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Resource Links: Your Social Voice Website (https://www.yoursocialvoice.com.au/) Become the Mogul of your industry (https://www.mogulcall.com) Join our Mogul Mastermind (https://www.mogulmastermind.com.au/) Start and grow your own lash business with Lash Tribe    In this digital era where everyone is producing massive content far and wide, how can one say their hard work is reciprocated? You may want to check your community – is your audience engaged? By cultivating engagement, you create strong followership, offer value, and you know where that leads next. Today, we're chatting with Julia Mann of Lash Tribe to talk about the value of building a community. This amazing woman has massive followership on Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube. And today, she's going to reveal her insider secrets.  Are you curious to know how she nailed it? Then tune in and learn how you can grow your audience and keep them engaged.   What we discussed in this episode: What Julia does [01:39] Where she started to build her community online [03:30] What it takes to grow online groups now [07:35] Where to draw the line in giving valuable content [08:46] The secret sauce to driving traffic from Pinterest [12:49] How to grow your audience on Instagram and YouTube [14:27] Why you need to be in all social platforms these days [16:42] Quick hacks for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, & Pinterest [20:40] Why you need to create more content now [23:47]   About Julia Mann Julia Mann is an award-winning business growth coach and social media strategist. A creator of multiple successful six-figure businesses, she believes that business should be simple. Author of Building an Online Following Who Buy, she helps fresh and struggling entrepreneurs to find simple and easy to implement strategies that will grow their business in any niche.  Check out Julia's website. You can also reach her on Facebook and Instagram.   Thank you so much for listening! If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast.   Connect with The Kim Barrett Show:  Subscribe on Youtube Follow Us on Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Julia Frank is the CEO of PlantX, the one-stop shop for everything plant-based and the digital face of the plant-based community. She has worked multiple years for companies like BMW and Daimler in Germany and is an experienced Marketing, Brand and Business Development Manager. Julia is holding an MBA as well as a Masters Degree in Digital Entrepreneurship and has successfully set up multiple brand & company strategies. As the face of PlantX, Julia focuses on a healthy and active lifestyle, loves to cook plant-based recipes and travels the world to experience as many different cultures as possible. Social Media Sharable Quotes: “It's very important to know how to deal with guys…” – Julia Frank on being a women CEO “I am convinced you can only be great at something if you are 100% passionate about it” – Julia Frank CEO PlantX Take responsibility, and take care of yourself first!- Jeremy “If you are thinking or dreaming about something you want… it's not just going to fly to you!”- Julia Frank CEO PlantX “I can learn, and I am prepared to learn… that is the skill that it takes to succeed” – Jeremy “I truly believe the answer is LOVE”- Julia on her impact on the world. Show Notes: 1:13- Julia's Intro and where does her “fire” come from? 10:36- Julia and Finding her Passion and ditching the “Dream Job” 21:36- No such thing as luck! 26:17- Julia talks about her moments of fear and giving us security. 38:16- What Julia does to keep herself “sane and healthy”. 48:12- Take responsibility, and take care of yourself first! 50:42- Julia on her mentors and mentorship 58:36 - #GenerationalHabits before generation wealth and Julia's parents 101:15 – Jeremy's “Quick Hitters” Connect with Julia Frank: PlantX Website: https://plantx.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoPlantX/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goplantx/?igshid=mf5frtjv2itf Connect with Jeremy and Optimal Self: (We LOVE to be tagged in your posts, please share our content and tag us!) - Main Page: www.OptimalSelf.Today - Links to our Podcast, all social media, PLUS join our Private Facebook Group, Free "Identity Creator" Course, and more! - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAkydziqrlYZIFmOgD1kTPA - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OptimalSelf1 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optimal_self/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@optimalself

