Let's Discuss Podcast

This week we're absolutely thrilled to welcome Kristina Karlsson, founder of kikki.K, one of our all-time favourite brands, to the podcast.

Kristina founded kikki.K after noticing a gap in the market for beautifully designed stationery, and is truly one of the most inspirational people we know; both in her capacity as an entrepreneur, and for her outlook on life in general.

Wellbeing, learning, creativity and gratitude are the cornerstones of Kristina's approach to life, and we cannot wait for you to soak up her advice.

With the new year on the horizon, this is the perfect time to reflect on all that has happened thus far and look ahead to the future.

We hope that you will love getting to know Kristina, her invaluable words of wisdom and take away some hints and tips for approaching the festive season with gratitude.

A quick audio note: as we were recording in a bustling restaurant you may hear some background noise. We hope you'll enjoy the buzz of the room (and that it's not too distracting!).

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Thank you to our wonderful sponsors this season: House of Fraser and Birchbox.

House of Fraser's Black Friday details: Monday November 20th - Monday November 27th

Many of the items will be going down to 50% off and more!

Birchbox's Black Friday details: 20% off subscriptions for any length of subscription.

Wednesday November 22nd through the Black Friday weekend.

PLUS deals on your favourite Birchbox products from the Birchbox shop.

Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Discover Kristina's amazing business:

kikki.K

Kristina's 3 words for 2018: Less. Is. More.

Kristina's Instagram account - @KristinakikkiK

kikki.K's Instagram account - @kikkiK

kikki.K products we mention:

3am Journal

Dream Book

Enjoy Book

Do Book

Share Book

B5 Daily Notes Pad: Time Is Now (3 things per day)

Kristina's Book recommendations:

The E Myth

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This week we are overjoyed to be joined by one of our ultimate girl crushes, Anna Newton, founder of The Anna Edit blog and YouTube channel.

Anna has long been one of our go-to content creators for ALL things beauty, fashion, wellbeing and mindful living and we are so excited to share Anna's take on the festive season with you.

From how to navigate party dressing as a capsule wardrobe fan, to why you need to revisit glittery makeup and a deep dive into affections for Ryan Gosling . . .

This is a SUPER fun episode, and we hope that you'll love virtually hanging out with us as much as we did IRL.

This episode is perfect for beauty lovers and anyone curious about developing content for a blog, social media or YouTube. You'll also get to listen in on some sleepover-esque girl talk which has us genuinely crying with laughter.

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Thank you to our wonderful sponsors this season: House of Fraser and Birchbox.

Click here for all of the details for Birchbox's pop up shop, and be sure to quote: "Let's Discuss" in store to receive a free gift in store!

Have a peek at the velvet Biba dress, available at House of Fraser.

Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Discover Anna's gorgeous outlets:

Anna's blog - The Anna Edit

Anna's Youtube channel - The Anna Edit

Anna's Instagram account - @TheAnnaEdit

Anna and Lily's podcast - At Home With

Anna's beauty crushes: Lisa Eldridge, Raw Beauty Kristi and Rachel Bilson

Anna's holiday makeup picks:

Tom Ford Eyeliner Pen

NARS Velvet Matt Lip Pencil in Cruella

Urban Decay Glitter Eyeliner

Anna's skincare favourites:

Glossier Priming Moisturiser

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Welcome back to a brand new season of Let's Discuss!

This season we are talking ALL things festive - from gifting, to wellbeing, party dressing and so much more. This season we have the absolute pleasure of being joined by a host of very special guests. Each one is as inspiring as the other, and we can't wait for you to get to know them all!

We are kick starting Season 3 with none other than Holly Tucker MBE, co-founder of Not On The High Street, and the incredible Holly & Co.

Holly is one of the most pioneering businesswomen in the world today, and we are over the moon to have been able to sit down with her (at the table she dreamt up Not On The High Street on - no less!) to discuss her career journey, thoughtful gifting and why it's important for us to reassess the vocabulary we use in life and in business.

This is a truly inspiring interview, and we hope that it will help you to get into the swing of the festive season, your career ambitions and those all important holiday gifts!

A quick audio note: as we were recording at the lovely Holly & Co you may hear some background noise. We hope you'll enjoy the buzz of the cafe (and that it's not too distracting!).

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Thank you to our wonderful sponsors this season: House of Fraser and Birchbox.

Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Discover Holly's amazing businesses:

Holly & Co

Not On The High Street

Personalised Christmas sack from Not On The High Street

Holly's 3 words for 2018: Community, Collaboration, Courage

The Weekly 5 - Our 5 Favourite Christmas Songs

Click Here to listen to the Let's Discuss Christmas Playlist!

