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Speaker 1: Welcome to Healthy Ish.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning into the daily podcasts from Body and Soul.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Felicity Harley. Today we're joined by a

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Speaker 2: business growth strategist and coach, Bianca Monley. Back in the day,

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Speaker 2: she ran the uber successful food delivery service called Eat

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Speaker 2: Fit Food. We're exploring the idea of a circle of influence,

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Speaker 2: why you need to surround yourself with your right people,

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Speaker 2: and also how to make friends as an adult. Listening

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Speaker 2: to our sister podcast Extra Healthy Ish, where we talk

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Speaker 2: about how to manifest your success in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: You can grab that one wherever get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Banker, welcome back, Thank you, thank you n having you

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Speaker 1: on the podcast again. How are you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Really really wow, great to be here. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Now talk to us about the inner circle. I love

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Speaker 2: this quote. You've got new book. It's called that app Well.

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Speaker 2: It says the you are the average of the five

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Speaker 2: people you spend time with. Yes, what what isn't in

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Speaker 2: a circle and why is it important?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So if you kind of have a look about

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Speaker 3: your life and times that you may have had in

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Speaker 3: your life where there may be one or two people

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Speaker 3: or that are in you're in a circle who are

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Speaker 3: dragging you down, maybe not supporting your bigger ideas, not

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Speaker 3: lifting you. It can really have an effect on the

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Speaker 3: way we live in our life and not pursuing our

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Speaker 3: dreams and you know, not pursuing our health goals and

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Speaker 3: things like that. So it's really really important to take

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Speaker 3: notice of who is in you're in a circle. You

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Speaker 3: know those top five people that we have as friends.

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Speaker 3: I guess most people can't count them on more than

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Speaker 3: five five fingers, but you know who are they and

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Speaker 3: you know are they making you feel good? And are

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Speaker 3: they uplifting you and supporting your goals and dreams.

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Speaker 2: Has this been something I mean, you've been been successful

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Speaker 2: in business, has this been something that you've that has

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Speaker 2: developed if you've got old or has always been just

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Speaker 2: a kind of mancher that you live by.

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Speaker 1: I've developed it.

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Speaker 3: And when I first started my business, I mean I

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Speaker 3: was only twenty one, so I would take on anyone

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Speaker 3: who could help me, you know, make meals and deliver

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Speaker 3: them and whoever would help. And I found myself attracting

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Speaker 3: people to kind of want to help them and lift

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Speaker 3: them up. And you know, people who would always be late,

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Speaker 3: and then I'd give them another chance, and just constantly

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Speaker 3: hearing the stories and problems of what they were dealing

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Speaker 3: with and what it had as a result was I

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Speaker 3: was constantly dragged into you know, their life and.

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Speaker 1: What was going on with their drama. Yeah, their lives.

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Speaker 3: And their drama, and then I was pulled away from

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Speaker 3: creating you know, great things within the business because there

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Speaker 3: was always something wrong. So learning how to move people

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Speaker 3: on after you know, a couple of chances in business

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Speaker 3: was something I learned the hard way.

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Speaker 1: You do you have how does it work for you?

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Speaker 2: Do you have just five people who cross both business

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Speaker 2: in life or do they kind of mesh into.

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Speaker 3: Two or they I have a circle for business and

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Speaker 3: circle for life and then they probably you know, mix

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Speaker 1: Obviously.

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Speaker 3: You know, my family and my partner are all very

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Speaker 3: very supportive, and you know they cheer me on for everything,

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Speaker 3: which is incredible having that support in the home but

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Speaker 3: also in business. And you know, I constantly on a

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Speaker 3: Monday morning, I'm like, who do I look up to?

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Speaker 1: Who do I admire?

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Speaker 3: Who would I reach out to? And you know, through

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Speaker 3: social media and just providing positive comments and what people

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Speaker 3: are doing to you know, it will lift them as well,

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Speaker 3: and just making sure you're connecting with those people who

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it has to work both ways, right,

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Speaker 2: You need to lift people up, but you need people

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Speaker 2: to lift you up. You talked before about getting I

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Speaker 2: mean I hate saying getting rid of people, but letting

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Speaker 1: How do you how have you learned to do that?