#093 - Julia Menheere explains how, by using her background in data analysis and economics, she took her interest in personal finance to launch a side-hustle educating people on finance and why she's now decided to make it her full-time job.What you'll learn[01:07] Julia explains her business and who she primarily works with.[01:59] Julia talks about leaving Uber and how she came to start her own business.[03:25] Julia talks through her education and the work experience that led her to work as a data analyst at Uber.[05:55] Defining what a data analyst does.[07:18] Looking at the typical education and career path of someone who wants to become a data analyst.[08.02] Julia explains how and when she became interested in personal finance.[11:29] Using the example of spending at Christmas to help start budgeting.[13:03] How to become educated on personal finance.[13:58] Julia talks about when she realised she would like to help others with their finances.[16:05] Why freedom was the primary driver for Julia to share her knowledge of personal finance and to start her side-hustle.[17:45] Julia discusses the tactics she employed when she started her own business.[20:08] The importance of knowing your audience when driving traffic to a new blog.[22:07] How Julia approached her employee about going part-time.[24:45] Julia discusses what led her to move into working in her own business full-time.[26:05] Where Julia sees the business going over the next few years.[26:57] What Julia enjoys about her work and how she makes it suit her lifestyle.[28:53] The challenges you can face when starting your own business.[30:36] How to deal with doubts around the success of a business when you are starting out.[31:46] Julia reflects on how useful her analytics background is within her own business.Resources mentioned in this episode:Julia's investment calculatorUberMoney Master The Game, Tony RobbinsAmy PorterfieldThe Experience Product MasterclassThe Psychology of Money, Morgan HouselFor the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:https://changeworklife.com/turning-your-side-hustle-into-your-full-time-job-with-julia-menheere/Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!Take me to the exercises!Also, make sure to join the Change Work Life Facebook group and check out all the resources mentioned by our guests on the Change Work Life Resources page.Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to talk to strangers about their sexual experiences? Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg did just that, and more, for their new book, Every Body: An Honest and Open Look at Sex from Every Angle.    A few things you’ll hear in this episode:   An excerpt from August’s first time hitting the streets to ask people, “What’s a Girl Boner?” What Julia and Shaina recall learning about sex early on What struck them most about the books’ stories about masturbation, Shaina’s Betty Dodson interview, body acceptance and religion What takeaways they want you to embrace from their experience creating Every Body  What numerous listeners wish others knew about sex or their sexuality The role attention can play in arousal, pleasure and desire   Check out Sex Hacks with Kenneth Play and the replay Dr. Megan mentioned: greatlifegreatsex.com/sexhacks Join August on Patreon to support the show and get fun extras! patreon.com/girlboner Learn more: girlboner.org

#004 Earlier in 2020 parents around the world were faced with instantly becoming homeschooling parents - without choice - due to the worldwide pandemic. The bigger surprise has been the increasing awareness of how children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews learn and respond in this new environment vs the traditional education system. This wasn't a surprise to Julia Black - The Lights On Mum. She's been at the forefront of the education evolution for years and has been working with parents, grandparents, and other adults to see the light within their children. Her Lights On Framework allows the child to learn and develop in a way that best suits their learning style, rather than forcing the child into a model that's been accepted worldwide and often overlooks much of the creativity of the mind. The framework helps families discover their child's learning mindset and gives their children every chance to express who they were born to be through incredible real world learning possibilities. The learners explore through their passions and tap into the very best leading-edge brain science for maximizing their potential - on every level. What Julia has found is often the children who are labeled as having something wrong with them, being problem children, or having a learning disability, many times it's the learning system the child is being pushed into that is the issue. Listen in as we talk about all of this and so much more surrounding this Education Evolution. You can find more about Julia and the Lights On Framework on the Facebook page Julia Black - The Lights On Mum, or at https://explorium.co.uk/education-evolution.Would love to hear from you: what did you like or dislike, what was helpful, what steps you're going to take, and what would you like more of from Untapped Strengths with Angela W. Stillwell. And if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe! Thank you for being on this journey with me. YOU are appreciated!!

