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hello.
Speaker:And welcome to episode number 100 of the website coach podcast.
Speaker:And you can probably hear in my voice that I am very excited to be recording this.
Speaker:And it's because it feels like a huge milestone.
Speaker:Well is a huge milestone.
Speaker:And I firmly believe that we should celebrate reaching milestones,
Speaker:celebrate our successes.
Speaker:Before we continue to move on.
Speaker:And 100 episodes of this podcast really does feel like a huge achievement.
Speaker:When I started this project a couple of years ago now, I didn't
Speaker:know where it was going to go.
Speaker:And I started it with the intention of podcasting every single week.
Speaker:And keeping going with it.
Speaker:I didn't podcast with the intention of just trying it for a few
Speaker:weeks and seeing how it went.
Speaker:I intended to make it a longterm project.
Speaker:Because I didn't think it would be successful unless I was
Speaker:consistent with the episodes.
Speaker:But I am just getting to a hundred episodes.
Speaker:Really.
Speaker:It doesn't seem like two years ago since I started it.
Speaker:And it feels like such a huge achievement.
Speaker:And I want to say a massive thank you to everybody who listens.
Speaker:And if this is your first episode that you've heard, then welcome.
Speaker:And if you've listened to a number over the past two years, Then thank you.
Speaker:Thank you for listening.
Speaker:Thank you for supporting me.
Speaker:And thank you for spreading the word.
Speaker:Because I'm recording this at the beginning of August.
Speaker:And July was the best month that I've had to date for podcast downloads.
Speaker:And that surprised me slightly because in July, people are on holiday and
Speaker:people's patterns are slightly different, but it just exceeded the previous
Speaker:record, which had been in January.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:It's really good to hear that the podcast is being supported.
Speaker:More and more.
Speaker:And certainly the feedback I get from people who tell me, they listened to
Speaker:the podcast is incredibly positive.
Speaker:So a massive thank you to everybody.
Speaker:Now I said I would do something slightly different for episode 100.
Speaker:It didn't feel right to the same as what I do for all of the other episodes.
Speaker:So I handed the mic over to you in many ways.
Speaker:And a couple of weeks ago, I asked for you to submit any questions that you
Speaker:might want me to answer on this episode.
Speaker:And if you follow me on Instagram or you're on my email list, I also
Speaker:asked them, so I've had a number of questions and I'm going to group
Speaker:them into topics to answer them.
Speaker:Thank you to those.
Speaker:That did submit questions.
Speaker:There's certainly some interesting ones and some challenging ones, and I'm just
Speaker:going to do my best to answer them.
Speaker:So let's get started.
Speaker:The first question I want to answer is from Phoebe.
Speaker:And Phoebe's asked what made you take the leap and start your podcast and
Speaker:was episode one, the hardest to do.
Speaker:Well, what made me start?
Speaker:I was looking for a way to grow my audience, as they say.
Speaker:And I knew there are a number of different ways of doing that.
Speaker:So I had a very good audience.
Speaker:I still have a very good audience.
Speaker:It was small, but mighty.
Speaker:Um, there were quite a lot of my existing clients in my audience and they were also
Speaker:other people that I knew and I felt that it was really full of the right people.
Speaker:But it was small.
Speaker:And what I wanted to do was to grow that audience.
Speaker:So when I talk about audience, I mean, people who know me and follow
Speaker:me and know me in a business sense.
Speaker:And a podcast is one option.
Speaker:YouTube channel was also mentioned as another option and the
Speaker:thought of doing YouTube channel, to be honest, horrified me.
Speaker:Because.
Speaker:Like a lot of women, I'm quite, self-conscious about the way I look
Speaker:and I knew I would find it hard to turn up on a regular basis unless
Speaker:I'd done my hair and I was looking.
Speaker:Presentable.
Speaker:Basically.
Speaker:Whereas with a podcast.
Speaker:You know, I can podcast episodes in my pajamas.
Speaker:I've done podcast episodes.
Speaker:With my hair all over the place.
Speaker:I'm not exactly looking my smartest today.
Speaker:I must've met.
