Laurent Collective Podcast

Social media was taking up a lot of our business time and we weren't seeing business growth as a result of our time commitment.

So what are we focusing on instead of social media? We chat about the focus areas that are showing growth in our business. Some of those areas are longer term growth strategies but will help our business grow past the vanity metrics of social media.

We give you some ideas of focus areas and how we're still engaging with social media but in a less time consuming way.

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Resting is essential for our minds, our bodies and the growth of our businesses. So why do we feel guilty when we rest? Why can't we just enjoy the rest and the refreshment we feel afterwards?

We talk about having a recent restful weekend and how the thoughts of guilt kept creeping in. We felt guilty for not doing more work or having plans. We felt guilty that we watched movies with our kids instead of doing more activities. 

Rest is needed and we have to step past that guilty feeling into knowing that we must rest for all the other areas of our lives to function well. 

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The month of October is a popular time for prompts of all kinds on social media. The prompts range from organizing your house to creative ideas for drawing each day.

These prompts can be a great way to expand your creativity (or organize your house) but you'll want to figure out what your purpose is for participating. You don't want to feel too much pressure in participating but instead have it be beneficial.

We chat about the types of challenges we've participated in and how it's been helpful to have the right approach to the month of prompts.

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Celebrating the simple things in life with your kids is not only fun, but it creates family memories. You don't have to spend lots of money or go crazy for each marker moment, but simple celebrations can make a big impression.

In this episode we talk about the ways we celebrate simple moments with our kids and also some ways we've celebrated the bigger moments.

You have probably seen all kinds of information and advertising about how to make money while you sleep. But is it true, can you really make money while you sleep?

We talk about our definition of passive income versus what you may have been taught about it. Passive income can help you change your business and how you use your time, but it takes upfront work.

Is passive income right for your business?

We both grew up in the states and experienced prom, the idea of a community cheering for high school sports and our senior year with graduation, open house and senior portraits. Our kids aren't growing up with these as the normal experience now and it's kind of strange for us.

We talk about this in the podcast and how things that are part of the American culture of high school aren't parts of secondary school here in the UK. We don't think it's good or bad, but it's interesting to observe when you're in a different culture.

Trying new things in your business is scary. You have ideas and you want them to be successful, so putting those ideas into action can cause a lot of fear.

We talk about how we've tried new things in our business throughout the years and how we've learned from when it's gone well and when it's not gone as we hoped.

It's worth stepping past the fear to try new things in your business because you'll learn so much.

Mentioned in Episode:

Printful - https://www.printful.com/a/2651818:6f5d9fc38ca39ee7637fd4ba16acec9e

Free Business Resources - https://laurentcollectivelearning.com/freebusinesstools/

London is a family friendly city to visit as there's so much to do for both kids and adults to enjoy. A bonus is that a majority of the museums are free!

We bring our kids along for this episode to share the five things we love to do in London and a couple of tips that make the experiences fun for the whole family.

For fifteen years we've been reading books to our kids and we've compiled our top five books in this episode. All five books are ones not only our kids have loved, but we've also loved as adults.

Whether the book has a message we think is important, the illustrations are beautiful or the story will make you laugh, we think you should have these five books in your house to read together.

Episode Mentioned: How to Foster Reading with Your Kids

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-foster-reading-with-your-kids/id1561946041?i=1000534674420

Book Links: https://laurentcollectivelearning.com/childrensbookswelove/

In this episode of our five things summer series, we share the five ways we run our family. It's not perfect but doing these five things helps our family run a bit more smoothly.

We share about our weekly family meeting, our weekly marriage check in, meal planning, keeping a dry erase board with our schedule and a chart for the kids' family tasks.

Episodes Mentioned:

How We Get The Kids to Help Around The House - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-we-get-the-kids-to-help-around-the-house/id1561946041?i=1000549034898

Working Together as a Couple/Marriage Check In - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/working-together-as-a-couple/id1561946041?i=1000521430991