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Speaker 1: Happy Yeah.
Speaker 2: We are taking you through all of the fabulous things
Speaker 2: we did last year and what's on the cars for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I can't believe it's twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: doll dealmian do. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, good morning and good year.
Speaker 2: To you, Matt, goodyear, Darly. It's good to be here
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: It's good to see me.
Speaker 1: Hasn't he since last year? I fucking love that joke.
Speaker 1: It's such a dad joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so stoop well, welcome today's episode. We thought we'd
Speaker 2: take it easy. I mean, we're we're obviously having some downtime.
Speaker 2: You're having some downtime during this little Christmas New Year break,
Speaker 2: So we thought we take it easy for our first
Speaker 2: episode of the year. Last year, you'll know we did,
Speaker 2: like you know, my Year of Health episode, I spoke
Speaker 2: about like my word of the year that I do
Speaker 2: every year. I'll reveal all that to you soon. Brittany's
Speaker 2: going to take us through all the things from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four and maybe what's on the cards in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, since.
Speaker 1: We're just getting personal this episode. Yeah, so I think everyone
Speaker 1: loves I love hearing about our personal lives.
Speaker 2: I'm loving, I'm loving, I'm loving. Would you like to
Speaker 2: go first with anything in particular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just do a little reflection on our on
Speaker 1: last year on twenty twenty four. So my twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four I don't remember what I was going into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, whiz like you know how you have your
Speaker 1: word of the year. I can't even remember, like what
Speaker 1: I set my intention of the year to be.
Speaker 2: I think you from memory said you wanted to make
Speaker 2: more friends, did I?
Speaker 1: I think so I didn't make any fucking friends because
Speaker 1: it turned into a year of like I've never worked
Speaker 1: more in my fucking life. I've never hustled harder. I
Speaker 1: think I knew that was coming and I'd do it
Speaker 1: to myself. But you know what, it all paid off
Speaker 1: in the end. Like it was just a banger of
Speaker 1: a year, and all I did was work, work, fucking work.
Speaker 1: But when you're running a business, that's the best thing
Speaker 1: to be doing because you're going to set yourself up
Speaker 1: for success.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can retire one day anyway, exactly, retirement forwards, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yes? Or maybe did I say that I want
Speaker 1: to retire as my goal?
Speaker 2: I went for that yacht Ye, yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: But moving into this year, I I say this, and
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to look back in a year
Speaker 1: from now when we're doing our update next year, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to have done the opposite. But I really
Speaker 1: want this to be the year that I reap the
Speaker 1: benefits of all the hard work that I've done. Nice,
Speaker 1: And I feel kind of wrong for saying that, Like
Speaker 1: I feel a bit guilty or whatever, because I think
Speaker 1: you get like guilt about I don't know, owning a
Speaker 1: business and it being successful.
Speaker 2: In Australia as well. The tall puppy syndrome. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: want to I want to cost syndrome.
Speaker 1: I want to say that I want to sit back
Speaker 1: and like let my business do its thing. Because I've
Speaker 1: gotten it to where it is now, I've got all
Speaker 1: of our amazing staff in place. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to take a step back and just watch it do
Speaker 1: its thing and enjoy myself a little bit more.
Speaker 2: U huh.
Speaker 1: And I feel guilty saying that, but I really want
Speaker 1: to try and do that this year. I want to
Speaker 1: like let go of the rains a little bit.
Speaker 2: Did you go on a holiday in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 1: I only went to a wedding in Bali. For the wedding,
Speaker 1: I think we didn't go on any holidays AJ and I.
Speaker 1: So that's definitely on the cards for this year too.
Speaker 1: And that's part of the enjoying ourselves and I'm coming
Speaker 1: you are. And when I had a Christian Hull on
Speaker 1: my podcast last year, he was like, he said something
Speaker 1: to me, that's just like stuck with me because he
Speaker 1: loves everything that I do with fate and everything, and
Speaker 1: he's like, why are you fucking enjoying it? He's like,
Speaker 1: fucking well, he was going get out there and buy
Speaker 1: a Maserati and drive it around. I'm not obviously not
Speaker 1: going to buy a fucking Mazarati, but I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're right, because I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think when you're a business owner, you just get so
Speaker 1: into the hustle and there's no end to business, so
Speaker 1: you never feel satisfied or happy because there's always so
Speaker 1: much more that you can achieve. But I really want
Speaker 1: to try and not feel guilty guilty, and I want
Speaker 1: to try to just take a seat and go look
Speaker 1: what I've done, look where the business is, and I
Speaker 1: just want to fucking enjoy it rather than just always
Speaker 1: trying to fucking do the next thing. But I'm saying
Speaker 1: this now, and I reckon I'll just keep for I
Speaker 1: can work really hard, but I'd love to go on
Speaker 1: a holiday with AJ and just enjoy it. Take some
Speaker 1: days off. I never take a day off. I never
Speaker 1: have a fucking day off. I never have a sick day.
