Ep 209: Copywriting and Comedy: The Perfect Duo for Your Business

Make sure to email David Chudyk with your question david@parallelfinancial.com
You can find out more about Jill Pavlov by visiting her website copy-pop.com
Takeaways:
- We had our first comedian guest, Jill Pavlov, who brings humor to serious topics.
- This episode dives into how copywriting can enhance your business strategy effectively.
- Jill shared her journey in comedy and how laughter serves as a coping mechanism.
- We discussed the importance of understanding financial tools like credit cards to avoid costly mistakes.
- The conversation highlighted how humor can bridge tough financial discussions with clients.
- We emphasized the value of outsourcing tasks like copywriting to focus on business growth.
Mentioned in this episode:
00:00 - None
00:26 - Innovative Content and Copywriting
01:23 - The Role of Laughter in Financial Planning
12:32 - Transitioning from Comedy to Copywriting
18:12 - The Importance of Delegation for Business Owners
29:34 - The Impact of AI on Human Creativity
30:36 - Defining Wealth: Perspectives and Insights
Okay, so when was the last time you listened to a financial podcast like We Are that had a comedian as a guest?
Speaker AThis probably will be the first time, but I hope that you're going to enjoy this episode.
Speaker AI'm really trying to bring us some innovative content, and Jill Pavlov is hilarious, and I think this was a good episode.
Speaker AWe're going to talk about some funny things, but we're also going to talk about copywriting, which is a very important part of a business.
Speaker ASo if you're a business owner, you want to make sure to listen to this.
Speaker AAnd like I always say, I love bringing indirect financial planning tools to your business.
Speaker AI love bringing tools to you that could help you to run a more profitable business.
Speaker ACause indirectly, that becomes a financial planning topic.
Speaker ASo I hope that you enjoy this one.
Speaker AAnd here we go.
Speaker AWelcome to the weekly wealth podcast.
Speaker AI am certified financial planner David Chudick.
Speaker AThis podcast and my wealth management practice are both designed to help the mass affluent to live better lives by by how they handle their money.
Speaker AWe talk about financial strategies, prosperous mindsets, and simply how to build true wealth.
Speaker ASo come on and let's enjoy this journey together.
Speaker AAll right, everybody, welcome to this week's episode of the weekly wealth podcast.
Speaker AAnd this is going to be a crazy and hopefully not boring episode.
Speaker AWe have Jill Pavlov with us, and she is a comedian.
Speaker AFirst comedian that we've ever had on the show, other than.
Speaker AI tend to think of myself as a comedian without the actual being funny part.
Speaker AAnd she also is a copywriter.
Speaker ASo we're going to talk about some ways that copywriting can help your business.
Speaker AAnd anytime we can help your business, that is indirectly a financial planning tool.
Speaker ASo Jill has the toughest job in the world, and that's to make people laugh.
Speaker AAnd in today's world, there's a lot of crap going on, a lot of crazy stuff.
Speaker ASo I think laughter is the best medicine there is.
Speaker AAnd I don't know, comedians don't really get health insurance or anything, so the only medicine you can get is laughter because you're so poor and you don't have benefits and you can't afford to go to the doctor.
Speaker AIs that true?
Speaker BI mean, gosh, if only the laughter paid for my chiropractor, I'd be sitting up a lot straighter right now.
Speaker BOr maybe I wouldn't if I totally bombed or something.
Speaker BSometimes laughter is just as scarce as money.
Speaker BAll you need is one bad audience.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ASo tell me, as a comedian, like, how did you get into being a comedian?
Speaker AI Always love standup comedy, and I just think it's hilarious.
Speaker AEvery once in a while we go to the comedy club and there's nothing better than laughter.
Speaker ASo when did you.
Speaker AWhat did you fail at?
Speaker AWhat other job did you get fired from where you're like, man, I should probably just go into comedy.
Speaker AIt doesn't work.
Speaker BComedian was plan A the whole time.
Speaker BI come from a really funny family.
Speaker BI come from one of those family families where when tragedy strikes, we think, how do we laugh at this?
Speaker BBecause that's the only way to get through it.
Speaker BLaughter truly is medicine in the Pavlov family.
Speaker BAnd I also just always wanted to take the stage.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BI can't remember when it started because I just have always known that.
Speaker BSo I was just that typical theater kid.
Speaker BIf you've ever watched Glee, you probably know my personality right off the bat.
Speaker AOkay, I've never watched Glee, so we're gonna put that right out there.
Speaker AAs of this moment, literally never seen an episode.
Speaker BThere's gotta be some type of financial lesson.
Speaker BAnd Glee, it's gonna be in there.
Speaker BI'm gonna find it for you.
