True To You

In this episode, Ruby explores what happens to our identity when we make a career change. She reflects on her personal experience with career change, going from having a notable job title and then the feelings of loss and uncertainty as she transitioned into her exciting new world and eventually becoming a life coach a few years later.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ep. 4 - The Story I was Telling Myself: my personal account of growing up and finding my place in the world, belonging and challenging those stories we hold on to

Elena Brower Practice You Journal

Can you believe we are two days out from the end of a decade. Holy crap balls it’s crazy and exciting isn’t it?

Given this momentous occasion and my love of reflection recently, I thought I’d share with you the exact end of year process I did this year.

Typically, I do my end of year review and goal setting on or around New Years Day, but this year, I decided to start this process a little earlier on my birthday. I really recommend doing this if you can squeeze it in before Dec 31st rolls around, as it gives plenty of time for your vision and goals to marinate before you lock them in.

This year we're shaking it up and trying something different. The thought of a new decade on the way has me ready to reinvigorate my trusty old ways.   

I've created a three part process which takes you from reflection to zone of genius to your goals. It takes around an hour or so to complete for one area of your life (in this case, I looked at my career and business), however, you may like to do the same for other areas of your life like health & wellbeing and relationships.

Just to get one thing straight - This is by no means the ONLY way to set goals, but I wanted to share it because it’s been hugely liberating and fun.

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The four lessons you'll learn in this episode relate to:

https://www.rubymarsh.com

Take daily action towards your dream by doing this 5min exercise - Pages of Possibility journal exercise by clicking HERE: https://bit.ly/2RI0z4d

Other references:

Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast Ep.100 with Elli Worthington

Your unique value is much deeper than the features of your service or product.

Most of us can articulate the “what” and the “how” pretty easily. But “why” you are more valuable than the woman next to you is a whole other ball game.

Personal brand is something we all have, and another way of bringing together all the elements that make us memorable and the unique value we bring to our work.

So the real question is: not whether you have a personal brand, instead does your personal brand show your company, your future boss or clients what you’d like them to see and hear? what will set you apart if you’re one of many women talking about the same stuff?

Once you know your personal brand, the second thing you need to learn to do is express it!

https://www.rubymarsh.com

Take daily action towards your dream by doing this 5min exercise - Pages of Possibility journal exercise by clicking HERE: https://bit.ly/2RI0z4d

Also mentioned in this podcast is the book Dare to Lead by Brene Brown, Bernadette Jiwa (storytelling) and Guru Jagat

My guest today is Phoebe Simmonds - founder of The Blow - Melbourne’s premium blow dry bar experience.

What you’ll love about this episode is Phoebe’s straight up audacity to build a business that embodies her values, a clear mission, deep knowledge of their customer and the contribution they want to make. Beyond the service itself is an underlying desire to empower women to feel like they can walk out of the salon and conquer the world.

The Blow extends this value of contribution and community through partnering with Australian charity “share the dignity” and by hosting live events in house collaborating with Lady Brains, Yes Queen, Moxie Period Products and Bumble Australia to name a few.

As you listen to Phoebe’s story, you’ll notice that every step of her career has led her to where she is today, building important relationships, her ability to be an indispensable employee (if you haven’t read Linchpin go do it now) and learning to play to her strengths and own her weaknesses.

This is a brilliant, brilliant episode for anyone on the cusp of launching their business or any woman looking to level up professionally - Phoebe has the goods!

https://theblow.com.au/

https://www.instagram.com/theblowaustralia/

https://www.instagram.com/phoebeactually

Also mentioned in this episode:

https://www.instagram.com/the.yesqueen

Emm Page is a Newcastle-based financial planner who is on a mission to educate women to make powerful choices around money. She is particularly focussed on helping millennial women, single parents, divorcees & BOSS ladies alike!

In this conversation, we talk about Emm's career journey, the conversations we have as women about money, her favourite habits to empower yourself when it comes to money and how to set yourself up financially for a career switch.

https://www.instagram.com/lumaire_

Disclaimer:

Emma Page is a certified Financial Adviser with Sufficient Funds. Emma holds an individual authorised representative license with Synchron AFSL 243313. Any statements made within this video are not attributed to Sufficient Funds or Synchron. Before considering anything mentioned in this video or audio, we encourage you to seek professional advice from a qualified professional.

Education is power when it comes to money for anyone, but when you start a small business, it can be a bit of a love hate relationship. To feel the love a little more, I thought we'd get into the basics of numbers and bring on a woman who wants to help you.

Today's guest is Amber Snowden of Zest Bookkeeping solutions, a local Newcastle solopreneur. We dive into her business journey, going from hairdressing to numbers and a recent stint she did in Bali with her family. We also get super practical and how to overcome the initial resistance we might feel when it comes to our finances. It's a great episode for anyone who has a business now, a side hustler or even someone contemplating turning a hobby into a legit business.

Learn more about Amber's business at https://zestbooks.com.au/about

Today’s episode was inspired by the work of Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School and Seth Godin and forms part one of a three part in a series around the topic of money.

Following on from this one, I’m excited to bring you two conversations with two fantastic local Newcastle women - Amber and Emm and we are going to explore finances for small business and making powerful decisions about money to support our careers.

But first, I’m going back to basics. In today’s episode, we're not talking about “where do babies come from?” instead “where does money come from?”

It’s fair to say that in my adult years, money and I weren’t always best of friends.

In fact, making a career change, actually prompted (or forced me rather) to do a crapload of work on rewiring my brain to create a positive relationship with money.

A short riff, on why creating change in your career can be scary as hell and another way to think about change in your career from a place of possibility.

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Today’s episode is actually a throwback to a punchy 15min video I recorded for my youtube channel last year on overwhelm and how to break through it 6 simple steps (I say 5 in the video but you actually get a bonus one).

This episode is sponsored by my FREE favourite journaling practice: Pages of Possibility which you can download HERE.