Latest / Two Broke Chicks / Life Lessons On Validation, Imposter Syndrome & Success ft. Grace Beverley
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigal Land Always was, always
- 0:03Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Hey Jixi'm zeal And. This is who broke Chicks to
- 0:14Speaker 2: show that she has life lessons and tips to help
- 0:16Speaker 2: make you rich in life. And today we are so
- 0:20Speaker 2: excited we are joined by an absolute modern day power house.
- 0:24Speaker 2: She's founded multiple businesses, including Tala, and she's also the
- 0:28Speaker 2: host of the podcast Working Hard.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Grace Beverly.
- 0:32Speaker 4: Thank you. Oh my god, this is so exciting. Thank you.
- 0:40Speaker 4: And she's also.
- 0:42Speaker 3: For like so long, so this is so exciting.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah. Well, you guys are one of the
- 0:47Speaker 4: first people I wanted to get on when I came here.
- 0:49Speaker 1: So the is mutual best friends, flirting godmother of your
- 0:53Speaker 1: future child baby.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, oh yeah, she just kicked she says, yeah,
- 0:58Speaker 4: oh my god, Yes, you weren't there. We were talking.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Yeah, that was actually yeah, we actually had a private
- 1:05Speaker 3: d M.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Did you want BBM No Black Messenger? Black birr is
- 1:11Speaker 4: a big thing here. Sorry to leave you out, but
- 1:13Speaker 4: it's the like people used to put in like their
- 1:15Speaker 4: BBM status, so like you'd someone would spend a week
- 1:18Speaker 4: on with someone or see someone on a Saturday, and
- 1:20Speaker 4: it would be like, your BBM station is like really short,
- 1:24Speaker 4: so it would be like your name, or you'd put
- 1:26Speaker 4: them in your like BBM name shout yeah, so it
- 1:29Speaker 4: would be like Grace and then it would be like
- 1:32Speaker 4: hot Alex or like something like that, and like, don't
- 1:35Speaker 4: you don't like I. You'd see it pop up and
- 1:38Speaker 4: you'd be.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, don't you remember when? Do you
- 1:45Speaker 1: remember when Snapchat would rank who this? Yes? But then
- 1:51Speaker 1: they started revealing if the guy you're talking to was
- 1:54Speaker 1: a dirty dog because there was an emoji if you
- 1:56Speaker 1: were both each other's Yes, snapchat up, but there was
- 1:59Speaker 1: an emoji if they were yours but you weren't there.
- 2:02Speaker 4: So my friend found out that her boyfriend was cheating
- 2:06Speaker 4: by that. No, I have another friend who found out
- 2:11Speaker 4: that boyfriend was cheating via snap maps. Shut the fuck
- 2:14Speaker 4: because she was like, I know that house. Oh my god.
- 2:18Speaker 2: But before we get into the episode, which I wish,
- 2:21Speaker 2: we could just talk about snapchat all day long, but
- 2:23Speaker 2: we like to start with our life lessons of the week,
- 2:25Speaker 2: So would you like to kick us off?
- 2:26Speaker 4: I'm god, I have to kick you off.
- 2:27Speaker 3: You don't have to week and start if you want us.
- 2:29Speaker 4: To give you Okay.
- 2:33Speaker 1: So my life lesson of the week is a clip
- 2:36Speaker 1: that I saw from Giggly Squad's Tiki talkie, and it
- 2:42Speaker 1: was that the difference between anxiety and intuition is that
- 2:45Speaker 1: anxiety is a question.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Mmmm, so if you're gonnall me more.
- 2:52Speaker 4: More, tell me? So, if you're like, is he cheating
- 2:54Speaker 4: on me?
- 2:56Speaker 3: That's anxiety, oh, where intuition is more of a fact.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Yeah, where you go, I think he's cheating on me,
- 3:03Speaker 1: that's intuition because most of the time, if you're going
- 3:06Speaker 1: from that, you're probably pulling in on evidence.
- 3:10Speaker 3: You're pulling in from your gut.
- 3:11Speaker 1: And the other difference is that anxiety it feels like
- 3:14Speaker 1: it's in your head, whereas intuition feels like it comes
- 3:17Speaker 1: from your gut. So if you are whirling in your brain,
- 3:21Speaker 1: that's anxiety.
- 3:22Speaker 3: If you get the tummy drop, that's intuition.
- 3:26Speaker 4: That's really interesting. Yeah, I feel like that makes me
- 3:30Speaker 4: think about the fact that one thing I've realized at
- 3:32Speaker 4: the pasty And this is not my life less of
- 3:33Speaker 4: a Week. I will provide you with another. But I
- 3:38Speaker 4: there was like this article that was basically saying that
- 3:40Speaker 4: your phone it was like the whole point of the
- 3:42Speaker 4: article was that your phone is the reason you don't
- 3:43Speaker 4: feel sexy, but more what I took out of it
- 3:46Speaker 4: was it's basically it was talking about the fact that
- 3:48Speaker 4: your phone makes you in your head all the time,
- 3:52Speaker 4: whereas in reality, like in past generations, you've probably been
- 3:56Speaker 4: in your body just as much as you're in your head.
- 3:58Speaker 4: So like say you're walking around, you're sitting in a cafe,
- 4:01Speaker 4: say you're waiting for a plane, and say, like whatever,
- 4:03Speaker 4: it might be like you're in your body, you're not
- 4:05Speaker 4: in your head just like existing exactly like you just
- 4:08Speaker 4: you're not thinking all the time as in not to
- 4:11Speaker 4: such like a I don't know, like constant analysis, like
- 4:15Speaker 4: all of these different things, and your phone puts you
- 4:18Speaker 4: in that way because you're constantly in that like learning,
- 4:21Speaker 4: absorbing information, coming in mindset, which I feel like. I
- 4:24Speaker 4: was like, oh, that's so true. I'm never in my body,
- 4:26Speaker 4: and now I try and like put myself into my
- 4:29Speaker 4: body more times of the day. So I try and
- 4:31Speaker 4: like even if I'm walking from one place to another,
- 4:33Speaker 4: I'm like, do I need music to do this? Like
- 4:36Speaker 4: as in should I just have a walk? Yes? And
- 4:39Speaker 4: then I try and do that.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Yeah, even showers.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, I don't remember the last time I
- 4:45Speaker 1: went to the toilet and didn't take my phone with me.
- 4:47Speaker 4: Well exactly.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:48Speaker 1: And they're like, I don't know, I don't know if
- 4:50Speaker 1: I'm kind of star like that's where I draw the line.
- 4:53Speaker 4: But it's true. It's like, no wonder we have such
- 4:55Speaker 4: increased anxiety when actually we allow ourselves to be in
- 4:58Speaker 4: our heads when are meant to be in our bodies.
- 5:01Speaker 4: And I feel like we can actually feel that, Like
- 5:03Speaker 4: you feel the difference, just like you were saying with
- 5:04Speaker 4: like head and gut, can I feel that?
- 5:07Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 5:07Speaker 4: Come you just one hundred percent can tell. Yeah.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And it's like when you go into the gut brain
- 5:13Speaker 1: relation and we need to be in gut more.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Yeah, get in.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Your gun A primal year, A year to gat.
- 5:21Speaker 4: I like that.
- 5:22Speaker 2: My life lesson of the way is really serious. And
- 5:25Speaker 2: it's that when you're standing on a set of stairs,
- 5:29Speaker 2: you're never standing backwards.
- 5:31Speaker 4: Oh no, I hate this, what happened?
- 5:33Speaker 3: How crazy is that?
- 5:36Speaker 4: I just got it right? Did you get it?
- 5:38Speaker 1: I feel because you're either facing down or you're facing up,
- 5:41Speaker 1: so you're never backwards.
- 5:43Speaker 4: How weird?
- 5:44Speaker 1: Is that I don't like that that my anxiety just
- 5:47Speaker 1: asked a question buck in her head.
- 5:49Speaker 4: I know, what have you done.
- 5:50Speaker 3: You're the gut is over, You're the guy is dead.
- 5:53Speaker 3: Get on the stands now.
- 5:58Speaker 4: Everyone's boys everywhere after all.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Now not for them.
- 6:07Speaker 4: I can have the gut exactly.
- 6:09Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, okay, what's your life erson of the week.
