Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Georgie Stephenson. I am a lawyer and health coach,
Speaker 1: social media influencer, wife, and dog mum. On the Rise
Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast, we dive deep into all things mindset, habits, career, health,
Speaker 1: relationships and more. This is a podcast for women who
Speaker 1: want to rise up to be the best version of themselves,
Speaker 1: who have big dreams in who are willing to put
Speaker 1: in the work to get there. I want to bring
Speaker 1: you the tools and actionable steps to feel confident in yourself,
Speaker 1: inspired to take bold action, and motivated to conquer your goals.
Speaker 1: Are you with me, girl friends, Let's rise and conquer. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Rise and Conquered Podcast. Today.
Speaker 1: I have a solo episode you, and this is kind
Speaker 1: of just off the whim. I was feeling very inspired
Speaker 1: about what we're about to chat about, and so I
Speaker 1: quickly grabbed my mic and I haven't really got any
Speaker 1: notes or anything. I usually have some dot points, but
Speaker 1: this is something that has come up because of a
Speaker 1: Facebook memory. And I absolutely love Facebook memories because it's
Speaker 1: like a time warp. I personally like I'm atrocious with
Speaker 1: time and I just kind of forget things and they
Speaker 1: pop up and you're like, oh, that was three years ago. Crazy.
Speaker 1: So something popped up and I screenshot at it, and
Speaker 1: then I was looking at my camera roll. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't this time last year. It was a couple of
Speaker 1: months back, and I screenshot at it. I think I
Speaker 1: wanted to post on my Instagram, but I just didn't.
Speaker 1: But it was a photo of me getting admitted as lawyer.
Speaker 1: And so that was literally just over a year ago.
Speaker 1: I was getting admitted as a lawyer, and I was
Speaker 1: just thinking, it's been just over a year. And in
Speaker 1: that year, I quit my safe corporate job. I didn't
Speaker 1: pursue law obviously, and I went off. I did my
Speaker 1: own thing. I hired my first employee, I released my
Speaker 1: intuitive eating ebook, I moved house, I spoken a couple
Speaker 1: of women events, and I also launched a company which
Speaker 1: I launched with my brother too. And it got me
Speaker 1: thinking that this was all because of a decision and
Speaker 1: a step I made that I didn't think was that
Speaker 1: pivot all, but now looking back, it was. And I
Speaker 1: remember just being so scared to take this step, and
Speaker 1: now looking back, that was the step that had this
Speaker 1: domino effect of me at the moment who I really
Speaker 1: feel like I've kind of stepped into where I'm meant
Speaker 1: to be, who I'm meant to be, and what I'm
Speaker 1: meant to be doing, which is like this really weird
Speaker 1: feeling that I have kind of trying to be like
Speaker 1: working through. But basically I'm gonna get into that with you,
Speaker 1: and I think this would be a really good podcast
Speaker 1: episode if you currently are sitting on something or you're
Speaker 1: scared to take a bold action or something like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, bear with me before we get into the
Speaker 1: actual episode. I do want to thank today's sponsors for
Speaker 1: this episode, which is Naked Harvest, which is my company
Speaker 1: that I co founded with my brother Cooper. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't been on Instagram or YouTube or anything like that,
Speaker 1: so me and my brother started a natural sports supplement company.
Speaker 1: And it feels so weird to say that it was.
Speaker 1: We've been working on it just under a year, so
Speaker 1: it's been a long time coming. And this started because,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, I'm really into my fitness and
Speaker 1: health and I love supplement to compliment my lifestyle. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you have to be treating your body right and working
Speaker 1: out and eating well, and I just find compliments can
Speaker 1: really elevate that if you're already doing those big block things.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because, like right at the start when
Speaker 1: I was doing YouTube, you'll see I'm like making my
Speaker 1: own pre workout, and I've got like all these different
Speaker 1: ingredients and I'm making my own. I get like the
Speaker 1: bear ingredients and make my own just because I couldn't
Speaker 1: find natural supplements that weren't filled with crap and like
Speaker 1: they didn't have the synthetic stimulants. I get anxiety very easily,
Speaker 1: so I just kind of have a sensitive nervous system,
Speaker 1: and because my life is already quite stressful, I don't
Speaker 1: need synthetic stimulants that kind of make my nervous system crash.
