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Becca Syme

Becca Syme

Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, USA Today bestselling novelist, and founder of the Better Faster Academy; hosts the QuitCast for Writers podcast.

Sep 2, 2026

32:15
How did that evolve?
32:17
Yeah, I sort of just was responsive to the community after that.
32:22
Like, I feel like people were asking me for help on a grand scale and I didn't hear it at first.
32:32
I was like, just come to the class, come to the class.
32:35
And I think I realized that the books were solving problems the class couldn't solve, which is like, not everybody thinks they need to be coached and not everyone thinks they want to complain about.
32:47
So they see it as complaining.
32:50
And we have this, one of the modules in this flagship class that we have, which is called Write Better Faster.

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51:30
And yet to do all of the things, I almost, again, arrange a number seven, need to do them in order.
17:03
Should I go to a conference or not? What's the value in that?
17:06
Yeah, there's so much about our career that is isolating.
17:11
And this is the opposite of that.
17:13
And I think if all you ever do is just consume things online and you are isolated in your house with yourself all the time, you lose a lot of perspective that the community brings.
17:25
And I think there's some benefit to being confronted by like if people are not coming because they're introverted.
17:32
It's like, well, there's ways to be introverted at conferences and there are ways to handle overwhelm at conferences, just the community alone.
17:41
But then in addition, having all the vendors here.
19:21
Talk about that a little bit.

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