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: Hi, hi, hi.
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:And welcome back to Launch Style Stories.
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:So you might recognize me
from an earlier episode.
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:I am, of course, not your usual host.
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:I'm Natalie Kusa.
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:I'm a podcast guesting strategist, and
I am delighted to turn the tables so
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:that we are going to be hearing from
Tracie, who you know as your beloved
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:host, you know, as an experienced offer
and sales coach, and she is of course
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:the creator of your launch style.
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:Tracie has been doing this incredible
job pulling together and highlighting
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:other experts and going behind
the scenes of how other people
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:are launching in their businesses.
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:And I said to Tracie,
why don't we flip this?
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:Because your people want to hear from you.
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:And she's like, okay, cool.
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:Let's do it.
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:So, Tracie, welcome.
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:Hi, hi,
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: know
it's, I just like, despite all of
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:the podcast interviews I've done,
I'm actually more nervous about this.
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: A
bit weird being on your own home
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:turf, but, but in the opposite
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:seat.
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:Yeah,
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: I know.
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:It's a, it's like, I love it.
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:And at the same time, it's like,
Oh gosh, I hope I do a good job.
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: so, I want to
take us Back to the beginning, because so
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:many of us know you as a launch expert, as
somebody who's out here talking about your
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:expertise and sharing your experience and
really speaking from the Tracie of today.
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:I want to take us back to the
Tracie, where this all started.
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:I'm so intrigued what your first
experience of launching was like.
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:was like and how it kind of laid
the foundation for what came next.
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:I
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Yeah.
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:Um, yes, that's interesting
because I had a bit of a back
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:forth experience as a whole, right?
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:Because I, I started in this online world
by being somebody in the physical brick
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:and mortar world who is trying to take my,
like my corporate consulting work digital.
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:And then as I decided to like, not
just work with corporate clients, but
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:actually work with online clients,
then I wanted to learn like really
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:deep dive into online industry.
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:So I started learning
what online coaches did.
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:I started learning copywriting.
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:I spent like two years on my copywriting
and I became a launch copywriter.
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:And then I went back into doing
like the full time consulting
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:and what you all see now.
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:So I, I, Like my first experience
with launching, it's like, well, I've
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:actually, I've been a launch copywriter.
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:I've been a launch coach.
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:And then of course I've
done my own launches.
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:And so it's like, I have all these
different first experiences from like
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:these different categories and they've
all been so different, but yet there's
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:been like this kind of common theme to
them because it, I would say my first one.
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:my, my personal very, very first one of
putting my own shit out there wasn't that
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:different than what I was already doing
because I was just saying, Hey, instead of
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:me physically coming out to your business,
here is a way that you can watch me.
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:Right.
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:Because I was dealing with my corporate
clients and I was, you know, saying
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:you don't have to pay for my flights
and pay for my expenses and all of
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:this kind of stuff, save yourself
thousands and, you know, and get the same
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:experience and I'm available virtually.
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:So it wasn't like that traditional
kind of, um, online strategy launching.
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:It was more of that going
to existing clients.
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:Um, And, and, what's often is called soft
selling, but actually in online business,
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:we tend to call that private sell.
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:So that's whenever you, you reach out to
existing clients and then you can also,
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:um, like include your email list and
you're like, I had this thing going on.
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:It's fantastic.
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:Do you want access to it?
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:Let me know.
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:So that would be like my real
first launching is just kind of
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:saying, I've got this great thing.
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:Who wants it and then letting people
know, and I kind of, I bring that up
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:because a lot of people think that a
first launch has to be a five day campaign
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:has to be a bunch of videos has to be,
you know, Oh, I, I was live on Facebook.
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:I was live on Instagram.
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:I, you know, was live on
all these things forever.
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:And it's like, actually a lot of your
first launch is any time that you went
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:out and promoted and told the world.
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:I've got this thing.
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:Do you want to buy it?
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
love that reframe.
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: yeah, well,
and it's kind of a different first
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:experience than what a lot of people
think, because somebody listening
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:to this might go, Oh, well, I've
actually done a lot more launches than
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:I realized, you know, because I have
done the launches where it's like,
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:I want to invite you to an event.
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:I want to have, these kind of
pre launch events, which is
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:what we're doing right now.
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:Right?
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:So this series is coming out,
I'm dropping it in the middle
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:of my regular podcast episodes.
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:And then at the end of it, I'm inviting
people to a live event where we're
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:going to talk about the different
options that there are in launching.
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:And then I'm inviting people
into the actual program, right?
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:So that is more of that kind
of, what people think of
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:when they think of launching.
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:But, yeah, There's also the
launching where it's like, Hey, do
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:you want to do this private sell?
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:Hey, do you want to have these other ways?
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:So if you kind of yeah, I mean, I'm
now curious if you have or if anybody
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:listening, you know, like tell them
tell me When you hear these different
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:ways, have you actually launched more
times than you thought you did before?
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:So I'm no, I probably did not answer
this at all the way you expected, but
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:now that I'm sitting here verbally
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
No, I love it.
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:I love it because I think in the
online space, we're taught to think
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:of launching as the mechanics.
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:If you do a webinar or a launch
event in some way, if you've got
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:an email sequence, if you've got
open close cart, that's a launch.
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:And what you're saying is,
sure, that that is a launch.
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:It can be.
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:You're going deeper than the tactics
and you're getting into the purpose,
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:which is hey, I've got this thing.
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:It's amazing.
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:You might love it.
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:Would you like to know more about it?