Speaker 1: I never have an annual leave day. I actually have
Speaker 1: annual leave.
Speaker 2: You just realizing that now, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: Well, I actually I haven't been getting a pay slip
Speaker 1: from Fate for all that long because for the first
Speaker 1: however many years of Fate, I didn't pay myself because
Speaker 1: I was still an influencer. But let me just look
Speaker 1: up Fate payslip because I get a payslip every week now.
Speaker 1: He's my most recent one. And I think it says
Speaker 1: on there how many hours of annual leve?
Speaker 3: You have?
Speaker 1: Two hundred and ninety nine hours?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: So that's how many annual leave hours?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 1: What's two hundred and ninety hour hours.
Speaker 2: In six weeks? Just over six weeks?
Speaker 1: So ever since like, that's not seven years worth of
Speaker 1: annual leave because AJ and I didn't start paying ourselves
Speaker 1: until two years ago or something. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many annual emails you rack up a year four weeks?
Speaker 1: So ye, I think AJ and I started paying ourselves
Speaker 1: two years ago or less. And I've never used any annually.
Speaker 1: So I've got two hundred and ninety nine hours there.
Speaker 1: I want to use all of that fun and pay
Speaker 1: myself annual leave and go on a holiday.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: So that's my I don't know what my word of
Speaker 1: the year is. Can you come up with a word
Speaker 1: for me? Like if I just want to take a
Speaker 1: step back, relax, enjoy, embrace, well reflect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might be able to steal my word of
Speaker 2: the year because it's it's kind of similar. But I'm
Speaker 2: thinking maybe your word of the year could be fulfillment. Yes,
Speaker 2: filment like that, And I don't want you to think
Speaker 2: that's fulfilling. Orders have filment in.
Speaker 1: My life, you know. Yeah, that's what I would love
Speaker 1: to do this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just feel fulfilled.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can make it happen.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: You just get so guilty like I couldn't. I've taken
Speaker 1: annual leave day.
Speaker 3: Never have.
Speaker 2: What you're having a bit of a breakdown now about
Speaker 2: never taking an annually day.
Speaker 1: Never take an annually day. I've never taken a sick day. Well,
Speaker 1: I've never had one sick pay or annual leave day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use it. Not the sickie fuck then, but
Speaker 1: the annual leave I'm using it. Even just taking a
Speaker 1: random annual leave day for no reason.
Speaker 2: I wanted nothing, but I in.
Speaker 1: My mind, I can't do that because then I think
Speaker 1: all my stuff are going to go. Well, where is she? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what she eating? She's just taken a day off.
Speaker 1: Like that's the fear that I have.
Speaker 2: They won't care. But it's you. It's You've got to
Speaker 2: switch that because yeah, even when I'm went to Fiji.
Speaker 2: I'm like sitting by the pool is a few years
Speaker 2: ago now, sitting by the pool with a cocktail gum.
Speaker 2: I'll just open the Gmail. I'll better just check the emails.
Speaker 3: What am I doing?
Speaker 1: I feel guilt that my staff are gonna think a
Speaker 1: certain way if I well.
Speaker 2: They can take their fucking annual leaf days and get
Speaker 2: on with that.
Speaker 1: And they do. They do take their annual leave days.
Speaker 1: It's just a me guilt thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. For well, I just want to remind you how
Speaker 2: long of a year twenty twenty four was. I want
Speaker 2: to remind you that in twenty twenty four I turned thirty.
Speaker 2: We did the Muscle Nation collab, Great Protein Water. We
Speaker 2: did Dancing Queen the tour. That was fabulous. I was
Speaker 2: in my cupping era. I had my gallstones. This is all.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, the reading journey took off. Yep,
Speaker 2: I too did not go on a single holiday except
Speaker 2: in Australia.