Speaker 1: So you can literally see me like making my own
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Speaker 1: And the reason why we say that is because I
Speaker 1: personally found that any pre workout I tried, like, you know,
Speaker 1: me and Tim would be taking the same pre workout
Speaker 1: and it would just be horrible. I'd either it would
Speaker 1: be too intense during the workout and I would feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, jittery, heart racing, or after the workout, I
Speaker 1: would get this really bad crash that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So basically, what we worked really hard on is creating
Speaker 1: a formula that is all natural. And if you guys
Speaker 1: have tried other natural pre workouts before, you'll know a
Speaker 1: lot of them. You're kind of like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is doing anything because they are all natural.
Speaker 1: So we really strive to create a formula we worked
Speaker 1: with food technicians of course that actually gave you that
Speaker 1: energy boost, but it wasn't going to have all the
Speaker 1: bad side effects of a normal pre workout. It was
Speaker 1: going to have that crash or anything like that. And
Speaker 1: this is like, obviously I'm a little bit biased, but
Speaker 1: this is the absolute best formula, like I just cannot
Speaker 1: explain to you. Like, also, it tastes great for a
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Speaker 1: hard on. And so basically it's no artificial colors, flavors, sweetness,
Speaker 1: it's vegan friendly, it's free from gluten, dairy, refined sugars,
Speaker 1: it's all natural. It has no synthetic stimulants. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of pre workouts I used to take like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be even able to pronounce the stimulants in them.
Speaker 1: They were not great. Yeah, so no hidden nasties, actually
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Speaker 1: bad side effects. So, if you guys want to check
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Speaker 1: all you have to do is put in Rise and
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Speaker 1: And that is just for my Rise and Conquer listeners. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I actually haven't given anyone a code anywhere, but you
Speaker 1: know how much I absolutely adore my podcast community. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate like everyone who shows up every week and listens,
Speaker 1: and I really feel like we're like on the same level.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so just a little thank you. Check it out,
Speaker 1: let me know what you think. Also, you can go
Speaker 1: follow our Instagram account which is just Naked Harvest Supplements.
Speaker 1: But yes, Okay, now let's get into the episode. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, this episode has really come about because
Speaker 1: I really feel like I'm at this point where if
Speaker 1: you told me like two years ago what I was
Speaker 1: doing right now, I wouldn't believe you at all. So
Speaker 1: two years ago, I definitely thought, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a family lawyer. I'm currently working in family law.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got this good job, I'm in this
Speaker 1: really good firm. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: I just studied for six years, this is what I'm
Speaker 1: doing sort of thing. And so basically there just came
Speaker 1: this point where I knew I will firstly like, I
Speaker 1: was not happy. I knew I wasn't happy, and I
Speaker 1: just knew that if I didn't follow what my gut
Speaker 1: was telling me and what I was feeling, I knew
Speaker 1: I would regret it. And so it just got to
Speaker 1: this point where I got admitted, and that's something I
Speaker 1: personally want to do. So I kind of had these
Speaker 1: feelings maybe six months before I got admitted, but I
Speaker 1: said to myself, I, you know, I've just studied six years,
Speaker 1: I've worked in this firm. Let's just get admitted. Get
Speaker 1: that certificate, finish this, and then I can decide if
Speaker 1: I am going to pursue law or if I'm going
Speaker 1: to do something else. And there was obviously also so
Speaker 1: a lot of noise. As you can imagine, I had
Speaker 1: just studied for five years, I was working full time
Speaker 1: in a really good law firm, and then I was
Speaker 1: also doing my pot and yeah, so you can imagine
Speaker 1: that sort of discussion that I had, even with my parents,
Speaker 1: like with people and just I remember their faces and
Speaker 1: they would just were like, so, You're not going to
Speaker 1: do law. And I knew it sounded silly to everyone else.
