Transcript of EP71-How To Break Free From The "Always Busy" Trap & Rewrite Your Rules For Achieving Success
00:08
Suzy Olivier
Welcome to the Mothers of Enterprise podcast. I'm your host, Suzy Olivier, mama of three, military wife and successful serial entrepreneur of 15 years, now turned business mentor and mindset coach for women who want it all, minus the hustle and the overwhelm. This show is for the woman who wants to build a wildly successful, high profit, heart centred business and thriving lifestyle, all while raising a family. It's time to harness your feminine superpowers and join me as we dive into all things mindset, business strategy, wealth creation, and motherhood to support you in building the business and life of your dreams. Welcome to the Mothers of Enterprise podcast.
01:05
Suzy Olivier
Hello wonderful ladies, and welcome to a shiny new episode. I have got a beautiful one for you today. It's about a topic that I've been wanting to bring to the podcast for a really long time, but I didn't want to do it as a solo episode because I didn't want you to go. Oh, well, that's fine for her. She's made it work for herself. It doesn't mean it's going to work for me.
01:27
Suzy Olivier
So I thought I would bring a beautiful, wise mind to support this conversation and someone who sees it play out in her clients as well as her life to talk about why we as women find it so hard to kind of break the narrative that success, in order to achieve success, we have to work really hard, and why we tend to glorify burnout, and why we glorify busyness and how to just bring rest and ease and flow and well-being and prioritizing yourself into our success journeys and actually perhaps even maybe allowing ourselves to believe that the reason why we achieve success is because we rest and we take it easy.
02:14
Suzy Olivier
So I am so thrilled to welcome my dear friend and fellow coach Georgie from chasing Lobsters, who is a life coach who works in leadership to bring ease and fulfilment into their success and life. So, Georgie, thank you so much and welcome to the podcast.
02:31
Georgie Muir
Thank you, Suzy. I am really delighted to be here. It's always great to chat with you and to be talking about this, which is totally my jam, because, let's be honest, business without a little bit of ease and nothing but hard work is never going to feel that good and it's never going to last that long.
02:51
Suzy Olivier
Yes, absolutely. You've been coaching for a while now as well. Why do you think women struggle so much with this? Where do you think it's kind of the narratives come from that we have to burn the candle at both ends and we have to push ourselves to kind of an extreme in order to experience and achieve success.
03:12
Georgie Muir
So as soon as you ask that question, there's two points in life that my brain wants to take me to. One is sort of in the here and now. And I feel that professionally, as women, we have had to work so hard to get our voices heard, to get that seat at the table. And I think that's a real legacy effect of just a change in the way society is run and the way that there are change in roles that women are now adopting. But we haven't yet fully upgraded our understanding that not only are we at the table, but actually our voices are already being heard. So we've been running, we've been pushing, we've been striving to get there.
03:57
Georgie Muir
And I feel that, and don't get me wrong, we are still very much, there is still very much that bias that we face, but we are in the room more. And the willingness to now change the how we are now that we're there is sort of just taking a little bit of time to catch up. And so that's the first place that I think we need to really look at what we believe is required from us in the here and now as professional women, so that we are heard, so that our voice is valued, and so that our message is just as profoundly impactful as we believe the voice of men can be. So there's that sort of element to it. And then the other thing is, where do all these patterns come from?
04:42
Georgie Muir
And really, it is that messaging that we received when were younger. And how did we see mums showing up? How did we see women showing up in our lives? Were they always running to do all the things now layer that with an invitation to be more central in our own careers as well as in motherhood. And again, it's that sort of like two layered, multi multi multi, multi layered sort of history to what it means to be a professional woman.
05:14
Suzy Olivier
Absolutely. And I think kind of touching on the legacy effect. Like you say, it's almost, we need to get our nervous systems to kind of catch up with the situation that we are in life. Like I say, we're at the table now. We are valued. And I completely agree. We've got a long way to go in some areas. But for the most part, women in business are championed. And we can be in our online spaces and in our industries, and we can be doing so well. But our nervous systems seem to be, like, primed to be like, keep pushing, keep going, keep making, keep hustling, keep breaking through, and it's like, time to go. Actually, hang on a second. It's not necessary anymore. We don't need to keep pushing like that.