Speaker 1: You did where to the theme parks.
Speaker 2: But that was on a holiday. I was on a
Speaker 2: fucking tour. True, I just popped over to the theme
Speaker 2: park from the work trip. But I did go on
Speaker 2: I guess a holiday but it was a fucking terrible holiday.
Speaker 2: Remember I went on my first ever cruise that was
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. That feels like ten years.
Speaker 1: Ago, and you went camping for the first time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, not really a fucking holiday, babe, like you, babe.
Speaker 2: I want to be on a beach, yeah, with a margarita,
Speaker 2: like I don't want to be sailing in the Seven
Speaker 2: Seas and shitting in a hole like you know. I
Speaker 2: want to be on a holiday. I feel so more
Speaker 2: holidays for me this year. But I have word of
Speaker 2: the Year now. Last year, twenty twenty four was which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I feel like we should be going
Speaker 2: into twenty twenty four, Like I can't believe it's twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, but surely we were that far away from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three now, Like it's crazy to me, But
Speaker 2: my twenty twenty four word of the Year was transcend. Transcend,
Speaker 2: and I rarely believe that that came to fruition, as
Speaker 2: my words always do.
Speaker 1: Transcended right into the emergency room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, transcended in so many ways. So that just means
Speaker 2: exceed all expectations, do things bigger and better, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: And it'd like, you know, think about the Dancing Queen Tour.
Speaker 2: We put on what five shows, and I was like,
Speaker 2: fucking cost of living crisis. It'll be We'll be lucky
Speaker 2: to sell out these five shows up. So if fifteen
Speaker 2: sold out shows later, you know, transcend the vibes. I
Speaker 2: wish I could have transcendd onto a fucking holiday. But anyway,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that does matter. They transcend muscle Nation.
Speaker 2: At the start of twenty twenty four, I was just
Speaker 2: a customer. End of twenty twenty four, fucking bigger and
Speaker 2: better than anything else. I've released my own product with them,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We're transcending a bit of.
Speaker 1: A tangent here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go for your life.
Speaker 1: I just want to say so, like, speaking of collapse
Speaker 1: with brands, you can cut this out if you don't want,
Speaker 1: But I didn't know if it was worth putting in there.
Speaker 1: I got a dm on on Instagram just literally the
Speaker 1: other week from High Smile h nice and well, like,
Speaker 1: this is the most misleading thing that I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: and I want to see if you agree with me
Speaker 1: or not. Okay, this is nothing about New Year's is
Speaker 1: about a brand collab, but it just sparked the memory right,
Speaker 1: and as everyone knows, I don't work with brands. Like
Speaker 1: you go to my Instagram, there's no brand paid posts
Speaker 1: or whatever. But anyway, I got this message of high Smile, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, High Smile their ads very annoying, but
Speaker 1: I think that's like what they're famous for. So hey, Brittany,
Speaker 1: I hope you're well. My name's blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: I am part of the marketing team here at high Smile.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is so random. I thought I
Speaker 1: would get in touch after having an exciting discussion with
Speaker 1: our team which included creating you your very own custom
Speaker 1: flavored toothpaste, and straight away I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is like the Muscle Nation thing that Matt did with
Speaker 1: his great Protein water. Let me know some of your
Speaker 1: favorite flavors and the team will get working on something asap.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And I was like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: I don't really work with brands. When I started thinking
Speaker 1: this could be like an iconic collab, because maybe we
Speaker 1: could come up with an aesthetic toothpaste for the person
Speaker 1: that doesn't want to take their toothpaste off the bench
Speaker 1: kind of thing, I'm like, perfect, Yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 1: talk to them about this, like it won't hurt to
Speaker 1: just ask and see. I said, Hey, team, I'd love
Speaker 1: to set up a call to chat more. Would you
Speaker 1: mind sending me an email? I gave them my email
Speaker 1: Chat soon and she said, Hi, Brittany, perfect, I have
Speaker 1: just send an email across. I'm like cool, Like it
Speaker 1: won't hurt to fucking chat and see what this collab
Speaker 1: coming out with my own toothpaste is going to be.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know why it was worded like that.