0:00 – Show Intro 3:47 – Podcast begins 5:20 – The pro's and con's of working with your significant other 14:38 – How to communicate with the female client or athlete 24:46 – What Julia and Christian believe is the biggest pitfall with training the female youth athlete 31:55 – The importance of nutrition for the female youth athlete (and male athlete) 42:06– Julia explains what it's like being a female in the strength and conditioning field 47:37 – What is tri-phasic training? And how Christian uses it with his clients and athletes 57:45 – How Julia and Christian work with their children in the weightroom, and how that conversation differs from a traditional client 1:05:41 – Julia and Christian's opinion on sport specialization About Julia Anto Instagram: @julia.ant_toe Website: www.bellaforza.me Julia Anto, CSCS, is a coach to strength athletes, like powerlifters, physique competitors and crossfitters as well as recreational lifters and those seeking body transformation through muscle-building and fat loss. She takes pride in helping people from all walks of life to see and reach their full potential. Julia is a former Division I strength & conditioning coach from the University at Buffalo, where she worked with every sport on campus. She currently coaches at Illiana Power Asylum with her husband, Christian. https://www.elitefts.com/so-you-want-to-be-a-strength-coach.html (So You Want To Be a Strength Coach… ) https://www.elitefts.com/judged.html (Judged) About Christian Anto Instagram: @ant_toe Website: https://mohawkmethod.com/ (mohawkmethod.com) Christian began his athletic career in high school as a soccer player. He continued his soccer career into college playing for a NJCAA school in Madison, Wisconsin. From there he turned to the weight room to extend his athletic goals and transitioned into studying Human Health Sciences. During his transition, he crossed paths with NBS Fitness gym owner David Allen. After several months, Christian converted his educational focus to Exercise Sports Sciences where he has earned his bachelor's degree and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification. Christian is also a competitive powerlifter who has gained elite totals in three weight classes and stays competitive in the 181-pound class with a 1770 total. He is very passionate about his training and brings that intensity to his clients. Christian has a very technical eye for movement mechanics, particularly when it comes to powerlifting. He currently resides in Highland, Indiana working out of Illinana Power Asylum. Christian is ready to share his knowledge and help clients become strong and healthy while reaching their personal fitness goals.

For this episode we sat down with notable Australian market watcher and equity strategist at Bell Direct, Julia Lee. Julia has worked in Australian markets for the majority of her career and is joining us to give us some insight into the Australian market. We cover off on all the hot topics from the Buy Now, Pay Later sector to the Infant Formula boom Australia is living through. We also ask Julia about her work studying the drivers of share price movement (something we all want to understand). In this episode you will learn: • Why Julia thinks Warren Buffett may be overrated • Julia's investing style - value v growth • How Julia's first investments beat the market and the surprising way she picked them • Julia's first experience with options trading • The key factors that drive share price movement • How Julia thinks about the Buy Now, Pay Later sector • What Julia is seeing in the Australian market Stocks and Resources Discussed: • Apollo Tourism (ASX: ATL) • Flight Centre (ASX: FLT) • Slater and Gordon (ASX: SGH) • Aristocrat Leisure (ASX: ALL) • Southcorp (No longer listed) • Bell Direct website • Bell Direct Stock Screener How to Get Involved in Equity Mates: • Equity Mates Website • Ask Us Anything Page • Thought Starters • Equity Mates Facebook Page • Facebook Discussion Group • Instagram • Equity Mates Twitter • Email (contact@equitymates.com)

Julia's passion for business and finance started at a young age. Setting up lemonade stands, mowing the neighbor’s lawn and having her own babysitting club. In high school, she had an amazing teacher that taught her about business and finance. After her first mock stock portfolio and hearing about stocks from her grandfather, she was hooked on figuring out how to make this into a career. It's all she ever wanted to do.Working at a local bank and then taking the securities exam, at age 20 she became a financial advisor. What Julia has come to realize is that financial success isn't an isolated part of one's life. All parts are connected and success in one makes it easier to succeed in others. Now she helps others to figure out the matrix and become successful investors and retiree's. And her book Fit Moneytells you how she did it and you can too. 

