If you want to be successful in business you’re going to have to hustle.
Well, that’s what a lot of people think, and they work themselves to exhaustion because of it.
But in reality, things aren’t that black and white. Which is precisely why I invited Vanessa and Nicky, the brilliant co-authors of Healthy Hustle, to join me for a conversation about their latest book.
Healthy Hustle is a guidebook for people who are deep in the business world, people who are established leaders with growing teams, and for anyone who feels stuck in a cycle of endless work. It’s not a get-rich quick guide, but instead an exploration into how business owners can grow their companies without sacrificing their health or their sanity.
You might be surprised that the word “hustle” is in the books title, but it’s not actually advocating to remove hustle from your life. Although it is commonly a drain on people, Vanessa and Nicky argue that hustle, when channelled correctly, can be a source of energy and momentum. "Healthy Hustle" encourages us to embrace those powerful aspects of hustle (like drive and determination) but balance them with your personal joy and wellbeing.
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Nikki and Ness,
Speaker:congratulations on your
Speaker:new book, Healthy Hustle.
Speaker:Super excited, Healthy
Speaker:Hustle, the new
Speaker:blueprint to thrive
Speaker:in business and life.
Speaker:I am very excited to talk
Speaker:to you about the book.
Speaker:This book, but before we
Speaker:get into the depths of the
Speaker:book, I'm curious why is
Speaker:this book healthy hustle
Speaker:so important for now?
Speaker:the reality is that
Speaker:right now, hustling
Speaker:hard is costing lives.
Speaker:And that's not even
Speaker:a dramatic statement.
Speaker:when we're hustling
Speaker:hard, when we're doing
Speaker:the unhealthy hustle, at
Speaker:best, it will minimize the
Speaker:efficiency of our business.
Speaker:It will impact the long
Speaker:term sustainability.
Speaker:But at worst, people
Speaker:are dying from
Speaker:exhaustion, from burnout.
Speaker:Um, we have interviewed
Speaker:Christine Boucher.
Speaker:Who is a health and
Speaker:wellness coach who spent
Speaker:20 years as a nurse looking
Speaker:after intensive care
Speaker:patients around, um, you
Speaker:know, issues with heart
Speaker:disease, stroke, diabetes,
Speaker:and she could see the
Speaker:trajectory that these
Speaker:people were on and how
Speaker:they got to where they are.
Speaker:High stress environments
Speaker:are one of the most
Speaker:reasons, common
Speaker:reasons that people
Speaker:go and see a doctor.
Speaker:Um, you know, we know that
Speaker:more than 9 in 10 workers
Speaker:are chronically stressed.
Speaker:These are some of the
Speaker:stats and research that
Speaker:we did for the book,
Speaker:but you don't need to do
Speaker:that research to know.
Speaker:You just look at the
Speaker:news, you hear the stories
Speaker:around exhaustion, burnout,
Speaker:physical, um, harm.
Speaker:You know, Ariana
Speaker:Huffington, she's a classic
Speaker:example of a woman who
Speaker:collapsed from exhaustion,
Speaker:Uh, broke her cheekbone on
Speaker:the way, way down, woke up
Speaker:in a little pool of blood
Speaker:and was like, Oh my gosh,
Speaker:what's the cause of this?
Speaker:It was exhaustion, stress.
Speaker:They're the high profile
Speaker:scenarios that we know.
Speaker:And I think we all have
Speaker:maybe not to the extreme
Speaker:of that, but examples of
Speaker:this in our everyday life.
Speaker:, I've literally done a
Speaker:coaching session with
Speaker:a leader on how to have
Speaker:time to go to the toilet.
Speaker:And it sounds ridiculous.
Speaker:It's crazy.
Speaker:But that's the reality
Speaker:of the state that
Speaker:we're in right now.
Speaker:So why now we have to
Speaker:create change, why this
Speaker:book, Ness and I, you
Speaker:know, we've been doing this
Speaker:gig for decades, actually
Speaker:over 50 years together.
Speaker:And I really don't
Speaker:like saying that a
Speaker:lot, but it's true.
Speaker:You know, we've observed,
Speaker:we've done tens of
Speaker:thousands of coaching
Speaker:hours, training sessions.
Speaker:We've observed patterns
Speaker:of behavior that achieved
Speaker:success without burnout
Speaker:or without entrepreneurial
Speaker:addiction and the patterns
Speaker:and the behaviors that keep
Speaker:us stuck in the busy trap
Speaker:stuck in the whirlwind.
Speaker:Uh, and so we really
Speaker:kind of came together and
Speaker:went, how do we distill
Speaker:this knowledge and this
Speaker:information, not just from
Speaker:our collective smarts, but
Speaker:also, you know, Christine
Speaker:and leaning on other
Speaker:experts to go actually,
Speaker:what is the blueprint?
Speaker:Because reality is it
Speaker:is our duty of care
Speaker:to create change.
Speaker:And as business leaders,
Speaker:the three of us here,
Speaker:people that are listening,
Speaker:people that are watching.
Speaker:It's serious and it is
Speaker:absolutely a call to arms
Speaker:to find a better way.
Speaker:It's got to happen,
Speaker:and if not us, who, right?
Speaker:It's time.
Speaker:Love that.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:uh, I have to fess up and
Speaker:say, uh, I was so honored
Speaker:to have been asked to
Speaker:write the forward of the
Speaker:book and everything that
Speaker:you are saying there.
