Speaker 1: I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the
Speaker 1: land on which this episode is being recorded, the Komboo
Speaker 1: Marry people. We pay our respects to elders past, present
Speaker 1: and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and
Speaker 1: Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson,
Speaker 1: and this is the Rise and Conquer Podcast. This is
Speaker 1: the podcast where we ch have mindset, self development and
Speaker 1: becoming your higher self mix soon with a lot of laughs,
Speaker 1: plus behind the scenes of my life running two businesses
Speaker 1: and being among Think of us as the perfect combo
Speaker 1: of brunch with your besties mixed with self development. No
Speaker 1: matter where you are in your journey, We're here to
Speaker 1: help you be curious, pull yourself out, and embrace radical
Speaker 1: self awareness. If you're ready to get into the driver's
Speaker 1: seat of your own life and stop letting life pass
Speaker 1: you by, then you're in the right place. Hello everybody,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the podcast. Today we have an
Speaker 1: episode with Cooper Stevenson, my brother and co founder of
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest Supplements, and we are chatting about the importance
Speaker 1: of investing in yourself and how we have invested in
Speaker 1: ourselves over the years. If you are someone who has
Speaker 1: big dreams and you have been trying to decide whether
Speaker 1: you should book that retreat, do that course, hire that coach,
Speaker 1: you will love this episode. We take you through the
Speaker 1: exact process we use when you make these sorts of decisions,
Speaker 1: and we've made a lot of them. And in case
Speaker 1: you missed it, guys, we have just had the most
Speaker 1: exciting week here at RNC because last Tuesday we dropped
Speaker 1: in private episode for you guys saying how we are
Speaker 1: launching an app, so we're so excited. So if you
Speaker 1: didn't listen to it, bloody go back there, because that's
Speaker 1: very the big one, a big one, very important news.
Speaker 1: But it's called Rise and it's going to be available
Speaker 1: to download and subscribe on Ironc's fifth birthday, which is
Speaker 1: the eighth of feb Guys, I literally can't believe IRONC
Speaker 1: is five years old. I know, it's crazy, my swill
Speaker 1: baby five years old. Honestly, it feels like dent. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's so bloody exciting. So we're gonna pop a
Speaker 1: link in the show notes you can check it all
Speaker 1: out if you want to find more information. But basically,
Speaker 1: the app is all about being. It's gonna be your
Speaker 1: bloody mindset bestie in your pocket. So it's giving you
Speaker 1: the tools and resources so every single day you can
Speaker 1: tap into your highest self, you know, feel solid in
Speaker 1: yourself and do anything that you need to do to
Speaker 1: be the person that you need to be. Because we
Speaker 1: know it doesn't just happen with one course, one coaching session.
Speaker 1: It's consistency. Just like you would when you go to gym.
Speaker 1: You know, one class isn't going to change your life.
Speaker 1: You have to consistently show up. And that's the same
Speaker 1: concept with RISE. So yeah, we're so excited to Rise
Speaker 1: with you soon.
Speaker 2: I know, I have a downloaded on my phone and
Speaker 2: it's so surreal. Every time I look at it, I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's our app.
Speaker 1: It's an app. I know, I see it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who's that bloody professional at there? I know it's very exciting.
Speaker 1: But before we get into the show, a tear a
Speaker 1: weekly recommendation.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since we've done REX, so I
Speaker 2: have two Yes. Number one is it's almost February, so
Speaker 2: do your monthly audit if you've done it for your
Speaker 2: future self, the workbook, get on that smart. Yes, I
Speaker 2: started that on the weekend, but I do have a
Speaker 2: little bit to finish off. And then my second recommendation
Speaker 2: is a book cool tell Us more a Cord of
Speaker 2: Thorns and Roses.
Speaker 1: Oh, you guys have missed so much. So George's actually
Speaker 1: become a full time reader. She has. It's scary. It's
Speaker 1: actually scary how many books I've read over the hol days.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 1: I think I'm up to ten books now. I read
Speaker 1: two on the weekend, two books I read one per day. Fantasy. No, okay,
Speaker 1: that's I'm back to the real world. Oh okay, so guys,
Speaker 1: my my rex. I obviously we've already spoke about four
Speaker 1: Wing and Iron Flame. Been there, done that, love it. Obsessed,
Speaker 1: we can't wait for the next book. I've done the
Speaker 1: whole series of.
Speaker 2: Akata, which I've only done a book of.
Speaker 1: I'm honestly so disappointed. I'm obsessed with being in like
Speaker 1: a book world. I love it, and I've never been
Speaker 1: like I haven't been on social media because you're just
Speaker 1: so consumed. As soon as Ivy goes to bed, I'm like,
Speaker 1: see Tim, I'm bed reading and I just yeah, I'm obsessed, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm a book where I love that. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like last year where all we would
Speaker 1: recommend the same thing, and now this year it's gonna
Speaker 1: be all we recommend to books. Except all right, Cooper,
Speaker 1: let's get into investing in ourselves. First of all, welcome
Speaker 1: to the body. Thanks Jordan, thanks for being here. How
Speaker 1: was your yoga this morning?
Speaker 4: It was pretty hard. Actually I only had a few
Speaker 4: hours sleep, so very tough.
Speaker 1: I'm also a little bit daisly, so excuse that you
Speaker 1: was like, why don't you go and blow your nose?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I have a hundred times. It's really
Speaker 1: not that simple, Like shut up, all right, Coop. So
Speaker 1: today we are chatting about investing in ourselves, and this
Speaker 1: is because we do every single year and activation called
Speaker 1: the New Beginnings Grant where for a month, if you
Speaker 1: shop through Naked harvests, for every fifty dollars you spend,
Speaker 1: you gain a ticket entry into the grant where you
Speaker 1: can win ten thousand dollars to spend on your New beginnings.
