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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello.
- 0:01Speaker 2: My name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yr the
- 0:05Speaker 2: Order KERNI Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before we
- 0:08Speaker 2: get started on She's on the Money podcast, I would
- 0:11Speaker 2: like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of
- 0:14Speaker 2: which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country, acknowledging
- 0:18Speaker 2: the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming through
- 0:23Speaker 2: as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing and
- 0:27Speaker 2: the storytelling of you to make a difference for today
- 0:31Speaker 2: and lasting impact for tomorrow.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
- 0:34Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. I'm Victoria Devine, the owner of several
- 1:02Speaker 1: successful businesses, and I am joined by one of the
- 1:05Speaker 1: hardest working side hustlers I know. It is Jess Gorici. Hello,
- 1:09Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. You excited. I thank you
- 1:12Speaker 1: for having me back. I feel like this one could
- 1:13Speaker 1: have been written by you, because Jess, the community have
- 1:16Speaker 1: been a little bit pervy and have been asking how
- 1:19Speaker 1: I manage my time within the businesses, and I feel
- 1:22Speaker 1: like that is a very fair question because sometimes I
- 1:24Speaker 1: don't even know how I manage my time. You might
- 1:27Speaker 1: humble me a few times throughout this and be like Victoria,
- 1:30Speaker 1: that's aspirational. You say you do that, but it's in
- 1:32Speaker 1: your calendar and it never happens. So feel free to
- 1:35Speaker 1: pull me up on that, because I feel like authenticity
- 1:38Speaker 1: is important here. But I'm going to give a little
- 1:41Speaker 1: bit of insight today on where I put my focus
- 1:44Speaker 1: and how I do things to keep myself on track
- 1:46Speaker 1: and keep my team in order and still grow a
- 1:48Speaker 1: business while I think still having a balanced and lovely life.
- 1:52Speaker 4: I love that. I think it'll be super helpful and
- 1:55Speaker 4: really insightful for everybody who maybe wants to do that
- 1:57Speaker 4: for themselves someday.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Now, I really want to start by saying, obviously this
- 2:01Speaker 1: is going to look very different. Yes, we all have
- 2:04Speaker 1: you know this is a Beyonce quote, right, everyone has
- 2:07Speaker 1: the same twenty four hours in the days Beyonce. No,
- 2:11Speaker 1: I hate that. But how I manage my time now
- 2:15Speaker 1: is incredibly different to how I managed my time when
- 2:18Speaker 1: I was first starting out. So I kind of want
- 2:20Speaker 1: to break this up and do it in like three parts.
- 2:23Speaker 1: So like the starting phase, how did I manage my time?
- 2:25Speaker 1: Then the growing phase, and then a more established phase,
- 2:28Speaker 1: which we're currently in now, because I think it's very unfair,
- 2:32Speaker 1: especially in the business Bible community where we talk so
- 2:35Speaker 1: often about you know, authenticity and transparency, Like I can
- 2:39Speaker 1: be super transparent. I can tell you about my week
- 2:41Speaker 1: right now, it involves getting a pedicure, Jess like slay,
- 2:45Speaker 1: I've worked so hard to get to this point, but
- 2:47Speaker 1: that's not going to help you grow or change or
- 2:50Speaker 1: you know, justify the hard work that you're putting in.
- 2:53Speaker 1: And you go, well, I can't just start living the
- 2:56Speaker 1: exact same life that Victoria's living because that would make sense.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Like that's ridiculous. And don't get me wrong, I understand
- 3:03Speaker 1: the privilege. It is quite aspirational. When I like put
- 3:06Speaker 1: it down on paper, I'm like, oh wow, I have
- 3:08Speaker 1: achieved a lot and I'm really proud of it. But
- 3:10Speaker 1: I also worked really hard to get here. So I
- 3:12Speaker 1: think there's going to be a few different parts and
- 3:16Speaker 1: this is the only way I can think of doing
- 3:18Speaker 1: it that makes the most sense, gives you, guys, the
- 3:20Speaker 1: transparency and the authenticity that I think you deserve.
- 3:23Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think as well, you know, there are
- 3:25Speaker 4: a lot of people who are probably starting up their
- 3:28Speaker 4: business while they work another job, and so I think
- 3:30Speaker 4: looking at it in those kind of three stages that
- 3:32Speaker 4: you were talking about will be really helpful because no
- 3:34Speaker 4: matter where you are in your business journey, if you're
- 3:36Speaker 4: listening right now, hopefully you can get some little tips
- 3:39Speaker 4: and tricks to help you out.
- 3:40Speaker 1: All right, So let's dive straight in. Let's talk about
- 3:43Speaker 1: the starting phase. Let's go back to when I had
- 3:46Speaker 1: started Zella, and then She's On the money came along.
- 3:50Speaker 1: I feel like, there's my babies when I took about them.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I don't know how I did it, Like, I don't
- 3:55Speaker 1: know how I wasn't institutionalized. That's probably not helpful, No, no,
- 3:59Speaker 1: not Yeah, okay, let's dive into it. So at the
- 4:03Speaker 1: time that I was starting Zella, it came up as
- 4:06Speaker 1: an opportunity because I was already working in a wealth
- 4:08Speaker 1: practice and I knew that I wanted my own thing,
- 4:11Speaker 1: and I had been discussing with the director there, like
- 4:14Speaker 1: how do I do this and also do that? And
- 4:17Speaker 1: it meant a lot of extra hours because obviously I
- 4:19Speaker 1: couldn't build my wealth practice on his watch because he
- 4:23Speaker 1: still paid me for thirty eight hours a week to
- 4:25Speaker 1: run his business. But in addition, to that. I was
- 4:28Speaker 1: finishing my MBA, so I was doing I would say,
- 4:31Speaker 1: an accelerated MBA. I think that's what it is actually called.
- 4:35Speaker 1: But I was doing six units each and every single semester,
- 4:38Speaker 1: as opposed to four, which normal people would do.
- 4:40Speaker 4: What does that look like in terms of hours?