05:53
Suzy Olivier
I think the second part of the whole narrative of success equals hard work is, and I know I've visited clients recently, they don't feel like they deserve their hard work or deserve the success if they haven't worked really hard for it. Like, they have to destroy themselves in order to deserve their business, doing ten k months or whatever their big goal is. Do you have that experience? Have you had that experience with your clients? Kind of the deserving piece of having to destroy yourself? And then I deserve my success. I deserve my income.
06:26
Georgie Muir
Yeah, absolutely. And I think that translates really, all the way into all arenas of life, because for me, that's really a conversation about the willingness to receive absolutely anything from anywhere. And if there's any sort of condition of, I get this. When I've done that, I am allowed this when there is that there is such a conditional requirement to us receiving the good stuff. And so whether that shows up in receiving help from others, whether it shows up in receiving the joyfulness of success in your work, if that has to come with a sacrifice of hard work or less time with my kids or a distance or a distraction from my partner, then we're not really actually allowing ourselves to receive. Because it comes with a caveat, right?
07:20
Georgie Muir
It's like, I get this as long as I no longer get that, or I've given all of that, and that's a tricky place to be.
07:30
Suzy Olivier
I have been there for so many years, and I kind of say, I'm in rehab for toxic productivity, because that was me. I would go into my head, go, right? As soon as I tick off everything on my to do list, then I get to rest. If I've applied to all my client messages and apply to all my messages, then I deserve to take the evening off and go and watch Netflix. If I haven't, then I don't deserve the rest. And so I used to kind of use rest as, like, a dangling carrot. Like, after you've achieved something, then you get to go do those things. And it's been a real mindset, reframe, belief, rejiggled. But actually, I can feel content, I can feel fulfilled, I can feel accomplished with an overflowing to do list.
08:11
Suzy Olivier
I can feel calm and tranquil without replying to every single client message at 09:00 p.m. On a Saturday night. And so, yeah, to people listening, I don't want anyone to ever think like, oh, she thinks she's got it all sorted out because it is 1000% a work in progress in my life.
08:27
Georgie Muir
But I think it has to be. I think it has to be that working progress. It's just recognizing where you are in your patterns and being like, do you know what? This isn't feeling good. And I'm willing to try a new way of doing it. And that allowing of imperfection, that allowing of trial and test and fail and learn is how we move the needle from where we are towards where we want to be.
08:52
Suzy Olivier
Absolutely.
08:52
Georgie Muir
And I was chatting with a client just recently about she has a big event coming up and really, in fact, no, I'm going to switch stories because I feel this is more relevant. I was talking to one of my clients teams and I was talking to them about personal sustainability in a hypergrowth environment. So high demands, high pace working environment. And one of them said exactly that. I just always feel like if I just get this tick done, then I can go and get myself some more water. And so the reframe for her that was so important was that if we bring it back to that conversation of we've earned that place at the table, how can we now really maximize the joy that we have at that table and the impact that we have at that table?
09:38
Georgie Muir
Well, you give yourself the glass of water first so you're not there parched and depleted, but you are nourished and you are tended to so that you get to really show up and enjoy and receive from being cared for, not just by your work but also by yourself.
09:57
Suzy Olivier
That's such a huge piece. And all these words coming into my head going like, we almost think of that kind of thing as selfish. Like the old narrative is like me looking after me before looking after everyone else, before looking after the business, before taking anything off my list is somehow selfish. Like I should be sacrificial. It's a whole narrative that comes with motherhood, isn't it? Like being a mother? Is this like sacrificial martyrdom? You lay down absolutely everything for your family, for your children.
10:25
Suzy Olivier
And obviously there's an element of that when you have kids, when you become a wife, a partner, whatever the case might be, that there's parts of you which not get kind of put low on the priority list, but it's a sacrificial role to be in those roles at some point and allowing ourselves to go actually, hang on a second. Me getting rest isn't selfish. Me getting rest, me looking after myself is actually going to allow me to show up and serve these people and be a better wife and be a better business owner and be a better employee and be a better mother, be a better human being.
