Bare your soul, sister

As the year comes to an end and as this is the last episode for the year, Kara and Rhi wanted to share the importance of celebrating all the things that you have achieved this year - no matter how big or small. It’s been an intense year for some, and an exciting year for others AND it all needs to be celebrated, after all - you made it. You are still here, and that's a gift.

In this episode we talk about:

1. Why it’s so important to celebrate.
2. How to celebrate the small steps
3. How to celebrate the big milestones.
4. What Rhi and Kara’s top 3  achievements are for this year.
5. Rhi’s manifesting letter you MUST do before the year closes.

Today we have the beautiful Tegan Mel, owner of Soul Quartz on our show! Soul Quartz is a beautiful, elegant handmade jewelry range with high-quality crystals. Tegan shares her journal from the very beginning all the way to how her high 6 figure business now runs. She goes into depth about her top tips on how to create a successful business whether you currently have products, or want products to sell in the future.

In this episode we talk about:

1. How Tegan went from market stalls to Splendor in the Grass stalls with battery-operated fairy light crystal crowns to a beautiful boutique in the heart of Noosa to now running completely online through her own warehouse.
2. Why it’s important to start before you are ready.
3. Ask who, not how (this is a goodie!!)
4. Why connecting to your people will make you the money!

Stress can be so crippling, can’t it? We all experience stress at some point. With Christmas coming up and the way the world is at the moment, Kara & Rhi decided to chat about stress and what to do when you’re in it.

• What triggers your stress
• How to notice the stress coming on.
• What to do when you’re feeling stressed
• 2 different types of stress.
• Rhi & Kara’s cycle of stress.

Recently Rhi went to an epic training session. There was conversation around how young men are becoming more and more likely to be depressed due to the lack of their own rites of passage. Chris was someone in the training room with Rhi who shared his wisdom on this topic and how going through intentional rites of passages saved his life. With both Rhi & Kara having sons of their own - They felt like this conversation was important to bring to you guys.

We spoke about:

• What is a rites of passage
• Chris’ story growing up and how his rites of passages came about
• How being good parents doesn’t stop young kids from doing illegal and risk taking things.
• The type of rites of passages Chris took to regain his life
• Resources on where to start for the men to heal, starting with kids as young as 12
• How to heal the men collectively
• How boys and men are not taught about sex and relationships and what that is doing for our community
• Plus SO MUCH MORE

It’s safe to say that the personal development industry, especially coaches and mentors, is booming online. It can feel like everyone is offering a course or a coaching package. It can feel challenging to figure out where to start as someone who wants to learn all the things, who to trust, how to choose the right program or coach for you.

In this episode we talk about:

• Changing your mindset around the financial investment
• What to invest that is more important than money
• Why investing in your personal development has the least amount of risk
• How Kara and Rhi utilise the programs we are in
• How Kara and Rhi pick programs to invest into
• What we are currently invested in for our personal and business growth

Have you ever heard of the term NLP? Neuro Linguistic Programming. It’s incredible stuff really on how we can tap into the unconscious mind! Rhi recently went on a 7-day training event to become certified as an NLP practitioner, NLP coach, hypnosis, and Emotional Change Technique Ⓡ
Rhi is so excited to share more about it and if you are a coach yourself,  you are going to want to learn more about NLP too!

In this episode Rhi talks about:

• What is NLP
• What did Rhi become certified in
• Why did she decide to become certified?
• What were her top 3 favourite moments over the 7 days
• What were her top take aways
• What were her favourite techniques she learnt
• What did she learn about herself
• What is next for her

Have you ever been to a business and thought, “Damn, that was an epic experience!” Or, “I will never return! That was horrible!” It means the experience made you feel something. We can absolutely create an EPIC customer experience in our own business so you stand out from the crowd and people rave about YOU!