Speaker 1: I knew it didn't look like the best option. But
Speaker 1: then I also knew inside, like I was like, this
Speaker 1: is the step I have to take. And at that
Speaker 1: point I had no idea that I was going to
Speaker 1: do the ebook or Naked Harvest or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just knew that the current path I was on
Speaker 1: was not my path. Not that it wasn't my path,
Speaker 1: because I think to that point was, but I just
Speaker 1: knew it had finished, and I knew I needed to
Speaker 1: sort of start the next thing and take this bold
Speaker 1: action and take this step. And now looking back, it
Speaker 1: was that step that then had the domino effect of
Speaker 1: everything that has now gone on and happened in you know,
Speaker 1: just over a year. And it's funny because I'm really
Speaker 1: not that person who takes bold action, like looking back,
Speaker 1: like I'm a very safe human in regards of like
Speaker 1: even in high school when you're not really that mature,
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, I will do law because
Speaker 1: I know it's a well respected career. I know albiata
Speaker 1: provide for my family. I knew I could get the
Speaker 1: grades to get into that degree. Like it was a
Speaker 1: very well thought out decision, and it was safe for
Speaker 1: me personally, and I didn't even think once of what
Speaker 1: are my passions, like, what am I passionate about? What
Speaker 1: are my dreams? Like? What could I do in my
Speaker 1: life and feel really fulfilled? It was very much about
Speaker 1: the safe option and also what society viewed as I
Speaker 1: should do. And so I'm really like, I'm very much
Speaker 1: that safe human who stays in her lane and doesn't
Speaker 1: really dream big. So now looking back, it's even crazy
Speaker 1: that I took that action, but oh my god, guys,
Speaker 1: like that was the step that really made me obviously
Speaker 1: onto this path and really step into my power. And
Speaker 1: I absolutely love that saying. I'm currently looking at it
Speaker 1: on my vision board, and I really didn't know what
Speaker 1: it kind of meant till now because the person I
Speaker 1: was just over a year a year ago is so
Speaker 1: different and obviously, like that person briefly, she wasn't fake,
Speaker 1: she wasn't made up, she was still me. I'm just
Speaker 1: this like new, more authentic, elevated sort of person, like
Speaker 1: I feel more myself. And I know it's very normal
Speaker 1: for others to sort of feel like you should just
Speaker 1: follow suit, like you should not follow your dreams, not
Speaker 1: follow your passions, because you know, it's a silly idea,
Speaker 1: and society says we should go to university, get a
Speaker 1: safe job, but get a mortgage, and you know that's
Speaker 1: the whole process. And I just want to talk to
Speaker 1: you guys, because I want you to ask yourself. Are
Speaker 1: you currently not following a dream or a passion because
Speaker 1: you are scared of what people think? Or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you just spent a lot of time in a
Speaker 1: different sort of position like I did. I spent five
Speaker 1: years studying law and now I'm doing something completely different
Speaker 1: and the sort of logical side of my brain is like, wow,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You should do law, so I
Speaker 1: know others would feel the same, or maybe you're currently
Speaker 1: in a safe career where you feel comfortable, like you
Speaker 1: know exactly what you're doing every single day. You feel
Speaker 1: really comfortable and it's safe. So what I want you,
Speaker 1: guys to do, and this is something that I've done
Speaker 1: previously and something I often do actually when I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like I'm veering off my past. And I
Speaker 1: want you to get a notepad. Obviously you don't do
Speaker 1: this if you're driving. Pause this, get a notepad or
Speaker 1: do this another time, but I want you to sit
Speaker 1: down and write your ideal, your dream perfect day that
Speaker 1: includes you know your career, what you're doing, and I
Speaker 1: want you to write exactly what you're doing. I want
Speaker 1: you to write how you feel in that moment. And
Speaker 1: also I used to write a lot about my outside
Speaker 1: things in my life, so I would also write my
Speaker 1: morning routine, what that looked like, and then what I
Speaker 1: was doing during the day, and then what I was
Speaker 1: doing at night, and just kind of write your ideal
Speaker 1: day if you were living out your dream. And then
Speaker 1: I want you to kind of think about what you're
Speaker 1: doing now and really think if you are on the
Speaker 1: right path, or if you could be taking old action
Speaker 1: in your life to follow that dream, to really step
Speaker 1: into your power and make your life yours. And I
Speaker 1: know that sounds weird, but I don't know. It's like
Speaker 1: I didn't realize for so long. But I'm in control
Speaker 1: of my own life. I get to decide. And something
Speaker 1: that I remember thinking is like, we already get one life.