Julia's passion for business and finance started at a young age. Setting up lemonade stands, mowing the neighbor’s lawn and having her own babysitting club. In high school, she had an amazing teacher that taught her about business and finance. After her first mock stock portfolio and hearing about stocks from her grandfather, she was hooked on figuring out how to make this into a career. It's all she ever wanted to do.Working at a local bank and then taking the securities exam, at age 20 she became a financial advisor. What Julia has come to realize is that financial success isn't an isolated part of one's life. All parts are connected and success in one makes it easier to succeed in others. Now she helps others to figure out the matrix and become successful investors and retiree's. And her book Fit Moneytells you how she did it and you can too. 

Julia's passion for business and finance started at a young age. Setting up lemonade stands, mowing the neighbor’s lawn and having her own babysitting club. In high school, she had an amazing teacher that taught her about business and finance. After her first mock stock portfolio and hearing about stocks from her grandfather, she was hooked on figuring out how to make this into a career. It's all she ever wanted to do. Working at a local bank and then taking the securities exam, at age 20 she became a financial advisor. What Julia has come to realize is that financial success isn't an isolated part of one's life. All parts are connected and success in one makes it easier to succeed in others. Now she helps others to figure out the matrix and become successful investors and retiree's. And her book Fit Money tells you how she did it and you can too. 

Julia's passion for business and finance started at a young age. Setting up lemonade stands, mowing the neighbor’s lawn and having her own babysitting club. In high school, she had an amazing teacher that taught her about business and finance. After her first mock stock portfolio and hearing about stocks from her grandfather, she was hooked on figuring out how to make this into a career. It's all she ever wanted to do. Working at a local bank and then taking the securities exam, at age 20 she became a financial advisor. What Julia has come to realize is that financial success isn't an isolated part of one's life. All parts are connected and success in one makes it easier to succeed in others. Now she helps others to figure out the matrix and become successful investors and retiree's. And her book Fit Money tells you how she did it and you can too. 

Today we have a bonafide #bossbabe and pioneer: Julia Landauer, a NASCAR driver and two-time champion who is empowering women all over the world.   After becoming the first woman to win a NASCAR Track Championship at Motor Mile Speedway in her division, Julia graduated to the televised NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. She finished 4th in the K&N championship, becoming the highest finishing female in the series’ 64-year history. Plus, this girl is frickin’ smart – she graduated from Stanford with a BS in Science, Technology, and Society!   She is standing in her strengths and her light, paving the way not only for aspiring female racecar drivers but also for any women who want to live in their truth + what really makes them happy. We chat about…   How Julia (and the rest of her family) got into racing when she was a young girl 15 years of racing experience at the age of 26 Going from go karting to stock car Why there have been so few women in NASCAR Being a female driver with an all-male pit crew How parents can empower their children Being on Survivor Season 26 (while attending college!) What Julia learned from her experience on Survivor Dealing with social media haters Promoting Cars 3 with Disney Driving at 174 miles per hour Asking for help Value comes in all different shapes and sizes How the divine feminine has been beneficial as a racer   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more | julialandauer.com Instagram | @julialandauer Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/julialandauerracing Twitter | @julialandauer Watch | "Can nice girls win (races)? Julia Landauer at TEDxStanford" Skinny Dipped | Use code ALMOST30 for 20% off at skinnydipped.com Mowellens | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off your first purchase at mowellens.com Dirty Lemon | Use code ALMOST30 for 1 FREE case in your first order at dirtylemon.com Chosen Foods | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off at chosenfoods.com Simple Contacts | Use code ALMOST30 to save $20 at simplecontacts.com/almost30 The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters

