Speaker 1: The Rise and Conquer Podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of
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Speaker 1: welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This is
Speaker 1: the podcast for ordinary people who want to do extraordinary
Speaker 1: things and we all go to it like we've all
Speaker 1: got work, we've all got commitments, we all know have
Speaker 1: goals and usually to get those get to those goals,
Speaker 1: we're doing things that it's like, it's not amazing all
Speaker 1: the time. It's not you know, I don't love getting
Speaker 1: up at five am and lifting heavyweights. I'm like, I'd
Speaker 1: rather be sleeping. But it's like looking at your time
Speaker 1: and kind of thinking, where can I add in some
Speaker 1: more things that will just fill up my cup that
Speaker 1: little bit more. Hello and welcome back to the Rise
Speaker 1: and Concer Podcast. It is your host, Georgie Stevenson, lawyer
Speaker 1: and entrepreneur, mum wife. All the things I'm joined of
Speaker 1: course with producer a Tea. Hi, everybody, guys, today's EP
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. I just feel like this
Speaker 1: is a question I get a lot in my DMS,
Speaker 1: and it's how I manage it all. How I do
Speaker 1: it all. The short answer is I don't, but I do.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert No, I did want to just like pull
Speaker 1: back the curtain and just be like very raw, honest
Speaker 1: and transparent with you guys, Like how I'm able to
Speaker 1: run two businesses. You know, still have time with Ivy,
Speaker 1: still prioritize her, you know, still prioritize my health and
Speaker 1: fitness and everything in between, because you know, on social
Speaker 1: media can look like I'm doing all these things all
Speaker 1: the time, and the reality is just like the amount
Speaker 1: of help I have and how I kind of structure
Speaker 1: my day my business, it's so strategic, so I am
Speaker 1: able to do all the things. So, yeah, we're going
Speaker 1: to get into that today. It's also a little bit
Speaker 1: about like my productivity hacks, how I first started outsourcing
Speaker 1: a lot of fun things. But before we get into
Speaker 1: the episode, update on our week a tier, Yes you
Speaker 1: go first, Okay, had a great week. Well, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think an update oh on the weekend. So guys,
Speaker 1: our our fave posty Devo, so only the rn C
Speaker 1: will know. So Devo, who loves man Cations, also hooked
Speaker 1: us up with tickets to the Supercars. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he got tickets for is supposed to be me
Speaker 1: Cooper Ash and timmer Ash couldn't come, so oh Jamie
Speaker 1: popped on nin Jamie's currently my roomy and look I
Speaker 1: have I know nothing about cars, but but it was
Speaker 1: lots of fun.
Speaker 2: The great venue to get drunk at pretty much.
Speaker 1: There was lots of champagne that was had. I had
Speaker 1: some oysters. I did this like weird oyster champagne shot
Speaker 1: at one point. It was a bit crazy. It was
Speaker 1: a bit fun. But that was really good. And we
Speaker 1: were home by like nine pm. Oh that's a good day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like that's my perfect sort of day. Yeah. And you know,
Speaker 1: up on Sunday feel and fresh had the whole day
Speaker 1: with Ivy, So yeah, it was good. I think just
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me this week is my personality
Speaker 1: is just really popped because of the weather. You don't
Speaker 1: my me, you gonna say it now, literally, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is my personality is like the sun shine,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like I'm leaving my absolute best life.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like the gratitude I've had for this
Speaker 1: week is just like I'm like Jamie about to cry.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh my god, I'm just so grateful
Speaker 1: for my life and everything is just perfect. And really
Speaker 1: it's just because the sun's come out. Yeah, go on,
Speaker 1: piggyback off me, go on. That's literally what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say.
Speaker 2: And I think I can't even remember what date was
Speaker 2: last week, but I just remember walking to your office
Speaker 2: in the morning, being like, the traffic was shit this morning.
Speaker 1: But the sun is shiny, and I'm in a great mood.
Speaker 2: I remember you saying that, and I was like, what,
Speaker 2: It just makes everything so much better.
Speaker 1: But also here's the question, how do we like cultivate
Speaker 1: that happiness when it's not sunny? I know, because that's
Speaker 1: the dream. Yeah, that feeling is the dream. I know.
Speaker 2: We'll let we'll have to we'll update, wake it out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just turns my mood around.
Speaker 1: Really nothing else. It's amazing just being.
Speaker 2: Able to have some sun. Did I do anything fun?
Speaker 2: I went to the cricket on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Went to the cricket. How fun me no idea about it.
Speaker 1: It was actually really fun and a very good game.
Speaker 1: And did your team win?
Speaker 2: No, but we were so close it was I don't
Speaker 2: even think any of our listeners are gonna like no,
Speaker 2: I was about to say a cricket fans don't bore me?
Speaker 1: All right? Then you wait till the DMS blow up
Speaker 1: about me just being rude. Also, guys, before we get
Speaker 1: into the episode, we do have a little quick special announcement. So,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, we never do Black Friday sales,
Speaker 1: but we have asked if we are doing Black Friday
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Speaker 1: So that includes the presets, that includes the Find Your
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Speaker 1: and treat yourself. It ends Friday. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into the show and let's chat about how I do
Speaker 1: it all. I can't wait to hear. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's talk about how I do it all. We're all
Speaker 1: ready to know? Would you say? We're all ready to know?
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to know. We're in silly moon, a bit
Speaker 1: of a tough love mood. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Guys.
Speaker 1: I was going over your questions and I was like,
Speaker 1: to a tea, this is a tough love episode. We
Speaker 1: love that though. So guys, today we want to chat time, outsourcing, delegating,
Speaker 1: prioritizing space. First things first. So I guess I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about because I have a lot of questions
Speaker 1: being like, you know, you run two businesses, you have
Speaker 1: a baby, all the things. You know, how do you
Speaker 1: do it all? The simple answer is I don't at all.
Speaker 1: I literally have a team of like eighteen people helping
Speaker 1: me with everything. Most recently, I got an assistant, which
Speaker 1: has changed my life. I thought, wow, when you I
Speaker 1: don't know, Since having Ivy, I've just realized. It's funny though,
Speaker 1: because I think about it now, if I was to
Speaker 1: be this organized previously, I would have like accomplished a
Speaker 1: lot more, because before you have a baby, you kind
Speaker 1: of go, oh, it's fine, I'll just work at night
Speaker 1: or i'll do this thin and your time isn't as precious, yes,
Speaker 1: But then you have a baby and you're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I literally cannot bring my work home. So you know,
Speaker 1: these eight or you know eight hours I have during
Speaker 1: the day to work need to be the most intentional,
Speaker 1: the most getting the most shit done in the shortest
Speaker 1: amount of time. Yeah. Whereas before that you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's fine, I'll just work on the weekend. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you can pop a few emails at home after dinner.
Speaker 1: I was yeah, ahead, And because it's you know, my business,
Speaker 1: I was like, I love to do it. I felt
Speaker 1: so I felt so good about it. It didn't feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, a drag or anything. Yeah. But since having Ivy,
Speaker 1: I've been on this journey of, yeah, how can I
Speaker 1: get the most done and be the most productive in
Speaker 1: the most little time, the least amount of time, the
Speaker 1: least amount of time. Thank you are tear, So let's
Speaker 1: start with like calendar management, so recently I have also
Speaker 1: actually before that, let's just literally go through the help
Speaker 1: I have in my life to be able to do
Speaker 1: what I've like do. So, of course Tim stays at
Speaker 1: home with Ivy Girl, so that's covered. She's covered I
Speaker 1: in saying that, though I'm very strict with my boundaries
Speaker 1: of I am either leaving at six or seven, but
Speaker 1: don't have to do anything in the morning for her
Speaker 1: unless it's just like a wake up and cut all
Speaker 1: bit of fun. Yeah, but as soon as I get home,
Speaker 1: which is usually three thirty four, it is the Ivy
Speaker 1: Show until she goes to bed. So it's very much
Speaker 1: I have to have everything done before I get home
Speaker 1: because there's no working when I'm at home because that
Speaker 1: is Ivy time, and also no working on the weekends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which was a huge adjustment for me. So Tim looks
Speaker 1: after Ivy.
