What Works for Someone Else Might Not Work for You (What to Do Instead)

Entrepreneurship & Business / Make Money

Wondering How to Find Your Passion and Make Money Doing What You Love? The First Step is Learning How to Stop Listening to Other People and Think for Yourself! 🤔

I made that HUGE MISTAKE! 😱

Which is why in this motivational post, I share why it’s a terrible idea to listen to other people, and How To Listen To Yourself instead, because if you want to manifest money, then cultivate the skill of listening to yourself! + PLUS who knows you better than YOU!

Before you say “Things Aren’t Working Out For Me”…

🛑 Stop Listening to People’s Judgment

✅ Become good at ignoring others, and learn How To Stop Caring What People Think. Get to know yourself, use your values as guiding decisions, take action, and evaluate!

There’s a reason why things are not Working Out For You and why you feel lost! Plus, why the Law of Attraction does not work? The problem with other people’s advice is that their Life Purpose, Motivation, Inspiration, and path to Success, turning their passion to profit, may not be the same as yours!

TRUST ME I learned the HARD WAY… What works for someone else may not work for you and vice versa What Works for You May Not Work for Me! 🤦‍♀️

PS I made you a video down below to go along with this post.

How I Rebuilt My Business After Listening to the Wrong People…

I wanted to give you a little bit of life advice about things people ask me, and things that seem to come up in my business, my RV life, and behind the scenes. In this post, I really want to talk to you about how what works for someone else might not work for you. That goes for business, RV life, relationship advice—anything you can think about in your life.

Someone told me this, and it actually made me think about why I wanted to make this—about these little life lessons series—and why what works for someone else might not work for you.

Sales Calls and Course Selling: What Works and What Doesn’t

For a while, I’d been pushing like this course, course, course, course—“You’ve got to sell this course, you’ve got to book a call with me.” I was supposed to give away all these free sales calls, spend 45 minutes on the phone with every person, and build these relationships—which I’m all about, building and nurturing relationships.

But wouldn’t it have been easier and better just to not get them on the phone to sell the course? Couldn’t I just tell them the price, give them a page of information and commonly asked questions, and if they wanted to book a call with me, that would be like an upgrade? Or it could be part of the course itself—which it has been for a while.

I took these sales calls to sell people on my high-ticket program, which is fine. I get why people say don’t put prices on your landing page or website—because:

If the price is over $500 or $1,000, most people won’t buy with just the click of a button.

If it’s under $1,000, people are often willing to buy right away.

But once it goes over $1,000, little radar signals go off in people’s heads, and they get cautious. They start looking for validation or reasons to justify the purchase.

Under $1,000, people might be okay with risking the money or putting it on a credit card. But $3,000 or more? That’s a bigger decision. If someone invests with me, and they get coaching calls, course content, community, and upgrades—that’s definitely a higher ticket item.

Protecting Your Content, Reputation, and Clients

Also, you want to vet who comes through your course. Partly, you don’t want people stealing your content. And you want to make sure it’s right for them—you don’t want someone to invest and then say, “That didn’t work for me,” just because it wasn’t the right fit.

So some of it is about protection—of your content, your reputation, and for them. That’s why I say what works for someone else might not work for you.

Letting Go of Offense and Following Your Own Path

This made me a little angry—and I’m trying hard not to be angry. My boyfriend actually sent me something from Joel Osteen that really resonated:

They’ll say things, they’ll do things that are hurtful. You can’t stop the offense from coming, but you can keep it from getting down in you. How much time are you spending offended, bitter, holding a grudge? How much more could you accomplish if you started letting things go? How much better would your relationships be if you got emotionally healthy, let go of what people said, forgave the person who did you wrong, and quit reliving the hurts?

I was surprised he was watching that—it was kind of funny. He sent it to me because I was upset over someone telling me, “You have to sell this course, it’s a high-ticket item, you have to do these sales calls.”

Part of it is that I love this person for who they are, but what I learned is that this person wasn’t doing what I wanted to do. So what was working for them doesn’t work for me—100%.

Trusting Your Own Gut and Rebuilding Your Brand

Maybe I should take little bits and pieces from this person—they taught me how to sell myself. But the sales calls, high-ticket item pressure? That didn’t work for me.