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:Would you like to join me in it?
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:That's what you're saying.
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
And, and it was available for a
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:certain amount of time, right?
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:Because that, that, that is what makes
a promotion, which is the original
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:name for a launch, you know, that is
what, what makes it that time limited.
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:Right?
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:It's like it's available for this amount
of time, like a sale at a store, like a
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:coupon that you get in the mail, right?
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:Like a voucher.
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:It's, it's, it has that, that
kind of time limited and that's,
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:that's what, what it was.
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:It was like, um, I have this
available and you know, it's
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:the first time I'm doing this.
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:Here's this price point.
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:This is what's going on.
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:Right.
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:Same thing.
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:If you decide to do like a private
cell email wise, you can then do
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:a phase two and bring it out to
either than your social media only.
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:Or then you can make it even, you know,
wider range and blast it everywhere.
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:Then you can do ads.
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:Then you can go public that
like you can do multiple phases.
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:With the same product and you can either
change the invitations, you can change
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:the price points, you can change like
the support that's offered, you know,
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:you can vary these things and it's
still like the same, launch period.
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:You're just, you're, you're moving
it along in different stages, right?
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:So it's like having many variations in
one grand scheme, which stretches it out.
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:It brings out different.
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:rest points.
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:It brings out different excitement points.
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:It brings up different opportunities
for like momentum and testimonials, you
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:know, like all of these different pieces
kind of like build up and play, but
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:it's all still technically launching.
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:And I have done the, the, you know, I
want to invite you to like webinar style.
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:It's just for myself, I've never.
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:Done the thing where it's like, here's
a bunch of slides and I, and I, I mean,
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:I say hide behind them, but I don't
mean that in a, in a sense of judgment.
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:I've always done mine workshop
style, you know, and that's the
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:same thing for the event that
I'll do after this podcast series.
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:It's like, we're going to come together.
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:We're going to be virtual
eyeball to eyeball.
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:There's going to be exercises, you know,
we're going to be talking about things.
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:There's going to be like live coaching.
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:We're going to work through
stuff and, and shift some things.
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:And then it's like, what else is there?
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:Right.
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:It's like, you can go off, have this win.
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:You know, you have these realizations,
you've got these things that you can work
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:on, and then there's also a container
that you can come into to do more.
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:Right.
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:As opposed to just like a 30
minute commercial that you're
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:not really even sure why you set through.
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: So one
of the things that we hear so often
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:is give them the what but not the how.
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Oh,
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
And you know, so that's that
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: is so
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: of But
that's that webinar style come and
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:listen to me talk about myself for half
an hour Then i'll give three minutes
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:of value and then we'll you know, we'll
go into this really extended pitch but
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:what you're saying is That you invite
people into a master class or a workshop.
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:Sorry where
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:they're actually Doing the work they
actually walk away with something.
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:So let me ask you what I imagine
people listening to this They're
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:thinking if they're anything like me.
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:Oh my god, that sounds amazing.
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:That sounds so much more aligned with
My values with my natural style all
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:that good stuff But what about that
thing where you give so much value
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:that people kind of feel complete?
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:They have plenty to be getting on
with for now, so they, they don't then
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:want to take the next step with you,
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: yes.
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:Uh, yeah,
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
because it's a
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: You,
you probably get part of Yeah.
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:Well, I'm like, I, I think their reaction
was part of that answer right there.
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:Um, okay, so let's break that down.
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:Right.
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:So first off.
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:What is it that you're selling
that someone can be completely
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:finished with it in an hour?
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:Just curious, you know that
like that that's that's one
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:of those rhetorical questions.
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:It's like really really think about that
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
It's a really good question.
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Like
you're not sitting there just
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:like slamming them with You know a
whole bunch of textbook information
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:for them to walk away with right?
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:The purpose well, let me say
what should be the intention.
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:And yeah, I'm using the word should,
but what should be the word, the, the,
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:the intention of this is to get a taste
of what it's like to work with you.
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:You know, this is an experience.
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:This is, is it's an opportunity for people
to see what it's like to actually have you
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:in their world, but it's also a chance for
them to find out if they can do something.
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:Right?
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:Because more often than not, the reason
why people don't follow through with
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:things or do things is because they don't
see how they can keep going with it.
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:It doesn't fit into what
they keep doing, right?
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:So it's not about, you know, them
believing in you enough to spend money.
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:It's about them believing in
themselves enough to say, yeah,
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:I can keep going with this.
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:I can actually do this.
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:I can actually like see
this being possible.
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:So these grand plans and this masterful
completion that you want to give them in
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:a freaking hour What can you actually?
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:Break down where somebody can have like
oh my god I can actually like make this
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:possible like this is something that
I want so much now Here is this first
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:little part That can make it so real so
pure so full to me That it's like, yes,
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:what's next now, what, because that's
when people want to work with you is
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:whenever they're like, what's next, right?
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:That's where that is.
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:And they don't get the what's next without
giving them a how, without giving them a
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:belief in themselves that they can do it.
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:It's not about you.
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:It's about them, right?
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:And it's about how much
you make them feel.
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:Like, they have this,
this, ability to do it.
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:And yeah, the ability comes from your
frameworks, from your methods, from what
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:you're showing them, from, you know,
you creating these containers where they
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:can show up and be themselves and bring
their messiness and bring their realness.
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:Right?
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:But it's because you are
adapting into their lives.
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:You're not forcing them
to be in your world.
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:You're joining their world.
