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This episode is for those of us navigating change, reinventing ourselves, or reevaluating where they get success from (maybe no longer the corporate world). Join hosts Matthew, a seasoned management consultant, and Carly, a communications professional, as they explore the unique challenges they are facing in their careers and new paths they are looking at.

For Matthew, it's all about resetting and ensuring his priorities are aligned. For Carly it's about reinventing herself both career-wise and personally. In our 20s the focus was on getting ahead, but now we seek purpose and flow in life.

In This Episode:

• Resetting Priorities: Matthew discusses his career as a management consultant and his perspective on the corporate world and how to achieve more balance with his career.
• Reinventing at 30: Carly opens up about feeling behind, lacking confidence to make a move, and overcoming the fear of being too old for a career pivot.
• Hitting the Ceiling: Facing the frustration of watching peers progress rapidly while you feel stuck.
• Reevaluating Success: Shifting the definition of success from career-centric to life-centric.
• Children Career Pauses: Navigating the career growth pause when choosing to have children.
• Different Considerations: Comparing the job choices and career considerations between Carly and Matthew.
• Exploring New Passions: How questioning their current paths has led to exploring new passions, side hustles, and keeping options open.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Embracing the mindset that a successful idea only needs to be 10% better than existing ones.
• Educational Aspirations: Discussing the possibility of going back to school, with Carly considering a doctorate in clinical psychology.

Whether you're contemplating a career change, starting a new side hustle, or simply seeking more purpose in life, we get into it in this episode.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 The Mystery of Naps

00:48 Welcome to Elevate Our 30s

02:33 Patrons Get 2 Bonus Episodes!

05:55 Resetting & Reinventing in 30s

08:25 Two Views on the Corporate World

10:39 Hitting the Ceiling

12:10 Re-Evaluating Success

12:39 Pregnancy Pause

14:40 Time to Focus on Me

15:02 Matthew Loves The Corporate World

16:45 Flexibility vs New Challenges

18:05 Finding New Passions & Side Hustles

21:09 Entrepreneurial Mindset

22:50 That’s Insane, Why Would We Podcast?

25:47 Freedom! And Confidence.

27:15 Going Back To School?

31:33 2 Types Of Decisions

33:37 Corporate Culture

35:57 Psychoanalysing Matthew

37:51 We’re In The Thick Of It

38:25 Resources

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In this episode of Mastering Fair Play: A Guide to Household Equality, hosts Matthew and Carly share their personal journey of discovering Eve Rodsky's transformative book, Fair Play. Join them as they candidly discuss the challenges they faced in managing their family workload, especially after the arrival of their baby.

Matthew and Carly open up about the common fights and frustrations that arose from an unbalanced division of household tasks and mental load. They delve into the specific struggles that many couples face, shedding light on how these issues can strain even the strongest relationships.

Listeners will gain valuable insights as Matthew and Carly reveal how Fair Play provided them with practical solutions to achieve household equality. They explain the Fair Play system's key principles and how implementing them has brought harmony and balance to their home.

Whether you're navigating the demands of a growing family or seeking to improve your partnership, this episode offers actionable advice and relatable stories to help you master the art of fair play in your own household. Tune in to learn how to create a more equitable and peaceful domestic life with tips and strategies that work.

0:00 Intro & New Set-up
01:10 Wild News
02:02 Sober Wedding
04:36 Family Workload & Fair Share
06:10 When the Fighting Ramped Up
07:12 Common ‘Misunderstandings’
12:25 Finding a Solution with FairPlay
16:35 Matthew’s Examples
21:20 100 Activities
23:05 Gender Roles
26:25 The List of Tasks
27:38 Who Holds the Cards
30:28 Redistributing the Cards

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In this episode, we dive deep into our journey of moving from the city life of London to the serene english countryside. We share the best parts and the challenges, balancing our professional lives, and creating a lifestyle that suits our growing family. From the initial decision to leave London, navigating work-from-home setups, to the surprising benefits of countryside living, we cover it all.

Join us as we discuss:

• The factors influencing our decision to move
• The pros and cons of city versus countryside living
• How the countryside has impacted our lifestyle and well-being
• The practicalities of finding and renovating a house
• Our future plans and priorities, including the dream of living by the water

Whether you're contemplating a similar move or simply curious about life outside the city, this episode offers insights and honest reflections on making a major life change.

Episode Summary:

0:00 Intro & Caravan Talk

01:20 City to Countryside

02:20 Leaving London (and Canada)

08:22 But What About Work?

12:13 Countryside vs City, the Pros & Cons

21:13 Our Forever Location?

22:30 The Big List

26:30 Competing Priorities

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In today’s solo episode, Carly shares her personal experiences and insights on how to make pregnancy and postpartum a time to thrive.