Speaker BI'm gonna send it to you.
Speaker AWe'll do another episode on the final episodes of Glee.
Speaker AThat's right.
Speaker ASo your first time on stage, were you sober?
Speaker AWere you drunk?
Speaker AWere you like.
Speaker BI could just imagine a standup stage.
Speaker AOn a standup stage.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI've been on many thinking, like, what if they don't laugh because your.
Speaker AYour stuff in your head funny, but other people may not like it.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BSo it's funny that you ask if I was drunk or if I was sober, because I actually stopped drinking alcohol back in 2018 and I didn't start stand up till 2022, so it was a completely sober venture.
Speaker BAnd I tell you, I don't really crave alcohol much, but sometimes I do wonder, would it make me or just a mess on the stage.
Speaker BI'm not gonna find out.
Speaker BDon't plan on that.
Speaker BBecause I've seen what it does to other people on the stage and usually it does not enhance them.
Speaker AYeah, we've seen a few that were not.
Speaker AThey thought they were funny, but they were not funny and they were slurring.
Speaker ASo what type of comedy do you do?
Speaker AWhat's your stick dial?
Speaker BYeah, I definitely tend to make fun of myself more than other people.
Speaker BIt's a little bit self deprecating.
Speaker BThat's definitely situational.
Speaker BI do talk about my sobriety.
Speaker BI talk about being a woman getting older.
Speaker BI talk about my mom growing up.
Speaker BJerry Seinfeld was my absolute hero and so I, I draw a lot from there.
Speaker BJust the absurdity of everyday situations has always been something that's made me laugh.
Speaker BSo I try to infuse that in my comedy as well.
Speaker AYeah, there is so much craziness in the world and things that just don't make sense and a lot of things like I'll have people tell me some of their money scenarios and it like literally doesn't make sense.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BMoney is such an emotional thing.
Speaker BI know.
Speaker BIt certainly is for me.
Speaker BThere's a lot of feelings behind it.
Speaker BWe put a lot of our worth into what were worth financially.
Speaker ASo you talked about self deprecating.
Speaker ATell me like one way that you just don't handle your money well or some stupid decision you've personally made other than being a comedian, which is probably a bad financial decision, or maybe it isn't, I don't know.
Speaker ABut what's one part of how you handle money that that is just.
Speaker AYou could poke fun at?
Speaker BIn the past and the not so distant past, I didn't know how credit cards worked.
Speaker BI basically like thought of it as free money, like not free money.
Speaker BI knew I had to pay it eventually, but I did not know it was sitting there racking up interest.
Speaker BI just thought, pay us back, it'll be fine.
Speaker ASo I just thought, yeah, that $20.
Speaker BA month and I'm good.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BOh yeah, that's true.
Speaker AAnd like in all seriousness, they say what you don't know can't hurt you, but that is totally not true.
Speaker AWhat you don't know can and absolutely will hurt you.
Speaker ASo just because you don't freaking understand credit card interest does not mean that it's not racking up and it's getting bigger.
Speaker AAnd that's going to create some problems, problems in your life.
Speaker AAnd I wish we would teach more of this stuff in school because people and even grown, grown adults just don't understand basic stuff.
Speaker BI absolutely agree.
Speaker BThey spend so much time like talking about stuff that you'll never ever learn about ever again.
Speaker BMesopotamia and like the mitochondria of the sell.
Speaker BDo you see how I'm in my fourth decade of life and I can still recall those things and they have not helped me in my life in any way, shape or form.
Speaker BBut a finance class really would have done something for me?
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker AI have twin high school seniors and the math that they're studying, it's not even math.
Speaker AThere's calculus and numbers and symbols and I'm cool with that.
Speaker AExcept for I deal in math every day, and I've never dealt with that kind of stuff, so it certainly, I don't think has geometry on man.
Speaker AAnd then if you end up getting, like, a government job, you don't really need math because you can just print money and budgets don't matter and not like private business where you actually have to spend less than you earn, or else it ultimately ends up.
Speaker AEnds up going backwards.
Speaker AAre you performing on a weekly basis or tell us a little bit about your career?
Speaker BNo, I'm not really performing on a weekly basis.
Speaker BI go in between stand up and improv and one of those people who probably spreads myself a little bit too thin.
Speaker AOkay, so what is the difference between standup and improv?
Speaker ALike, literally, I would say they're the same thing.
Speaker BNo.
Speaker BSo improv is typically done in a group.
Speaker BThere can be one person improv shows.
Speaker BI've seen them.
Speaker BBut improv, if you've ever.
Speaker BIf anyone listening has ever seen the show, Whose line is It Anyway?
Speaker BWhich is really cool.
