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Welcome to Live More, Earn More - the podcast for freedom-seekers, soul-led entrepreneurs, and ambitious creatives who are done with the hustle and ready for alignment.
Hosted by Lucy Griffiths, bestselling author of Make Money While You Sleep, this show is your go-to space for building a business that lights you up and supports your life (not the other way around).
Each week, you'll hear inspiring stories, practical strategies to grow passive income, magnetic marketing tips, and conversations that blend business brilliance with mindset magic, feminine energy, and a whole lot of woo. If you're a solopreneur or dreaming up your next big thing - this is your permission slip to do it on your terms.
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Honestly, this week my head has been
elsewhere, but I realized something
important about momentum that
every entrepreneur needs to hear.
I was so good at batching content and
creating content, and I would do this
religiously and I'd have a pile of YouTube
videos that I was going to put out once or
twice a week, and that worked perfectly.
Until it didn't, until life got busy.
And for me at the moment, I am spinning
so many plates in my personal life.
It is crazy.
I am having to deal with a house
move, with going to court for
divorce, with my son moving schools.
We're moving house because
my son needs to move schools.
So it's all of that going on plus
running a new business and the old
business, and that is a lot to juggle.
I am doing so much paperwork, it is
crazy, and I am literally consumed
with doing that, that I'm like, oh my
goodness, where am I gonna find a spare
minute to actually work on my business?
And today?
And today is Thursday is the first
day where I've thought, oh great, I've
got a day to myself to fully focus
and work on my business because I've
literally been working on all the
other things, the admin of life, rather
than actually what I get paid for.
And I'm sure you may have had
moments like that in the past.
Me as a single parent, my divorce is
pretty overwhelming, and it's been
going on for five years and it requires
a lot of resilience and paperwork.
So there's that.
But also, my son is disabled and
that requires extra paperwork, extra
things, and so it all just mounts
up, all of this kind of life admin.
I find myself thinking, okay, if I focus
on that, then other things slip, and
in this case it was my marketing and I
realized I've just been out for a run.
And I realized that while I was looking
at the bunnies, like literally, I kid you
not, I run through the fields that are
part of Highgrove, King Charles' estate,
personal estate, whatever you call it.
You have to climb over the stile and
or the lane and the, and the field
are kind of slightly different height.
So one is higher.
So as I poke my head up over this
stone stile, there were five bunnies
sitting there just sunbathing and.
Having fun with each other.
And I was like, and I literally,
as I climbed over, they
all scarpered and ran away.
But it was so cute.
And then as I was running through
the field, there was obviously
another bunny hiding in the grass.
And then suddenly as I got near,
it thought, I can't hide here
anymore and stay really still.
I'm gonna have to run so it
ran back to its little hidey
hole home, wherever it is.
Anyway, they were so cute.
Now I've got back and I realized
that being consistent with
whatever it is, maybe it's running.
And I run most days and I will be
really consistent with that and,
and some days I cannot be bothered.
Like today was amazing weather,
so it was a different story.
But when it's cold and you know,
I was just thinking how, you
know, not too many months ago.
I was wading through flood water
and it was really disgusting and it
was a real effort to, to go running.
And I, some days would think,
oh, I can't be bothered.
It's so miserable.
Whereas in, you know, blue skies
and perfect weather, you just think,
oh, of course I'll go for a run.
And so it's the same with our business.
When we have that momentum,
it's easy to keep going, but
when we don't have momentum.
When our head is elsewhere, when we
have so much going on, personally,
it's really hard to keep that momentum.
It's really hard to keep going.
And so this podcast is for you if you
are in the middle of, you know, whatever
wobble you've got going on in your
personal life, and maybe you are being
pulled away from your business or maybe
you are juggling too many things and
there's too much going on with kids or
life or parents or whatever it may be.
I know it's a lot and I
am constantly juggling.
I feel, you know, they talk about
us as being the sandwich generation
where we're juggling parents and also
children and I certainly feel like,
there's all of that going on, but.
And this is a BIG, BIG, BUT actually when
we have that momentum, when we have the
momentum to keep going, putting one foot
in front of the other when we are running
or whatever it is that we're doing.
In the same way with our business,
if we can keep going and keep that
momentum going with our marketing and
with, you know, getting out there.
And so for me, I created this podcast
about six months ago and I was really
consistent with three episodes a week.
And it slipped a bit because
I have to confess, I've not
kept that momentum going.
But what I have done is always
had a podcast every single week.
And so by having a podcast every
single week, different episode,
that's made a huge difference.
And you know, so I say to you that
if you can really hold yourself
and be disciplined in that.
I've just been listening to Jim
Rohn, you know, Tony Robbins mentor
and like listening to these old
1980s audio books, which are now
on Audible, but they're phenomenal.
They're so great.
And one of the words that he
really talked about was discipline
about turning his life around.
And it made me think about it
and think, yes, and that is not a
quality that I often think about.
And it's not a quality that I would sort
of say, oh, that's something I have.
But actually, when you think about the
momentum in your business, when you think
about, momentum in doing exercise every
day, going for a run, whatever it may be.
When you think about the momentum of
consistently posting on social media
or putting your message out there,
or doing the podcast or creating
the YouTube channel, whatever it may
be, but being consistent with that.
Is the secret.
It's the secret is the discipline.
It's not difficult to get going.
It, you know, you might feel like,
oh, I feel a bit of an idiot.
Everyone's gonna hate my
voice, or I'm going to, you
know, I look stupid on camera.
No one's gonna like how I look.
