Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This podcast is
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Speaker 1: a lawyer turned entrepreneur, co founder of Naked Harvest Supplements,
Speaker 1: and social media personality with a community of over three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. I grew up believing I had to pursue
Speaker 1: the safe option and fit into a mold others had
Speaker 1: created for me. But then I entered my corporate law
Speaker 1: job and I realized that settling for a reality that
Speaker 1: didn't set my soul on fire was something I was
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Speaker 1: wildest dreams and kick fear to the curb. Well, what
Speaker 1: are you waiting for? Let's rise and conquer. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of the Rise and Conquer podcast. Today,
Speaker 1: I've got a solo podcast and we are chatting basically,
Speaker 1: stop being a control freak. I know, there has been
Speaker 1: a lot of plans that are changing, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of uncertainty. There's a lot of people who they can't
Speaker 1: run their business as they usually would. You know, there's
Speaker 1: been travel plans and not happening in all that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. And as a control freak myself, I really
Speaker 1: just wanted to chat about kind of my headspace and
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling now compared to when everything first happened,
Speaker 1: and basically how I'm pivoting personally in business, and yeah,
Speaker 1: just have a chat about that because it is a
Speaker 1: super confusing time. I know, I'm going through like a
Speaker 1: rollercoaster of emotions. Like one day I'm like I'm fine,
Speaker 1: everything is fine, like this is all good, like I
Speaker 1: can get through this, and then the next day I'm
Speaker 1: like a total bull of anxiety and bit of a rex.
Speaker 1: So I know, you guys are probably feeling the same,
Speaker 1: and I just want to have a chat about when
Speaker 1: plans change and how to pivot. So let's get straight
Speaker 1: into it. I kind of have updated you guys just
Speaker 1: about I was feeling super overwhelmed when everything happening, just
Speaker 1: a small business owner with naked harvests and Tim you know,
Speaker 1: quit his job at the start of the year, so
Speaker 1: our income is solely both based on our online businesses,
Speaker 1: and so it's quite scary when you have two mortgages.
Speaker 1: And yeah, anyway, so I was a bit of a
Speaker 1: mess at the start, like I was really struggling to
Speaker 1: get my head around things. I was really in this
Speaker 1: lack mentality, and then I have kind of shifted out
Speaker 1: of that. I know, my last solo podcasts, which will
Speaker 1: be two before this, I kind of spoke about what
Speaker 1: I'm doing to shift into more higher positive vibes every
Speaker 1: single day, like I am noticing it's something I have
Speaker 1: to really be conscious and intentional about, whereas usually I'm
Speaker 1: just in that mood already. But I am shifting into that.
Speaker 1: So if you want some more tips on that, I
Speaker 1: would go listen to that podcast. So yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: shifting into gratitude and shifting into a higher vibe. Being
Speaker 1: very con just about that. And I just wanted to
Speaker 1: chat about it because I heard someone say the other day,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about where and when, but someone
Speaker 1: was saying, like, everything is so different, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, everything is the same. They were kind of explaining,
Speaker 1: like everything is so different in regards to how we
Speaker 1: usually do things, what is happening, how we're feeling, but
Speaker 1: the basic principles of being human, the basic principles of
Speaker 1: energy and law of attraction and all that sort of
Speaker 1: thing are the same. So that means is yes, in business,
Speaker 1: in our personal lives, plans have changed, things are different,
Speaker 1: but the same rules that I personally live by, which
Speaker 1: is like attracts, like law of attraction, what you focus
Speaker 1: on grows, that sort of side of things is the same.
Speaker 1: And if we keep like, if we go back to
Speaker 1: the principles at the basic principles, we work with that
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of trust in what is happening,
Speaker 1: we can get through this. And so within my personal
Speaker 1: life and my small businesses, this is such a time
Speaker 1: and I wanted to say this to you guys too,
Speaker 1: This is such a time to welcome change, to pivot,
Speaker 1: and to be very open minded. So I'll go first
Speaker 1: just through my personal life and explain that a bit
Speaker 1: and what I'm doing there, and then we'll get into business.