Why can’t I just put my prices on a website and let people buy? They’ve watched hundreds of my videos already. If they want to invest, they know what I’m about. Why didn’t I trust my gut before?

One of my clients and dear friends now says, “Brandi, you’re bigger than RV life.” And she said the person I was following was starting to piss her off. So I’m not going to follow all of their advice anymore.

I also noticed this person doesn’t really travel or RV—they’re more of a homebody, and travel disrupts their business. Whereas I’m a digital nomad. I travel, and I want to make money and travel as my lifestyle.

Living Your Own Lifestyle, Not Someone Else’s

My life isn’t a vacation—it’s a lifestyle where I make money and travel. Sometimes that’s RV living, sometimes it’s a condo, Airbnb, or hotel. That’s just me.

That’s why I say what works for me may not work for you—even if you take one of my programs or coaching calls. What I share will give you ideas, clarity, and things to think about, but it’s not a perfect fit for everyone.

Charging for Calls and Knowing Your Worth

Instead of free sales calls, I’ve started charging for calls. You can ask me anything about RV life, business, and behind the scenes of Brandi—but you’ve got to pay for that.

That pricing comes with my experience and understanding the value of my time.

The person who told me to do free sales calls wasn’t taking free calls themselves—they had others taking the calls for them while they ran the show.

Rebuilding After Following the Wrong Advice

Following that advice broke my brand and my business. I had to rebuild everything—from products to services. I made a video about why you should stop telling people your dreams because they’ll take them and squash them.

That’s exactly what happened to me.

Finding Your Own Way

I saw two kinds of people online: one with boring content, but valuable; another with fun and bubbly content that was more like me.

I wish I had shared more about my travels and RV life sooner because that’s part of my story.

RV life didn’t start as my money-maker—it was a hobby alongside my business. My story actually started with starting a business, then RVing came later.

Take What Works, Leave the Rest

So again, what works for me might not work for you. Take bits and pieces of what others do—don’t take everything, not even from me. Your life, your business, your lifestyle—they’re not cookie-cutter.

I keep lists and ideas for what works for me. I have shared posts about my digital nomad systems and essentials that help me stay organized on the road.

Your Unique Path

Watch other people, follow their blogs, watch my videos—get ideas and clarity. But your lifestyle and situation may be very different.

I made my personal YouTube channel to share more than just RV life—to share my whole story, life lessons, and advice.

If you like this, comment below, tell me your thoughts, and join my secret fan club and email list. You get first tips and content before anyone else.

Final Thoughts

I love you, and I hope this helps you remember:

What works for me may not work for you—and that’s okay.

Take your own ideas. Trust your gut. Take action. And if something doesn’t work, adjust and keep going.

Thanks for watching and reading! Don’t forget to subscribe, and check the links in the description for all the goodies I mentioned.


🎬 WATCH & LEARN How To Stop Listening To Other People and Think For Yourself so you can Make Money Doing What YOU Love!

P.S. Please don’t forget to like the video and leave a comment letting me know how this one resonates with you! 🙏


I can’t wait to read them!
XO ❤️
— Blogging Brandi

ABOUT ME

If we haven’t officially met Hi, I’m Blogging Brandi, an EX-Corporate Kool-Aid Drinker Female Entrepreneur and Digital Nomad who LOVES RV Living, since it keeps me close to Nature! All though you can catch me from time to time on an airplane, in a hotel, Airbnb, as I can WORK FROM ANYWHERE not just my RV.

I’m also an all-natural, introverted, God Fearing, Rescue Dog Mom, but most importantly a Writer and Creator! I believe you can have many passions, create multiple streams of income, and don’t have to conform to the norm!

📽 P.S. You Can WATCH MY STORY How I decided to Become A Solo Female Digital Nomad (NOT always RV Living) Entrepreneur!