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:And that, that shift around and
making it that audience first
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:style, which is how I teach.
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:It's not how everybody teaches, but like
you not making them conform is, is what
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:really makes them be like, Oh, okay.
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:So I don't have to make myself,
my entire business, my entire
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:like family, my entire life.
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:change completely into this program
because I'm also in this other program
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:and I'm also trying to do these other
things and I also have these other
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:people in my life and then before
long they have this entire list and
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:it's like, well, I would like to do
this, but how is this even possible?
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:Or I'm going to do it anyway, but
it's only going to be possible
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:for maybe the first month and then
it's going to be really difficult.
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:Right?
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:And so we want that continuity.
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:We want that longevity in order for them
to have that beautiful transmission.
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:transformation, that beautiful
result, that beautiful thing that
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:made us want to start our businesses
to begin with, that made us want
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:to birth this offer to start with.
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:Right?
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:So all of that you're going to bring to
full completion in this what hour, two
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:So instead of having that kind of,
uh, false scarcity mind of, you know,
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:I'm going to give them
everything I've got.
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:Then instead it's like, well, what
can I give them that makes them
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:And it's going to be like, I
can see this being possible.
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:What's next now?
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:What else can we do together?
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:This is going to be amazing.
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:And when you break it down into that
small of thing, Then you'll, you will
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:find in yourself that you are also
capable of more and that you also have
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:more because you're going to be like,
Oh gosh, it isn't this one big piece.
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:It's actually five pieces.
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:And it's like, oh, and this gives
me an idea for the next time.
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:Oh, and the next time.
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:Oh, gosh.
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:I actually have other content.
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:Oh, this could be an
entire workshop series.
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:And you know, and maybe this one is the
one I use for this launch event, but you
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and turn them into paid offer and, you
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:This could actually turn into an evergreen
funnel that feeds into this big program.
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:Right?
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:And then you see, you start your own
momentum and believing funnel and we start
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:creating the, these things that come into
it because we start breaking these things
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:down into the, these realistic pieces
that, build and grow on each other in
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:this like beautiful way and Oh, like, I
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way that you're expecting, but, but yeah.
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:And, and, you know, well, part
of that came from, and, you know,
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:everybody comes in with their own
perspectives, but because I came
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:with this corporate background, when
I started hearing that people were
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:taught to basically come in, talk about
themselves for 20, 30 minutes, Give
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:maybe five, 10 minutes of quote unquote
overvaluing and then spend another,
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someone's like business, had them
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trying to convince them to, you know,
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minutes of, of the pitch before they
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happen Like that that's not real.
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:But like You know, it it's not enough to
get like people's buy in and then people
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:are like, oh gosh I you know, why isn't
this working or I can't wait to have
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It's like, why are we going for scraps?
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the only way to have anything?
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:It's like, maybe there's something
wrong with the formula instead of
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:something wrong with our production.
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:So again, it's like, let's turn
this around to the people that are,
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and their attention instead of just
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:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: your
launch can make your potential
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I'm missing a piece.
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:I'm running out of time.
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:I have to buy out of desperation,
which is how the traditional launch
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customers and clients feel often.
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:What you're saying is no, it's
about showing them what's possible.
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:It's about showing them how your work
is going to fit into the business,
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:the life, the energy that they
want and that they already have.
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:And what it's making me wonder is so
your future clients, customers, your
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:community are feeling all kinds of
jazzed up and feeling like things are
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:possible and knowing what they need to
have in place and wondering what's next.
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:How have you seen this style of launching
make the people who are launching feel?
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:like the business owner who is
inviting people to join their world.
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:How does it make them feel?
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:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
Yeah, it, it brings that, well,
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:It has that, way of also releasing
that pressure, of bringing in that
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:enjoyment, and I wouldn't say awakening,
but of allowing back that creativity.
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like, oh gosh, this is fun.
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can see where it fits in versus
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or that things aren't working.
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with, the elements to a launching style
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would hear people say it was successful,
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my, my launch was successful, but.
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:And so I, you know, I would ask, well,
then what, what are you using to assume
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:that it was successful if you're following
it with the word, but you know, what,
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:what are you framing it as success?
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:And they're always like,
well, it made the money.
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:Or I, I technically hit an
industry standards, you know, or
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:they're feeling guilty for not,
you know, feeling overly blessed.
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:Right.
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:And it's like, it's, it's okay to
want more, you know, you're, you're,
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:you're allowed to want more, you know,
so it's, yes, sales are a big part.
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:That's why we do promotions.
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:That's why we have these pieces
where it's like, let's have this
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:That's, that's what we do.
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why marketing exists, you know,
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:So yes, there, there's that sales
piece, but then we do need to have
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:that marketing piece that allows that
creativity, that allows that fun,
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:And by community, I mean our audience
piece, you know, who are we attracting?
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:What are we wanting to have?
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:How are we wanting them to feel?
394
:But then there's also our own energy.
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:Right.
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:There's ourselves.
397
:So whenever we're, we're thinking
about like our launch debriefs, our
398
:promotions, it's, we actually need to
be judging them by all four elements.
399
:And where is something kind of dying off?
400
:Where are we ignoring it?
401
:You know, if you're getting a whole
bunch of people in, but then they're
402
:not sticking it out or they're
not really enjoying it, or the
403
:engagement's not there, or you're
not getting the feedback, right.
404
:Are they buying only because of FOMO?
405
:Versus that just being there for the
personalities that are like, Oh, I want to
406
:do it because everybody else is doing it.