Speaker:And it just felt a much easier thing to do to turn up.
Speaker:And talking to a microphone.
Speaker:And also from a technical point of view.
Speaker:Actually from a technical point of view, I'm not sure I really saw much different.
Speaker:I think, I thought a podcast would be harder.
Speaker:then it's actually been, from a technical point of view, so they
Speaker:were the two things that I looked at and podcasts was definitely higher
Speaker:up the list than a YouTube channel.
Speaker:I've talked about this on a, on a previous episode.
Speaker:I can't remember the number of it.
Speaker:Number 40 something.
Speaker:I think I talked about the lessons that I'd learned from a year of podcasting.
Speaker:And I think it was going to be.
Speaker:More of a silver bullet than it has been.
Speaker:And like a lot of things you have to do the promotion yourself.
Speaker:So I thought that people like apple and Spotify would push
Speaker:my podcast more and they don't.
Speaker:Yes, I've been in chart.
Speaker:But they don't push my.
Speaker:Podcast at all.
Speaker:I have to do that.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I've had to promote my own podcast.
Speaker:And I think that's the thing that I probably didn't realize.
Speaker:And I think if I'd realized it was going to be as difficult as it
Speaker:has been over the last few years.
Speaker:I'm not sure I would have started to be honest.
Speaker:I think I would have used that time and that energy to
Speaker:potentially do other things.
Speaker:So I have certainly enjoyed doing it.
Speaker:I will say that.
Speaker:I don't regret it.
Speaker:I just, I think it's been harder work than I expected it to be.
Speaker:And it's, hasn't been for the return that I necessarily expected.
Speaker:I think I thought it would be just a lot easier to reach more people.
Speaker:than it has been, but in saying that certainly my reach has expanded.
Speaker:And it's interesting that sometimes when I go to networking events and
Speaker:I introduce myself, somebody will say, oh, I listened to your podcast.
Speaker:And that's really lovely to hear that it is reaching new people.
Speaker:So it's definitely meeting new people, just perhaps not quite as many.
Speaker:As I thought it would do.
Speaker:So the second part of that question was, was episode one, the hardest to do.
Speaker:No, I don't think it was actually.
Speaker:, first few episodes were really easy in many ways.
Speaker:My voice is probably a little shakier and not quite as competent as it has become.
Speaker:But in terms of the topics I chose topics, which I knew a lot about.
Speaker:And I had strong views on for the first few episodes and therefore
Speaker:they were fairly easy, too bright.
Speaker:So I outline all of my solo podcast episodes.
Speaker:I haven't actually outlined this one, but when I say outline, I
Speaker:basically write a blog post, which is sort of scripted for the podcast.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:When I went into episode, number one, it was pretty scripted.
Speaker:I just wanted to make sure that I sounded like I wasn't reading.
Speaker:That was my real worry.
Speaker:But I was very confident in what I was talking about.
Speaker:I think the hardest ones to do.
Speaker:But when you start to not run out of ideas, I've always got
Speaker:loads of ideas for the podcast.
Speaker:But you have an idea for an episode.
Speaker:And you start to think about what you're going to say.
Speaker:And you realize.
Speaker:That's only five minutes.
Speaker:And I liked my episodes to be around 20 minutes.
Speaker:Um, 15 minutes at the shortest, but usually around 20 minutes.
Speaker:And I know that that's about 2000 work block-based so that's quite a lot to say.
Speaker:And sometimes the episodes I found the hardest or when I have struggled to make
Speaker:it long enough, and I have put episodes out that had been slightly shorter.
Speaker:You probably find one or two that have 12 or 13 minutes, but there's definitely
Speaker:no five minute episodes in there.
Speaker:It annoys me when I listened to other people's podcasts
Speaker:and they really, really short.
Speaker:And because I'm on a dog walk or something, and I've got to keep, I'm
Speaker:going to move on to the next one.
Speaker:So I like episodes, which are about 20 minutes.
Speaker:And that's what's driven it.
Speaker:So they've been hardest, wanted to do.
Speaker:Those when I've struggled to expand my topic for 20 minutes.
