Laurent Collective Podcast

We have a rule in our house that our kids can ask us anything and we will try our best to answer honestly. But we have ran into a couple things that we realized they just didn’t need to know the answer.  How do you answer questions from your children? 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.

Most of the time in our lives, we can only see the next step we need to take. Maya shares a story about following a butterfly on a path and how it reminded her of just trusting in the next step. How do you trust in taking the next step? 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.

What would happen if your choice of social media (Instagram, TikTock, etc.) went away tomorrow? What are you putting in place in your business to help have various tools to build your business?  We chat about the tools we have found to be important in our business and what actually brings sales and people to our website.  Mentioned in the Episode: Marketing with Menekse SEO Course  https://marketi...

We’re celebrating 19 years of marriage this week! We share how horrible our first day of our honeymoon was but also share what we’ve learned about marriage over these 19 years.  What are you learning about marriage and relationships? 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.

Come be a guest at our dinner table. We love having conversations with our kids while we have a meal and we have a few ways that we get them to talk beyond just saying their day was “fine.” What does your table conversation look like? 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.

Sometimes you get stuck in your creativity and it’s no longer giving you joy to create. If you have a creative business, you can often lose your joy and think you always have to create for your business. We have run into times when it’s been hard to find joy in our creativity. We’ve developed some ways to add fun back into creating. We share some ways that we have found bring joy back into our cre...

Moving to a new place has many challenges but one of the biggest hurdles is making new friends. We experienced this as we moved to a different country away from the close friendships we formed over the years. We chat about what it has been like to move into a city and try to establish new friendships. It’s scary putting yourself out there to build new friendships and we have found that is the key....

Has this year been hard for you in your business? Maybe you’ve run up against a difficult time in your business and you just want to quit?  We’ve heard from a lot of creative business owners who are considering shutting down their businesses right now. We want to give you some encouragement and some ideas on how to get through those difficult times in business. Have you been considering closing yo...

We talk about our children a lot on the podcast and ever since the podcast mics arrived they have been begging for us to interview them.  Our three kids share about what they love to create, how they find living in London and their interests.  Do you have any questions for our kids? 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 m...

While we’ve been out of the dating world for a long time, we have plenty of friends dating in this age of swipe right, left and constant texting contact.  We laugh as we realize our dating profiles would not match up and how being in constant contact would cause a lot of stress. Join us for a conversation on some of our observations of the dating world today.  Mentioned in the Episode: The Road Ba...

How do you determine what income streams are best for you and your creative business? Diversifying is a really great idea, but it can be hard to understand what will work best for your unique situation.  We chat about the different types of income streams you could offer and some questions to ask yourself as you determine how you want to run your business. What have you learned recently about inco...

Debt holds you back from so much and for us, being $60,000 in debt held us back from being able to give in the ways we desired.  Debt doesn’t have to be part of your story forever, but it does take time and effort to be serious about stepping out of it. We share our story and what worked best for us to come to a place of debt freedom.  Mentioned in the episode: Financial Peace University https://w...

Do you feel like life gets too busy and you don’t have any time to build relationships?  When you’re busy you don’t create space for rest and don’t allow lingering time with others. We talk about what we’re finding as our time opens up in new ways and how we find space to grow deeper relationships and for rest.  Mentioned in the episode: When the World Went Quiet children's book https://www.am...

Do you work together with your spouse in a business or has this past year of Covid had you at home with your spouse more?  We’re going to talk about some things we’ve learned over the years of working together and being in the same space a lot. We’ve worked together in business for over 13 years so we have a few things we’ve learned but we are still always learning.  Mentioned in the episode: Work...

We often get asked how we ended up living in London and today we’re going to share part of that story.  As we share our story we’ll discuss how you process jumping into something when it doesn’t make sense.  Are you facing a next step that feels like a huge jump? Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @ laurentcollective .

We continue our discussion on figuring out your priorities and how you spend your time. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 in Episode 5, head back to give it a listen before diving into Part 2.  We explore some concepts that have helped us like block scheduling and figuring out what time of day you work best.  What have you found helpful in your life to figure out your priorities? Come share with u...

The idea of finding balance in your life is widely talked about, but is it possible? It seems to us to be more of an unbalanced act as you go in and out of different seasons of life.  Today we’re sharing some thoughts on figuring out your priorities and how you spend your time. We think about your dream life and what essentialism looks like to help you with your yeses and noes.  Mentioned in the e...

It’s so easy to see what other people are doing and want to mimic them, but we all have a unique path. So how do you stay on that path and not get side-tracked to what others are doing? We’re going to talk about that today.  Mentioned in the episode: Staying On Your Path PDF Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077875-essentialism Do...

We moved to the UK five years ago and thought we’d understand most things as we speak the same language. But is the language the same?  Do you know the difference between pants and trousers? We learned this and many other differences in some embarrassing ways. We have a good laugh at some of the differences and the cultural adjustments.  Are there words that confuse you between cultures? Come shar...

If you are a parent, you probably spend a lot of time with your children, but there are ways to make intentional times to build the connections within your family. We certainly don’t have this all figured out but we’ve picked up some ideas along our parenting journey and are sharing with you in this episode.  Mentioned in the episode: Family Connection Ideas Download  Quiz to find out children’s l...

Are you overwhelmed about making a big decision or perhaps it’s all the little decisions that are causing stress?  We're facing a big decision so we thought we’d share some steps we’re taking in the process.  Today we’ll share some methods to think through decisions you face. We explore the criteria we’ve created for saying yes or no to the opportunities we’re presented in life.  Mentioned in...

It’s the beginning of going deeper than surface as we introduce ourselves and share a bit of our story. We’ll introduce our family, share some of our favorites and tell you a bit about our passions in life and business.  Come say hello and introduce yourself on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @ laurentcollective .