In this episode, Devi chats with Julia Stege about Authentic Branding and Why Marketing the "Normal" Way Can Actually Sabotage Your Heart-Based Business.  Devi and Julia discuss: What Julia learned about marketing when she worked on Madison Avenue The tactics that a lot of people use in marketing that sabotage their heart-based business How to become fulfilled through your marketing rather than marketing to just "get clients" The cultural shift in attunement to the truth that makes it so important, to be honest in your marketing Julia's story of "coming out" spiritually in her business The deep relationships that you can attract by being authentically you in your brand The two types of messaging Knowing what your "visuals" say about you Putting your vibration "out there" in a way that the Universe will connect you to your ideal clients Saying what you need to say and revealing yourself through your aesthetic Integrating all of the parts of yourself in your brand The mantra questions to ask yourself in order to align yourself and to have an attractive brand How to find your "tick" statement and what makes your ideal clients "tick" Integrating your "tick" words into your offer Coming out with what makes you "weird", so your "weirdo" tribe can find you Empathizing with your client's problem  The importance of surveying your clients regularly The 2 secs that you have to get across what makes you "tick" and to let your potential client know that you understand their problem The power of beauty to hold the attention of a potential client Doing the 2-3 things that are fun, fulfilling and sustainable for you and your business on a regular basis Remembering to be yourself in your marketing and your business and more… Learn more about Julia Stege: Julia helps out-of-the-box entrepreneurs and change-makers to clarify and express their purpose through marketing that attracts their perfect customers from across the globe. Her magical realm of talent is branding and creating inspired websites for clients who are as serious about attracting divinely aligned clients online as they are about changing the world. Since 1997, hundreds of clients united in their desire to show up authentically in their marketing have worked with Julia to showcase what makes them special and distinct online. Their Wildly Attractive WebsitesTM serve as magnets that attract leads, clients, and difference-making opportunities from around the world.  Connect with Julia on her website @ Magical-Marketing.com  Her FREE Book: Branding from the Heart How to Share Your Purpose Through Marketing That Attracts Your Tribe and Inspires a Revolution brandingfromtheheartbook.com  Resources Mentioned: Jan Stringer:  You can listen to Jan's episode here. Abraham Hicks   

#52: Imagine transitioning from making $8.50 per hour and sharing a crammed apartment with 5 people, to becoming a six-figure business owner doing what you love.   That's the journey that Julia Kelly, caricature artist and founder of JK Expressions, took.   Sounds great, right?   Well, as they say, more money = more problems.   When Julia earned $25,000 - $30,000 per year, she had fantastic money management skills. She had no debt and plenty of savings.   But when her business started making six figures, she began ignoring her finances, stopped saving money .... and racked up thousands in personal credit card debt.   Why?   Some of us write this off as life getting more expensive as we get older, but it's actually a classic case of lifestyle inflation -- when you make more, you spend more.   After Julia began earning six figures, she decided she was no longer happy with $12 haircuts from Supercuts. She happily splurged for $75 salon style cuts instead.   She started paying for convenience. One-click Amazon order? Check. Ordering an Uber or Lyft so she didn't have to deal with parking at the airport? Check. Eating out? Check.   She became lazy about saving money, assuming that she could always earn more. Money was coming into her bank accounts at an unprecedented pace – so her finances would take care of themselves, right?   Wrong.   As Julia discovered, when you "upgrade" certain aspects of your life, you may find it difficult to downgrade. You keep spending more and more, trapped on a consumer treadmill. You’re forced to work to fuel your spending addiction.   Left unchecked, this saps every ounce of freedom from your life.    Ouch.   In this episode, you'll learn: · Why you shouldn't take lifestyle inflation lightly · How to stop lifestyle inflation before it happens · What Julia regrets buying … and what she doesn’t · The easiest, most effective antidote to lifestyle inflation · How Julia differentiates between saving time vs. wasteful convenience spending · What Julia's advice is to those who are increasing their income, but don't want to succumb to lifestyle inflation -- Paula   Resources Mentioned:     •    Gretchen Rubin's episode, The Power of Habit Formation     •    Julia's story on the Afford Anything blog
