Unsolicited Business Advice
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Unsolicited Business Advice
25: "What Are 3 Things You Have Implemented Into Your Life/Business?"
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Lightening up from last week's heaviness! We had someone ask about some things that we have implemented into our business and/or life that have been a game-changer, and this one was so fun!
Profit First, quiet time, house cleaner, and more, plus why they’ve been such game-changers for us.
Once you take a listen, we’d love to hear what you have implemented into your life/business that’s been a big success for you!
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This is the Unsolicited Business Advice Podcast. We're Amanda and Callie, founders, moms, and friends who believe your heart is valid and your way is good enough.
SPEAKER_00Around here, we skip the buttoned-up LinkedIn talk and dive straight into real conversations about growing a startup, balancing motherhood, and rejecting the hustle culture. Consider this your weekly reminder that business can actually feel joyful again. Alrighty. Okay. Back at it. Yes. We're not gonna cry in this one. I'm gonna keep the crying out of the podcast.
SPEAKER_01If you don't know what we're talking about, listen to the last podcast. Listen to the last one. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, okay. This is just kidding, I love when people cry. I do too. It's great.
SPEAKER_01It's like one of my when they say the F word out of like, uh. And when they cry, yeah, I know that we're on the right track. Absolutely. And that's also what they didn't come for.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I definitely know they're not on the right track. Right. I'm like, oh, this is not, this isn't an SOP, my friend. This isn't a standing operating procedure. I see, I didn't even I didn't even know what that stood for.
SPEAKER_00I've got to get there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I've heard you say it enough. Standard operating procedure. How you do something. Yeah. Okay. Um, okay, episode 24. We had a submission. Okay. An anonymous one. What are some things you all have implemented in your life or business that have been game changers? You're going first. You've been pushing it to me lately. I don't like that.
SPEAKER_00I have three things and I will unpack them as quickly as I can. Okay. The first one is profit first in business. I there's something about that book. It's so stupid simple, but not stupid at all. Right. But every single person could benefit from that. And I just in the like in the world, we could all benefit from that. Business owner or not. There's something about that way of thinking. He has a new book that is uh for the personal side.
SPEAKER_01What's it called? Money habits. Okay. I think it's the same premise, but for your person the personal side. Because because he worked with a business owner who wanted that for his employees. Yeah. Love that. And so that's he did a big, huge like case study and found it that it worked.
SPEAKER_00And she's saying he, Michael Michael Witz, is what his name is. Um okay, I'll look for that. I'll get that. It's good. Um, number these are not in any particular order. Um, number two, I take a nap every single day when I get off work for 20 minutes. And the very first time I heard that, I was like, I'm not sure I can allow myself to do that. Allow myself to because you know, when somebody walks up to you and they're like, hey, how you doing? Haven't seen you in a while, blah, blah, blah. How are things? And your immediate reaction is, oh, you know, good, busy. Right? Do we all say that? Yes. Okay. Yep. Well, because of that mentality, I thought, what a I there's no way I could actually take a nap. That makes me lazy and useless. And let me tell you what, girl, those 20 minutes that I get to sleep completely change the rest of my day. I am like at the coffee shop. Yeah. Sometimes it's emotionally draining, sometimes it's, you know, physically draining, sometimes it's whatever. And but I go home and it's like those 20 minutes make me a whole new person for the rest of the day. And good gosh, I need that. And I like the fact that I let myself have it. Yeah. There's a huge piece there. Yep. And then the third thing is I get to work extra early. I would probably need to get there by 6 30 every morning, but instead I get there at 6 because I just sit in my very dark coffee shop and just sit there for a little while. With nothing. With nothing. I used to read the Bible a little bit and I still do that from time to time, but it's I have found that no distraction at all or no thoughts at all actually make me feel a little bit more connected to God.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I've implemented that. And whenever I don't have that and I don't do that, it is stupid crazy how much of a difference that makes. So it's literally like 20 minutes in the morning, sometimes even 10, sometimes 10 is enough. And then a 20 minute nap after I fall asleep, and then a simple idea about where money should go and how it doesn't need to control me, but I can control it. It's those three things that have probably made the most difference for me. Yeah. Yeah. Personally and professionally. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01All right, shoot. Well, coming off last week's episode, hiring somebody to help me uncover all of my deep, dark crap that I have shoved down forever and ever and ever and ever. That to make me aware of what I'm actually doing and why I'm doing it. Sounds so silly. But with that in that same thought, admitting on Instagram in an Instagram story that I work part-time was something that relieved so much pressure of myself because I thought that if people knew I worked, I had the capacity for like part-time work because of Sean's travel schedule and just because of how I want to show up for the kids and all of that stuff. I didn't, I'm like, who would hire somebody to work on their business that they're working and owning full-time if they're working part-time? That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_00You know how I see that? My God, how do you get to the point where you work part-time? That's what I so if you know how to do that, show me. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01So that's not at all mine went. Mine is well, people are gonna say, of course you can, because your husband does da-da-da-da-da. Of course you can.
SPEAKER_00Not how I see that at all.