Holly's Christmas Songs

Last Christmas by Wham

Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid, 1984 version

Real Love by Tom Odell

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Frank Sinatra

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues (featuring Kirsty MacColl)

Ella's Christmas Songs

Santa Clause Is Back In Town by Elvis Presley

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by She and Him

Sleigh Ride by The Ronettes

Baby It's Cold Outside by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Michael Bublé

Monica's Christmas Songs

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Michael Bublé

Frosty The Snowman by The Jackson 5

Let It Snow by She and Him

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Kylie Minogue (featuring Frank Sinatra)

Jingle Bells by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

We can't quite believe that another season of Let's Discuss has flown by - we have had such a great season sharing with you!

In our last episode of Season 2 we've opened up the floor to your questions! And as always they were on point! We are answering questions ranging from what we're looking forward to in our 30s to our top blogging tips and so much more. As with our Season 1 Q&A your questions really prompted us to think about certain topics, and open up about matters close to our hearts.

We hope that you'll enjoy our new Q&A!

Thank you so much for all of your support for Let's Discuss, we are so grateful to have you listening and sharing your journey with us!

Until next season!

Love, Ella & Monica x

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Episode 8. our Season 1 Q&A

Blogging Tips

Ella's e-book

Chloé Digital Blog

Episode 14. with Chloé Watts

Amanda Start's Blogging Series

Amanda Holstein's Blogging Series

Elle & Co

The Green Eyed Girl blog - by Claire Wainwright

Episode 2. on Productivity & Procrastination

SC Stock Shop

The brand Monica would love to have started: Aerin

Monica's 5 Podcasts

Goal Digger by Jenna Kutcher

Happier by Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft

Happier in Hollywood by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

Pardon My French by Garance Doré

Serial by This American Life

Ella's 5 Podcasts

How I Built This by Guy Raz

Happier by Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft

The High Low by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes

Modern Love by the New York... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

What's your living situation right now? Home in your 20s can mean an array of things. Perhaps you're living with your parents, your partner, with flat-mates or maybe alone?

We are opening up about our current living situations and advice for making them as stress-free and lovely as they can be. We are also sharing our individual struggles getting on to the property ladder, and our top lessons learnt through the process.

Pinterest comes into play as we discuss our dream homes and what they'd look like.

This was a super fun episode to put together, and we hope that you'll love it too!

If you enjoy the show, please leave a review in the podcasting app. Your reviews help others to discover the show, and we love to hear how you're enjoying the episodes!

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Ella's Pinterest account - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's Pinterest account - Monica Beatrice W

Our Favourite Interior Stores

Anthropologie

Lulu & Georgia

West Elm

Serena & Lily

Some of Monica's Favourite Interiors Blogs

A House In The Hills

Sarah Sherman Samuel

Emily Henderson

Ella's 5 Favourite Feel-Good Songs

All Night Long by Lionel Richie

Le Freak by Chic

Love Shack by The B-52's

Don't Hurt Yourself by Beyoncé

My Church by Maren Morris

Monica's 5 Favourite Feel-Good Songs

Fever To The Form by Nick Mulvey

Riptide by Vance Joy

Breezeblocks by Alt J

Counting Stars by One Republic

Sunday Morning by Maroon 5

Ever wondered what it would be like to work at one of the world's leading beauty companies? We sat down with Birchbox's very own Penny Foster to discuss her role as senior social media executive in the UK.

Since our debut episode of Let's Discuss in which we kick started things talking about social media and comparison, we've been eager to dive right back into the subject which plays such a big part in our lives professionally and personally.

Penny shares what it's like managing multiple platforms for Birchbox UK, how Birchbox approach their customer, strategise their content and make sure they're having fun (that's both the customer and the team!) 24/7.

We also look at the etiquette of social media interactions, both as a business and on a personal level.

Should you follow/unfollow the guy you're dating?!

Penny also shares her advice for others looking to get a foot in the social media industry.

We hope you'll enjoy the show!

A huge thank you to Penny for sharing her pearls of social media wisdom with us, and to Push PR for once again opening up their beautiful offices for us to record in.

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Here's your exclusive Birchbox discount code! Sign up using code DISCUSS to receive a FREE Ciaté Fierce Flicks Eyeliner with subscription.

Offer open to UK subscribers only until September 30th 2017.

Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Penny's Weekly Five Instagram accounts:

@WeAreTwinset

@CosmopolitanUK

@Kristen_Ess and her website - The Beauty Department

@Glossier

@LoveIsland

@JessieMay_BohemianBond

Ella's Weekly Five Instagram accounts:

@SaraMueller

@SohoHouse

@PaulienRiemis

@LeandraMCohen

@EmilySchuman

Monica's Weekly Five Instagram accounts:

@_HarloweJames

@LucyCuneo

@JuliaHengel

@TheLifestyleEdit

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It's an unfortunate fact of life that we will all experience heartbreak. Be it a romantic break up, a big disappointment or the biggest heartbreak of all - grief.

Knowing how to navigate these heartbreaks personally, and how to support others who are going through them, is a great skill to learn as you go through life.