Speaker 1: And this is something that we did. We started two
Speaker 1: years ago and we just wanted to give back to
Speaker 1: our end hate community because we know, like ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars is life changing and we are absolutely doing it
Speaker 1: again this year from Feb first to the end of
Speaker 1: feb Actually I think it's the twenty nine check the details,
Speaker 1: don't quote me, And basically we have decided to rebrand
Speaker 1: it and it is now called the Future You Fund,
Speaker 1: exact same concept, but we wanted to call it the
Speaker 1: Future You Fund because me and Cooper something that we
Speaker 1: have consistently done is invest in our future self and
Speaker 1: this is something that we did not grow up, our
Speaker 1: parents did, all the people around us do, and it's
Speaker 1: something that for example, I've seen Cooper really do in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and I've just seen such
Speaker 1: a difference in you as a human and your evolution
Speaker 1: and who you have become. And you know much myself
Speaker 1: of how I've invested in myself from way back in
Speaker 1: the day, from the very first time I spent fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a coach because I just believed in
Speaker 1: my visions so much and I remember being like so
Speaker 1: shit scared and so like, holy shite was Now if
Speaker 1: I could go back, of course, I would do it
Speaker 1: because it's got me to who I am today. But
Speaker 1: it's not normalized to spend money on yourself unless it's
Speaker 1: in like a very conventional way like a degree or
Speaker 1: tafe or like schooling or whatnot. So today we're doing
Speaker 1: an episode all about what investing in yourself means, how
Speaker 1: Me Cooper do it, how it's changed our lives, and
Speaker 1: just giving you guys some insight. Yeah, definitely, why don't
Speaker 1: we get straight into it, Cooper and just tat to
Speaker 1: us about like, let's just go back and forth about
Speaker 1: how we invest in ourselves can be like from really
Speaker 1: small to really big.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the smaller things I have always done, Jim,
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to do other stuff, but I've always
Speaker 4: been drawn to the gym and just wanting to be fit.
Speaker 4: When I was younger, it was more muscle, but now
Speaker 4: it's yeah, just to be fit and healthy. So I
Speaker 4: go to gym three times a week, and then yeah,
Speaker 4: the next thing is yoga.
Speaker 3: Big from yoga and.
Speaker 1: Just going back to the gym thing. You Know, what
Speaker 1: I think is interesting is I had almost a block
Speaker 1: because I also had a PET last year, and I
Speaker 1: had a bit of a block between getting a PTE
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh, but this class is that,
Speaker 1: you know, a cheaper Why would I get a PT.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have that.
Speaker 4: Definitely, back in the day I used to do the classes,
Speaker 4: I did prefer them because I just never trusted a
Speaker 4: PT and it was just too I didn't really want
Speaker 4: to be with someone and talk to them the whole time.
Speaker 4: Like you're a big group, you're with everyone, and it's
Speaker 4: more of a team thing. So it was just a
Speaker 4: lot more fun. But my PT that I've got now, Wade,
Speaker 4: he's the owner of the gym and he's a fitness scientist.
Speaker 4: So when I first it was really cool to get
Speaker 4: in with him because he's so busy, but I found
Speaker 4: that he looked at my body and my posture, and
Speaker 4: then we did the workouts and we always did stretches
Speaker 4: to stretch out certain muscles, and every every session we
Speaker 4: did was always different because you kind of always I've
Speaker 4: been to other pets and they do the same thing. Monday,
Speaker 4: you do back and buyers and stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: we just did so much different stuff because my body
Speaker 4: changed each day, so that I was just really lucky
Speaker 4: that I stumbled across that.
Speaker 1: But that's something you think, it's definitely worth it because
Speaker 1: it's so specific to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, very tailor made to my body. And what it needs.
Speaker 3: Like I was very arched over because.
Speaker 1: And stuff don't didn't.
Speaker 4: You, Yeah, back and neck pain. So he's strengthened my
Speaker 4: back and my neck and my lower back and then
Speaker 4: did chest and now I'm just like proportioned as I
Speaker 4: stand up. Yeah, it was really weird my chest. I
Speaker 4: used to have a big chest, but then I did
Speaker 4: that and it was like, oh, it's not big anymore
Speaker 4: because I'd straightened my posture. And then and then I
Speaker 4: was kind of like sticking my got at because of
Speaker 4: my lower back. And then I was like I just
Speaker 4: look like I'm really bloated, and he's like, it's just
Speaker 4: your posture. We'll fix that up. And then like brought
Speaker 4: my stomach in stronger, and then it was just all
Speaker 4: in life, continuous yeah, continuous line. So I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, I'll.
Speaker 3: Stay with it.
Speaker 1: All right, you got me at posture.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's been that's been massive to invest like that,
Speaker 4: Like I wouldn't change that.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 3: So that's the gym yoga.
Speaker 4: Yoga just opens up my whole body and I'm so
Speaker 4: much more flexible, so much my core strengths way stronger,
Speaker 4: and it's challenging and Georgia said discipline as well, and
Speaker 4: it's hot yoga.
Speaker 1: So I've done yoga classes where it's like more relaxing
Speaker 1: and calm. Whar as I found this year got to
Speaker 1: be it's very about like the poses and you get
Speaker 1: in the pose and you hold it and it feels
Speaker 1: like a discipline like it it feels really good.
Speaker 4: It just feels it's hard. It's hard, you're sweating. It's
Speaker 4: forty one or three degrees, like you're in a sauana. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what are your little things doing?