- 6:12Speaker 4: So I'd say my life lesson is I'm bringing back
- 6:14Speaker 4: lucky girl syndrome, which is like, yeah, this is great
- 6:17Speaker 4: for you. But I just think that, like I was
- 6:20Speaker 4: once really in my Lucky Girl's syndrome vibe, and then
- 6:23Speaker 4: it's easy to get out of it. And I mean
- 6:26Speaker 4: it in terms of like a headspace, like you know
- 6:28Speaker 4: when you just repeat to yourself again and again, like
- 6:30Speaker 4: everything just works out for me. Everything just works out
- 6:32Speaker 4: for me, and you just you just gotta believe it. Yeah,
- 6:35Speaker 4: And I feel like that's one thing that I've like,
- 6:37Speaker 4: really I've tried to it's having its renaissance in my
- 6:41Speaker 4: life at the moment, and I feel like it's you've
- 6:44Speaker 4: just got to put in the work to do it,
- 6:45Speaker 4: because it's very easy to get into the groove of
- 6:49Speaker 4: just like going around and being like Okay, oh this
- 6:52Speaker 4: is annoying, like I missed the bus or like this happened,
- 6:54Speaker 4: all this happened, And it's like, realistically, how many times
- 6:58Speaker 4: do those things happen and not have a way of
- 7:00Speaker 4: like figuring themselves out or like ending in the right place,
- 7:03Speaker 4: or like whatever it might be. And I just think that, actually,
- 7:07Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm back to it. I'm back to
- 7:10Speaker 4: everything that goes slightly wrong. It's like, oh, well, everything
- 7:13Speaker 4: works out for me, so it's not gone wrong. There
- 7:15Speaker 4: must be like a reason.
- 7:15Speaker 1: In redirection, you've like the brain spotlight on the good vibe, yeah,
- 7:19Speaker 1: rather than the brain spotlight on the bad vibe exactly.
- 7:22Speaker 4: And I just like thinking of myself as a lucky girl.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
- 7:26Speaker 2: And because when you're not in that headspace as well,
- 7:28Speaker 2: even when good things do happen, you say them more
- 7:30Speaker 2: as a checklist.
- 7:31Speaker 4: It's it's like yellow car theory.
- 7:33Speaker 1: I like you say that when you're looking out for
- 7:38Speaker 1: a yellow car.
- 7:38Speaker 4: I'm just like, the reason I look so confused is
- 7:40Speaker 4: because I was like, I just said this wrong, the
- 7:43Speaker 4: wrong car. But it's like when you say you're gonna fight,
- 7:46Speaker 4: like you're looking for something and you start noticing them more.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Otherwise you don't notice the yellow cars. So it's like
- 7:51Speaker 4: that's the same with your luck. It's like you allow
- 7:54Speaker 4: yourself to notice the things that go right, whereas like
- 7:56Speaker 4: if you're negatively biased, you constantly notice the things that
- 7:59Speaker 4: go wrong. And actually, just like I had such a
- 8:01Speaker 4: day yesterday where I was just like, I'm so lucky.
- 8:04Speaker 4: I'm the luckiest girl in the world, and I just
- 8:06Speaker 4: it's not even like her showing off or like, it's
- 8:10Speaker 4: a state of mind so that everything that goes a
- 8:13Speaker 4: bit annoyingly wrong, you're like, Okay, well that's fine, because
- 8:16Speaker 4: I'm the luckiest girl in the world and everything works
- 8:17Speaker 4: out for me. So I'm sure this is for a reason.
- 8:19Speaker 3: I learned that we have one of our best friends.
- 8:22Speaker 1: We were in Europe and she came out as a
- 8:26Speaker 1: lucky girl and she was.
- 8:28Speaker 3: And the crazy thing was that she kept us calling
- 8:30Speaker 3: herself lucky.
- 8:31Speaker 1: That we then also started noticing all the things that
- 8:35Speaker 1: she like that just worked it like we're like, fuck
- 8:38Speaker 1: lucky girl. Like we were like, oh my god, that
- 8:40Speaker 1: even when someone so enthusiastically embraced it individually, we then
- 8:46Speaker 1: also picked up on.
- 8:47Speaker 2: It and we reap the benefits of her lucky girl.
- 8:51Speaker 4: It's not accidental. It has to be something. It's like,
- 8:55Speaker 4: it just has to be where your head is.
- 8:57Speaker 2: All right, let's get into the episode.
- 8:59Speaker 4: We now life lessons out of the way.
- 9:01Speaker 2: So Grace, as we mentioned, you were aware of many hats.
- 9:04Speaker 2: You've launched businesses, you have an incredibly successful podcast, but
- 9:08Speaker 2: you studied music at Oxford, right, yeah, yeah.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Telly Prank, that's wild.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Did you always think that you were going to be
- 9:16Speaker 2: launching businesses? Is this where you thought that you would
- 9:18Speaker 2: end up?
- 9:19Speaker 4: No, I definitely didn't think. I didn't like see entrepreneurship
- 9:23Speaker 4: as a career path. It just wasn't something that like
- 9:26Speaker 4: I was around or was like seen as I don't know,
- 9:31Speaker 4: I didn't see it. And so I think that in
- 9:34Speaker 4: my mind, my career path was always like I never
- 9:38Speaker 4: knew what I wanted to do, Like I never and
- 9:40Speaker 4: I've always been so like envious of people who have
- 9:45Speaker 4: who are like, I want to do this, this is
- 9:46Speaker 4: the path to get there, Like this is what I'm
- 9:48Speaker 4: going to do because I think I would I would
- 9:51Speaker 4: lend well to that type of thing, because I'm like
- 9:54Speaker 4: good at following that type of structure. But I've just
- 9:56Speaker 4: never had that like direction, I guess since super early.
- 10:03Speaker 4: I just always so. I guess what I defaulted to
- 10:05Speaker 4: instead was very much what can I do that's the
- 10:11Speaker 4: most impressive. I think that was something that when I
- 10:16Speaker 4: was a teenager I definitely always tried to do. And
- 10:20Speaker 4: I don't think that was I think that was from insecurity.
- 10:22Speaker 4: Like I think that that was very much like, oh,
- 10:25Speaker 4: I saw the response that got from people, and it
- 10:29Speaker 4: was about impressing other people undred percent, and like the
- 10:32Speaker 4: response that got from my parents and like the respect,
- 10:34Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, okay, external validation one hundred percent.
- 10:38Speaker 4: Oh my best friend. And so I think I still
- 10:42Speaker 4: like it, I think, But I so, I think that
- 10:47Speaker 4: was like always my thing. I don't actually so I
- 10:49Speaker 4: always say, like I used to be. I used to
- 10:52Speaker 4: want to be like a banker or a lawyer or
- 10:54Speaker 4: like basically anything that, yeah, anything that if you said
- 10:58Speaker 4: to someone they'd be like, wow, impressive. And none of
- 11:02Speaker 4: that was based on my can innate desire to do
- 11:05Speaker 4: any of those things. I think it was more based
- 11:07Speaker 4: on an innate desire to like prove myself. And I
- 11:09Speaker 4: think that that's something that's been always part of me.
- 11:13Speaker 4: As a person, and I now try and like fight
- 11:16Speaker 4: that pretty regularly because I'm like, you don't need to
- 11:17Speaker 4: be doing that all the time, Like that's not how
- 11:19Speaker 4: you build a life that you love. So I was
- 11:23Speaker 4: always kind of like going towards that direction. And in
- 11:28Speaker 4: the UK it's a little bit different, I think from
- 11:32Speaker 4: a lot of other places in that can you don't
- 11:35Speaker 4: need to study something related to the thing that you
- 11:37Speaker 4: go into, So a lot of like banking or legal
- 11:42Speaker 4: or any of these kind of careers, they don't necessarily
- 11:47Speaker 4: hire from vocational degrees. They often hire from like humanities
- 11:51Speaker 4: or whatever. There's definitely I think what i'd seen or
- 11:55Speaker 4: what I'd been advised as a teenager is like go
- 11:57Speaker 4: to the best university you can for something you care about,
- 12:00Speaker 4: and you'll be able to get a good job. And
- 12:01Speaker 4: so I yeah, and I was really so the music
- 12:06Speaker 4: I studied, I think that it's a bit strange because
- 12:09Speaker 4: I think that you would assume if you were studying
- 12:11Speaker 4: music you'd be doing like performance and all of that.
- 12:14Speaker 4: The specific degree I did was very specific to the
- 12:18Speaker 4: university and it was like all like the politics and
- 12:21Speaker 4: philosophy of music. So a lot of the papers I
- 12:25Speaker 4: did were all around like historical associations with music, so
- 12:29Speaker 4: like political movements and the associated music, or like censorship
- 12:32Speaker 4: around particular political movements and like what that meant in
- 12:35Speaker 4: music and like various other things.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Fine, do you know what that makes sense?
- 12:39Speaker 1: Though, because when you kind of think about like movies
- 12:41Speaker 1: that are either in America or in the UK, everyone
- 12:44Speaker 1: always says I studied at Oxford, or I studied at Harvard,
- 12:47Speaker 1: or I studied blah blah blah blah, and they say
- 12:48Speaker 1: the university, whereas here you go, oh, I studied a
- 12:52Speaker 1: Bachelor of Arts Marketing or like.
