Laurent Collective Podcast

We’re ending our rest season with one last replay of a popular episode. In this episode we chat about how to say that difficult word “no.”Saying no to new opportunities is so hard because we want to be helpful and to help others. However, we can’t say yes to everything. Saying yes to it all leaves us exhausted and unable to help in a positive way.So how do you determine what opportunities to say no to and how do you say no in a kind way? We discuss this by taking you through some questions to ask of each opportunity and some kind ways to say no.

We’re revisiting past podcasts as we take a rest break. We have so many questions about living in the UK in this episode we touch on what we’ve learned from living here. We’ve lived in the United Kingdom for six years and have experienced and learned so much from the culture here. There are things we have ingrained into our lives now or are at least working on making them part of our lives. We talk about how time is different here, the importance of holiday time, an appreciation for food and travel accessibility. 

We are revisiting some of our most popular past podcasts and this business podcast on figuring out what to focus on in your business has been a favorite. These past two years have provided small businesses with ups and downs that have not followed normal trends. When you look back on your numbers to make informed decisions for the future, it’s hard to know what to focus on in the year ahead. There is one thing that will help bring in some focus for you even if the data isn’t helping you. It’s understanding why you are in business. This will help direct you as you make decisions going forward. We chat about how this has looked in our business and how you can take decisions back to this why and purpose.

We’re revising a past podcast on how we get our kids to help around the house. We’ve had so many questions on this topic and thought it’d a great episode to come back to again.It can be difficult to get your kids to be on board with helping around the house. You want to help them understand responsibilities but it just seems too hard to get anyone to do anything.We’ve had some years under our belt and have found a solution that has really worked in our family. The kids understand their responsibilities and we work together as a family team to keep the house functioning. In this episode, we share these ideas and how you could take them into your family.

We revisit this episode of how we got rid of almost everything we owned when we moved to the UK from the states. In 2016, we moved from the states to London and had to go through every single item in our house. It was hard to look at every item in our house in a new way and make decisions on what to keep and what to sell or give away.In this episode, we share our experience to help you, whether you’re just trying to declutter your home or whether you’re moving houses. We take you through a set of questions to ask about each item and share how freeing the process can be for you.

We revisit one of our most popular podcast episodes about fostering creativity in your kids.Does it feel like you are battling technology in your house and you’d just love to see your kids do something creative?We talk with our eleven-year-old son about what he likes about being creative. He shares the types of things we have in our house that he uses to be creative (clue: it’s nothing fancy). We also have a little chat about why we turn off the technology as parents to enable creativity to begin.

We all need seasons of rest in our life and in our businesses. As we prepare to enter a season of rest, we thought we’d share why we make space for a more restful season. It’s about being intentional as you look ahead and realizing the areas you may need to pause for a season. A season of rest prepares you for new areas to step into and to come back to your business and life with renewed energy.

It’s important to teach your children about how to manage finances as it’s part of everyday life once they enter into the adult world. But how to teach them at the different stages of childhood can be confusing. We discuss a method we use to “pay” our children for work they do in the house. It’s a method of paying them their age in money but then putting percentages into savings and other areas to help them understand some simple finance concepts. We hope this inspires you to not shy away from talking about money with your children and instead be an active teacher to prepare them for the future.

Inspired by Katherine May’s book “Enchantment,” we explore how stepping out of your past and into the present of creativity is beautiful. It’s an act of trust, uncertainty and stretching yourself.We chat about how we’ve had to let go of some of our past creations and step into the scary part of creating again. It’s worth every step into creating as the best part of the uncertain act of making is what you learn in the process.

Walking the United Kingdom is part of life here. Walking is important to people whether you live in a city and walking is your main means to get places, or whether you live in the suburbs or countryside, and walking is for pleasure. We found the idea of walking to be much different when we lived in the states than it is here in the UK. There are systems that make walking in the UK much easier too, including public pathways.In this episode we chat about the great British walk and how it’s ingrained into the culture.