Speaker 1: So in my personal life, me and Tim had Europe booked.
Speaker 1: We haven't been there before, Like, we worked extremely hard
Speaker 1: last year and it was kind of like a big
Speaker 1: trip that we were looking for to we're going to
Speaker 1: take a month month off work. We had you know,
Speaker 1: got everyone ready so I wouldn't be working too much,
Speaker 1: which I haven't taken like a holiday where I'm not working,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't remember when. So we were planning Europe.
Speaker 1: And then also we had planned to go to New
Speaker 1: Zealand for my birthday in August. We also had like
Speaker 1: a lot of friend events on like the last couple
Speaker 1: of weekends. They would have already been gone, but I had,
Speaker 1: you know, engagement party Hens. Basically lots was happening socially,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be in Europe, like everything has changed.
Speaker 1: And also to be very transparent with you guys, me
Speaker 1: and Tim were thinking, like we had always said that
Speaker 1: we would try for children after we had like ticked
Speaker 1: you know, certain things off the list and a big
Speaker 1: thing and kind of the last thing for us was Europe.
Speaker 1: So we were thinking after New Zealand in August that
Speaker 1: we would maybe try for a little baby. And I
Speaker 1: am like not that maternal, so that took a lot
Speaker 1: for me to get my head around, and I think
Speaker 1: that now with everything happening, so we have rebooked our
Speaker 1: Europe trip for next year because our Europe trip was
Speaker 1: actually better based off a holiday that we were doing
Speaker 1: for Tim's brother's wedding, so he's replanned it for next year.
Speaker 1: So it's all basically pushed back a year. And yeah,
Speaker 1: for us, it's like kind of our holiday plans and
Speaker 1: then even like personal baby plans is like push back
Speaker 1: a year plus more. And yeah, I'm not that maternal,
Speaker 1: but then like now it's over a year. Way, like
Speaker 1: I feel very I think I got attached to the
Speaker 1: plan a lot, and I just like, yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: a bit sad about it. It feels weird because we
Speaker 1: just have no control. But these are like personal life decisions,
Speaker 1: so we're supposed to have control over us. So I
Speaker 1: totally get you if you are feeling the exact same way.
Speaker 1: So how I've kind of shifted and pivoted with this,
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, guys, like I sat in
Speaker 1: a lot of like sadness and confusion, and I just
Speaker 1: let myself feel those feelings and we are so allowed
Speaker 1: to do that. A big thing I want to kind
Speaker 1: of mention is however I'm feeling, however I'm expressing it
Speaker 1: to you. If you don't feel the same, or if
Speaker 1: you're feeling things differently, or if you're feeling them the same,
Speaker 1: it is okay. However we're feeling, It's just so okay
Speaker 1: because I know so many of us would just like
Speaker 1: be responding to this whole thing differently, and especially as
Speaker 1: a collective, there is a lot of emotions right now,
Speaker 1: so don't worry if you're getting all the feels or
Speaker 1: if you're not feeling it, etc. So yeah, I was
Speaker 1: definitely super sad, and I had a really crap couple
Speaker 1: of weeks just getting my head around it. But basically
Speaker 1: my whole thing is like I create my own reality.
Speaker 1: I get to work with the universe and create how
Speaker 1: I want my life, and I really need to trust
Speaker 1: that this is for a great reason and something better
Speaker 1: as happening. So when I like manifest and write goals.
Speaker 1: There's always something I say at the end, and I
Speaker 1: always like say my goal, I want it by this
Speaker 1: time or blah blah blah, and then I always say
Speaker 1: this or something better. So obviously I had these goals
Speaker 1: of traveling of maybe you know, trying for a child
Speaker 1: and all this sort of thing, but at the end
Speaker 1: I would be saying this or something better. So it's
Speaker 1: not that manifestation doesn't work, or like I can totally
Speaker 1: understand if you're losing faith in things. I totally get that.
Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to really sit in the or
Speaker 1: this is or something better. So I'm really just giving
Speaker 1: a lot of trust over to whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, God, universe, spirit, anything like that, and I'm
Speaker 1: just going, Okay, this is my current reality. Something better
Speaker 1: is happening, Like this happened for a reason, like maybe
Speaker 1: when we were supposed to go traveling in May, like
Speaker 1: something happened in Europe that wasn't that great, or the
Speaker 1: simple fact of you know, when we do travel next year,
Speaker 1: I am going to appreciate it so much more because
Speaker 1: it was like taken away from me. And I think
Speaker 1: that's also I've spoken to a lot of girls who
Speaker 1: you know, they had their wedding planned, like their wedding
Speaker 1: was a couple of weeks away and they had to
Speaker 1: cancel their wedding. And I just feel so much for
Speaker 1: people who have just had it's like devastation, that devastating feeling.
Speaker 1: I know, there's people who have lost people, and there's
Speaker 1: just there's a lot going on. And that's like I
Speaker 1: was messaging a girl and she was saying, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: my wedding was supposed to happen, and I was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to Italy from my honeymoon, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, look, when this is all over and we
Speaker 1: get to travel, we get to do our normal life,
Speaker 1: we are going to appreciate it so much more. We
Speaker 1: are going to be so much more present. So I
Speaker 1: am really just like looking at it from that angle,
Speaker 1: and also, to be completely honest, as someone who is
Speaker 1: not that maternal, it was like a nice kind of
Speaker 1: feeling to realize that I actually really did care about,
Speaker 1: you know, wanting to maybe try for a child or
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And so I'm just really looking
Speaker 1: at everything as a blessing and trusting that the universe
Speaker 1: has something better in store and just having faith This
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Speaker 1: let's get straight back into the episode. I want to
Speaker 1: chat a little more about the business side of stuff. So,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, I have an online business, Naked
Speaker 1: Harvest Natural Supplements, also obviously the podcast and then my
Speaker 1: personal brand. And yeah, for the first couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: I was in this mentality where I was like, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, no one's gonna buy anything from Naked Harvest.
Speaker 1: What have we done? Tim has just quit his job.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to sell the house. Like I was spiraling.
Speaker 1: I feel extremely lucky because it's not actually that much
Speaker 1: changed in the business because we are an online business,
Speaker 1: and I know there's lots of people who have it
Speaker 1: extremely worse. But I was just in this really weird
Speaker 1: place where I couldn't see out of my usual plans,
Speaker 1: and I think that is because I'm a control freak.
Speaker 1: So basically we sat down. I sat down with Mel
Speaker 1: and Cooper and we're all like, all right, this is happening.
Speaker 1: This is a real thing. How are we going to adapt?
Speaker 1: How are we going to pivot? And so we looked
Speaker 1: at Naked Harvest and we have been doing nhfit, which
Speaker 1: is a private Instagram account where we host workouts that
Speaker 1: are approved by a pt and programmed over a month.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a challenge, and we wanted to
Speaker 1: do that all home based, basically no equipment, just to
Speaker 1: suit everyone. And we started that, like we had that
Speaker 1: idea in December and it started in January, so we
Speaker 1: had already been building on this thing. And this is
Speaker 1: why guys like I really have faith in guided action,
Speaker 1: because I remember when I got that idea about NH fit,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, maybe we should do blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and it just seemed like such an odd,
Speaker 1: random idea. And now I look back and I know
Speaker 1: this sounds weird, but like that was such a guided
Speaker 1: decision anyway, getting back to it, so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have nh fit really focus on that, and then
Speaker 1: the overall vibe for the whole thing was like everyone
Speaker 1: is going through a huge change as a collective, we're
Speaker 1: going to be feeling a lot of feelings. And basically
Speaker 1: how we wanted to approach this as a business is
Speaker 1: we wanted to support our community. So we thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: what can we do in business to make sure Naked
Speaker 1: Harvest sustains because like this guy's like, we are going
Speaker 1: through a mini recession with everything happening, So it's like,
Speaker 1: what can we do so Naked Harvest survives and we
Speaker 1: can get through this? And then what can we do
Speaker 1: to support our community? Because that like, without our community,
Speaker 1: without our customers, we are nothing, So what can we
Speaker 1: do to support them? And that was our main thing,
Speaker 1: Like we literally wrote that down and so like some
Speaker 1: little shifts. Just as an example, we slowered the entry
Speaker 1: into nh fit so it used to be spend one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and now it's only spent eighty. We did
Speaker 1: free shipping for a week, and guys like with that
Speaker 1: free shipping like for example our samples, Like so we're
Speaker 1: doing free shipping on samples and how much they cost us?
