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Living your Luxe Life on the Sunshine Coast.
We have conversations with people who have found “home” on the Sunshine Coast & explore how they connect home with lifestyle & community.
As Property Buyers Agent we also discuss the macro economic factors impacting economic growth & property growth & where we are in the property cycle.
We overlay local market nuances of different sub markets from Noosa Heads to Maroochydore, to the Hinterland.
I hope you enjoy the series Living Your Luxe Life.
Hi. I'm Christine Mount from Luxe Coastal Property Buyers with my podcast series, Living Your Luxe Life. Today, we've got a very special guest who really does live her luxe life. Welcome, Nikki Fogder Moore.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Christine, for having me. It's exciting.
Speaker 1:So excited that you're here. For people who don't know Nikki, she's a speaker, author, expert. Nikki works with CEOs, founders, Fortune 500 leaders, and high highly driven organizations. She's the author of 3 books and founder of Accelerate. But most importantly is such a passionate woman that makes shit happen, not only in your life, but for all the lives around you that you impact.
Speaker 1:So we'd love to have a great conversation with you today about living a luxe life in a a lifestyle location. Fantastic. So I first wanna touch on remote working because you really were ahead of the curve with all of that. Yeah. And you could have lived anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So why Sunshine Coast? Mhmm. And why remote working for you?
Speaker 2:Great question. I mean, I spent my most of my working career after New Zealand and London and Amsterdam, Shortstone to New York and and all over the world, and I feel like I'm I kept flying back into Noosa and Sunshine Coast to visit my parents because I have a great relationship with my parents. And so I go back and visit them all the time, at least twice a year, and I just fell in love with Noosa. And my whole ethos is healthy wealthy wise. So I have a background in nutrition and sports and personal training and so I had this side hustle business, if you like, where I started taking entrepreneurs on what was then called the body break.
Speaker 2:It's now the boardroom retreat, but, so I've always had an affinity for needing nature and fresh air and something to have this work life blend ethos. So when I was thinking about, like, I really wanted to move back my business back. I had an athlete management agency I was running and another business life's gym, and I was doing strategic business planning for large organizations. And I thought, oh, I just wish, like, I'd really want to move back to Noosa. And everyone was like, why would you do that?
Speaker 2:That is so stupid. The money's in Sydney and Melbourne, and if you're gonna move to Australia, all your clients, your CEOs, they're all in those areas. And I was like, nope. So in 2,000 and 9, I set my business up in Noosa, still managing athletes, taking athletes from, like, you know, professional athletes to brand, how do they set their companies up, and then working with CEOs on the sustainable success matrix and and people would fly into Noosa. So I just did this way before it was cool.
Speaker 2:And what year were you in? 2009 now.
Speaker 1:2009. Yep. So And
Speaker 2:then with the whole remote work thing, I guess I was already doing that, but I was flying to the US a lot, like, and traveling a lot during that first those first few years. But I happened to be very lucky to be in Aspen just before COVID, and I said I've got to stop traveling. I love, by the way, Aspen. It's just just the coolest, but, and I thought maybe I should just stop traveling for a little bit. But I I kind of built this business and it was all built off network and relationships, but I don't think I'd really tapped into understanding the fact that I was doing this remote work then because it didn't have a label.
Speaker 2:So I was naturally already coaching online. A lot of my content was online. People would fly in, but there was every week I was having touch points with all my clients regardless of where they were in the world. So globally servicing these clients remotely, if you want to call it that. And then I remember sitting, going to I I really take a break from travel and then COVID hit.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It was so weird. And So you were already set up? I was already set up, but I just didn't it just wasn't labeled like that. It wasn't a thing.
Speaker 2:It wasn't a hashtag, you know. So so but I feel like the reason I came here and fought back on everyone saying well, overcame the fear of not being where all the money was because my driver was never to make lots of money. My driver was always to make the very best impact and live the most authentic life as a coach, so I wanted to practice what I preach. Yeah. And so being based out of here was the absolute epitome of everything I stood for.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So have you met many people now since the COVID era that have actually relocated to Noosa or the Sunshine Coast that have similar roles to you and are now work working remotely?