Speaker 1: So then she sent me an email. Hey, Brittany, I
Speaker 1: hope you're well. It's blah blah blah. Here just following
Speaker 1: on from our conversation from Instagram. High Smile would love
Speaker 1: to make you your very own Glazed inspired I think
Speaker 1: I was meant to say Glazy inspired custom flavored toothpaste
Speaker 1: to enjoy. Please let me know if this is of
Speaker 1: interest and we will get working on this asap. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. And I'm like oh, and then I
Speaker 1: started thinking, oh, like a Glazy and High Smile collab,
Speaker 1: like that could be fun. And then I said, hey,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, thanks so much for reaching out. I'd
Speaker 1: love to jump on a call to learn more about
Speaker 1: how this collaboration would work. Do you have any tie
Speaker 1: available next week? She just goes, I Brittany lovely to
Speaker 1: hear from you. This would just be a gifting opportunity
Speaker 1: with no obligation to post. Please let me know if
Speaker 1: you are still interested.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just gonna make you a flavor toothpaste, like
Speaker 2: one tube of toothpaste just for you.
Speaker 1: But why did they make it come across like it
Speaker 1: was going to be a collab thing and like what
Speaker 1: I just say from the start high we would love
Speaker 1: to create you your own custom toothpaste that is just one
Speaker 1: toothpaste and a gift, Like it was so misleading and
Speaker 1: I'm like what, you just wasted everyone's time. Then I
Speaker 1: wrote back and said, sorry, I don't accept gifts. I
Speaker 1: thought this was a collab. I think the wording in
Speaker 1: that is has Ai written that because it sounded like
Speaker 1: you wanted to create a custom toothpaste in collaboration. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's my little side fucking story anyway, But is it
Speaker 1: not that that's the weirdest brand interaction I've ever had
Speaker 1: in my ten plus years. Really, like, just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing some gifting. Would you like a custom toothpasteh okay,
Speaker 1: mislead and made me think, oh, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a cool collab. Next minute, I.
Speaker 2: Smile clearly took transcend to the next level.
Speaker 1: Beest fucking thing, like what I just cut? Cut to
Speaker 1: the fucking chase here I am, send me an email.
Speaker 1: Let's arrange a call. I'd love to know more. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's just a gift. Well, why don't you just say that?
Speaker 1: Why don't you just say that? I hate people that
Speaker 1: aren't straight to the point.
Speaker 2: Because Britney's ran in the wed get to the fucking
Speaker 2: jingle going down Jesus first.
Speaker 1: Random anyway, high smo, sort your marketing out nice.
Speaker 2: Also back to my year was the year I started
Speaker 2: using cash again. Cash's king yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And cafe at a cafe by the way, and I
Speaker 1: saw they had a little sign that said cash is king.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love coffee And obviously I've spoken about it
Speaker 2: on the podcast before. It helped boost my savings, made
Speaker 2: me understand my money that little bit more. Jelevision on
Speaker 2: I've got a television, I talk about it. Hey it
Speaker 2: every second. Won't do it again. But that brings me
Speaker 2: to what I'm looking forward to. For twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: I've chosen my word of the year, and it's kind
Speaker 2: of similar to your vibe in a way. You're trying
Speaker 2: to take a step back and enjoy life more. I
Speaker 2: am in the same boat. I definitely want to do less.
Speaker 2: But for me, I really what's important for me in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five is I just want to feel real calm.
Speaker 2: I just don't want to I just feel like my
Speaker 2: brain towards the end of last year just always has
Speaker 2: so much noise in it, and I just have a
Speaker 2: million things I'm thinking about and I can't I've got
Speaker 2: too many things to think about, so I can't focus
Speaker 2: on one thing, you know what I'm saying. So my
Speaker 2: word for twenty twenty five is tranquility. Oh, tranquility.
Speaker 1: Some little rainforest sound.
Speaker 2: Effect, tranquility, Yes, please pop in some rainforest.
Speaker 1: Effect it like this from this moment on, Well, it says,
Speaker 1: I googled.
Speaker 4: I googled for you all what tranquility means, just so
Speaker 4: I could give you the definition. It is a peaceful,
Speaker 4: calm state without noise, violence, worry, living in peace and tranquility.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry about that, God drop my phone. Yeah, but tranquility,
Speaker 2: I think that's fun.
