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Nicola and Judith talks about Life After Lockdown. Could we have prepared for this situation better? How can we be better prepared for something similar...

Nicola helps Thomas Power with a webinar on using Zoom for business, and she and her children are enjoying sun-downers on the roof of their building while listening to music. Judith finally gets rewarded for being a client of Ocado for twenty years with a guaranteed weekly delivery slot which sets her mind at ease, and she’s chatted to an extrovert friend via Skype. #Skype #Ocado #Lockdown #Zoom #Webinars #OnlineBusiness

Nicola studied Justin Brooke’s course called $100 a Day, and Judith received some lovely thanks from listeners, a brilliant observation from a Facebook friend, plus she’s started tapping with those in emotional overload.

1. Could we have prepared for this situation better?
2. How can we be better prepared for something similar next time?
3. What would we like life to be life afterwards?

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #270 | Life After Lockdown

Judith chooses Apocalypse and Nicola goes with Reset.

Nicola’s bought a new domain name and is creating a new website, and Judith is impressed by those alphabetising their CD collections.

Nicola and the kids enjoyed a movie called World War Z starring Brad Pitt, and Judith likes Race Across the World on BBC iPlayer.

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Nicola and Judith talks about Business Ethics During the Pandemic. Marketing in a pandemic - yeah or nay? Not charging during a pandemic - daft or good PR?

Judith has lost a close friend to cancer, and Nicola’s little family threesome is managing well, making bread (!), and settling into a new working routine, while she helps friends and colleagues with webinars and taking their businesses online. #Bereavement #Bread-making #Virus #RationalThinking #Webinars #OnlineBusiness

Nicola has noticed an uptick in affiliate income while people look for recommended tools to help them get online, and Judith keeps calm and carries on.

1. Marketing in a pandemic - yeah or nay?
2. Not charging during a pandemic - daft or good PR?

Nicola does a round-up of people she sees doing business ethically and well either for free or usefully or affordably, or all three.

Nicola mentions:

Technology Review article about not going back to normal (for 18 months)

Kenny Tutt making soda bread on YouTube

Justin Brooke on Knowledge.ly (use code NicolaCairnX when setting up account for 500 extra points)

Judith quotes Danny Iny, himself quoting an article by Dan Sullivan, Strategic Coach, from twelve years ago at the height of the 2008 financial crash, called the Scary Times Success Manual:

1. Forget about yourself, focus on others.
2. Forget about your commodity, focus on your relationships.
3. Forget about the sale, focus on creating value.
4. Forget about your losses, focus on your opportunities.
5. Forget about your difficulties, focus on your progress.
6. Forget about the “future”, focus on your today.
7. Forget about who you were, focus on who you can be.
8. Forget about events, focus on your responses.
9. Forget about what’s missing, focus on what’s available.
10. Forget about your complaints, focus on your gratitude

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #269 | Business Ethics During the Pandemic

Nicola chooses Surreal and Judith picks Crisis.

Judith would pay a king’s ransom for a cleaner, and Nicola is contemplating a website makeover, doing it herself this time around.

Nicola likes Liar 2 on ITV, and Dark on Netflix. She’s looking forward to the imminent publication of N.K. Jemisin’s latest sci fi book, The City We Became.

Judith discovers David Wilcock’s LONG videos on YouTube but finds them watchable, she tells the story of her latest hero, American colleague Mitch in Dubai, aged 60, who tests positive for the virus but is asymptomatic throughout and then gets the all clear, and finally this quote has inspired her, from Michael Austin:

"Extraordinary times, it turns out, do not always call for extraordinary measures, or even extraordinary people. They often call for ordinary measures and ordinary people finding ways to do ordinary things when everything around them seems to make ordinariness impossible."

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How are Nicola and Judith coping with the extraordinary challenges presented by the virus and what tips do they have that the listener might find useful?

Judith describes her introvert approach to staying safe, and Nicola shares a soup recipe she’s perfected during her first two weeks of self-isolation. #Self-Isolation #Lockdown #Virus #Coping

Judith’s fire is fuelled by two new testimonials for the podcast, and Nicola’s enjoyed another virtual meeting with the Write Club ladies. She’s been invited to co-present a webinar, and has a new marketing angle spurred by a spike in traffic to an article on her website.