Speaker:And often that means that I've ended up starting again with something,
Speaker:with a different topic and there are times when like everybody.
Speaker:I struggled to think about what to say.
Speaker:And I'm just not feeling creative.
Speaker:I'm not feeling in the zone.
Speaker:And often that's when I have left the podcast episodes to be.
Speaker:A bit too late and I'm feeling under pressure to actually.
Speaker:Go out there with an episode.
Speaker:So they've been the hardest ones today.
Speaker:The second question is from Paula and Paula says, I would love to know a
Speaker:little bit about what you've learned through any of your design processes
Speaker:with your clients this past year.
Speaker:So far.
Speaker:And then she's asked a second question.
Speaker:How challenges that you've come up against have helped you to further
Speaker:the already extensive skillset.
Speaker:Now I built Paula's website this year.
Speaker:I don't know whether she's referring to her own.
Speaker:But I think before I answer the question, it's useful to step back.
Speaker:I think people misunderstand the design process.
Speaker:When I designed a website, I take a lot of information from clients.
Speaker:I want to understand their own style and what they like and what they don't like.
Speaker:I'll ask them a number of questions in a questionnaire.
Speaker:I send them to do that.
Speaker:And I also do things like look at that Instagram, because usually with
Speaker:Instagram, people have got a style.
Speaker:Sometimes they don't, sometimes it's very all over the place, but
Speaker:you can get a sense of their kind of vibe if you like through them.
Speaker:So their style is hugely important because if I try and impose a very different style
Speaker:on them, they're not going to like that.
Speaker:So I try and understand what it is that they like.
Speaker:The second key element of any website design is understanding their clients.
Speaker:And the client's processes in working with them.
Speaker:So what our clients need to know who those clients are and an example of
Speaker:how that influences our design is I've just put a website live for podiatrist.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Alone.
Speaker:He's keen to move to a slightly younger personnel.
Speaker:A lot of her clients are older.
Speaker:And so the website needs to have larger font.
Speaker:It needs to have a very clear navigation.
Speaker:It needs to be really more so than other websites I build.
Speaker:I was trying to use Clare navigation.
Speaker:But it needs to have very clear navigation so people can follow it.
Speaker:It's also things like the older generation prefer using phones.
Speaker:Keep booking things online.
Speaker:So I make sure I'm showing both though.
Speaker:People don't feel that they can't get in contact and also the physical
Speaker:address and how you get there.
Speaker:And those kinds of things that obviously massively important.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:That's how my client clients influence a design process.
Speaker:So what.
Speaker:Have I learned from my clients.
Speaker:I mean, all of my clients inspire me.
Speaker:They're all very different.
Speaker:They.
Speaker:A number of different industries, albeit all in a service-based industries.
Speaker:I think the, one of the things that I've learned probably more than anything this
Speaker:year is how people really need guidance.
Speaker:When I started out building websites, I used to say to people, just give
Speaker:me a content and I'll build it.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:People get very overwhelmed with that.
Speaker:So one of the things which I'm really trying to focus on when
Speaker:I take a break this month is getting my own processes in order.
Speaker:I really do things for clients to help guide them through the process.
Speaker:Now I have a questionnaire.
Speaker:I have a guide to a home page and those kinds of things,
Speaker:but I want to do even more.
Speaker:And just give my clients so much more guidance in terms of the content
Speaker:that they need to come up with.
Speaker:, and, and give them a lot of prompts so that it an awful lot easier for
Speaker:them because that's the one thing that I have learned, not just this year,
Speaker:but over the last couple of years is I need to make things as easy as
Speaker:possible for my clients, because if they don't build a website every day,
Speaker:Often they've built their own.
Speaker:The first one has been one that they built themselves.
Speaker:But, They need a lot of guidance.
Speaker:So that's the key thing that I've really learned.
Speaker:And challenges.
Speaker:I'm always coming up against challenges.
Speaker:I think when I started, I thought website designers knew everything.
Speaker:Or website designer's name everything.
Speaker:I've realized that that's not true at all.
Speaker:I don't think any website design, it knows everything.
Speaker:So there's no reason for me to know everything.