Speaker 3: I think that's nice. I just like it. I just
Speaker 3: obviously we've moved into the new house, no longer in
Speaker 3: an apartment. As you all know, I want to feel
Speaker 3: tranquil in my home. I want to feel calm in
Speaker 3: my home. I want to feel I want to feel calm.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard to be calm on the podcast,
Speaker 2: isn't it with Matt's around of the week. But that's
Speaker 2: all right. I can have aspects of untranquility as well.
Speaker 2: And look, it's the thing I've got to work on
Speaker 2: the whole year as well. I don't have to be
Speaker 2: tranquiled straight away. It can be tranquil. You know, by October.
Speaker 1: Something is turning into a tranquility podcast.
Speaker 2: But I'm hoping that my tranquility and your fulfillment, you know,
Speaker 2: they're on the same they're on the same path. But
Speaker 2: I feel like everyone at this pointing you need.
Speaker 1: Some tranquility, And yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I can feel that's going to resonate with a lot
Speaker 2: of people. Maybe tranquility will be because a lot of
Speaker 2: people like to transcend. Last year, they wanted to apply
Speaker 2: that to their lives. Let me know how you went,
Speaker 2: or whether you chose a different word. I'm always I
Speaker 2: love when people tell me about that word of the
Speaker 2: year and when they reflect on it and tell me
Speaker 2: what it applies.
Speaker 1: What do you say? My word is film for film.
Speaker 2: Brice, And so if you need tranquility is your word
Speaker 2: of the year. I'm happy for any of the scholars
Speaker 2: to adopt that if you need a bit of calmness,
Speaker 2: if you feel like your brain's got too much noise
Speaker 2: in it. But also maybe I just need fucking therapy.
Speaker 2: Who knows, Maybe that's something I'll work on in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to therapy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it didn't work.
Speaker 1: I've never been to therapy.
Speaker 2: I see. The thing with therapy is like it's.
Speaker 1: Where do you start when you go in like the
Speaker 1: first time? Like I'll tell you what someone who's never
Speaker 1: been in therapy. I always think, like, when you go
Speaker 1: in to see a therapist, so like do they sit
Speaker 1: you down and say, okay, so let's start at your childhood?
Speaker 1: Like is it literally like that?
Speaker 2: I think, sorry, no.
Speaker 1: Because therapists are like, well where do I fucking begin?
Speaker 1: Like fuck me?
Speaker 2: But I think they don't. They just tackle whatever you want.
Speaker 2: To talk about that day and then they'll get Like
Speaker 2: like my friends who go to therapy, I think it's
Speaker 2: like three four, five, six months until they're doing the
Speaker 2: childhood stuff because they've got to just get through all
Speaker 2: the other stuff and that the therapist has to you know,
Speaker 2: learn you. You can't just walk And I think that
Speaker 2: was my problem. I walked into their thinking this one
Speaker 2: session will fix me, and then it didn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: vibe with the therapist, and I went in our therapists
Speaker 2: not for me. Whereas now I've learned like you should
Speaker 2: shop around, like you feel the therapist.
Speaker 1: Years looking for the right therapist, which is wild, but
Speaker 1: it makes sense because you've got to find someone that
Speaker 1: you like. But fuck anyway, Matte, Look, we've got our
Speaker 1: words for the year. We're ready.
Speaker 2: We're ready to be tranquil and fulfilled. Yes, loving this
Speaker 2: for us. Let us know what your word of the
Speaker 2: year is in our broadcast channel if you've got one,
Speaker 2: and we will see you on Friday with an episode
Speaker 2: of Close Friends.
Speaker 1: That's all from us.
Speaker 2: That's all from us this week. Welcome to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Chin Chin, Happy New Year, YadA YadA, yahdah blah, blah blah. Right,
Speaker 2: it's five stars. Let's have a big year of Scrollers stole,
Speaker 2: Let's do lots of things. Should we do a live
Speaker 2: show this year? Yes, Scrollers live.
Speaker 1: It's a very tranquil of us. It's not true, but
Speaker 1: it will fulfill me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, there you go. We might try and get
Speaker 2: that on the cards for you this year, because we
Speaker 2: do want to do it. We're just very fucking busy.
Speaker 2: We will work it out anyway, love yall. We better
Speaker 2: let you guys, don't.
Speaker 4: I'm off to be calm at Drunkuell