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ing force to me to do whatever I need to be

able to do to get that.

Neil: How do you relax when you are not

working in your business?

Dana Malstaff: Mmmm, not working, what

is that like? ha ha ha you know there’s a lot

of things, one is my mornings are my kid

playtime. Sometimes I think taking care of

my kids is super stressful or super challeng-

ing. But the mornings is my time, we play. I

make sure that I am consciously remember-

ing that playing is fun. Because I think oh I

gotta get the kids things together and I

gotta prep for a meeting I'm doing, or an

interview I am gonna be on, and I have

gotta do all these things. But in the morn-

ing, we get up and it’s just what they want

to do. You want me to get into your little

spaceship or sit in your pantry and play

with our cars, and pretend they are flying,

yes. That’s what I wanna do and I love that,

and I get to be a part of their life in a way

that is really interactive. And is really about

creating adventures together and that is ex-

tremely relaxing and rewarding for me.

Neil: Do you have any role models who are

entrepreneurs?

Dana Malstaff: Oh gosh, I have so many

role models. I was just talking about this to-

day, that I wrote a blog on linked in some

maybe year or two ago, that was about the,

I think it was the 11 different types of men-

tors that I had talked about. And there are

different times in our lives when you have

them, and there is you know, your cheer-

leader mentors which are the people that

you love that are your family and those

kinds of people. And those are the ones

that help support you when feel down, you

know, they help tell you that no matter

what you are amazing and they just love

everything about you. They also don't un-

derstand the business world that you live

in. They may not be in your space, they are

obviously not your ideal client, so you take

their love but you weigh their advice be-

cause sometimes their advice is going to be

born out of love, but not out of experience.

But then, what I am finding right now, is

most prominent in my space is what I call

proximity mentors and those are the peo-

ple that are not necessarily further along in

their business than me, they are kind of

where I am. And we are I would say col-

leagues versus someone being at a differ-

ent advancement than me. So, they were in

proximity to each other in terms of our

business, but we have different things that

we are better at. So, I may have written a

book, but somebody else may have started

a membership site that is really successful.

Or somebody else might have done this

group coaching, and we learn from each

other by proximity.

So one that I was on a call with today and

helping her with her membership site, is

Jacqueline Malone, and she has the All Up