Our words of the year for 2025
It's the first episode of 2025! Today we're talking about our business goals - including how we're actually going to achieve them without losing our minds. Spoiler alert: it involves saying "no" more, getting our shit together with planning, and accepting we can't do everything ourselves. We're especially pumped to chat about the events coming up with our newly-formed business, The Women in Business Collective. Plus, we each reveal our words for 2025 - both for our own businesses and for the Collective. HELL YEAH!
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Transcript
Chris: welcome to the fuck around and find out a podcast for finding your way through owning your own business. I'm. am Christine, and I am got the absolute pleasure of sitting with my co podcasters, the lovely Rah Gardiner and Emily Grover.
Emily: up?
Chris: What's up? I know.
Emily: Happy New Year.
Chris: God. Can you believe it? It's 2025.
Rah: years
Emily: dear lord.
Chris: Oh my God.
Rah: Yeah, because they were in 2000.
Chris: oh, they certainly were. Yeah.
Emily: God, I think I'm young sometimes. When people say shit like that. And you know, like, I've finally gotten to the point where I had to go I was getting my eyes checked and they're like, what's your birthday? And I was like, Oh, 1990. And I used to be like, yeah, I'm young 1990. And I'm looking at this dude being like, everyone's born in fucking 2000 plus.
I am not young anymore. I'm the old person. And I don't know when this happened.
Chris: Says Emily, who's the youngest in the room here. I'm not
Emily: when did this happen?
Rah: that are older than you.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Emily: If you've seen her legs, you'll know that's true.
Rah: Mm.
Emily: I was shaving mine this morning.
Rah: on my pits before Christmas.
Emily: I was shaving mine this morning,
Rah: Oh, were you?
Chris: morning? Are
Rah: Love that you think of me when you're
Emily: I show and tell? Get my leg out as well?
Chris: Yeah, no. Or as I
Rah: just sit here and pat my furry legs.
Chris: think I can plait my Yeah.
Emily: Ah, so funny. I mean, whatever, as long as you're
Chris: I can't be ed.
Emily: It's a lot of effort.
Rah: Maybe that can be my New Year's resolution. Maybe shave once every now and again.
Emily: Every now
Rah: Do the,
Emily: that's all you need, every now and
Rah: Maybe for special occasions.
Chris: I
Emily: Crack it out
Rah: Yeah.
Chris: I, I usually, um, shave my legs before I go and have a pedicure and
Emily: I do that too, or a massage.
Chris: but I haven't.
Rah: seen the leather they got when I got a petty before Christmas.
Chris: Oh.
Emily: teensy, your picture. I was like, dear god, what? That poor woman
having to massage
Chris: if you think about it, you know, if a man goes and has a massage and a pedicure, he's not shaving all his hair off usually,
Emily: I'm just mostly impressed that there's a man in there getting a pedicure.
Rah: Yeah. Friend of mine's husband, Tezzer, hey Tezzer. He goes and gets pedicures with his wife Jo.
Emily: I
Chris: lot of men who should.
Rah: it. He loves
Chris: yeah.
Emily: It's not a bad thing, I think it's a good thing, they should do it.
Rah: But
Chris: I don't think, um, cause I didn't have a pedicure in 2024.
I don't think I shaved my legs in 2024.
Rah: I didn't even shave my legs. I thought I was going to, ran out of time, did not even shave my legs for the opening night of
Chris: Oh, know,
Emily: If there was anything that would get you to shave your legs it would be that.
Rah: it would have been Hamilton,
is
Emily: fun being a woman.
Rah: of the month. So be prepared. I need to find a new obsession before February. So,
Chris: Excellent.
Rah: first episode of the year, we've already gone off on a tangent
Chris: We have
Rah: So, and I've already mentioned Hamilton.
Chris: You have, yeah.
Emily: and we are actually live recording, live recording this in 2025. Today is the 2nd of January, everyone. Um,
Rah: birthday. Happy birthday for
Emily: yes, big happy birthday. New Year's Day, baby.
Chris: I brought cake in, so we've already devoured the cake. Um, so that was really, really nice. Yeah,
Emily: that behind, um, without recording that we are actually doing this in 2025. Woohoo!
Chris: all right. Well, we needed a, we needed a break. Mm. Everyone
Emily: we did.
Rah: did.
Chris: We did.
Rah: Like, Oh,
Emily: just impressed you've remembered the days and the weeks. Because someone asked me and I was like, I had no clue.
Rah: understands the days at this
Emily: It just makes my brain go, Huh? Huh?
Chris: Yep.
Emily: Can't even process it,
Rah: Celia Paquola on
Chris: refer to
Rah: week as Gooch Week, the week between Christmas and New Year because it's the, the gooch
Chris: between the balls and the anus. Oh, Okay. I've
Emily: right, right.
Rah: I've never heard to it referred to as that
Chris: No. No.
Emily: interesting
Rah: Yeah, but I would like to find a more feminine version.
Like, I don't want to be stuck between the balls and the anus.
Chris: No. No. How
Emily: No, not a nice
Rah: do a count of how many times I say anus in today's
Emily: Add it to the fuck count.
Rah: We're going to have glorious
Emily: pretty
Chris: you know what, we are, I'm, I'm trying to head into it in a really nice, positive fashion. And, um, I think we will, and we'll sugar comers and, you know. deathly overtired because, you know, I've been burning the candle at both ends purely because, you know, Mr. Sonnenair, Mr. I'm a practically an 18 year old soon, has been doing He does.