In this episode, we talk about:

• Some good and bad experiences Kara & Rhi have had with coaches and business.
• How follow-ups are important for customer experience
• Things that Rhi & Kara do within their business to stand out.
• Ideas for you to start to implement.
• A key question to ask yourself about your own customer experience.
• An epic book that dives deeper into this topic
• Why asking for feedback works and is key for your business growth.
• Plus so much more!

Do you like the idea of a vision board but feel like all it is, is a board full of Pinterest-worthy images? In today’s episode, Kara & Rhi are going to talk about how to create a vision board that works! Rather than it just collecting dust on your wall, we share our tips and tricks on how to utilise this tool to manifest your wildest dreams.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What Kara & Rhi has manifested from their vision board. From dogs, to cars to becoming debt free and more.
• What types of visions boards you can use and where to put them
• How to choose the right images for your board.
• What to do with the pictures when you have achieved the goal.
• How often you can change your vision board.
• What is currently on Rhi and Kara’s vision boards.
• What you can put on the board other than pictures.
• Plus so much more!

So, you are in business but you are feeling like you don’t really know what to do, what to work on, what’s important and what's not. Well, in this episode Kara and Rhi share their top 3 tips on how to improve your business moving forward. You might want a pen and paper for this one as there are so many golden nuggets!

We talked about:

• Why it’s important to think of the end in mind.
• Putting your personal development growth first.
• Why it’s important to listen to your mentors BUT implement what feels good.
• Why it’s important to stick to your decisions
• Knowing your why
• Creating your ideal customer
• Having a strategy for your marketing
• PLUS SO MUCH MORE

We had another amazing live coaching call with the beautiful Teresa today. Teresa’s business is Sherbet Creations, an amazing idea of creating extremely personalized gifts to give your clients to make their customer experience extra special! Teresa prepared 3 amazing questions for Kara and Rhi and it’s safe to say we totally delivered!

We spoke about:

• How to move forward without dwelling on the past.
• How to let go of the things people have said to us that are not serving us
• How to move through people-pleasing
• How to stop justifying your actions
• How to stop being addicted to your phone
• Why social media is so addictive
• Kara’s notifications she has on (this is awesome)
• Plus SO much more!

Do you feel overwhelmed a lot of the time? You have so much on your plate, you don’t know where to start, you procrastinate because you have so much to do and lose complete focus? Today in a solo episode, Rhi talks about how she overcomes overwhelm and what tips and tricks she used to get out of overwhelm and into clarity and focus.

We spoke about:

• How brain dumping changed Rhi’s life
• The categories you need to put your brain dumping into
• How to break it down to know what to focus on
• Why decluttering your environment including people, events and your home will create harmony.
• The thing that the world REALLY needs to go back to.

We had the beautiful Lauren come on the show today as our first live coaching session guest! Lauren is in the Network Marketing industry and also offers Human Design readings, which is super fun!

Lauren opened up to us and shared how she is challenged to bring on team into her NWM business because she doesn’t see herself as a leader.

We spoke about:

• How to become a leader
• How to position yourself as a leader no matter what level of business or NWM promotion you are at.
• Diving into the type of leader you want to be and wish you had.
• Kara and Rhi’s top 3 daily non-negotiables for success.
• Creating a good content strategy through consistency and sustainability.
• Things to focus on with your social media content
• What is script work, how to use it, and a snippet of Rhi’s current script.
• PLUS SO MUCH more!

Have you ever had really woo woo stuff happen in your life that you can't explain? Been called an empath? Dappled in oracle cards? Or have you wanted to learn more about your spiritual side? This episode has you covered!

Today, Rhi covers:

• The story of how she felt her Nonna pass away
• How she knew her friend Steve was going to pass.
• The story of why Rhi is so connected to Cassie Barrie's story who was featured on episode 07 - Becoming a widow
• What Rhi has done to be more and more connected to her woo woo side
• Her favourite thing she has ever manifested.
• How you can tap into your spiritual side
• Plus so much more!

EP01 is all about introducing us, Kara and Rhi - how we met and what this podcast is all about. We are kicking it off with Rhi's story about how she overcame her severe panic attacks and started the journey of personal development. 

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