     •    Cal Newport's episode, The Incredible Value of Deep Work, Instead of Distraction     •    Julia's site, JKExpressions.com __________________________ I also want to take a moment to thank the sponsors for this episode. First, huge thanks to Nerdwallet. Their new app lets you have one-on-one conversations with financial advisors. You can chat about anything related to money, such as retirement, investing, insurance, or paying off debt. You'll get personalized, one-on-one advice -- available at no cost to you. Check it out at no cost to you by visiting nerd.me/paula. _________________________ If you've been listening for a while, you've heard me interview many best-selling authors. Before I interview these guests, I need to read or refresh my memory of their books. Sitting down to physically read the books can take a long time. That's why I listen to their audiobooks, thanks to my subscription to an audiobook service called Audible. If you want to give them a try for free, head to audible.com/trynow for a free 30-day trial. _________________________ For a full list of show notes, visit http://podcast.affordanything.com/52-how-to-combat-lifestyle-inflation-with-julia-kelly

For most of us life is about work, work and more work. And no matter whether you have a small business, are in the online marketing space or in consulting, you feel rushed and hassled. This podcast is about how to slow down using the three concepts of "meditation, relaxation and vacation".   Sean:Hi. This is Sean D’Souza from Psychotactics.com, and you’re listening to the Three-Month Vacation Podcast. This podcast isn’t some magic trick about working less. Instead, it’s about how to really enjoy you work and enjoy your vacation time. Did you know that “medication” sounds a lot like “meditation”? Well, I didn’t know that, and I’ve been playing around with it in my head, “Medication, meditation. Medication, medication, meditation.”   When we talk about the three-month vacation, it’s very easy to just think of going away; but as you know, we don’t have to leave the desk to go away. We could just be here. Should we go away, or should we stay? Do we really have to choose? As you know, it’s summer in December here in New Zealand, and there’s a lot of time because we take time-off around December the 20th, and then we don’t get back to work till almost February, and this is pretty much the whole country. Imagine the entire country going on vacation.   As you walk around on the streets of Auckland, well, there are no people around or very few people around. My wife, Renuka and I, we never go away when everyone else is going away because what’s the point? Everything is more expensive, there are bigger crowds, you have to wait a long time in restaurants, so we stay back and we sit on the deck, get some beer. We have a good time, and we read. When I was reading, I ran into this book by author/speaker Pico Iyer. First, just to backtrack, before I ran into the book, I ran into his TEDTalk.   In the TEDTalk, he was talking about how he started to meditate, how he started to relax. In his talk, he gets you to imagine gong to the doctor, and the doctor is saying, “Well, your cholesterol is up. Your blood sugar is up, etcetera, and you’ve got to exercise.” He says, “Most of us will go to the gym. Most of us would go for a walk. Most of us would do stuff like that, but imagine the doctor said, ‘You need to slow down. You need to take time off and meditate.    Take about half an hour, maybe meditate.’” It’s unlikely that any of us would feel the urgency to meditate, would we? I mean, we have so many things to do already. Really, that’s what I’m going to talk about today. Three things, meditation, relaxation, and vacation. All the “tions” together.   Now, of all these three, mediation is probably the only stuff I know of because it seems like you have to sit in one place or stay in one place, and then just be quiet; and so what I’d do is I’d go for a walk, and I’d hum the same song over and over again, almost like a chant. I was happy doing that, and I thought, “Well, that’s meditation;” and it probably is. I don’t know, but I found that with TheEndApp, it was much easier to do this, and that is to just clear your head of all the thoughts. I’m not very ambitious to begin with, and I don’t suggest you get too ambitious because it’s very, very hard to meditate.   If you’ve ever tried meditating, you know exactly what I mean. It is extremely hard. The moment you decide, “Well, I’m going to be very quiet and clear my mind of all the thoughts,” every single thought comes rushing through. It’s like as if you opened the door and started screaming, “Come on, guys. Bring in all the thoughts.” That’s how meditation is. It’s so weird, and yet time and time again, you read about it, and you’re not sure how to go about it. I ran into this website at Calm.com. That’s C-A-L-M-.com. They had a lovely app. It’s free, and they also have a website.   