- 4:42Speaker 1: Roughly a lot of hours. So I think about thirty
- 4:44Speaker 1: hours a week. It's what I was doing, and I
- 4:46Speaker 1: was going to UNI three or four nights a week
- 4:48Speaker 1: after work. A day in the life would look like
- 4:51Speaker 1: me getting up ridiculously early. I also had an obsession
- 4:55Speaker 1: with fitness at the time, so I would get up
- 4:57Speaker 1: at like four thirty five am the gym. I'd have
- 5:00Speaker 1: my bullet coffee. What the hell, please don't go down
- 5:03Speaker 1: that route, because I thought that's what all successful people did. Yeah,
- 5:07Speaker 1: and you've probably heard me absolutely shit all over that now,
- 5:11Speaker 1: because I'm like, ah, that's actually not an indicator of success.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Why did I, as a smart person, even think.
- 5:16Speaker 4: That if I'm being up at four thirty in the morning,
- 5:18Speaker 4: I am not succeeding in my book?
- 5:19Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I am failing miserably. Yeah No, absolutely not
- 5:23Speaker 1: if I'm up before fall thirty. It was an accident now,
- 5:25Speaker 1: or someone's paying me a lot of money, yes, Jess,
- 5:29Speaker 1: you and I would begrudgingly getting up still. So I
- 5:33Speaker 1: was getting up really early, going to the gym, and
- 5:35Speaker 1: I would be at my desk by six thirty or seven.
- 5:38Speaker 1: And I had the privilege of being allowed to work
- 5:40Speaker 1: on my business prior to business hours starting at nine am,
- 5:43Speaker 1: so nine till five, So I would either be at
- 5:45Speaker 1: my desk working on my business at work, or I
- 5:48Speaker 1: would be at my desk working on UNI assignments. And
- 5:51Speaker 1: I often found that the time between seven and nine
- 5:54Speaker 1: it was like a nice time block of going, Okay,
- 5:57Speaker 1: I've got two hours to smash out whatever i'd prepare
- 6:00Speaker 1: the night before, and you know, get an assignment done,
- 6:02Speaker 1: or you know, at UNI, a lot of your assignments
- 6:05Speaker 1: are about a thousand words. And I remember in my head,
- 6:07Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I can smash out a thousand
- 6:09Speaker 1: words in two hours, and that's just how my brain worked.
- 6:11Speaker 1: I'd be like, yep, cool, can time block that. But
- 6:14Speaker 1: every single thing that I did was in my calendar,
- 6:18Speaker 1: so the gym, the coffee, the shower, literally the time
- 6:21Speaker 1: that I needed for UNI, because if it wasn't scheduled,
- 6:24Speaker 1: it wasn't happening, and Jess, as you know, I have
- 6:27Speaker 1: adhd yes and you guys nowadays are like v we
- 6:30Speaker 1: reminded you of that three weeks ago, and I'm like
- 6:33Speaker 1: beh because I'm the worst at taking my medication. But
- 6:37Speaker 1: back then, I was very medicated because otherwise nothing would
- 6:41Speaker 1: get done and I didn't have any support. I'd work
- 6:45Speaker 1: my nine to five job. I would usually eat at
- 6:48Speaker 1: my desk. I used to order you foods all the time.
- 6:50Speaker 1: I barely ever left the office to eat because to me,
- 6:53Speaker 1: that was an hour that I could use to either
- 6:55Speaker 1: work on a UNI assignment or work on my business
- 6:58Speaker 1: five five point thirty K. Sometimes i'd have to work late,
- 7:01Speaker 1: that would be fine, but UNI always started at six,
- 7:04Speaker 1: so I'd be at UNI by six and I would
- 7:06Speaker 1: have another U foods to eat at UNI, usually cold
- 7:09Speaker 1: because like the other side of the campus had the microwaves,
- 7:13Speaker 1: so like Yollo, eat cold dinner. This all good, and
- 7:16Speaker 1: UNI would usually go to nine or ten PM. I'd
- 7:19Speaker 1: then go home and get ready for work the next day.
- 7:21Speaker 1: So usually the start of my week. It really depended
- 7:25Speaker 1: on what I was doing and how I was doing it.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Like with Unique, sometimes it would be like Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Sometimes it would be the first three days of the week.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Sometimes it'd be the first four, it depended, And I
- 7:35Speaker 1: always jumped at the opportunity to do what they call
- 7:38Speaker 1: intensive units. So I remember having the offer. You know,
- 7:43Speaker 1: you'd do your four units as usual, but you could
- 7:45Speaker 1: pick up two intensive units each semester, and you were
- 7:49Speaker 1: able to do them in a four day like super course.
- 7:52Speaker 1: So you would take a Monday and a Friday off work,
- 7:55Speaker 1: or it would happen over like Christmas, holidays or Easter
- 7:57Speaker 1: or something, and you would do all twelve weeks of
- 8:01Speaker 1: content in four days, including all of your assignments. Like
- 8:05Speaker 1: it sounds it's great, but lack. That sounds crazy, but
- 8:08Speaker 1: it's relatively normal. Like if you've done an MBA, you
- 8:10Speaker 1: know that that exists. It's not actually that unhinged. But
- 8:13Speaker 1: you do four full days. But it is really time
- 8:17Speaker 1: intensive because every day you would have an assignment due.
- 8:20Speaker 1: So on the first day you do full day of content,
- 8:22Speaker 1: finish at like six pm, go home, write your assignments,
- 8:25Speaker 1: submit it, come back for the next day, and you
- 8:27Speaker 1: would break up all of those units across four days,
- 8:31Speaker 1: and then that fourth day would basically be exam day,
- 8:34Speaker 1: so you'd have four eight twelve units across three days
- 8:37Speaker 1: and then an exam and like finishing up your assignments
- 8:40Speaker 1: or a group assignment on the fourth day. I think
- 8:43Speaker 1: I ended up being able to do my MBA in
- 8:45Speaker 1: just under two years because of that, which is very helpful.