10:55
Suzy Olivier
If I actually go and let myself get the bloody glass of water or go and watch Netflix and take 2 hours off at the end of the day and chill out and turn your brain off and have that kind of. That recoup, recharge time. So, yeah, I think the selfish narrative. A client of mine's just got a Pilates business, and we're like, oh, what can the branding be for? What's the new name? Like? Self-centred. Because it's such a thing that we play within our brains. Like, oh, it's selfish to take time up for yourself. It's selfish to go and do Pilates, and it's selfish to get a Pilates coach. Let's just call it that self-centred. And also, obviously, to play on words, because the whole core aspect in Pilates. But, yeah, I think it's funny.
11:33
Suzy Olivier
I didn't realize I was doing it to myself when I was dangling rest as a carrot. I don't understand. For me, I grew up as a stay at home mom, so I'm like, where the hell did I get this narrative about success? Yeah.
11:46
Georgie Muir
And I really had to catch myself this weekend. So my little one was really poorly last week, so I had day off work with him. And then again, I can't remember what day it was, but it was the day last week, and we'd basically sat, spent the whole day with him under a blanket, snuggling on the sofa, watching tv. And at the end of the day, I caught myself saying to him, what a lovely, lazy day we've had. And I instantly was like, whoa, whoa. No, today has not been lazy. Today has been restful. So I was like, actually, I instantly correct myself, not lazy. Mummy was wrong. What a beautiful, restful and restorative day we've had. Hasn't that been lovely? And I really wanted to celebrate with him the gorgeous day that we've had.
12:41
Georgie Muir
And I think to even see that in me, someone who's been in this work for nearly a decade, constantly preaching to see it coming through, just in that simple language, that simple way of referring to rest, especially when ill, like, no, thank you, Georgie. Let's throw that one out. And I think that reframing is so important, we have to really re understand what rest means about us and clear out what it does not mean. And that's a process. It is clearing out. Yes. Mindset. You really beautifully touched on the need of the body, because I don't know if you see this with your clients, Suzy. I think there are a lot of people more and more nowadays who actually kind of logically are on the same page. Right. They know logically.
13:33
Georgie Muir
I know that I'm not meant to be busting my ass 24/7 I'm not meant to be working all the hours and sacrificing everything and hustle, hustle. The brain's on board with that. But often there's a resistance in the body. There's an unwillingness to really let yourself do the thing. I. E. Right. Put down the computer, turn off the phone, sit and read the book or watch the Netflix. I think we know our bodies, our minds know, but there's still that resistance in the body. And that, for me, is that really juicy place where coaching gets to go and play.
14:12
Suzy Olivier
Absolutely. And you say experience with clients. You're, like, describing me, like, two years ago. So were living in Cyprus, and I used to take Fridays off. That was always my goal. When I kind of re jiggled, remodelled the business, I was like, right. I have built so many companies that have eaten me alive. I've had shingles three times over before I was 30. I am not going back into that narrative of just work your ass off. Work day and night, dress to the max in order to have some silly level of success. And so I got really intentional with kind of the rebrand, the remodel of miles of enterprise back in 2000. Right. I don't work the last week every month, and I don't work Fridays. This is before surprise. Gabriella arrived. So they were actually my days before they now baby days.
14:54
Suzy Olivier
And I was getting into the groove of that. I would say, okay, I'm working clients on a Friday, but I'll dabble on the laptop. I'll just open the laptop. We'll just see what's there. And so they'd kind of turned into, like, free working freedom. Working days, but they're still working days. And a good friend is like, Suzy, we have to go for brunch Friday, 10:00. And I was like, okay, Friday, 10:00 I'm not going to work. Yes. Okay. Yes, I am going to do this, because I understand rest is important. I understand that I shouldn't be working all the time. I understand that my business needs boundaries. Logically, intellectually, mentally. I knew all the things. And so I said yes to her, obviously. And we had to drive off station to get to this beautiful beach restaurant.
