PODCAST: Gaining An Outside Perspective
In this week’s episode, we explain how we’re finally in a place where we’re open to hearing the advice and opinions of others. By listening to the outside perspective and insight of our newest team member, we’ve been able to implement new digital + brand systems and strategies that will help us run (and grow) our business. We’re in love with life right now because we're doing what we love and we’re having fun doing it. We’re beginning to strategize and thoughtfully plan out our next steps rather than just reacting to what’s happening around us.
We also chat more about our two products (the Tween & Teen Group and our Late Night Live events), which we believe in so much because they add value to people’s lives, and how we’re making them into what we want them to be. And we share some of our own advice in business and parenting!
TOP QUOTES FROM THIS PODCAST:
BUSINESS TAKEAWAYS:
For the past 7 years, we've done everything based on our intuition - we have an idea and we make it happen. The question we’re facing now is how we’re going to make this company have longevity and earn passive income, while at the same time always going back to why we are doing it. Every single decision we make is going to start with a “why?” so we can understand how it fits into our mission.
We purposefully took ourselves out of the blogger community and conferences and big collaborations, not because we were competitive, but because we needed to find our own identity before we went and merged identities. Sharing ideas is great, but we had to have our own idea before we could go in and share ideas with others. We had to isolate ourselves and focus on who and what we are. There is no science to success, so what has worked for others may not work for you. If you try to take their advice and follow their formula, you end up mimicking someone else and it becomes repetitive.
A business is like an identity, and that’s why a lot of people aren’t successful because they haven’t found themselves. You have to find yourself personally and then you have to find yourself as an entrepreneur. You have to find out what you are good at and what you're not good at, and even if you’re not good at it, you have to do it for a little while until you can hire someone to help you. Sometimes you have to suck it up to figure it out and it makes you a stronger person in business and in life.
It’s easy to outsource jobs, but it's really important to stay present and in the mix of it all, especially in your own business. You have to face things you don’t want to face and do things you don’t want to do. You can’t just ignore it and give up and walk away. You have to figure out a way to make it work and find yourself in the process.
#MOMTRUTH MOMENTS:
It’s super ironic that as moms, we expect so much more of our children than we do of ourselves. We tell our kids to just be themselves because they’re great as they are, while we’re in our own heads feeling embarrassed or nervous or critiquing ourselves constantly. It’s very confusing for children especially when we preach what they should do when we can’t even do it ourselves. It’s so easy to tell our kids what to do, to take a risk and encourage them to try something new, yet we aren’t taking our own advice. We should be parenting ourselves really. Whatever you tell your kids... Do that!
After talking to therapists in our Tween & Teen group, which has been so insightful, we’ve learned that we can’t discipline in a way that is punitive. We have to teach our kids to grow up just like we have to teach ourselves to grow up. We can't be doing things to control them. We have to be doing things to encourage them to want to be good people, not punish them into being good people. Kids need boundaries and they need to know that someone is in charge, but we can’t discipline them for no reason.
INSPIRATIONAL TAKEAWAYS:
If you are afraid or nervous of what people are going to think of you, it's usually in your own head. Who cares? If you’re nervous about posting ads or a product or launching something, who the f*ck cares? They are either going to be jealous of you when you're successful or forget that you didn't succeed. Don't care about what other people think! It's all in your own head. Just be you and do you!
FIND OUT MORE:
For tickets to our UK Shows and "Off The Rails" tour, click here.
To register for our Late Night Live event (including giveaways and swag), click here.
And if you want to join our Tween/Teen community, sign up here.