I feel like I'm too old to do this.
Whatever it may be.
We've got these stories, but once
we've overcome the story, then
we start doing it, and so often.
People, and particularly I'll put myself
in this category, if you've got ADHD and
you struggle with momentum, you kind of
see a shiny object, chase the project
and then forget about something else.
And I, I totally sympathize
and empathize and get it.
'cause I, although I'm not diagnosed with
A-D-H-D-I think there's a strong dose of
that running through me and my family.
But, so you've got the, you've
got the, you're doing it thing.
It's the shiny object, it's
exciting, it's whatever it may be,
whether it's, you know, starting
out in business and it's exciting.
And then you have the lull, the dip
that actually you're doing the work.
But no one's really noticing.
You are not making sales or you
don't feel like you're getting
enough traction on social media.
You know, nobody's seeing your posts on
LinkedIn, and it feels a bit despondent.
Or perhaps you're doing the
exercise, you're going to the
gym, you're doing the runs.
And yet I'm looking down at my belly
and just, and you still feel like,
why aren't I losing these inches that
I didn't have a couple of years ago
from perimenopause or whatever it may
be, and slapping my thighs as well.
And you know, there are moments
where we can lose that momentum.
We can lose that impetus to keep going.
But the thing that holds us and keeps
us in that focused drive is discipline.
The discipline to keep going
even when the going gets tough.
Even when we're struggling in business,
even when it's hard to land a new deal,
whatever it may be, and it's hard.
And sometimes things suck
and it can be really hard.
And so what I really say to you is,
you can make this so much easier.
You can do this where
it's like, you know what?
You are in flow.
You're doing it.
And then have the discipline, have
the momentum to keep going, keep
going when the going gets tough.
And that's the discipline and you know,
wherever you are on your business journey.
I love this from Jim Rohn from
earlier that he was talking
about, actually it's our mindset.
It's the way that we react to
a situation we might have a
crappy, difficult situation.
But actually, and he said, you
know, he talked of a story of two
twin brothers and they, they had a
deadbeat dad and from that situation,
their life sucked growing up.
And they had a choice, and their choice
was to sink or swim because of this.
One child decided to see it as
a reason, as an excuse as to
why their life was a failure.
The other child used it as a motivator,
as a driver to say, I am never
gonna be in that situation again.
One day can change your life.
One day can make the difference.
But it is the momentum, the choice
to say, I'm gonna make a difference.
I'm gonna do things differently.
I'm gonna set up a new business.
I'm gonna create something different.
I'm gonna leave that relationship that is
no longer working for me or my children.
I'm going to move house or.
Um, do whatever it takes
to make things work.
So there's the choice factor, but also
there's the discipline to keep going.
And you know, when through gritted
teeth you keep going, you keep putting
one foot in front of the other.
And you know, certainly for me, I've been
in this divorce journey for the last five
years and it's been really awful, but.
I've put one foot in front of the
other and kept going, and at times it's
almost consuming and I, you know, have
not really had the capacity to think
about other things or do other things
as I'm not outta the journey, but there
is light at the end of the tunnel.
I can now start seeing new
ideas and new possibilities.
And for me that was one of the
reasons that I set up my new business
flowelle.io, it's Flowelle.io.
And I wanted something that was
mine, I wanted something that
was different and exciting.
And it's a full circle moment because when
I started my career in journalism, I was
working for a radio company, which is now
Global, which is a big company in the uk.
And , I was setting up during the dot
com bubble, I'm showing my age now.
I was setting up websites
for radio stations.
And so I would drive around the
country in my little blue Beetle and
which I loved, and I would,, go and
see people, radio presenters and news
people 'cause I was a news person.
And go and see them in the
radio, radio stations, and.
Help them.
We would build websites and so
I was liaising between the tech
and the content and I feel full
circle in what I'm creating now.
I'm helping people to create the
content to do the things which I is
something that I've always loved to
do, but I'm also creating the tech and
what I found for so many people over
the years is that you might have the
most amazing ideas, you might be the
most visionary, creative, or really
artistic, or a great caring therapist
with a really beautiful modality.
But then the bit that lets you down is
your sales page, is the course, is the
website where people go and find you and
it just looks off, it just looks clunky
and it looks like really amateurish.
And when it looks amateurisk and kind
of, I can't even say the word amateurish.
You are doing yourself a
disservice because you are not
presenting the best version of you.
And that's what I really love with
my new business, because I can
help people to make something that
makes them, just elevates their
brand, elevates their business.
And where we do it in a way where
it doesn't cost you a fortune.
I, it is made for solopreneurs, it's
made for people with low budgets,
not wanting to spend a lot of money,
but would build something that is.
You know, really works
for you and your life.
So, back to momentum.
The first step is doing it is taking
action, is going for it, and the
second step is, or the 10th step, is
having the discipline to keep going.
And so today, even though I didn't
really have time, and all the stories
I could tell myself about not having
time to do this and feeling like I was
running out of, you know, what am I
gonna talk about and all of those things.
And I've literally got a few minutes
before my son comes home from swimming
and um, you know, so it's like all of
these things where time is precious.
And we can all be time poor, but if
we take action and have the discipline
to do this and keep going, that's
where the magic is, and that's where
you actually can grow your business.
It's having that momentum, having
that discipline to do it, to show
up, to keep doing your thing,
even when the going gets tough.
Okay.
Thank you for being here.
If you like the sound of
Flowelle.io, check out Flowelle.io
I'll share the link below.
I hope to see you again soon.
Thank you so much for listening
and have an amazing day.