15:41
Suzy Olivier
And I remember feeling physically sick in the car. Like, the thought that I was being like, that was the thing. Like when you mentioned lazy, but, oh, my goodness, that's exactly it. It's not rest, it's laziness. That was how my head used to think. And I still definitely had those moments. But people listening might think, oh, my goodness, Suzy you need to go and see Georgie. But everything in me was like, pull the car over and turn around. You are not going to feel comfortable at that restaurant. Don't do it. And it was every fibre of my being to keep on the accelerator and keep driving off that military base and to that beautiful brunch restaurant and sit there and order too many pancakes and drink bellinis. And once I was there, my nervous system was like, okay, we are here.
16:28
Suzy Olivier
You may as well enjoy it. And I'm like, oh, this is actually really cool. I'm like, look at me. It's a Friday. It's 11:00. I'm sipping cocktails. This is fantastic. And I got into it. But it shocked me as to how ingrained my programming was that if the kids are at school and the husband's at work, you work. How dare you go and take free time off and go and do leisure things and go and brunch when everyone else is doing things constructively, and you put all these big goals in your business. And for me, it was, I said to my coaches when I started working with her, going, if I don't work all the time, I am choosing to not achieve my goals. And obviously, I've got a beautiful coach who you know as well.
17:06
Suzy Olivier
And she was like, oh, my goodness, stop the press. Hang on, let's unpick this one. And I had such a strong narrative of laziness. Like, if you aren't working all the time, you are lazy. And I never, ever want to be lazy. I never want my children to see me as lazy. So therefore, it's my job to show them what a hard working female looks like and actually like what a disservice I'm doing to my children. And that's when I realized I've got. Now I've got three little girls watching me. And I'm a walking example of what it is to be a mother and to be a woman and to be a business owner and to be a human taking up space and having ambition and carrying these roles, all these different titles that we have with ease.
17:47
Suzy Olivier
I have to show them what that looks like in a really positive way. So that's when I'm like, I started my journey to secure, rehabilitate my kind of toxic productivity mixed with hyper ambition, mixed with perfectionism, mixed with control freakisms. Bless. My coach has had a fun time with me over the last three years. But yeah, it's been a real journey for me to unpick that and to go, you know what? Me resting is not lazy and it's not selfish. And then the flip of that is rewriting what I believe success is and realizing, which is why I'm so passionate to talk about it literally all the time, is creating success on your own terms and really designing what that looks like for you. So in your business, Georgie, what's kind of been your.
18:32
Suzy Olivier
To use that term again, like your terms for success, what does that look like for you in your business, and how does that play out?
18:39
Georgie Muir
Well, I think I just need to, first of all, meet you where you are because I know that pattern. It's why I speak and coach and teach to the flip of that pattern. Because as a hyper ambitious, driven woman who is full of desire, not just for my business and my potential, but also for my life, calling myself out at those moments has been so necessary in my own journey. So we've all been there, Suzy, I really do think that there are so many who will resonate with that anxiety, that resistance to doing this thing that logically, you know, really is in service of your experience and also, therefore, your success. For me, within my work, I think the piece that was, as somebody, my background is I was a chiropractor.
19:32
Georgie Muir
So health, well being, mindset, nutrition, movement, it all still very much comes into my work today, but it's also always been a really big part of my life. So for me, what I found was my kind of sneaky little toxic productivity thing was that it wasn't so much about working all the time. But if I wasn't working, then you better bet your bottom dollar that I was doing some yoga or I was journaling, or I was meditating, or I was really making some healthy and nutritious food. So there wasn't that willingness to actually just stop and restore and everything has a place. All those things have as much of a place. But when those nourishing things become a part of your to do list, we've got a problem. And that's something that is really easy. Oh, look, I know what I'm going to do.
20:25
Georgie Muir
I'm going to start saying no to the excessive working. I'm going to start saying no to the unnecessary burden I'm pushing on myself to reply to that thing immediately and create that thing right now. Oh, but wait, there's space now. Immediately, I must fill said space.
20:42
Suzy Olivier
I feel so seen right now.
20:45
Georgie Muir
And actually, for me, getting comfortable to not fill the space, that has really been my learning edge. And for me, the way that I support clients in doing it and the way I support myself every day is to just take that moment to check in. And I check in with brain, I check in with body, and I check in with soul. And so I'm like, okay, head, brain, how are we doing? What do you need right now? What state are you in right now? Body, how are you feeling? Like, what are you in need of right now? And then soul. Same questions. How are you and what do you need?