Speaker:I know quite a lot.
Speaker:And so I'm often coming up against design challenges, things that I want
Speaker:to do and which I don't know how to do.
Speaker:And there are a couple of things which I do in that case.
Speaker:One is good.
Speaker:Old Google.
Speaker:It's amazing what you can find on Google.
Speaker:And especially on YouTube, as long as you know, the right questions to ask.
Speaker:And who to trust.
Speaker:so Google is really good.
Speaker:Um, I'm in a couple of design groups.
Speaker:So asking questions in there that has been really, really good.
Speaker:One of those in particular.
Speaker:Shout out to Josh Hall's group.
Speaker:That has been really helpful.
Speaker:And the third thing is, I have a couple of people who I pay, and who I can
Speaker:rely upon when there are things which.
Speaker:It's not that I couldn't do.
Speaker:But I just know that it's not worth my time and effort to do.
Speaker:So there's sometimes very chemical things, which yes, I could learn how to do, but
Speaker:why do that when I can pay somebody else who can do it in a cancer at the time
Speaker:that it would take me to work it out.
Speaker:And they've done this many times before and it's likely to be accurate.
Speaker:So I've got, a developer in particular that I trust.
Speaker:And so I will often outsource things which are outside my skillset to him.
Speaker:Okay, next question is from Lisa and Lisa has asked how do
Speaker:you collect client feedback?
Speaker:I love this question, Lisa, because it shows that you're focused
Speaker:on collecting client feedback, which is a brilliant thing to do.
Speaker:Why is it so good?
Speaker:Well, there's two reasons.
Speaker:One is for your own internal process.
Speaker:How can you improve what you do?
Speaker:How can improve your products and your services and getting client feedback
Speaker:and understanding what clients want is key to doing that is to always improve.
Speaker:And that's something that I'm always looking to do.
Speaker:And I'll come on to how in a moment.
Speaker:The second reason it's so good is to help you with your marketing.
Speaker:I don't just mean quoting client reviews or testimonials, although
Speaker:that is incredibly powerful.
Speaker:But also you can, when clients leave feedback, you can pick up on
Speaker:some of the language that they use.
Speaker:And some of the things that they're thinking about.
Speaker:And you sat in your marketing.
Speaker:So you can, you know, if a client says that they, you know, before they came
Speaker:to see you, they were particularly worried about a certain thing.
Speaker:Then you can reflect that back in your marketing and you can
Speaker:overcome some of those concerns, which other people might have.
Speaker:So, how do I collect it?
Speaker:I ask.
Speaker:When I finish a bespoke website for client, I have questionnaire,
Speaker:which I sent to clients.
Speaker:And it's not particularly low.
Speaker:There's about five or six questions in there.
Speaker:So I asked things like what they're worried about before they started
Speaker:working with me, why they chose me, how they found the process,
Speaker:um, any particular highlights.
Speaker:I asked them through a review.
Speaker:And I also give links so that they can put that review on to Google, for example,
Speaker:which is something I want from clients.
Speaker:I want reviews on Google because that helps mic to be found on Google.
Speaker:And I also asked for feedback on what I could do better.
Speaker:So I sent that to clients.
Speaker:Do clients fill it in sometimes?
Speaker:Not always.
Speaker:I usually follow up once or twice.
Speaker:And then I just let it go.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I get more forms back then I get Google reviews.
Speaker:So I think I've got 19 reviews on Google at the moment.
Speaker:Desperately trying to get that over 20.
Speaker:So if you worked with me and you'd like to leave me a Google review, please do so.
Speaker:Just type in, beyond the kitchen table and still going to my website.
Speaker:It should be on the right hand bar on, on Google.
Speaker:And you can leave a review on there.
Speaker:But at the end of the day, you can only ask so many times.
Speaker:And so when I ask clients, I do point out that it's really, really helpful.
Speaker:And that people are busy.
Speaker:So you can just ask and.
Speaker:That's what I encourage everybody to do is ask for the reviews.
Speaker:If people are busy and don't want to give a review, they
Speaker:won't, but you'd be surprised.
