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Ian Page

Conductor

Jul 31, 2026

2:40
Then what happens? Well, let me
2:42
point out one thing.
2:44
The reason we chuckle at it is because we have direct access to the best support you can possibly get.
2:51
I literally have a direct message with somebody who can go with me and click a button.
2:58
So I have to admit, I have a little bit of a, you know, I have a reason to laugh at rejections where you as a seller, it might be, oh, there's no way out of this doom circle of rejections.
3:12
Yeah.
3:12
So I just wanted to I wanted to tell the truth that we we just have so many resources at TikTok that we don't have an issue.

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21:09
No,
3:30
So you need that sidekick that's going to move on.
3:34
The first novel is in third person.
3:36
The next two are in first person.
3:38
So you're seeing everything through Chester's eyes.
3:41
Right.
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And it turns out he's sharply observant, even if he's, well, we'll call him book smart, street stupid, a shorthand.
3:50
So he gets himself into situations where his expertise is maybe organizing things and trying to checklist things off.
7:20
If you come to me for your seventh novel and you want to try it because your brain needs the challenge, that'll be different because you'll be able to hold a lot more things in your head and you'll understand a lot more about story structure, right? Yeah.
8:35
Just like we stopped and made a point about Chesterfield, mother and mother-ish, right? Like explain that.
8:43
So mother is straightforward enough.
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That's his local mother.
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He's got kind of a teeter-totter of chumminess and restraint in dealing with her.
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She's a powerful woman in her own way and very demanding on his time.
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And he's not very good at dealing with that.
9:00
And her health is declining.

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14:32
But was humor always at the forefront of what you wanted?
8:08
And so you have to, I have to constantly force myself to pretend that I'm brand new at this because I will- create something far too big and I don't do the next right step I don't walk through that one door I'm trying to literally plan out the entire framework and I don't care how long you've been in business you can't start something new and be in that mindset you have to shift into what's the first simple step the first income the very first phase of this let's not try it we can have like plans and dreams and hopes and ambitions but if you try to control it for me I was a lot of frustration and the way that I made a million dollars was not even like an option at the time when I started so
8:42
It never is.
8:43
It never is.
8:43
I mean, you hear that from a lot of famous, you know, actors.
8:46
Their story is, you know, I went to Hollywood and I didn't even think I was going to get beyond a commercial, right? So it's the same thing.
8:53
They kind of had that door and then the next door.
8:56
So what I love about business is the fact that you can change your business and pivot your business.

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23:55
trying not to compare it to like network marketing, but in a sense, like there's kind of that similarity in the model, right? Like you're bringing on people, the organization, how far down can that go to people kind of creating their own little franchises within the franchises?
8:01
So
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It never is.
8:02
It never is.
8:03
I mean, you hear that from a lot of famous, you know, actors.
8:05
Their story is, you know, I went to Hollywood and I didn't even think I was going to get beyond a commercial, right? So it's the same thing.
8:12
They kind of had that door and then the next door.
8:16
So what I love about business is the fact that you can change your business and pivot your business.

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22:35
I'm trying not to compare it to like network marketing, but in a sense, like there's kind of that similarity in the model, right? Like you're bringing on people, the organization, how far down can that go to people kind of creating their own little franchises within the franchises?

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