407
:And that's fun for them instead
of, Oh, well, if I don't
408
:do it, then I'm a shithead.
409
:Right.
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:That's not fun for them.
411
:Yeah.
412
:Cause there's the kind of people
who actually enjoy standing in line
413
:because other people are in line.
414
:And then there's the kind of people
who are like, Oh, if I don't do this,
415
:then I'm missing out on something.
416
:I'm a horrible person.
417
:What was me.
418
:Right.
419
:So that's like two sides of the same coin.
420
:So you want to hit on the parts where
it's like, this is a fantastic party.
421
:Yes, of course you want to be
there, but you don't want to hit on
422
:the, but if you're not there, then
well, you're a shipwreck, right?
423
:so so it's there, there's, there's
the good side and the bad side.
424
:And we have to watch ourselves to make
sure that we're hitting on the good
425
:parts and the, and not the bad parts.
426
:And, and, and it's like, how
are we making the people feel?
427
:Then it's like, how is
that making us feel?
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:Are we talking ourselves into feeling
good about what we did because we're
429
:only hanging our hat on one side,
including, are we only feeling good
430
:about our personal energy because
it actually felt rested and relaxed
431
:while secretly we're not wanting to
admit that we actually hated that
432
:it didn't bring in what we wanted.
433
:You know, that we actually wanted
our community to be bigger and it
434
:didn't, but we're like, but, well,
at least I did this, but right.
435
:But so thinking about where all those
places that you're saying, but, and again,
436
:you don't have to feel bad about it.
437
:Those are just those indicators that
go, okay, which of these four parts
438
:is, is kind of, it's kind of missing
and where do I need to kind of put
439
:attention to bring it into harmony?
440
:Right.
441
:To kind of let them play where they
need to play for my own special mix
442
:because the different ones will have
different priorities for the season that
443
:we're in and for our own personalities.
444
:So which ones kind of need to have that
bigger voice, that bigger play for what
445
:it is that we're working in, right?
446
:And whenever you get that right
mix, that's what I see with
447
:the people that I work with.
448
:That they're like, I don't
actually have a butt this time.
449
:Like there, there's not a
piece of that that's missing.
450
:Yeah.
451
:You know, I mean, especially like what we
were saying with, with scarcity, it gets
452
:a bad rap as it should, but there's also
exclusivity that we get to play with.
453
:You know, there's, there's that, that
happier side of things where it's
454
:like, Oh, you know, we have these
bonuses of, of time of, of getting in
455
:these different container pieces of
having these different elements that
456
:come in versus, you know, do it now.
457
:If you really love yourself, you
know, kind of messages that, You,
458
:how are you making people feel?
459
:And, as long as you're going into it
intentionally and that is the brand
460
:and that is a style you want to do,
then just own it, you know, that if
461
:that's how you want to be and that's
how you want your people to feel,
462
:then you, you know, you do you, but
like, don't, don't do it accidentally.
463
:Right.
464
:So it's those kinds of pieces where
it's like, Oh, I, I was, I was using
465
:these, these mechanisms because it was
in a template, because I was told to.
466
:I didn't really like it.
467
:I couldn't figure out why.
468
:And now I see it's because I realized it
was making my audience feel like this.
469
:It's because I w I was making
people buy things in this way.
470
:And, and now I'm able to
make those connections.
471
:I'm able to, you know, like connect those
dots and be like, okay, let's remove
472
:this piece and replace it with something
that actually feels more like me.
473
:Right.
474
:So that way it all like fits together.
475
:Yeah.
476
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: clear
that you live and breathe launching
477
:that you think of, you know, you, you
don't, we've said this before, but you
478
:don't just think of it as a strategic
Option you think of it as these four
479
:different elements that you can pull
on and flex and lean into one or lean
480
:into the other as you go that creates
this community experience that creates
481
:an experience for you as the business
owner and yes of course causes sales you
482
:know creates that's one of the beautiful
things about launching is you can
483
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
got to have sales.
484
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: yeah
you can you know you can have it
485
:like a real Spike in your sales of
all of these people moving into your
486
:business all in one time and the energy
and the revenue that that brings.
487
:So it's so clear your
relationship with launching.
488
:How did that lead you to start and
design your launch style as a program?
489
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
And in a lot of it came from
490
:those conversations, right?
491
:It came from hearing people say,
well, I actually haven't touched
492
:my digital course because I can't
bring myself to do a webinar.
493
:And it's like, well, wait a
minute, you don't have to use a
494
:webinar just to sell a course.
495
:Right.
496
:You know, and it's like, well, I love
my my group coaching, but I I, I want to
497
:open all the time, so I don't know how
to tell people about it without sending
498
:out an email every single week or how do
I do an event for it or how do I do it?
499
:It's those extremes, right?
500
:It's like people think that their only
options are these big, huge, always
501
:on, you know, live energy intensive
events or they have to go very
502
:automated funnel heavy evergreen, right?
503
:And these are these two like polar
opposite ways that people think
504
:launching is that it's, it's all
or nothing that it, it, you know,
505
:like it takes everything out of you.
506
:It has to be the set number of days
you have to either do it every single
507
:month or once a year, or it has
to be always on and ever greening.
508
:And it's like, well, no, actually there's
an entire world that like an entire
509
:world of options that you have here.
510
:Right?
511
:And there's actually different
elements within those that you have.
512
:And you have choice within
all of those elements, right?
513
:And part of that is exciting and then
naturally part of that can be overwhelming
514
:because there's so many choices.