Speaker:I get reviews back from people.
Speaker:That I didn't expect to get reviewed back.
Speaker:And that's really good.
Speaker:And being helpful for my business
Speaker:Next question is from Ella and Ella has said.
Speaker:I'd love to know more about how to get a domain name.
Speaker:The so many companies offering them.
Speaker:I don't know where to start.
Speaker:And I've heard you should purchase a few similar ones to
Speaker:stop others from having them.
Speaker:When it comes to buying a domain name.
Speaker:So this is your website address.
Speaker:It doesn't really matter where you buy it from
Speaker:As long as it's somebody reputable.
Speaker:So 1, 2, 3 rage go daddy, Google, et cetera.
Speaker:It doesn't really matter.
Speaker:I used to recommend people buy from Google because then it was easier.
Speaker:If you wanted to use Google's email service, Google workspace.
Speaker:It was easier to connect the two.
Speaker:Google's actually sold its workspace to Squarespace.
Speaker:And I don't know whether they've solved it, a main service with it as well.
Speaker:So I'm not sure I've, haven't been advising that over the last month, but
Speaker:it doesn't matter where you buy it from.
Speaker:In terms of what you should buy.
Speaker:If you have the opportunity to buy the.com and the.co.uk, you should
Speaker:definitely buy both because there's a two key ones that people use in the UK.
Speaker:Dot co.uk tends to be used more by people who have a UK focused business.
Speaker:and.com by people who are internationally focused, but both are very accessible
Speaker:in the UK and they are the main chair.
Speaker:And by buying too, what you can do is you can have one of them
Speaker:as your main domain, and then you redirect the other one to that.
Speaker:Should you buy more than that?
Speaker:Well, it depends.
Speaker:And it might be worth buying an additional one or two, but the
Speaker:reality is there are so many different extensions, so you've got.co.org.info.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Design all sorts of different things that it's just not cost-effective to
Speaker:buy all of the different extensions.
Speaker:You've also got hyphenated versions.
Speaker:And things like that.
Speaker:So, It's very difficult to mop up all of the different domain
Speaker:names, but certainly.com and.co.uk.
Speaker:Beyond that I would probably go for registering your trademark, your brand.
Speaker:As a way to protect your name from generally being used by others rather than
Speaker:trying to buy a pool of the domain names
Speaker:I hope I pronounced your name correctly.
Speaker:There has asked what changes to do on a website so that it comes first in search.
Speaker:This is a question.
Speaker:I get asked a lot.
Speaker:Or it's an assumption that people have that when I built a website, they would
Speaker:automatically come first in search.
Speaker:And my question back.
Speaker:Is what you want to come first and search for.
Speaker:Because everybody wants to get to the top of page.
Speaker:One of Google.
Speaker:But getting there with your business name.
Speaker:Is one thing, but do you want to get found for other things as well?
Speaker:So getting found for your business name is not that difficult.
Speaker:But getting found for other things, it depends upon how
Speaker:competitive those terms are.
Speaker:So, if you want to get found for, I don't know.
Speaker:Boys running shoes.
Speaker:Just don't bother.
Speaker:Because, you'll have the Nike's and the Adidas and people like that.
Speaker:We'll just have that, that sewn up.
Speaker:And you're never going to be able to have the funds to be able to compete with them.
Speaker:And even if you did, I'm not sure it would be worth the money to be honest.
Speaker:So the first thing is to think about what you actually want
Speaker:to get found in search for.
Speaker:These are called your keywords and the best keywords are ones,
Speaker:which people who are looking for a service like you are searching for.
Speaker:That is relevant to your business.
Speaker:And that you can compete on.
Speaker:Once, you know what those words are.
Speaker:Then the next thing is to make sure that you're writing
Speaker:about that keyword or phrase.
Speaker:And he should make sure that on every page of your website, you are
Speaker:only trying to target one key word.
Speaker:If you try and rank for lots of different keywords on a page, Google
Speaker:would be confused and it won't consider your page for ranking on any
Speaker:of them or at least not very high up.
Speaker:It really likes to.