Mentioned but not affiliated with Joel Osteen: https://www.joelosteen.com/

Videos I Mentioned:

NEW >> How To Find YOUR PASSION And MAKE MONEY ❤️ + 💰 = 🤔

LINKS MENTIONED:

Video Transcript:

00:00

so I wanted to make some videos to give you a little bit of Life advice about things that people ask me and things that seem to come up up in my business and up in my rvw life and behind the scenes in this video I really want to talk to you about what works for someone else might not work for you that goes for business RV life relationship advice anything you can think about in your life someone told me this and actually it made me think about this and kind of like why I wanted to make these videos

00:29

about these little life lessons series that I would say and why what works for someone else might not work for you so for instance for a while I’ve been pushing like this course course course course course course got to sell this course and you got to call you got to book a call with me and I’m supposed to give away like all these res sales calls spend like 45 minutes on the phone with like every person and build these relationships which I’m all about building and nurturing relationships but

00:54

wouldn’t it have been easier and better just to not get them on the phone call to sell them the course couldn’t I just told them the price given them a page of information commonly asked questions that you already get asked and if they wanted to book a call with me to me that would be like an upgrade of the selling point or it could be a part of the course which it has been for a while in one of my courses and so I took these sales calls to sell people on my high ticket program which that’s fine and all

01:27

and I get why people say like oh don’t put that on like a landing page or your website is because if you put a price that’s over $500 or say over $1,000 most people will buy an item on a page with the click of a button if it’s under $11,000 but if it goes over $11,000 it starts to tell people maybe unconsciously hey those little Radars go off and it says like oh what we should be cautious about buying this thing and they look for other reasons to why they need to buy that thing like what

01:59

validates it because because you know under $1,000 they might be like oh okay I’m willing to lose that not saying that’s not a lot of money to some people I’m just saying some people are willing to lose that or put on a credit card versus other people are not willing to lose $3,000 or more if someone was going to invest with me and they were going to get all these coaching calls access to my course content my community in like upgrades and things like that then yeah that would be a more High ticket item

02:24

than just pushing a button and buying like just a simple course and also you kind of want to vet who’s coming through your course one purpose is of like you don’t want people stealing your content also because you want to make sure it’s right for them like you don’t want someone investing their money and then being like oh that didn’t work for me just because it wasn’t for them some of is like a protection of your content and some of it’s like a protection of your reputation or you and a protection for

02:49

them that’s why I say like what works for someone else might not work for you and it kind of made me a little angry and I’m trying really hard not to get angry my boyfriend actually sent me this like Joel old they’ll say things they shouldn’t do things that are hurtful you can’t stop the offense from coming but you can keep it from getting down in you how much time are you spending offended bitter holding a grudge how much more could you accomplish if you would start letting things go how much better

03:19

relationships would you have if you would get emotionally healthy if you would let go of what people said forgive the person that Did You Wrong quit reliving the hurts which I was surprised that he was actually watching that was kind of funny he sent me something about him watching this joelene thing and it was like why you need to let it go and so I’m trying to let it go but I’m really kind of fed up with I got really angry at this person that told me you have to sell this course it’s a high

03:46

tiet item get on these sales calls sales calls sales calls and part of it is because I really love this person for who this person is but what I learned is like this person wasn’t doing the thing that I wanted to do so it’s like what was working for them would not work for me or isn’t working for me 100% And so yeah maybe I should take like L little bits and pieces from this person like they did teach me how to sell myself and how to sell but they didn’t teach me not that they didn’t teach me something it’s

04:13

just they forced something about sales calls and you got to do this High ticket item and I’m just like why why can’t I just put it on a website and why can’t they just buy they just here’s the price you’ve watched hundreds of videos about me already if you want to invest with me you kind of like know what I’m about and you can invest or not I I don’t know why I didn’t trust my own gut instinct about what was working for me before and so yeah one of my clients and and dear

04:37

friends now says Brandi you’re bigger than RV life and like this person that you follow they’re starting to piss me off so I’m like yeah well I’m not going to follow them anymore as far as like all of their advice I also noticed that like this person doesn’t travel they don’t RV they even talk about how they’re like a homebody more and they really don’t like to leave because it disrupts their business versus me I’m like a dint Nomad and I travel and I don’t want to be part of like this

05:02

worldly system this 9 to-5 I wouldn’t want to say my life is a vacation my life is like a lifestyle you make money and travel and I prefer to do that when I’m RV living either here in the RV or I could be at the condo or we might be in Airbnb or a hotel I prefer to be doing the van life thing when we’re in our van but those are just parts of me and so that’s why I say what works for me may not work for you even if you take one of my programs or even do coaching with me or you know book calls with me to get my