Speaker 1: And I know I don't want to be super deeper,
Speaker 1: but I remember thinking, we only get one life. Do
Speaker 1: I want to stay in this position where I know
Speaker 1: I'm not happy? Like when I was at my corporate job,
Speaker 1: like I looked around me and I didn't want the
Speaker 1: lives that the people had that I was around. I
Speaker 1: knew I wasn't happy, and I just knew I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing something else, Like intuitively, I just knew.
Speaker 1: And so I want you to just sort of think
Speaker 1: about this, and I guess this might be a little
Speaker 1: pep talk you need if you want to take that
Speaker 1: bold action. And I just could not recommend it enough
Speaker 1: because looking back, and if I didn't take that bold
Speaker 1: action to completely do a one eighty push away what
Speaker 1: I was supposed to do and sort of follow my
Speaker 1: dreams for my passions, I would not be where I
Speaker 1: am today. And it's not even about what I've done
Speaker 1: or anything like that, Like I know I say these
Speaker 1: sort of milestones or accomplishments, but it's more about how
Speaker 1: I feel. Like I said, I feel so authentically me
Speaker 1: and what I'm supposed to be doing, like it's just
Speaker 1: the best feeling. And so I want you to think
Speaker 1: about if you are currently planning it safe or if
Speaker 1: you can take this bold action and this first step,
Speaker 1: and I'm giving you permission to do it. And so
Speaker 1: I'm telling you now you're worthy of the success you crave.
Speaker 1: You're worthy of your dream life, whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: you get to decide your future and you have control
Speaker 1: of your life. I don't know who needs to hear this,
Speaker 1: but it's just something that's really been brought up lately
Speaker 1: with the launch of Naked Harvest. And I want you
Speaker 1: guys to be stepping into your power, to be rising
Speaker 1: and conquering, obviously, and I know it can be really
Speaker 1: hard sometimes I really get that. And something I like
Speaker 1: to think about is, for so long I very much
Speaker 1: was coasting life. And I want you to think about
Speaker 1: your life and think, am I just coasting life or
Speaker 1: am I really striving for what I want? Because personally,
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, I don't want to look back
Speaker 1: and just think, Wow, I was really coasting life. I
Speaker 1: really was not going after what I wanted. And something
Speaker 1: that I thought that will come up is I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you. The thing holding you back with
Speaker 1: this is the sense of belief that you don't have
Speaker 1: in yourself and also because of the lack of support
Speaker 1: you may have around you. And so it's funny. I
Speaker 1: was watching Brene Brown's Netflix special and it's so good, guys,
Speaker 1: you have to go watch it. She's amazing, And this
Speaker 1: quote really stuck out to me. And she was kind
Speaker 1: of explaining how she had just done her TED talk
Speaker 1: and she for people who don't know her, she is
Speaker 1: a researcher on vulnerability and shame and she did this
Speaker 1: TED talk about that, and she was saying she had
Speaker 1: these really horrible comments on like the TED talk basically
Speaker 1: went viral, and she had this really horrible comments and
Speaker 1: something that kind of got her out of that place
Speaker 1: where she was like freaking out about all these horrible
Speaker 1: things that were saying about her. And so she's got
Speaker 1: this quote and it's if you're not in the arena
Speaker 1: getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.