Speaker:resonates.
Speaker:Um, it's why I was a hell.
Speaker:Yeah, I'll absolutely
Speaker:write this forward
Speaker:because I'm with you.
Speaker:There are too many business
Speaker:owners right now that are
Speaker:stuck in that busy track
Speaker:that are spinning hard.
Speaker:And the very reason.
Speaker:That they went out to
Speaker:create what they're
Speaker:creating is almost like
Speaker:a far forgotten dream
Speaker:because they're so
Speaker:busy peddling hard in
Speaker:their own businesses.
Speaker:I'm curious for you,
Speaker:who do you think
Speaker:should read this book?
Speaker:Who needs to
Speaker:read this book?
Speaker:It's really pointed
Speaker:towards business owners and
Speaker:leaders with established
Speaker:businesses and teams.
Speaker:So they're looking for
Speaker:a better way to continue
Speaker:to grow the business
Speaker:and they're really sick
Speaker:of the hustle culture.
Speaker:So the hustle culture
Speaker:keeps you tethered to
Speaker:your business and they're
Speaker:really wanting to get
Speaker:out of that, hustle and
Speaker:grind kind of mentality.
Speaker:And find a better way.
Speaker:But I think there's
Speaker:a fear that if I do
Speaker:something differently,
Speaker:the success I've had up
Speaker:until now is going to go.
Speaker:So they are action takers.
Speaker:They're driven for
Speaker:success and they want
Speaker:to continue to succeed,
Speaker:but it's getting to a
Speaker:point where it's feeling
Speaker:really, really hard.
Speaker:And that leaves them.
Speaker:feeling like they're
Speaker:stuck in business.
Speaker:They're not spending
Speaker:time with those who
Speaker:matter the most.
Speaker:They're getting towards
Speaker:that burnout and they're
Speaker:beginning to wonder
Speaker:whether it's all worth it.
Speaker:And what we don't want
Speaker:is to have people who
Speaker:have worked so damn hard
Speaker:to get to where they
Speaker:are, getting to a point.
Speaker:Of it's either my health
Speaker:or the business and I
Speaker:need to walk away because
Speaker:we go into business,
Speaker:all of us go into
Speaker:business because
Speaker:there's something
Speaker:that we believe
Speaker:that we can add value to,
Speaker:that we can solve
Speaker:a problem for,
Speaker:that we can help others.
Speaker:And it's not about losing
Speaker:sight of that, but it's
Speaker:about getting to a point
Speaker:where we can say, okay,
Speaker:we can keep growing.
Speaker:But not without
Speaker:the exhaustion.
Speaker:when I say that, I
Speaker:think about, one of our
Speaker:beautiful clients, Jody,
Speaker:who was at a point of near
Speaker:burnout and she really was
Speaker:contemplating walking away
Speaker:cause it was just too hard.
Speaker:And what she was able to
Speaker:do over a period of time
Speaker:is to realize there is a
Speaker:different way of working.
Speaker:And we're now two years
Speaker:down the track and the
Speaker:business is still growing
Speaker:from strength to strength.
Speaker:She's taken a leader on
Speaker:board in the business.
Speaker:, there's a way forward
Speaker:without feeling like she
Speaker:has to let down the 25
Speaker:staff that they have,
Speaker:her mum who started
Speaker:the business, feeling
Speaker:like a failure for,
Speaker:for giving it all away.
Speaker:And instead, she's in
Speaker:a position now where
Speaker:she can take holidays.
Speaker:She can actually find
Speaker:that, that balance
Speaker:between work and life
Speaker:that works for her and
Speaker:not get to that overwhelm
Speaker:and exhaustion phase.
Speaker:So I think of people like
Speaker:Jodie, and I realized that
Speaker:they're the kind of people
Speaker:that are going to get the
Speaker:best out of this book.
Speaker:But also, um, Uh, second
Speaker:to that, we've had
Speaker:leaders in corporate,
Speaker:in big corporate,
Speaker:read the book, and we
Speaker:know that it actually
Speaker:helps them as well.
Speaker:So I think the secondary
Speaker:audience would be leaders
Speaker:in a business that's not
Speaker:theirs, but primarily
Speaker:the examples and what we
Speaker:go through are written
Speaker:for the business owner.
Speaker:Yeah, and I think what
Speaker:you're talking that to
Speaker:the to their this hustle
Speaker:culture, um, is almost
Speaker:a size of business
Speaker:entrepreneur versus
Speaker:corporate agnostic.
Speaker:Nikki you spoke about
Speaker:this about, you know, all
Speaker:of the stats all of the
Speaker:trends coming through,
Speaker:whether you are a one
Speaker:person business or a leader
Speaker:of a huge conglomerate.
Speaker:This.
Speaker:Hustle, whether it be
Speaker:hustle for sales, hustle
Speaker:for time, hustle at
Speaker:meetings, hustle with
Speaker:people, like this hustle
Speaker:and the exhaustion that's
Speaker:coming with that is
Speaker:currently detrimental to
Speaker:business owners, leaders,
Speaker:but then it filters down
Speaker:through team because
Speaker:they're seeing that as
Speaker:the only way to work.