- 12:54Speaker 4: I think that's what happens when it's around like like
- 12:56Speaker 4: Ivy League and Oxbridge, because it's like that's the important
- 13:00Speaker 4: if that makes sense. Like I feel like people say
- 13:02Speaker 4: to me far more like, oh, you went to Oxford
- 13:04Speaker 4: than like, oh, you studied music. I think the music,
- 13:06Speaker 4: but it's a bit of like just trying to make
- 13:07Speaker 4: my trivia card harder. But it's like that was what
- 13:12Speaker 4: I was just told to do. I was told to
- 13:13Speaker 4: get into the best university you can for something that
- 13:17Speaker 4: you are interested in, and you'd happily study for three years.
- 13:19Speaker 4: And I was always really really interested around that like
- 13:23Speaker 4: the influence or the existence of music in certain like
- 13:26Speaker 4: political eras that reflected like Soviet Russia for example, like
- 13:30Speaker 4: what the music was like there in reflection of the
- 13:34Speaker 4: actual political landscape, and then like music as rebellion and
- 13:36Speaker 4: like all of those different things. So I was very
- 13:38Speaker 4: interested in that. So the actual whole degree I did,
- 13:41Speaker 4: I mean, it was all essay based, So I didn't
- 13:43Speaker 4: do I didn't do a single bit of performance as
- 13:45Speaker 4: any of my So it's kind of like it was
- 13:48Speaker 4: a very specific humanity I guess.
- 13:51Speaker 2: But that's still ladders art because it's still a creative space.
- 13:54Speaker 2: And also I'm sure you built so many skills around
- 13:57Speaker 2: critical thinking and research, which would come in and with
- 14:01Speaker 2: the research you do for your businesses.
- 14:02Speaker 4: But also your podcast.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean, like you can say the mind
- 14:05Speaker 2: map of how like even if what you did at
- 14:08Speaker 2: UNI doesn't exactly later up to what you do now
- 14:10Speaker 2: in a way that is super obvious.
- 14:12Speaker 4: There's links there. Oh yeah, it's like tens of thousands
- 14:14Speaker 4: of pounds worth of dinner party conversation. Yeah, like a
- 14:18Speaker 4: niche knowledge around political arism music. But like that's that's fine.
- 14:23Speaker 4: You know, got to make myself interesting somehow, but I
- 14:25Speaker 4: do very much. I don't know. I think that like
- 14:29Speaker 4: the main things I learnt out of that degree were
- 14:32Speaker 4: nothing to do with as much as I learned all
- 14:35Speaker 4: of what was in the degree, and like the independent
- 14:37Speaker 4: study and all of that, it was more the I mean,
- 14:40Speaker 4: I started my first business in my first year at UNI,
- 14:43Speaker 4: so the entire time was like this massive juggling act.
- 14:47Speaker 4: And I also at Oxford they don't let you have
- 14:49Speaker 4: a job. So there's this like, really, in my opinion,
- 14:53Speaker 4: outdated rule because I think that it only suits certain
- 14:55Speaker 4: people from certain demographics, which says that you cannot have
- 14:58Speaker 4: a job during term time. And the reasoning is is
- 15:01Speaker 4: because the terms are so short, so like semesters, I
- 15:04Speaker 4: don't know, what do you call them term semesters? Yeah, semesters. Yeah,
- 15:06Speaker 4: So the semesters are so short, they're like eight weeks,
- 15:09Speaker 4: so you actually have more time out of university than
- 15:13Speaker 4: you have in. So they're like, you can do whatever
- 15:15Speaker 4: you would want to do outside of that time, but
- 15:19Speaker 4: you have ten thousand words a week, so it's like
- 15:21Speaker 4: a very intense workload, and so they don't believe that
- 15:24Speaker 4: you could uphold even a part time job, whilst also
- 15:27Speaker 4: studying and so, which is a different setup from the
- 15:30Speaker 4: US system, for example, which they expect most people to
- 15:34Speaker 4: need some sort of job or whatever it might be,
- 15:37Speaker 4: or at least some people to and therefore it would
- 15:41Speaker 4: be understandable there is actually a rule at Oxford that
- 15:44Speaker 4: you are not allowed a job. So that was an
- 15:46Speaker 4: added layer on top of everything I was doing, which
- 15:49Speaker 4: was like, don't let anyone know that you are doing it.
- 15:53Speaker 4: Like well, it was like, you have to do this
- 15:57Speaker 4: to a level that no whatever suspects or kind of
- 16:05Speaker 4: could use against you the fact that you are.
- 16:08Speaker 1: And that's why I want to kind of go back
- 16:10Speaker 1: to something that you were saying before though about how
- 16:14Speaker 1: you were kind of motivated to do things that you
- 16:17Speaker 1: would feel impressed to other people and that external validation,
- 16:20Speaker 1: which like, yeah, we love a little bit of GSD, right,
- 16:23Speaker 1: But what was the journey like moving away from that
- 16:26Speaker 1: and moving away from like the need to impress other
- 16:29Speaker 1: people because I think that that is such an inherent
- 16:33Speaker 1: thing that's ingrained, especially in women, and also like the
- 16:37Speaker 1: highlight reel of social media to be impressive, to be
- 16:40Speaker 1: like different and smart and all these things. That how
- 16:43Speaker 1: did you go on that journey of moving away from
- 16:47Speaker 1: needing external validation.
- 16:49Speaker 4: So I'm definitely not that yet. Journey. I love a
- 16:52Speaker 4: bit of exciting word.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Yeah, like everyone does.
- 16:55Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think my life is now less based
- 16:57Speaker 4: on it. But I think that I would be lying
- 17:00Speaker 4: if I said that that was due to mental strength
- 17:02Speaker 4: rather than to the position I've got to in my career.
- 17:04Speaker 4: Like I think that it's probably quite easy for me
- 17:08Speaker 4: to say, like, oh, I've moved away from more external validation,
- 17:12Speaker 4: when actually I've got to a place where I think
- 17:17Speaker 4: I get probably enough external validation naturally every day based
- 17:21Speaker 4: on the perception of me from people seeing my job,
- 17:24Speaker 4: if that makes sense, rather than oh, I don't need
- 17:27Speaker 4: it exactly. So I mean it's been conscious, like I've
- 17:31Speaker 4: really tried to move away from that as a like
- 17:33Speaker 4: decision making protocol because I don't think it's the right
- 17:36Speaker 4: way to make decisions for your own life. But at
- 17:39Speaker 4: the same time, it's not like a oh that's turned
- 17:43Speaker 4: off now, like I just do things for myself and
- 17:45Speaker 4: for my own interest, because that is a big fat
- 17:47Speaker 4: lad Yeah was it?
- 17:48Speaker 1: More that's about pulling away for it and more than
- 17:50Speaker 1: more about leaning into it, and more about leaning into
- 17:53Speaker 1: what serves my validation and then naturally that follows.
- 17:57Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think like switching to internal validation is
- 17:59Speaker 4: important part of it, Like what can you get out
- 18:03Speaker 4: of doing the right thing for yourself that makes you
- 18:08Speaker 4: feel good rather than doing the right thing because other
- 18:10Speaker 4: people perceive it to be that way. I think it's
- 18:12Speaker 4: also like when you're at the beginning of a journey
- 18:14Speaker 4: of like knowing that you particularly go for external validation,
- 18:17Speaker 4: it's really hard to separate those things because usually what
- 18:21Speaker 4: makes you feel good internally is the things that make
- 18:24Speaker 4: you feel impressive externally or whatever it might be. So
- 18:28Speaker 4: I don't know. I think over time I definitely just
- 18:30Speaker 4: tried to. It's not necessarily about not going for it.
- 18:35Speaker 4: I think it's more about knowing that I it should
- 18:42Speaker 4: be the way I make decisions, So something can be
- 18:46Speaker 4: impressive and something I still decide to do as long
- 18:49Speaker 4: as it aligns with like all of these other things
- 18:52Speaker 4: that I want my life to be. But doing things
- 18:55Speaker 4: purely based on the fact that I think that they're
- 18:58Speaker 4: impressive and I'm going to be taken more so is
- 19:01Speaker 4: just like a means to serve, like the chip on
- 19:03Speaker 4: my shoulder, which is not.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Yeah, like is this decision coming because it feels good
- 19:10Speaker 1: for me. Yes, And you would have to make a
- 19:13Speaker 1: million difficult decisions, I would say, every single day running
- 19:18Speaker 1: you know, multiple companies and like the beast that like
- 19:20Speaker 1: Tala is now when you look back on your journey,
- 19:25Speaker 1: is there anything that springs to mind that you think, Hm,
- 19:28Speaker 1: I'd do that differently.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Oh my god, just so much. Oh tell me why.