Speaker 1: So very similar, Jim, I'm like, I'm a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit of a workout slot right now. Sorry that
Speaker 1: language just in the way of I haven't been consistent
Speaker 1: with tears. I just haven't been consistent. I have been
Speaker 1: loving doing different things. So first of all, I got
Speaker 1: into pilates last year because I needed to like really
Speaker 1: calm my nervous system, and I was consistent with pilates.
Speaker 1: But I have noticed myself and obviously we did the
Speaker 1: twenty day challenge with Hustle and that was incredible, But
Speaker 1: I have noticed myself just like wanting to try different things.
Speaker 1: So it's like I've been doing like a strength session
Speaker 1: at a local gym that Tim goes through and really enjoys,
Speaker 1: and I'll just do like one of those, and then
Speaker 1: I might do like an at home pilates workout on
Speaker 1: the Tuesday because Tim goes to gym, so I've got
Speaker 1: to be at home and I just do it through
Speaker 1: the Hustle app And then on a Wednesday, I might
Speaker 1: do like a reformer class and I just book in
Speaker 1: because I just bought like ten classes. And then Thursday
Speaker 1: I might do a bit of yoga, and then on
Speaker 1: Friday I might just go for a walk or like
Speaker 1: a run. And I.
Speaker 3: Know, so all over the place. You're very normally.
Speaker 1: Usually I'm so routine, But Cooper my word for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four is like pleasure. So it's like what, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: what is going to bring me pleasure? And it's not
Speaker 1: just one thing right now. It's like dancing between all
Speaker 1: these and it's like literally the night before, I'm like
Speaker 1: what do I feel like doing? Sometimes it does bite
Speaker 1: me in the ass because some things are like already
Speaker 1: booked out, But I'm really leaning into this stage with
Speaker 1: my workouts to like what would feel good of my
Speaker 1: body tomorrow. And that's been really Yeah, that's been really
Speaker 1: serving me, and it's like I might go back into
Speaker 1: more consistency. But I really wanted to say this to
Speaker 1: you guys, because I've seen so much content on social
Speaker 1: media right now that is all about this like consistency
Speaker 1: and discipline and like you have to do it this
Speaker 1: way in order to you know, hit your new year goals,
Speaker 1: and I just don't agree with it. I think there's
Speaker 1: absolutely seasons where consistency is what you need. But if
Speaker 1: you're in a different season like me, where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just want to try different things and I want
Speaker 1: the movement to feel good, and that's what's going to
Speaker 1: serve me right now. Is like leaning into what feels good.
Speaker 1: It's okay to look different.
Speaker 4: I would say, and I would challenge that, but you
Speaker 4: said you're not consistent, but you're very much consistent because
Speaker 4: you look back from that and at a higher level
Speaker 4: and you're consistently wanting to listen to your body, feel
Speaker 4: happy and do it for yourself, and that's consistency. You're
Speaker 4: just doing it in a different way that you're not
Speaker 4: used to. Consistency might be in in people's head that
Speaker 4: I've got to do this and I've got to do that.
Speaker 4: Because that's this is how I'm going to get to
Speaker 4: my goal. But like the more higher level of that
Speaker 4: is I'm just going to be consistently sure love my
Speaker 4: body and happiness, Like that's the biggest like all this
Speaker 4: investment of what.
Speaker 1: We're doing, that's the point of it is.
Speaker 4: To be happy every day, and then that's a big
Speaker 4: thing a lot of people, Well.
Speaker 1: That's so true. I guess I am being very consistent
Speaker 1: because it's like a consistency to my pleasure to myself
Speaker 1: to that kind of like what would feel good rather
Speaker 1: than I have to do this workout because I paid
Speaker 1: for this membership or I had to do this thing,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it just feels really good at the moment
Speaker 1: to lean into that because it is very different, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm usually the opposite. Yeah, so that's kind of like
Speaker 1: my current workouts. On top of that, I'm huge on acupuncture.
Speaker 1: I started acupuncture when me and Tim were trying to
Speaker 1: conceive IVY, and it's all about like realigning your pathways
Speaker 1: and your energies and your hormones. And I just keep
Speaker 1: going back to it over the years, and I've been
Speaker 1: getting it consistently for maybe the last six months and
Speaker 1: not only is the appointment beautiful, because it's like you've
Speaker 1: just got to sit there needles inside you and you
Speaker 1: can't move, and so you have to be present and
Speaker 1: it's almost like in a meditative state. But I think
Speaker 1: there's also this like power to I'm here for myself,
Speaker 1: for my future self, and that always just feels really good.
Speaker 1: And so acupuncha has always been something I go back to.
Speaker 3: I get a massage every week.
Speaker 1: Love massages.
Speaker 3: Yeah, acupuncha.
Speaker 1: Have you tried it?
Speaker 3: I've tried it. Just don't feel indifferent.
Speaker 1: I'm also big on massages. One of my love languages
Speaker 1: is touch. Wa'ts your love language very similar and I
Speaker 1: reckon yours would also be quality time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like now having more of awareness, I've got
Speaker 4: a lot of love languages, all them. Yeah, like kind
Speaker 4: of love, skifts, love touch. Yeah, I don't know, just
Speaker 4: because you like, why not have all? Why do you
Speaker 4: have to have one?
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's just more what you vibe with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, so we both get massages. That is a
Speaker 1: huge one. Something I also want to get back into
Speaker 1: is hydro facials because that was something I was really
Speaker 1: in my glowy skin era last year, and I feel
Speaker 1: like being consistent. I only I get them done like
Speaker 1: every six to eight weeks. Oh and you know what else,
Speaker 1: I know, we're like focusing more in health. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this the other day. Two appointments that are
Speaker 1: like high maintenance appointments that help me be low maintenance
Speaker 1: is getting my eyebrows and lashes done, Like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, me too.