Speaker:Understand what a page is about, and then it will look to rank it for that.
Speaker:And that's basically the main thing you should do.
Speaker:There are a number of episodes on SEO.
Speaker:And I do some more.
Speaker:I've got some more coming up in September.
Speaker:And in fact, I've got a course coming up.
Speaker:Later this year as well, when I can go into much more of that, but it's
Speaker:understanding what your keywords are that you want to rank for.
Speaker:And writing about them are the two main things that you should be doing
Speaker:has asked what is the next thing?
Speaker:We have websites, Google social media.
Speaker:What will the next way of marketing be for businesses?
Speaker:It's really interesting question, Claire and I wish I had.
Speaker:A crystal ball.
Speaker:I don't know, but these are my thoughts.
Speaker:And I have two key thoughts.
Speaker:One is the impact of AI, which is obviously going to get bigger.
Speaker:AI has made it much easier for people to do content marketing.
Speaker:What is making it easier for people to do content marketing?
Speaker:And I think we're going to see an explosion in content marketing.
Speaker:There's going to be a lot more competition because it's much easier
Speaker:and yes, when it's easier for you.
Speaker:You think great, but it's also easier for your competitors.
Speaker:So you've got to find different ways of standing out.
Speaker:I think the impact of AI.
Speaker:On search engines, like Google is going to be.
Speaker:Fascinating.
Speaker:And I think a lot is a more generic search where people are
Speaker:looking just for information.
Speaker:And where websites might at one time have come up.
Speaker:They're going to be replaced by AI results.
Speaker:So people are not going to be directed to your website if they want to know.
Speaker:How to do something for example, or, Why you should do something.
Speaker:But I think, When it comes to searching for things like plumber and seven eggs,
Speaker:it doesn't really matter whether it's a search engine giving the result or
Speaker:whether it's AI search engines or just AI.
Speaker:Anyway, they're just ranking plumbers in seven AIX and AI might do it
Speaker:slightly differently, but at the end of the day, you've got to be
Speaker:feeding it the information so that it knows if you're a plumber and stuff
Speaker:next that you should be included in that list and preferably higher up.
Speaker:But the other change I think we're going to see in marketing is, and I've
Speaker:noticed this much more post COVID.
Speaker:Is people want to do business with people.
Speaker:And I have seen shift back to in-person events and people craving.
Speaker:Uh, meetings with individual people.
Speaker:Yes, we might use him and we might use.
Speaker:Computers for a lot of things.
Speaker:And save time that way.
Speaker:But I think we're also wanting that human interaction.
Speaker:So I think marketing is going to go back to.
Speaker:Being much more about your connections, much more about the
Speaker:people, you know, and who they know.
Speaker:And that's going to have a massive impact going forward as well.
Speaker:Ah, there we go.
Speaker:That's my crystal ball.
Speaker:Let's see.
Speaker:Let's listen to this back in five years time.
Speaker:And see whether i was right or
Speaker:not
Speaker:Okay, two more questions.
Speaker:So Sarah has asked how I managed to balance work with my family life.
Speaker:And when I started this business back six years ago, my children were.
Speaker:13 and 10.
Speaker:So they went little, little, but my daily life revolved
Speaker:around taking them to school.
Speaker:Coming home doing some work and then some afternoons I would be needed for school.
Speaker:Things like sports matches.
Speaker:For example, I was.
Speaker:Always very keen to see my children's play sport as much as I possibly could.
Speaker:And support them school pickup.
Speaker:And then in the evenings, it would be.
Speaker:Taking them to clubs.
Speaker:Swimming those kinds of things, being around for homework, cooking dinner.
Speaker:So at that time from about.
Speaker:Three 30 til 8:00 PM.
Speaker:I couldn't do any work and sometimes I'd work in the evening.
Speaker:So my work time.
Speaker:I had to be focused really the time they were at school.
Speaker:School holidays.
Speaker:Always challenging because although they didn't need complete supervision.
Speaker:They always wanted to be doing things.
Speaker:Uh, one of them used to be quite happy having a lot of play dates, which was
Speaker:really helpful for getting work done.