- 19:31Speaker 4: I feel like it's a hard question because every decision
- 19:37Speaker 4: leads you to where you are now, even like you
- 19:39Speaker 4: we're talking about the lucky girl syndrome. So like, for example,
- 19:43Speaker 4: when I launched Tala, I launched it as part of
- 19:45Speaker 4: a licensing agreement, and I did that because I didn't
- 19:47Speaker 4: want to because I'd already had Shreddy for two years
- 19:50Speaker 4: and that had hundreds of thousands of customers. So I
- 19:52Speaker 4: knew that there was going to be interested in this
- 19:55Speaker 4: thing because I had eyes on me based on my
- 19:57Speaker 4: other business and based on people being interested, the Shready
- 20:00Speaker 4: customer was going to hopefully buy Tala like they were
- 20:03Speaker 4: the same demographic. So I knew that to launch at
- 20:07Speaker 4: the level we would need to launch at Aka for
- 20:10Speaker 4: our first launch ever to be able to serve the demand.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Probably the first order was going to be like five
- 20:16Speaker 4: hundred thousand pounds, and I was like, that's too much
- 20:19Speaker 4: risk for me to take on personally, even though I
- 20:22Speaker 4: didn't want to give away equity in the company. So
- 20:25Speaker 4: I used the sales that i'd done from Shreddy, and
- 20:27Speaker 4: I went to pitch to people about essentially doing like
- 20:30Speaker 4: a licensing agreement or a revenue split essentially, so like
- 20:34Speaker 4: you could fit the bill and I could, and you
- 20:37Speaker 4: get paid back for it essentially and with interest, but
- 20:40Speaker 4: I don't. It's not like a formalized loan agreement, and
- 20:43Speaker 4: it's not a it's not a kind of you don't
- 20:47Speaker 4: get equity in the company. So I did that, and
- 20:49Speaker 4: then I decided to I ran the company like that
- 20:51Speaker 4: for the first year and a half, and then I
- 20:53Speaker 4: realized that just wasn't going to work for the business.
- 20:55Speaker 4: It was like it was too complex, it was hard
- 20:58Speaker 4: to hire people. The people I was working with just
- 21:01Speaker 4: didn't have the same vision for the business as me.
- 21:02Speaker 4: They were really happy to make it like a kind
- 21:05Speaker 4: of merch company and just make it like serving a
- 21:07Speaker 4: certain thing and like, I don't know, compromising certain ethics
- 21:11Speaker 4: and like all of that, and I just wasn't up
- 21:13Speaker 4: for that, so I had to go through an extremely painful,
- 21:16Speaker 4: like over six months legal process to get out of that,
- 21:20Speaker 4: and that like nearly killed the business. So at the time,
- 21:23Speaker 4: obviously I would have been like, fucking wish I never
- 21:26Speaker 4: did am I as, yeah, thank you, I.
- 21:32Speaker 3: Feel like, yeah, it's your day.
- 21:39Speaker 4: So I think that, like, obviously at that time I
- 21:42Speaker 4: would have been like a fucking wish I did that differently.
- 21:45Speaker 4: But at the same time, everything done there, and there's
- 21:48Speaker 4: pace at which we were able to launch. Who's to
- 21:51Speaker 4: say that we would have launched well, Like, who's to
- 21:53Speaker 4: say that we would have had that first year and
- 21:54Speaker 4: a half working well enough to get to where we
- 21:56Speaker 4: did the next year and a half. And so I
- 21:58Speaker 4: think that it's I'm not trying for it to be
- 22:02Speaker 4: a cop out answer, but it's kind of a really
- 22:04Speaker 4: good way to look at it. It's how you have
- 22:06Speaker 4: to look at things because also, like, there are so
- 22:08Speaker 4: many things that don't work out. There are so many
- 22:10Speaker 4: like categories that we've tried that I thought would be
- 22:13Speaker 4: amazing and that we invested loads of money in and
- 22:15Speaker 4: like they sold, but they didn't sell how they should
- 22:17Speaker 4: and therefore you don't go into them, and you've already
- 22:19Speaker 4: spent so much time developing them. So it's just like,
- 22:22Speaker 4: I feel like having a business is that over and
- 22:25Speaker 4: over and over. Looking at it.
- 22:26Speaker 1: That way though, really helps what I would think helps
- 22:31Speaker 1: with decision paralysis, because that is something that like I
- 22:35Speaker 1: personally struggle with, being like, fuck, what if I make
- 22:38Speaker 1: the wrong decision, and so then I end up sitting
- 22:41Speaker 1: in paralysis where I don't end up making a decision,
- 22:44Speaker 1: when in reality, the.
- 22:45Speaker 3: Best decision you make is the one that you end
- 22:48Speaker 3: up making.
- 22:48Speaker 4: So one of the best decision making frameworks I've heard
- 22:51Speaker 4: about that that I use is now you have no choice,
- 22:56Speaker 4: I ate this. So is a decision a one way
- 23:00Speaker 4: door decision or a two way door decision. A one
- 23:03Speaker 4: way door decision is a decision you make once and
- 23:05Speaker 4: you cannot go back, or it's going to cost you
- 23:08Speaker 4: thousands or one hundreds thousands or whatever like whatever is
- 23:11Speaker 4: too much resistance to go back. A two way door
- 23:14Speaker 4: decision is something that you can make a decision if
- 23:18Speaker 4: it doesn't work, it doesn't need to stay open, like
- 23:21Speaker 4: you can go back through that door. The large majority
- 23:25Speaker 4: of decisions are actually two way door decisions. They feel
- 23:28Speaker 4: like one way door decisions because you're like, ah shit,
- 23:31Speaker 4: this is such a big life change or like whatever
- 23:32Speaker 4: it might be, most of them are genuinely two way
- 23:36Speaker 4: door decisions. So I've learned that, as you say, the
- 23:40Speaker 4: best decision is the one that you can make quickly
- 23:41Speaker 4: and can make right. So you know the whole saying, like,
- 23:44Speaker 4: make a decision and then make that decision right, like
- 23:47Speaker 4: you don't just wait to see if it was right decision.
- 23:49Speaker 4: You do the work, You do the follow through, like
- 23:52Speaker 4: all of the things that actually is going to make
- 23:54Speaker 4: that work. And so that's like, that's really what I
- 23:59Speaker 4: go by because in a business, you obviously have to
- 24:01Speaker 4: make like an insane amount of decisions today and they
- 24:05Speaker 4: all technically need to be the right ones. Realistically they're
- 24:09Speaker 4: probably not even close to the right ones, but a
- 24:12Speaker 4: we do the work to at least follow through enough
- 24:14Speaker 4: to make them feel like the right one, or you go, great,
- 24:19Speaker 4: we tried that, it didn't work. We've done one more
- 24:22Speaker 4: thing now that we know is a yes or a
- 24:24Speaker 4: note for the business. That's still progress, Like it might
- 24:26Speaker 4: not be progress in the way that you thought it
- 24:28Speaker 4: was going to be, but that is still progress. And
- 24:30Speaker 4: so I think that is, like, that's something that I've
- 24:34Speaker 4: had to integrate into my every day is like you
- 24:36Speaker 4: make a decision fast, and you understand what's one way
- 24:39Speaker 4: door or two way door. Like a one way door
- 24:41Speaker 4: decision probably, for example, from my example, would be getting
- 24:45Speaker 4: investment from a fund that is completely unaligned to who
- 24:48Speaker 4: we are, Like that is hella paperwork that is going
- 24:52Speaker 4: to be extremely hard to extricate yourself from. That is
- 24:54Speaker 4: going to be just could sink the business and could
- 24:58Speaker 4: take away your entire joy from the business. So that
- 25:00Speaker 4: is a decision that should take months, Like it should
- 25:03Speaker 4: take month.
- 25:04Speaker 1: Okay, So the one way door decisions are the ones
- 25:06Speaker 1: that we don't make these quickly. No, you sit on.
- 25:09Speaker 4: That and they should have two way door decisions. You
- 25:12Speaker 4: spend too much time on you're going to make it
- 25:14Speaker 4: the wrong yea.
- 25:15Speaker 1: So treating all decisions like a one way door is
- 25:18Speaker 1: where you end up in decision paralysis exactly. And then
- 25:21Speaker 1: treating all decisions like a two way door is where
- 25:23Speaker 1: you end up sucking up because then if ones are
- 25:26Speaker 1: one one Yeah, but I think the generally the lesson
- 25:29Speaker 1: actually is that like that's correct with the one way door,
- 25:32Speaker 1: but realistically.
- 25:34Speaker 4: Most decisions are with two way doors. We just think
- 25:36Speaker 4: they're one way doors. Like it's so easy to think
- 25:38Speaker 4: about like everything in your life is a massive decision. Realistically,
- 25:42Speaker 4: that's just like that's categorically not the case.
- 25:45Speaker 2: I like that analysis or like that way of looking
- 25:48Speaker 2: at it, though, because you could apply that in business or.
- 25:50Speaker 3: In day to day decision making as well.
- 25:53Speaker 2: And you wear so many hats, like every single day,
- 25:56Speaker 2: you'd have so many different things that you have going on.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Can you take us through, what is a day in
- 26:00Speaker 2: your life like? And what are the small habits that
- 26:02Speaker 2: you put into place to kick off those goals?