05:29

advice what works for me may not all work for you but it’ll give you ideas it’ll give you things to think about and more to go on and maybe Clarity you know something that you didn’t have before that’s why I really wanted to open myself up to more than just a course than what I’ve been doing and so instead of taking these free sales calls now I’ve been positioning myself to say okay I charge for those calls and you can ask me anything you want about RV life and business and behind the scenes of Brandy

05:58

you just got to pay so there’s a price for that you know and that does come with experience and time and just also knowing what my time is valuable and worth and why is it that I shouldn’t charge for those it’s it was really interesting this person is like telling me how I should run my business and also the other reason is because like they ended up being sales calls instead of like a coaching call I felt restrained on like what I could offer or say or do on these calls and it was almost like

06:24

hey I’ve got this whole thing that I could give you right now to solve all your problems but you got to pay me and it’s really expensive of even though I could have gave them like just a little piece so they could get to the next level the next thing and the next thing you live and you learn but I’ve been rebranding Brandy repositioning my brand I broke my brand which I made a video about which I’ll put a link to in the description below this video but this is another reason why you don’t want to

06:46

follow other people is because I literally like broke my brand and everything is either in beta currently or was in beta by the time you’re watching this video I’m not sure I had to rebuild it all I had to rebuild my entire brand all these products and services that I had for sale I literally just took them and squashed them and why I made a video about why you should stop telling people your dreams because they’ll take them and squash them and they’ll say hey only sell this coaching

07:09

course and only take free calls but what’s funny is like this person that’s telling you to take free calls they’re not taking free calls they have all these little minions to take the calls for them so they’re just up here running the show while all these other people are doing all the work for them and then I also looked at like how this person does their emails and so their emails are very Bland they’re not really like readable you know how when you read a blog post normally you want it to be

07:39

readable and you’ll have like bold titles and sections and so you kind of like read through it these are very like long boring emails not that they’re not valuable content I think the fact is how it looks to you it’s just like this long paragraphs of just BL it resonated with me about there’s this other person that I follow that I don’t want to say I’ve kind of like ignored but I kept thinking like oh they just sell all these random products and services but like it works

08:02

for them you know it works for them it works for their lifestyle so why can’t it work for me and my lifestyle it did it can it does it will again but why I had to rebuild everything because this person that I followed like literally told me how to break my life is what I did I broke my life I broke my business I broke my website and it caused a lot of stress and literally I’m sitting on the couch with my boyfriend couple weeks ago and he was just like this is so stressful and I was like I know my life

08:28

is so stressful he’s like are got sales calls today cuz it’s pretty much like hey do you have sales calls today okay cool can we go live our life if not I don’t want to live my life around these free and that was the other thing then I would show up for these free calls and then sometimes people wouldn’t even show up because it’s free to them why do they care or they would spend all this time on the phone with me and then my boyfriend’s like okay are you ready to eat are you ready to go like come on and

08:48

then they don’t invest with me I was giving away so much of my time for free and so what works for one person doesn’t work for another and so I was watching this one person who has this boring content and then I have this other person who has this like really exciting content and they’re fun and they’re bubbly and they’re like me and how I used to run my business which is like super emojis and like these banners with these cute quotes and I just wish that I would have shared more about my travels

09:13

and my RV life and things that I was sharing and I was on the path to doing I just wasn’t really sure where it was headed but really the thing that I started to forget about was that when I started my business rvers was not really like the thing that was making me money it was something it was like a hobby and it was just I was getting people on an email list and I was just like sharing my RV videos and then I had my business over here where I was talking about like branding and social media and teaching

09:40

people how to build their businesses and from my own experiences and things that I’ve been through because my RV life didn’t really start out as smooth or even start out rving I started out starting a business and then I started out rving so if you haven’t seen my story check that out in the description below I’ll put a link to that but my RV life didn’t start out as hey I’m going to quit my job and start rving it started out as I’m going to start a business and then because of things that

10:04

happened in my life my story it led me to arving and why I say what works for you won’t won’t work for me and what works for me won’t necessarily work for you but you should take bits and pieces of what other people do that you follow or like just don’t take everything even me don’t take everything because it’s not a cookie cutter business it’s not a cookie cutter RV life it’s not a cookie cutter anything you have to take things that you learn you know I keep lists and ideas I made a