515
:So it's like, okay, how can I make
this where we keep the excitement
516
:but get rid of the overwhelm?
517
:Yeah.
518
:Because overwhelm is just another word
for too much not knowing what to do.
519
:Right?
520
:Right.
521
:That's whenever we're, we're,
we're just kind of flooded and
522
:it's like, uh, data, data overload.
523
:I don't, I just, ah, right.
524
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
Yeah, we've all been
525
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: yeah.
526
:Right.
527
:And, and you, you can help with that
by bringing in structure by bringing
528
:in frameworks, by bringing in elements.
529
:So these are the kinds of things that
I do with people in conversations that
530
:I've done with my one on ones and it's
like, okay, how can I actually make
531
:this where it makes enough, kind of
formulaic sense that I can actually bring
532
:a group through it at the same time.
533
:Right.
534
:And that was the challenge for me.
535
:And this has actually always been
that, that challenge in my business.
536
:The same thing with like going back to
those consulting days and sending out
537
:an email and being like, Hey, instead
of me coming to you, you know, here,
538
:you can log in and watch me anytime.
539
:Right.
540
:That kind of individualization has
always been simpler for me versus
541
:like, wait, how am I going to take 50
people through this at the same time?
542
:Because this person needs this and that
person needs that and this, because we're
543
:all snowflakes, you know, it's, it's,
it's, but I, I see that in it while at
544
:the same time, I see that it's all these
same five pieces that we get to play
545
:with, but the little tactics change.
546
:You know, it's the same strategies and
then we get to play with the tactics.
547
:And that was the part that I broke into
and got to challenge myself and got
548
:to lean into my business besties and
got to talk to people and talk to my
549
:coach and be like, I want to do this.
550
:This is the idea.
551
:But does this only make sense in my
brain or does this make sense when I
552
:actually want to bring this out to other
humans who have to also consume this?
553
:Right?
554
:Because we can, we can change in a dime.
555
:We can bring up whatever
metaphor is needed.
556
:We can, you know, alter things when
you're just one on one with person,
557
:but when you kind of lose somebody
in a crowd or when you need to record
558
:something, or when you need to make one
workbook that, you know, fits them all,
559
:it can get a little complicated, right?
560
:So we all have those pieces in ourselves
that are kind of easier versus not.
561
:And that's that one for me.
562
:So I call on the people that
know instructional design, that
563
:know how to do these things.
564
:And I'm like, help me help me.
565
:So why did I do it was because I wanted
to be able to do this more often,
566
:especially after last year, 2024,
there was the amount of conversations
567
:that I had over and over again.
568
:Yeah.
569
:But what's going to work next year.
570
:Yeah.
571
:But so many things changed.
572
:Yeah.
573
:But yeah, but yeah.
574
:But.
575
:Right.
576
:You gotta, I guess it's my favorite word.
577
:Cause anytime I hear this, I'm
like, Oh, I can make a program.
578
:What, what's somebody talking about?
579
:I'm like, here, here's a, here's a
training, you know, what, what, what's
580
:the conversation, you know, and, and then
it's like, okay, now here's my challenge.
581
:This is where I get to grow.
582
:This is where I get to stretch.
583
:What can I, you know, what can I
do to, to fit that in and to help?
584
:And I I just wanted people to
know that they have options.
585
:But not get so burdened by the options
that they fall back into the promises
586
:of this is the only way to do it.
587
:Right?
588
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
Yeah, it makes total sense.
589
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Yeah.
590
:Yeah.
591
:So, so I was like, how, how can I do this?
592
:And that was where this is created
because the, your style method is
593
:it, that is my coaching method.
594
:I have it for offers for sales for
community building and for launching,
595
:but instead of it just being behind
closed doors of private coaching,
596
:it's like, let's make this group,
you know, let's make this out there.
597
:So that way it's not just people
who can do some one on one time.
598
:but can also kind of go through
this whenever they need it.
599
:And let's bring these
conversations to light.
600
:So people know that, they're not alone,
that this is common, that no matter
601
:what size of business you are, no matter
how long your business has been around,
602
:people have these same conversations, the
amount of people last year that asked me
603
:about, but what is going to happen next
year, but what's going to work next year.
604
:But these things didn't happen now.
605
:We're people that have been
at working 12 years in online.
606
:You know, that have
been around seven plus.
607
:So some people did like eight
launches just in one calendar year.
608
:Like the, you know, these aren't people
that have been around just three months.
609
:Right.
610
:It's the same conversation no matter
what, because we're always innovating.
611
:We're always figuring out, we're always
trying to figure out what's going on.
612
:Like no one here is alone.
613
:So we need this hive mind.
614
:We need to be out there together.
615
:And the more that you're in touch
with yourself and the people
616
:that you want to work with,
then the more fluid that can be.
617
:And the more inspired you get to be and
the more you get to go, Oh my gosh, I'm
618
:so excited to do this, but these other
things I can bless and release and ignore.
619
:Right.
620
:Cause it's not about like
figuring out your launch style.
621
:Isn't about replacing anything
that can ever possibly come.
622
:It's about knowing how to
communicate what you want to do.
623
:So that way, when support opportunities
come in, whether from like mentoring
624
:or, um, like having people on your
team, then you're a better communicator.
625
:And you know what you want to
invest in versus what you're
626
:like, Oh, I don't need this.
627
:And that brings so much relief and so much
excitement into building that business.
628
:And like, cause you're not
figuring those things out anymore.