Speaker 2:I think the majority of the world was required to pivot whether or not they ended up in stunning locations Yeah. Is, you know, some did by choice. A lot of people moved or bought property, as we know, the Melbourne Gold Rush up here, and you know, there's a lot I mean this is a whole different kettle of fish if you want to talk about what happened as a result of lots of people trying to relocate to work remotely from destinations they loved, but actually being able to make it sustainable and to make a business that continually has the foundations of why you are doing that, I think is the first priority. So I know a lot of people have done it, but whether or not they're successful and they can sustain it and they can grow that business is a completely different kettle of fish. You can start something anywhere you want.
Speaker 2:You can move around as many times as you want, there are no rules, but the ability to sustain a business, run a business, and grow a business from a location that's not a central hub of foot traffic and the, you know, the the the amount of depending on your client avatar or who it is that you're trying to chase Yeah. That's also a really big factor. So there's a lot of challenges with it and I think it takes a a complete strategic approach. So when if you ask me if I know a lot of people that did it, I certainly know there are some great coaches up here. There are some worldwide 7 figure, you know, 8 figure coaches up here that are that are brilliant and they've but they were already very established.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And also took very strategic steps to ensure that the bottom didn't fall out of their business. Whereas I believe the coastal towns have always attracted people that wanna reinvent themselves for sure. Yeah. And you can say what you want when you're there, but that never lasts a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So to have a reputable business with a deep foundation to make it work and sustain your brand or your work professionalism and the intelligence that goes with that comes with how you decide to execute that.
Speaker 1:Because a conversation I often have with people upfront, and it's really an exploratory conversation and they're curious that they might be working in a major city. It could be, you know, New York, Singapore. For sure. And they're working it can be their own business. And they're like, do I spend another 4 years, 5 years here, and then I've got an exit strategy for the business anyway?
Speaker 1:Or can I start thinking about coming earlier
Speaker 2:and running a remote team? Well, you know me. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, what? What are you waiting for?
Speaker 2:But I I think, you know, and this this is something I'm certainly working on. I'm building out probably an agency within my business that helps people go, how do I set the functional foundations up of my business? Now I don't know if you've been listening to the news lately or I'm definitely a bit of a tech nerd, so I built all my websites, my app and everything else, and I'm really interested in the impact of AI, but also human centric planning because human significance is important. So if you're busting your balls in New York, and in Singapore and you've got all your things that go with the trimmings have been there, but you're not truly happy, well, then you're not really living your utopia. So I I think we've got to encourage people to start planning their life p and l like they would their business p and l.
Speaker 2:Yep. And so coming to buy in Noosa, like, you know, if we can have more people that contribute to the economy here, not because they're trying to take something from it, because they're trying to add value to it, that's a fulfilling prophecy, I think, as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Now that's very interesting. So almost, CEOs or the next level down if they're navigating how to do this. I really need a toolbox Yeah. From this at the strategic level for the foundations, and that's what you coach on.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And that's actually because so many people by the time people come and coach with me or I've worked with them at that sort of level, founder, business owner, CEO, they're already done. They're already smart people. They've done a lot. They're not this isn't startup level.
Speaker 2:This is established, you know, scale, exit, grow, life after awesome. They're they're already very smart people. It's about giving them permission to paint that new picture
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then creating that road map and the decision making criteria. So, I mean, it's certainly something we can share off the back of this podcast. It's just a little checklist. I don't know if you've seen the sustainable success checklist. What does success really mean to you?
Speaker 2:So you can run your your trading business or, like, definitely, I find people that I work with from New York or Singapore really, really interesting because the the culture of hustle and doing deals and negotiations and relationships and being on, you can trade and run your business from anywhere, But you've always got to make time for how you you build your relationships and how you nurture your relationships. So I think that's really important too, but that's just part of planning. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep. Well, that's really interesting, and I think we could explore this topic on another podcast separately.