10:32

video about all the systems that I use that I’ll put a link to below this video but I talked about all my digital Nomad systems that I use to keep organized online and while I’m on the road and also my digital Nomad Essentials that I use both here when I’m in the RV at the trailer park stationer and when I’m in the van or the condo or just moving I just felt the need to remind you that what works for me may not work for you and what works for someone else may not work for you and so it’s nice to watch

11:03

these other people on YouTube and follow their blogs even myself but your lifestyle and your situation and even where you’re at right now might not be where I’m at that’s why I say follow me and get ideas and learn from me but I may not be the end all be all I want you to take your own ideas and why I made a video about why you should stop telling people your ideas because that will thing inside of you that little intuition that little tug that you have that God gave you is for you to explore

11:39

and and find out and to not be like so terrified to make moves and take action that’s the best way that I have found to really figure out if something’s going to work for me or not is to take action and if it works it works and if it doesn’t I’m like whoops got a correct course and figure that out what works for me might not work for you and why I said I have this one person person over here that makes like all this boring content even though it’s it’s valuable it’s just kind of boring and and I

12:04

really did believe in them about like course course course course course kind of like what happened to me was this person said like sell this course course course course but I had a book I had courses for sale but they were like oh you need to sell one course this one thing and this really high ticket item and so I sold this one high ticket item and I put everything else on hold and so I had these books I had this course if you didn’t know I actually wrote a book I’ve wrote two books um I have all these

12:32

courses from product development to email marketing social media how to build a YouTube channel Retail Arbitrage how I was um reselling online a lot of people were really interested in that and I had started that I have a course on cryptocurrency and then of course I have like my RV life but this person was like well nobody knows what you do and you can’t just make random content and you’re not going to get any followers and so I just started listening to their advice and it killed my entire business

13:01

I broke my business I broke my brand and I’m literally having to rebuild it from the ground up and so I’ll put a link to a lot of those things that I mentioned so you can check them out Bel this video my books my courses they’re in beta they might be a little bit broken but they’re available I wanted to bring them back to life I wanted to bring them somewhere where I could share them with you because I could ask so many questions about my business or how to do things and it’s like I have this thing that I

13:31

could give you but it’s like hidden because this person told me no don’t do that don’t sell that or don’t sell it in that way you know and it’s like why couldn’t you just go before and now you can just go buy those things you can click a button and buy them instead of like having to get on a coaching call with me which is not really a coaching call but a sales call with me for me to tell you about the things that you can buy from me I’m sorry I don’t got time for that that okay you want to get on

14:01

call with me cool pay me but it which is available too and so I’ve repositioned my brand I’m repositioning my brand I made a video about again how everything was broken but also I didn’t want you to think that I was coming unwired and why getting weird around here I made videos about all the things that are going on I’m trying to keep you in the loop I really just wanted to reiterate to you about why what happened to me by following what someone else was telling me to do and what was working for them

14:33

and why what was working for them wasn’t necessarily what was going to work for me and so you know I followed this one person who was like this business business business person who wasn’t even doing the thing I wanted to do and then I’ve got this other person over here which I wish that I would have followed more of who’s got like this brand and this like girly like business and she talks about all of her life and shares travels and fun stuff behind the scenes which I don’t do and I also think it’s

14:56

kind of weird because there’s all these other rvers that like share all their RV trips which granted we’ve been stationary for a while if you haven’t seen the video about our stationary RV life check that out below this video and some updates I made about everything that’s been going on in my RV life and my life in general for like the past year there’s just been a lot going on and so why what works for someone else in their life is not going to work for me in my life and so why can’t I sell

15:22

the things that I want to sell why can’t I have my little reselling business over here why can’t I have my books over here my courses over here my Consulting why can’t I have all my different little things my little dog rescue our energy patch that we sell why can’t I have all those things in these different places I don’t I don’t understand and and why I created this YouTube channel which I made a video about to bring this all kind of together in one place not just this YouTube channel but also blogging

15:49

Brandy like myself the new blogging Brandy b o g g i n g b ndi was because I wanted to have one central place for all this to be and not feel like I’m broken and all over the place because of how someone else told me to be or I was following someone else thinking this is the way I need to do business and why I say what someone else does and how they run their business and their life and their relationship even their relationship advice may not work for you relationship advice I know that sounds