- 8:49Speaker 1: The second I stopped doing my MBA, kind of they
- 8:52Speaker 1: crossed over, but not really like I enrolled while doing
- 8:54Speaker 1: my MBA to do my finance diploma, so did that
- 8:58Speaker 1: as well. Again much because it was online and it
- 9:01Speaker 1: could be like self paced, but just time consuming. Weekends
- 9:05Speaker 1: were spent working on union assignments or actually working on
- 9:09Speaker 1: my business. It was the only time I had. I
- 9:11Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people will look at it
- 9:13Speaker 1: and go, well, that's not worth it. Cool, it might
- 9:16Speaker 1: not be to you. Like that was what I was
- 9:18Speaker 1: wildly passionate about at the time. And I was willing
- 9:20Speaker 1: to sacrifice family time, and I was willing to sacrifice
- 9:23Speaker 1: friends time. And you know, there are so many holidays
- 9:26Speaker 1: that my girlfriend's got to go on together that I
- 9:28Speaker 1: ultimately had to say no to. There are so many
- 9:31Speaker 1: brunches I didn't go to, and friend gatherings and sports
- 9:34Speaker 1: and social things that I didn't get to do because
- 9:37Speaker 1: that's how I was choosing to build my business, and
- 9:40Speaker 1: all of that happened. But yes, I built Zella on
- 9:43Speaker 1: the side once the NBA stuff had finished, I obviously
- 9:46Speaker 1: was really really wildly passionate about it. And She's on
- 9:50Speaker 1: the Money came up and She's on the Money used
- 9:53Speaker 1: to be lunch and learn sessions. So I used to
- 9:55Speaker 1: run these lunch and learn sessions at different law firms,
- 10:00Speaker 1: different big corporates to hopefully get some clients from my
- 10:03Speaker 1: new business, Zella, because like, you can't just steal my
- 10:06Speaker 1: current works clients, I'd have to get new ones. So
- 10:09Speaker 1: I ran these lunch and lann sessions and realized I
- 10:11Speaker 1: really wanted to work with women, so I was like,
- 10:14Speaker 1: let's call it, She's on the money. So I think
- 10:16Speaker 1: I was doing those in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and
- 10:18Speaker 1: it was just basic financial literacy, and yeah, it kind
- 10:21Speaker 1: of like snowballed from there and over time, I think
- 10:24Speaker 1: it wasn't till twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen that I thought,
- 10:28Speaker 1: why not give this hole She's on the money like
- 10:30Speaker 1: thinger go and created a Facebook group. It was more
- 10:33Speaker 1: so I could connect with the people that went to
- 10:35Speaker 1: my workshops and I would have a curriculum inside that
- 10:41Speaker 1: Facebook Jess and I every week would be like, all right,
- 10:43Speaker 1: so this week on Monday, We're talking about superannuation and
- 10:46Speaker 1: on Wednesday, I'm going to drop a superannuation activity. And
- 10:49Speaker 1: like it was all very structured, yeah, and so time consuming,
- 10:53Speaker 1: but that is what I would do. And then from
- 10:55Speaker 1: one thing and this will be a longer story, just
- 10:58Speaker 1: to like frame where we started. I supper, Sorry, Jess,
- 11:01Speaker 1: we started there. And then I remember the day it
- 11:04Speaker 1: hit seventeen hundred people in that Facebook group and I
- 11:07Speaker 1: was like, this is wild, like we're talking twenty nineteen. Yeah,
- 11:10Speaker 1: And I asked the group, I said, what do you
- 11:12Speaker 1: want me to do? Like how do I make this
- 11:13Speaker 1: more approachable? Like what content can I create? And they said,
- 11:18Speaker 1: we really want you to create video content? Can you
- 11:20Speaker 1: like start a YouTube? Which is funny now because I
- 11:23Speaker 1: said absolutely not. I'm never going on video hipocrite by
- 11:28Speaker 1: Irony exactly. And one thing led to another and decided
- 11:31Speaker 1: to do a podcast instead felt less scary and I
- 11:35Speaker 1: think that is written in the wall. The podcast kind
- 11:37Speaker 1: of blew up and I realized that that needed a
- 11:39Speaker 1: lot more love. And then, you know, because of the
- 11:42Speaker 1: podcast and because of the community in my Facebook group,
- 11:44Speaker 1: my wealth business started to grow and I got quote,
- 11:47Speaker 1: real clients and got to go out on my own
- 11:50Speaker 1: and do those things. And it's not so that you
- 11:52Speaker 1: guys can go, wow, she's really disciplined and sacrificed so
- 11:55Speaker 1: much like I was just wildly passionate about it. And
- 11:58Speaker 1: then Zella and She's on the Money of grew together,
- 12:01Speaker 1: and then ultimately, you know, grew the business, started hiring people,
- 12:06Speaker 1: and then you know, created these two teams of people
- 12:09Speaker 1: that could support me so that I could take a
- 12:11Speaker 1: bit of pressure off myself. Yeah, when it came to
- 12:13Speaker 1: the hours that I was putting in. And then in
- 12:16Speaker 1: September twenty twenty two, made the decision that in the future,
- 12:19Speaker 1: I really did want to have a family and I
- 12:21Speaker 1: did want to have a life, and I wanted some
- 12:23Speaker 1: balance back, and I sold that wealth business and started
- 12:26Speaker 1: just doing mortgage broking, which was a very small component
- 12:29Speaker 1: of Zella at the time, and grew that and also
- 12:32Speaker 1: just kept growing Cheese on the money. So that's the
- 12:35Speaker 1: starting phase.
- 12:37Speaker 4: Crazy, it sounds like a lot of hard work, That's
- 12:40Speaker 4: what I.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Said at the start, not sure if I should have
- 12:43Speaker 1: been institutionalized.
- 12:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:45Speaker 4: I feel like starting a business sounds like such a
- 12:47Speaker 4: dream in your head when you think about it, this
- 12:49Speaker 4: far away concept that people don't necessarily understand the legwork
- 12:53Speaker 4: that you have to do to start until you're.
- 12:55Speaker 1: In the thick of it.
- 12:56Speaker 4: And I think for you, you had a pretty good trajectory
- 12:58Speaker 4: that not all small businesses have. Like you had so
- 13:01Speaker 4: much opportunity, Yeah, really rapid compounded growth. And you know
- 13:05Speaker 4: you were saying that kind of twenty nineteen phase we
- 13:08Speaker 4: started doing sheetes on the money, and then by twenty twenty,
- 13:11Speaker 4: you know, the Facebook group, the podcast, did it all
- 13:12Speaker 4: taken off?
- 13:13Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's unheard of. And I feel so lucky
- 13:15Speaker 1: that I was in the right space at the right time.
- 13:17Speaker 1: And I think also we need to preface this. We're
- 13:20Speaker 1: talking about my journey. We're not talking about what's expected
- 13:23Speaker 1: of you. Like Jess, if you said I want to
- 13:25Speaker 1: start my own business, is it worth doing what you did?