Speaker 2:Because that's a whole different topic, isn't it?
Speaker 1:But and the other thing that you hold is, your boardroom retreat at Make Peace Island. And for those who haven't heard about it, can you just explain there what you do and why Make Peace Island? Why didn't you choose an island in the Caribbean?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I have done the island in the Caribbean, but, the boardroom retreat now is in its 20th year. So it's a trademark signature product. I actually started those in Fort Aventura for anyone that's traveled to Spain and Europe that knows the Kempinski Hotels. They're like a 6 star hotel, and when I first started taking, entrepreneurs and CEOs and executives away on these kind of healthy, wealthy, wise retreats. I called them body breaks.
Speaker 2:So but then they formed into the boardroom retreat, which were ultimate strategic resets with vision and ignition of ideas and like minded people that had already kind of made it. So it was a chance to actually exhale and have this sacred space as a founder, a CEO, or a leader where you could extract more intellect, but you could also just have some time to yourself without any interruption. Like, the privacy in the space to just think what's next and what about me, what does great look like, and then also be inspired by really, really powerful discussions around, you know, wealth and the future of of what's happening in the global landscapes and everything from super high performance. So the Border of Metri is really me pulling together a few days where the ultimate fitpreneur, the ultimate CEO of your life and your business, and it's really designed for great leaders to shine and to have a chance for themselves to go uninterrupted. I'm just gonna stop for a second and think about what I need, what I want, what's next without anyone else pulling on their time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I chose Makepeace because, I mean, lucky enough to run some boardroom retreats all over the world for years, but I love Makepeace because it's I've done the a couple a great session on Necker Island with Richard Branson once and he actually was part owner in Makepeace. Now Kathy, and Stuart are part owners of it. It's just a local island, but I get to whisk people away there Yeah. Because it's not really a hotel, it's like a private oasis. So the moment you sort of arrive, you're in this beautiful luxury vortex of ideas and inspiration, but also I'm really much into the longevity discussion, anti aging, oxygenation, like I'm full on a sort of a fitness and health nerd, so the whole thing is around how do you achieve your ultimate work life blend, but as an individual, how do you have all the tools to be your personal best?
Speaker 2:So I wanted to bring all the stuff that I do globally and just make it local, Yeah. But at the highest level with the most incredible food and beautiful staff, luxury accommodation, and it's it's very private. It's very VIP. So it's like, you know, it's your own island, but it's like a little think tank.
Speaker 1:I'm sure if you're sitting in a major city at the moment anywhere in the world, jump online and have a look at Make These Island. And we'll also provide some links to the Boardroom Retreat. You can go
Speaker 2:to nikkifomptonmooredot com forward slash the boardroom retreat. Yeah. Yeah. Because this April actually, Lane Beachley is gonna be one of my speakers. We only have 14 guests.
Speaker 2:That's it. Yeah. So the entire island including staff, including my team. So all my retreats, you never have more than, 12 to 14 people. That's it, maximum.
Speaker 2:In fact, I usually cap it a bit smaller than that, and it really is a chance. I think I just created something that I would want to go to.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:That is and that's what Noosa has for me, like, the vital ingredients, I call it, to to really put your oxygen mask on first and be unlimited in possibilities, but also to go, how am I operating at my best self as a leader or as a father or as a mother or a CEO or a tech startup or a y c or whatever it is. There's so much available if you're in the right circles, but you also can't really apply that if you don't have time to stop and just really get the tools to appreciate, you know, every single day. And and that's kind of This is
Speaker 1:this is actually leading into my closing question because the first one is going to be where can people find you? If they're looking at working remotely, considering a lifestyle location, I think a great person to speak to, many tools available.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But what actually what's your luxe, Nikki? What brings you joy?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I mean, I was gonna say champagne.