Speaker 1: Shut the fuck. But as a girl, I you know,
Speaker 1: I love not wearing makeup, and I will just use
Speaker 1: my summer skin glow drops. I'll have my eyebrows already done,
Speaker 1: my lash is tinted, I'll put a bit of lippy
Speaker 1: stuff on, and I'm like, good to go, and I
Speaker 1: feel presentable and I feel good. And that's just like
Speaker 1: an appointment that I'm like, oh this, this is something
Speaker 1: that I invest in to feel really good. I think
Speaker 1: those are.
Speaker 3: Use code Georgie. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: No, I use I say, don't, actually you don't put
Speaker 1: some skin in oil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have that every night.
Speaker 1: Don't actually you don't put the tear drops on your face.
Speaker 4: I did that once and then every once everyone called
Speaker 4: me out and I'm like, no, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 5: Everyone goes why is your face so And you're like,
Speaker 5: it actually did match your body, but I think it's
Speaker 5: just because we weren't used to it and it was
Speaker 5: so glowy, and everyone was like, why is your skin
Speaker 5: so glowy?
Speaker 4: Right now, it's investment that as I about a year ago,
Speaker 4: I stopped drinking and I started going on a real
Speaker 4: health kick, and that was a huge investment on myself
Speaker 4: because before that I was very pale and just not
Speaker 4: like that was one thing. Yeah, I didn't look just looked, yeah,
Speaker 4: just not healthy, I guess in my eyes and my
Speaker 4: skin was very white, and I just didn't I just
Speaker 4: looked tired. And since stopping alcohol, I yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I did say it on a podcast, but I started
Speaker 4: getting tan, and then when I started eating healthier, I
Speaker 4: got more tan. And then now like, yeah, I'm in
Speaker 4: the shower just with the ash. She's just like why
Speaker 4: so tan all the time, like she's just so used
Speaker 4: to me being wider and I.
Speaker 3: Just feel healthier, Like yeah, well.
Speaker 1: It's not really. I wouldn't actually call you ten, but
Speaker 1: it's like vibrancy. It's like you've got vibrancy back in
Speaker 1: your skin and body.
Speaker 4: That's because you're very but like for me, I'm like
Speaker 4: stoked because I'm investing in myself, in my health, in
Speaker 4: my body, because.
Speaker 3: You are what you eat. The Netflix thing I haven't watched.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I loved the drinking one. That is such
Speaker 1: a good I'm gonna get like a bit left field here.
Speaker 1: You know what has really helped like future me is
Speaker 1: really being conscious where and who I spend my time with.
Speaker 1: So it kind of happened once I had IVY and
Speaker 1: I just realized how much limited time I have. But
Speaker 1: a huge thing is like being conscious of like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, where am I spending my time and energy?
Speaker 1: Because I have got limited And when you think about it,
Speaker 1: like who you surround yourself with is the what's that
Speaker 1: saying of? Like the five people you surround yourself is
Speaker 1: like the average of like who you are. And so
Speaker 1: really being conscious about like investing in future you is
Speaker 1: actually being like where am I spending my time?
Speaker 4: You I've seen something online and it's show me your
Speaker 4: five friends and I'll show you your future.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's stuck in my head. So you look at
Speaker 4: them and what they're doing. Because everything's energy energy, So
Speaker 4: if you're around energy that's not going in the way
Speaker 4: you want to go.
Speaker 3: It's maybe time to.
Speaker 1: Leave that energy and you go in nowhere fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so that's a huge, huge one because it's influenced,
Speaker 4: like yeah, massive influence.
Speaker 1: Hugely runs off. All right, sorry, going back to investments
Speaker 1: because I went off. Let's talk about like the bigger
Speaker 1: investments we have made in our future selves. I said
Speaker 1: this at the start that one of my first big
Speaker 1: investments was I got like a life coach and well
Speaker 1: she was like live slash business. But again, it was
Speaker 1: at a time where I had just quit my corporate
Speaker 1: job and I really wanted to make this other thing work.
Speaker 1: And this was before Naked Harvest, before rn C, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I need some guidance, I need
Speaker 1: someone who has done the thing. Let me get help
Speaker 1: from someone who has done the thing. And it was
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and I remember being really shit
Speaker 1: scared and remember what I told you. You're like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck?
Speaker 4: But I remember you're telling me, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: do it, go girl, go and do it, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're very snot of and I yeah, I invested
Speaker 1: in my future self. And obviously then after that RNC
Speaker 1: came and h and that was like one of the
Speaker 1: best investments. And I'm so proud of myself because especially
Speaker 1: back then, like I know, the coaching world is a
Speaker 1: bit more prominent now, but it was not normal to
Speaker 1: spend that much money on a life coach or a
Speaker 1: business coach. And I did it, and it was literally
Speaker 1: the best thing I have done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like on that note, like fifty k was a
Speaker 4: lot for you, Like it was massive. But if there's
Speaker 4: someone that just fifty k is too much out of
Speaker 4: your just can't fathom it, Like do five grand, like
Speaker 4: or a couple grand whatever you think that is above
Speaker 4: what you're thinking. Because when you invest a lot of money,
Speaker 4: it kind of it turns in your brain that you
Speaker 4: have to make it work. And you just think, if
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this investment, it just has to work.
Speaker 4: There's no failure like this, like it just has to do.
Speaker 3: Other words, you.
Speaker 1: Just it ignites something in you. Yeah, we're like I
Speaker 1: am going to make this worth it, yes, and that
Speaker 1: like the actual price of it one hundred percent. You
Speaker 1: have to like live within your means and understand what
Speaker 1: is available to you. But one hundredcent Cooper, it's like
Speaker 1: it's almost that stretch of extra, st that little And
Speaker 1: this is something we consistently do where me and Cooper
Speaker 1: will absolutely take a risk that feels a little bit
Speaker 1: out of touch or like or a lot out of touch,
Speaker 1: and it pushes us and it drives us. And also
Speaker 1: I feel like you thrive off doing things that other
Speaker 1: people think you can't do.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it.