Speaker:One of the key things
Speaker:that I'm interested to
Speaker:understand is why you've
Speaker:kept hustle in the title
Speaker:of the book because of
Speaker:its negative connotations.
Speaker:You do talk a lot through
Speaker:the book about moving
Speaker:from hustle to happy
Speaker:versus, um, that hard
Speaker:hustle that's going on.
Speaker:So I'm really curious to
Speaker:hear from your perspective,
Speaker:, the rationale of.
Speaker:Hustle still being
Speaker:there in that title.
Speaker:So here's the thing.
Speaker:We don't necessarily
Speaker:want to take some
Speaker:of the hustle away.
Speaker:The problem is we've
Speaker:taken the hustle too far.
Speaker:So the hustle has
Speaker:become the unhealthy
Speaker:hardcore push, push,
Speaker:push till we drop.
Speaker:What we want to do is we
Speaker:want to look at what, what
Speaker:elements of hustle actually
Speaker:work for us, because
Speaker:we want to create this
Speaker:definition of success that
Speaker:says, We can be tenacious,
Speaker:we can be driven,
Speaker:we can be determined,
Speaker:we can get up and go,
Speaker:we can have momentum,
Speaker:but not at all costs.
Speaker:What if we could do
Speaker:that and prioritize
Speaker:life just as much?
Speaker:So we think that the hustle
Speaker:is a really important
Speaker:component and there's
Speaker:lots of conversations
Speaker:and narrative about
Speaker:the hustle is bad and
Speaker:move away from it.
Speaker:I mean, we opened this
Speaker:conversation with the
Speaker:negatives of hustle.
Speaker:Yet, if we look at how
Speaker:we can make the hustle
Speaker:healthy, we can start
Speaker:to unlearn, relearn
Speaker:different beliefs that
Speaker:maybe hold us back.
Speaker:You know, the reality is
Speaker:that, the people that we're
Speaker:talking to, the business
Speaker:owners, leaders is we're
Speaker:successful for a reason.
Speaker:There's certain things in
Speaker:there we want to keep and
Speaker:we want to build on, but
Speaker:there's certain things like
Speaker:beliefs we want to let go
Speaker:of, um, the way that we're
Speaker:managing our energy, you
Speaker:know, the way the time
Speaker:of day we're working.
Speaker:All those sorts of things,
Speaker:the type of business that
Speaker:we're building, we have
Speaker:the opportunity to redefine
Speaker:what that looks like.
Speaker:We need to add the healthy
Speaker:and we need to keep
Speaker:the hustle because the
Speaker:hustle creates momentum.
Speaker:Pressure makes diamonds.
Speaker:Uh, so it's not about
Speaker:one or the other.
Speaker:Why does it have
Speaker:to be at Costco?
Speaker:What if we could have
Speaker:both, but we do it in
Speaker:a really smart way.
Speaker:And so this is why
Speaker:everything we do is
Speaker:through the filter
Speaker:of healthy hustle.
Speaker:Even when we talk
Speaker:about sales, it's like,
Speaker:what's a smart way to
Speaker:generate more inquiries
Speaker:or sales or conversions?
Speaker:Like what's a clever
Speaker:way to do this.
Speaker:So I think that's a really
Speaker:important point when we're
Speaker:looking at healthy hustle.
Speaker:And the other thing
Speaker:I, I just kind of
Speaker:want to mention here
Speaker:around this is that.
Speaker:Typically, you know,
Speaker:when you're ready to
Speaker:move from the hustle
Speaker:to happy, there's a
Speaker:bit of a crossroads.
Speaker:We call it the
Speaker:growth set point, the
Speaker:crossroad of your pain
Speaker:and growth set point.
Speaker:So you've had success in
Speaker:business, time in business
Speaker:results in business.
Speaker:Revenue profit team
Speaker:has grown established
Speaker:products and services, but
Speaker:then the business owner
Speaker:starts to feel like a bit
Speaker:stuck and what's next.
Speaker:Do I really have
Speaker:to continue my
Speaker:success in this way?
Speaker:And there's three
Speaker:choices here.
Speaker:And this is what we
Speaker:talk about in the book.
Speaker:And really everything
Speaker:is centered around.
Speaker:What choice will you make?
Speaker:Because you can keep
Speaker:going as you are.
Speaker:And the business
Speaker:will plateau.
Speaker:You're not trying
Speaker:new strategies.
Speaker:You're just going, you
Speaker:know, and you're not
Speaker:challenging that status
Speaker:quo, or we find a lot
Speaker:of business owners
Speaker:and leaders will bury
Speaker:their head in the sand.
Speaker:So they go into
Speaker:avoidance and that's
Speaker:when you'll actually
Speaker:start to go backwards.
Speaker:Think of the dream.
Speaker:Think of the reason that
Speaker:you came in business,
Speaker:into business, lifestyle,
Speaker:time with family.
Speaker:You know, you don't
Speaker:want to sacrifice that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Or you could choose the
Speaker:third option, which is
Speaker:what we're encouraging,
Speaker:which is this hustle to
Speaker:happy and healthy hustle,
Speaker:where you actually start
Speaker:to look at things in a
Speaker:different way and redefine
Speaker:what success looks like.
Speaker:So we've got to
Speaker:keep the hustle.
Speaker:We just need to
Speaker:make it a healthy,
Speaker:resourceful hustle.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I love the peace
Speaker:around you and I were
Speaker:also aligned here.