Speaker 2: I have a question, Yes, what made you pick to
Speaker 2: have Ivy time in the afternoon and not in the
Speaker 2: morning when.
Speaker 1: She wakes up.
Speaker 2: Was that what worked for you routine wise or how
Speaker 2: did that decision happen.
Speaker 1: I'm most productive in the morning, so my brain works
Speaker 1: amazing in the morning, and also I realized for me
Speaker 1: to be my best self, I need movement added into
Speaker 1: you know, my routines, and I need my little things
Speaker 1: like journaling and meditating. And I also find they work
Speaker 1: better in the morning, so I want that to be
Speaker 1: away and not interrupt with ivy times. So that's why
Speaker 1: I made those decisions. Great question, by the way, So
Speaker 1: you know, to make our lives easier, we have things
Speaker 1: like we have a cleaner that comes every two weeks,
Speaker 1: every fortnight in between. Then Tim is really great, He's bocity,
Speaker 1: He's a little tidy freak, which is amazing for me.
Speaker 1: We tend to do like washing on the weekend, we
Speaker 1: get Hallow Fresh. So Tim still does a grocery shop
Speaker 1: where he'll get like his other stuff, but then we
Speaker 1: get hallow Fresh. So that makes, you know, making dinner
Speaker 1: really easy.
Speaker 2: So like, what does your cleaner do? Just like wipe mobs, vacuums,
Speaker 2: all that sort of jazz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so you don't even know timsac the
Speaker 1: clean has been. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's there for two or three hours. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's generally we're quite tidy people. Yeah, so like you know,
Speaker 1: we clean up ourselves we wipe everything down. He's just
Speaker 1: more he's more like he'll do the deeper clean stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so ibalism, yes.
Speaker 1: And I actually I love doing washing. I find it
Speaker 1: very therapeutic. I know odd. I tell Tim, don't do
Speaker 1: the washing. I want to do it. Also sometimes he
Speaker 1: like washes colors with whites and as.
Speaker 2: In, like you find it therapeutic putting stuff in the
Speaker 2: washing and putting it away.
Speaker 1: I love putting a way away, mate, I love doing
Speaker 1: just putting it in the washing machine. Love that for me.
Speaker 1: So household stuff and then Tim you know, does like
Speaker 1: the outside stuff on the weekend. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: home life. My absolute dream would be to have a
Speaker 1: personal chef. I do it. I speak about this so much.
Speaker 1: We're not there to appen. He's not there yet, but
Speaker 1: this is on my vision board and all my goals
Speaker 1: because so a huge chunk where we're missing family time
Speaker 1: is I do IVY in the afternoon and then Tim
Speaker 1: you know, finally gets a break. So he usually like
Speaker 1: fox off and does something. But then Tim cooks dinner. Yes,
Speaker 1: so we're kind of doing separate things because I'm feeding her,
Speaker 1: bathing her, sorting her out. He's cooking dinner, and so
Speaker 1: that time feels really rushed and really full on. And
Speaker 1: so like in my ideal world, we would have someone
Speaker 1: that cooks us healthy, nutritious food or helps out in
Speaker 1: some way so me and Tim can have some more
Speaker 1: time together because at the moment we're kind of finding
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of time together. But then again,
Speaker 1: we're obviously going to get into that. Like it's just
Speaker 1: we're going through a season where the focus is Ivy
Speaker 1: not us and probably, let's be honest, my work before
Speaker 1: me and Tim, and it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I've made, you know, peace with it. But I definitely
Speaker 1: that's something I'm conscious of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when does Tim fit things like jim and
Speaker 2: stuff in.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, that's another home thing. So we recently got
Speaker 1: a home gym install yeah, which has been such a
Speaker 1: huge privilege and just like, oh my god, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is life changing. And so he will do his
Speaker 1: gym during IVY snaps. And when did he used to
Speaker 1: do it. He used to do it in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: so I would come home, we would tag Tim, but
Speaker 1: then there was usually a lot of friction during that
Speaker 1: time because Tim is someone who loves to chat. So
Speaker 1: he would go to Jim and he wouldn't get home
Speaker 1: for like two hours because he'd been with a baby
Speaker 1: all day, and then do that, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: so annoying. I don't I don't talk to anyone at JIM,
Speaker 1: And so we would often be like there would be
Speaker 1: a bit of friction during that time because like he
Speaker 1: wouldn't start cooking dinner till seven, and then like it's
Speaker 1: all a big fucking mess. So the gym situation during
Speaker 1: Ivy's nap has worked better in regards to fitting it
Speaker 1: in correct in saying that he does have appointments which
Speaker 1: he will just do like when I get home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just not leaving the house. Okay, So that's you know
Speaker 1: how you're obviously in my business, it's we have a
Speaker 1: whole big team. And then also recently getting an executive
Speaker 1: assistant to help me with my calendar and my content
Speaker 1: and just honestly organizing me and keeping me accountably accountable
Speaker 1: has definitely been life changing. I've been so much better
Speaker 1: with my calendar. Have an I idea, Yeah kind of,
Speaker 1: it's all right, you're lightning there, the thought, the intention
Speaker 1: is there, and you're like getting really good at sticking
Speaker 1: to it. I feel, yes, Where's before it was like
Speaker 1: a bit of a chit show. So can I put
Speaker 1: it into context? Yes, tell us, tell us how you
Speaker 1: really feel.
Speaker 2: Georgie would book three things for the same time and
Speaker 2: not like tell anyone until the time, and she'd be like, oh,
Speaker 2: like I have frame reeaning right now, we're going to have.
Speaker 1: To move them.
Speaker 2: And then I would everyone's day out. Now you know,
Speaker 2: we don't book things at the same time.
Speaker 1: No, So you know what used to happen is like,
Speaker 1: because I use Google Calendar and Google emails, and so
Speaker 1: in my email, people would send me an invite for
Speaker 1: a meeting. So I'd be like, yeah, of course we
Speaker 1: can do that meeting, except I wouldn't actually check my calendar.
Speaker 2: So then you'd get to the day and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: it defeated the whole purpose.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I've got it really good with that, guys.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything overlapping most of the time. So
Speaker 1: what I do now, and this has been life changing,
Speaker 1: is on a Friday, me and Ellie sit down and
Speaker 1: we go through my calendar. The first thing we do
Speaker 1: is we confirm all my appointments. So she sends a
Speaker 1: text out to you know, your Jamie being like, are
Speaker 1: these interviews confirmed anything that I have on like externally,
Speaker 1: whether it's appointments or with Cooper or mail anything like that,
Speaker 1: And we confirm all my appointments from there. And then
Speaker 1: also on a Friday, I'll text like Cooper mel and
Speaker 1: just be like, do you need anything from me next week?
Speaker 1: Is there any big things we need to discuss. I
Speaker 1: need to put in my calendar now. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: kind of like if you don't get in the calendar,
Speaker 1: you don't get in. Yeah, nothing happens in saying that
Speaker 1: that's a lie because I always give them the time,
Speaker 1: and then after that I put in my gym time.
Speaker 1: So I'll literally schedule in between because I do sometimes
Speaker 1: home gym and then I also do a class that's
Speaker 1: close to work. And so how I work my gym
Speaker 1: is the days that I need to come into work
Speaker 1: with hair and makeup because maybe we're filming or something
Speaker 1: like that, I am gimming at home, so I can
Speaker 1: then have a shower and get ready after and then
Speaker 1: any days it doesn't matter what I look like and
Speaker 1: I just want to wear my gym gear, I'll do
Speaker 1: a class because I go straight from that class to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I book those in. I also put in journaling,
Speaker 1: meditating time, and I always a whole big thing with
Speaker 1: this calendar. Two is a color code, so I can
Speaker 1: see a weak view of everything color coded. So for example,
Speaker 1: yellow is gym, blue is work, purple is personal appointments
Speaker 1: and creative time. Green is creating content or actual posts
Speaker 1: of when I'm like posting content is pink. That's about it.
