Laurent Collective Podcast

Parenting teenagers is difficult, but it’s also filled with so much joy. Trying to understand their emotions and reactions is hard, but if you can find ways to communicate openly, you can get through it. 

The teen years open up so much opportunity to discuss and learn about new things together. It’s not all hard, there is so much fun with raising teens too. 

Social media is hard to keep up with and it often doesn’t help you see the results you want in your business. Is your social media bringing money to your business? 

We’ve been considering quitting social media for our business and focusing on the areas that drive traffic and money to our business. We chat about the thoughts we’re in right now with the decision and how our time might be better used elsewhere.

Staycations are a great way to stay on a budget and spend down time together as a family. They tend to get a bad rap since you’re “staying home” instead of heading someplace else for holiday, but we have found to love them.

We share some of our tips on making a staycation relaxing and true time off from work and the daily grind.

Do you feel like you’re trying everything in your business and you’re all over the place with no focus? It’s easy to end a day or a week and realize you’ve just completed tasks, and you don’t feel fulfilled by any of it. 

Finding a focus in your business is so important. It directs you and gives you a roadmap to figure out each next step. We chat about the idea of this focus and how it can help you in your business.

Do you know your focus in your business? 

We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective. 

EPISODE LINKS: 

Roadmap to step out of business overwhelm - https://laurentcollectivelearning.com/step-out-of-business-overwhelm/

Slow evenings, reading a book, knitting, sitting with candles burning, relaxing…how does that sound to you? There’s something about the idea of slowness that draws us in, that leaves us craving it. Yet we often choose the opposite, giving into filling our schedules to the brim. 

In this episode we talk about how we’ve been embracing the slowness and settling into it. 

How are you embracing slow and open spaces right now? 

We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective. 

EPISODE LINKS: 

Judy Brown poem “Fire” - www.judysorumbrown.com/blog/breathing-space

It can be super challenging to figure out how to share all the tasks within a household. Everything from cleaning to managing kids’ activities takes someone coordinating and taking the responsibility. 

This has been a real challenge in our marriage through the years. We recently found a resource to help us talk through the household tasks and find a positive way forward. We share this resource and how it has worked for us. 

How do you share household tasks in your home? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective. 

LINKS: 

Fair Play Book & Cards - https://www.fairplaylife.com/

Are you preparing to end a part of your business or shut down your business completely? We experienced this with shutting down our photography business. 

Closing your business, or a portion of it, can be challenging as you have so many emotions involved in the process. We share some tips and learnings from the difficult time in closing our photography business. 

We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

Our son, Zane, composed a LOFI music album called Multiversal Calm. We interview him to ask about the creation of the album.

Zane talks about the time he used to create the album and how the creativity came about for it. 

We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective. 

LINKS:

Multiversal Calm Album - https://open.spotify.com/album/50QcB6Srw773MqbsAjutFx?si=-54_nItjSf6pAAFvlONBXA

We have been together for 24 years and married for almost 20 years. We have varying stories of how we met and how we began to date. 

Each of us share our versions of how we met and laugh a lot at the differences in our stories. 

How did you meet your partner? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.

Living in a small space has its challenges but we have found a small space also creates a lot of joy. 

A small space has helped our family keep an eye on the amount of stuff that enters our home, makes it easier to keep clean and helps us have family time. Even though we live in a small space, it doesn’t prevent us from hosting in our home. 

What do you love about the space you live in? We’d love to hear from you! Come share with us on our latest IG post or send us a DM (we read all the comments and messages) @laurentcollective.