629
:Instead, you're coming from that
place of empowerment of, this is what
630
:I like, this is where we're going,
this is how we're doing it now.
631
:What can it look like now?
632
:What can we do?
633
:So when people have these innovative
ideas, you're like, Oh, this will fit
634
:perfectly teach me how to do this.
635
:Yes.
636
:Let's implement that.
637
:Oh, can you do this?
638
:Beautiful.
639
:Right.
640
:And then it's just accelerates,
accelerates, accelerates more momentum.
641
:Let's go, let's go, let's go.
642
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: I love that.
643
:Can you give us a couple of examples of
really creative elements that some of
644
:your clients have put into their launches?
645
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: yeah, I mean,
they're, they're very personal, right?
646
:So, everything from like people who enjoy
podcasts, it's like, let's get those going
647
:to, um, individual calls because there,
there's nothing wrong with doing the
648
:things that are more high touch, you know,
like with having voice notes, with having,
649
:um, the, those personal outreaches and,
and this, I will say is actually part of.
650
:I was going to say a problem and then
now I'm like, I need to edit myself and
651
:take that language out, but it, cause
I'm like, how else would I rephrase this?
652
:But whenever you, whenever you have
these conversations so often, you're
653
:like, well, none of this is new.
654
:None of this is different.
655
:And I'm like, well, that's, that's, that's
not true to the person who's listening.
656
:so it's, it's things like, you know,
always, always be transparent and open.
657
:But it's like I have this new program
out and I want to talk about it with
658
:people who are looking for these
things who wants to talk about it.
659
:So it's actually like a
one on one launch, right?
660
:And you're like, well, wait, how is
that different from a discovery call?
661
:How is that different?
662
:It's that promotion piece.
663
:It's like, you know, how,
how open are the doors?
664
:What else are you having going on?
665
:And, and so I've had people who are doing
it where they're still using affiliates,
666
:they are still doing social media pushes,
but instead of pushing people to a group
667
:event, they're pushing people to a call.
668
:You know, there, there's the, I would say
now classic, you know, of, of watching
669
:a recording or coming to an event,
but going to an application instead
670
:of going straight to a checkout page.
671
:Right.
672
:And it's like, well, what
does that serve for you?
673
:Where do you want to be with these things?
674
:And what is it where it's like, this is
a yes, but actually this part's a no.
675
:Because it's not an all or nothing, right?
676
:It's like there's nothing wrong with
using ads and there's also nothing wrong
677
:with having calls and there's nothing
wrong with having voice notes And there's
678
:nothing wrong with doing recorded elements
and there's nothing wrong with having
679
:live Q& A's and there's nothing wrong with
having communities You know and that's
680
:the part where it's like it's not one set
of five things that you can do and you
681
:have to leave the other pieces Instead,
it's like looking at it like, well, I, I
682
:often say it's, it's like Legos, you know,
it's, you get a little bag of Legos and
683
:you get a little instruction card and it's
like with these blocks of Legos, you can
684
:make a helicopter and then you're looking
at it and it's like, well, actually with
685
:these block of Legos, I can also make
a house because it's the same Legos.
686
:I'm just going to apply
them in a different way.
687
:Right.
688
:And it's like, oh, and what else
can I do with these same Legos?
689
:I can also do these
different pieces with it.
690
:And, so it's, it's like, what do I want?
691
:What do I not want with it?
692
:So, I don't, that probably wasn't as
concrete as you wanted, but I'm like,
693
:some of these things are so popular and
so well known now that I always stump
694
:myself trying to think of examples.
695
:Cause this came up on
another interview I did.
696
:And I'm laughing at myself like, I
need to get better at, at having like
697
:somebody who's off the top of my head.
698
:But where they did, um, they they did a
workshop and then they actually offered
699
:a private calls after the workshop.
700
:which is a bit more old school
instead of it just being DM only
701
:or not offering those at all.
702
:and then that I've seen applications that
go to videos instead of, you know, like,
703
:so it's all in, what does the person
need to know before they buy, right?
704
:How much information do they need?
705
:And, and what is the
intimacy level of your offer?
706
:What are you dealing with?
707
:Cause some of the people who
come to me, they're actually,
708
:they're, they're trauma coaches.
709
:So that's a very different high
touch point than, if you are somebody
710
:who's teaching, say Pinterest, right?
711
:And I also have had clients who do
like accounting and bookkeeping.
712
:So while that's a bit more
formulaic, there is definitely
713
:a bond of trust there, right?
714
:And there's an intimacy level of letting
somebody that much into your business.
715
:Right?
716
:So there, there is like, you know, I'm
here, this is me working with people.
717
:This is what it's like whenever I have
been on, on interviews, here is a list
718
:of people that you can talk to that have
worked with us before, you know, here's,
719
:here's a button and that is not just
like sitting idly on their website, but
720
:they actually actively use all of this in
their launch campaigns and you're like,
721
:wait, launching bookkeeping services.
722
:Yes, you can actually do a promo and
launch your services, not just your
723
:digital products, not just your coaching.
724
:So that, that, that's actually probably
something different is thinking
725
:about the offer that you're launching
and not just how you're launching.
726
:Because some people think that it, that
launching is only for like a digital
727
:product or only for a coaching program.
728
:It's like, no, you can
launch your one on ones.
729
:You can launch your services.
730
:You know, you, you can create a, a
marketing campaign around anything,
731
:around books, around all, all the things
that you have, a podcast, anything.
732
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: that.
