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Four lessons you need to know before you start your side hustle in 2020

December 12, 2019

It’s the week of my 37th birthday and we’re almost at the start of a new decade.

A big few weeks you could say!

If I’m honest, I do get extra sentimental at this time and particularly love the feeling of looking back on the year.

One of my favourite things to do is an “audit” – assessing what worked and what didn’t – especially in the context of my coaching business.

This year’s audit wasn’t particularly formal in nature. Based more on gut feeling than look specifically at the “analytics”.

In doing so, I narrowed it down to four things that made an impact – not just financially, but personally – things that impacted my confidence, clarity in who I want to help and community building.

What I love about this process (as informal as it was), is learning what things actually moved me closer my personal success story.

Every day, I think it’s incredible that we are living in a time where there are so many opportunities to get your ideas seen, to do work you love and that feels meaningful. If you sit back for a second you’ll realise it’s extraordinary too.

Despite this, starting a business is not easy at all.

We all have considerations and constraints (time and money, family). However, what I’ve come to realise, is that these are never as potent as the things our mind tells us we can’t do.

My hope for everyone in my community, is you look back at your year and say – “I did that, even though it was hard”.

For those of you who are considering starting a side business/hustle in 2020, there’s some important ideas in this video so make sure you take notes and most importantly – take action!!!

Enjoy this vlog and don’t forget to share below. Tell us – what made your year unstoppable?

If you want to have a laugh (because this was back in 2017 and my hair is red!) you can check out this video I made when I did the same year in review.

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The most effective journaling practice for getting unstuck and taking action today

October 24, 2019

I thought I’d tried just about everything.

There was plenty of evidence – a bookshelf full of self-help gurus, a yoga mat in the corner of my bedroom, vision boards, a gold-embossed goal planner, thousands spent on workshops, gratitude journals only half done…

But NOTHING seemed to help create the change I really wanted, the change I desired deep down in my career, in my business.   

I was done with setting goals and failing to achieve them, or worse yet, feeling bad that I wasn’t some kind of Wonder Woman. Why was I always starting strong, yet couldn’t keep the momentum going? 

I love and believe in living a full life, and — just like my skincare routine — my daily practices need to be simple AND effective.

What if I told you there was a way to get started? A no -BS practice that can change your life in just 5 minutes a day?

My journaling practice uses four simple questions, and is based on years of self help study. Most importantly, it WORKS.

Creating change doesn’t have to feel like conquering Mt Everest. Just one action a day and you’ll be crushing your goals in no time.

Introducing...

Why this practice works:

  • You get to write your own script – a mental “dress-rehearsal” of the change you want to create. 
  • It’s a tool that you can pick up any time, before you yell “help me Ruby I’m stuck”  
  • And with every small action you complete, your confidence grows tenfold.
  • You attract new opportunities and the support you need.
  • You gain a sense of clarity and support yourself to move through that feeling of “stuck”. 

What you get:

The journaling practice is divided into two parts, part one is an intention setting practice for each new goal or change you want to make. You only need to do part one once, and then part two becomes your daily practice. 

Part one is all about “getting clear on the change you desire” – here we are setting the scene. 

After completing part one, this clarity gives you an intention to begin your daily practice. You will use it as your guidepost for the next 10 days as we journal and journey together. 

Want my secret to getting unstuck?

The POP Journal is a simple tool to make sh*t happen in your life and career. Take the 10 day challenge and see for yourself.

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Four mindset shifts to help you step into meaningful work (VIDEO SERIES)

May 9, 2019
Work is a huge part of our lives, and there’s no doubt you’ve landed here because your mission is to create meaningful work and feel supported in the process.

For some of us, this is making moves towards a career change and no longer be limited by those excuses around time or money.

For others, this is filling your creative cup with a side project that adds a beautiful contribution to the world.

Or, you love the work you do, but you don’t want to spend your nights at stuffy networking events to grow your professional tribe 

Filled with super practical tools and worksheets to create a kind and supportive mindset that will have you bust through fear every day. After these four classes, I promise you’ll feel confident and ready to embrace the next steps.

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Two things that changed my “I don’t have time” excuse

March 21, 2019

The productivity gurus love a “three secrets to…” or “hack your way to…” approach to life. Constant measuring and refining and adjusting. Never let time be an excuse again right? 

Sure.

If your reality is anything like mine, most days you’re trying to keep up with everything life throws your way.  

So in lieu of the hacking approach of squeezing and maximising time, I simply turn to this one question.

Usually it’s pretty obvious where I could do better:

“how am I actually using my time?”

Say you wrote down every little thing you did in a day and how long it took, what would it reveal? We only need to check our Instagram usage (now an inbuilt feature) to have our socks blown off.

This question becomes very necessary when I’m ready to make a big change in my life that’s going to require a little extra work.

If I don’t ask myself, all too quickly “not enough time” is the main reason I never start.

In many a coaching call I often hear things like:

“I need to make time to make a plan” 

“My time is limited and I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to get done” 

“I want to make a change but I don’t have time to get started”

100%! time can be a real constraint for many of us. We’re navigating a change around prior commitments to ourselves and our families. 

As I hear these things come up often, rather than reel off a bunch of “hacks”, I decided to share two really simple things. These two things have helped me enormously when my default is “not enough time” yet I’ve wanted to pursue any change in my career. 

The first thing I ask – “This year, what are my three core priorities and/or values?”

Once we get clear on these, we can use them as way to make decisions on what we say yes or no to in our lives. Some might call this being in alignment.

In practising this style of decision-making, we’ll make a conscious effort to make space for those things that are really important. If the career change is make or break, you will find time. 

Second thing, is breaking the big change into small steps. 

When we first think of making a change, it is daunting. Just as you would break down the training for a marathon into months, weeks and days, you can do the same for a big change. 

Or to get really simple, we set aside time for one small thing every week that will move you closer. 

Again, we’re not looking to break any productivity hacking records here.

Simply get started.   

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Join us for four distinct masterclasses that will support you to make changes in your career in 2019. Here’s a sneak peak at what we’ll be sharing:

+ How to get started on a change when you have minimal time to spend

+ Become besties with money – make powerful decisions, own your value and move into the career you want

+ How to feel effortless and confident when networking

+ Simple tools to be brave, be visible and share your passion project with the world

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From studying law to reclaiming real beauty with Bron Stange of bopo women

September 20, 2018

Disrupting the beauty industry.

Every time you watch an ad, scroll your Instagram, flick through the glossy pages of a magazine, what do you see? how do you feel?

The beauty industry is a beast.

Women (and likely men too) have been sensitive to it’s portrayal of beauty for too long.

Through her own personal struggle, today’s “the switch” guest – Bron Stange – decided she had to do something about it.

Rather than protesting and being against beauty products, Bron is helping women by creating a unique range of skincare that encourages self-care and ritual.

She is the epitome of the phrase – “if you can’t beat em, join em”.

Bopo Women, is a body-positive, feminist skincare brand that encourages women, and non-gender identifying people, to reconnect with and reclaim their bodies. 

Bron writes “I began to see how eating disorders, low self-esteem and body hatred drain women of our energy, ferocity and distract us from the vitally important work that needs doing in our world”

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