21:23
Georgie Muir
And from there, I get to decide what I do with that space that I've created, really making sure that it's bringing those three into alignment and in a direction that is nourishing, win for all, rather than brain running the show, which is where we usually tend to operate from. And by doing that, I've made some radical decisions in my business recently that I think are beautifully supportive of this message. So, for example, my dad was really unwell all of last year. It took a huge amount of time, energy, capacity for us as a family. And so come January, where I had big plans for launching different things, and I actually just chatted with my business coach, and I was like, no, I'm pulling it all.
22:10
Georgie Muir
And so I went through my entire diary, and I took out every single meeting, every single planning session, every single event, anything that was not the bare minimum to my business staying alive, which was basically accumulated to me being in my sessions with my clients and recording my podcast, our stories within, and that pretty much being it. And the rest was spaciousness. And I made this promise to my coach. She even said to me, she's like, Georgie, you know, you're going to have to basically sit on your hands for a month. I was like, yeah, I know.
22:47
Suzy Olivier
Rock in the corner quietly.
22:51
Georgie Muir
And what was really beautiful was I did get the rest I needed, and I did really luxuriate in that space. Like, there were baths in the middle of the day, sometimes two. There was long cups of teas with chalky bickies watching Netflix. There were really restorative just moments of me being with me whilst my children were at school, whilst my husband was working, which is know, hotbed of possibility for critic coming in, being like, come on, woman, get it together. And instead, no I just really met myself there slowly and tenderly with this intention to nourish. And you want to hear the wildest thing, Susie? It was my biggest month in business ever.
23:40
Suzy Olivier
Cannot tell you people listening to the podcast, you can't see my face right now. But honestly, it makes me the happiest to hear that kind of thing. I think it's such a testimony and it's such evidence that when we prioritize, what actually matters in life, which, yes, is your well being, is how you feel in your life, because then you can show up for everyone else in a way better, more fulfilling, more empowered way, but actually you get the thing you want faster and easier than ever before. And I speak about this all the time. And I had a very fledgling business with mothers of enterprise, April 2020, 52 pound month in total. And I was like, oh, why isn't this happening? I was working. Honestly, Geordie, the hours I must have been putting into that business, a week was insane.
24:27
Suzy Olivier
Like day and night, I was working. If the kids were mildly watching tv and looking at me, I was on the computer. And then when I genuinely surrendered, realized I was making a monster of a business again for the fourth time and prioritized me in the business, prioritized my time, and I was living in Cyprus, for heaven's sake. And I was like, well, I'm not going to the beach. People are going paddle boarding every morning. I'm like, no, sorry, I got to work. Like, what? The actual, like, the business just took off. And it took off without me even looking at it. I wasn't checking the bank account. I wasn't checking the income and the sales and the clients, finding all the discovery calls. It was just happening in the most organic and natural unforced way. And the business exploded again behind the scenes.
25:11
Suzy Olivier
It wasn't even on my forefront. And again, it's such evidence, and I hope everyone listening kind of really takes that to heart, going with the realization that actually you can get everything you want and more because you are resting, not being lazy, not being selfish, but you are prioritizing what actually matters in life. And I love your checking in. That's absolutely beautiful. And we just don't give ourselves a chance. We're so busy. We're so busy thinking about everything else, thinking about the next thing, thinking about the to do list, thinking about when's the school run, thinking about what's dinner tonight? When do we ever just stop and be like, body, hi, brain, hi, soul, hi, how are you feeling? How are you doing? How are we actually doing right now? And how can I help?
25:50
Georgie Muir
What do you need?
25:50
Suzy Olivier
Like, oh, I love that. That is beautiful. Everyone take that away with you. That's gold.
25:56
Georgie Muir
And for those who really do struggle to find those moments, that's okay. We're running on autopilot so much of the time. So my encouragement there is to set a few alarms, three to five alarms throughout your day. They repeat every day. And when that alarm dings, it's just your prompt. Like, we can all wish ourselves to do these things, but hey, let's just recognize that the brain is not the best place to hold all these ideas. So let's use the technology and use systems to actually support us in those things. So whether it's a little post it note that reminds you in the bathroom mirror or whether it's an alarm on your phone, just a little prompt to check in with yourself, just to see.