This episode offers practical tips, focusing on how to cultivate positivity about your self image and also find time for exercise, meditation and self care. Carly discusses her journey from battling body image issues to embracing a much healthier mindset through pregnancy and postpartum. Also talking about key changes in diet and exercise that helped reach her goals.

This episode offers practical tips for new moms, focusing on how to cultivate positivity, find time for self-care, and build a supportive postpartum routine. Whether you're expecting, a new mom, or years into your parenting journey, this discussion provides valuable takeaways to uplift and inspire.

00:00 - 1:39 Intro from the caravan

01:40 - 2:33 Pregnancy & Postpartum Journey

2:34 - 10:01 Pregnancy, Mindset & Self-love

10:02 - 17:47 Postpartum & Fitting It In

17:48 - 24:03 Levelling Up

24:04 - 25:53 Consistency & Daily Habits

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This is the year we decided to put our house, yes our house, on Airbnb and have an adventure filled year with our toddler. It started as a desire to get away more on the weekends and quickly turned into a little side hustle that is helping us pay for nicer trips away, car payments, you name it.

We get into how this started and quickly escalated into our house being booked out every weekend, becoming a profitable side hustle. We went from booking cheaper airbnbs to just buying our own caravan for weekends of adventure while other people enjoyed our countryside home.

Did our house get totally trashed? We dive into exactly how it’s gone so far when people have stayed at our place, we’ve had over 20 bookings at this point and spoiler alert, it hasn’t been trashed yet. We also talk about details like cleaning and logistics of how we actually turned our personal home into a holiday rental, becoming a space people could stay in and what we do with all of our stuff.

Do you want to make some extra income, looking at renting your place out but it seems a bit crazy to let people stay? Or maybe you just want to start camping or caravanning with your family. This episode is for you.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Intro & Chit Chat

02:50 Airbnb Side Hustle

07:30 Fully Booked

08:45 Adventure turned hustle

09:47 Caravan Living

10:51 Did our house get trashed?

18:22 Cleaning

20:01 Caravan Adventures

22:25 Logistics of Airbnb

26:04 Main residence renting

27:29 Reviews are everything

28:40 It’s a part-time job

30:50 The easy version

32:07 Target to pay off your big holidays

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In today's episode get into the 5 AM Club, the book and method by Robin Sharma, and how we've adapted this to fit our lives (with a toddler).

We discuss the tools and tactics we implement in our. mornings to transform the way we start the day and how this has shifted from the past. Waking up early and focusing on reflection and mindset has totally changed the way we tackle each day.

Whether you're a seasoned early riser or a sleep-deprived parent looking to reclaim your day, we hope our journey will empower you to transform your routine and embrace the magic of the early hours.

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Today we talk through the Hero’s Journey following four stages and how this can be applied to our life, past and present. We like this framework as it helps us put challenging times into the context of the big picture, and also see when we’re stuck or trying to push a gut feeling down with numbing behaviour.

We discuss the narrative self, doing things for the story, like the story of what we want our life to look like in our 30s and how it’s linked to the hero’s journey. Carly talks about main character energy and Matthew talks about how he likes the dynamic where Carly pushes us to do more things as a family and Matthew help make it happen.

We get into the details of challenges around starting a podcast and what the actual stats have been in our first month. If you’re on the fence maybe this podcast is for you just to remind you, it will be challenging but you can do it! Carly was stuck being the reluctant hero and just not starting for almost a year.

Whether it’s moving to a new county, quitting drinking, starting that podcast or something smaller like starting a workout program, cold plunging, journalling or waking up earlier - the hero’s journey is a great framework to use.

We were inspired by Mel Robbin’s latest podcast episode to talk about this topic - thanks Mel Robbins!

00:00 What is the Hero’s Journey

02:05 Stage 1: The Call to Adventure

06:33 Narrative Self vs. Experiential Self

10:08 Main Character Energy

14:52 Stage 2: You’re the Reluctant Hero

20:12 Stage 3: Cross the Threshold

25:11 Stage 4: The Midpoint & Challenges

28:14 Stage 5: The Journey Continues

33:54 Changes we’re making

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In today's episode we discuss how life has been completely off the rails and how difficult it is when your kids are off sick and you still have to somehow manage everything. We get into some "Good Biological Developments" and talk about how overstimulating it can be to be a parent, especially when you're the 'go to' parent.

Carly discusses how she feels like she needs a princess diaries style makeover and Matthew talks about how inadequate he feels in the gym. We've started reading the book Fair Play and we talk about how we are tackling our mental load and invisible work problems at home.

00:00 Intro

01:50 Comment Love

04:00 The Shit Show Chronicles

05:45 ‘Good Biological Developments’

09:42 Overstimulation City

13:31 Goodbye Pregnancy Glow

15:33 Princess Diaries Makeover

19:18 Are We Even Buff?

24:45 Cartoon Nation, More Babies, Doom Scrolling

28:53 Mid Life Crisis

30:48 Mental Load & Invisible Work

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