Whistle While You Work

Leah is a 22 year old property investor who has built a development and interiors brand called LCM Home and manages a growing portfolio of conversion projects and investment properties.

Even before gaining her business degree, Leah knew she wanted to get into property, create an entrepreneur lifestyle and become her own boss.

She now has a Youtube channel with several thousand followers, where she shares her property knowledge and motivates other young people to follow their passion.

Being a creative, Leah always wanted to work in a way that was more suited to her natural preferences, doing work that she would enjoy, which would bring out the best of her talents.

You can find Leah at:
Instagram: Leah_Miller and _LCMhome
Youtube: LeahMiller

2There's that great saying 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'.

We set a raft of ambitious goals that we really want to achieve, but then before you know it, we're getting in our own way. Or worse, we're allowing other people to get in our way.

Why do we sabotage ourselves? What are the inner voices we listen to and how can we keep calm and carry on regardless?

In this episode, we talk about how to spot when you're self-sabotaging and how to deal with friends nd family that ae not as supportive as we might need.

An inspiring and fascinating interview with Lauren Miller who is a freelance costume designer in film and TV. Recent credits include Sky One's Bulletproof (starring Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters), Honour for ITV (starring Keely Hawes) and Sky Kids' The Athena, starring Ella Balinska which was nominated for a BAFTA. You can see Lauren's showreel here https://www.stylingbylauren.com/

Finding your passion was once something we all strived for.

Then it all seemed a bit 'too' difficult and finding your passion went right out of fashion. It started to be seen as a luxury, something you'd be lucky to get but highly unlikely to bring in enough money to pay the bills.

Lauren always knew she wanted to work in fashion. From making clothes with her Barbie dolls out of tights(!) and shoes out of blu-tack she was destined for a design job.

Lauren had, what some would consider, to be amazing jobs on the way, such as PR and buying for major high street fashion retailers. Yet, she knew these weren't her passion.

She persevered until she landed costume design opportunities in low budget short films, working her way up to film sets featuring major Hollywood A-listers.

Now as a full time, self-employed costume designer she is doing exactly what she loves, working on film sets around the world. Lauren talks through her journey and how she realised it was exactly what she wanted to do.

There are so many quotes about change, some of them more helpful than others.

• Change is the only constant
• Change is inevitable
• Change or Die

That last one's a bit extreme, we think.

There are times in our life when we get itchy feet. We feel like something needs to change but maybe we're not sure. We don't want to flit our way through our lives but at the same time we feel as though something is not quite right.

And then there are times when we know we need to make some nigh changes. Perhaps we are desperate to make a career shift, move countries, or leave a destructive relationship.

In this week's episode we talk about how to know when it's time to make a change.

When we start a New Year we feel as though we can turn over a new leaf, conquer any challenge and become the most unstoppable version of ourselves. There literally ain't no mountain high enough.

We go all guns blazing and then somewhere between week one and week two we start to flag. Instead of going for a run every day, we start to go every other day. Instead of meditating every morning, we decide we'll do it in the evenings, but then we excuse ourselves because we've had a few late nights out. And our #veganuary #dryjanuary health plans go out of the window when someone inconveniently has a birthday celebration in January at an all-you-can-eat steak house.

So how do you keep the momentum going? In this episode we talk about breaking down the grand plans from the vision board and the different methods we use to make them more manageable. We also talk about the importance of balance and not overloading oneself so that the goals simply aren't achievable.

 Please remember we are not qualified or regulated financial advisors and none of the information should be taken as advice or recommendation.

No matter how much or how little we make, most people don't like talking about money. This is more pronounced in certain cultures than others.

In the UK it's sometimes even seen as impolite or vulgar to talk about money or ask people what they earn. So how do we ever get a grip of our finances if we can't talk about our challenges? Add to that the fact that money issues are one of the biggest causes of relationship breakdown.

In this episode, we talk about why people find it difficult to talk about money and some of the tools and techniques that have helped us get over our money hangups.

We also talk about the money management system called the six jars. You can find out more about that here.

As we approach another holiday, how do we find balance in our health habits to enjoy the season, be sociable and still be measured in our eating and drinking, so that we don't feel the need to then starve or deprive ourselves?

In the Western World, many of us eat more than we physically need to over Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays. Why is it ok to binge on chocolate and cheese at 8am in the morning for the best part of December? And then we often set New Year's resolutions to go on faddy diets, restrict certain food groups or start new exercise regimes.

In this episode, Emma and Sheryl share some of the healthy habits they have been 'trying on' over 2019 and discuss ways that we can go into 2020 without the self-flagellation that usually comes from setting unrealistic and extreme health goals.

We also talk about alcohol and drinking and whether it will become as socially unacceptable as smoking. Perhaps unlikely in our lifetime but not an impossible reality. The adverse effects of alcohol are still under-estimated in a society where anxiety and depression are on the increase, even though alcohol is a depressant (amongst other things). Mornings of regret following office parties is also another reason to cut back on the drink.

We can foster healthier habits by changing our relationship with food and drink just by being more mindful and introducing new, healthy choices. This all goes into the mix of getting us better equipped for our life's work, ready to be our better selves in the New Year.

It's that time of year! End of year performance appraisals, personal development plans. Objective setting, goal setting and if you're lucky, a bonus conversation.

How do you make sure that the end of year review serves your needs to get you closer to your big dreams?

And what if you're a freelancer, contractor or Interim, with no-one to force you to do an annual appraisal? How do you celebrate your successes and set yourself some goals to challenge and grow yourself next year?

In this episode we talk vision boards, aspirations, goals and goal setting. We also discuss how important it is for employees, freelancers, business owners and entrepreneurs to completely be themselves moving into the New Year, being clear on who we are and bringing our authentic selves to work.

In this episode, we break down our UK retreat staring with our Nov 2019 launch.

What does a typical retreat day look like? How much yoga is there? Do I need to be a bona fide yogi? Are all of the activities mandatory? What do you do in the group sessions? How early does the day start? How good is the vegan food? - let's hope it's more than falafels and lettuce leaves. What are the coaching sessions like? Exactly how much woo woo is there?

The jury is in and the guests have given us feedback from the first retreat, so what was it that made our short time together so special? What changed for people? What were the results? What did we learn? What is it that creates the transformative magic of retreats.

For those wanting to join us on a retreat, check out www.reboot.global

We talk about the importance of speaking to people before they sign up for retreats to make sure we get the group dynamic just right.