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		<title>Why I Never Want to Be Called a Guru &#8230; part 2</title>
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Are you sick of trying to portray yourself as completely successful &#38; perfect all of the time?
Especially since life is complicated. Sometimes stuff goes wrong. Or gets messy. Or gets harder.
Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you could just tell the entire story, the whole truth, and people would still love you and buy your stuff?
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<p>Are you sick of trying to portray yourself as completely successful &amp; perfect all of the time?</p>
<p>Especially since life is complicated. Sometimes stuff goes wrong. Or gets messy. Or gets harder.</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you could just tell the entire story, the whole truth, and people would still love you and buy your stuff?</p>
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<p>[If you can't see this video, go <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNblJ8J8UoI" target="_blank">here</a>]</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/guru-1" target="_blank">Why I Never Want to Be Called a Guru &#8230; part 1</a> about access &amp; engagement</p>
<p>So what do you guys think about telling the whole story?</p>


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Have you been told you need to become a guru or an expert to build your business or speaking career?
That you must reduce access to you (not answer your own phone, not answer your own email, not speak to people at your events, have someone else manage your social media) in order to appear successful? [...]


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<p>Have you been told you need to become a guru or an expert to build your business or speaking career?</p>
<p>That you must reduce access to you (not answer your own phone, not answer your own email, not speak to people at your events, have someone else manage your social media) in order to appear successful?  That you must distance yourself from your people / community / tribe?</p>
<p>So &#8230; how&#8217;s that working for you? Not that great, eh?  Yeah. Exactly.</p>
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<p>[If you can't see that video, go <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5G6KtTC1Iw" target="_blank">here</a>]</p>
<p>What do you think? Are you sick of guru&#8217;s? How do you want to engage with your people?</p>


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