Speaker 1: And then so what I'll do is I'll kind of
Speaker 1: look and be like, Okay, where you know, is there
Speaker 1: creative time? Where can I maybe put something in that
Speaker 1: isn't there, et cetera. So that's kind of what I'm
Speaker 1: doing with my calendar at the moment, and that has
Speaker 1: been quiet liab changing. And then in that too, I
Speaker 1: will also put in, of course personal appointments, but like
Speaker 1: with friends and family and just make sure yeah it all,
Speaker 1: I guess makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: I've noticed that you've now moved your gym an hour
Speaker 2: earlier in the morning.
Speaker 1: Oh have you noticed that? A tea? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 1: want to share why? Okay? Or well you used to
Speaker 1: it from seven to eight just for context, Yes, So
Speaker 1: I used to do from seven till eight, and now
Speaker 1: I'm doing six to seven. I'm actually even trying to think, why, oh,
Speaker 1: because it's warmer. Yeah, it is getting lighter during the day.
Speaker 1: And also I just noticed, so if I was doing
Speaker 1: gym six to seven, I definitely notice after gym is
Speaker 1: when I'll do LIKENK, my journaling, my kind of like
Speaker 1: creative time, and it kind of takes me an hour
Speaker 1: from gym to get into a work day. So I
Speaker 1: was then not starting to nine and then you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm finishing my work day at three point thirty,
Speaker 1: that's actually not a lot of time. Yes, when you're
Speaker 1: running two you know, businesses and you've got two teams.
Speaker 1: So and because I was being really strict with my boundaries,
Speaker 1: and I kind of looked at my morning and there
Speaker 1: was definitely kind of like wasted time there where I
Speaker 1: would like get up, I'd go on my phone. I
Speaker 1: was like a little bit chill, and so I kind
Speaker 1: of and I was like, look, Georgia, is it a priority, right?
Speaker 1: And I was kind of getting annoyed at myself. I
Speaker 1: wasn't getting things done. I felt always in a rush.
Speaker 1: So I was like, if I just get up earlier,
Speaker 1: get my gym done, and then I basically have an
Speaker 1: hour extra to not be as rushed, feel like more productive,
Speaker 1: and I have. It's been amazing. I'm in the five
Speaker 1: am club guys love. And it's also like that time
Speaker 1: I was because I used to wake up at five
Speaker 1: thirty and then kind of go on my phone because
Speaker 1: I know I didn't have to get up for like
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. But now I wake up at five ten
Speaker 1: and I know I have to leave the house at
Speaker 1: like five thirty. So you're like, get it done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't go on my phone, which is I get
Speaker 1: life changing. So that's even like with your calendar kind
Speaker 1: of look where you're like wasting time, and even I
Speaker 1: like when your gym's an hour earlier. And for the
Speaker 1: first couple of times, it was like fuck hard to
Speaker 1: wake up, but then you just get used to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's like you would rather feel stretched in a
Speaker 1: good way then feeling like too rushed for the rest
Speaker 1: of the day, if that makes sense. So true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's kind of my life. So I have very
Speaker 1: rigid with my calendar, to be completely honest, Like I
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of I don't get any friend time,
Speaker 1: or social time during the week. I don't mind that though,
Speaker 1: because like when I have free time, I want to
Speaker 1: spend it with Ivy because I'm literally working so much.
Speaker 1: So again that's like my season, that's my priority, and
Speaker 1: I'm you know, quite okay with it. I do do
Speaker 1: my Friday gym session with a girlfriend kind of feels
Speaker 1: out my cup there, and then I leave the weekend
Speaker 1: to you know, friends, family time and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of very strict with that boundary. I
Speaker 1: love that. How do you do it all in your businesses?
Speaker 2: Oh well, if you like structured your sort of day
Speaker 2: with the business so that you are doing the most
Speaker 2: important things and not getting stuck.
Speaker 1: Yes, So in business, I have, I guess, like set
Speaker 1: up both teams. So it's all about you know, as
Speaker 1: a business owner, you have to have like the vision
Speaker 1: and like the wider goals is super important. But to
Speaker 1: actually continue in your business like a huge thing. I guess,
Speaker 1: like if we're going right to the start, it was
Speaker 1: like outsourcing things that I didn't have to do. So
Speaker 1: obviously there's things in your business that you absolutely have
Speaker 1: to do, which is like knowing how much budget you
Speaker 1: know you have to meet, knowing the wider goals where
Speaker 1: you want to go. Even for me, obviously, it's like
Speaker 1: content that I have to be in. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: just different stuff like that you know episode where I'm
Speaker 1: fleshing out what I want to talk about, or the
Speaker 1: kind of like very specific tasks of like only I
Speaker 1: can do, and then thinking where can I get help
Speaker 1: or where can I outsource something that is not my
Speaker 1: zone of genius that someone else can kind of like
Speaker 1: take the rein. So we did that, you know in
Speaker 1: NHH very slowly. Obviously, we started with mel and then
Speaker 1: like we got Courtney for customer care. So Kooby used
Speaker 1: to do all the customer care and then we got Courtney,
Speaker 1: and then like one by one we employed people and
Speaker 1: then a big thing of like you know, delegation is
Speaker 1: what I generally do now is again like having that
Speaker 1: starting guidance like you were saying before a tier and
Speaker 1: then getting people to implement and then me approving. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: like most of my day is either creating content or
Speaker 1: creating things that no one else can do. So whether
Speaker 1: it's like literally right now this podcast, or creating KPIs
Speaker 1: for the team and Naked Harvest, or talking to like
Speaker 1: you know, our accountant things like no one else can
Speaker 1: do ye or it's approving work. Yeah. And then so
Speaker 1: we have like a recurring calendar for like recording hotline
Speaker 1: apps and recording you know, our Tuesday episodes. And then
Speaker 1: I have reoccurring tasks with the whole team where it's
Speaker 1: like a weekly one on one and that's where I
Speaker 1: go through approvals for everyone. Also what has helped to
Speaker 1: my calendar is being like on Thursdays is my nd
Speaker 1: H approvals, and then like on Tuesdays is generally like
Speaker 1: my R and C days where we dive deeper into
Speaker 1: stuff and like splitting them up so you're not constantly
Speaker 1: going from one thing to the other and like get
Speaker 1: getting confused and not having your full capacity. And even
Speaker 1: something I'll do is like the mornings where I have
Speaker 1: more like for example, I'm looking at my calendar here
Speaker 1: and on Wednesday, I'm doing a gym. Sorry, I'm doing
Speaker 1: my gym at home, and I've got time to journaling
Speaker 1: and I specifically put that on that day because when
Speaker 1: I come in, I'm going straight into an art and
Speaker 1: see team goals and KPIs meeting, which is like we
Speaker 1: want to talk about like you know, exciting goals and
Speaker 1: the vision for the brand. So I want to feel
Speaker 1: really excited and motivated and not rushed, and so maybe
Speaker 1: do like a bit of a different workout compared to
Speaker 1: when I'm at the gym if I had sense, So
Speaker 1: just being very intentional with my calendar. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: kind of sums it up. I know you guys had
Speaker 1: some questions in the Facebook group, So should we go
Speaker 1: through those here?
Speaker 2: Yes, let me ask you the first one. So for
Speaker 2: the next part of the episode, I'm going to ask
Speaker 2: you a few questions Georgie that came up in the
Speaker 2: Facebook group. We did put a call out in there.
Speaker 2: I think it's a few weeks ago now, of we
Speaker 2: were bouncing ideas around about doing this episode on How
Speaker 2: I Do it All, and we really wanted to know
Speaker 2: what our community wanted to know from Georgie. So we
Speaker 2: had lots of questions come through and I've sort of
Speaker 2: compiled them and condensed them so that we can get
Speaker 2: through as many as possible.
