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Nimai Delgado ON: Transforming Your Financial Future with Strategic Actions & Unlocking the Power of Nutritional Excellence

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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How to Make the Switch to a Career in Public Speaking

I think that working as an engineer and going through that, getting my degree really helped me think like an engineer, obviously. So I approached it with that engineering approach of like, how can I take this thing that I really want to do and create systems and processes for me to make it financially so I could pay for my bills? That was my goal was like, can I just cover my bills at that point in time? And what I wanted to do was reach as many people as possible. We developed a whole algorithm and a whole platform to be able to serve thousands of clients at a time. It's panned out very, very well because it's given me the space to still

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And I guess you can deal with, you know what your clients are dealing with too in terms of the stress of the workplace, the stress of what they're going through. And you've been in their shoes. You know what it looks like. And I think that the thing that came to my mind when you were saying that was you knew that you were falling in love with working out and you were falling in love with this other thing on the side. I have a friend that, well, she used to be working at a company and she was stressed and hated it in the same sense as you did. But she loved presenting. And so then she joined a company where she's a public speaking coach and she goes back to the company. She's worked at and teach public speaking. Like, he just communication, not just public speaking, but he just communication, he just negotiation, he just people skills. And she's so much happier doing it. And I love seeing those stories where people have the courage to figure out the switch. But it sounds like you were doing a lot in your evenings and weekends to build this other route and build this other path. When you made the switch over, did it feel like, because I'm guessing when you first did it, were you able to replace your salary completely? No, right? That's yeah, that's my friend. She's, it's taken her three years to replace her salary that she made before. But she's doing good dance.
Speaker 2
Yeah. I think that working as an engineer and going through that, getting my degree really helped me think like an engineer, obviously. So I approached it with that engineering approach of like, how can I take this thing that I really want to do and create systems and processes for me to make it financially so I could pay for my bills? Essentially, that was my goal was like, can I just cover my bills at that point in time? And what I wanted to do was reach as many people as possible. So I partnered up with a software engineer and we decided to build a whole platform of how can I really systemize delivering the content, teaching people how to lift, providing educational content and then also the meal planning, which is the most important part whenever people are trying to get in shape is figuring out what to eat. So we developed a whole algorithm and a whole platform to be able to serve thousands of clients at a time. And it took months of planning. I wasn't making any money. I was just kind of siphoning away all my savings. And what's really interesting is that first week whenever we launched our very first program and very first offer. I made more in a week than I made in a year as an engineer. And that was the moment for me that I was like, wow, this is very possible for me to continue to pursue. And obviously that's my experience, but it takes that level of planning and really having an approach that is risk averse. I'm not suggesting for anybody to go quit their job. I think that having a plan of action and having a timeline makes the most sense for you to not put yourself in a compromising position. So that's the way that I did it. And it's panned out very, very well because it's given me the space to still work with so many people and still get to do what I love and not be so focused on in the business, just working in the business, if that makes sense.

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