Speaker:It's that momentum.
Speaker:You're okay.
Speaker:It's okay to strive
Speaker:for momentum, for
Speaker:more, for success,
Speaker:but not at all costs.
Speaker:And this, this is what
Speaker:you talk about in,
Speaker:in healthy hustle.
Speaker:And thank you for sharing.
Speaker:The rationale there, I
Speaker:think it makes absolute
Speaker:sense of moving from
Speaker:hard hustle that's,
Speaker:, essentially doing damage
Speaker:to healthy hustle, which
Speaker:is, as I talk about life
Speaker:and business by design.
Speaker:I'm curious, before we get
Speaker:into the depths of what
Speaker:you write about, so we can
Speaker:share with the audience a
Speaker:little bit more, you've got
Speaker:three main concepts, that
Speaker:you talk to in the book.
Speaker:Can you just share
Speaker:those, uh, with your
Speaker:audience, please?
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:So the three concepts that
Speaker:we talk about is moving
Speaker:away from where business
Speaker:feels really chaotic.
Speaker:We call it business
Speaker:chaos over across
Speaker:to smart growth.
Speaker:So it's getting out of
Speaker:the clutter and then
Speaker:looking at how you're
Speaker:going to move the business
Speaker:forward in a smart way.
Speaker:We also look at this
Speaker:concept of juggle street,
Speaker:the being everything to
Speaker:everyone kind of situation
Speaker:and wanting our leaders
Speaker:and their teams to move
Speaker:to peak performance.
Speaker:So peak performance across
Speaker:the way that they work, the
Speaker:way that they do business.
Speaker:And then the third area
Speaker:that we look at is getting
Speaker:out of the busy trap, you
Speaker:know, that mouse wheel
Speaker:where you just feel like
Speaker:no matter what you do, you
Speaker:can't get on top of it all.
Speaker:And you're constantly
Speaker:spinning your wheels
Speaker:and actually allowing
Speaker:the business owner and
Speaker:the team to have time,
Speaker:freedom, time, freedom
Speaker:to be able to prioritize
Speaker:life, but also time
Speaker:freedom to see what's next.
Speaker:What's the next big idea
Speaker:or the next thing that
Speaker:you want to achieve.
Speaker:So they're the three big
Speaker:topics we talk about.
Speaker:All right, let's deep
Speaker:dive into each of these.
Speaker:So first one, you talk
Speaker:about moving from business
Speaker:chaos to smart growth.
Speaker:Uh, can you tell me more
Speaker:about what that means?
Speaker:Um, and it'd be great
Speaker:to hear some evidence
Speaker:of success when people
Speaker:have moved to that
Speaker:smart growth place.
Speaker:So smart business growth
Speaker:and moving from that
Speaker:place of chaos to smart
Speaker:growth is really about
Speaker:leveraging three key areas.
Speaker:You've got to have
Speaker:a clarity of the
Speaker:clarity of direction
Speaker:that you're heading.
Speaker:So business planning,
Speaker:but gone are the days of
Speaker:the, you know, 500 page
Speaker:PowerPoint presentations.
Speaker:You spend months creating
Speaker:it, just a simple plan
Speaker:on a page, or we call
Speaker:it the true North frame,
Speaker:a true North framework,
Speaker:uh, to help guide
Speaker:people through a simple
Speaker:process to have a plan.
Speaker:When you have a plan
Speaker:and you have a focus on
Speaker:sales and equally profit.
Speaker:So plan sales and profit.
Speaker:That's actually how, you
Speaker:know, you've got smart
Speaker:business growth in place.
Speaker:Now we have a client,
Speaker:James, he features
Speaker:in the book, um,
Speaker:incredible results.
Speaker:So we've worked with him
Speaker:for the last five years.
Speaker:He has had 98 percent
Speaker:year on year growth on
Speaker:average for the last.
Speaker:Now he's an established
Speaker:business owner, uh, and
Speaker:there was an increase
Speaker:in profit as well.
Speaker:He's installed smart
Speaker:business growth strategies.
Speaker:He has a plan.
Speaker:He focused on
Speaker:sales and profit.
Speaker:And obviously there's
Speaker:key elements around that,
Speaker:but what we were really
Speaker:celebrating earlier this
Speaker:year, when he shared
Speaker:this with us, yes, the
Speaker:revenue results are great.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:The profit
Speaker:increased amazing.
Speaker:We love that
Speaker:we're in business.
Speaker:We love the numbers.
Speaker:But the thing that
Speaker:we were most excited
Speaker:about and celebrating.
Speaker:Was the fact that he
Speaker:doesn't have his phone at
Speaker:the dinner table anymore,
Speaker:that he can have
Speaker:breakfast with his wife
Speaker:before going into work,
Speaker:he's got time to
Speaker:do school pickup,
Speaker:he's working towards
Speaker:a four day week.
Speaker:that's what matters
Speaker:because when he came to
Speaker:us, he was like, Nikki,
Speaker:I'm constantly connected.
Speaker:I'm waiting for
Speaker:the next thing.
Speaker:That's going to need me.
Speaker:I can't, it's taking
Speaker:me away from my family.
Speaker:And we actually
Speaker:interviewed him on a
Speaker:podcast episode as well.