Speaker 1: So the first question, and what was your overall call out?
Speaker 1: Like just how to balance it all? How to do
Speaker 1: it all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like pretty much how to be a mom work
Speaker 2: full time all the things.
Speaker 1: How do you prioritize everything in your life?
Speaker 2: And so the question that I thought would be good
Speaker 2: to start with is someone actually asked, where do you
Speaker 2: start when it comes to balancing everything and how how
Speaker 2: do you choose to prioritize your time?
Speaker 1: I guess, well, you need to ask what's important to you? So,
Speaker 1: like I obviously know I'm running two companies, so I
Speaker 1: need like I was saying before, of going, actually I
Speaker 1: should start Jim earlier because I need more work time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just choosing to get up earlier. So it's about
Speaker 1: prioritizing what's important to you and what season are you in?
Speaker 1: You know, similar to what I was saying about how
Speaker 1: me and Tim don't have a lot of me and
Speaker 1: Tim time. But it's like I've made peace of that
Speaker 1: because it's a season of we literally it's the first
Speaker 1: year of Ivy's life and it's all about her. It's
Speaker 1: the Ivy Show, the Ivy world. We're just living in it,
Speaker 1: and that like that's okay. So I think it's about
Speaker 1: being like you need to reflect and ask yourself what
Speaker 1: season and am I in? And it's like if you're
Speaker 1: in a season where you want to grow your business,
Speaker 1: you're obviously going to spend more time on your business.
Speaker 1: If you're in a season of focusing on your fitness
Speaker 1: and health, maybe you've got to get up an hour
Speaker 1: earlier and fit it in before you go to work.
Speaker 1: Or if you're in a season of maybe you're feeling
Speaker 1: really burnt out and you've realized that you just like
Speaker 1: haven't taken care of yourself this year, it's like maybe
Speaker 1: ditching the gym and going to hot and cold pools
Speaker 1: and a sauna, or you know, like actually thinking what
Speaker 1: do I currently need in my life right now? I
Speaker 1: think the first thing too, is like putting it out
Speaker 1: on paper, so almost doing an audit of your time
Speaker 1: and being like where am I spending my time? Like
Speaker 1: that's huge of you know, like obviously, I know we
Speaker 1: all have jobs and things we have to do. But
Speaker 1: then if you think about it, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, you know, I work full time,
Speaker 1: I've got no time for anything. What are you doing
Speaker 1: before and after work? What are you doing on your weekend?
Speaker 1: And then from that time looking at what is your priority?
Speaker 1: If you're spending a lot of time just watching Netflix,
Speaker 1: like that's your priority and that's okay, But asking yourself.
Speaker 1: Am I comfortable with that? Yeah? Am a parody? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Am I comfortable with that being my priority right now?
Speaker 1: And then if you're not okay, where am I going
Speaker 1: to change things? And I think doing an audit on
Speaker 1: your time is it's scary, but it's quite liberating because
Speaker 1: you take back control. Absolutely. It's like, actually I can
Speaker 1: do something, and I feel like we all get stuck
Speaker 1: in this trap where we're like, I've got no time.
Speaker 1: I'm so busy, I work full time. I have all
Speaker 1: these commitments, but it's like you chose those commitments. You're
Speaker 1: you're choosing to do the thing or not do the thing.
Speaker 1: So you need to decide if that is a priority
Speaker 1: or if you need to shift and realign yourself. So
Speaker 1: number one takeaway, do an order of audit of your time,
Speaker 1: see where your priorities are and decide if they need
Speaker 1: to shift or if it's great.
Speaker 2: Question number two, how do you actually hold yourself accountable?
Speaker 2: I will time block but sometimes not follow through. So
Speaker 2: are there any tactics you use to ensure that you
Speaker 2: stick to your commitments.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna like my answer to you. I have
Speaker 1: an assistant, So I have Ellie being like, excuse me.
Speaker 2: She literally said this to be your fair and I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, but what about people who kind of
Speaker 2: what I'm an.
Speaker 1: Assisted, what do we do well? I think it's again
Speaker 1: about deciding how you're going to prioritize your time. So
Speaker 1: are you going to use an electronic calendar? Are you
Speaker 1: going to use a paper calendar? Sticking to that? I
Speaker 1: think you know this person, they've said I time block,
Speaker 1: so they're already writing down their times. She's probably you know,
Speaker 1: she's probably like a very organized gal. If you're not
Speaker 1: sticking to it, I would ask yourself like why, yeah,
Speaker 1: like there's some time blocked the wrong way around? Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like are you not actually prioritizing what you want or
Speaker 1: does there maybe need to be some discipline here where
Speaker 1: you go? No, this is my priority, So I'm just
Speaker 1: going to wake up that hour earlier. Like I had
Speaker 1: to have a bit of a chat with myself where
Speaker 1: I was like, Georgia, get up, you've been lazy, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not, but you know, like a bit of tough
Speaker 1: love with yourself and just being like, actually I am
Speaker 1: just not being very disciplined and am I okay with that?
Speaker 1: Or am I not? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I think as well, with time blocking, you need
Speaker 2: to leave gaps. Yeah, because no matter how hard you try,
Speaker 2: things come up, like meetings run over.
Speaker 1: This is me right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like think about it objectively, like if something's
Speaker 2: supposed to take an hour, put an hour and fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes in, and if you put that fifteen minute buffer
Speaker 2: for everything, you might just be running early at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, which is great.
Speaker 1: That's actually a great point a teer of Like if
Speaker 1: you as someone who is quite organized and time blocking
Speaker 1: and scheduling and something, but it's still not working, It's like,
Speaker 1: are you, yeah, not allowing enough time to get things done? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you can't force yourself to get a two hour
Speaker 1: task done in an hour. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: No will.
Speaker 1: We all would love that, But I guess that's also
Speaker 1: like realizing there's no magic fix. It's like you're you've
Speaker 1: got to commit literally to the lesson I'm learning right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Question number three, how do you prevent burnout or how
Speaker 2: have you recovered from burnout in the past?
Speaker 1: I kind of have two concepts for this. I think
Speaker 1: for me, when I am getting into burnout, the best
Speaker 1: thing I do is reflect and I'm like, what has
Speaker 1: currently you know happened. I've I've done this recently. I
Speaker 1: recently did a big reflection on my year and then
Speaker 1: planned out the next year. And I've felt quite a
Speaker 1: few times this year like I'm like on the edge
Speaker 1: of burnout, burnout because you know, we've gone into burnout
Speaker 1: feeling very kind of just like numb and like you
Speaker 1: don't care anymore and you're just like so exhausted. And
Speaker 1: I've felt like that a couple of times this year,
Speaker 1: and I've kind of realized it's because I wasn't in
Speaker 1: alignment and I was kind of you know, doing things.
Speaker 1: It's not that I didn't want to do them, but
Speaker 1: it's like a past self had committed to those things
Speaker 1: and I had grown a lot as a person, and
Speaker 1: it was out of alignment. So I think reflecting and
Speaker 1: being like, maybe what has you know got me to
Speaker 1: this point? And can I change anything from here in
Speaker 1: regards to like recovering from it if you're currently feeling it,
Speaker 1: is again audit your time and because we all have
Speaker 1: stuff that we don't like doing and we all got
Speaker 1: to do it, Like we've all got work, we've all
Speaker 1: got commitments, we all, you know, have goals, and usually
Speaker 1: to get those get to those goals, we're doing things
Speaker 1: that it's like, it's not amazing all the time. It's
Speaker 1: not you know, I don't love getting up at five
Speaker 1: am and lifting heavy weights. I'm like, I'd rather be sleeping.
Speaker 1: But it's like looking at your time and kind of thinking,
Speaker 1: where can I add in some more things that will
Speaker 1: just fill up my cup that little bit more? Almost
Speaker 1: like where can I add some little bits of joy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that's why when me and Ellie go through my calendar,
Speaker 1: she literally goes, when are you journaling? When are you meditating?