Speaker BSo that's improv.
Speaker BIt's people getting up there, no script.
Speaker BNever practiced it before.
Speaker BPrompts come from the audience or the conductor, and you're just doing improv scenes together.
Speaker BSo that I've been doing far longer.
Speaker BAnd sketch comedy, which is another facet.
Speaker BAnd that's like your Saturday Night Live, where there's an actual script that you've rehearsed and you've prepared for.
Speaker BThat's another thing that I'm trained in.
Speaker BSo there's like, those three buckets of comedy.
Speaker BAnd of those three, I actually probably do stand up the least.
Speaker AReally?
Speaker AWhere does, like, not funny, podcast, financial podcast, guest comedy come in?
Speaker BYou know what?
Speaker BYou're in the right place.
Speaker AWe just started it, huh?
Speaker AI like it.
Speaker AI like it.
Speaker AWe're actually doing a team building exercise.
Speaker AMy office.
Speaker AWe're going to the Comedy Zone in our city in a couple weeks.
Speaker AAnd actually, I decided after talking to you a couple weeks ago, you know what?
Speaker AIt'd be fun to go to the Comedy Zone as a team.
Speaker AAnd there's nothing better than laughing at a great comedian.
Speaker BYeah, it just eases so much tension.
Speaker BLaughter is so good for your.
Speaker BIt's when someone's telling you something that's genuinely funny, your body just reacts.
Speaker BAnd it is.
Speaker BIt's a beautiful thing.
Speaker BAnd it's a beautiful thing to make people laugh.
Speaker BAnd that is.
Speaker BI say I'm sober, but that is absolutely my high.
Speaker BI did a standup show last night, and because I'm newer at stand up, I Tend to get a little bit more anxious when I perform it.
Speaker BSo before the show, I was like, you know what?
Speaker BI'm gonna take a break on stand up.
Speaker BThis has been too much.
Speaker BI'm taking on too much.
Speaker BI'm gonna take a step back, blah, blah.
Speaker BI got on that stage, I made people laugh, and I was like, all right, when's my next show?
Speaker AReally?
Speaker ANow?
Speaker AThat is awesome.
Speaker AHave you ever just like, totally bombed the show where people.
Speaker AYeah, she's.
Speaker BOh, yeah.
Speaker AReally?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BI challenge you to find a comedian who hasn't.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BEveryone gets an off audience, especially in the beginning.
Speaker BYou're doing open mics that are like coffee shops or bars, where even the show I did last night, there were some people there working on their laptops.
Speaker BThey weren't even there because it wasn't a theater, it was at a Cabo bar.
Speaker BSo sometimes you get people that aren't even there to laugh in the first place.
Speaker BAnd that just brings the mood down to everyone.
Speaker BThere's been times where I've just planned a whole set and I've gotten there and I've taken a look at the audience and I've been like, shit, this is not gonna hit for them.
Speaker BBut I don't have anything else prepared, so I just do it anyway.
Speaker BTake into account, just like with copywriting, which we'll talk about the audience.
Speaker BThe audience, who you're talking to.
Speaker BDepends.
Speaker AYeah, so I've always.
Speaker ALike, in a professional setting, I've used.
Speaker AObviously I'm not a comedian, or else you would have laughed, but I've always used some version of humor just to.
Speaker ATo get to maybe more serious topics.
Speaker ASo let's say you were a new client and we were talking about a need.
Speaker AYou might have a need for life insurance.
Speaker AAnd I could say, jill, if you were going to pass away, what amount of money would you like for your family to have?
Speaker AAnd you're like, I don't want to think about that.
Speaker AI don't want life insurance.
Speaker ABut if I make a joke, hey, if you got smashed by a truck and you're all over, like, they're scraping you off the road, what do you want your family to have, money wise, so they can keep paying their bills?
Speaker AAnd I think you would receive that as a human being a little bit better and then consider, like, maybe the dark facts that you may die one day.
Speaker ABut adding some humor in there, I think would get you to consider it and maybe as opposed to just shut down.
Speaker ABecause if I say, would you like to buy life insurance?
Speaker AWho wants life Insurance.
Speaker ANobody does.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd it's also so robotic, too.
Speaker BThat second approach, like, it made me feel more like I was talking to a human versus just trying to sell me something.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSales is just about having one big conversation and.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd humor.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI always joke that my.
Speaker AI have the spiritual gift of sarcasm and you go with it.
Speaker AAnd I think, I think that showing your personality is important.
Speaker AAnd I think making people smile just is always a good thing to the extent that you can do it.
Speaker ALet's talk like copywriting.
Speaker AThat's to me, that's one direction.
Speaker ALike, I'm talking to you in written word communication.