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Speaker 3: Well, you can still be there for people, it's just

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Speaker 3: not necessarily helping to feed the drama. So instead of

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Speaker 3: engaging and giving advice or you know, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: relationship problems, Oh, you shouldn't be with him, or that's

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Speaker 3: dialogue around you know something supportive, Oh you know that's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's easy.

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Speaker 2: When you to get sucked into that negative conversation and

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you're there an hour later

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Speaker 2: and you're still talking about the same thing.

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Speaker 1: That's right, I guess right in your book, you.

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Speaker 2: Discuss well you write about ways to cultivate and in

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Speaker 2: a circle. One rate you're in a circle, which we've

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Speaker 2: probably talked about. To grow your network. Three, be clear

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Speaker 2: of what doesn't service your higher purpose.

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Speaker 1: Grow your network.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard or challenging when you to make friends

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Speaker 2: as an adult, to make connections.

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Speaker 1: How do you do it?

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Speaker 3: So one of the things that I do with my

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Speaker 3: feel really excited and you know motivated. So out of

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Speaker 3: those ten things, one of them might be going to

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Speaker 3: a pilates class. So by going to a pilates class,

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Speaker 3: it's something that's going to going to elevate you, make

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Speaker 3: you feel good. And when you go to a pilates class,

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Speaker 3: you know the people that you talk to taking five

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Speaker 3: What's going on for you today? So connecting with people

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Speaker 3: So making an effort to do something outside of what

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Speaker 2: And the good thing about you know, just taking those

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Speaker 2: that extra time at to say pilartis classes, you're probably

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Speaker 2: likely going to see the person again. Yeah, So you're

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Speaker 2: choosing an activity where you know you might not be

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Speaker 2: was on this podcast then reach out to me afterwards saying,

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Speaker 2: I know this might sound a bit weird, but I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to go for coffee?

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Speaker 2: And I thought that was really I really respect that

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, especially when we're all so busy and all struggling

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Speaker 2: there's that intangible connection to actually go and ask someone, Hey,

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: And I think social media is a really great way

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Speaker 3: with them on social media, and you'll be surprised how

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Speaker 3: many people you know reply back to you, and you

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Speaker 3: know they really appreciate that positive feedback.

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Speaker 1: So can we just pick up on the grow your network?

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Speaker 1: Is that?

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Speaker 2: How do you what advice do you give to people

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Speaker 2: to help grow their network, perhaps outside the inner circle?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I mean in regards to business or

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Speaker 3: in regards to you know, living, I guess a healthy

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Speaker 1: On the Healthiest podcast.

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Speaker 3: So doing things that you know make you feel good,

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Speaker 3: or you just did a marathon, you know, joining up

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Speaker 3: think are like minded that would be interested in running

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Speaker 3: I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who are setting

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Speaker 3: on zooms all the time. So, you know, joining a

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Speaker 3: group of like minded entrepreneurs where we do visionary sessions

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Speaker 1: Sounds an type of party. Yeah, it's so fun. It's

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Speaker 3: What you believe in and what you vision and vision,

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Speaker 3: visualize and manifest really really does come true. And especially

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Speaker 3: when you put it all, you know, onto a board

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Speaker 2: There's something there's a common spread through all your answers,

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Speaker 2: and that is actually meeting people in person. And I

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Speaker 2: You know, it can be ature, but go and when

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Speaker 2: you're there, it's amazing that connection that can happen when

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Speaker 3: Absolutely and we are all, you know, stuck behind computers

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Speaker 1: It is very easy these days.

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Speaker 3: But I notice a difference with my staff and my

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Speaker 3: business if we're doing a Zoom strategy session or we

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Speaker 3: personally personally connecting with people is huge. So you know,

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Speaker 3: who inspires you and just have a chat. You just

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Speaker 3: never know where things will go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you for making it in person in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Are you clear on who is in your inner circle?

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Speaker 2: Perhaps it does change over the years, Well mine certainly has, anyway,

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Speaker 2: something to think about as we move into twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: we can say that.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's nearly We're nearly there. Anyway.

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