- 13:27Speaker 1: They I would go, you need to seriously consider whether
- 13:30Speaker 1: it is or not, Yeah, because for most people it's not. Yeah,
- 13:33Speaker 1: And it's very.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Different, and I think it's more and more people are
- 13:36Speaker 4: out there. There's more and more competition, and it is
- 13:38Speaker 4: partly what you're doing and how you meet you are
- 13:40Speaker 4: and partly what tim do you have and what you do,
- 13:43Speaker 4: and so that can be really hard.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Sorry to cut you off there again. I think it
- 13:47Speaker 1: also needs to be pointed out very clearly. It's been
- 13:52Speaker 1: mentioned once already, but like I do have ADHD, I
- 13:55Speaker 1: hyper focus on things. Yeah, when I have a B
- 13:57Speaker 1: in my bonnet, it is like nobody else, like you've
- 14:00Speaker 1: seen it in the business, Like you just think I'm
- 14:01Speaker 1: insane sometimes, like the amount of times that our team
- 14:05Speaker 1: tries to peg me back because you go the what's
- 14:08Speaker 1: it going to be? Like are you going to do this,
- 14:10Speaker 1: this or this? And I go I'm doing it all
- 14:12Speaker 1: and you guys go, no, that is actually unreasonable, we
- 14:16Speaker 1: cannot deliver that, And I go, oh, yeah, okay, sorry,
- 14:20Speaker 1: Like I have had to really reset my expectations about
- 14:23Speaker 1: what I expect from other people. And I think that
- 14:26Speaker 1: you know, we're on the same page now, but historically
- 14:30Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, I can do forty fifty sixty
- 14:33Speaker 1: seventy hour weeks. Why can't you? Yeah, Like, why aren't
- 14:35Speaker 1: you as passionate about my business as I am, and
- 14:37Speaker 1: you cannot expect that from other people, but I expected
- 14:41Speaker 1: it from myself, and that's where burnout happens one hundred percent.
- 14:45Speaker 4: I think even with just freelancing for me, you know,
- 14:48Speaker 4: you have to spend the time researching what works and
- 14:50Speaker 4: putting the time into finding the right clients and the
- 14:53Speaker 4: management and the relationships, and I think there are so
- 14:55Speaker 4: many little things that take up the time. And if
- 14:58Speaker 4: you're someone who, like both you and I, are working
- 15:01Speaker 4: a full time job and trying to start or do
- 15:03Speaker 4: something on the side to give you a bit of
- 15:04Speaker 4: extra money, I think what you were saying about having
- 15:07Speaker 4: reasonable expectations on yourself is so important because if you
- 15:11Speaker 4: are doing those ninety hour weeks like what you were doing,
- 15:13Speaker 4: it's a miracle that you didn't, you know, end up
- 15:16Speaker 4: incredibly unwell or I did.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I ended up in hospital with shingles. Yeah, well, it's
- 15:21Speaker 1: not a flex That is an indicator that I had
- 15:25Speaker 1: burnt myself out. And I fully believe that I could
- 15:29Speaker 1: have built Zella and she's on the money over a
- 15:32Speaker 1: longer timeframe that you know, was more sustainable for my
- 15:35Speaker 1: physical and mental health and was healthier. But I didn't
- 15:39Speaker 1: because I didn't know any different and I just had
- 15:41Speaker 1: to be in my bonnet and I wanted to get
- 15:43Speaker 1: it done. And that's a part of my personality as well,
- 15:45Speaker 1: and I think that that's why I'm like, oh, like
- 15:48Speaker 1: when this topic came up and we're talking about you know,
- 15:51Speaker 1: lots of people are asking about how I manage my time.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I felt really awful being asked that because I look
- 15:57Speaker 1: at it and I go, that was not how to
- 15:59Speaker 1: manage your time. That was not yes, did I get
- 16:01Speaker 1: where I needed to go, but like at what cost? Yeah,
- 16:05Speaker 1: at the cost of a lot of friendships, at the
- 16:06Speaker 1: cost of a lot of experiences, at the cost of
- 16:10Speaker 1: a relationship at the time, like so much went absolutely
- 16:14Speaker 1: in the bin because I was so set on what
- 16:17Speaker 1: was going on, and it was kind of like, you know,
- 16:19Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty twenty two. I was like, this is
- 16:22Speaker 1: not sustainable, and like you were around for that, you
- 16:25Speaker 1: worked for Shees on the money. I remember coming in
- 16:27Speaker 1: one day and being like I think I'm going to
- 16:29Speaker 1: sell Zella wealth and you were like wait what And
- 16:33Speaker 1: I was like, I just can't keep this up and
- 16:34Speaker 1: you were like, Babe, I've been telling you that for
- 16:36Speaker 1: a long time, and like, who said this? Because that
- 16:39Speaker 1: was me? So I think it's so important to you know, obviously,
- 16:44Speaker 1: work hard if the reward is worth it and you
- 16:47Speaker 1: see the value in it, because I think that it
- 16:50Speaker 1: is so genuine to love what you do. But I
- 16:54Speaker 1: do not believe the concept that you know, if you
- 16:56Speaker 1: love what you do, you never work a day in
- 16:57Speaker 1: your life. No, no, no, I worked really hard. I
- 16:59Speaker 1: love what I do, but I definitely worked. I never
- 17:02Speaker 1: felt like I haven't worked. In fact, I'm the type
- 17:05Speaker 1: of personality who craves work like I would go insane
- 17:10Speaker 1: if you weren't giving me tasks and things to think
- 17:12Speaker 1: about and work to do. Like this whole maternity leave
- 17:15Speaker 1: thing drives me up the wall. Like hate the idea
- 17:18Speaker 1: that I'm going to be pulled away from my business.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Love the idea that I'm starting a family and want
- 17:22Speaker 1: to give that the time and energy it deserves. At
- 17:25Speaker 1: the same time as knowing I have so many competing
- 17:28Speaker 1: priorities and this love for my shoes on the money,
- 17:31Speaker 1: community and the business I'm building and the staff that
- 17:33Speaker 1: I have that I don't want to be away from it,
- 17:35Speaker 1: at the same time as going victoria. If you don't
- 17:38Speaker 1: step out of this business for at least twelve weeks.
