Andreea Bordas

Full transcript: Andreea Bordas on London Real

0:04 I’m here with Andreea, recent graduate of the Business Accelerator. Tell us, where are you from, what do you do? So I was born in Romania and I moved to Italy when I was seven years old, so I’ve been living all my life in Italy. And I’ve been following London Real for like five months before signing in for the London Real Business Accelerator program.

0:28 I first saw the advert in August, and it was like still holiday, didn’t really wanted to commit to it. Then I saw it again in September, a few days before it started. I was like, I have to do it. Like, I, you know, that call that led me to start, you know, starting my online business, all about my passion, which is self-development.

0:57 So it’s something that started like three years ago, this passion. I collaborated with a company which were doing the seminars, and I also overcame most of my fears in the social area, and that’s what my products are also about. So I’ve been a student since just last July.

1:30 And now, before seeing the London Real advert, the BAC advert, I was like thinking about studying digital media at university. But then I was sure in my mind that it wasn’t the right decision, because I know that everyone who finish that kind of study have information that are outdated. So they have been training to repeat information that are not real, up to date.

2:05 And then I saw, I wanted to create something, and I knew that the technology changes, they in and they out. So to catch up with it, I just have to use it and to create something. So yeah, that’s why I’m here right now.

2:21 A lot of people on the course were kind of at this crossroads in their life and didn’t know if they were going to go one way or the other when they decided to join. Were you in the same way? Were you just not sure where you were headed? Yeah. The first thing that made me, you know, feel that resistance before joining the course was that I wasn’t sure that this course would help me to build what I wanted to build, like a coaching kind of business.

2:51 And that’s what stopped me at the beginning. But then I, you know, already paid the deposit. I was like, I have to go for it, because I don’t know what it’s all about, so maybe I can change my mind during it. And yeah, that’s what happened. Every challenge that, you know, I overcame during the course really led me to create my final project.

3:22 So what were the first three weeks of the course like? I found the first part easier than the last one. Okay. It was challen… No, it wasn’t that challenging, because I was already quite comfortable in front of the camera sharing videos, but just on my YouTube channel, which I started back in May, so a few months before the Business Accelerator program.

3:48 But the thing that really challenged me a bit was sharing my videos on all my social media platforms, not just on YouTube, where no one of my friends were following me. So I shared them on Facebook, on my personal page, and I had so many positive feedbacks. Like, people who I haven’t been in touch for such a long time were writing me messages, like thanking me for what I was sharing.

4:12 So yeah, if it wasn’t for this course, I wouldn’t have done that so soon. So that was a big breakthrough, hearing that a lot of your friends thought this was good stuff? Yeah. And so then you kept doing? Yeah. Some of them were just ignoring me, and are still doing that, but others just, you know, shared with me what they were thinking about it.

4:36 What was the biggest challenge for you on the course? The webinar, so module six. Yeah. It was something new that I never done before, and I felt so much resistance. And I remember that I did also like a Skype call with my team leader, Chris Albert, and I was like, I don’t know who’s following me right now, I don’t know what to share, I don’t know what product to sell.

5:02 And then he told me, like, close your eyes, Andreea, breathe in, and everything is all right, just go on, keep on doing stuff. So that’s what I did. And like, in my first webinar I had 30 people on. It was amazing. Which is about six times as many people as anyone else had on their webinar. 30 people on the webinar, how’d that feel? It was, just, you know, exciting. Scary and exciting at the same time.

5:34 And the best thing about that webinar is that the following day, one of the guys who attended it made a Facebook live streaming, and he thought that I challenged him during that webinar to, you know, do that crazy challenge that I did, you know, lying down in a crowded place for 30 seconds. And he did that live. He said, Andreea has challenged me to do that in her awesome webinar last night.

6:04 So he went to a mall, in a mall, and asked some girls to make the video, and he was so afraid to talk to girls, so that’s two challenges for him. And yeah, he just lay down, and then two guards went there and asked him to stand up, otherwise he would have to leave the place. So he changed another place, he went in another place and lay down again.

6:26 That’s big, that’s amazing. So you’re changing people’s lives. Yeah, I was feeling like, I was so thankful for that thing that he did. So it was, yeah, I really felt like I was influencing someone in a good way.

6:42 So what are you going to take away from the course? What do you think you’re going to use for the next two years that you learned? Almost everything. Like, I have now the knowledge of all the steps that I have to take, so I will go through again the course when I need something, you know, to figure out something. And because when you listen at least two times to the same information, you can think about them in a different way.

7:07 So yeah, the webinar for sure, for selling things, warming, you know, people up and then selling. It’s a great way. And it’s very trendy making webinars right now. Like, I’ve been attending so many in the last month, also from people not from this course. So, and yeah, mostly everything. Like, you can use this system to create every kind of business, really.

7:39 If you walk down the street right now and bumped into the Andreea that didn’t take this course, and you had a conversation with her, how is she different than you are right now? She would have less knowledge and less courage and less, you know, clarity on what I want to do, because I wasn’t sure of what kind of project I want, to say what kind of life coach I am.

8:03 So then I found out that I’m a confidence life coach, so I help people overcome their fears through, you know, social skydiving. So challenges that can help them become more aware of what all these voices in their head are saying them, which most of them are like just, you know, nonsense excuses.

8:36 So, and then yeah, she wouldn’t have like all this courage. And then I also moved to London, like, I think in the second week of the Business Accelerator program. So there has been a lot of changes, and yeah, it’s a part of this journey as well.

8:51 What would you say to someone who’s thinking about taking the course but just not sure if they should? Do it. Do it anyway. And then, you know, there is the 30… that’s what pushed me to do it, to purchase it, the 30-day, you know, money back guarantee. And you know, if you think that it’s not working, there is that thing that you can use. But I just say do it.

9:25 And find, you create something from your passion, because, like, most of people spent their whole life working jobs that they don’t love, they don’t really like. They just followed, you know, the social patterns, and they end up being unhappy and having regrets. So just go for it, and you’ll figure it out during, you know, the journey, how it will be.

9:55 Andreea, I love having you on the calls. Like, you just always had all this positive energy, you were there, you did all the work, and I really appreciate that. And I love having, you know, we have all sorts of age groups on there, and I think we all learn. And I think you really inspired a lot of people, because you just got on with it, you know. And so I really appreciate you being on the course.

10:17 When I heard about your webinar and the 30 people on there, it made me so happy. I think you had the biggest webinar of the whole course. So I know you will be successful as long as you just keep doing all these steps. I know you’re going to be massively successful. So congrats on making it through the course, and I’m really looking forward to hearing about your next year and you killing it. It would be amazing. Thank you, thank you so much.