- 26:05Speaker 4: Okay, so a day in my life. I'm going to
- 26:07Speaker 4: give you a real answer soon, I promise you. It's
- 26:09Speaker 4: hard to say because it goes back and forth and
- 26:12Speaker 4: they're like many different types of days. Yeah, I'll give
- 26:14Speaker 4: you like maybe an overview of what a week would
- 26:17Speaker 4: look like, because I think that's actually like a better
- 26:19Speaker 4: reflection of what overall yes like. Because also the businesses
- 26:24Speaker 4: I run are different types of businesses, so some of
- 26:26Speaker 4: them require different levels of input from me week to week.
- 26:30Speaker 4: Then they all have crunch times like all of that,
- 26:32Speaker 4: so I just try and balance it out in a
- 26:34Speaker 4: way where they're not going to have crunch times at
- 26:36Speaker 4: the same time, and I can still get back to
- 26:38Speaker 4: everyone because it might be that like Shreddy's having a
- 26:40Speaker 4: huge launch and it's like a massive thing, and like
- 26:44Speaker 4: people at Tala's still the answers from me that week,
- 26:46Speaker 4: if that makes sense. So the way my week works
- 26:50Speaker 4: is it's not split like by company. It's more split
- 26:53Speaker 4: by type of work. Because I think one of the
- 26:55Speaker 4: mistakes people get into is like switching between types of
- 26:59Speaker 4: work really hard. So for example, I obviously have a podcast.
- 27:02Speaker 4: I don't record that every week, and I don't switch
- 27:05Speaker 4: between that because I find it really really hard, like
- 27:08Speaker 4: to do a podcast in an engaging way. I have
- 27:10Speaker 4: to be a normal human being to do my work
- 27:13Speaker 4: at my laptop for however many hours I need to
- 27:15Speaker 4: do it that day. I need to be like an
- 27:17Speaker 4: abnormal and probably quite like you know, like very lot
- 27:21Speaker 4: to the point like locked in person, which just doesn't
- 27:23Speaker 4: lend itself to like the funnest chats. So like Monday's
- 27:28Speaker 4: my work from home day. I tend to keep it
- 27:32Speaker 4: that way. I really like having the week book ended
- 27:35Speaker 4: if I can with work from home, mainly because so
- 27:38Speaker 4: much comes in throughout the week that I want to
- 27:42Speaker 4: make sure I'm not bottlenecking any of the companies. I
- 27:45Speaker 4: think that's one thing that's really come up for me
- 27:47Speaker 4: over the past few years is like, am I still
- 27:51Speaker 4: reviewing something or approving something because it is me doing
- 27:54Speaker 4: my due diligence for the company, or is this bottlenecking
- 27:57Speaker 4: and therefore delaying everything. So that means that with Mondays
- 27:59Speaker 4: and four I can get through like a hell of
- 28:01Speaker 4: a lot of work because I am like a speed
- 28:03Speaker 4: demon when it comes to me on my laptop. And
- 28:07Speaker 4: so I do that, and I have all my standing calls.
- 28:09Speaker 4: So I have a call with my chiefert staff. I
- 28:11Speaker 4: have a call with Tala CEO. I have a call
- 28:15Speaker 4: with the commercial director at Shreddy. I basically have all
- 28:18Speaker 4: like my what do we absolutely have to do, Like
- 28:22Speaker 4: how are we making sure we're on the same page.
- 28:24Speaker 4: They've had their call with their founders so they understand
- 28:26Speaker 4: like what top priorities are or whatever it might be,
- 28:29Speaker 4: or they're reporting certain things to me, and so we've
- 28:32Speaker 4: got like a good state of play by the beginning
- 28:33Speaker 4: of the week. Then Tuesday is my like intense meeting day.
- 28:37Speaker 4: So I try and get as many meetings as possible,
- 28:40Speaker 4: Like I would rather have Tuesday filled to the break
- 28:44Speaker 4: than have meetings dotted the rest of the week, because
- 28:46Speaker 4: again I'm not good at work switching, Like I'll do it,
- 28:49Speaker 4: but the I'm so productive when you can give me
- 28:52Speaker 4: like a deep work block. So from the beginning of
- 28:56Speaker 4: Tuesday to the very end of Tuesday, I will be
- 28:59Speaker 4: in like locked in in various different meetings. So that
- 29:03Speaker 4: could be product meetings, that tala, that could be marketing meetings,
- 29:07Speaker 4: that could be brand influencer that could be I don't know.
- 29:11Speaker 4: It could be not a personal meeting but like a
- 29:14Speaker 4: personal brand type associated meeting. It could be all of
- 29:16Speaker 4: these different things. So I try and do those like
- 29:20Speaker 4: maximum possible. Then on Wednesday, Wednesday morning, that's when I
- 29:26Speaker 4: get any content done. So if I needed to do
- 29:29Speaker 4: a brand deal, if I needed if I wanted to
- 29:31Speaker 4: do some TikTok's about some certain all of that, like
- 29:34Speaker 4: I block out that time. So like you'll notice a
- 29:37Speaker 4: pattern which is like everything is like blocked in a
- 29:39Speaker 4: very like routine way. But I also think what works
- 29:43Speaker 4: so well is like you've got to remember that four
- 29:46Speaker 4: companies are vying for this time and I don't mean
- 29:52Speaker 4: that in a kind of life. I'm still popular way,
- 29:54Speaker 4: but like, if you need something from me, you need
- 29:56Speaker 4: to know, Okay, Well, if it's a meeting, it's probably
- 29:58Speaker 4: gonna happen on Grace's Tuesday. If it's some content, it's
- 30:01Speaker 4: probably gonna happen on Wednesday. So in that case, we
- 30:03Speaker 4: can request certain things by this date or whatever it
- 30:06Speaker 4: might be, and that means everything keeps on flowing. There's
- 30:08Speaker 4: no like, oh, well, Grace might be shopping in Paris
- 30:12Speaker 4: that day, which was but like do you get what
- 30:14Speaker 4: I mean?
- 30:15Speaker 2: So it's to be rigid and the hack is time blocking, Yeah,
- 30:19Speaker 2: and also knowing your skills. So for example, for us,
- 30:23Speaker 2: I think a whole day of meetings, we'd be like,
- 30:25Speaker 2: we can't do that because we know that by two
- 30:27Speaker 2: o'clock the final three meetings are going to be points exactly,
- 30:32Speaker 2: Whereas like for us, we're like, we know that on
- 30:34Speaker 2: Fridays we're in a good mood in the morning, we're fresh,
- 30:36Speaker 2: so that's when we record the podcast. It's like understanding
- 30:40Speaker 2: your strengths and weaknesses and allowing time in the schedule
- 30:44Speaker 2: to support those strengths and weaknesses.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Yeah, I think That's exactly it. It's like knowing yourself
- 30:49Speaker 4: is the best productivity hack you could ever have. Like
- 30:52Speaker 4: everyone can say, oh, do this, do deep work, do
- 30:55Speaker 4: time blocking, do the like whatever method like all of this,
- 30:58Speaker 4: the best thing you could ever do for your productivity
- 31:01Speaker 4: is knowing yourself. So if you know that you crash
- 31:04Speaker 4: after a certain time, if you know that you need
- 31:06Speaker 4: a bit of a warm up, which lots of people
- 31:08Speaker 4: think they do, most people actually don't. They just they
- 31:10Speaker 4: don't want to do their hard thing first thing in
- 31:12Speaker 4: the morning. If you know that you once you've had meetings,
- 31:15Speaker 4: you're not very good at deep work. Like all of
- 31:17Speaker 4: these different things, you have to know yourself, and once
- 31:20Speaker 4: you know yourself, that is how you can actually plan
- 31:23Speaker 4: your life. Like all of that is based on me.
- 31:25Speaker 4: So like Wednesday morning filming, for example, if I've had
- 31:28Speaker 4: meetings in the morning, I'm not gonna film, yeah, because
- 31:30Speaker 4: I will be in a completely I've just been in
- 31:32Speaker 4: a completely different mood, Like I'll be in a problem
- 31:34Speaker 4: solving mood. I'll be in a like I want to
- 31:37Speaker 4: like bash us out with this team so that we
- 31:40Speaker 4: know what the strategy is or whatever. So you want
- 31:42Speaker 4: me to go on like a cute little chatty TikTok.
- 31:44Speaker 4: Absolutely fuck not, Like no one will enjoy that TikTok
- 31:47Speaker 4: because I'll literally like so like, I know that has
- 31:49Speaker 4: to be first saying yeah, but I'm not. I don't know.