How are Nicola and Judith coping with the extraordinary challenges presented by the virus and what tips do they have that the listener might find useful?

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #268| Coping in Extraordinary Times

Nicola chooses Optimist and Judith picks Impermanence.

Judith thinks this is an exceptional opportunity for people to take up projects they’ve been postponing, and Nicola is pleased with writing progress.

Nicola is impressed by the 250,000 volunteers to support the community around the NHS though didn’t feel compelled to become one herself, and she recommends The Kaiser Report on YouTube. Judith thanked Nicola for her recommendation of Babies on Netflix from last week’s show and describes what she loved about the short documentary series.

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Nicola and Judith explore the idea of bucket lists, what they’ve done, what they’d like to do and what they wouldn’t dream of going anywhere near...

Nicola has been reaching out to people online and off to reassure and connect, and Judith has been digital prepping by buying a map and thinking about buying some stamps. #Zoom #Lockdown #Pandemic #BucketList

Judith’s new hero, Rishi Sunak, has impressed again and Nicola is thinking about doing some daily Lives on Facebook, enthused by others who have done the same. J&N know that many will find it isolating, shut in at home.

Nicola and Judith explore the idea of bucket lists, what they’ve done, what they’d like to do and what they wouldn’t dream of going anywhere near. They are inspired by BucketListJourney.net although both found Annette’s list of over 1,000 ideas overwhelming.

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #267| Bucket Lists

Nicola chooses Innovate and Judith picks Normal.

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Nicola recommends a full range of entertainment on various TV channels to keep us interested in life and the arts while locked in at home, and Judith loves TUT, Abraham-Hicks, Joe Vitale and Brad Yates for putting out free content to help people calm themselves and tap away their fears about the virus. She recommends the Ho’oponopono Prayer on YouTube. 12 minutes to forgiveness. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I thank you. I love you.

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Nicola teaches us about our chimp (middle) brain which explains ambivalence, something she learned from attending a local wellbeing course on Intuitive Thinking Skills ...

Nicola reminds us that it is four years since Steve died, and talks about the stages of grief. Judith is fascinated by the financial and political goings-on under cover of the virus. #Ambivalence #ChimpBrain #covid-19 #Pandemic #Budget

Judith waxes lyrical about Rishi Sunak, the UK’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer and his first budget within three weeks of landing the new job at 11 Downing Street. And Nicola catches us up with the stats on her own recent 7-Day Challenge for Be Everywhere Online, specifically the great results enjoyed by one of her participants, a VA.

Nicola teaches us about our chimp (middle) brain which explains ambivalence, something she learned from attending a local wellbeing course on Intuitive Thinking Skills and she tells us we can ask ourselves “to change or not to change, that is the question.”  (Episode photo courtesy of ColinsCreatures.com - check him out!)

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #266 | Ambivalence

Nicola chooses Pandemic and Judith picks Community-Minded.

Nicola has won a bursary for one of her writing courses – hooray!

Nicola recommends Liar season 2 and Judith’s hero of the week is the Loo Roll guy at his factory in Salford where he makes more than enough toilet rolls to meet our needs if we will just be community-minded and give him half a second to fill up the shelves again. He has a robust supply chain.

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Elephant shared a wonderful meme on Facebook which Judith shared onward. It was only when one of her clients took issue with one of the ten that she realised that none of them are painful and not all of them are true.

Nicola wins at poker and Judith tells a story about being more demanding. #poker #Elephant #TenPainfulTruths #BeEverywhereOnline #AirBnB

Judith realizes she has surrounded herself with manifesting magicians, and Nicola is pleased with her current Be Everywhere Online 7 Day Challenge.

Elephant shared a wonderful meme on Facebook which Judith shared onward. It was only when one of her clients took issue with one of the ten that she realised that none of them are painful and not all of them are true but they offered ten topics Nicola and she might enjoy discussing.

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #265 | Ten Painful Truths

Nicola chooses Waiting and Judith picks Manifestation.

Nicola updates Judith and the listeners on progress with her three screenwriting applications, one down two to go.

Nicola recommends Stephen King’s The Outsider, and Judith is enjoying the music on Ally McBeal on Amazon Prime, but not Ally herself.

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Excluding your work, and your role as spouse/partner/parent, what’s your greatest achievement to date in your life and how did you successfully make that happen?