Speaker 1: When's your creative time? Georgie, shut up, stop telling me
Speaker 1: what to do, but also please keep doing it and
Speaker 1: I will have to put put in those things. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Tar, I haven't told you this, so you
Speaker 1: know how we're going off topic. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: how I told you that. Andrea, so our resident are
Speaker 1: rn C psychic? Yes, she'll randomly, because she's really tapped
Speaker 1: into my energy because the amount of readings we've done
Speaker 1: and we've been friends for so long. She'll be like,
Speaker 1: I've got a message for you. We were voicing the
Speaker 1: other day and she's like, Georgie, I've got a bit
Speaker 1: of a message from You've had it download. She's like,
Speaker 1: have you stopped journaling and meditating? And I was like maybe,
Speaker 1: And she's like, you need to start again. That is
Speaker 1: like a huge thing because I was asking her like
Speaker 1: a business decision, should I do this or that? And
Speaker 1: she literally just goes, don't even worry about that. You
Speaker 1: need to get back to your small routines boo. Because
Speaker 1: and she's like, you know this, I don't even have
Speaker 1: to like tell you this is a message from your angels.
Speaker 1: But she's like, you need to add in that time
Speaker 1: because you wouldn't need to ask me this question. And
Speaker 1: I was like, you're so smart. And so that's when
Speaker 1: I was like, I haven't been prioritizing what I need
Speaker 1: to prioritize to be my best self. Yeah, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I will start including more joy, more things that fill
Speaker 1: me up. And I think sometimes when we're burnt out,
Speaker 1: we want to stop everything, just stop it. Just quit
Speaker 1: my job, burn it off, turn it off. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do any projects, but I it's not reality. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We need to you know, keep living, we need to
Speaker 1: keep earning money, we need to keep ongoing, and so
Speaker 1: if you can look at your schedule and just filter
Speaker 1: in some sprinkle in some joy, some filling up things
Speaker 1: that can be very small, you know, ten minutes of journaling,
Speaker 1: like that's when we're going to start coming back to
Speaker 1: ourself and even then get to a spot where you
Speaker 1: then have space to then rejig things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think even I think we spoke about
Speaker 2: this in the fem episode. But giving yourself a guilt
Speaker 2: free rest day of nothing wherever you can, maybe it
Speaker 2: means in two weeks time you give yourself a little
Speaker 2: long we can and take a day off work or something.
Speaker 2: But giving yourself that one day where you don't have
Speaker 2: to do chores, you don't have to go anywhere, you
Speaker 2: can just wake up, see what you feel like doing,
Speaker 2: and do that would help a lot with recovering for
Speaker 2: burnout and get yourself sort of back into like looking
Speaker 2: at your life at a bird's eye view rather than
Speaker 2: being stuck.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent create space. But then the caveat to
Speaker 1: that is that shouldn't be every weekend. No, if you're
Speaker 1: doing that every weekend, you you're not actually like you're
Speaker 1: not actually fixing anything, if that makes sense, you're just
Speaker 1: so burnt out and you're not taking any action to
Speaker 1: fix that burnout. No, if that makes sense. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's like a band aid fixed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a band aid every week so you can get
Speaker 1: through the next week, but you're not actually making any
Speaker 1: changes that you're then helping yourself. Yeah. So that and
Speaker 1: I do that sometimes right every weekend, I just want
Speaker 1: to veg out, and then I've got to literally look
Speaker 1: at myself and be like, something's wrong without and again
Speaker 1: that's when you have to take that accountability. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you have to be like, I need to make a change,
Speaker 1: which is always uncomfortable at the start. He is thinking
Speaker 1: like I've it's very common this time of year, and
Speaker 1: this was me probably like the last two months before this,
Speaker 1: But now I've like I've got an over the hump,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I needed that time. But
Speaker 1: if you're not actually moving forward or reshifting or rejigging things,
Speaker 1: we'll check it and when I figure out what it is,
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Speaker 1: how do you make space to level up without feeling
Speaker 1: like you're missing out. I'm just going to give a
Speaker 1: little bit more context to this question in the terms
Speaker 1: of an example, because we've got a few different questions
Speaker 1: of the same nature. Yeah, but an example someone gave
Speaker 1: is they really know that they want to study this
Speaker 1: specific course to reach their next level because that's where
Speaker 1: they see themselves going in their life. But to do that,
Speaker 1: they need to work less for this next little bit,
Speaker 1: and they're worried that that'll then set them back in
Speaker 1: different ways in life. And I feel like this is
Speaker 1: something very common where people experience that they know they
Speaker 1: need to get rid of something to make space for
Speaker 1: the next thing, but it's almost like getting comfortable with
Speaker 1: almost missing out on a few things in the moontime.
Speaker 1: I love this question, So I think it is so
Speaker 1: important every couple of not every couple of years, but
Speaker 1: like looking at your journey, this will kind of continuously
Speaker 1: happen when you do need to up level and you
Speaker 1: do need to shift or take something away. So the
Speaker 1: first example that comes to mind is when I quit
Speaker 1: my law job. So when I quit my law job,
Speaker 1: I had my social media stuff on the side, and
Speaker 1: I had built my social media stuff up where it
Speaker 1: basically matched what I was making my law job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so you know, technically, technically two incomes like that
Speaker 1: was amazing sort of thing when you were that young.
Speaker 1: But I knew if I didn't drop one and go
Speaker 1: fully in one of them, I would burn out and
Speaker 1: you know, crash and burn and it would not be great.
Speaker 1: So I knew for a time I had to kick
Speaker 1: one of them away and build up in that. You know,
Speaker 1: one and you essentially cut your income in half when
Speaker 1: you did that. Yeah, yes, it's that, Yeah, definitely. And
Speaker 1: you know, I had a mortgage, I had bills, Like
Speaker 1: even though I didn't have IVY, I still had huge
Speaker 1: things that were taking in consideration. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I am so happy to cut half my income and
Speaker 1: know that I can, you know, go deeper and just
Speaker 1: find out what this like intuition feeling is with this
Speaker 1: social media stuff, because I just I knew I was
Speaker 1: on like the brim of the cusp. We love the
Speaker 1: word cusp, the cusp of something, and I knew if
Speaker 1: I didn't let go of the law, I would never
Speaker 1: be able to get to the next level. So essentially
Speaker 1: I had to like, yeah, half my income and then
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest came I think it was one or two
Speaker 1: years later. Yeah, so essentially that's that's huge. But I
Speaker 1: needed to do it to then get to the next level.
Speaker 1: But then now, if I look at my life, like
Speaker 1: that's a no brainer choice. Absolutely, But during the time
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, but I'm going to lose half
Speaker 1: my income, you know, I was comfort and so it's
Speaker 1: about deciding like if this person she's clearly said like
Speaker 1: up level, she knows she's got this intuition feeling, she
Speaker 1: knows she needs to make space and take time, and
Speaker 1: that might mean bringing something away, whether that is time,
Speaker 1: whether that is money, some sort of resource, but that
Speaker 1: is always like now I look back that it's obviously
Speaker 1: tenfold where I was able to get because I reduced
Speaker 1: that so and like another another good example is in
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest, I can't remember it was the year's pregnant,
Speaker 1: so the Yuro's pregnant with Ivy. In Naked Harvest, I
Speaker 1: remember looking at our goals for the year and very
Speaker 1: specifically with intentions saying, I'm not interested in growth for
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest this year. I'm interested in creating a foundation
Speaker 1: because before that I couldn't leave. I couldn't take maternity
Speaker 1: leave because we were a small business and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone was doing a million dollar jobs and I was
Speaker 1: so intertwined into everything I couldn't technically take time off
Speaker 1: without it, you know, crumbling a little bit. So I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to sacrifice growth this year in
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest to build systems, to build foundations, to build
Speaker 1: our team so I can take time and essentially scale
Speaker 1: Naked Harvest later on Yeah, in years to come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So again that is like a choice. So instead of
Speaker 1: looking at oh I'm missing out on you know, money
Speaker 1: or growth or time like that's I feel like that's
Speaker 1: such an illusion, Like don't get caught in the trick
Speaker 1: because in the long road it will be you know,
Speaker 1: tenfold the time, energy, money, whatever resource that you're missing
Speaker 1: out on. Did that make sense? It did? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I I even because this is something I've gone through before,
Speaker 2: look at it and go every week. I don't make
Speaker 2: space for this. It delays the end goal by even
Speaker 2: though it probably might not work out to be exactly that,
Speaker 2: but for me, it's like this time is precious and
Speaker 2: I'm wasting it and the more I waste on doing
Speaker 2: the thing that wasting my time or like filling the
Speaker 2: space sinking long term, thinking long.