Speaker AAm I thinking about that correctly?
Speaker AIs that not correct?
Speaker AOr like, what is copywriting?
Speaker BYeah, I always take it for granted.
Speaker BThis even happened to me last night.
Speaker BThis woman that I met at the show, I was like, oh, yeah, my day job, I'm a copywriter.
Speaker BAnd she did what so many people.
Speaker ADo, which is she told you not to quit your day job.
Speaker AIs that what she said?
Speaker BI was just saying, hey, I'll be their comedian around here.
Speaker ANo, I'm trying.
Speaker AThis is stressful.
Speaker BYou did great.
Speaker BI was hysterical.
Speaker BSee, so this woman, she.
Speaker BShe did what a lot of people do, which is they automatically think trademarks registered, like copyrights, patents, which you do not want to come to me for anything in the legal world.
Speaker BAnd I know less about legal stuff than I do about finance.
Speaker BThat's not saying much.
Speaker BSo copywriting with a WR instead of just the R does cover all kinds of written communication.
Speaker BLike in the marketing world, the act of copywriting, I say, oh, it's email marketing, it's blogs.
Speaker BAnd that's kind of like the layman's term for almost like the physical things that you get.
Speaker BBut the actual art of copywriting is really about persuading your audience to do what you want them to.
Speaker BAbout.
Speaker BHow do I phrase this?
Speaker BSo that the person reading it either buys my project or buys my product or sets up a call or whatever it is that you want them to do.
Speaker BWhat is the words that you're going to use to get them there?
Speaker BAnd that's.
Speaker ASo does your copywriting tend to be on the funny side?
Speaker AOr.
Speaker AIf your client is not aiming for that, are you maybe, maybe not the bright person for them?
Speaker AOr how do you, like, get like, my personality and write for me?
Speaker BYeah, I'm right for anyone who wants to do things a little differently.
Speaker BBut that doesn't mean that we're like comedy all the time.
Speaker BThe beauty about being a comedian and, you know, also an Actress.
Speaker BBeing a theater major in college is that theater and acting and comedy, at the end of the day, it's all about psychology, and so is sales.
Speaker BBecause if I know.
Speaker BIf I'm a comedian, I have to know what makes you tick to know what makes you laugh.
Speaker BAnd in order to do that, I need to know what makes you do all the other emotions.
Speaker BIf I'm an actress studying a role, I need to know what motivates that person.
Speaker BI have to get inside their head.
Speaker BLike, actors and comedians are masters of getting inside people's heads.
Speaker BAnd I don't think people realize that.
Speaker BAnd I didn't really plan to have that be my whole thing about copywriting, but it just came together and made sense and just worked.
Speaker BYes, we can definitely do copy that's like, hysterically funny, but the difference is more just about really getting that message across in a psychologically driven way.
Speaker ASo if I'm a business owner or if I'm an executive in a business, and if I'm thinking, like, nobody can write and get my message across because I'm me and I'm not paying somebody to write something for me, like, how do you get past that?
Speaker ALike, somebody else can write my thoughts and my message better than I can, because, let's face it, I probably suck at it.
Speaker ABut most of us think that we're really good at what we're doing.
Speaker AAnd I could just see hiring a copywriter as being like, a really, like a control thing, that you'd have to give up control and be convinced that they can do the job that they're.
Speaker AThat they need to do.
Speaker ASo how do you get past that?
Speaker BYeah, I.
Speaker BThe answer is sometimes you don't.
Speaker BDefinitely.
Speaker BJust depends on the expectations of the client.
Speaker BBecause I think that people do have to realize that a hundred percent is never going to happen.
Speaker BI don't care how good you are.
Speaker BI can't.
Speaker BA hundred percent sounds like you.
Speaker BBut if I'm getting somewhere in that 90s range, like, the first off, it takes time to learn someone's quirks and stuff like that.
Speaker BAnd that's something that is an expectation.
Speaker BI said at the beginning, I say, I don't know if right away, if you don't like to use this word or if you prefer this word, that's something that's definitely learned.
Speaker BUm, and I usually set the expectation that after three months, it will be pretty hands off for my clients, and I will know their quirks and their idiosyncrasies.
Speaker BBy that time, we'll also have a lot of data, marketing data to see what's working in the voice and what's not working.
Speaker BLike what people are responding to.
Speaker BI have had a client walk away because her expectation was really high.
Speaker BShe really wanted me to sound exactly like her.
Speaker BAnd she even admitted it.
Speaker BShe was like, I think that I was looking for something that maybe doesn't exist.
Speaker BAnd as a business owner, you gotta decide what's more important.
Speaker BDo you.