Speaker:The other one wanted to be out and about more.
Speaker:or play on electronic devices.
Speaker:So I found those different strategies of, yes, I might take them to
Speaker:soft play and I would take some work that I could do in soft play.
Speaker:I might swap with other families for play dates, always important to try and
Speaker:do days with both children going in.
Speaker:At the same time, otherwise you just end up with one child
Speaker:and that doesn't really help.
Speaker:In terms of getting work done.
Speaker:But it was just a case of fitting into where they were and the time
Speaker:that I had, and as my children got older, I have got more time
Speaker:because they're more independent.
Speaker:My eldest is it university.
Speaker:And yes, that means that when I go and take him and bring him
Speaker:back at the beginning and end of term, it's a couple of days out.
Speaker:But when he's home, he's pretty independent.
Speaker:And my other is 16.
Speaker:So she is again, relatively independent, although I'm needed for Lyft.
Speaker:And sometimes it might be, can we go shopping and blue
Speaker:water or something like that.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:During the holidays.
Speaker:I try and be more flexible.
Speaker:I can't always be around for them.
Speaker:With what they need.
Speaker:Especially when they usually ask me last minute.
Speaker:Like, can you take me now to something?
Speaker:And I've got a client meeting in 15 minutes.
Speaker:No, I can't.
Speaker:You'd have to wait, which doesn't always go down well, but it is a case
Speaker:of, I think sometimes just accepting.
Speaker:You have less time, you don't have 35, 40 hours a week, or if you do.
Speaker:Some of it's going to be during the day.
Speaker:Some of it's gotta be in the evening.
Speaker:The other thing.
Speaker:Often have done is work on weekends.
Speaker:And especially when my children were younger.
Speaker:Getting my husband to take them out on a day of the weekend.
Speaker:After the house, which meant that I could get stuff done.
Speaker:While they were out.
Speaker:The one other challenge I have now is now that we ask you guys, we've got a
Speaker:dog, so I have to fit in dog walking.
Speaker:So I still do the school run in the morning, and then I walk the dog.
Speaker:So I don't start work until about 10 o'clock and I try and have the
Speaker:first hour free of any meetings.
Speaker:So I try not to take client calls until.
Speaker:11 o'clock.
Speaker:In order to just make sure that I don't feel that I'm behind before
Speaker:I've even started the day properly.
Speaker:And the final question is from Georgina.
Speaker:Georgina's asked what's the most memorable thing that you've either
Speaker:woken up in the night, thinking about.
Speaker:Or has been your first waking thought.
Speaker:And I've left the trickiest one to last.
Speaker:It took a bad procrastination.
Speaker:I don't know, it's a very straightforward answer.
Speaker:I think like a lot of women and maybe men, I have often woken up in the middle
Speaker:of the night thinking about something.
Speaker:I woken up in the middle of the night.
Speaker:was it spark of inspiration for a client website that might
Speaker:be designed or more often.
Speaker:And certainly this has happened very frequently.
Speaker:Is something I've been thinking about more, how do I do that?
Speaker:And the answer will suddenly come to me at 3:00 AM.
Speaker:Not the most helpful time, but, if that happens and that's life, then
Speaker:my brain is often wearing at night.
Speaker:First waking thought is never very inspirational.
Speaker:I'm not a morning person.
Speaker:It's more likely to be, ER, what time is it?
Speaker:I really don't have an awful lot of brain power at very first thing.
Speaker:But certainly in the middle of the night, often wake up, but I can't think
Speaker:of anything particularly memorable.
Speaker:So sorry, Georgina.
Speaker:That's not really a very good place to end.
Speaker:Is it on the.
Speaker:The question that I can't answer, but it's not bad.
Speaker:One question I can't answer.
Speaker:Hopefully you found the other answers useful.
Speaker:This is not something I've done before.
Speaker:Maybe I'll do it again in the future.
Speaker:Let me know if you've, if you enjoyed this episode as being
Speaker:something different, I'm on email@sayhelloatbeyondthekitchentable.co.uk.
Speaker:Or on Instagram at, beyond the KT, you can message me on there.
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