You don’t need to have the app. You can just have your computer on, and they take you through a guided meditation. It’s very hard at first. It’s just this emptying out of your brain. Not sleeping, not dreaming, not doing anything, just completely blank. Just like looking at the clouds, one cloud after another, after another. Just completely blank, and so I’d recommend that you start there. What I started doing was every day, before I go for a walk, I meditate for 10 minutes. I just lie on the floor, and I go for 10 minutes. Then, I go to the café, and my wife started this. She says, “Okay, let’s be quiet for two minutes.” We close our eyes and sit at the café, and you can hear the coffee.   When your mind is that quiet, you can hear everything. It just screams through, and it filters out those thoughts. It’s very cool because in a day that’s completely chaotic, we need to have these moments of meditation, and it’s good for your brain. I mean, this is about business, but it’s also about taking that time off, just those few minutes in a day. That brings us to the end of the first part which is mediation. It takes us to the second part which is relaxation.   When you think of relaxation, you probably think, “Okay. I’m just going to lie on the bed, or I’m just going to lie on the safe, and read a book, and relax.” That’s nice, but what it doesn’t do is it doesn’t take you out of the house. What I found is that as long as you’re in the house, you’re not as relaxed as you could be. What we started doing was taking a day or two away. We don’t go very far. We could go just half an hour away from where we live, but we go away from our home, and this is very important.   Once you go away from home, everything about your home is left behind like the clothes that needed to be folded, the garbage that needs to be taken out, the coffee blender that needs fixing, the … Whatever issues you have, and there are many of these issues. The moment you leave home, those issues stay behind. Suddenly, you start to relax, and you find that this level of relaxation starts the moment you head away from home. What we found is that in about 24 hours, we feel like we’ve been away for a week.   By the time you’re away for a couple of days, it seems like you’ve been away forever, and most of don’t do that. In fact, right after we got married, we didn’t go anywhere. We didn’t go anywhere for a long time, and then we decided that’s what we’re going to do. A lot of these comes from planning. All of your work comes from planning, but even the vacation, the time away, the meditation, the relaxation. Everything comes from planning. It doesn’t just show up like that. We have to sit down at the start of the year and work out when do we have these bouts of relaxation away from home and when we do we have the vacation which is a long way from home and for …  Along the previous.   The thing about relaxation is that those 48 hours can change the way you continue to work, the way you work with your clients, the way you deal with issues when you go back, and so having those little spots makes a big difference. Like for instance right now, we have the article writing course, and this is the toughest writing course in the world. It is very demanding for both the students and for me. You can be sure that once four weeks have passed, I’m going to need a couple of days off.   It’s very easy to say, “No, no, no. We don’t have that kind of time.” Just like we do with meditation, “We don’t have that kind of time. We don’t have two days off. We have to do this, and we have to do that.” The moment you allocate that time, it changes everything. The funny thing is that it changes your mindset even if you’re on vacation. This summer, we started out not checking email, not doing all those kinds of things, and you would think, “Well, it will take a few days, and you’ll be fine.” It wasn’t fine.   A week passed, and I was still waking up at 4:30 in the morning. I like to sleep a lot in the afternoons, especially on vacation. I’ll sleep two, three hours even, and I wasn’t able to sleep more than half an hour. I was still wound up, and it’s only when I got to Waipu, which is about a couple of hours from here that I relaxed. Two weeks into a vacation, the moment I stepped away from home, and I think the same thing applies to you as well. What we need to do really is stuff for ourselves because we’re always doing stuff, but it’s not stuff for ourselves, and it’s definitely not this relaxation that we desperately need. This takes us to the third part which is vacation.   Vacation has always been a big part of my life, but planning the vacation was what I learned from my friend Julia. What Julia would do was she’d book the vacation at the start of the year, and then they had to go. Everything was booked. I remember the year that we went to Japan, the year they had the tsunami, and I wasn’t keen on going there even though we were going several months after the tsunami; but it was booked, so we went. We had a really good time. We learned so much about a different culture, ate different foods. Something I might not have done if we hadn’t booked everything in advance.   