Speaker 4: I love people to say, yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 4: I talked to my dad last night and it's about
Speaker 4: a holiday, and you just said, how the hell can
Speaker 4: you spend that money?
Speaker 3: And I was like, yes, you're a sicker. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it just to really fuck with them.
Speaker 4: But that's the thing, Like money is money, Like it's
Speaker 4: just the thing when we are here for experiences, we're
Speaker 4: here to learn and those things you hold on. So
Speaker 4: like if you didn't want to do the five grand
Speaker 4: coach or something because you wanted to keep the five grand, Like,
Speaker 4: are you going to remember the coach or are you
Speaker 4: going to remember saving five grand? Like You're not going
Speaker 4: to remember that. You're going to remember the experience, the
Speaker 4: experience and what you got out of it, and you're
Speaker 4: going to hold that forever and then.
Speaker 1: That's so true.
Speaker 3: Love such a money block.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and should we absolutely do a whole episode of money.
Speaker 3: She should do more?
Speaker 1: Should we do a.
Speaker 3: Course might be controversial?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I love that and that and that's absolutely
Speaker 1: what we want to normalize in this episode of like
Speaker 1: investing in yourself, you are always going to be your
Speaker 1: best investment. Growing up personally, like with me and Cooper,
Speaker 1: I remember it was like if you're going to invest
Speaker 1: its property or It's like I remember growing up and
Speaker 1: like my whole goal in life was like do my degree,
Speaker 1: get a job, buy a house, get married, And I
Speaker 1: absolutely did all those things to the fucking tea. But
Speaker 1: now that I have like the other knowledge, I'm like,
Speaker 1: no life is about So it's I really like to
Speaker 1: like think of it a different way of like I
Speaker 1: am my best investment. When I went and spent that
Speaker 1: money on a life and business coach, again, it was
Speaker 1: like that feeling of like if anyone's gonna make it happen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it happen because I know myself and
Speaker 1: that was such that changed me, changed my brain chemistry
Speaker 1: as a person, and it and I think even it's
Speaker 1: like those small things. It's like the yoga and the
Speaker 1: acupuncture and like those little things of investing in yourself
Speaker 1: and the PT and mindset coach and my body coach
Speaker 1: and all those things.
Speaker 3: It's studying courses like all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to chat about what you're studying
Speaker 1: this year because that's a huge investment in yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I'm investing in doing my NLP course. So
Speaker 4: that's neuro linguistic programming, and it's yeah, to become a therapist,
Speaker 4: which I'm very unsure right now, just my confidence in that.
Speaker 3: I'm just not ready.
Speaker 4: But I'm gaining a lot of knowledge with the mind
Speaker 4: and how we think and using all of our senses
Speaker 4: and how we yeah, and that sort of thing and
Speaker 4: potentially yeah, go into more the trauma side, which we'll
Speaker 4: get on that later. But yeah, so that's a pretty
Speaker 4: good investment huge myself.
Speaker 1: And even that's even like I think about my law
Speaker 1: degree and that was a huge investment that I'm not
Speaker 1: currently utilizing, but it gave me so many skills and
Speaker 1: it gave me so much life knowledge. It's like the
Speaker 1: life and Business coach, like I probably don't use the
Speaker 1: exact knowledge that she gave me when you know, we
Speaker 1: did that container. But I have so much life knowledge
Speaker 1: and like lessons and like moments from that that I
Speaker 1: can now implement in what I do now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hugely.
Speaker 4: I think that's why that's a big part why you're
Speaker 4: so successful as well. Like it's definitely given you a
Speaker 4: lot of discipline and like doing all this studying and
Speaker 4: I've been talking to you that you're up studying every
Speaker 4: freaking day and I was just plumbing.
Speaker 1: But fun times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's given a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like it's never a waste even if you
Speaker 1: don't go and then live out the thing. What other
Speaker 1: investments do you invest in for yourself?
Speaker 4: Well, my biggest one that I've done is investing into
Speaker 4: his call a Mind Body Coach, and he deals with
Speaker 4: he does trauma therapy and toxins and toxin yeah, but
Speaker 4: he also does like your body and because he's a
Speaker 4: natural path as well and nutritionists and he's just got
Speaker 4: a lot of licenses and he has definitely changed my life.
Speaker 4: And it's been a wild ride for sure, dealing with
Speaker 4: like I didn't even know what trauma was. I just
Speaker 4: thought trauma was a pretty bad word, and it wasn't
Speaker 4: used at all. But what I've gained is that everyone
Speaker 4: has trauma, and it's people's traumas are different levels in
Speaker 4: everyone's head and different, but everyone has the same sort
Speaker 4: of level of trauma that we carry on that and
Speaker 4: aren't benefiting.
Speaker 1: Now you're kind of talking about it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be like, it doesn't have to be big tig trauma,
Speaker 1: like you see a parent die, like something horrific. It
Speaker 1: can just be trauma in the way of like maybe
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your parents' attention and they didn't
Speaker 1: give you what you needed in that moment, and then
Speaker 1: your body stores that as like rejection or not being seen,
Speaker 1: and it's something that gets stored in your body that
Speaker 1: you then react in a certain way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a big thing. When you're a child,
Speaker 4: we always put it in ourselves, and we blame ourselves
Speaker 4: because we don't have the knowledge to not like we
Speaker 4: just naturally have it into ourselves. We put it on
Speaker 4: our shoulders and then it's stored for a long time,
Speaker 4: and that's that's the trauma that kind of follows on
Speaker 4: as an adult. So doing that and life changing that
Speaker 4: was just Yeah, it's like I was thinking about it
Speaker 4: like to go with him, which does your self, It
Speaker 4: does your inner self because there's a lot of coaches
Speaker 4: business coaches, and there's all sorts of coaches that do
Speaker 4: the outside stuff. But if you invest into a coach
Speaker 4: in yourself, everything around you starts getting better, business, makes
Speaker 4: your relationship.
