Its All BS Podcast

Its All BS Podcast

By Billy-Ray StokesBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Its All BS Podcast episodes

  • Trying to get the traction
    • Gym again
    • Really tired today
    • Didn’t use any affirmations to set my focus for the day
    • Got my stuff together and headed to a mate’s place to use his office
      • Spent a fair bit of time catching up and talking life
    • Starting working on the new systems in the business
    • Ended up having a 15 min nap on the couch
    • Mother’s day is coming, and today was the only opportunity that I had to be able to get the stuff for mothers day, so shot out there and got it
    • Came home, and really just was keen to fight someone
      • Not in an angry way, just in a way that it would be really satisfying and exactly what I want
      • Probably just from the fact that I can’t seem to find the time to get the traction that I want to get right now
    • Tidied up the office cos that needed to happen
      • The nature of a home office
    • Mate came over and talked business together
    • Lexi’s assembly & award
    • Ricco in the message about Air Vanuatu
    • Coming home to get stuff done, and instead spent the time catching up on the podcast and got my thoughts out instead
    • Seems to me that business is about leadership and systems.
      • The caveat being that it has to be a business model which can actually make money
    • Review customer feedback on areas to improve
    • Playing with the kids outside and having dinner at the “shop”
    • Going for a family walk
    • Home for a movie, which the kids loved
    • Straight to bed


    28 min
  • Seeing Bec as a Means to an End
    • Gym
    • Morning routine
    • Do I see Bec as a means to an end, or the end in itself? - I often default to my children first, then to Bec, and when I think around my dedication, yes I am dedicated to Bec, but I am also often dedicated through Bec, to my children. It feels like often times Bec is the conduit of dedication to my children, biologically, emotionally and  psychologically. The thing is that I want to start seeing Bec as the end also. I don’t get anything from Bec. I want to love Bec because I love Bec, and just like my kids are part of my legacy, my wife is part of my legacy. I build her up not because of what my kids see, but because of what she sees. She gets what she needs from me because she needs it, and I want her to be whole and fulfilled in her relationship with me, just like I do with my kids.
    • Breakfast and then into the office
    • Big win with Water Corp
    • Amending our interviewing booklet
    • Meeting with a mentor
    • Private recording a review of some of other conversations that I have had recently
    • GGOB with Sue & strategising the things that we need to tackle to dial in the business
    • Kids buying their toys from the money saved
    • Meeting with one of our local suppliers


    22 min
  • Calendar restructure
    • Cleaning up the house yesterday
    • Leading my team with confidence
    • Just been an angry prick recently 
      • Last time, it happened when I got really focused on my goals
    • Nose breathing at the gym
    • Ice bath got really easy this morning
      • I told myself before I got in how much I love it (not sure if it made a difference, but it felt a lot easier this morning)
    • Preparing for Management Meeting
      • Meeting with Kaata & Odelia
    • Coming home and actioning the things that need to be done
      • Putting the questionnaire out to our customers for feedback
    • Meeting with a mate
    • Coming home & it’s non-stop
    • Telling the kids a story instead of reading them a story, and telling them the story of Shrek, which they thought was absolutely hilarious.


    31 min
  • Openbook Team Meeting #1
    • Gym
    • Sterling kinda being a bit restless
    • Ice baths (nearly bailed)
    • Doing the remaining 2 videos for the blog
      • Missing the assessment sides of things
    • Banking & Picking up the stickers
    • Prepping for the team meeting
    • Talking to a mate about closing their business
    • Sorting water corp


    18 min
  • Bec’s first ice bath & girls making money
    • Gym
    • Bec’s first ice bath
    • Tilly getting Sterling out of the cot
    • Lexi giving money to Eliza out of Tilly’s purse and having to reimburse her
    • Bec highlighting that I’ve made this about Lexi mostly, and that I haven’t really highlighted Tilly’s involvement or accomplishments
    • Taking the kids to school, helping Lexi sell a few lucky dips - no luck
    • Coming home & tackling other work
    • Recording the videos to bring me up to speed to today
    • Having a quick lunch with Bec
    • Picking the kids up from school & making $22
    • Team doing really well
    • Chat with Stuart
    • Eliza coming outside to ask if I was done with the bin
    • Playing drive throughs with the girls
    • Dinner with the kids and Sterling just wanting to be around them
    • Bath & bed time and I keep intervening at the first sign of argument 
    • Bec making the table cloth
    • Talking with Bec about how she feels like she’s still 23, and she’s had 4 kids.
      • I feel like she’s my girlfriend, and it’s wild that she has had 4 kids


    39 min
  • Learning to ride & birthday golf
    • Early morning start
    • Heading to the park and Tilly learning how to ride her bike
    • Headed home for naps
    • Caught up with my mate about the open book management meeting
    • Throwing Tilly’s little blue toy out
    • Rik’s birthday and golf
    • Home and goal setting with the kids
    • Cracking the shits and realising that it was more because I was disappointed in myself


    22 min
  • Kids spending the money they have saved

    - Walking with Lars
    - Coming home
              - Asking Lexi why she wants to buy a teddy
              - Lexi asking why
              - Bec wanting to compete with me
              - Tilly telling Bec she is perfect
              - Teaching them to be intentional about the money they spend
              - Talking about marketing
    - Lexi buying a kettle bell with her own money
    - Going to toy world and finding something for them to save toward
              - Wanting to help them set goals and achieve them, and by doing that, teach them that the future is something they can depend on
    - Lexi taking her kettle bell to bed and introducing kettle bell to her teddies
    - Bec telling me that she is proud if the father I am 
    - Genuinely loving Bec, and heading to the pub with Sterling
    - Catching up with a mate about the GGOB meeting and roll out with the team
    - Coming home for a quick nap
    - Getting ready and heading to Steves wedding
    - Catching up with Lead and Daren and chatting business & life
            - People telling us that we’re doing really well, but I’m not sure if they’re just being nice or not

    29 min
  • Opening the books to the team
    • Gymming with a headache from last night
    • Power chucking at the car
    • Home and sooooo fatigued
    • Slept in bed with Sterling
    • Started on the last parts of the workshop from Sue
    • Working on that all day
    • Bec being exhausted also
    • Picking up Lexi and talking about people not being the boss of her
      • Power of asking why
    • Team meeting
      • Too much content
      • Should have explained at the start that they will get a profit share
      • Should have explained that nobody’s job is in jeopardy
      • Took too long to get to the good stuff
      • Didn’t cover vision and values


    24 min
  • Preparing for open book presentation
    • Gymming
    • Getting the recordings sorted
    • Saying Goodbye to Eryn and Preston
    • Tucking into the workshop slides
    • Talking with Michelle & Ben at foodie coaches
    • Talking with Adam from Darwin about bonus distribution
    • Meeting with Sue from GGOB
    • Not bothering to interact with people online
    • My watch is starting to roll around on my wrist 
    • New time strategies
      • Time blocking
      • To do lists
    • Playing out the back with the card board
      • A coffee, Lolly, cup and tap shop
    • Working on family crest
    • Having the new water filter


    37 min
  • Post Perth reorganisation
    • Gymming
    • Ice bath
    • Time with Sterling
    • Noticing that I have more love to give when I love myself (that is through discipline)
    • Starting on the work
      • Not time blocking or one thing-ing 
    • Sorting the house
    • Meeting with Niro
    • Meeting with agent about new location
    • Rik’s present
    • Cards for mum and Rik & talking with Cill
    • Home to tidy up
    • Sterling just wanting to be with us & laughing heaps
    • Tidying the house
    • Organising my calendar
      • Setting new rules for how I allocate my time & focus my attention


    30 min

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