26:33
Georgie Muir
And I think it's also really important here to say that I work, yes, with some business owners, but the majority of the women I work with are employees. And so it's very easy for people to sort of be listening to this, saying, yes, well, it's obviously okay for you women. When you have the autonomy of being your own business owner, you get to do those things within your day. And actually, no, that is not true. This is applicable and accessible to everybody. Yes, sure, if you're in the office all day, then there's going to be different ways to provide and meet yourself in your needs.
27:09
Georgie Muir
But the willingness to do so, the systems that encourage you to make time for it is all in service to how you feel amidst the success that you're generating by being better resourced as an individual and as women, we have spent so long thinking that the way we have to do things to get to that table, to have that seat, is to do it in the masculine energy, in that masculine way, which is very single, focused, very disciplined, very hard driving. It is a fantastic energy. It is very depleting to women who in their sort of central core are more of a dominant feminine being. Dominant feminine energy, which I'm not going to go into the structure of that being energy and not woman or man. But ultimately, as women, we have gifts.
28:03
Georgie Muir
And when we are too much in that hard driving seat, we're leaving a lot of our superpowers out of the conversation and the equation for success. We're leaving intuition. We're leaving nurturance and nourishment. We're leaving just our ability to read a room. We as women, read our environments incredibly well. Men do not have the brain. And this is literally a difference in the left to right brain connections of the brain. Men do not have the same connections that we as women do. So they don't have the ability to be as diffusely aware. But when we're in that hard driving seat, we switch that off, and it's literally one of the keys to success. That is just so honouring of who we are as a whole, but also a real superpower that's needed today in business and in career.
28:56
Suzy Olivier
Absolutely. And it can make our experience of our success so much actual easier, because you aren't relying on identities and tendencies, which are maybe not completely natural to you. Again, I'm all for having a mixture of the masculine and the feminine. Our business, and I think, need a hybrid, but you're literally like cutting off one of your senses when you're going all in on the one. So I absolutely love that. So, Georgie, kind of in wrapping up for the ladies listening who think, oh, my goodness, that is me. There is space. I fill it if I rest, I think it's lazy. I can never ask for help. So the whole receiving thing is just not even on my radar.
29:32
Suzy Olivier
I mean, I know this is probably a very kind of simple sounding question, probably a potentially massive answer, but what would your kind of go to takeaways be? For them to go and kind of put into action beyond your checking in on your body? I think that's magical and beautiful. Just to help them kind of step into the receiving and step into the looking after themselves and prioritizing themselves and having open space and not filling it, asking for a friend.
30:00
Georgie Muir
I think it's really just taking a moment to ask yourself, how is that working for you?
30:04
Suzy Olivier
Yeah, I love that.
30:05
Georgie Muir
Yeah. I think it's just so important that we take a moment to recognize what is running our. Running the show, what have we got in the driving seat? And then just be like, great. How is that actually working for you? How are you feeling? What kind of results is it generating? What kind of relationships is it producing? What kind of success and money is it generating? And is that in alignment with the life that you want to lead? And if it's not, do not blame yourself. Do not shame yourself. Do not be unkind. Just be willing to explore a new way moving forward. Just think, okay, well, here are two women talking about a different way of doing things. One that incorporates more rest, one that incorporates more connection to myself, my brilliant head, my very intuitive heart, and my very divine led soul.
31:00
Georgie Muir
Maybe I'm going to go and listen to these women who have built successful businesses and give it a whirl and just try and see. And if I'm unclear, reach out and ask how and be willing to just, again, not make myself wrong, but get curious about how different may actually be in service to me.