Speaker 1: It all starts with you.
Speaker 3: It all starts with you.
Speaker 4: So I like learned that the hard way because I've
Speaker 4: done other stuff and but yeah, that one has just
Speaker 4: flipped me upside down. Like the knowledge I've gained from that,
Speaker 4: and I'm able to talk a lot easier and better
Speaker 4: with everything that I do now. And it's it is from.
Speaker 1: You're a completely different person. Yeah, absolutely changed your life.
Speaker 1: But also like the investment of you taking because sometimes
Speaker 1: your sessions like four hours long, are they? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're you're you investing that sort of time out of
Speaker 1: your week is so huge and a lot of people
Speaker 1: like aren't prepared to do it or feel like they
Speaker 1: can't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's the funny part which a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't understand what it can give you.
Speaker 1: But like, well it's not normalized, is that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not, Well, no one knows about it. We
Speaker 4: didn't know about this stuff. We didn't know have this knowledge,
Speaker 4: And like I talked to our mom and dad, and
Speaker 4: I'm letting them know what I'm learning, and they're learning
Speaker 4: off what I've learned and changing their lives already, Like
Speaker 4: they've changed a lot since I've done it, and the
Speaker 4: people around me, and it's huge. But like we I
Speaker 4: was thinking that we invest so many other things external,
Speaker 4: like you said, the house and car and that sort
Speaker 4: of thing, and we were like put all of our
Speaker 4: money into something or maybe smaller like a car or
Speaker 4: even a holiday or something. When you can just sacrifice
Speaker 4: that one thing and invest in yourself and then from
Speaker 4: then on everything else is better, Like everything's like a
Speaker 4: domino happiness, and then you'll get those other things that
Speaker 4: you were gonna invest ten times tenfold on that. So
Speaker 4: I just I couldn't recommend enough to just invest yourself
Speaker 4: first and then do the rest later.
Speaker 3: Is that too too much?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, that's and then just do the rest after. No,
Speaker 1: but one hundred, it's not normalized to look at the
Speaker 1: internal things first and to focus on your internal things first.
Speaker 1: It's normalized to do the external things, to buy the house,
Speaker 1: to invest in those like the recognized education, because in society,
Speaker 1: that's what we're told you need to be successful. But
Speaker 1: it's like if you.
Speaker 4: Get the car, you get this status, and then when
Speaker 4: you get the house, you get this, and then you
Speaker 4: get whenever you.
Speaker 1: Read security, I don't feel different.
Speaker 3: I feel worse because I've got a bloody mortgage for
Speaker 3: the Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think that's like the biggest thing we want
Speaker 1: to want to push in this episode is just like
Speaker 1: realizing that when you invest in yourself, in the eternal
Speaker 1: in you, yeah, the return is tenfold. And I think
Speaker 1: also there's so much to be said about how starting
Speaker 1: with you, like you just said, Cooper, is such a
Speaker 1: catalyst for other things falling into place. Because when you're
Speaker 1: happy with you, when you're solid with who you are,
Speaker 1: when you feel good in your body, in your mind,
Speaker 1: everything else feels better. Yeah, Like everything else falls into place.
Speaker 1: And again, it's just not normalized to do it that way.
Speaker 4: No, definitely not. And it's a shame, Like it is
Speaker 4: a shame. It's a shame that our society.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't prioritize it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And because I have worked with the same or I'm
Speaker 1: still currently working with the same coach that Cooper has
Speaker 1: and absolutely life changing and also I have also I remember,
Speaker 1: I want to say, three years ago, I started seeing
Speaker 1: like a psychologist and even that I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: she was, you know, two hundred bucks an hour or
Speaker 1: something like that, and that was a stretch for me
Speaker 1: at that time financially. But I remember being like, it's
Speaker 1: not a nice place in my head, and I need
Speaker 1: to make it a nice place because I just I knew,
Speaker 1: like everything else would you know, like you said, fall
Speaker 1: into place. But that was also a huge thing because
Speaker 1: it's not normalized to see a psychologist unless you're like
Speaker 1: actually having a mental breakdown or like that's how it
Speaker 1: was in our childhood. And it's so even things like
Speaker 1: that that I've done on my journey that I'm like,
Speaker 1: I I am so grateful for investing in myself and
Speaker 1: taking that seriously. And that absolutely served me at the time,
Speaker 1: even though you know, now I'm doing something different, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing someone different. It's about understanding. It's like what do
Speaker 1: I need right now and how could I invest in
Speaker 1: myself for future me who's like six or twelve months
Speaker 1: down the track.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point that there's so many different
Speaker 4: therapists there's so many different therapists in the world, so
Speaker 4: trial it. If you go to one and it's just
Speaker 4: not working, get out, like, yeah, there's so.
Speaker 1: Many, don't don't then go oh, well all this boody
Speaker 1: mental health thing that don't work.
Speaker 4: Don't don't give up because I did do that and
Speaker 4: I even want your therapist.
Speaker 3: And it was the worst except in my life.
Speaker 4: But I didn't like it, but I gave up and
Speaker 4: I just thought, nah, I can fix it in myself,
Speaker 4: and then a couple of years down the track, not
Speaker 4: fix it help because when we have triggers that we
Speaker 4: have and things that come up, it is near impossible
Speaker 4: to fix them on your own. And that's very annoying,
Speaker 4: like you can try and help it, but deep down
Speaker 4: it's just it's too hard to get rid of.