- 17:41Speaker 1: You're gonna regret it when that baby is older. Yeah,
- 17:44Speaker 1: so I think it's about value. But I guess let's
- 17:47Speaker 1: go to a really quick break because when we get back,
- 17:50Speaker 1: I'm going to chat more about I guess, how to
- 17:51Speaker 1: manage your time effectively during a growth phase. And then
- 17:56Speaker 1: let's chat about managing your time in an established phase
- 17:59Speaker 1: and what were life balance actually looks like for me now,
- 18:01Speaker 1: because I promise it's so much better.
- 18:07Speaker 4: All right, everybody, we're back, and next on the list
- 18:10Speaker 4: is to chat about the growth phase. So you've worked
- 18:13Speaker 4: through your startup phase, maybe you've taken the jump into
- 18:16Speaker 4: employing your first employee.
- 18:19Speaker 1: On the money employee.
- 18:20Speaker 4: I know, how fun, what a throwback.
- 18:21Speaker 1: You're lucky. I'd had some experience with some other employees before,
- 18:24Speaker 1: and you were like the little guinea pig. Yes, you
- 18:27Speaker 1: were the first she's on the money employee.
- 18:29Speaker 4: That's so exciting. And I guess what was that like
- 18:33Speaker 4: for you stepping from the space of like being by
- 18:36Speaker 4: yourself and doing your ninety hour weeks to you know,
- 18:39Speaker 4: stepping into managing time with other people there to support you,
- 18:42Speaker 4: but also to manage.
- 18:44Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a lot, and I was young and diluted,
- 18:47Speaker 1: so I thought it was great at the time. But
- 18:49Speaker 1: the first team I built was the Zella team, and
- 18:52Speaker 1: at the time I did have a business partner, so
- 18:54Speaker 1: it was a little bit easier to grow it, but
- 18:56Speaker 1: there was a lot of responsibility. And that was my
- 18:58Speaker 1: first quote big team we had of nearly thirty and
- 19:02Speaker 1: I was so worried. Like all the time, I was
- 19:05Speaker 1: consistently anxious because I'd be like, well, how am I
- 19:08Speaker 1: meant to be in this position? And they know I
- 19:11Speaker 1: own the business, but I'm also half their age, and
- 19:14Speaker 1: I'm also, you know, not nearly as experienced, and it's
- 19:17Speaker 1: kind of like a fake it till you make it,
- 19:19Speaker 1: but also fake it because you can't have people see
- 19:21Speaker 1: that you're not capable. Yeah, so there was a lot
- 19:23Speaker 1: of pressure that I guess put on myself during that phase,
- 19:27Speaker 1: and it's beautiful and I don't wish to change anything.
- 19:32Speaker 1: I think that the leader I am today is a
- 19:35Speaker 1: much different leader to the leader I was back then.
- 19:38Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are people that I could have
- 19:39Speaker 1: done better by. I'm sure there are situations that I
- 19:42Speaker 1: could have managed better. I think there are things that
- 19:45Speaker 1: you know, I lost along the way that I didn't
- 19:47Speaker 1: have to lose, but I didn't know how not to
- 19:49Speaker 1: lose them at that point. And I think during growth
- 19:51Speaker 1: phase that's where all the learning happens. It's not just
- 19:54Speaker 1: your business growing, it's you growing because you've never done
- 19:56Speaker 1: this before and you don't know what's right or wrong,
- 19:59Speaker 1: and ultimate there is no right or wrong. So hiring
- 20:03Speaker 1: our first employee was overwhelming. Thankfully, I was well supported
- 20:06Speaker 1: and had like a lawyer that drew up our employment
- 20:09Speaker 1: contract and what that would look like. And at the time,
- 20:12Speaker 1: we were doing payroll internally, so I'd have to work
- 20:14Speaker 1: all of that out. And you know, it was a lot.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Opening an office is a lot, like you know, not
- 20:20Speaker 1: to get into the nitty gritty of it, but officers
- 20:23Speaker 1: are so expensive to manage, like to run. You have
- 20:27Speaker 1: not only the rent on the office, but you have
- 20:29Speaker 1: all of the overheads. You have a fit out. You
- 20:32Speaker 1: then have ongoing maintenance costs. We had to pay a cleaner.
- 20:35Speaker 1: We were then stocking the fridge. All of those little
- 20:38Speaker 1: things that add up. You go, oh my gosh, there's
- 20:40Speaker 1: no milk in the fridge for coffee and tea. Oh
- 20:42Speaker 1: let's get a coffee machine. Oh my gosh. All right,
- 20:45Speaker 1: so now we have a coffee machine, but because of
- 20:46Speaker 1: its volume of usage, it needs to be serviced every month.
- 20:49Speaker 1: And like, oh, we want the you know, foyer of
- 20:52Speaker 1: our office to be really nice. Let's get some plants.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Maintenance of plants. Like, it's just stuff that adds up,
- 20:58Speaker 1: and not everybody has these expenses. When I decided to
- 21:01Speaker 1: go get rid of a business partner, get rid of
- 21:04Speaker 1: all of that and start from scratch on my own,
- 21:07Speaker 1: having to do that again on my own was really overwhelming.
- 21:11Speaker 1: And then I guess I was in the privileged position
- 21:13Speaker 1: where that was a really black and white bread and
- 21:15Speaker 1: butter business, right, Like it's financial advice. We did accounting,
- 21:19Speaker 1: and then we didn't, and then we were doing mortgage broking.
- 21:22Speaker 1: That is such a basic business and I won't say
- 21:25Speaker 1: basics in dumb it down business, but that's a pre
- 21:28Speaker 1: existing business model, Jess. It exists, right, like you know,
- 21:32Speaker 1: the mortgage broking businesses exist. I could spend so long
- 21:35Speaker 1: on Google studying other people's websites, their organizational structures, having
- 21:39Speaker 1: a look at their LinkedIn, seeing who got hired first,
- 21:41Speaker 1: who did they prioritize networking in the industry, talking to
- 21:44Speaker 1: people about well, what did you prioritize? How did you
- 21:47Speaker 1: do this? In this growth phase? This is where I
- 21:50Speaker 1: needed the mentors that I had the most. I feel
- 21:52Speaker 1: like in that really startup phase, I had blinkers on.
- 21:55Speaker 1: I didn't want other people's opinions. But the second I
- 21:58Speaker 1: started to have to have bigger responsibilities like staff, I
- 22:02Speaker 1: was like, well, I better get back on this mentor thing,
- 22:04Speaker 1: because like, they've done it before. So for me, hiring
- 22:08Speaker 1: my first employee inside Zella was not as scary as
- 22:11Speaker 1: hiring you.