Speaker:Really uncovering what his
Speaker:beliefs were that, that
Speaker:defined his definition
Speaker:of success when it came
Speaker:to, to smart growth,
Speaker:sales profit, et cetera.
Speaker:So that to me is.
Speaker:Such a classic example of
Speaker:somebody who is absolutely
Speaker:living and breathing
Speaker:smart grid strategies.
Speaker:Um, he also has implemented
Speaker:some of the peak
Speaker:performance, um, components
Speaker:and time freedom, but
Speaker:at its core, that's
Speaker:where we have to start.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Smart growth or
Speaker:from business care
Speaker:to smart growth.
Speaker:What I love about
Speaker:what you share again
Speaker:reiterates that this
Speaker:isn't about hustling hard.
Speaker:It's about hustling smartly
Speaker:or healthy hustle that you
Speaker:talk about and who doesn't
Speaker:want more choice in how
Speaker:they're managing their day.
Speaker:I'm sure there's
Speaker:people listening.
Speaker:I want more holiday.
Speaker:I want more time off.
Speaker:Um, Thanks for sharing that
Speaker:unless I want to jump to
Speaker:the second one, because I
Speaker:think, your concept here,
Speaker:I equally, I'm hearing so
Speaker:much in the marketplace
Speaker:right now, this feeling
Speaker:of I'm constantly juggling
Speaker:lots of different things.
Speaker:You call it
Speaker:juggles straight.
Speaker:And I go, absolutely.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:People seem to have so
Speaker:many balls in the air
Speaker:that the challenge is
Speaker:they can't focus on On
Speaker:the right things that
Speaker:are going to shift the
Speaker:dial or as you talk
Speaker:about peak performance.
Speaker:I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker:Some examples of what
Speaker:people can do to move
Speaker:from juggle street to
Speaker:peak performance and
Speaker:why it's important
Speaker:that they do that.
Speaker:For sure.
Speaker:So when we talk about
Speaker:Juggle Street, I think
Speaker:of one of our clients,
Speaker:Mark, and he stated it
Speaker:beautifully in that he was
Speaker:very reactive rather than
Speaker:responsive to challenges.
Speaker:So it was like, and I'm
Speaker:sure our listeners who
Speaker:are in Juggle Street
Speaker:can resonate with this.
Speaker:It's like putting out some
Speaker:Spot fires everywhere.
Speaker:So he was just like,
Speaker:here's a problem to solve.
Speaker:I'm going to solve
Speaker:that problem.
Speaker:And then onto the next,
Speaker:which meant that in this
Speaker:reactive kind of response
Speaker:to leading, he wasn't
Speaker:looking at that bigger
Speaker:picture and thinking
Speaker:around, well, what is it
Speaker:about the culture that
Speaker:we're setting up here?
Speaker:How can I set up the
Speaker:systems to support my team?
Speaker:Cause in his mind, and
Speaker:he was a leader in a
Speaker:business, someone else
Speaker:looked after that.
Speaker:So once those pieces came
Speaker:together around creating
Speaker:an environment for the team
Speaker:where they understood their
Speaker:role and their purpose,
Speaker:and he got people sort of
Speaker:on board around what the
Speaker:culture of the team is.
Speaker:So what are the attitudes
Speaker:that we turned up to
Speaker:work with every day?
Speaker:What are the standards?
Speaker:What are the expectations?
Speaker:And then him focusing on
Speaker:how can I set my people
Speaker:up to succeed rather than
Speaker:have them reinvent the
Speaker:wheel every single time.
Speaker:So looking at those
Speaker:two things combined,
Speaker:we're really helpful
Speaker:for him to be able to
Speaker:approach problem solving
Speaker:in a different manner.
Speaker:And then that third
Speaker:piece around people and
Speaker:skills coming together,
Speaker:understanding what
Speaker:makes my team tick.
Speaker:How am I going to get
Speaker:the best performance
Speaker:out of Nikki compared to
Speaker:Ness compared to Janine?
Speaker:It's that whole thing
Speaker:around just having that
Speaker:superpower to realize
Speaker:how to fast track
Speaker:influencing those people.
Speaker:And I think that what
Speaker:happened for him was he
Speaker:started to realize that
Speaker:That not only was the
Speaker:performance improving
Speaker:amongst the team, but
Speaker:for him, it was a less
Speaker:stressful way of leading
Speaker:because he wasn't getting
Speaker:to the day before a day
Speaker:off or a public holiday
Speaker:thinking, you know, if
Speaker:everything's going to hit
Speaker:the fan, it's going to be
Speaker:on me and my team aren't
Speaker:going to know what to do.
Speaker:So I really see that,
Speaker:that the juggle street.
Speaker:Is driven by this
Speaker:reactionary way of leading
Speaker:and to be able to get
Speaker:to peak performance,
Speaker:you've got to do
Speaker:something different.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:What I'm hearing there
Speaker:too, is moving from a place
Speaker:of just transactionally
Speaker:going through your day,
Speaker:as you said, responding
Speaker:to fires that need to be
Speaker:put out or emails that
Speaker:landed in your inbox.
Speaker:Or somebody else's drama
Speaker:that they're bringing
Speaker:into work versus taking
Speaker:ownership around the
Speaker:transformational nature
Speaker:that you can initiate
Speaker:or drive or own through
Speaker:peak performance.
