Laurent Collective Podcast

Are you in a season where you feel like your focus should close by, right where you find yourself? Instead of big moves or huge goals, you feel the need to settle in and dig deep right in your home or community? It can be a strange feeling when culture tells us to constantly be going bigger, louder and bolder. We find ourselves in this settling in place and digging deep season. We share how it fee...

In 2016, we moved from the states to London and had to go through every single item in our house. It was hard to look at every item in our house in a new way and make decisions on what to keep and what to sell or give away. In this episode, we share our experience to help you, whether you’re just trying to declutter your home or whether you’re moving houses. We take you through a set of questions...

Saying no to new opportunities is so hard because we want to be helpful and to help others. However, we can’t say yes to everything. Saying yes to it all leaves us exhausted and unable to help in a positive way. So how do you determine what opportunities to say no to and how do you say no in a kind way? We discuss this by taking you through some questions to ask of each opportunity and some kind w...

It can be difficult to get your kids to be on board with helping around the house. You want to help them understand responsibilities but it just seems too hard to get anyone to do anything. We’ve had some years under our belt and have found a solution that has really worked in our family. The kids understand their responsibilities and we work together as a family team to keep the house functioning...

These past two years have provided small businesses with ups and downs that have not followed normal trends. When you look back on your numbers to make informed decisions for the future, it’s hard to know what to focus on in the year ahead.  There is one thing that will help bring in some focus for you even if the data isn’t helping you. It’s understanding why you are in business. This will help d...

As a new year begins it can be so tempting to jump in and run after new goals and habits. Most of us are still feeling some type of exhaustion from these past few years and the idea of running into a new year sounds daunting. We share how we’re approaching this year. Whether you do new year goals, habits or resolutions, you don’t have to hit all of them at once on January 1st. However, you can sti...

As you head into this holiday week, remember to stop and take a deep breath.  This week is not meant to make you exhausted. This week is meant to remember the quiet night that the world was preparing for a joyful morning.  We hope you have a restful end of the year.

As we enter into a new year, it’s important to build rest into your schedule. Even when you think you don’t need it, our bodies need regular rhythms of rest.  We chat about what we’ll be doing in the new year to make sure we’re building in rest into our schedule.  How do you find rest? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments an...

It’s common to want to jump into the new year with a fresh start, but we need to first start with reflecting on the year that has just passed.  In this episode, we chat about some questions to reflect on and think through as the year comes to an end. It’s important to reflect on your business the past year before you start thinking through your goals and hopes for the new year.  What do you find h...

Timing is so hard when you really want something to happen in your life. Waiting and patience aren’t easy to apply to situations when you really want something to happen in your timing.  We’ve just gone through a season of not having major life moments happen in the timing we hoped. We’re sharing some things we’ve learned and are still learning as we have waited and tried our best to be patient. ...

So many of us aren’t able to go home” for the holidays. It’s hard to know what to do during the holiday season because you live far away, work inhibits you from having time off or it’s just too expensive to get back.  We share our experience of being away from family and close friends during the holidays and how we’ve made it less lonely and have invited others into our traditions. It’s made our h...

Early in our marriage, Maya used to run and avoid any disagreements we had in our relationship and Patrick would try to get everything worked out right in the moment. Over the years, we learned this did not work for either of our personalities.  It has taken us time to learn how to honor one another's unique ways we need to come to a solution when things get heated. We’re sharing how we have g...

We live in a culture that constantly tells us to do it faster and grow your business big quickly. We can see “overnight” success stories and think something is wrong with us if that hasn’t been our business’ experience.  In this episode, we’re chatting about the idea that it’s okay to have slow, continuous growth in your business instead of growing it super fast.  What are your thoughts on growing...

We are sharing our current favorite books, shows and podcasts in this episode. We chat about why they are our current favorites and the differences the two of us have in what we like.  What are some of your favorites right now? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

Are you the oldest in your family or do you have a first child? We sit down with our oldest son to chat through what it’s like to be the oldest sibling in the family.  All three of us are the oldest siblings so it was fun to share thoughts and hear how as parents, we may be a bit harder on the oldest child.  Are you the oldest child? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG...

Sometimes it’s hard to take a step into something you’ve been wanting to do for awhile. You  have to take that first step and just get started!  We’re sharing some lessons we’ve learned about getting started in all areas of life. We hope it brings you some motivation to go for it and just start whatever it is on your mind.  We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or se...

We found Christmas to be such a crazy time and we didn’t like that feel of the season. So we came up with some ways to slow down as a family and create simple memories that focus on our relationships and time together with our Advent calendar.  We share the story of our family’s Advent calendar and how we created a way for you to slow down with your family during the Christmas season.  We’d love t...

We all learn so much when we go after something we believe in and we fail at it. We had a dream of having a non-profit and we went for it, but it didn’t succeed like we thought it would. After closing the doors to the non-profit, we have had years to reflect on what we learned from failing.  What have you learned from failing? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or...

The Christmas season is busy for most small business owners which means it can be a stressful time. Over the years, we’ve learned some things to do to prep for the season and we’re sharing them with you today.  Are you prepping for the Christmas season? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

Do you find it hard to ask for help? Whether it’s asking for help in your personal life or in  your business, it’s just hard to ask for help. We personally struggle with this and recently got to a point that we realized we needed to ask for help. We chat about this and what we are learning in asking for help.  Do you have stories of asking for help? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us o...

We have been asked many times the question “How did you know you wanted to have kids?” We thought we’d dive into this question and share whether or not we have an answer to this question.  What other questions do you have for us? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

Our whole family loves reading but it has been a process to get everyone on board with a love for books. We share some ideas of how our kids have come to love reading and how we foster this in our family. What are you reading in your family right now? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

We love living in the city of London as a family. Our family just fits in the city and has adjusted to city life after living in the suburbs. We’re sharing some of the things that look different when you live in the city as a family.  What do you love about where you live? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @...

Have you thought about stepping into a totally new category in your business? It’s hard to know how and when to make a major shift in your business. We’re sharing about our current process as we step into a new category in our business.  Are you thinking about stepping into a new business category? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all th...

We share some more cultural differences between living in the United States and the United Kingdom. We talk about healthcare, walking paths and tea this time.   What else do you want to know about the cultural differences between the UK and US? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.