733
:I love the distinction between are
you selling Pinterest, which is very
734
:strategic, probably less emotional, less
vulnerability there and also less risk.
735
:You know, if that strategy doesn't work,
no worries, you can try something else.
736
:Whereas if someone fucks
up your bookkeeping.
737
:There's a bigger risk there.
738
:You don't know what to do,
739
:who you're choosing.
740
:So I'm loving that you're bringing that
into it as well from, from the clients.
741
:By a decision making, you know, really
thinking of the psychology of where's the
742
:risk, where's the vulnerability, where's
the like the depth of relationship that
743
:they need to have with me in order to make
it a really easy, really enthusiastic.
744
:Yes.
745
:So I love that you're weaving all of that
into launches, whereas typically in the
746
:online space, we would think about that
in terms of kind of selling one to one.
747
:Yeah.
748
:You know, I'm a bookkeeper.
749
:I've got space for two clients next
month, so I'm selling one to one.
750
:You know, I'm not thinking of it
in terms of a campaign, but I can
751
:really see how thinking of it in
terms of a campaign for done for you
752
:services, or for the kinds of services
that aren't traditionally launched.
753
:Think of the brand authority that creates.
754
:Think of the buzz that that
creates in your community.
755
:Think of the value that it adds to
people that may never become your client.
756
:You may never know they're paying
attention to you, But they've understood
757
:something different about bookkeeping,
or they've been de shamed around
758
:their money situation, and then they
go off and make better decisions.
759
:But that's really exciting that
that can come from launching.
760
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
Oh, absolutely.
761
:I mean, because launching
is a sales mechanism.
762
:Right.
763
:So a lot of times people think of
marketing and then they only think of
764
:marketing and it's like, okay, marketing
and sales, they're, they're best
765
:friends, but they're not the same thing.
766
:So we have to let them work in
tandem, but not accidentally
767
:ask one to replace the other.
768
:Right.
769
:So it's like, if we need to bring
sales in, then let's create a promotion
770
:around what we need to create sales in.
771
:And, and do your one-on-ones.
772
:You know your digital product
that's just sitting there, that
773
:is open all the time, right?
774
:The workshops that, that somebody
can go onto your website and they
775
:can see your little store, and they
see your list of all the things.
776
:Great.
777
:Let's promote those in a cycle.
778
:You know, let's have the big groups
that come on, you know, twice a year
779
:that you open the doors for, but then
you have all this other stuff that's
780
:sitting there, those other six months.
781
:So what are you gonna do with those?
782
:You know, you can have these things
that work again with your energy, with
783
:your audience, with the offer, you know,
it, it all has to be in, in harmony
784
:of what it is that you're working
on and with what makes sense, right?
785
:If these things aren't, um, yeah,
they're, they're not in isolation,
786
:they, they work in with each other and
that's what helps you get that, that
787
:consistent selling from multiple avenues.
788
:And that's how you get that real
diversification in your business that
789
:creates sustainability instead of just
waiting for, big things or, or waiting
790
:for consistent things from retainers or
consistent things from payment plans, or,
791
:you know, from year long contracts, right.
792
:Depending on, on, on the type
of business that you have, you
793
:intentionally create these using a
different product mix and a different
794
:selling mix that you orchestrate.
795
:throughout the year and then you let
these things, like build up and work.
796
:And over time, that's what creates
that, stability within your business.
797
:And then it just kind of builds and
builds and grows and grows, which again,
798
:gives you that financial foundation that
then you're like, Oh, and I can do this.
799
:Oh, and I can do that.
800
:Oh gosh.
801
:And this would be so much fun.
802
:Right.
803
:And that's what makes you be like,
I've got a big, big ass business.
804
:This is amazing.
805
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: I love that.
806
:So what you're telling me
is it doesn't need to be.
807
:Oh my God, this launch needs to work.
808
:Oh my God, every single bit of
energy is going into this one launch.
809
:Oh my God, oh my God, stress,
stress, stress, the launch happens.
810
:And then whether it goes well, whether it
doesn't, you collapse on the other side.
811
:And then the cycle starts again.
812
:That's what we see so often.
813
:Whereas what you're saying
is, no, just keep going.
814
:Plan out, and I love how you are
bringing your offer ecosystem into this.
815
:I love how you're bringing
your personal energy into this.
816
:I love how you're just, you're
taking all of the emotion
817
:out of it in, in a good way.
818
:In, in that it's, it doesn't have to be
so, so full of hype and you know, really
819
:kind of pulling on your energy enabled
in order to sell through a launch.
820
:It can be this real, okay.
821
:We're doing this campaign this month.
822
:We're doing that campaign the next month.
823
:So for your audience, it can
just be this really exciting
824
:relationship with your business.
825
:What have they got going on now?
826
:Oh yeah, cool.
827
:That wasn't quite right for me
last month, but this, this is
828
:exactly what I'm looking for.
829
:That's, I imagine, the kind of
relationship that this creates, yeah.
830
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: exactly.
831
:Right.
832
:Yeah.
833
:And then, and then it allows the audience
to get to pick and mix according to
834
:their timing instead of you trying to
shove them into your timing all the time.
835
:Which doesn't, it doesn't always work and
it shouldn't work, you know, it shouldn't
836
:work for that healthy relationship.
837
:Yeah.
838
:And these are the kinds of things
where like you shouldn't worry about
839
:having them all at one time, but you
should allow them to build and grow.
840
:Right?
841
:So maybe at first, the only
thing that you have the capacity
842
:to create is the one big thing.