Speaker:So, , can totally
Speaker:understand why that's
Speaker:such a critical part
Speaker:of healthy hustle.
Speaker:I want to move now to, to
Speaker:the third, piece of your
Speaker:IP that you share in this
Speaker:book, which I have no doubt
Speaker:many of our listeners are
Speaker:going to resonate with.
Speaker:, it's this piece about
Speaker:moving from the busy
Speaker:trap into a place
Speaker:of time freedom.
Speaker:Can you tell me
Speaker:more about that?
Speaker:Yeah, so I've just done
Speaker:this little experiment
Speaker:over the last two and
Speaker:a half years where I
Speaker:googled, Google searched,
Speaker:how can I manage my
Speaker:time more effectively?
Speaker:And I've looked at how
Speaker:many results there are.
Speaker:So stick with me because
Speaker:over the last two and a
Speaker:half years, The amount of
Speaker:search results that come
Speaker:back for how can I manage
Speaker:more time effectively have
Speaker:increased by 6 billion.
Speaker:What that tells us is
Speaker:that people are searching
Speaker:for a better way to
Speaker:manage their time.
Speaker:6 billion!
Speaker:It went from 514
Speaker:million to 6.
Speaker:37 in two and a half years.
Speaker:But the reality is we
Speaker:actually don't need another
Speaker:time management tool.
Speaker:We've done the courses,
Speaker:we've read the books,
Speaker:we've got all the tools
Speaker:at our fingertips.
Speaker:If we don't first work
Speaker:on things like our belief
Speaker:around time, Then it
Speaker:doesn't matter what time
Speaker:management tool you have.
Speaker:It will never do its job,
Speaker:which is, I think why
Speaker:we're seeing the increase
Speaker:in people needing and
Speaker:wanting this information.
Speaker:I even think one of my
Speaker:favorite resources to
Speaker:share is the big rocks
Speaker:video with Stephen Covey.
Speaker:You know, it's in
Speaker:the late eighties,
Speaker:big shoulder pads.
Speaker:You know, the, the big
Speaker:hair, but the reason I
Speaker:bring that up now as well
Speaker:is that was back then.
Speaker:And we're still looking
Speaker:for a better way
Speaker:to manage our time.
Speaker:So if we can just pop
Speaker:the pause button on
Speaker:what we're doing for a
Speaker:second and actually start
Speaker:reflecting on things like
Speaker:what about, what are my
Speaker:beliefs around time and
Speaker:how is this serving me?
Speaker:Um, a classic example
Speaker:is Ben, the B word
Speaker:people right now,
Speaker:Ben, the word busy.
Speaker:So again, I think about
Speaker:a client who we talk
Speaker:about it in the book,
Speaker:who was a new leader and
Speaker:really wanted to succeed.
Speaker:Another James.
Speaker:This is, um, we seem to
Speaker:attract working with James.
Speaker:So James H, um,
Speaker:you know, he really
Speaker:wanted to succeed.
Speaker:He really, when he got
Speaker:caught in this cycle
Speaker:of busy and he thought,
Speaker:That by asking for
Speaker:help, that's showing a
Speaker:weakness, you know, he,
Speaker:but his beliefs around
Speaker:how he's managing his
Speaker:time and asking for help
Speaker:when, when serving him.
Speaker:So when we were able
Speaker:to have a conversation
Speaker:around, okay, what if you
Speaker:actually just remove that
Speaker:word from your vocabulary?
Speaker:Um, this was a mission
Speaker:that I went on incorporate
Speaker:years ago, because
Speaker:what's the most common
Speaker:answer that you get
Speaker:when, when, when you ask.
Speaker:People, how are you?
Speaker:They say busy.
Speaker:And so then we're
Speaker:keeping ourselves
Speaker:stuck in that perpetual
Speaker:cycle of busy trap.
Speaker:So that is my challenge.
Speaker:Things like beliefs and
Speaker:the subtleties of language.
Speaker:What are you
Speaker:telling yourself?
Speaker:Um, just to build on that
Speaker:a little bit, I also want
Speaker:to I'm going to look at
Speaker:this from the perspective
Speaker:of we can either live
Speaker:our life living in busy
Speaker:or being in busy, or we
Speaker:use the terminology in
Speaker:the book, we can move
Speaker:to a place of living.
Speaker:It doesn't mean you don't
Speaker:have a lot going on.
Speaker:It doesn't mean that,
Speaker:you know, you are,
Speaker:we're all just as busy
Speaker:as the next person, but
Speaker:we have the same amount
Speaker:of time in the day.
Speaker:So it just means that
Speaker:we can come to a place.
Speaker:of mindfulness.
Speaker:We can come to a
Speaker:place of appreciating
Speaker:moments, even when it
Speaker:feels really chaotic.
Speaker:So beliefs are
Speaker:really important.
Speaker:We don't need another
Speaker:time management tool.
Speaker:The boundaries that we
Speaker:set for ourselves as well,
Speaker:really helped me from busy
Speaker:trap to time freedom and
Speaker:understanding out what is
Speaker:right for my unique me.
Speaker:What's my internal driver.
Speaker:So things like, am
Speaker:I a morning person?
Speaker:Am I a night person?
Speaker:What type of clients
Speaker:do I want to work with?
Speaker:What type of work?