Speaker 1: And I love that because at the time when I
Speaker 1: was making this decision, I did have a lot of
Speaker 1: people surrounding me that did not believe in my decision,
Speaker 1: were quite negative with my choice. And I love this
Speaker 1: because basically the quote is saying that if these people
Speaker 1: who are giving you their opinions, who are showing lack
Speaker 1: of support, if they're not also like taking bold action
Speaker 1: and following their dreams, like their feedback and their opinion
Speaker 1: does not matter, And that's something I very much thought
Speaker 1: at the time. I just thought, I know you guys
Speaker 1: aren't happy. I know you guys are don't believe in
Speaker 1: this sort of thing, and that's okay. You just have
Speaker 1: to make sure you filter out those opinions. And also, guys,
Speaker 1: you have to be your own support. You have to
Speaker 1: believe in yourself and basically be your own cheerleader. And
Speaker 1: also something that may be stopping you is the fear
Speaker 1: of failing or messing up or this not being the
Speaker 1: right choice or route. And of course, of course you've
Speaker 1: got to feel that way. Like anything that is a
Speaker 1: big move always feels scary. And actually, there's another quote
Speaker 1: from Brene Brown, I literally love her guys, and it's
Speaker 1: there's no innovation and creativity without failure, period, which is
Speaker 1: so true. Like over this year, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: grown and learned so many lessons, and especially even stuff
Speaker 1: with Naked Harvest, Like this is my first business from
Speaker 1: the ground up. Obviously I have my personal brand, which
Speaker 1: is my own business, but this is my first like
Speaker 1: consumer business, and it's something I always wanted to do
Speaker 1: because obviously as an influencer, I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunities from brands, you know, to do a collaboration product
Speaker 1: and all that sort of thing. But for me, it
Speaker 1: is all about having my own choices and being able
Speaker 1: to run the company exactly how I'm like how obviously
Speaker 1: I say I, but me and Cooper want that was
Speaker 1: a really big thing for me. So stuff like we
Speaker 1: get to pick the delivery boxes, we get to pick
Speaker 1: the filling, like we chose by a degradable filling, and
Speaker 1: just like little choices like that, that is a big
Speaker 1: deal for me. So that's the whole reason why I
Speaker 1: really wanted to build this from the ground up and
Speaker 1: really be involved because to me like that was one
Speaker 1: of my passions. And don't get me wrong, you can
Speaker 1: imagine like I'm completely new at this, so there has
Speaker 1: been so many mistakes, so many lessons, but like that
Speaker 1: is the beauty of it. I personally, I love I
Speaker 1: love failing. I love making mistakes because you now know
Speaker 1: not how to do something and you find another way,
Speaker 1: and that's how you grow as a person. That's what
Speaker 1: creates you as a person, that's how you get better.
Speaker 1: So don't be afraid of failure at all. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to wrap this episode up now. I just really
Speaker 1: wanted to encourage you. If you are currently sitting in
Speaker 1: this place where you haven't taken the bold action, it
Speaker 1: intuitive you really feel like you want to, but you're scared.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to encourage you to do that because
Speaker 1: looking back, the bold action I talk in that small
Speaker 1: step just dominoed onto who I am today. And I
Speaker 1: honestly believe we're all put on this earth for a purpose.
Speaker 2: Like I don't believe we've put on this earth to
Speaker 2: get jobs, like nine to five jobs, Not that there's
Speaker 2: anything wrong with that, but like you know, have these
Speaker 2: jobs that we don't like always crave the weekends and
Speaker 2: just like die Like.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: the next step or this fold action is your purpose
Speaker 1: at all, Like I didn't think that personally. But if
Speaker 1: you're listening to your intuition, you need to have belief
Speaker 1: in yourself and this could be the stepping stone to
Speaker 1: whatever's next on the right path. I really really believe that.
Speaker 1: But yes, I am going to wrap this episode up.
Speaker 1: It is a short and sweet one. Me and Mel
Speaker 1: were talking and she was saying how she loves kind
Speaker 1: of short episodes, and I do agree. I love short
Speaker 1: podcast too, kind of like little stuff like this, like
Speaker 1: just little pep talk podcast. So if you did like it,
Speaker 1: please let me know, as I'd love your feedback on
Speaker 1: little podcasts like this. But I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1: I will see you in my next one. The next
Speaker 1: one is an interview with a very very exciting guess. Actually, also,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, if you know someone who
Speaker 1: might need this little talk, please past ask this episode
Speaker 1: or the podcast onto them. I would really appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they would really appreciate it too. But
Speaker 1: I hope you have an absolute amazing day or night
Speaker 1: whenever you're listening, and I will see you in the
Speaker 1: next episode. Thank you so much for listening in. If
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