Free and Figuring It Out

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Self-care

• Learning to play the piano

• Clara Amfo on the cover of Stylist Magazine

• Thrive {book}

• How to get away with murder (TV)

This weeks life prompt…

What have I done this week that I am proud of?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Self-worth/ self love (the Gina Swire episode and Verity’s chosen manifestation membership)

• Moving back to my hometown

• Could letting go of the primal need for success make us happier? {BBC Scotland}

• Your Best Year Ever {book}

• Ocusheild blue light glasses

• Taylor Swift documentary

• Sinatra: All or Nothing at All {documentary}

This weeks life prompt…

What do you want to accomplish over the next year?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

We are celebrating our 100th episode today so decided to take a trip down memory lane and have a chat about the future.

*Fun fact*  Charelle and Verity only met once in real life before starting the podcast! In this episode we chat all things…

• Why we decided to start the podcast

• Our single days
• Episode 07| Gift lists are not just for couples
• Episode 013| Money and the single woman
• Episode 022| One of us isn’t single anymore

A little task for you…drop us a DM and tell us who you are! Name, age, location, favourite ice cream flavour; whatever you want to share!

• PropelHer

• Episodes 056 & 057 | Going into 2020 with a plan PART ONE and PART TWO
• Episode 053 | Failure and the millennial woman
• Episode 044 | Money mindset
• Favourite topics including LGBT, alcohol, burnout, babies, politics, white privilege to name a few…
• How some discussions on the podcast have sparked real life chats for our listeners
• How we felt as a Black woman and a queer woman that we needed to be represented more
• Our wonderful guests, including
• Episode 092 | Race and representation with Nicola Lespeare
• Episode 072 | Your menstrual cycle with Natasha Richardson
• Episode 095 | The Social Dilemma with Nelly Yusupova

Which guests would you like us to ask on the show?

REVIEW TIME Whilst you’re listening to the rest of this episode please go give us 5 stars or a short review to help us reach more people!***

• How we evolve as individuals. Reflecting on the last two years.
• Opening up and sharing
• We have recorded almost every episode virtually
• What we think our futures will look like

THANK YOU!!! Here is to the next 100!

Please like, share, review, tag; whatever you wish! You superstar :)

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Mindfulness {reading this book}
• Moving house again (mentioning Episode 63 and Episode 23)
• Dramatic pause {Vogue}
• The One Page Marketing Plan {book}
• Holidate [film}
• Happy Place Podcast; Gabby Bernstein {podcast}
• Rebecca {TV}
• Ask and it is given {book}

Have some feedback, a question you would like us to answer or a topic suggestion?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Christmas and COVID19
• Cashflow online game
• Drop shipping
• How Shadow Banning Affects People From Different Communities {Bustle}
• Shoedog {book}
• Dare to Dream [film}
• The Founder {film}
• Inception {film}

Your Figuring It Out life prompt for this week…

What’s the one belief that you don’t possess right now that would change your life if you did possess it?

Have some feedback, a question you would like us to answer or a topic suggestion?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• US Election

• Online Mother’s blessing/ baby shower

• Biden seeks diverse cabinet to “look like America”

• Moving to New York

• Celebrating Kamala

• The Secrets of a Millionaire Mind {book}

• Love Life [TV}

• Singles Day

   

Your Figuring It Out life prompt for this week…

If you were given £1million that you had to spend on yourself within a year, how would you spend it?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Dieting

• Seasonal Affective Disorder

• How are you, really? Women’s Health Survey

• Sabotage {book}

• Life [TV}

• Deliveroo: secrets of your takeaway {documentary}

   

Your Figuring It Out life prompt for this week…

What is a goal you are currently working on and who could you ask to support you with this?

Have some feedback, a question you would like us to answer or a topic suggestion?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we are delighted to welcome on to the show guest Nelly Yusupova.

A CTO, start-up tech advisor, and the creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, Nelly was recently included in Fast Company’s, “League of Extraordinary Women” and has been at the forefront of the women’ s movement online since 1999.

A Wall Street Journal’s “Woman on the IT Fast Track”, Nelly is a speaker and presenter for many organizations and major industries events including BlogHer & Social Media Jungle. She has been featured in and on media such as INC Magazine, NBC Today Show and TechRepublic.

In this interview filled with brilliant insight and great advice we discuss...

• The start of the social web; web 1.0, flat web pages (no comments or videos!) and the amplification of self-expression (4.15)

• The beginning of the beast; addiction, ease of gaining data and the effects on mental health (10.0)

• Advice on how to break these bad habits and why the Smartphone become the abliser (13.0)

• Notifications and making tech work for you (17.0)

• Total Information Awareness Project; how we freely gave up our data but would not give it to the government (21.0)

• If the product is free, you are the product (26.0)

• How social media has evolved - they tapped into a psychological need to compare each other “The more you see, the more you share” (28.0)

• How to take back control (30.0)

• Using it professionally over personally (34.0)

• Algorithms and manipulated feeds (36.0)

• We have the power! (39.0)

• Free is never free; why we should support paying for Facebook (40.0)

• Round Up “We are in control of our own privacy. Mindfully and intentional decide what we are going to do and how we are going to do it.” (45.0)

   

We finish the interview by asking Nelly our quick fire guest questions!

You can follow and find out more about Nelly at

Instagram

Digital Woman

Tech Speak for Entrepreneurs

Resources mentioned

The Social Dilemma

Hooked

Start Up Secrets

How I built it

Have some feedback, a question you would like us to answer or a topic suggestion?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultants, and founder of PropelHer, a personal development blog and book club. She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Boundaries

• Life in Tier 2

• Class and COVID19

• Russell Brunson Traffic Secrets {podcast}

• The 4 hour work week {book}

• Strictly Come Dancing

• The Greatest Showman

   

Your Figuring It Out life prompt for this week…

What distraction get in the way of you being your most productive self?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for coaches and consultant, and founder of PropelHer (a personal development blog and book club). She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.

This week we have been figuring out and filling our time with…

• Authentic self

• Redundancy and a clear diary

• How to spot when data is lying to you - The Bunker {Podcast}

• Grit {Book}

• Life in a day {documentary}

• The Shows Must Go On

   

Your Figuring It Out life prompt for this week…

What things am I willing to let go of so I can live my best life?

Have some feedback, a question you would like us to answer or a topic suggestion?

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 32, is a marketing strategist for service-based businesses and founder of PropelHer, a personal development blog and book club. She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 5 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle on Instagram.

Verity Brown, 34, is a northerner and the founder of The Authentic DatA Revolution and is currently living in the Lake District, UK. She is bisexual, was single for 3.5 years and is in a relationship with a woman. Connect with Verity on Instagram.