Speaker BIs that 100% you voice really important or is having a little bit more time on your hands more worth it?
Speaker BAs long as it's strategic behind it.
Speaker BWhatever your answer is like, that's fine.
Speaker BLike you do you.
Speaker BBut that's basically how I've encountered it.
Speaker ASo interestingly, I love working with business owners because business owners, they like everything they have to do.
Speaker AThey have to write stuff, they have to clean the toilet if.
Speaker AOr they have to find a plumber who can fix the toilet.
Speaker AI've done both.
Speaker ALike, I've literally had to take a toilet apart in my office back when I was broke and.
Speaker AOr else nobody else can poop if they come in.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd then you have to hire fire.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker AYou have to hire and fire and provide your service and everything else.
Speaker ASo I think that business owners should work towards being.
Speaker ATo outsource as much as possible.
Speaker ASo things like bookkeeping, like most business owners shouldn't do bookkeeping.
Speaker AAnd I think that if you can, unless you love it and it's something that you really enjoy doing, I think that working towards getting copywriting off of your plate, I think would be a really good thing.
Speaker AAlthough with any type of delegation, I think there's like that psychological kind of.
Speaker AYou got to get past that fear of delegating and they're going to screw it up and they won't be as good as me.
Speaker ABut let's be honest, Most business owners think that they're awesome at everything and they're not.
Speaker ABecause if you ask the people that work with them, they'll be like, yeah, he's not that good.
Speaker BThat's very fair.
Speaker BAnd I, I fall into their.
Speaker BUnder that category of wanting to have control over everything.
Speaker BI totally get it.
Speaker BAnd that's why sometimes it, it just takes a few rounds of like, my work personally to show someone like, oh, okay, I can trust her, like, she's good.
Speaker BBut it is hard to convince people sometimes.
Speaker ASo what, do you work with specific types of businesses?
Speaker AOr are you better with certain industries or size businesses or anything like that?
Speaker BOh, size businesses.
Speaker BThat's an interesting question because I've definitely Been asked like if I work with specific industries and that answer is no.
Speaker BI think probably the defining trait amongst my people is that they are all like entrepreneurs.
Speaker BThey are typically smaller businesses and they just want to stand out, they want to do something different.
Speaker BThey're tired of like the chat GPT.
Speaker BLike they see that everyone else is using it and they understand that there's a better way.
Speaker BAnd they're all mostly the people that are strapped for time as well.
Speaker BAnd there may be people who have done it themselves before but now are ready to transfer that power over.
Speaker AYeah, no, that.
Speaker AAnd what's your process like?
Speaker AHow would you get to know my personality, my writing style, so that you can, so that you can effectively get my message out, the message that I would want out, but in a way that's not only as good as well as I could, but even better.
Speaker BYeah, I have a pretty extensive onboarding survey where I meet with my new client for an hour and just go through this questionnaire just really talking about them and their personality and tone, really what they solve for their customer, what sets them apart.
Speaker BVery extensive to get in there.
Speaker BAnd then from there it's just a little bit of trial and error.
Speaker BI can't say I've had anyone like really rip the voice apart or anything but again there's things like oh, I don't like this word or just little preferences here and there.
Speaker BI always edit until my client's happy.
Speaker BI'm never gonna let them walk away with something that they don't like.
Speaker BI keep it pretty simple and I just operate through Google Docs, have my clients just write their little suggestions and edits and everything in the comments and it works pretty smoothly for all of us.
Speaker AThat is really cool.
Speaker AI like it.
Speaker AAnd like I said, I think it's really important for entrepreneurs and business owners and business leaders to spend as much time doing the things that they are extremely capable of doing and doing the best that they can to offload everything else.
Speaker ABecause if you don't, you end up never getting to go home.
Speaker AOr when you do, you're so stressed out, you kick the dog, things aren't cool.
Speaker AAnd then you start thinking I'm just not really capable of doing everything that needs to be done.
Speaker AAnd that's why it's just another tip.
Speaker AEverybody needs to charge high enough prices to where they can afford a copywriter and they can afford a plumber or.
Speaker BThey could afford fitness economy.
Speaker AYeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker AEggs.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ASo I have twin, twin 17 year old boys and I actually do need to Borrow money from you to feed them because they're like all in the protein and working out and there's no cheap form of protein out there.
Speaker ASo we are.
Speaker AWe need to buy some chickens or something because it's.
Speaker AWell, thank God for Aldi.
Speaker AThat's all I have to say because Aldi is what's keeping us from going bankrupt.
Speaker BAnd I would loan you the money, but my mom's birthday is this weekend and I just bought her a birthday cake and they put a $5 egg surcharge on there.
Speaker BSo I'm.