16:19

weird but like how me and my boyfriend someone said something about our relationship recently people said oh my God like she doesn’t call you every single day like every hour oh my gosh y’all are not together like all the time I’m here right now looking at a beautiful Lake which I I wish I could show you I don’t know if you can see that or not you can see this beautiful Lake and he is at the house handling business that he needs to handle I can’t be around him right now not that I

16:50

couldn’t but I actually prefer to be here because I can get some work done that I couldn’t get done if I was like at the house with him and plus we’re about to go on a a trip and some more trips and some other fun stuff that I’ve kind of mentioned and talked about and things that I haven’t mentioned that I can’t wait to talk about what works for someone else doesn’t work for you and someone mentioned our relationship and like oh like I couldn’t do that and I was just like well it actually probably

17:12

benefits us even more and I made a video about five tips that can vent your spouse to RV and it was actually probably more beneficial than you think about why our relationship is amazing because I’ll solo RV by myself or we have these times apart and then we like come back together but it’s not that we don’t talk or text or communicate it’s just we may not do it 247 it might be a day or two or hours in between and yeah I might be away for a couple days or a week or two or I might go see him for

17:42

the week he’s only like an hour away an hour and a half okay it’s not that far I just feel like you need to understand that what works for me may not work for you and you don’t have to follow someone else and everything that they say and do and let it go in one ear and out the other okay just be like oh okay cool don’t take everything they say even your friends like your best friends take what they have to say unless you’re living the life that you want to live don’t take everything they have to say to

18:06

Heart okay so hopefully that helps and the other thing about I will say selling and I’m going to make a video about this um which is why you should like subscribe and turn on that little bell icon if you haven’t already to be notified when I make new videos and check the link in the description below this video for all the goodies that I mentioned if I haven’t said that already um after this video is over but I want to make a video been asked about this a lot as about like the price of your

18:32

return on your time and investment okay not just money but your time and so sometimes the investment that you make on something is valuable in in terms of like brand awareness and then sometimes it’s valuable in terms of like putting money back in your pocket I listen to other people about what I shouldn’t put content out about what I should it’s killed off half my following it’s brought people to me it’s had I’ve had to literally rebuild my business because I was following these other people so

19:02

much and so that’s why I say do you boo works for me might not work for you there’s these other things that I want to share with you in life lessons so if you haven’t checked out the playlist the other things that I’ve talked about please please please watch that below this video but I just wanted to tell you if you are are feeling a certain way that’s kind of like why I created this channel is because I didn’t want to just be talking about my RV life on my other channel I wanted a place and a space to

19:28

where I could share more about me more about be more about blog and Brandy and more about my life and my story and this life advice so again if you like this stuff comment below be like I love this Brandy tell me your thoughts if you can relate to me and kind of where you’re coming from so I know and if you haven’t join my secret fan club and my email list please please please do that because you’re really the one that gets first tips on everything you know everything first before anyone else but

19:57

I’ll put a link to that below this video and you can tell me more about yourself so I know what to make content about not just what I feel like I need to talk about in this random videos I just wanted to talk to you about what works for me but not work for you and tell you how much I loved you and give you a little bit of Life advice that I just felt like God had laid on my heart today and so I’m Vlogging Brandy if we haven’t officially met I told you what to do subscribe like share tap the Bell icon

20:26

comment below join my fan club if you hav’t already all the goodies are in the description below if you aren’t checking that you’re missing all the fun stuff until the next time that’s where you can find all the good stuff as well as blog and brainy.com b l o g g i n g b r a n d i.com that’s where you can find everything else that I talked about as well so I don’t want to keep rambling but I just I hope that you’re liking these videos that are not as super like scripted as some of my other content

20:53

that I make I just kind of wanted to put this out there and just feel like somebody body needs to hear this from me so I love you and I’ll see you in the next video thanks for watching this one [Music]

>> BINGE WATCH ALL MY VIDEOS! <<

Affiliate Disclaimer Note that blog posts and pages throughout this website all contain affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned and support the website at no cost to you. While this website may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in no way obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support!
Updated: July 28, 2025
Tagged:

You Might Also Like

Add A Comment