School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life

Today I am talking about something I have seen come up time and again with my clients - navigating the discussions that come up when you want to make an investment in your business but don't necessarily have the cash in your business account to cover it. It's a conversation that a number of women are struggling to have and then are ending up not making their investment because of the response from...

There are three ways I hande clients when they are struggling with their strategy, and I talk about them in this episode. I then go on to ask what is my strategy? What am I doing on a regular basis, to try to build my business? Is the strategy working for you? Then give you 4 options about what to try if your current strategy isn't working. If you are struggling with your strategy in business righ...

As part of their marketing strategies, it has become the norm, by some, to shame others in their field who may not be as far ahead in their journey, or to have experienced the same things as they are helping their clients with. Today I talk to you about the 9 reasons I believe that kind of thinking to be inaccurate and unhelpful when it comes to who you can help and how well you can do that! Spoil...

Today I am going to talk to you about wanting to make more money - and why that is OK - and why you should! There are so many things in the world, holding us back, impacting our lives and influencing them, but money brings you an economic power that means that you can change what impacts you and how. You can make the changes in the world that you want to see - and you can do that by making more mo...

A lot of highly driven, motivated, determined, ambitious women like yourselves struggle with going after what they really want, whilst looking after themselves along the way. And I have a recent experience of this; I learned a lot of things along the way and I would like to share with these you. I'm going to dive into why impossible goals are actually awesome to go after, and how best to strive fo...

How much time is a lack of self-belief, self-confidence and courage costing you in your business? Each of these three foundational areas of mindset deserve a whole episode, but today I will give you an introduction to each - and how they might be holding you back whilst you build a life and business you love. Before you listen, ask yourself this question, and then brainstorm on it: What are the th...

How much are you enjoying your time? How much fun are you having in your business right now? And how much fun are you having outside of it? Rate your enjoyment between 1 and 10, and then listen to this episode to find out what that number tells me about whats going on for you in your life and business right now.

How does your opinion of you - your self identity effect how you show up every day in your business in life? And can you change the ways that you think about yourself? Listen to this episode and find out!

Would you know, if we were to sit down and quantify it? And look at all the areas in your business where you might be people-pleasing how much time that actually equates to? And how much it is costing you - because either that people-pleasing isn't paying you or whilst you are doing that people-pleasing, your attention isn't elsewhere, creating value? So there are four key areas where I typically...

How much is a lack of self-trust slowing you down in your business? Or how much do you trust yourself to have the answers when it comes to your business? The problem with taking multiple courses, doing numerous courses and deferring to someone else about how your business is run, is that using someone else's model of how your business should run, doesn't allow for the uniqueness of YOU, of your bu...

How much self discipline do you have - or to put it another way, how good are you at making yourself do things that you don't want to? Self discipline as a term has a lot of negative connotations, so instead let's think of it as honouring our commitments to yourself. So when you think about it like that, how good are you at doing what you said you were going to do for yourself? If you struggle wit...

How good are you at cultivating creativity? At optimising it, within your brain and within your business? Now I never used to think of myself as a creative person before. I never really identified as someone who was creative. I mean, I used to love writing stories as a child - adventure stories, magic stories, horror stories, and all sorts. But I think I thought that when I no longer did that, I p...

So I've talked a little bit about strategies that can help set you up for focusing, but I want to dive a little bit deeper into it here, and also talk about flow. Because really the better we get at optimising our focus, at strengthening that attention, and the better we get at getting into a state of flow, the more we get done, in less time. And that is the goal, right? Achieve more, in less time...

How well do you manage your internal distractions? So, I was talking about external distractions in the last episode. Now I want to talk about internal distractions - which are of course, your thoughts. And I did touch on the importance of managing your thoughts around your external distractions - and not letting your brain go into overdrive with thoughts that create frustration and despair around...

How well do you manage your external distractions? Before, during and after they occur? There are a number of strategies that you can employ in each of these situations that will help minimise the impact of the distraction on how much you get done, and part of those involve actual physical strategies you can put in place and implement, and part of them involve how you manage your mind when the dis...

How hygienic are you when it comes to your productivity? Now I'll be honest with you. I'm not even sure that this is an actual term - Productivity hygiene. I think I made it up. But I like it because it makes me think about things being organised, clean, clear, crisp, well thought out, practised with optimal efficiency. I don't think things can be really hygienic when they are messy, or cluttered...

Are you aware of what is going on when you don't follow your plan? When you are either moving tasks further forward, swapping them out, procrastinating, or working past the time you said you would? Do you understand the root cause of it for yourself? Do you know why you are doing it? Now this is probably the thing that I help my clients most with. Understanding the root cause, and then helping the...

Okay, so today's question, question number 19 is this…Do you have self compassion for yourself, for where you are at right now, in your business? Do you have self-compassion for yourself when you assess the speed at which you are making progress in your business? For when you make mistakes, for when you fall behind, for when you aren't sticking to your commitments. For when you haven't followed yo...

In this episode I assume that you have a time management plan in place, like I talked about in the part 9 of this series, and that you are actually slowing down enough to make decisions ahead of time, which is what I discussed in the last episode, and plan out your week in advance. If you are doing that, are you setting yourself up for failure or success in that process? Listen to this episode to...

How good are you at making decisions ahead of time? How willing are you to slow down enough to plan and be strategic with your route? I typically find that people come on a spectrum as to whether or not they plan. There are some who absolutely love to plan. Down to the smallest most granular level of detail. They spend hours pouring over to do lists and schedules. Procrasti-planning for sure. Orga...

Do you have total clarity with regard to your decisions, priorities and tasks to do each day? So in previous episodes, I've talked about living out your week in alignment with your vision, making time for things each week that move you to your goal, and having intentionality behind what you do with regard to your strategy, so I am hoping that you do already have clarity with regard to your vision,...

Are you committed? Are you fully committed to your vision, to your goal, to staying your strategy long enough to figure it out, to the things you say you are going to get done, to your schedule, to your decisions and to your results? Or are you dabbling? Just dipping your toe. Testing the water. Hopeful it will work out. Curious to see if it works or will happen? I honestly believe that commitment...

It's always nice to have a bit of a reset with regard to our routines and our habits this time of year. But to be honest, you could do this at any point, - you don't have to wait until the beginning of the new year, but just taking the time to have a look at your existing routines and make sure they work for you will be hugely beneficial to your overall productivity and business success.

Are you aware of your current habits and your tendencies? And are you creating strategies for changing them if they are currently not serving you? Now, this is a bit of a tricky one, because the way that the brain works is that if we already believe something about ourselves, when we look back to analyse our past behaviours and actions, our brain will be specifically focused on finding evidence to...

Are you slowing your progress down by trying to do it all yourself? So, similarly to us not wanting to pay for things that will speed up our tasks early on in our business - like automations, and better software, and paid advertising… Many of us fall into the same trap - not wanting to outsource or hire help early on in our business. Because it is "cheaper" and "easier" if we do it ourselves. And...