Speaker BI'm tapped.
Speaker BI'm tapped out.
Speaker BThe egg surge.
Speaker ATapped.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ANo, that's not good.
Speaker AThis whole egg thing is getting crazy.
Speaker AAnd we buy lots of ground beef.
Speaker AOur kids, they're into this grass fed beef and me too.
Speaker BAnd it's so expensive.
Speaker BThat's what I eat too.
Speaker BI only.
Speaker BI got in the grass fed kick as well.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo I did the carnivore thing and Macaus are eaten.
Speaker BI gotta know.
Speaker ASo I went in 2023, I went to the doctor and I may appear to be like 6 foot 5 and ripped, but I'm actually like 5, 8 and pudgy.
Speaker ASo I went to the doctor and I was 207.
Speaker AAnd I can't even believe that I'm saying that 207 and my weight should never begin with a 2.
Speaker ASo anyway, so I did some research and actually my oldest son talked me into the carnivore thing.
Speaker ASo I did carnivore and dropped like 25 pounds.
Speaker ASo if it didn't have a face or a mother, I wouldn't eat it.
Speaker AAnd people say, oh, your cholesterol is good.
Speaker AAnd like dudes with boobs would be like, yeah, you need to eat more salad and you know you're going to die.
Speaker AI'm like, I'm actually starting to look decent and feel really good.
Speaker AYou keep eating your Oreos and your Doritos and I'm going to eat good quality grass fed meat and then we'll see who wins the race, I think.
Speaker BIs that also called the caveman diet?
Speaker AThe caveman I think is very similar, but I think they do add in some like berries and stuff.
Speaker AAnd I've gotten away from total to Geico.
Speaker AIt could be.
Speaker AYeah, in 15 minutes you can say, yeah, you say 15% on your meat maybe.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker BYeah, it's 15 pounds a week or something.
Speaker BYeah, something like that.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BWe're not an official.
Speaker BThis podcast is not an official sponsor.
Speaker ANot at all.
Speaker ANot at all.
Speaker AThat is really cool.
Speaker AI think it's exciting.
Speaker AIf somebody wanted to, if they're thinking there's this comedian, but I'm a serious person and she's really not that funny.
Speaker ASo I want her to write my serious stuff.
Speaker AHow would they find you or what is their process?
Speaker ADo you do consultations or how do.
Speaker AHow might they get started?
Speaker AJust a conversation with you.
Speaker BFirst off, if you don't think I'm funny, I might need to break your F word rule right now.
Speaker BI'm just kidding.
Speaker BWe're not breaking that today.
Speaker AYou would be the first.
Speaker AThis is, this will be episode like 210 and to my knowledge there's not been an F bomb on the weekly wealth podcast.
Speaker ASo it would be an honor if.
Speaker BNot a record I want to break like Adrian Hoodie breaking the record for the longest Oscar speech.
Speaker BNot a title I would want, but if you want the title of being one of my clients or perhaps seeing what I have to say.
Speaker BOne of my favorite things to do right off the bat and I offer it right off my website is website audits.
Speaker BSo I do these complimentary 15 minute website audits just to see what you're what first off, what you're selling.
Speaker BSome people sell more complicated things than others and have a really hard time phrasing exactly what it is that they do.
Speaker BAnd I love helping them clarify their message.
Speaker BIt's one of my favorite things.
Speaker BBut yeah, just going on the website and just seeing like what level of service they need.
Speaker BSome people are super beginner where they really need a lot of help and handholding and some people just need some polishing.
Speaker BSo I really go through and give some actionable suggestions.
Speaker BYou know my.
Speaker BSometimes I never see those people again and they go off and they take the suggestions.
Speaker BBut then sometimes we really mesh and we really vibe and I really truly believe that I can help them and usually end up becoming my clients.
Speaker ABut now, devil's advocate, why can't I just go to ChatGPT and say hey, write a write an email or write an ad for my products and services and isn't ChatGPT gonna replace you or am I thinking about that incorrectly?
Speaker BThis is one of my favorite subjects as someone who is a paid subscriber to ChatGPT, I cringe whenever I see copy that is clearly copy and pasted straight from ChatGPT.
Speaker BThere's so much wrong with it.
Speaker BI will 100% agree that ChatGPT is getting smarter by the day.
Speaker BI've seen it happen after using it for the past two years.
Speaker BHowever, there is still the human sense of humor.
Speaker BThe human kind of now, of course, I'm blanking on the word chatgpt probably knows it.
Speaker BJust like the human demeanor, there's certain things that ChatGPT just will never be able the human nuances.
Speaker BThat's the word I was looking for.
Speaker BCertain nuances of human conversation that a robot can't quite understand.