Speaker 1: Term other than sure, would I rather do a week
Speaker 1: of this or have that thing a month earlier? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like naked Harvest could have come even if you
Speaker 1: didn't quit your law job. But how much longer would
Speaker 1: it have taken you to get it to the point? Yes,
Speaker 1: correct that you did? Yeah? Yeah, next question, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on creating ballot? Oh? No, such thing? What
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I don't know. Sometimes this is
Speaker 1: a bit controversial. Just sometimes I don't believe in balance
Speaker 1: because I'm just such a person that I'm like, there's
Speaker 1: seasons and even though I do believe you can have
Speaker 1: it all, I think you can't have it all all
Speaker 1: the time. No, no, no, Yeah, I think you need
Speaker 1: to have priorities. Yeah, and anytime you have a priority,
Speaker 1: somethink slides back. It's just what happens. Yeah. But if
Speaker 1: you are very clear on your priorities and you know
Speaker 1: exactly what you want, that's not going to matter. Yes.
Speaker 1: So my big thing with balance is I think you
Speaker 1: need to decide what is your priority, what you want
Speaker 1: in life right now, what is your goal, and kind
Speaker 1: of go off that rather than being like I just
Speaker 1: need to be balanced twenty four to seven. Because like
Speaker 1: a good example is, like I said, if you have
Speaker 1: this goal of I want to grow my business year
Speaker 1: business this year, or even start a business, yeah, like
Speaker 1: you can't. Oh well, I've got to have time for
Speaker 1: my friends and my family and this and this, and
Speaker 1: I can only spend one hour on my business per week. Yes,
Speaker 1: it might and especially let's just say it's a side
Speaker 1: hustle and you're doing it on the weekend. You can't
Speaker 1: be like, oh, my goal is to you know, grow
Speaker 1: and scale my business, right, I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: part these every weekend. Correct. It's just like when I
Speaker 1: was at UNI and all my friends were going out
Speaker 1: on the weekend and I had an assignment and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, what's the end goal here, Georgia. Do
Speaker 1: you want to be a lawyer or do you want
Speaker 1: to go get out a good weekend? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 1: want to go have some fun? Yeah? And like sometimes
Speaker 1: I'd choose the funk, so I was like, fuck it, it stoughts,
Speaker 1: I don't care. But then you know you need to.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean about balance, Like I believe in
Speaker 1: balance in like, h if you look at your year
Speaker 1: in a hole and you're like, yeah, well three months
Speaker 1: I was, you know, really heavy on the candy collection,
Speaker 1: and then I had a month of really focusing on
Speaker 1: Tim and Ivy. So like during the candy collection three
Speaker 1: month pre launch, it wasn't balance. But if I look
Speaker 1: over the whole year, maybe it is, If that makes sense. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely so, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I really like that outlook, Okay, because Yeah,
Speaker 2: I do like getting comfortable with your priorities and if
Speaker 2: you're not, then change them.
Speaker 1: And if you're someone who's like, oh, I just I
Speaker 1: need balance in my life, you probably don't need balance.
Speaker 1: You're needing the opposite of what you're currently doing, which
Speaker 1: is fine, and it just means it's time to shift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's time for a different season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think something else as well, though, is if you've
Speaker 2: picked a cert priority to work on, don't get upset
Speaker 2: with yourself when the other things fall back, and don't
Speaker 2: be hard on yourself or measure your worth by those things. Like,
Speaker 2: for example, if your priority is your business and it
Speaker 2: means less time with your partner, don't go, I'm such
Speaker 2: a bad person because I'm being a bad partner. So true,
Speaker 2: because I feel like everybody does that. Yeah, if something
Speaker 2: starts slipping, if they're not going to the gym as much,
Speaker 2: I'm unfit. I'm unhealthy because I'm not going to the gym.
Speaker 2: I'm such a gross person. But like, that's not what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: No, it's health and fitness isn't a priority for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's okay because you chose a different priority at
Speaker 1: that point, which is also Okay, I love that. I
Speaker 1: think that's also about being like so self aware. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you need to be self aware when you're choosing something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I do it all the time. I get
Speaker 2: upset about something and then I'm like, hang on.
Speaker 1: I chose the other thing.
Speaker 2: This isn't even at the top of my five, like
Speaker 2: my top five wife, my energy getting.
Speaker 1: Upset, this isn't even a bucket. Yeah. Literally Number six.
Speaker 2: How do you deal with the guilt of having to
Speaker 2: sacrifice in this one came from a lot of like
Speaker 2: moms where they're sacrificing time with their kids to go
Speaker 2: back to full time work or part time work and
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I love this. So I follow this girl on Instagram
Speaker 1: called savann Ahla or Tiger or Tiger I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that's her name, Savan. I've actually had her on
Speaker 1: the potty Love Savan. She's like a California girl and
Speaker 1: she's like really fashion style, but she's also got two kids.
Speaker 1: And I remember reading one of her blogs that I
Speaker 1: absolutely loved, and she wrote this concept of like I
Speaker 1: don't do mum guilt mmm, and she just goes, I
Speaker 1: have decided my life. So she has two kids, they
Speaker 1: have a full time nanny. Yeah, she is an influencer.
Speaker 1: I think she has like two or three businesses, like
Speaker 1: girl Boss Vibes, and she's so unapologetic, like she's like,
Speaker 1: I have decided to create my life like this where
Speaker 1: I work in my businesses. I'm so passionate about it.
Speaker 1: You know, her husband works in her businesses too, and
Speaker 1: so with you know, with their time, they just like
Speaker 1: they have a nanny full time during the week and
Speaker 1: then they prioritize like family time on the weekend. And
Speaker 1: she's like, I have decided this. I've decided this so
Speaker 1: I will not buy into mum guilt. And she's like,
Speaker 1: I've just decided I will not have money, and I
Speaker 1: just love it because I'm like that's so true. Like
Speaker 1: you can literally decide your life. So if your priority
Speaker 1: is you want to be a working mom and you
Speaker 1: want to work in your career or you want to
Speaker 1: work in your business like own it, don't fall into
Speaker 1: this mum guilt because it's like it's just wasting time
Speaker 1: and energy and it's about you know, your priorities. So again,
Speaker 1: if you do have mum guilt, and it's because this
Speaker 1: and that, it's time to shift, it's time to change,
Speaker 1: and I know it's not sometimes that easy, but it's
Speaker 1: about being self aware enough. And I do this too.
Speaker 1: I fall into the trap where I feel guilty, you know,
Speaker 1: with certain things about Ivan. Then I have to remind myself.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, Georgia, you chose to be a working
Speaker 1: mom and you fucking love what you do and you're
Speaker 1: giving her a great life and she has the best
Speaker 1: life and yeah, and so I have to remind myself
Speaker 1: that and almost give myself some tough love where I'm like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. We're not doing mum guilt today, Georgia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and almost like being very taking the emotion out of it, yeah,
Speaker 1: almost objective, Yeah, being objected and being like, well, you
Speaker 1: chose this and you love what you do, and you
Speaker 1: know things might change one day and one day you
Speaker 1: might just want to be stay at home um or
Speaker 1: do something different, and that's fine, but for now, you've
Speaker 1: chosen this, So we're not doing mum guilt. And I
Speaker 1: think a big thing with sacrifice is like not really
Speaker 1: like not looking at it in a negative way, like
Speaker 1: looking at it, at it in a really positive way
Speaker 1: of if you've chosen to live your life and maybe
Speaker 1: it is a little bit different to mainstream or how
Speaker 1: other people doing it, but like being like, how amazing
Speaker 1: that I get to set up, you know, my life
Speaker 1: this way, and even like looking at things like if
Speaker 1: you have a nanny or your child goes to you know,
Speaker 1: kindergarten or something, being like how amazing that they get
Speaker 1: to spend time with other children and their nanny who
Speaker 1: they love. And I get to work on my business
Speaker 1: and provide for my family. Yeah exactly, and like completely
Speaker 1: flipping it around. I just even love the concept of
Speaker 1: being like, oh no, I don't do mum guilt. I know,
Speaker 1: and it's like we should do an episode. All that's it.