Speaker 1: And then how much we have to pay for shipping
Speaker 1: for you guys to get it free. We were like
Speaker 1: just breaking even if not losing money. But the whole
Speaker 1: focus is on community. So it was like it was like,
Speaker 1: it's not even at this moment with business, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be focused on growth and like growing your profit and
Speaker 1: all that sort of thing. I would just really be
Speaker 1: focused on sustaining, keeping your customers, keeping your community happy,
Speaker 1: and supporting them. Like that's exactly what we're doing. Yep.
Speaker 1: So we dropped our entry into end h fit, we
Speaker 1: did free shipping, and then we also started the life workout.
Speaker 1: So we had this chat and we're like, okay, everyone
Speaker 1: is now working out from home. Yes we've got n
Speaker 1: h fit, but that is they've got to pay to
Speaker 1: get in it. So what can we offer the community
Speaker 1: completely for free, like you know, within our sphere of
Speaker 1: skills and professions. And I'm not a pet, but I
Speaker 1: obviously work out every single day, and so we came
Speaker 1: up with let's do live workouts with the community. It's
Speaker 1: good because you know, people are in isolation, so at
Speaker 1: least they feel like they're working out with someone and
Speaker 1: will create that community feel. That has been one of
Speaker 1: the best steps that we did because for me personally,
Speaker 1: I am loving the workouts so much because it is
Speaker 1: keeping me motivated, it is keeping me like really in
Speaker 1: tune with you guys and what you guys are doing.
Speaker 1: And then also it's like it helps with our end
Speaker 1: hate gang and all that sort of thing. So basically,
Speaker 1: for business wise, like my advice, in my personal opinion,
Speaker 1: I would just be thinking, how can you support your
Speaker 1: customer more than ever right now? Like what do they
Speaker 1: need right now from your profession or your set of skills,
Speaker 1: and how can you give that to them externally and
Speaker 1: online and for a pretty good price or like something
Speaker 1: that really gives value and support to them. And then
Speaker 1: also look at your business and think of how maybe
Speaker 1: you can pivot or just like throughout the real book
Speaker 1: and just see what works. Another thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about is for the last couple of months previous
Speaker 1: I have really been craving like connection with like minded
Speaker 1: people like community wise, and so I did last year
Speaker 1: three live podcast events with Maddie from The Healthy Hustlers,
Speaker 1: and we plan to well we don't know if it's
Speaker 1: going to happen now, but we plan to do them
Speaker 1: this year. Later in the year, so hopefully we can
Speaker 1: still do those, but I was really craving kind of
Speaker 1: like an intimate connection because obviously in the big events,
Speaker 1: like we can meet people after, but it's not like
Speaker 1: you get to sit down and have a chat. So
Speaker 1: me and mel were brainstorming and we thought of how
Speaker 1: we can do something like that. And so we actually
Speaker 1: had been planning this for a while, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: announce it. I think it like maybe this week. And
Speaker 1: we had actually planned like an intimate self development workshop
Speaker 1: day with me where I would meet up with like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe fifteen girls who all in the same
Speaker 1: headspace of wanting connection, of basically wanting to take the
Speaker 1: next step, interested in investing in themselves, interested in self development,
Speaker 1: and so I would take you through this day of
Speaker 1: basically the tools and formula I use at any like
Speaker 1: next step in my life. And so we had been
Speaker 1: planned this, We're about to announce it, and then everything
Speaker 1: happened and we were like, oh, okay, we obviously cannot
Speaker 1: do this because you know, it was going to be
Speaker 1: in this event space, and we had already got that
Speaker 1: all organized, and we you know, we want to be safe,
Speaker 1: we want to be complying with everything that is happening.