Speaker BThere's that element.
Speaker BThe other element is that and I'm seeing it more and more, people's copy is all starting to sound the same.
Speaker BNot only the same repetitive words, but I'm seeing the same formatting with the emojis, with those emo.
Speaker ALike nobody's ever used an emoji.
Speaker ALike a human being has never used them in a LinkedIn post.
Speaker BBut now usually for bullets.
Speaker BSometimes I get it, but it's just the way that it formats like the always at the end are you ready to blah blah blah, then blah blah blah.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd I understand the allure of wanting to save time on Chat GPT.
Speaker BI absolutely do.
Speaker BI admit I fell for it in the beginning.
Speaker BI was doing the copy and paste until I realized this.
Speaker BIt's all starting to sound the same.
Speaker BWhen it all starts to sound the same, it just becomes background noise that people ignore.
Speaker BIf you're sending out an email that turns people off and they unsubscribe, you're never going to get them back again.
Speaker BPeople don't subscribe to emails that they've unsubscribed to.
Speaker BIf people unfollow you because your content is boring and generic, they don't really give you a follow back.
Speaker BSo if you lose them, they're gone.
Speaker BYou it is so much better if you're feeling like you're drowning in content and you're not putting out enough so you're doing chatgpt to fill out your social media calendar, you're not doing yourself any favors.
Speaker BI do so much better on my own personal social media when I just write one really freaking awesome post from the heart like every two weeks.
Speaker BEven if you're like, just make one really good post.
Speaker BEspecially on LinkedIn, where they live forever.
Speaker BNot like Facebook that delete after a few days, they're gone.
Speaker BYou're just really doing yourself a disservice.
Speaker BIf you're putting out crap content because you're turning people off, you're saving time, but you're turning people off.
Speaker BAnd if you want to know the reason that I use Chat GPT, other than a business partner, to bounce ideas off of I'm like, hey, I want to do this venture.
Speaker BCan you help me put a business plan together?
Speaker BI love it for things like that.
Speaker BI also use it for things like research or sometimes structure, but I'm always going in there and making sure that it sounds like a human.
Speaker BAt the end of the day, I'm completely, completely reworking all the wording in there.
Speaker BIt's usually more for structure and subject matter.
Speaker AAwesome.
Speaker AI love it.
Speaker BNo, that's, that was my 20,000 minute spiel on chat GPT and I think.
Speaker AArtificial intelligence isn't, first of all, it's not going anywhere, so we need to deal with it.
Speaker AAnd I think sometimes it's a decent starting point for some things, but it's, it's never finished.
Speaker AI have an attorney that said they had.
Speaker AThere was some famous case where somebody just plugged a contract in and said, write a new contract and it was totally wrong.
Speaker AAnd I think the attorney like lost their license and because artificial intelligence certainly is not perfect, it may be a decent starting point, but it's nothing, nothing to finish with.
Speaker ASo tell me, what is your website and if they wanted to find you because it has some kind of really.
Speaker BCool colors, I don't even think I mentioned my business name, which is Copy Pop, because we give you that pop of personality.
Speaker BAnd again, it doesn't have to be a comedic personality, it's a pop of your personality.
Speaker BSo My website is copy copy-pop.com.
Speaker AI love it.
Speaker APretty cool stuff.
Speaker ASo, all right, now I'm going to put you on the spot and this is a question we didn't talk about.
Speaker AAnd I know I probably asked you to listen to an episode of the weekly wealth podcast, but probably like every other guest, you said you did and you lied and you didn't.
Speaker ASo now's where we get you.
Speaker ASo we're the Weekly Wealth Podcast and we talk about the mindsets, the tactics and the strategies that can help you to build and maintain wealth.
Speaker AJill Pavlov, what is your definition of wealth?
Speaker AWhat does wealth mean to you and to the people in your life that, that you love and that love you?
Speaker BI think wealth means being able to take care of and provide for the people that you hold nearest and dearest, whether they've taken care of and provided for you in the past or, or whether you're taking care of or providing for someone new.
Speaker BI think that wealth is really about that security and that peace of mind that no matter what stressors come your way, whether it's something with health or a natural disaster or any of the horrible things that come in life that you know that at least the financial aspects are under control.
Speaker AI love it.
Speaker ANo, I think that's true.
Speaker AMoney provides options.
Speaker AReally, that's all it does.
Speaker AIf I want to go see your standup show, and if I don't have the money, it's.
Speaker AI don't have the option to go.
Speaker AIf I do have the money, then I have the option to either go or not go.
Speaker AAnd that allows me to take care of.
Speaker AI have the options to take care of my family in different ways.
Speaker ASo money is incredibly.