- 31:54Speaker 4: I've got many different modes and I'm fortunate enough to
- 31:59Speaker 4: be in the position where i can design my week
- 32:02Speaker 4: around those. And of course there are certain things that
- 32:04Speaker 4: come in and soay. For example, like every product meeting
- 32:07Speaker 4: you have, not like a one to one product meeting,
- 32:09Speaker 4: like a product department of meeting. Those are like three
- 32:12Speaker 4: and a half hours, So that's going to be a
- 32:14Speaker 4: whole morning or a whole afternoon. So I'm not going
- 32:17Speaker 4: to use my Tuesday meeting slots for that. That's probably
- 32:20Speaker 4: going to be a Wednesday or probably going to be
- 32:22Speaker 4: a Thursday, and that's probably going to throw off some
- 32:23Speaker 4: of the rest of the schedule. Like You've got to
- 32:25Speaker 4: stay flexible, particularly when I'm working at all these different companies,
- 32:29Speaker 4: like I cannot make things slow down for them.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Exactly how do you manage And not to say that
- 32:36Speaker 1: this is something you've experienced, but if it is like
- 32:40Speaker 1: the imposta syndrome of it, because eighty two percent of
- 32:45Speaker 1: gen ZED workers feel like they experience imposta syndrome, and
- 32:50Speaker 1: I'm very curious to know if you've had that experience
- 32:54Speaker 1: or what your advice would be regardless, because you are
- 32:58Speaker 1: so not to use word, but impressive.
- 33:01Speaker 4: Like you there's my little chair.
- 33:06Speaker 3: Yeah you can go a bit, but like.
- 33:08Speaker 1: You just fucking are so smart and like listening to you,
- 33:12Speaker 1: you just know what you're talking about. I'm one hundred
- 33:15Speaker 1: percent sure you've put in all of the work to
- 33:18Speaker 1: get to that point. But it's like how, I like,
- 33:22Speaker 1: how did you get past impaster syndrome if you've ever
- 33:25Speaker 1: had it? Or like, what's your advice to anyone that
- 33:28Speaker 1: does feel like they have it?
- 33:29Speaker 4: Yeah? So I mean, first of all, thank you, that
- 33:31Speaker 4: was very nice.
- 33:32Speaker 3: Anytime I'm still.
- 33:36Speaker 1: I'm flirting, okay f hr, there's no h.
- 33:43Speaker 4: Okay, you're on your own. So I think that the
- 33:49Speaker 4: first thing to say is I've absolutely had imposter syndrome.
- 33:52Speaker 4: I think also worth saying that. As much as I
- 33:54Speaker 4: am technically gen Z, I also started my first business
- 33:57Speaker 4: ten years ago, so there's like, I know, like lots
- 34:02Speaker 4: of people start to work at that stage as well,
- 34:04Speaker 4: but I think that like over ten years you do. Definitely.
- 34:08Speaker 4: I think building self trust and building self confidence is
- 34:10Speaker 4: a big way of defeating imposter syndrome because you know
- 34:15Speaker 4: that it might be like an anxiety in your head,
- 34:17Speaker 4: it might be something that you think you have, but realistically,
- 34:20Speaker 4: if someone came up to you and were like, you
- 34:21Speaker 4: shouldn't be here, you'd be like, yeah, I fucking shouldn't.
- 34:23Speaker 4: This is why. So I think like that's an important part.
- 34:26Speaker 4: I think that whenever I speak to people who work
- 34:28Speaker 4: in a more corporate setting, for example, about imposter syndrome,
- 34:31Speaker 4: the first thing I always say is that imposter syndrome
- 34:35Speaker 4: is likely a reflection of your environment. So if you
- 34:37Speaker 4: don't see many women in your position, if you don't
- 34:40Speaker 4: see many black women in your position, if you don't
- 34:42Speaker 4: see someone who looks like you or reflects you, or
- 34:45Speaker 4: is from your background, you're going to feel imposter syndrome
- 34:48Speaker 4: not because of who you are, but because of how
- 34:51Speaker 4: the workplace is set up and hasn't necessarily come that
- 34:55Speaker 4: far in terms of diversity or in terms of like
- 34:58Speaker 4: diversity of background, or like any of these things. So
- 35:01Speaker 4: that means imposter syndrome is then problem, not a you problem,
- 35:04Speaker 4: and it's a it's I guess useful to some extent,
- 35:08Speaker 4: like you know it's there, but it's only information. It's
- 35:11Speaker 4: not an instruction. It's not like, okay, well now you
- 35:14Speaker 4: need to feel like this. It's just what the workplaces
- 35:17Speaker 4: look like and where it looks now, and you can
- 35:21Speaker 4: use that as some information that reflects them, not you.
- 35:24Speaker 4: So I think that's quite important. I also think that
- 35:28Speaker 4: imposter syndrome is a really good thermostat for telling you
- 35:32Speaker 4: whether you're outside your comfort zone or not, because if
- 35:34Speaker 4: you don't have imposter syndrome in your job for more
- 35:38Speaker 4: than a year, in my opinion, you're probably not progressing
- 35:42Speaker 4: at the rate you want to progress unless you actually
- 35:44Speaker 4: don't want to progress. There are many people who don't
- 35:46Speaker 4: want to progress, and that is more than fine. Like
- 35:48Speaker 4: I will always be the biggest proponent for there are
- 35:50Speaker 4: different types of work for different people, and you don't
- 35:52Speaker 4: need to want to be a fucking CEO, like I
- 35:55Speaker 4: don't think that, even though social media makes that look
- 35:57Speaker 4: so glamorous, Like I don't think that's suited for everyone.
- 36:00Speaker 4: Not everyone even needs to manage people like all of that,
- 36:03Speaker 4: But I think that as part of that, what you
- 36:05Speaker 4: can really work out is like, Okay, I've not had
- 36:09Speaker 4: imposter syndrome for a year or two, Am I pushing
- 36:12Speaker 4: myself out there? Like? Am I doing enough things that
- 36:15Speaker 4: put me out of my comfort zone or that put
- 36:17Speaker 4: me in a place where I think, shit, I need
- 36:19Speaker 4: to do extra work for this. I need to maybe
- 36:21Speaker 4: even read some books like to understand how to manage
- 36:24Speaker 4: this conversation or relationship properly. Or I need to watch
- 36:28Speaker 4: some YouTube videos and some ted talks and like all
- 36:30Speaker 4: of that to actually learn an upskill. I think that
- 36:35Speaker 4: actually the bigger problem is if you're not feeling it regularly.
- 36:38Speaker 3: That just gave me butterflies.
- 36:43Speaker 1: That literally gave me batter flies because I was like,
- 36:45Speaker 1: what a fucking amazing way.
- 36:47Speaker 4: To look at it. But that's the thing. It's like
- 36:49Speaker 4: so many like imposter syndrome is delivered to women as
- 36:54Speaker 4: a almost like uh, you must have this, and you
- 36:58Speaker 4: must feel bad about it or you must fight it.
- 37:01Speaker 4: And in reality, if I'm feeling that because I'm pushing
- 37:06Speaker 4: outside of my comfort zone, like why are we looking
- 37:09Speaker 4: at that as a negative thing? Like great, you're in
- 37:12Speaker 4: the right place, perfect.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Yeah, so you shall stay here, yes.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Ch.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can't find your passport to get high.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. I ate it.
- 37:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:32Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I guess, if you're not feeling imposter syndrome,
- 37:36Speaker 2: maybe it's because you're fulfilled in what you're doing.
- 37:39Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be that. Like so for example, that's
- 37:41Speaker 4: a really good point because for example, I mean, I
- 37:44Speaker 4: probably feel imposter syndrome still a few times a year,
- 37:46Speaker 4: which is my indicator to myself that I'm not like coasting,
- 37:50Speaker 4: and I'm happy with that. But at the same time,
- 37:53Speaker 4: I don't feel it every day, and maybe I've reached
- 37:56Speaker 4: a stage in my career where I don't need to
- 37:58Speaker 4: feel it every day. I do think that it's often
- 38:00Speaker 4: asked to women in their twenties and early thirties in
- 38:03Speaker 4: the early stages of their career, were actually, if you're
- 38:06Speaker 4: pushing yourself.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Great, Yeah, you've completely altered in my brain chemistry with
- 38:11Speaker 1: that one great job.
- 38:12Speaker 4: Gorgeous researcher.
- 38:15Speaker 2: I think a lot of the chicks listening would have
- 38:17Speaker 2: had like a little light bulb moment then, because another
- 38:21Speaker 2: thing that a lot of young women get talk about
- 38:25Speaker 2: or experience is also the feeling of being a people pleaser.
- 38:28Speaker 2: And I know that this is something that you've said
- 38:29Speaker 2: that you have experienced or do still experience, especially because
- 38:34Speaker 2: unlike some CEOs and founders, like you are also the face,
- 38:38Speaker 2: the outward public face of.
- 38:40Speaker 4: Your businesses and of the projects that you work on.
- 38:42Speaker 2: What has your experience been like with that.