We look closely as the various 'heartbreak tiers', share our own experiences of heartbreak and advice on how to help yourself and others.

It's an emotional episode, and one we hope will help you to navigate some difficult points in life.

As light relief from the heartbreak chat we open up about our celebrity crushes in our Weekly Five - including our embarrassing ones!

We hope you'll enjoy the show! As always you can get in touch with us using the links below.

A huge thank you again to Push PR for welcoming us into their offices to record. We loved 'playing real office' with you!

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

How to help a friend through a break up on Ella's blog

What to say to a grieving friend on A Cup of Jo

How to write a condolence note on A Cup of Jo

Rising Strong by Brené Brown - Ella's top heartbreak book recommendation

Ask A Straight Guy - Ella's dating advice column

Emily McDowell Studio - thoughtful greeting cards for friends and loved ones going through a hard time

Happier podcast - one of our favourite podcasts!

Do you feel like fear holds you back? In our first ever interview on Let's Discuss we welcome Chloé Watts, founder of Chloé Digital to share her career journey so far (spoiler: it's crazy inspiring!) and advice for fellow girl bosses following their dreams.

Chloé started her business, which delivers digital support to online publishers the world over, just four years ago. Now, with a team of twenty(!), plans for a swanky new office in central London(!!) and over three hundred clients internationally(!!!) Chloé delves into what her journey has looked like so far and shares how you too can learn to "feel the fear and do it anyway".

There are SO many great takeaways from this episode, charge your coffee cup and have your notepad ready . . . !

Chloé opens up about what it's like to develop a team, why it's important to go into 'sponge mode' and why it's vital to write every idea and lesson down. Amongst so much more!

For our fellow publishers, Chloé also shares her predictions for the future of the blogging industry.

This episode is perfect for anyone looking to add a big jolt of inspiration to their journey.

Chloé's approach to life and business is so down to earth, and her positive attitude is testament to the fact that it's possible to pursue BIG dreams (and experience great success) whilst having fun, seeing the silver lining in everything and remaining overwhelmingly optimistic.

Be sure to listen right to the end of the episode when Chloé shares her ultimate advice for pursuing your dreams, and we all share our answers to this episode's Weekly Five.

A huge thank you again to Push PR for welcoming us to record! Your office is our dream space!

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Chloé's business - Chloé Digital & the Chloé Digital blog

Chloé Digital's Instagram account - @ChloéDigital

Chloé's Teen Vogue profile

Vicki Archer - amongst Chloé's first clients!

The Lifestyle Edit - one of our favourite websites

Luna Legend - the cutest baby ever!

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Have you heard of the four tendencies framework? Author Gretchen Rubin has created a personality type framework, which helps you to understand how you react to inner and outer expectations.

Learning which personality type you are can be hugely beneficial, as it can help you to create strategies for fulfilling your personal goals. As well as helping you to complete tasks which other people require of you.

As differing tendencies, we discuss what it's like to be an 'upholder' and a 'questioner', and the tactics we use to maximise our tendencies and take on their challenges.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in habit-forming, and learning more about themselves so that they can complete their work more efficiently, as well as stick to personal habits they'd like to more easily.

We also discuss strategies for working with people, or being in a relationship with someone, of a different tendency. They all have their quirks and it's super interesting to figure out which one you are, as well as which tendency the people around you are!

Perfectionism also comes up as we dissect how different tendencies approach the 'perfect' outcome.

Be sure to click through on the quiz in our show notes to find out your own tendency!

We hope you'll enjoy the episode!

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz

Pre-order The Four Tendencies book by Gretchen Rubin!

How do you approach your finances? Do you think you're an over-spender, under-buyer or find yourself in a financial no man's land each month?

We're opening up about the financial structures we use to help us to stay on track with our spending and saving. We also discuss what it's like to navigate your finances when you work as a blogger, freelancer or creative.

Our non-negotiables come under the microscope as we reveal the expenses we can never say no to. And we share our top money-saving tips for when you're working to a budget, or aiming to save up for your next big expense.

As some light relief from the financial chatter, we're sharing our five favourite TV shows in this week's Weekly Five!

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Ella's blog - Coco's Tea Party

Monica's blog - The Elgin Avenue

Ella's Instagram account - @CocosTeaParty

Monica's Instagram account - @MonicaBeatrice

I Have Four Bank Accounts And Here's Why on The Everygirl

5 Steps To Creating A Budget That Works For You on The Everygirl

Cone Accounting - Monica's account, they're awesome for bloggers, creatives and freelancers!

Flower inspiration for people who love flowers in the home too!

Season 1 Q&A

Ella's Favourite TV Shows:

The Handmaid's Tale

Gilmore Girls

New Girl

Friday Night Lights

The Bachelorette

Monica's Favourite TV Shows:

Love

House Of Cards

The Office - US version and my favourite prank: When Jim and Pam trick Dwight.

Hunted US

Friday Night Lights