Speaker:How can I empower my team
Speaker:to step up so I can step
Speaker:back and we can all be
Speaker:living in our genius zone?
Speaker:I giggled when you talked
Speaker:about the time management
Speaker:because I can't remember.
Speaker:I remember I must have
Speaker:been before my time.
Speaker:I remember in my very
Speaker:first job as a graduate
Speaker:trainee doing a time
Speaker:management course.
Speaker:And I actually got
Speaker:into trouble because
Speaker:the person that was
Speaker:delivering that training.
Speaker:As she said to me, you're
Speaker:on the tube Janine, whilst
Speaker:you're on the tube, you
Speaker:could do X, Y and Z.
Speaker:And I went.
Speaker:No, I don't see why I
Speaker:should feel that time.
Speaker:I quite happy reading
Speaker:my, uh, whatever the
Speaker:best selling book was.
Speaker:And I remember being hauled
Speaker:into the HR office at
Speaker:the time and being told
Speaker:that's actually not what
Speaker:you should be doing at
Speaker:this age in your career.
Speaker:, and I've heard it
Speaker:subsequently, not that
Speaker:same thing, but the
Speaker:other one that gets me is
Speaker:when people congratulate
Speaker:themselves for zero inbox.
Speaker:And then at the same
Speaker:time, they're exhausted
Speaker:or they've worked late.
Speaker:And I go, who said you
Speaker:had to have a zero inbox?
Speaker:Where, where did
Speaker:that rule come from?
Speaker:So,
Speaker:why is it that sometimes
Speaker:when you give yourself
Speaker:a challenge, you seem to
Speaker:be able to find the time?
Speaker:So I love the concept of
Speaker:Busy Tractor Time Freedom.
Speaker:And equally as someone
Speaker:that's been running their
Speaker:own business now for, I
Speaker:think about 20 years in
Speaker:corporate, I reckon that is
Speaker:the one thing that I have
Speaker:to continuously work on
Speaker:I've got good at removing
Speaker:busy from my vernacular.
Speaker:, but that being disciplined
Speaker:about the other stuff
Speaker:and understanding that
Speaker:that is as important
Speaker:As answering an email.
Speaker:Um, so, so much
Speaker:good stuff in here.
Speaker:Um, having read this
Speaker:book, I was lucky enough
Speaker:to, uh, read the book in
Speaker:its various iterations
Speaker:before you got to a
Speaker:final, uh, manuscript.
Speaker:Uh, there are
Speaker:so many tools.
Speaker:There's so much.
Speaker:Research gone into this.
Speaker:Um, and that's what I
Speaker:love about your book,
Speaker:Healthy Hustle, that
Speaker:it's not just what you've
Speaker:seen from your years of
Speaker:work, both in corporate
Speaker:and, uh, the clients
Speaker:that you've worked with
Speaker:subsequently, who you've
Speaker:helped shift into this
Speaker:place of healthy hustle.
Speaker:It's not just that
Speaker:you've backed up
Speaker:with so much insight.
Speaker:evidence that it's
Speaker:actually hard to
Speaker:argue with what you're
Speaker:actually saying here.
Speaker:And, um, I think that
Speaker:if people can pick up
Speaker:this book and even take
Speaker:1 percent of it, it's
Speaker:going to help them move
Speaker:from that place of hard
Speaker:hustle and the risk of that
Speaker:to themselves and their
Speaker:business to being happy.
Speaker:And a healthy hustle
Speaker:of actually finding the
Speaker:joy in their business
Speaker:again and reconnecting
Speaker:with the very reason why
Speaker:they're doing this for
Speaker:themselves, for their
Speaker:families, for their teams
Speaker:and their communities.
Speaker:So, congratulations on
Speaker:such an incredible book.
Speaker:Um, As we sort of wrap
Speaker:this up, what, what is your
Speaker:wish for the readers, um,
Speaker:that pick up this book and
Speaker:have the chance to absorb
Speaker:the awesomeness in it?
Speaker:Well, our wish for the
Speaker:individual reader who's
Speaker:picked up the book because
Speaker:they're resonating with
Speaker:this message is is simply
Speaker:that they get their life
Speaker:back, that their business
Speaker:can be the dream that
Speaker:they had and have the
Speaker:success that they want.
Speaker:And they can still spend
Speaker:time with those that
Speaker:they love, doing the
Speaker:things that lights them
Speaker:up, that they enjoy and
Speaker:make them feel healthy
Speaker:and make them feel happy.
Speaker:And I really think it's
Speaker:about coming back and
Speaker:saying, there's one part
Speaker:of the book that Nikki, um,
Speaker:quoted, , this beautiful
Speaker:poem, I think it was,
Speaker:in relation to what are
Speaker:you going to do with
Speaker:your one precious life?
Speaker:But that's how
Speaker:important it is.
Speaker:And that's our wish
Speaker:for somebody who's
Speaker:reading the book.
Speaker:But bigger than that, our
Speaker:wish for the collective
Speaker:is that we really start
Speaker:to change the business
Speaker:landscape for the better.
Speaker:So we want a more
Speaker:sustainable way to
Speaker:help people thrive
Speaker:in business and life.
Speaker:And we want to create that
Speaker:ripple effect right across.
Speaker:So not only touching the
Speaker:reader, but their teams.