31:20
Suzy Olivier
Oh, I love that. And to kind of add another little layer to that, it's okay if it feels really uncomfortable as you're working through it. I realize I've fallen back, like, just do a conversation. Like, man, I've fallen back into some real funky habits recently because we got the nanny in now who's with me Monday to Thursday. And so I'm in my head, I'm like, we are paying someone by the hour to look after my kid. Like, you better bet I'm going to be in the office doing some money making focus activities. Like, heaven help me if I'm napping. And there was last week, as Gabrielle decided to give a finger to sleep for a little while, I'm like, I literally can't focus anymore. I can't think. My brain hurts. And I had a nap and I felt so indulgent.
32:00
Suzy Olivier
I was like, oh, my goodness, I napped whilst the nanny, literally, I've paid for that nap. And I made this whole story about how awful that is and how I've wasted money. And I caught myself going, oh, my goodness, woman, what the heck? And so this Thursday, I am pledging this out to you, Georgie, and everyone listening. This Thursday, I've got no clients, nanny is here, and I've got space, and I am not going to fill, I am not going touch the to do list. I'm gonna do what the hell I like. I'm gonna go sit in the woods and the daffodils grow and go for a coffee and honestly do what the hell I like. And it's going to beautiful.
32:36
Georgie Muir
It will be. And it will probably feel uncomfortable at first, as you said. And I think for those of us, for example, my January, had I committed to the year being restful and spacious, hell to the no. There's no way my brain or body would have let me do that. No. But if I just committed to four weeks, I was like, I'm just committing to this month. And then I'm going to see that to me, was a real entry point and a real access. And it's like you saying, okay, I'm going to commit to Thursday. Great. That's where we start. That's how we get these wheels in motion. It's how we start to build that evidence bank of it working in our favour. So this becomes a little easier. Bit by bit, time by time, day by day. And then we all forget.
33:17
Georgie Muir
So we all then have to jump on and that's okay.
33:19
Suzy Olivier
The thing again, we are forever working progresses. I've been on the journey for such a long time. I've been in the coaching world such a long time. I've been coached such a long time. I've been in masterminds, I've been in networks, I've been in group programs, I've read the books, I've done the events, done the retreats, done the seminars, and it's just evidence that you can still kind of default back. And especially when you go through life changes like having a surprise third baby, you can default back to old habits. And it's like distance conversation. I'm like, wow, there are still parts of me that have defaulted back and I haven't kind of pulled it back to the new narrative, the new way. I want to be in a new way. I want my business to function. So I am not committing four weeks.
33:54
Suzy Olivier
I am committing 4 hours on Thursday to sit on my hands and rock quietly in the forest. If anyone lives in Plymouth and they see a person in a pink jumper looking very uncomfortable in the woods, it's just me. It's okay. But it's okay. It's okay that it feels uncomfortable. It's absolutely fine. Just keep moving through it and eventually your nervous system will chill out, ladies, it'll be like, oh, we're safe. The world hasn't ended. Your business hasn't burned down, everything's fine. In fact, the opposite has happened. So that is just beautiful, Georgie. Thank you. It's been such an amazing experience talking to you and kind of like coaching myself through our conversation and taking some of your beautiful words of wisdom. So, ladies, please go and connect with Georgie. Where can they find you online, my dear.
34:36
Georgie Muir
So you can find me anywhere at chasing lobsters on social media. Or if you are more in that professional LinkedIn space, then you'll find me at Dr. Georgie Mewer.
34:45
Suzy Olivier
Fantastic, my dear, thank you so much. I appreciate your wisdom and your time so much. Ladies listening, please go and give Georgie all the love. If you have any questions about what we have been talking through, or if you are uncertain about what that looks like for you, please reach out to either of us. Otherwise, thank you for joining me. Apply for the mastermind and I'll see you soon. Bye.
35:08
Suzy Olivier
Thank you so much for joining me on this episode. If you know someone who'd love this podcast. I will be so grateful if you could share it with them, because what the world needs more of are mothers stepping into their superpowers and creating amazing success because they're mothers and not in spite of it. If you've enjoyed this episode and found value in this podcast, which I really hope you have, please rate, review, and comment. I will be so grateful. And as a thank you, we'll be selecting one reviewer each month who will receive a 1 hour business clinic intensive coaching session with me worth over 500 pounds. Thank you again so much for joining me. I appreciate more than I can say, and I'll be back with you soon in the next episode.