- 38:45Speaker 4: Well, I think that's one of the main reasons why
- 38:47Speaker 4: I've actually tried as much as possible not to make
- 38:49Speaker 4: the businesses like reliant on me. I mean, there are
- 38:52Speaker 4: many different reasons why I've done that. Obviously, Like we've
- 38:55Speaker 4: got investment at some of them. Like you don't invest
- 38:57Speaker 4: in one individual person, like that's not the smartest investment,
- 39:02Speaker 4: Like you invest in consumer companies that do well statistically
- 39:06Speaker 4: based on a number of different things and a number
- 39:08Speaker 4: of different metrics, and like I worked a lot of
- 39:11Speaker 4: time on making sure that all the like if you
- 39:13Speaker 4: look at the company's feeds now, for example, you'd probably
- 39:17Speaker 4: take a good few scrolls and see me once, yeah,
- 39:21Speaker 4: maybe twice. Like so I think that, and I think
- 39:24Speaker 4: that's been a conscious decision to make sure that I
- 39:31Speaker 4: am not held back by this people pleasing thing. Because
- 39:33Speaker 4: a company, it should please its customers, but it shouldn't
- 39:38Speaker 4: sway like the wind based on what one person says,
- 39:41Speaker 4: because if you've got hundreds of thousands or millions of customers,
- 39:46Speaker 4: you're not gonna please everyone with every drop. You're not
- 39:49Speaker 4: gonna make everyone feel happy about every decision, and you
- 39:52Speaker 4: still need to be able to make decisions without getting
- 39:55Speaker 4: that paralysis that you often get with like people bleasing
- 39:57Speaker 4: and wanting to do the right thing for you versus
- 39:59Speaker 4: other people. All of that. So I guess that's on
- 40:01Speaker 4: the business side. I think with me, I'm still a
- 40:04Speaker 4: people pleaser, and there's I think that what I'm trying
- 40:08Speaker 4: to do consciously all the time is make sure that
- 40:12Speaker 4: I'm not a people pleaser to the extent that it
- 40:17Speaker 4: that I'm living my life for other people. But at
- 40:19Speaker 4: the same time, I also like a lot of my
- 40:24Speaker 4: people pleasing traits, Like I like being a kind person.
- 40:28Speaker 4: I like being a person who thinks about the feelings
- 40:30Speaker 4: of others before I deliver something, or kind of making
- 40:34Speaker 4: sure that I don't deliver something at a certain time
- 40:37Speaker 4: so they don't feel a certain way. Like I understand
- 40:40Speaker 4: there is a difference between empathetic and caring person and
- 40:43Speaker 4: a people pleaser, but I often think that like we
- 40:47Speaker 4: we tell women in particular like these are the traits
- 40:51Speaker 4: you need to be a leader, and they're all these
- 40:52Speaker 4: quote unquote masculine traits. Actually, I want to be a
- 40:55Speaker 4: leader with all of these quote unquote feminine traits, Like
- 40:58Speaker 4: I want to be empathetic, I want to be understanding.
- 41:00Speaker 4: I want to think about whether that person's had a
- 41:02Speaker 4: bad day before I deliver some shit news or I
- 41:06Speaker 4: tell them their work wasn't good or whatever, Like I
- 41:09Speaker 4: care about those things. And I think that the way
- 41:11Speaker 4: it becomes an obstacle is when you you can't live
- 41:19Speaker 4: your own life because you're constantly living it for other people,
- 41:22Speaker 4: and you're constantly trying to impress other people or to
- 41:25Speaker 4: make them happier, whatever, and therefore you say yes to
- 41:27Speaker 4: things you don't want to say yes to and all
- 41:29Speaker 4: of that. So I've tried to get rid of all
- 41:30Speaker 4: of that. But on the other side, I'm like, I'm like,
- 41:35Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I want to please people like sain,
- 41:37Speaker 4: I don't want to please everyone. I don't want to
- 41:39Speaker 4: I don't want to please someone who's never going to
- 41:40Speaker 4: fucking like me. But at the same time, I want
- 41:44Speaker 4: to please my friends. I want to please our customers,
- 41:46Speaker 4: I want to please the people who have followed me
- 41:49Speaker 4: for ages and have supported me and all of that,
- 41:51Speaker 4: Like that makes me happy. I don't need to just
- 41:55Speaker 4: turn into some like like robotic kind of well this
- 41:58Speaker 4: is my life, Like in my opinion, there's a bit
- 42:02Speaker 4: too much of that.
- 42:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so we can lead with a little bit more
- 42:06Speaker 1: empathy and all yeah things. And we've said this, like
- 42:08Speaker 1: Sale and I have had these conversations because you know,
- 42:10Speaker 1: the more and more we are running our own business,
- 42:14Speaker 1: we have those moments where you know, we've said to
- 42:16Speaker 1: each other like, fuck, are we just not good at this?
- 42:18Speaker 4: Like are we just not good at.
- 42:19Speaker 1: The cutthroat way that people do business or you know
- 42:23Speaker 1: when they bring in lawyers or how they just don't
- 42:26Speaker 1: take things personally or whatever. And like I know I've
- 42:29Speaker 1: said to Sal and I go, but but we don't
- 42:31Speaker 1: have to run our business like that. We don't like
- 42:33Speaker 1: running business like that. And so when someone says to us,
- 42:35Speaker 1: like if something hurts our feelings with the way that
- 42:37Speaker 1: someone runs something, go over here and we're working with them,
- 42:40Speaker 1: and we go, well, that hurt our feelings. We don't
- 42:42Speaker 1: like that. And they go, well, that's just business. We go, well,
- 42:43Speaker 1: that's not our yes, no, how we've.
- 42:46Speaker 4: Said, and I think that that's a common misconception. I
- 42:49Speaker 4: also want to clarify as well, like running a business
- 42:51Speaker 4: and people pleasing don't need to be antithetical to each other.
- 42:55Speaker 4: I think that where some people get that wrong, and
- 42:58Speaker 4: where I've often got that wrong in the past, is
- 43:00Speaker 4: trying to make the right decision based on what will
- 43:04Speaker 4: make someone happy in the immediate future rather than the
- 43:07Speaker 4: long term future. So, for an example is if you
- 43:09Speaker 4: need to fire someone, if you look at it in
- 43:11Speaker 4: a people pleasing like book, you might be like, Okay,
- 43:15Speaker 4: well I need to not fire them because that will
- 43:19Speaker 4: not make them happy. Realistically, in the long run, someone
- 43:23Speaker 4: in the wrong company that you don't think is the
- 43:26Speaker 4: right fit, that isn't doing a good job and is
- 43:28Speaker 4: constantly getting negative feedback and just is not going to progress.
- 43:33Speaker 4: The kind option there is to be clear with them
- 43:36Speaker 4: so they can find the right place. It's important to
- 43:39Speaker 4: make sure, like I would always want to know if
- 43:41Speaker 4: there was something going on in their personal life that
- 43:43Speaker 4: meant that it shouldn't be delivered at that point, or
- 43:46Speaker 4: like whatever it might be. But realistically, where people pleasing
- 43:49Speaker 4: goes wrong is like the cutting off your nose in
- 43:51Speaker 4: spite of your face. It's like making the decisions that
- 43:55Speaker 4: will make someone happy in the immediate future and make
- 43:58Speaker 4: you feel better about yourself in the future, but in
- 44:00Speaker 4: the long run it's actually going to make them more unhappy.
- 44:04Speaker 4: The founder of Kultgeier came on my podcast a while ago,
- 44:07Speaker 4: and she one of the things that she said that's
- 44:09Speaker 4: really stuck with me is just that clarity is kindness.
- 44:12Speaker 4: And I think for a long time, the people pleasing
- 44:14Speaker 4: way I ran the business was trying to be as
- 44:18Speaker 4: nice as possible around feedback or just people's work in general,
- 44:22Speaker 4: or any of these things. And that's not actually that kind.
- 44:25Speaker 4: It might be nice, like, it might be polite and
- 44:27Speaker 4: it's been nicely delivered, but it's not actually that kind,
- 44:30Speaker 4: because the kind thing would be to say, what can
- 44:33Speaker 4: you do to make sure you still have this job?
- 44:35Speaker 4: What can you do to make sure that there is
- 44:37Speaker 4: a future for you here? What can you do to
- 44:39Speaker 4: make sure that you're progressing? Like I would much rather
- 44:42Speaker 4: have a boss that is clear with me and delivers
- 44:45Speaker 4: it in kindness, is clear rather than deceptively nice. If
- 44:50Speaker 4: you're that's actually not fair. If you're saying to me
- 44:52Speaker 4: over and over no your work's great, and I get
- 44:54Speaker 4: put on performance review and you're like, wait, what exactly?
- 44:58Speaker 3: Or they can't grow.
- 45:00Speaker 4: That's the difference. So it's like, clarity is kindness people
- 45:04Speaker 4: pleasing to make someone happy in the immediate future, which
- 45:07Speaker 4: is going to piss them off in the longer term future,
- 45:09Speaker 4: or upset them in the longer term future, or make
- 45:11Speaker 4: them confused in the longer term future. That's not people pleasing.