Speaker 1:Okay. Thanks, champ.
Speaker 2:You know, so I think luxe for me is the ultimate freedom to you know how we always see each other at coffee in the morning with your dog? So getting up at 5 in the morning, walking down to the ocean, getting my coffee with Max, my dog, is my ultimate luxe. It's just like I have complete privacy, freedom. I love my well-being. I love the restaurant.
Speaker 2:So I've been doing Ricky's rituals, so I take my clients every time one of my clients flies in for a strategic day or 2 or 3 days depending on, you know, what we structure, I always weave in a Bistro Sea lunch or Ricky's lunch or a sales or something that's just these incredible restaurants, just moments in time. I think, you know, planning is sometimes a walk and talk. So Luxe for me is just this incredible backyard that we have as nature. The national park, like a morning run, a swim, a coffee Yeah. Is just like and that's every day.
Speaker 2:And that's
Speaker 1:at 5 o'clock and you kick start your day, you know, at, you know, 8:30 and you've already had 3 and a half 3 and a half beautiful hours.
Speaker 2:Well, I already I get I actually have a really strong personal ritual. So I'm a morning person. So I get up at 4:35, go get a coffee, look at the ocean. I'll work for for 2 hours when I come back and then I'll go and do something else as a break. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So because I've got clients local but also international and then maybe we're doing a show or now with a new app. So I I feel like you've got a the remote working generation has enabled us to also be accountable for our time. Yeah. And I don't think that people work smart still and and that's one of the things we've got to also get people I think the average productivity, I think, was 11 minutes at one point. I think if you can get 4 solid hours out of your staff for one day these days
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:That's a realistic deep dive time.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:11 minutes of genius time. Yes. Most people can handle.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And all those sorts of things. Cutting across
Speaker 1:you a little bit, but at the moment, it's very much in the news. Spotify said our employees are not children. No. No. Right?
Speaker 1:So that's what they're saying exactly that manage your day for where your clients are. Yeah. And then make sure you have focus time, joy time Yeah. And just wrap it all together.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I think this is the point. Years ago, I wrote that book, Fitpreneur, how to be the CEO of your life as well as your business. And, it's all about winning weeks. If you don't plan a winning week, and I know when we're working together, it's like, what's your winning week?
Speaker 2:You know?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's because it's work, it's work, life blend. It's not work, life balance. Just that's the worst term that's been ever invented. It's impossible to achieve. It's outdated.
Speaker 2:It's archaic, and I think with what we're coming through with this new world, if you can harness AI and LLMs and all these kind of learning models and look at everything to best enhance what you do want, you've actually got to stop assuming that you can't have all of that and you've got to take it seriously and be in charge of your life rather than going, oh, yeah, but. So if anyone's looking at property or they want to come to Noosa or even around banking, like if you're in New York and you're America and you want to buy a property in Noosa, it's not that easy, but it's not impossible.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you've gotta remove the thoughts about and all the boundaries and attack those as tasks. Yeah. You know, because you've got one life. Right?
Speaker 1:Yeah. You've got one life and you gotta have a luxe life. And for me, that's having a joyful life. Doing less joyful, fidget for you. So we're actually gonna close on that.
Speaker 1:We're gonna do a part 2 episode on women and finance. But I just wanna say thank you very much talking all this through.
Speaker 2:But if people wanna find you just one more. They can go to nikkifogdenmoore.com. That is n I, double k, I f o g d e n m, double o r e dot com, and, I'm sure you'll put that on the links because it's quite the handful to attack articulate, but I I mean, I think the more we can give people the joy of conscious decisions Yeah. And and just be curious and and write down your fears and, and also be accountable. Don't start businesses up because it looks cool.
Speaker 2:Like, I think start it up because you've got a meaning behind it and a passion behind it, and and I'd love to hear from people that are looking to do that or that have done that too. So more power to them. Thanks, Kristy. Well, thank you so much. Great.