- 22:12Speaker 4: That's so interesting.
- 22:13Speaker 1: I really liked you. I'm just still here, like what
- 22:17Speaker 1: nearly four years later, so kudos for putting up with me.
- 22:20Speaker 1: But she's on the money was such a different business model.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody else who was running a media
- 22:26Speaker 1: podcasting business. I didn't know what that would look like,
- 22:29Speaker 1: or how that would grow, or is it worth biting
- 22:32Speaker 1: the bullet and paying this amount because there wasn't any
- 22:34Speaker 1: direct ROI because with a mortgage broker, I worked on
- 22:38Speaker 1: a three times multiple, so I'd be like, all, right,
- 22:41Speaker 1: of their income, thirty percent goes to the business and growth,
- 22:44Speaker 1: thirty percent should be profit and thirty percent should be
- 22:47Speaker 1: overheads that I pay the stuff. That's how I would
- 22:49Speaker 1: work it out, and I go all right, so taking
- 22:52Speaker 1: all of that into consideration, this is what they should
- 22:54Speaker 1: be paid, and this is what they should be earning
- 22:57Speaker 1: for the business. Yeah, there was direct You earn X
- 23:01Speaker 1: and I pay you Y, and that is a deal
- 23:04Speaker 1: with you. We've never had financial targets.
- 23:06Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Obviously now do partnerships and do do a lot of
- 23:10Speaker 1: financial things, but we've never had those targets because media
- 23:15Speaker 1: and podcasting are so different. It's not like I can
- 23:17Speaker 1: treat you like a mortgage broker and be like, yes,
- 23:19Speaker 1: this role is very black and white. You go out,
- 23:21Speaker 1: this are your sales targets, and this is what you
- 23:24Speaker 1: get paid. And if you wake way more sales targets,
- 23:26Speaker 1: then you get paid more. But it's not mortgage broking.
- 23:30Speaker 1: So I think that that, to me, was one of
- 23:32Speaker 1: the hardest things, and in that growth phase it was
- 23:36Speaker 1: really challenging, and we made a few mistakes. We hired
- 23:39Speaker 1: people that were like, Loop, this isn't a good fit,
- 23:42Speaker 1: and I think you've got to grow through what you
- 23:45Speaker 1: go through. So to me, yes, it was good, but Also,
- 23:48Speaker 1: this is the stage where the pressure started to be
- 23:50Speaker 1: taken off because I had people that I trusted to
- 23:54Speaker 1: do the things that I was doing. It was hard.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember how controlling was. Yeah,
- 24:00Speaker 1: I didn't want to let go of anything.
- 24:02Speaker 4: I'm glad we've worked through that now, but I.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Didn't want to let go. But once I learned how
- 24:07Speaker 1: to let go, I was like, that's why she's here,
- 24:09Speaker 1: because she's better at it than New Victoria.
- 24:12Speaker 4: And what was your time like during that period?
- 24:14Speaker 1: Very busy because I feel like you are switched on
- 24:17Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day still because you're trying to
- 24:19Speaker 1: grow a business and you know, make sure Jess is
- 24:21Speaker 1: happy and then do any hire another Jess? And what
- 24:24Speaker 1: does this look like? But there was a lot less
- 24:26Speaker 1: pressure because you're not setting things up for the first time,
- 24:29Speaker 1: you're not working out your accounting system. At this point,
- 24:33Speaker 1: I did a really big review of my business and
- 24:35Speaker 1: realized that there were a lot of things I should
- 24:37Speaker 1: be outsourcing. So that was the point at which I
- 24:40Speaker 1: was like, Okay, well, how many hours a week am
- 24:42Speaker 1: I wasting or using on lots of different things? And
- 24:45Speaker 1: I time tracked my hours. I think for a month,
- 24:51Speaker 1: every hour of the day was allocated for And then
- 24:54Speaker 1: I did a big review and I worked out how
- 24:56Speaker 1: long it was taking me to do payroll, how long
- 24:58Speaker 1: it was taking me to do a CA counting. And
- 25:00Speaker 1: I went through and I printed out my outlook. I
- 25:03Speaker 1: like screenshot it and printed out the outlook and like
- 25:05Speaker 1: used different color highlighters as I went through, and was like,
- 25:08Speaker 1: all right, well that's an admin task. That's an admin task.
- 25:10Speaker 1: And that was how I worked out that we needed
- 25:13Speaker 1: another admin. But also what could we outsource far out
- 25:17Speaker 1: was actually taking me fifteen to twenty hours a month
- 25:20Speaker 1: to do payroll and bookkeeping and all of the reconciliations
- 25:24Speaker 1: for our bank accounts. And I went, that's a waste
- 25:27Speaker 1: of my time because that's working in the business, not
- 25:30Speaker 1: on the business, like at the end of the day.
- 25:32Speaker 1: That's a task that needs to be done every month.
- 25:34Speaker 1: That's when we hired a bookkeeper. And I thought, okay,
- 25:37Speaker 1: well that's a good use of time because that gives
- 25:40Speaker 1: me another fifteen hours a month to grow the business. Yeah,
- 25:43Speaker 1: so I think that time blocking and it sounds really lame.
- 25:46Speaker 1: I would just like every night go back through because
- 25:49Speaker 1: I didn't do it as we're going, I'd go through
- 25:51Speaker 1: my calendar and be like, all right, well, between ten
- 25:54Speaker 1: and ten thirty, oh what did I do? I did this,
- 25:56Speaker 1: And between eleven and twelve I did this, and like,
- 25:59Speaker 1: I blocked it all in. And then after a month,
- 26:01Speaker 1: I printed four pages and I went through and I
- 26:04Speaker 1: highlighted the tasks that could be handed off without impacting
- 26:08Speaker 1: the business. And that's where we started to grow a
- 26:10Speaker 1: lot more. But it also helped me to understand what
- 26:13Speaker 1: my focus should and shouldn't be, because my job was
- 26:17Speaker 1: to grow the business, and I think I was lucky
- 26:19Speaker 1: to know that handing tasks like that over was not
- 26:23Speaker 1: going to send the business into a spiral. In fact,
- 26:26Speaker 1: it freed me up to do more content, to go
- 26:28Speaker 1: from having one podcast a week that we had two
- 26:31Speaker 1: three plus two other shows. And I think that that's
- 26:34Speaker 1: where you've got to let go to grow.