Nicola has a coronavirus survival plan and is laying in emergency supplies in case she and her family are quarantined. She’s been out playing poker with Pete. Judith’s excited by progress on her new brain training app called Elevate. #achievement #greatestachievement #covid-19 #braintraining.

Judith shares an uplifting testimonial from a podcast listener, and Nicola has completed the Helen Pritchard LinkedIn challenge and is pleased with the results.

Excluding your work, and your role as spouse/partner/parent, what’s your greatest achievement to date in your life and how did you successfully make that happen? Nicola and Judith debate a few things they are proud of and Nicola works out her greatest achievement live on air. We’d love to hear yours in the Own It! Facebook Group, do share.

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #264 | My Greatest Achievement

Nicola chooses Prepper and Judith picks Upliftment.

Nothing from either J or N this week.

Nicola is excited by the prospect of I Am Not Ok with This on Netflix, and Judith is enjoying her latest 432 Hz music which has abundance affirmations built in.

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Why do people feel it’s OK to behave so badly towards others online, and what to do about it if and when it happens to you.

Nicola has enjoyed an active social life this week at the encouragement of her daughter, Phoebe. And Judith surprised herself by watching and enjoying The Brits 2020, celebrating their 40th year.

Judith shares an uplifting testimonial from a client, and Nicola has applied for a bursary for the Curtis Brown screenwriting course.

Why do people feel it’s OK to behave so badly towards others online, and what to do about it if and when it happens to you.

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #263 | Trolling: The Dark Side of Social Media

Nicola chooses Re-Boot and Judith picks Surveillance.

Own It! download numbers are now over 136,000 and N has re-written her Be Everywhere Online sales page.

Nicola enjoys podcast Sam and Jim Go to Hollywood, and Judith was impressed by a BBC documentary by David Baddiel about Holocaust denial.

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We know all too well what money can’t buy, happiness, love etc., but what CAN it buy if we stretch our expectations and strip away limitations and prejudices?

Nicola is concerned about the coronavirus and about which versions of the truth you can believe in the press and social media, Judith joins in too and conspiracy theories are mooted! Judith is exploring music on Youtube and Spotify at 432Hz, a healing vibe.

Judith has rediscovered Sandy Forster’s Wildly Wealthy Fast affirmations and Nicola is excited about a revamped version of the Thrive theme in March so she can update her Clicks & Leads website.

We know all too well what money can’t buy, happiness, love etc., but what CAN it buy if we stretch our expectations and strip away limitations and prejudices?

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #262 | What CAN Money Buy?

Nicola chooses Wash and Judith picks Profligate.

Own It! download numbers are now over 135,000 and N is keeping up her daily LinkedIn videos.

Nicola enjoyed Liar Season 1 in preparation for Season 2 and Judith is happy to have read something encouraging by Lorna Bevan of Hare in the Moon Astrology.

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Nicola and Judith discuss the Karpman Drama Triangle, what is it, which role do you take up and how can you step outside of the drama in your business and your life?

Nicola updates us on what she’s learned this week about willpower, and also about adapting Michael Marshall Smith’s short stories into screenplays. Judith’s moved house again, back to where she was last autumn and she’s enjoying the underfloor heating and the phone signal.

Judith’s enjoying a reading week – a client’s first crime novel, plus Pam Grout’s commentary on A Course in Miracles. Nicola’s discovered more about Helen Pritchard’s LinkedIn training and joined her waiting list FB group, and been inspired by a couple of her ideas for her next BEO challenge plus one from another coach who offers unlimited laser coaching sessions.

Nicola and Judith discuss the Karpman Drama Triangle, what is it, which role do you take up and how can you step outside of the drama in your business and your life? Here are two articles which explain it.

Linda Graham

Rachel Turner

You might also enjoy KarpmanDramaTriangle.com

LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #261 | Victim, Rescuer or Persecutor?

Nicola chooses Distraction (Nir Eyal, blamers, shamers and claimers) and Judith picks Fixer (avoid rescuing at all costs).

Nicola explains why she fell at the Daily Blogging Challenge hurdle on Day 4 but is still highly motivated by her LinkedIn work with snippets from Own It!

Nicola is really pleased with her Tesla shares performance in her new SIPP and Judith loves her latest Abraham find – General Well-Being 2.0

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