SPEAKER_01Well, thank you. Yeah. Um, and then the third one, I feel like all of like we hired a house cleaner every two weeks. And that's more because I don't want to clean the bathrooms. Sure. And I just I think it was not that they came yesterday. It was like the time before that. I walked in and everything for like 10 minutes was extremely clean. And I didn't have to do it. And I just took a big breath and it was like, thank you. And I even told Sean, I was like, this is gonna sound weird. Because I'm not saying that like you do this for me, but I'm like, thank you for like letting us, I don't know what the right word is, like invest in that. Yeah. Because it's just one thing that I do not I don't get any joy from it. Vacuuming, yes, because like I can literally see it go away. I don't get any joy from that. Uh-uh. And I also don't feel any guilt anymore from having that. That's great. Um and then I'd probably put having Calendly so that I can like have boundaries around my schedule. I think those were my four.
SPEAKER_00Calendly is like um it's an online schedule. It's organized for me. It's like scary to me. It's like, ooh, if I'm a Calendly girl, then people are gonna probably expect me to be have my crap together, and I just don't. So Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01See, I look at it as I don't have it. I don't have to have it together because Calendly does.
SPEAKER_00Could you have picked an easier name? That's really hard to say. Calendly. Calendly.
SPEAKER_01Calendly. Yeah. Wow. Because I can say like these are the times I can be available, but I I'm not you can't book more than this at a this podcast is sponsored by Calendly. Um like I can say, okay, between nine and one, I'm available. These, but like has to be 15 minutes in between. You can't book it 24 hours, like within 24 hours of the time that it is. And like there's no more than one, if maybe two meetings booked a day. That's pretty cool. Yeah. That and I can also go in there and change it. Like I can choose to take a meeting on a Friday when my calendar says I don't have it available. But it it helps me keep my boundaries and not go, yeah, let's meet tomorrow at 9 a.m. When like I can't, like I can't. Right. But I want to, because I could have coffee meetings all day, every day. Yeah. But there's other things to do.
SPEAKER_00That's when you drink too way too much cold beer. I do. And then you're jittery for the rest of the day. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Then I'm like, give me a cheeseburger. Give me a cheese.
SPEAKER_00She's never eaten a cheeseburger a day in her.
SPEAKER_01I love a good well, not cheese, because no Well, sure.
SPEAKER_00And not the burger and not the bread and not the I mean, it's basically just tree bark when you get down to it.
SPEAKER_01I eat lettuce and tomato. Yeah, exactly. No, I love a good cheeseburger. Give me that burger. Uh yeah. No, I think Calendly, because I think a lot of people feel like they're like, I just it feels like it boxes me in, and I'm like, it actually does the opposite, I think.
SPEAKER_00Sets you free. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Because then it's not like when do you want to meet? On Monday? I have Monday at two, Thursday at four, and then you're emailing somebody else and they take it before the other one emails back. So then you're like, hold on now, I don't have that available. Like, no.
SPEAKER_00See, I didn't even actually know what it did or what it was. I just knew of it. And I thought, well, that's not for me. No. That's too fancy and too organized.
SPEAKER_01And I don't if you want to book a meeting with me, you're like, hey, let's go. I'm like, here's my calendarly. And you can go in and see, okay, she's available Thursday at two, not next week, because it's spring break. So I already have that blocked off. Or like I don't know what's after that. Is April? Like April 2nd. I don't know what's after the 10, 11 or 12. Like you pick it, and then it goes on your calendar and my calendar. Done. Okay, fair. So then, like, I don't like go. It's and it's also if somebody's like, yeah, we should totally meet. And I'm like, cool, here's my link. It's on them to follow up, not on me. Sure. And not even like, are you gonna actually gonna do it? Kind of, but it's like I don't have to remember to email them. Right. I'm like, here's this. Even on my inquiries, I'm like, thanks. Here's the link to book something. And then if they don't book it, system and processes. Yeah. SOP. Those are mine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like you get into a groove and you find some things that really work well for you, and then you just you just are really able to cook from that point. I mean, you've showed me that a few times with a few different things, and I everybody out there who doesn't know me very well. Things have to be super simple for me. I mean dumb simple. I mean, like Amanda said the other day, here I need you to do this, and she kind of showed me, and she clicked maybe more than three places on her computer, and I was completely lost and I was like, Yeah, just email it to me. Email me the one thing you need me to do. I can do it. That's how my brain works. Yeah. Very small.
SPEAKER_01But you knowing that is so much easier for me because I'm like, oh, that's why she wasn't doing it.
SPEAKER_00But she doesn't understand how to it's too many steps.
SPEAKER_01It's not, it's yeah, too many steps in my brain. Right.
SPEAKER_00I need one step.
SPEAKER_01So here it is. So then I know, like, okay, here it is, here's why you're doing it. But what you're good at is just getting it done.
SPEAKER_00I can be efficient.
SPEAKER_01You are, and so I'm like, cool, thanks for the homework. Here's your next assignment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, see, that's yep, that that's what I need right there. Which by the way, I have more than Tory. Okay. Hey, I started that today. Yay! Yeah, yay. Sorry, side, that was a side conversation.
SPEAKER_01Sorry about that, guys.
SPEAKER_00Well, next time, I want to hear from I want somebody who has a business less than three years old to ask a question about here's the thing, specifically about something that makes them cry. Oh. Yeah. And I don't care how you ask the question, and I don't care what the question is, it doesn't have to have any specific parameters other than the fact that it makes them cry. Yeah. And you don't have to say your name. You don't have to say your name. But we might know you. We might make Cassidy do it.
SPEAKER_01She's not looking at us on purpose. She is true.
SPEAKER_00All right. So that's you guys' homework for next time.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_00Cool.
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