843
:And then you're trying
to make all the others.
844
:And then it's like, oh, okay,
well, now I can fill in this gap.
845
:Now I create this other gap.
846
:Well, now that I have these little
gaps done, then I can do this big one.
847
:And so it's like, okay, well,
what do all of these look like?
848
:And, and now like, where can I, can
I have these little fun pieces and
849
:where can I have these other pieces?
850
:And whenever we look at the difference
between like that, the structure and
851
:the emotion, where again, we're creating
harmony here because it's whenever one is
852
:kind of lacking, then the other one gets
to, kind of like you get to lean on it.
853
:I wouldn't really say like pick up the
slack, but like you get to lean on it.
854
:So whenever like, like you're having
all the feels and everything feels
855
:kind of heavy or like everything
that's not in your business is going
856
:on, then it's like, that's okay.
857
:You can have that space.
858
:You can have that capacity for that
emotional time and for like that,
859
:that personal energy need because
you have that structure to lean on.
860
:Right.
861
:And then whenever you're building
that business structure because it
862
:doesn't quite exist yet, and that's
an area that that isn't quite there.
863
:Well, you have that excitement needs
to come in and and that that intensity
864
:of Oh, this is going to be good.
865
:And this is going to be so great
to kind of help you get through the
866
:point of building that infrastructure.
867
:And then you're at a point of business
maturity when you have them both and
868
:then they get to play off each other.
869
:And then you're like, Oh, and I had this
going and I get to build on top of that.
870
:And I got this going and I get to
rest and I get to play and I get
871
:to do all these things, right?
872
:Because I don't, I don't
tend to use the word balance.
873
:I use the word harmony.
874
:Right?
875
:Cause some will be louder than the
other and some will be softer and
876
:some will be at this pitch and the
other one will be at that pitch.
877
:Right?
878
:It's not about this constant
fallacy of balance where they
879
:have to be equal all the time.
880
:It's about harmony where one gets to
play up while the other one is at its
881
:own frequency and at its own play point.
882
:Yeah?
883
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: I love that.
884
:So, if there are people listening
thinking, Oh my God, give me the harmony.
885
:How do I get involved?
886
:Tracie,
887
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Yes.
888
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
about your launch style?
889
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014:
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
890
:So if you do want to be in this in
this personalized program, right?
891
:That is designed to help you find that
that launch strategy And that of course
892
:is is that beautiful blend of sales and
marketing that really gets to fit in
893
:Your energy, your goals, your season of
life, your season of business, instead
894
:of these kind of like one size must fit
you and must fit your humans, you know,
895
:and, and discover what works for you.
896
:So you can get the support, you can get
those results that you're really dreaming
897
:of, then, join us, use the link in the
show notes, go to Tracie Patterson.
898
:com slash Y L S for your launch style.
899
:And, uh, we would love to have you.
900
:I would love to support you and be with
you and hang out with us throughout
901
:this, this whole limited series.
902
:but you know, we, we are here and
yeah, I, love all these things.
903
:I love this conversation.
904
:Thank you, Natalie, for talking to
me through all of this and putting
905
:me on the spot and, I'm like, I, I
hope I answered the questions, right.
906
:But yes.
907
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014:
You were wonderful.
908
:You have given me so
909
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: I'm
like, I need my pat on the head.
910
:yeah,
911
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: like subtle
mindset shifts and, subtle, Kind of
912
:glimpses as to what could be possible
for launching and how launching can
913
:support your entire offer ecosystem.
914
:Something about the way that you're
explaining it has just shifted
915
:kind of what's possible for me.
916
:So I'm sure that if that's happened
to me, of course it's happened
917
:for some listeners as well.
918
:So thank you so much.
919
:And
920
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Of course.
921
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: that's us.
922
:That's a wrap.
923
:tracie_2_01-22-2025_104014: Yes.
924
:Yeah.
925
:I love that.
926
:And, and see how, like, you can have
these conversations and it doesn't feel
927
:like, Oh gosh, I've told them everything.
928
:Now there's nothing left.
929
:Right.
930
:There's so much more.
931
:There's so much more.
932
:So give all of your people
the perspective shifts.
933
:Give all the people those kinds
of like opportunities to go.
934
:Oh my gosh, what's next?
935
:Oh my gosh, what else is out there?
936
:Like this is so much fun
because I hope you listening
937
:You have a notebook of ideas.
938
:You have a notebook of things
to play with but at the same
939
:time I've got the frameworks.
940
:I've got the support.
941
:I have lists of options and
things that you can do so that
942
:way you don't accidentally run
into that overwhelm of choice.
943
:And, um, yeah, come, come play.
944
:Come play with us inside
of your launch style.
945
:And again, thank you, Natalie.
946
:natalie_2_01-22-2025_164014: Tracie.
947
:tracie: Thank you for joining
948
:Thank you for joining me on this
episode of Launch Style Stories, and
949
:I hope it sparked something for you.
950
:If you've been listening and thinking,
oh, I need to find my way to launch
951
:without burning out second guessing
or forcing myself into someone else's
952
:formula, well, that's exactly what
your launch style is here to help with.
953
:Inside the program, we cut the trial
and error and help you create a launch
954
:approach that fits your strengths,
your business, and your energy.
955
:So selling never feels like
an uphill battle again.
956
:Head to Tracie Patterson.
957
:com slash YLS to learn more and join us.
958
:And if you loved this series.
959
:Let me know, share your biggest
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960
:It helps more business owners
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961
:I'll see you inside your launch style.