- 26:37Speaker 4: It's such an exciting phase for so many people, but
- 26:39Speaker 4: I think also very challenging navigating that new and growing space.
- 26:44Speaker 4: If we think now about heading into the established phase,
- 26:48Speaker 4: obviously now it be your businesses are totally there, We're
- 26:52Speaker 4: all set up, were very solid. Can you walk us
- 26:54Speaker 4: through your days and your weeks now and how you
- 26:57Speaker 4: kind of spend your time.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Okay, so right now, let's be brutally honest. This is
- 27:01Speaker 1: a pre recorded episode, and I'm thirty nine weeks pregnant.
- 27:04Speaker 1: So I'm on Matt Lee. Hi, Hi, I have had
- 27:07Speaker 1: a baby right now while I'm talking to you. Just
- 27:09Speaker 1: I don't know if it's boy. I don't know if
- 27:10Speaker 1: it's girl. You can probably go check socials because that
- 27:13Speaker 1: would be public information now, but I think that let's
- 27:17Speaker 1: just pretend it's not today and I'm not super pregnant
- 27:19Speaker 1: in my feet don't look to like sausages these days.
- 27:22Speaker 1: It's a lot more relaxed. I feel like I don't
- 27:25Speaker 1: have nearly as many meetings in my calendar. If you
- 27:27Speaker 1: looked at my calendar, there might be two or three
- 27:30Speaker 1: things in my calendar each day, which leaves me a
- 27:32Speaker 1: lot of time to work on the business and strategize
- 27:35Speaker 1: and plan and really reinforce the relationships I have in
- 27:39Speaker 1: the business. A lot of the time, I'm not, you know,
- 27:42Speaker 1: creating product, because I now have a team that does that, like,
- 27:45Speaker 1: So to be even more transparent, she's on the money
- 27:48Speaker 1: now has six full time employees and two I would
- 27:50Speaker 1: say part time, and Alisa Hi, she's full time employee,
- 27:53Speaker 1: but not by me, by our podcast studio, and she
- 27:58Speaker 1: works one hundred percent of her time on she's on
- 28:00Speaker 1: the money. And then we've got beck who is a
- 28:02Speaker 1: part time or so there's eight in the team. I
- 28:04Speaker 1: don't have to script the episodes anymore. That used to
- 28:06Speaker 1: take me, you know, one or two hours each script,
- 28:09Speaker 1: and you know, you extrapolate that out how many shows
- 28:12Speaker 1: we have and how many hours we do of content
- 28:15Speaker 1: every week, So that's alleviated. I don't have to cut
- 28:18Speaker 1: up videos any more myself. I don't have to edit
- 28:20Speaker 1: the podcast any more myself in my quote spare time.
- 28:23Speaker 1: I don't have to do any of the social media
- 28:25Speaker 1: posts because we've got Georgia and she does all of them.
- 28:28Speaker 1: So I think my time is more spent on the strategy.
- 28:31Speaker 1: I feel very privileged, but it's like my favorite part.
- 28:34Speaker 1: Like I get to come in with my ideas and
- 28:36Speaker 1: you know, I might sit down with you just and
- 28:37Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, I've got this laundry list
- 28:39Speaker 1: of dream clients and you go, no way is they
- 28:41Speaker 1: I'm going to work on contracting them and seeing if
- 28:44Speaker 1: they're interested in working with us and I go wow,
- 28:47Speaker 1: like that just happens for me, you know. I come
- 28:49Speaker 1: in and go, hey, Georgia, I've been thinking about this
- 28:51Speaker 1: new content. I've seen this, this and this. I'd love
- 28:53Speaker 1: to create something similar. Or I have this really good
- 28:56Speaker 1: idea about a content series pretty rogue. Can we try it?
- 29:00Speaker 1: And Georgia and Brooke will do it? So I think
- 29:02Speaker 1: it's so nice to be I guess in control. I
- 29:05Speaker 1: still think about it twenty four seven, like this is
- 29:08Speaker 1: still my baby, but it looks so different like my morning's.
- 29:11Speaker 1: We're not getting up at four thirty am, Jess. Yeah,
- 29:14Speaker 1: I get up at six thirty seven with my husband
- 29:16Speaker 1: and we go for a walk and we get coffee.
- 29:19Speaker 1: And there's just such a better work life balance now.
- 29:23Speaker 1: But I genuinely believe I worked for that, like I
- 29:26Speaker 1: have worked my butt off, and at the time, that's
- 29:30Speaker 1: not the life I thought I would have. I thought,
- 29:33Speaker 1: I'm going to be a really big hustle, I'm gonna
- 29:35Speaker 1: be so rich, I'm going to do this that the
- 29:37Speaker 1: other like to me, I would look up to people
- 29:40Speaker 1: like Elon musk Yah, which is disgusting, is so disgusting.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Do not clip that out and tell anybody, But I
- 29:47Speaker 1: would look up to them and be like, they are
- 29:49Speaker 1: so committed to their work. They get up every day
- 29:51Speaker 1: and like they just make decisions and do this. And
- 29:53Speaker 1: I just look at it now and I go, am
- 29:56Speaker 1: I as aggressive about growth as I was? Yeah? No, Like, Jess,
- 30:01Speaker 1: what do I think of growth? Like, you know, I
- 30:02Speaker 1: don't want a big team anymore. I feel like I've
- 30:05Speaker 1: gotten out of that phase. And then I look at
- 30:07Speaker 1: it again and go, I would much prefer to have
- 30:09Speaker 1: quality over quantity. Like you might be in a situation
- 30:12Speaker 1: where you want to build a megabusiness, you might be
- 30:14Speaker 1: in a situation where you want to build a part
- 30:16Speaker 1: time business that just has some extra income. Like, We're
- 30:19Speaker 1: all on different wavelengths. But to me, creating the lifestyle
- 30:23Speaker 1: that I have today took so long. I wasn't born
- 30:27Speaker 1: into a family who had intergenerational wealth who could kick
- 30:29Speaker 1: start my business. I had to work so hard and
- 30:32Speaker 1: compromise so much to be able to get here. But
- 30:36Speaker 1: I think that now my focus is just on having
- 30:39Speaker 1: the resources, giving my team a beautiful work life balance,
- 30:43Speaker 1: showing them that I care, because the more I care
- 30:45Speaker 1: about them, the more they give to our community, and
- 30:48Speaker 1: the more our community thrives. For me, I think it's
- 30:51Speaker 1: just about focusing on how to make this business as
- 30:55Speaker 1: sustainable as possible. We had a couple of months ago
- 30:58Speaker 1: a strategy session with the She's on the Money team,
- 31:01Speaker 1: and we sat down and we were like, Okay, well,
- 31:04Speaker 1: what does this look like. How do we introduce additional
- 31:06Speaker 1: revenue streams to the business so that we can thrive
- 31:09Speaker 1: and not be so stressed if you know, the podcast
- 31:12Speaker 1: doesn't work out in a few years, because you never
- 31:14Speaker 1: know what the world looks like in media. And I
- 31:17Speaker 1: think that that, to me is just exciting. Now. Yeah,
- 31:19Speaker 1: because we have created that sustainability and you know as
- 31:22Speaker 1: well as I do, that we have enough money coming
- 31:24Speaker 1: in the door to sustain the team, so we can
- 31:27Speaker 1: try a few different things and see if they fail.