Speaker 1: We want to be flattening the curve. And also we
Speaker 1: don't know when this is going to finish. So instead
Speaker 1: of just like sitting there and being like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you know, my intimate workshop day is ruined. I can't
Speaker 1: do it. Me and Mel now are actually thinking of
Speaker 1: how can we take this externally online? And we have
Speaker 1: a pretty good kind of idea and direction we're currently
Speaker 1: planning it. So keep your eyes peeled if that kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like something that you would be interested in.
Speaker 1: And that is the whole thing, guys. It's kind of like, yup, okay,
Speaker 1: that's not happening. What can I do now? How can
Speaker 1: I bring this online? How can I do this externally?
Speaker 1: How can I support people during this time? That's basically
Speaker 1: what you want to be looking at. It's a pretty
Speaker 1: cool time to try different stuff, to get out of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone and to support people around you and
Speaker 1: just see what works, see what sticks. Like, don't get
Speaker 1: caught up too much in the what other people are
Speaker 1: doing or what you're supposed to do. For me. What
Speaker 1: I do in kind of like a crossroads is it's
Speaker 1: the best time to like get quiet, to make sure
Speaker 1: you're meditating, to make sure you're focusing on self care.
Speaker 1: I'm a big journaler, so I have been journaling so much,
Speaker 1: like every single day, I'm asking myself how I am,
Speaker 1: I'm checking in, I'm asking myself what I need today,
Speaker 1: and all that sort of thing. And I think another
Speaker 1: thing I just want to finish on is realizing that
Speaker 1: this time of stillness too might come at the perfect
Speaker 1: time for you to do nothing. So I know, personally,
Speaker 1: I just spoke about how I'm pivoting and base sickly
Speaker 1: instead of going on holidays and all these fun social plans,
Speaker 1: I'm getting more into my business that might be completely
Speaker 1: opposite to you, and this might be the perfect time
Speaker 1: to really chill out and slow down, because you know,
Speaker 1: maybe burnout was coming. Maybe this has happened to you
Speaker 1: at the exact right time of what you need. I
Speaker 1: was actually looking and a girl that I follow, I
Speaker 1: think she's like she's some sort of like life coach
Speaker 1: or something, and basically she was like, hey, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: actually taking a two week break off social media to
Speaker 1: really just like focus on myself. And she explained that
Speaker 1: she was going inwards and that's the feeling that she
Speaker 1: was getting was that, and so she really just was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to take this time to slow down,
Speaker 1: not be on here, do my own things. So like
Speaker 1: that is exactly what I want you guys to do,
Speaker 1: is not just be frantic and be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what have I got to do? What's everyone else doing?
Speaker 1: But go inwards and be like, Okay, what do I
Speaker 1: feel cool to do right now? Do I feel cool
Speaker 1: to start something new, to start working on something new,
Speaker 1: or to learn a new skill, or is it do
Speaker 1: I feel cool to actually take this time to really
Speaker 1: chill out, to actually do nothing, to go more inwards
Speaker 1: because it's going to be so different for everyone. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm going to wrap up this episode. I hope that
Speaker 1: was insightful or interesting to just give you an update
Speaker 1: on how I'm feeling, what I'm doing in business, and
Speaker 1: how I'm pivoting and dealing with change during this time.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for listening. I really appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys tuning in every single week. Sending you so
Speaker 1: much love. Guys. Bye, and that's a wrap on another
Speaker 1: episode of the Rise and Conquer podcast. I hope you
Speaker 1: got something valuable from it, and I want to say
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