Speaker:And then of course the
Speaker:families and the, the
Speaker:children to come and all
Speaker:of that, that sort of
Speaker:like that, it goes out
Speaker:much further than just the
Speaker:person reading the book
Speaker:because they're applying
Speaker:what they know and really
Speaker:having the opportunity
Speaker:to challenge and break
Speaker:those cycles, especially
Speaker:Especially around hustle,
Speaker:so that they can be
Speaker:healthier human beings
Speaker:and happier human beings.
Speaker:And I think that that is
Speaker:our wish for the whole
Speaker:collective of people
Speaker:who pick up the book.
Speaker:But also within that.
Speaker:It doesn't mean
Speaker:anything if you don't
Speaker:do something, right?
Speaker:We can read books, so
Speaker:they're not going to have
Speaker:an impact unless we do it.
Speaker:So we ask anyone
Speaker:who picks it up.
Speaker:Our ask of you is to
Speaker:just do one thing,
Speaker:pick one thing and
Speaker:make a change on that.
Speaker:And then of course.
Speaker:By the book, and then that
Speaker:way, once that one thing
Speaker:is nailed, you've got the
Speaker:next thing to move on to.
Speaker:So this is a
Speaker:long term plan.
Speaker:It's not a quick fix.
Speaker:It's not going to all
Speaker:happen in, you know, the
Speaker:next week it's around.
Speaker:As Nikki said earlier, it's
Speaker:about challenging belief
Speaker:systems and implementing
Speaker:new ways of working.
Speaker:So that's, that's really
Speaker:what we're hoping to
Speaker:achieve through putting
Speaker:this book out to the world.
Speaker:One of the things I
Speaker:picked up in your book
Speaker:that you said, and I
Speaker:think you said it a few
Speaker:times through the book,
Speaker:and I'm quoting here, is
Speaker:you said, working smarter
Speaker:is no longer a luxury.
Speaker:Can one of you
Speaker:comment on that?
Speaker:Because I think there's
Speaker:so much in that statement,
Speaker:working smarter is
Speaker:no longer a luxury.
Speaker:Yeah, because it is
Speaker:no longer a luxury.
Speaker:And, and I think what
Speaker:we have to bring to
Speaker:the table here is that
Speaker:healthy hustle, isn't
Speaker:just, I'm going to do
Speaker:a little bit more yoga.
Speaker:I'm going to
Speaker:drink more water.
Speaker:Like that is important.
Speaker:They're the basic
Speaker:foundational elements,
Speaker:but the reality
Speaker:is that this is.
Speaker:You know, something we need
Speaker:to take seriously, and it's
Speaker:no longer a luxury because
Speaker:we need to create change.
Speaker:Change is needed.
Speaker:And again, I go back
Speaker:to what I mentioned
Speaker:before around.
Speaker:It's actually our
Speaker:duty of care to do
Speaker:something about it.
Speaker:Now, we're fortunate
Speaker:enough to have the
Speaker:capacity to do something
Speaker:to break the cycles
Speaker:that have gone before.
Speaker:We're not working in the
Speaker:industrial revolution.
Speaker:People.
Speaker:We are in 2024.
Speaker:, yes, we're dealing
Speaker:with constant change
Speaker:and challenges, but we
Speaker:have it within us to be
Speaker:able to create change.
Speaker:So it is no
Speaker:longer a luxury.
Speaker:It's a must.
Speaker:It's essential
Speaker:for survival,
Speaker:for your business,
Speaker:for your health,
Speaker:for your teen's health,
Speaker:and again, that ripple
Speaker:effect that we talk about.
Speaker:how can people
Speaker:best contact you?
Speaker:So, uh, the book is
Speaker:available, uh, you can
Speaker:get it, I'm assuming
Speaker:via your website, uh,
Speaker:but how else can people
Speaker:get in contact with you?
Speaker:How can we support you?
Speaker:So first of all,
Speaker:healthyhustle.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:au is where you go to
Speaker:get the book, but also,
Speaker:uh, you can visit us
Speaker:at businesstogether.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:au and you can get to
Speaker:the book from there.
Speaker:But that's if you want
Speaker:to friendly stalk us
Speaker:and find out a little
Speaker:bit more about us.
Speaker:Plus Nikki and I are
Speaker:both on LinkedIn.
Speaker:Um, that's our social
Speaker:platform of choice.
Speaker:And you can just look
Speaker:us up there and connect
Speaker:with us on there.
Speaker:We'd love to start
Speaker:the conversation
Speaker:around how Healthy
Speaker:Hustle can help you.
Speaker:Um, and we'll put all
Speaker:that, all those links
Speaker:in the show notes.
Speaker:I think any business
Speaker:owner, any entrepreneur,
Speaker:any executive, any
Speaker:business leader, any
Speaker:CEO needs to grab a copy
Speaker:of this book because
Speaker:who doesn't want smart
Speaker:growth, who doesn't want.
Speaker:Peak performance and who
Speaker:doesn't want time freedom.
Speaker:Congratulations on such
Speaker:an incredible book and
Speaker:for the gift that you
Speaker:have given the planet to
Speaker:drive that change from
Speaker:hardcore hustle to healthy
Speaker:hustle and actually
Speaker:happily building the
Speaker:businesses of our dreams.
Speaker:You're amazing.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Thanks Janine.
Speaker:Thank you Janine.