Speaker 1: That's episode done.
Speaker 2: Next question, how do you keep on task during your
Speaker 2: designated productivity tasks and how do you juggle those tasks
Speaker 2: in busy work days while also prioritizing workouts, fam and relationship.
Speaker 1: Color code So, like I said before, when I plan
Speaker 1: in advance, so you really want to plan in advance,
Speaker 1: you want to look at your calendar. I find color
Speaker 1: coding helps me. So Google cow you can just edit
Speaker 1: it and choose the color and you can literally look
Speaker 1: at your week, so you know, have I got enough
Speaker 1: time for myself? Have I got enough time for family time?
Speaker 1: And you know, you could go really far as time
Speaker 1: blocking stuff like bed bath routine with Ivy. I don't
Speaker 1: because I know I do that every night, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could look at that and then look at your
Speaker 1: colors and being like, for example, if you look at
Speaker 1: your schedule and you go straight from let's say it's like,
Speaker 1: for example, like I was, when I want to be
Speaker 1: in the visionary of my business and I want to create,
Speaker 1: you know, a forecast for next year, I'm going to
Speaker 1: make sure the time before that is putting me into
Speaker 1: a state like so before that, I'm not gonna you know,
Speaker 1: drop Ivy off here and do something that's gonna make
Speaker 1: me feel rushed and you know, be like having appointments
Speaker 1: before it. Yeah, and then I've got to rush to
Speaker 1: the office, and then I've got to be the visionary
Speaker 1: in my business. Yeah. It's about looking at your time objectively,
Speaker 1: auditing your time, and being like, Okay, so if I'm
Speaker 1: going straight from this appointment, I'll be sitting in peak traffic,
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to go straight into a time
Speaker 1: block that I have to you know, be really creative.
Speaker 1: Is that really gonna happen? Or am I setting myself
Speaker 1: up for failure here? Yeah? So being very objective with
Speaker 1: productivity tasks that way. So even sometimes so like my
Speaker 1: nine to ten meetings are generally pretty cruisy. It's nothing
Speaker 1: too crazy if I've got time before there that doesn't
Speaker 1: get me into my best self, if that makes sense,
Speaker 1: And then I'll put like the harder tasks like later
Speaker 1: on in the day or you know, roles reverse in
Speaker 1: regards to I generally like I do a lot of
Speaker 1: recording in the afternoons because I don't find it mindless,
Speaker 1: but I find it easier than like sitting down and
Speaker 1: like planning things. So I will put more, like more
Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff in the morning. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe just do an audit of your time, do some
Speaker 1: color coding, and yeah, work it all out. And if
Speaker 1: you don't, like, if you don't have Google Calendo, you
Speaker 1: could just put on like a four get some highliners.
Speaker 1: But yeah, even I cow on your iPhone you can
Speaker 1: color code. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next question, I'm nervous that handing work off to employees
Speaker 2: will make my clients think that they don't have to
Speaker 2: pay me as much as they do or want them
Speaker 2: to pay. I want them to pay more, and I
Speaker 2: want employees and subcontractors to do more or all of
Speaker 2: my work so that I can let go and enjoy
Speaker 2: life more. I thought this was a really interesting question
Speaker 2: for business owners.
Speaker 1: I love this. So I heard a really great example
Speaker 1: the other day where a guy was explaining that bear
Speaker 1: with me here, I'm probably gonna butcher this. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: a guy was explaining you know, it was on a
Speaker 1: podcast or something, and he was kind of saying about,
Speaker 1: like this person wanted to up their rates. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he was kind of talking about like time for money,
Speaker 1: and he was saying, like, you're not necessarily paying time
Speaker 1: for money, like when you're you know, paying a subcontractor
Speaker 1: or paying for a service, And like a great way
Speaker 1: to think about it is you're not like paying Oh
Speaker 1: they're two like a lawyer five hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: an hour. That's how much. Yeah, jesus, my partner used
Speaker 1: to charge out for his time and me, as a
Speaker 1: law clerk not even finish my law degree, they used
Speaker 1: to charge me out at one eighty per hour, like
Speaker 1: they weren't paying me. That that's the shot. That's rough.
Speaker 1: I was on like twenty two an hour. But so
Speaker 1: if we're talking, you know, time for money. A really
Speaker 1: great concept that I love is let's say you have
Speaker 1: this huge business. You're making fifty MILLI a year. Let's
Speaker 1: say it's a manufacturing business, and you have machines that
Speaker 1: you know. Let's let's use naked harvest for an example.
Speaker 1: So let's just say you're a manufacturing business, you feel supplements.
Speaker 1: You're making fifty MILLI a year. This is a made
Speaker 1: up example, by the way, that would be fun. And
Speaker 1: you like a machine, like the machine in the factory,
Speaker 1: the machine in the factory that is feeling the you know,
Speaker 1: the supplements or whatever, is like it's making you one
Speaker 1: hundred grand per hour per hour. Yeah, let's say that
Speaker 1: machine breaks. You get you know, someone in to try
Speaker 1: and fix it. They can't fix it. You get another
Speaker 1: person in. It's now been a day and you've lost
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred thousand dollars or I'm not doing
Speaker 1: math right, but you know what I mean. Eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, Yeah, eight hundred thousand dollars. If you get
Speaker 1: you know, electrician in, I know who fixed machines, handyman,
Speaker 1: what mckn a mechanic or yeah, whatever, be some form
Speaker 1: of engineer, probably an engineer. Yeah, if you get him in,
Speaker 1: he finished, he fixes that machine in ten minutes. But
Speaker 1: he charges you twelve thousand dollars. Are you gonna care no,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna go, oh, thank god, I'm not losing
Speaker 1: like you know, eight hundred gates. Yeah. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: like when you think of your business, don't think of, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm charging this amount of money for someone's you know, time,
Speaker 1: and this is vice versa. But think of what problem
Speaker 1: am I fixing in that business? And what value is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What value is that? I love that. That's even like
Speaker 1: I tell so Justiner, my partnerships manager. She came in
Speaker 1: and for a long time I handled all my own collaborations,
Speaker 1: so ye, you know, the comms of it, everything involved,
Speaker 1: And then she came in. She organized me, She dealt
Speaker 1: with all the comms. I you know, pay her per hour.
Speaker 1: But I tell her all the time like she is
Speaker 1: worth Like her worth to me is like she could
Speaker 1: charge me a million dollars and I'd be like, well
Speaker 1: that's a bit dramatic, but it's like she is worth
Speaker 1: so much because she has changed my life. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's like, if you change someone's life or you hit
Speaker 1: a pain point, it doesn't matter what you charge, it
Speaker 1: just has to be what the value is. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I like, I think this person, I
Speaker 1: feel like that was a huge ramp. It was. But
Speaker 1: did that kind of make sense a tia, Yeah it does.
Speaker 2: And it's also like just having a bit more confidence
Speaker 2: in yourself and your employees' quality of output and if
Speaker 2: because to me, it sounds like she might not have
Speaker 2: the confidence she needs in the people she's handing the.
Speaker 1: Work off too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, work with them to get them to the point
Speaker 2: that they're outputting at a standard that you're happy.