Speaker 1: But well, I think it's even not like I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say. That's also another thing that I've noticed
Speaker 1: in our evolution is like normalize getting support and help,
Speaker 1: Whereas growing up it felt like I couldn't do that
Speaker 1: unless I was like at breaking point, Like I shouldn't
Speaker 1: get a pet because I was like somewhat fit. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't see a psychologist because I wasn't having a mental breakdown,
Speaker 1: Like it was almost like I needed to be on
Speaker 1: the extremes to feel worthy to invest in myself, whereas now,
Speaker 1: you know, at a period where I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: going to invest that. It's actually like something I did
Speaker 1: the other day is I've been to a couple of
Speaker 1: events and I met this really beautiful lady who she
Speaker 1: caters and she does like the catering for the events,
Speaker 1: and she's so she lives in Biobay. She's like so
Speaker 1: wholesome and she does like all whole foods. She gets
Speaker 1: all her food from the markets. She preps everything fresh
Speaker 1: and it's all made like with very simple like the
Speaker 1: salads are just like olive oil and vinegarette and herbs
Speaker 1: and anyway, we got her over to meal prep us
Speaker 1: for the week, and again that absolutely is an expense,
Speaker 1: where like if I told mom and dad they would
Speaker 1: be like, what the fuck go and just meal prep
Speaker 1: yourself for you know whatnot Like that's from my childhood ingrained,
Speaker 1: and I had to like have a conversation with myself
Speaker 1: and be like, well, you do struggle with your time, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and this is a priority for you, and this is
Speaker 1: something that's really going to help you and your family.
Speaker 1: And it feels really good and it feels like the
Speaker 1: energy that I want to be in. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, no, this is an invest investment that I
Speaker 1: want to make for myself, even though it's like not
Speaker 1: how I thought I should be or you know in
Speaker 1: my Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Like that is hard probably
Speaker 4: to hear from other people because they probably can't do it,
Speaker 4: but doing it yourself and getting like that the meal
Speaker 4: preps and going to that investing in yourself with good nutrition, food,
Speaker 4: take the time and the journey you're on now, like
Speaker 4: you can do it and you shouldn't feel guilty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's for that's what comes in. It's guilt, yeah,
Speaker 1: of like I shouldn't be doing this and.
Speaker 3: That that can stem back from our parents.
Speaker 1: But just blame everything on your parents.
Speaker 3: That's what we do.
Speaker 1: But it's not absolutely take her to.
Speaker 4: It's in yourself. But it's okay, And yeah, but that's
Speaker 4: so good that you're able to do that, and like
Speaker 4: you might have a bit of guilt there, but you
Speaker 4: still did it.
Speaker 3: So it's not enough.
Speaker 4: And you've changed a lot since going to the mind,
Speaker 4: body coach, like you're a different person as well, So
Speaker 4: like you, I always tell you lately that you're just
Speaker 4: completely different and like consistently being happy and free flowing.
Speaker 4: It's like weird a mere but it's so nice to
Speaker 4: be around, and it's I'm getting such good energy from you,
Speaker 4: especially in business when shit does hit the fan and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, how are we going to do next month? And
Speaker 3: You're like, it's all good, It'll come to work, Universe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm like, lord, but then it does work,
Speaker 4: and then I've slowly like I am pretty good. But
Speaker 4: I think it's because you've always been that person. Now
Speaker 4: you're not. I have to take it on board. But
Speaker 4: then now I'm following in your footsteps of that's it
Speaker 4: all happened for us.
Speaker 1: That was the biggest thing that I worked on with
Speaker 1: my body coaches, like my need to control an outcome
Speaker 1: and to be that like driving factor in every single
Speaker 1: aspect of my life. And Goop is like it's absolutely
Speaker 1: backfired because now I'm like the chill One Naked Harvest
Speaker 1: is like it's just all gonna work out and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect.
Speaker 4: It was like not that fucking card to take, but
Speaker 4: now it's like so much easier, Like why would you
Speaker 4: live your life worrying about something that hasn't happened, And like,
Speaker 4: that's what anxiety is. It's worrying about the future.
Speaker 1: And I was I was living in a state of
Speaker 1: anxiety like my whole life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and that's very common and to live. I
Speaker 4: have found this with a lot of people around me
Speaker 4: that were either living in the past or we're living
Speaker 4: in the future. Yeah, and it's not benefit you, and
Speaker 4: it is so hard. But if you can get to
Speaker 4: the point that you live in the present every day,
Speaker 4: happiness is right there. Because I always like worry about
Speaker 4: something in the future or the past, and I stop
Speaker 4: myself and I think, look where you are, Look what
Speaker 4: you're doing, Look who you are. It's pretty fucking awesome.
Speaker 4: And you just and then you kind of stay in
Speaker 4: the present and you're like and you get this wave
Speaker 4: of happiness and you're like, it's actually pretty good. You
Speaker 4: might just feel so much better.
Speaker 1: And even if like the present isn't that good, like
Speaker 1: maybe something is upp or whatever like that, it's still
Speaker 1: being like, but what can I do right now? Rather
Speaker 1: than being like, oh, well, this happened, and I feel
Speaker 1: like this or this could happen in the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can always if this bad happening in that moment,
Speaker 4: there's always good right there right next to you.
Speaker 3: You just got to look for it well.
Speaker 1: To finish coup. I think a good question is, you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about investing in ourselves, and it is quite
Speaker 1: easy to you know, invest in We're not easy, but
Speaker 1: it is more normalized to invest in like a pt
Speaker 1: or acupuncture and those sorts of things. But when it
Speaker 1: does come to bigger investments, like something that is ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which we're you know, giving away to our
Speaker 1: end h CO for February with the Future Youth Fund.