Speaker AOr wealth is incredibly important.
Speaker AAnd I say it with all sincerity.
Speaker AWe have four parts of.
Speaker AWe have some parts of our lives we need to get right.
Speaker AWe need to get our spiritual health right.
Speaker AAnd there's some things that we need to do and maybe not do.
Speaker AWe need to get our relationship health right.
Speaker AAnd obviously with relationships, there are some things that you can do or not do to help you to have good relationships.
Speaker AThere's your physical health, certain things that you need to do or not do, and then there's your financial health.
Speaker AAnd they're all connected.
Speaker AAnd if you get them all right, you have a pretty good life.
Speaker AIf you get them all going in the right direction, you have a pretty good life.
Speaker AIf you're rich but you're £400 and everybody hates you, then that's not really a good life.
Speaker AEven though you have a lot of money.
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker BThat's why that phrase moneyness can't.
Speaker BMoneyness.
Speaker AMoneyness.
Speaker AYeah, says the copywriter.
Speaker AHold on, let me chat.
Speaker BGPT over her words like amateur hour over here.
Speaker BThen they say that money can't buy happiness.
Speaker BAnd I think that's the reason that phrase exists because.
Speaker BYeah, exactly.
Speaker BLike you said, you could have money, but you need so much, so many other things to make you whole.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker AThis was cool.
Speaker AI try to not be a boring financial podcast, and we try to have some pretty cool guests, but you are by far the coolest.
Speaker ASo this is.
Speaker BThey never said that to me in high school ever.
Speaker BNot once.
Speaker ASo you're not a loser.
Speaker AI don't care what anybody says about you.
Speaker BThat's for their Levin.
Speaker AThat's right.
Speaker ABut I love bringing solutions to business owners because anytime you can run your business better, that literally is a financial planning tool.
Speaker ASo you might not think copywriting and advertising is a financial planning tool, but if helped your business make more money, then yes, it is.
Speaker ASo go to copy-pop.com and click on Contact Jill and look at her website.
Speaker ALook at her services, look at her portfolio and then also so we're this is gonna come out sometime in March of 2025.
Speaker ASo where might anybody be able to see you comedically either in person or online?
Speaker BSee April 7, I have an improv show and that is down at just the Funny in Miami, Florida.
Speaker BBut that is the only thing I have on the calendar for right now.
Speaker BSometimes they pop up a little bit more last minute but usually my social media will keep everyone posted and that's all on my website as well.
Speaker AI love it.
Speaker APretty cool stuff.
Speaker ASo I hope everybody enjoyed this episode.
Speaker ASo go to copy-pop.com and also find Jill Pavlov on the Internet.
Speaker AFollow her.
Speaker AShe has some pretty cool stuff as far as some of the standup videos.
Speaker AAnd I really appreciate you coming on the show and sharing the fact that you literally didn't know what a credit card was because that's something to be pretty vulnerable about because I put it all out there.
Speaker BIf it made someone laugh, that makes me happy.
Speaker BAnd thank you so much for having me.
Speaker BThis has been so much fun.
Speaker BI can't wait to see your first stand up show.
Speaker BI will be in the audience.
Speaker AOh, it's coming.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI'm telling you, it's going to happen one day.
Speaker BFunny won't stop me because I will manifest it.
Speaker AI spoke, I did to the Lions club like literally 15 years ago.
Speaker AThere were like 12150 year old men at the Lions Club and one of them asked me to talk about long term care planning and they all honestly should have been dead already.
Speaker ASo like long term care wasn't an issue and I stood up and I was in my 30s, but I looked like I was 12 up until a few years ago.
Speaker ASo like this 12 year old looking dude stands up to the Lions Club and they're all serious and old and angry like at politics.
Speaker AAnd I said we're going to talk about long term care today and you can trust me because I'm not lying.
Speaker AAnd it that that didn't work well.
Speaker ASo that was a long speech.
Speaker AMy opening, when you're opening line bombs like that was not good.
Speaker BBut I'm gonna redeem myself right off the bat.
Speaker BIt's rough.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ASo the moral of a story is don't make bad jokes to really old people.
Speaker ABut anyway, so cool.
Speaker AAll right, Jill, I appreciate this.
Speaker AThis was awesome.
Speaker AThis was pretty exciting.
Speaker AMake sure you go to copy-pop.com and until next episode, I wish everybody a blessed week.
Speaker AThanks for coming on.
Speaker BBye everyone.
Speaker AAll righty.
Speaker AThank you.
Speaker BThank you so much.
Speaker AWell, cool.
Speaker AThat was cool.
Speaker AHold on, Wait.
Speaker ADo I want to stop recording?