- 45:14Speaker 4: So the people pleasing we actually need to get rid of,
- 45:17Speaker 4: in my opinion, is the perceived people pleasing. That's actually
- 45:21Speaker 4: it doesn't please anyone.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, oh my god, I'm learning so much, Like
- 45:27Speaker 1: this is good stuff.
- 45:28Speaker 3: Someone write this down.
- 45:29Speaker 2: I do want to ask you one more question though,
- 45:31Speaker 2: because one of the reasons that you are in Australia
- 45:33Speaker 2: at the moment is because you've launched Talla into the icon. Agy,
- 45:37Speaker 2: thank fuck, congratulations and so and thank you like we
- 45:41Speaker 2: are honestly.
- 45:41Speaker 4: So it's a charitable movie. Seriously, to be fair, I've
- 45:47Speaker 4: never seen the response in my dms like it. Like
- 45:49Speaker 4: we've launched in lots of different territories and I was literally.
- 45:51Speaker 2: Like, oh no, I don't think you understand a lot
- 45:55Speaker 2: we did, and We've spoken about Tala and given our
- 45:57Speaker 2: own like product wrecks and stuff on the show before,
- 45:59Speaker 2: but we want you to share for any Aussie cheeks
- 46:02Speaker 2: who haven't shopped it yet, what would be the one
- 46:04Speaker 2: product that they need to add.
- 46:06Speaker 4: To car is hard. I know you do tops and bottoms, okay, categories, Okay,
- 46:11Speaker 4: so tops, what we're known for, what we're known for
- 46:14Speaker 4: generally is like ol flattering, Like that's what we were
- 46:18Speaker 4: good at. And so that means that our tops, like
- 46:25Speaker 4: the really flattering ones, you will never have seen yourself
- 46:27Speaker 4: look that good. It's true.
- 46:29Speaker 3: I have like four in like like the.
- 46:33Speaker 4: Sorry, I'll let you finish on. I want to hear
- 46:39Speaker 4: you talk about your boobs and our.
- 46:40Speaker 2: Tops literally well as too, like members of the Big
- 46:43Speaker 2: TV committee who usually always have to wear a bra.
- 46:47Speaker 2: I think it was probably the first time I've been
- 46:49Speaker 2: able to wear a top without wearing a bra.
- 46:52Speaker 4: But that's that's I think what makes you understand that
- 46:54Speaker 4: it's a like women owned and run company. Yes, it's
- 46:58Speaker 4: like you can tell that this was like any women
- 47:00Speaker 4: in the room being like no, I need the seam there,
- 47:02Speaker 4: and like half the people will have a big bust.
- 47:04Speaker 4: Half the people won't like all of that, So it's
- 47:06Speaker 4: like making sure there's a variety of products for both,
- 47:09Speaker 4: Like that's what's really important. I'd say the double layer
- 47:13Speaker 4: vest for a top is that is like, first of all,
- 47:16Speaker 4: it's really chic because it's like I feel like not
- 47:18Speaker 4: everyone's into super matching sets at the moment and their contrasts.
- 47:21Speaker 4: So you've got like the lower layers of different color
- 47:23Speaker 4: from the top layer, so it kind of looks like
- 47:25Speaker 4: you've thought about it, like you've thought about like a
- 47:27Speaker 4: bit of style layer. You've got your halter, you've got
- 47:30Speaker 4: your strappie, like all of that, and they're contrasted, which
- 47:32Speaker 4: I feel like theirs. So I'd say that double layer top.
- 47:36Speaker 4: Also it is called the boot job top for a reason.
- 47:40Speaker 4: The lift the girls.
- 47:48Speaker 3: Okay they're good, God, they're next, And.
- 47:50Speaker 4: Then I say it has to be it would have
- 47:55Speaker 4: to be. The day Flex flares. Those are like our
- 47:57Speaker 4: corner stone. Like you've seen data that shows that people
- 48:02Speaker 4: who buy day flex flares first often come back twice
- 48:05Speaker 4: and buy two more day Flex flares before they even
- 48:08Speaker 4: move on to another product, because that's how good they are,
- 48:11Speaker 4: Like they're just so flattering, they're so comfy. They're really
- 48:13Speaker 4: good for every day where And I feel like Australia
- 48:16Speaker 4: might be more leggings than flares, Like.
- 48:21Speaker 1: I think we're flairs girlies, but I think.
- 48:24Speaker 4: I think they're more flattering on more people.
- 48:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I just like I just think flares are fun
- 48:28Speaker 3: unless like they comfy.
- 48:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what it is, but like when
- 48:32Speaker 1: the grip of like a legging the whole way down,
- 48:35Speaker 1: sometimes I'm like I feel like I can't.
- 48:37Speaker 4: Sometimes I'm just like with the socks and like all
- 48:40Speaker 4: of that, I just feel like I.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Want to be My favorite is the sculpt had this
- 48:48Speaker 1: conversation have you tried the Ultra Scult?
- 48:51Speaker 3: What was the first one?
- 48:52Speaker 1: That the first one was the Skulp Yeah, I've tried
- 48:54Speaker 1: that super company as well as Yeah, and I've got
- 48:56Speaker 1: the long Slave, the T shirt and the single Oh
- 49:00Speaker 1: love was being black and brown, and I have the
- 49:05Speaker 1: like kind of like light khaki green you know that one.
- 49:15Speaker 2: Yeah, those are my like high rotation love that and
- 49:20Speaker 2: so good because now we can shop it so easily on.
- 49:22Speaker 4: That well exactly. And they've chosen good stock. I always say,
- 49:24Speaker 4: because wholesalers they choose their stock. It's not the other
- 49:27Speaker 4: way around, so like yeah, every time, know that. And
- 49:31Speaker 4: sometimes some brands don't let retailers buy certain ones because
- 49:34Speaker 4: they might be like, that's our hero style, you have
- 49:36Speaker 4: to come to the site for it. Some of them
- 49:37Speaker 4: will have the opposite thing where they'll be like, that's
- 49:39Speaker 4: our hero style, so we need every retailer to have it.
- 49:42Speaker 4: We for example, like we don't mandate anything. We show
- 49:45Speaker 4: what are like best selling collection is, which is like
- 49:47Speaker 4: a lot of that like continuity, like always on. You
- 49:51Speaker 4: can always buy that stuff from the website. It's not
- 49:53Speaker 4: like changing with the seasons. We might have new colors,
- 49:55Speaker 4: but it's like always there. But I always say because
- 50:00Speaker 4: like since we've been on the Iconic, I've always been
- 50:02Speaker 4: getting so many dms this week of being like they
- 50:04Speaker 4: need to add this, like like can you put this
- 50:07Speaker 4: on the Iconic And it's like sorry, Iconic girlies, because
- 50:10Speaker 4: literally everyone I've been like, uh yeah, go to the Iconic.
- 50:13Speaker 4: I'm like, literally like you need to beg them, yeah,
- 50:16Speaker 4: not us like things. That's good feedback for them to
- 50:18Speaker 4: have them.
- 50:19Speaker 2: I'm sure they want people buy exactly.
- 50:22Speaker 4: That's the whole point in the relationship. And they were
- 50:23Speaker 4: literally like obviously because we did the Bondai Beach Walk
- 50:27Speaker 4: this week and literally, like I mean we it was
- 50:30Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty people and those tickets went in
- 50:33Speaker 4: two minutes and we were like what the fuck. And
- 50:36Speaker 4: then they were just they were like we can I
- 50:38Speaker 4: need to get talk a whole lot of interest.
- 50:42Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us to say,
- 50:46Speaker 1: I could literally listen to you all day, every day
- 50:48Speaker 1: and I'm not.
- 50:49Speaker 4: Good because I'm now your third course.
- 50:51Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but literally, and job, I'm just so so
- 50:55Speaker 1: glad we were able to have you on because you
- 50:57Speaker 1: have so much wisdom and so much intelligence that you
- 51:01Speaker 1: so willingly share to everyone. So for anyone who's not familiar,
- 51:08Speaker 1: But where can they find you? I'm in a weird mood.
- 51:13Speaker 1: I'm always in a mood.
- 51:14Speaker 4: They can find me at Grace Beverley on kind of everything.
- 51:18Speaker 4: I'm everywhere, but like, yeah, just at Grace Beverley. And
- 51:23Speaker 4: then I've got like the company links in my bio as.
- 51:26Speaker 2: Well the show notes as well.
- 51:29Speaker 4: Little plug, thank you, thank.
- 51:31Speaker 2: You so much, and congratulations on just everything, and we're
- 51:34Speaker 2: so excited for this next chapter.
- 51:36Speaker 3: Four you as well watching them from the wings.
- 51:39Speaker 1: You're shopping after this serious.
- 51:43Speaker 3: All right, well, thank you so much, chicks.
- 51:45Speaker 4: We'll catch you on Tuesday.
- 51:46Speaker 2: Thanks for having us in your ear holes.
- 51:48Speaker 4: We love to be here.
- 51:49Speaker 3: Bye bye, bast