- 31:29Speaker 1: But I did not have that opportunity at the start.
- 31:32Speaker 1: I couldn't try something and see if it failed. I
- 31:34Speaker 1: would have no more money to pay salaries, I would
- 31:37Speaker 1: have no flexibility. I would be done. So I was
- 31:40Speaker 1: so conservative at the start. Now we just try things,
- 31:43Speaker 1: see if they work. If they don't work, we'll just
- 31:44Speaker 1: delete them and pretend it never happened.
- 31:47Speaker 4: I think that gives some really good insight into how
- 31:50Speaker 4: people can look at the trajectory of their business. I
- 31:53Speaker 4: think staying away from comparison culture is also really important
- 31:57Speaker 4: and important because yeah, like you said, we all technically
- 32:00Speaker 4: have the same twenty four hours in the day, but
- 32:01Speaker 4: we don't have the same opportunities or the same twenty
- 32:04Speaker 4: four hours as the person next to us. And it's
- 32:06Speaker 4: easy to look at a business and think that it's
- 32:09Speaker 4: doing really well, but you don't know the behind the scenes.
- 32:11Speaker 4: You don't know if somebody is doubling or tripling up
- 32:14Speaker 4: on their workload or.
- 32:15Speaker 1: I feel like I used to look at people and
- 32:17Speaker 1: not understand that. And like I think people still look
- 32:20Speaker 1: towards us and go, wow, like your work life balance
- 32:22Speaker 1: is crazy because they see like our work retreats. Yeah,
- 32:25Speaker 1: of course they look lit. We had the best fun, right,
- 32:28Speaker 1: but also we did so much hard work on that
- 32:32Speaker 1: we got through so much content. Like that's the not
- 32:35Speaker 1: so shiny part that you know, we didn't put on
- 32:37Speaker 1: socials because we were actually busy working. Yeah, and you
- 32:40Speaker 1: might look at me and go V's work life balance
- 32:42Speaker 1: looks so sick. I can't believe she gets up early,
- 32:44Speaker 1: you know, every morning with her husband goes for a
- 32:46Speaker 1: walk with their dog and has a lot more flexibility,
- 32:48Speaker 1: and like, I do have time every three weeks in
- 32:51Speaker 1: my calendar to get a pedicure because it's important to me.
- 32:55Speaker 1: But I've worked really hard for that, and I have
- 32:57Speaker 1: so much support around me, and without that support, I
- 32:59Speaker 1: could never yeah do that. Yeah, And I think that
- 33:02Speaker 1: that's where you go, not taking the piss, But I
- 33:05Speaker 1: did work really hard for this.
- 33:06Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. Some people just have more resources
- 33:09Speaker 4: and more money and more support and just focusing on
- 33:11Speaker 4: being one percent better every day, I think is something
- 33:13Speaker 4: that anyone starting their small business journey should really try
- 33:17Speaker 4: to focus on.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Agreed.
- 33:18Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like trying to grow as a creator,
- 33:21Speaker 4: you know you don't get there as fast as you
- 33:22Speaker 4: want to, but you also need to remember, like for me,
- 33:25Speaker 4: I work full time. I love my job and I
- 33:28Speaker 4: give a lot to my job, and just because I'm
- 33:30Speaker 4: not growing as fast as somebody else doesn't mean my
- 33:33Speaker 4: time is being spent less effectively.
- 33:35Speaker 2: I know.
- 33:35Speaker 1: And it's so easy to look at somebody else who
- 33:38Speaker 1: had a video go viral and blew up overnight and
- 33:40Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I could have done that. I could
- 33:42Speaker 1: have done that. Like, I don't know. We do it
- 33:44Speaker 1: all the time, even if she's on the money. Like
- 33:46Speaker 1: sometimes you and I be like, hey, we did that
- 33:48Speaker 1: like a month ago. Why did that then work for
- 33:50Speaker 1: this person? Yeah? And I think that it's just not helpful.
- 33:53Speaker 1: It's not constructive. Stay in your own lane, work out
- 33:56Speaker 1: what you want. I think something that I wish I
- 33:58Speaker 1: had done earlier in my business journey is really go, well,
- 34:02Speaker 1: what are my values? What am I trying to create?
- 34:04Speaker 1: Because I think I was a bit of a bull
- 34:06Speaker 1: that had seen a red flag and I'm like, I'm
- 34:08Speaker 1: going to take over the world.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Men.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Like I can work in finance. If a
- 34:12Speaker 1: boy can do it, I can do it. Like I
- 34:14Speaker 1: was very aggressive with what I wanted to achieve, and
- 34:17Speaker 1: let's be honest, that has played into our success. But
- 34:20Speaker 1: was I super happy? Absolutely not. So I guess that's
- 34:23Speaker 1: a very very good place to probably leave it. I
- 34:26Speaker 1: think I've exposed enough of my business today and my
- 34:30Speaker 1: personal secrets, so let's leave it at that. What do
- 34:32Speaker 1: you reckon?
- 34:33Speaker 4: I think?
- 34:33Speaker 1: So I will see you all on Friday, Bye, guys. Bye?
- 34:43Speaker 3: Did buy shared on she's on the money is general
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