Speaker 1: But if someone is wanting to invest ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in something like that's a huge amount of money, especially
Speaker 1: if it's not normalized maybe they grew up similar to us.
Speaker 1: Would you have any tips of like what to do
Speaker 1: in that scenario when they are feeling like the guilt
Speaker 1: or like I shouldn't do this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard because it'd be pretty normal. I would
Speaker 4: imagine that you just put on your house or even
Speaker 4: go on a holiday or something along those lines.
Speaker 1: But it's think it's you getting clear on what the
Speaker 1: priority is for you. And like you know, my favorite
Speaker 1: saying is like, if you want different, you have to
Speaker 1: move different. So if you want a different reality, if
Speaker 1: you want something different, you absolutely have to do something different.
Speaker 1: And we don't have the we don't always have the
Speaker 1: tools to do something different. And that's why we invest
Speaker 1: in something external that is for us internally, that is
Speaker 1: going to help us with the different. And I think
Speaker 1: when you think of it that way of like, well,
Speaker 1: I've absolutely done the best that I can with what
Speaker 1: I have and this is my reality. This is like
Speaker 1: currently what my life is, and that's amazing, but I
Speaker 1: do want different, so I've got to do something different.
Speaker 1: And I think, like you said, this life, it's like
Speaker 1: we're here to have experiences, we're here to grow, we're
Speaker 1: here to evolve and get out of our comfort zones.
Speaker 4: So like when we're nervous or something comes up and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, it's kind of telling you not to
Speaker 4: do it. Like being nervous is awesome, it's so being uncomfortable, Yeah, uncomfortable,
Speaker 4: Like that's.
Speaker 3: When the magic happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you should lean in on it and not
Speaker 4: go back inside and not do it because your experiences,
Speaker 4: learning and doing more for yourself and don't have that
Speaker 4: guilt that you shouldn't do it for yourself of like
Speaker 4: who am I to do it?
Speaker 3: I'm not that person.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing that I've noticed as well, that
Speaker 4: everyone has a personality of like that's just who I am,
Speaker 4: Like it isn't.
Speaker 1: Literally be whoever the fuck you want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, and you can go and do it, Like
Speaker 4: you can change your personality and be the person who
Speaker 4: you want to be.
Speaker 1: And the difference between you and the person you want
Speaker 1: to be is they just have a different set of beliefs, emotions,
Speaker 1: and tools. So if you want to be that different person,
Speaker 1: go and invest in what you need to invest to
Speaker 1: be that different person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just tell yourself, like the best version of myself,
Speaker 4: what would they do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Because I do that daily.
Speaker 4: I have my values that I stick to and any
Speaker 4: decision I make or anything I do in my life
Speaker 4: has to go in line with those values, and if
Speaker 4: they don't, then it's just not right for me.
Speaker 1: And that's also another thing, is like get clear on
Speaker 1: what your priorities are, because if your priorities are is
Speaker 1: I want something different? I want this reality that's over here,
Speaker 1: all this thing that's over here and you don't know
Speaker 1: how to get there, then it's obviously a priority to
Speaker 1: invest in yourself to get there and like being clear
Speaker 1: in that. But guys, that was just a long, long
Speaker 1: rant meaning Cooper going on about how we invested ourselves.
Speaker 3: I think that was very powerful.
Speaker 1: No, we appreciate it, We absolutely do.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's good to have this conversation Cooper because,
Speaker 1: like we said, we didn't get this conversation growing up.
Speaker 1: It was not normalized for us, and we've had to
Speaker 1: like tread through a lot of interesting emotions and beliefs.
Speaker 1: So we think it's really important to put this information
Speaker 1: out there and talk about this concept because it's not
Speaker 1: often talked about. And also we are just so excited
Speaker 1: for one of our nh CO community members to get
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars to invest in their future selves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just going to be life changing.
Speaker 1: Literally life changing. So guys, if you do you want
Speaker 1: to go into the future, you fund or you have
Speaker 1: to do a shop through en h for the whole
Speaker 1: month of feb There will be t's and c's in
Speaker 1: the show notes. We'll put a link there and then
Speaker 1: you do have to register your interest, so you just
Speaker 1: go onto the landing page on the website, you put
Speaker 1: in your AUDER number. And also we would just love
Speaker 1: for you to just write a little brief explanation of
Speaker 1: like what you would invest your future, like what you
Speaker 1: would invest the future you fund in two for your
Speaker 1: future self. I just can't wait to hear all the answers.
Speaker 4: And because on that, like you might it might be
Speaker 4: a bit much for you to do it, but and
Speaker 4: a bit silly, but for you to actually go in
Speaker 4: there and just let go and see what you come
Speaker 4: up with and then read back on it, like you'll
Speaker 4: surprise yourself. Because I just kind of think that listening
Speaker 4: to that, I probably would be like ain doing that,
Speaker 4: but that might be me, But I just want to
Speaker 4: say that, just give it a chance, see what you
Speaker 4: come up with, and see what you write down, and
Speaker 4: you'll surprise yourself and what kind of comes up. And
Speaker 4: because yeah, I was the complete opposite.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did it in the day, prioritize yourself for but.
Speaker 4: Now since doing it, like I wish I did more
Speaker 4: of that stuff and I was let into that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: give it a go, and it'd be really powerful.
Speaker 1: So powerful all right, guys, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: We love doing this episode. Come with the Facebook group
Speaker 1: and chat to us because we're going to put a
Speaker 1: thread in there because I'd love to know what you
Speaker 1: would invest in. And of course all links will be
Speaker 1: in the show notes. Cooper, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks,
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