Here I am, preaching to the choir as it were. We already know that mediation, that relaxation and vacation are good for us. We know that, so why doesn’t it work for everyone? Why don’t we end up feeling on top of the world? Why is it that we feel like we’re more tired than ever before? There are reasons why it doesn’t work, and the first reason and probably the most important reason of all is email. I have a friend, and she goes on vacation, and she say, “Well, I only check email and work for three hours in a day.”   No, no, no, no, no. You can’t do that. Vacation is nothing. It’s like mediation, nothing. It’s like relaxation, nothing. No email. Get someone else to check your email. You’re not that important. That brings us to the second point, of course, which is, “I’m the most important person here. Nothing can happen without me.” I have a very simple philosophy, and that is, “I can spend time at the beach or spend time in hospital,” and I choose to spend time at the beach. Sure, you’re important, but why are you earning all these money? Why are you doing all these stuff? It is to enjoy yourself.   If you’re going to have this self-importance that no one else can do the job you’re supposed to be doing, well, you’re a bit in trouble, and you need that vacation. Of course, the third one is the most obvious of all which is too much activity. You can’t go on vacation and see 300 cathedrals. You just cannot. They’re boring after a while, and they all will start to look the same. We have a vacation philosophy, “We’re called the five-monument people.” That means we look at five monuments or five places we’re interested, and we’re done.   If we go to Istanbul, five things, and we’re done. If we go to Washington D.C., five things, and we’re done. Friends who know us, they will drive us fast on some of these monuments and go, “There you go. One, two, three, four, five. We’re done. Let’s go to eat.” Of course, that is crazy, but you get the point. You don’t want to have too much activity. If you have all of these stuff packed back to back, you never get relaxed. You never get to nothingness. Nothingness is amazing, but only once you start to get a hold of it.   To me, a three-month vacation, not all three months together, one month at a time is part of my work. It helps my work get better. It helps me relax. It makes me want to do better stuff. I think that if there’s one thing that we could do today is to meditate. That’s one thing you can do at your desk. Go to that website, Calm.com, C-A-L-M-.com. Download the app or just listen to it on your computer. I think that will make a big difference. Five minutes, you can start off with five minutes. You can go with 10 minutes, 20 minutes. It’s up to you. It’s a much easier way to meditate.   I think the second thing, and here I am breaking my own rules saying one thing and telling you about two things. The second thing is just book a couple of days somewhere close by, 20 minutes away, 30 minutes away. Just go. Leave home. Leave the garbage. Leave the coffee grinder. Leave all that stuff home. Of course, leave your email for two days. I’m sure someone can manage it, and you will find that while you may not, at least at this point, make a three-month vacation a reality, that’s where you’re headed. You want to start right now. You want to start today, and you want to relax.   That brings us to the end of this podcast. Before we go, where are we headed for our monthly vacation? We’re going to Sardinia, Italy. We’ve been to the mainland before, and I know Italy is a big place. You can never get enough of Italy, but Sardinia seems to be a completely different space altogether. We’re going from one island to another island. We hope the coffee is good. Before that, we have the info-product workshop, and that is in Silver Spring, just outside of Washington, D.C.   It’s about information products. It is how to create powerful information products, whether it’d be a webinar, or a workshop, or a presentation, a book. The reason why it’s so important today is because there’s so much junk out there. This workshop isn’t about showing you how to write or create that presentation. It is the structure of what makes compelling information, how do you put everything together, so that customers go from one end right to the other end, and then come back for more.     That’s why it’s different. It shows you exactly what you need to do to make information structure compelling, so that you can take whatever you know, all of that knowledge, and package it in a way that customers consume from one end to the other because once they do, they come back. This has been brought to you by Psychotactics.com and The Three-Month Vacation. Now, if you haven’t been to iTunes and left us a glowing testimonial, then this is your chance, so please leave that testimonial because I’d really appreciate it. Bye for now. Bye-bye.