Speaker 1: With, and then up your rate. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because Yeah, it's like when you give someone a pay
Speaker 2: rise at work, it's not because they're doing more hours
Speaker 2: of work in the week. It's because the work they're
Speaker 2: outputting is of more value to you now, correct. So
Speaker 2: think of it that way in terms of your business.
Speaker 2: Is your client's employee, so to say, and you're now
Speaker 2: providing more value to them even if you're not doing
Speaker 2: more hours, So ask for more money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my right. Number ten. I feel like this
Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense to this whole episode, but flicked
Speaker 1: a good question. There's also a BIS one, so we'll
Speaker 1: end on a bit about it.
Speaker 2: All right. What systems or tools in your business are
Speaker 2: great for keeping you on track with time and task management?
Speaker 1: Mm? Hm that we haven't already expect so obviously calendar
Speaker 1: is a big thing that we use. Is a sana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's like a task thing and I'm it's like
Speaker 1: it's free up into a certain amount of people you
Speaker 1: add on, so it's like a really great freebie. It's
Speaker 1: free for quite a long time tool. Is there any
Speaker 1: other tools we use for task management? I just really
Speaker 1: use like karl and asana. Yeah, google cal Asana for tasks.
Speaker 1: And then I love a physical beside me just drop
Speaker 1: down ideas And.
Speaker 2: I feel like with this you almost don't want too
Speaker 2: many things because the more you have, the harder it
Speaker 2: is to keep track of where you're writing things down
Speaker 2: simplify it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Actually, a tool that Ellie uses that she finds
Speaker 1: very helpful is notion Love Notion. I've never used it,
Speaker 1: but she seems very organized with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bit more freedom with it in what
Speaker 2: you can and can't do. But yeah, I think it's
Speaker 2: just play around with what personally works for you because
Speaker 2: there's so many tools and systems out there, Like we
Speaker 2: tried Monday for a.
Speaker 1: Bit, but I think that's a big thing. A tea
Speaker 1: is like, don't overcomplicate it. And I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: people when they're searching for a tool they want like
Speaker 1: a quick fix, they're like, oh, I'll use this and
Speaker 1: then I'll just be accountable. Yeah, you know, like nothing's
Speaker 1: a quick fix. Nothing is magic. Like I think there's
Speaker 1: definitely life changing things like a Google calendar, but like
Speaker 1: if you can simplify it and just work out a
Speaker 1: system that actually works for you. So what I'm saying
Speaker 1: with my whole how I do it on a Friday
Speaker 1: and I color code Like that might not work for you.
Speaker 1: That might feel like super like restricting or whatever. But
Speaker 1: you need to find a system that works for you,
Speaker 1: and yeah, don't over do it. And I think, and
Speaker 1: then to finish, just because we had so many epps
Speaker 1: about like health and exercise and how to prioritize, just
Speaker 1: like let's end on that. Yeah, I think the big
Speaker 1: thing with this, it's exactly what I said at the start,
Speaker 1: is you need to decide if it's a priority, and
Speaker 1: if it is, you just got to fit it in
Speaker 1: in regards to maybe you need to get up earlier,
Speaker 1: maybe you need to just be more disciplined and like
Speaker 1: you know, go after work or whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's like there's nothing magical here. There's no
Speaker 1: answer that I can give you.
Speaker 2: It's so hard and it's what I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: currently going through right now because I want it to
Speaker 2: be a priority. But it's always the thing that I've
Speaker 2: let slip because I just it's for me, like it's
Speaker 2: it's I find it easy to let my health and
Speaker 2: fitness slip, and I find it easy to let myself
Speaker 2: care slip.
Speaker 1: Like I will. I would rather cook dinner over having
Speaker 1: a nice bath, because it's not like it you must do.
Speaker 1: It's like a nice to have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I need to start looking at it as
Speaker 2: a you must do. And it's also about finding the
Speaker 2: system that works right for you. And there is no fix.
Speaker 2: Like my fitness coach said to me the other day,
Speaker 2: she's like, I'd love to be able to go to
Speaker 2: the gym for you. I'd love to be able to
Speaker 2: hit your nutrition.
Speaker 1: For its universe do it.
Speaker 2: But she's like I can't like as much as I
Speaker 2: want to, I could not do that for you. That's
Speaker 2: not possible. You're the person that you have to do
Speaker 2: it for yourself. And the phrase I've been using at
Speaker 2: the moment is if I'm feeling a bit lazy after
Speaker 2: work and I don't want to go to the gym,
Speaker 2: I will say not I'm tired, and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to the gym because I'm honoring myself. I say, I
Speaker 2: am prioritizing Netflix over my health and fitness.
Speaker 1: If that sits well with me on that day, how
Speaker 1: does that feel? Shit?
Speaker 2: If that's hope, it's well with me on that day,
Speaker 2: then that's fine because maybe I'm having it off day,
Speaker 2: but usually it doesn't. And then I pick myself back up,
Speaker 2: get my active wear on and go to the gym.
Speaker 2: And also finding a system that works for you. I
Speaker 2: know one of my besties loves group classes because she says,
Speaker 2: all I have to do is physically get myself to
Speaker 2: the gym and my job's done. I don't have to
Speaker 2: then push myself to do exercises.
Speaker 1: Training does it for me? Yeah, he yells at me
Speaker 1: when he knows I'm not pushing myself. Kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that takes that pressure off. So find the
Speaker 2: system that works for you. Does a thirty minute homework
Speaker 2: out work or do you need to go somewhere else?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I love it. It is like it's a bit
Speaker 1: of tough love, but it's like, yeah, you kind of
Speaker 1: need to be like brutally honest with yourself and decide
Speaker 1: is this a priority or is it not? And if
Speaker 1: it is and you, you know, aren't making a priority,
Speaker 1: then stop in lazy get a lazy ass. I know.
Speaker 1: It's so much easier said than done. Yeah, in saying
Speaker 1: that too, like, do you find once you stick to
Speaker 1: something and you continntinuously do it, it's a habit.
Speaker 2: Yes, But I feel like for me, especially with health
Speaker 2: and fitness, it does take a little bit longer to
Speaker 2: build that habit because it's still so easily the priority
Speaker 2: that drops until I get it there, and that that
Speaker 2: like I'm prioritizing this over my health and fitness has
Speaker 2: really helped, especially on weekends when I very much need
Speaker 2: to gym on the weekend because during the week I
Speaker 2: get really drained. Yeah, if someone's like, let's get dinner,
Speaker 2: I go. I am prioritizing dinner with this person over
Speaker 2: my health and fitness. If that feels good, great, If
Speaker 2: it doesn't, I don't get dinner that day kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I don't eat, I don't eat out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be my gym time, like yeah, or try
Speaker 2: and get your friends to come gym with you.
Speaker 1: That way I find a system for you. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been in like in saying that with I've found, like
Speaker 1: with waking up earlier, it's I can tell even it's
Speaker 1: only been a week, but like today was so much
Speaker 1: easier to wake up than it was Monday. And I know,
Speaker 1: if I push through and I just keep doing it,
Speaker 1: my body cloth's just gonna, you know, fix itself. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: If I continue continuously do it too, it's just gonna
Speaker 1: become a habit. And for me getting up early, I
Speaker 1: just say to myself, I get up.
Speaker 2: It's not like you're gonna like getting up at six
Speaker 2: am any more than you like getting up at five am.
Speaker 1: So just get up at five am, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like it's not any more enjoyable to wake
Speaker 1: up at five. Yeah, you might just get up the
Speaker 1: hour earlier. But sometimes it depends what time I went
Speaker 1: to bed, because like I need to set amount of
Speaker 1: hours to function, because if it's like the difference between
Speaker 1: six or seven, I'm going to choose the seven hours, like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, yeah, because that's some products I don't function.
Speaker 1: I'm precious. I'm like, I'm a Unie student. So I
Speaker 1: did you need to get seven hours of sleep when
Speaker 1: you were in Uni? Yeah? We probably got fucking nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I must have done you any different year. All right,
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