Monica Bijoux is the founder and CEO of Decide To Move. She's also a licensed psychotherapist and business strategist. She's an international best-selling author of books such as Teach Your Expertise. She speaks at events around the world and hosts the Decide To Move podcast. She uses her decades of experience to help high achievers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and veterans to have financial freedom and live a life of purpose. In today’s episode, Monica and I are going to walk through the details of her membership site, courses, and coaching. We’ll also discuss her passion, journey to entrepreneurship, and more. Monica’s Membership Site, Courses, and Coaching Monica’s membership site is called Decide To Move Academy. Every month they release a new course, product, service, or training. Members have access to their own private Facebook group. Monica does one coaching session with the members as well. “It's really just about being a value. . . . I'm just one that I like a lot of times to over-deliver because I know what it's like to have people under deliver.” Monica has about 50 members in her community. “I try to keep them kind of small so I can give them a lot more support, compared to me being so big that [I can’t keep up]. I still work in the service, and so I want to make sure that I'm not overwhelming myself.” Monica also has a lot of different courses. Her courses are taught outside the membership portal, but clients can upgrade to include group coaching in the course. “Because I'm a therapist, I'm able to really help people with their mindset. I'm also certified as a hypnotherapist, so there are [things] like meditation, and going from a deeper level than just surface-level stuff. I also do visualizations. So, I have different modalities that people can go in, based on what's comfortable for them. We also do stuff around confidence levels . . . from a social standpoint. So, I have courses that address those issues and concerns as well.” To power her online courses, Monica uses LearnDash, which she highly recommends. “It's so easy to use, and they're constantly updating their . . . plugins, and their plugins are free. . . . It's easy for me to even update it. Sometimes I don't even wait for my VA. I just do it myself because I'm a techie person too. . . . It allows you to just click a button to determine what assets people have whether it's a course or . . . membership. So, it's great. I absolutely love it.” Her coaching offers two packages: one for six months or one for a year. “We both know for a fact that a person doing one-on-one coaching for a month is not going to get what they need,” she said. “The leverage is not going to be the same.” With her one-on-one coaching, her clients have access to the whole membership and are also able to select one of her big-ticket courses. If they want to start their own podcast, they have access to the podcast course. If they want to start their own online program, they have that course in there as well. Monica will be adding media publication training to her coaching next year. She also plans to add a SaaS product in the future. Monica’s Passion: Life Monica is passionate about life. She said, “Just based on my own experiences, I came from a life filled with abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, homelessness, teen [motherhood], etc. I've had people that know who I am now [say] ‘What? You actually went through all that?’ and I'm like ‘Yeah, that's what makes me who I am because I know what a rough start looks like.’” “I spend a lot of time making sure people understand that your past doesn't have to be your future. It doesn't have to be what defines you. You make that decision yourself,” she said. “[So] I'm truly passionate about life and helping people grow.” Monica’s Journey Monica had never thought about being an entrepreneur. She had a difficult childhood, moving around about 20 times before she was 18 years old. “I just knew that I had a passion and a heart to help other people, [but] I didn't know what that looked like.” She thought maybe she could be a counselor or a therapist. Monica started dispatching for 911, working in the emergency department. She saw people come in and have different stories. “People would just gravitate to me without realizing why and so I ended up going to school, getting my degree as a therapist.” She found out about business coaching and learned it was another way to help people. “I went to school, got certified as a master level coach, and I started my own business. I loved it because I was like, ‘Wow, I can actually help people and also work for myself at the same time.’” Monica had to put her business on hold when the Lord told her she needed to go into the military. “I literally had an argument with the Lord . . . [but] I finally said okay, let me just do what I'm supposed to do.” “I ...
