In this companion episode to The Queenager Podcast, host Eleanor Mills and coach Wendy Lloyd discuss the biggest takeaways from our guest Laura Tenison, founder of Jojo Maman Bébé and now owner of an amazing Welsh farmstead and retreat.
Check out Laura's inspirational takeaways to help you can take action and make positive change in your life.
Eleanor Mills is the founder of NOON, the UK's leading network for midlife women. She's also author of the bestselling book Much More to Come.
Wendy Lloyd is a Women’s Centred transformational coach. To find out how Wendy can support you through your midlife reinvention, visit www.dramafreeyou.com and book a FREE 30 minute coaching call.
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Queenager Debrief Laura Tenison S1 E1
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The QueenNature podcast is brought to you by And Begin, the Age Renewal Skincare Experts. Stay tuned for how to grab a heavily discounted bottle of their gold standard skin solution. Seeing as this is the first debrief of our first episode. I want to introduce you to Wendy, though you may already know her from her long radio, TV, film critic and voiceover career that preceded her becoming a coach for midlife women.
Wendy, hi! Hello! Tell us a bit about you!
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And then I kind of really had this sense that I'd gone through quite a lot and learned quite a lot. I had this calling to be a transformational women centered coach. So that is what I have become. And now I am guiding women by the hand and I am taking them through and supporting them through something that I've been through and I've What I love is that I'm taking them through both the tough times and then also setting them up and sending them off into all the exciting things.
The much more to come, Eleanor, that you've obviously nailed in your book and which I now use as a really good resource for people that I coach, for women that I coach, because it's a great way for them to get started.
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She'd been part of the NOON Circle and a great Queenager right through. since the inception. So it's so fantastic to have you doing this and we're, I'm really looking forward to the debrief. So let's get cracking with our first guest, Laura Tennyson. What do we learn from Laura? What's your first takeaway?
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And I think, though, for anybody listening, I think it's really important to realise, you know, we can just think, Oh, well, Laura's just like that. You know, she just, she was good at that stuff. And these are the kind of fixed thoughts that can stop us from trying to do new things. So I suppose really what I really think is important from taking away from Laura's, um, chat with you, is really, Unpacking the choices that she made because it's choices that got her to where she is.
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It really is, um, huge attention to detail. I mean, she's got massive artistic flair, and also she comes from a family where she's the youngest of five, and they were all super intellectual, and she was dyslexic. So I think she also was driven by a massive sense of having something to prove.
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And it's interesting you use the word perfectionist there, because that moves us on to the second part. Second takeaway Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Which was about the fact that um, you know it's interesting the word perfectionism isn't it? Because we can sometimes think it just means you know wanting to do things really really well but actually in its purest and its most problematic form perfectionism is when we kind of can be crippled by wanting things to be perfect so we don't actually put things out in the world or we don't take action.
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And to me, it just looked like a bit of old junk, but I think she also has a capacity to really see the gold in the dust.
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She didn't really have much seed money and she was kind of struggling really to have enough money for. So, I think, you know, her attention to detail. She knew where she needed to spend money, but she didn't need to spend money on her office chair. And she found one in the skip and went, yeah, that'll do.
And I think that's a really good illustration of how, you know, we can be really smart about if we want to start something, we haven't got everything. It's like, okay, what do I really need and what can I cobble together? Yeah. And, you know, we can really kind of learn from that. The fact that it can make us take action.
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hill, she calls it a mountain, behind her, her house. Um, and it was the first time that she'd gone up it since she'd had this big knee operation, and I'm sure she shouldn't have been doing it. But I think it was really interesting, I think a lot of Queen Agers over push themselves, um, and think that they're quite superhuman.
And actually, Laura's big lesson was that you have to listen to your body.
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She sold this company, which had been her baby, her life, and she's now really having a fantastic next act and you can too. Exactly. To work with Wendy and be supported through your midlife reinvention, visit her website dramafreeyou.com and book a free 30 minute coaching call. That's it for the Queen Agent debrief.
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Oh, yeah, but you've got a biological age of 35. Exactly right. Thank you. Thank you for pointing that out. Thanks for listening and being a part of the Queenager revolution.