And he's been, he's been pulling the closing shifts at Macca's over the break, which is fantastic. Um, but you know, my little chick's out and I do like to know he's come home to the nest. And sometimes he cooks. When he comes home, and you know, my bedroom's just off the kitchen, it's not great.
Um, and it is a boy thing, and you know, and they can't get out of bed before midday, two o'clock. And it's like, yeah, but I'm awake from six in the morning, but I've been awake when you've come home at twelve thirty, one o'clock. And then he did New Year's Eve out for the first time with
Rah: Ouch, that was a long
Chris: was only local and it was only looking up at the fireworks from the churchyard and all of that, but it was still out with my car on New Year's Eve, double demerit period and all of that sort of stuff, so.
Rah: you always worry about your
Chris: Well exactly, and I was so desperate to go to bed, but I had to wait up till after midnight.
Rah: But it's good that he was driving. He didn't come home
Chris: He didn't know. He's been really good about that
Rah: I got a drunken text from two of my nieces. I was very excited that they were texting me. It was 1. 30 in the morning.
But they didn't say Happy New Year. They were like, How do we watch Wicked?
Because I
Emily: for a movie ticket. I
Rah: I gave them the wrong date for when it was available in
Australia. But Australia is getting it next week.
Emily: Oh, cool. I can actually watch the ending of it this time,
Chris: Yeah, you can.
Emily: Instead of going to a bathroom with a tiny human.
Rah: Yeah.
Chris: that's right. Absolutely. So yeah, so we're off to a good start. We're looking positive. We're thinking of manifesting awesome things this year, aren't we?
Emily: got a hell of a lot lined up already.
Chris: haven't we just?
Rah: So.
Emily: it's gonna be a big year for
Rah: Yes. So, tell me in terms of JR slash Juniper Road, what's going on? What's on the dance card for you two?
Because you had an epic
Emily: you get it?
Chris: Yeah, look, no, I think, um, yeah, the end of year was really big and sort of smashed us in the face and everything. And a little bit, in some circumstances, a little bit more reactive than we were. Um, So, I think it's about a bit of proactivity and a bit more planning, so, Em and I have got an awesome planning day happening tomorrow.
Um, Get us into the mindset, We're going back to the office and that kind of thing. Um, But, Yeah, just trying to get a bit of a handle and work out, OK, you know what, bring on more business. But, You know, Let's not bring on everything at the same time and be a bit more, oh, it's not.
Emily: like it's not I think the thing for us to see the goal for us is going to be we can't do the Client work
Chris: Yeah.
Rah: we've
Emily: We are at capacity. What we've got is what we've got. There is no more that can go on So anything that comes through or even some of the stuff we've got currently might need to be shifted off into the team And it's anyone that runs their own business knows the difference Lovely balance of keeping it in the business versus outsourcing it to your team Because obviously you don't you lose you lose some profit in that Um, but I think one thing that's rammed home for us is we can't keep doing it all ourselves And we need to rely on the team and we need to have the ability for us to actually be able to step back So we can go find more business Because that's what we need to do.
That's what we do. But this is also what we're good at but we need time to do that
Rah: Yeah, one of the things my coach has got me doing at the beginning of this year is looking at all of the services I've got. And how much I charge
Chris: Yes.
Rah: But then look at how much that would cost if I was to get someone else
Chris: Yep. Yep. Yep.
Rah: And the plan is to look at that and then work out what the numbers actually need to be.
I'm like, oh,
Chris: I know.
Rah: shitting, but I need to do it because I can't do everything.
Chris: It's a, it's a hard one. It's that, you know, that balance of, you know, charging the right stuff to a client that they're able to, you know, justify in their business model, but also one that will sustain you getting somebody to do the other piece of work for you, but complicated by is it my standard?
And that's
Rah: the point
Emily: taken us a long time to have a team that we trust for that quality. And
Rah: of them. We're
Emily: we
Chris: We're very happy with our team. Well that's right, you are.
Emily: But you know, it is, it's, it's a tricky, it's a tricky pace. And then I look, I know,
but if I can speak for myself, I'm a mad control freak on certain things.
And I'm, Yeah.
Rah: an employee, I had issues. Like
Emily: And it's really, yeah,
Rah: are on my
team.
Emily: yeah, and it's also really tricky, um, sometimes I float with that mindset of, well if, by the time it's taken me to teach you how to do this, I can just do it myself. And it's also, I need to organize my brain to be able to teach someone how to do it. And half the time in order to organize my brain, I've kind of just done it anyway.
So
Rah: click up is going to be your new best friend, because you can set up your procedures and
Emily: That's the plan and we've got, um, you know, our lovely OBM on board to
Chris: We sure do.
Emily: us into shape. So, relying on her to do that is going to be really key. Um, and to keep the ball rolling from our perspective as well as everything's perspective.
Chris: And I'm going back to our training this year. We, um, we're adding a new service to our business, but I need to do the training. And even though we've had, we purchased the course last year, Just couldn't get to it. And, um, so there's been a lot of end of 24 was around about, well, what are we going to do with our time in 25?
So we've actually put a lot of boundaries already into our group calendar. And, um, so there's going to be two days where we aren't, we won't do meetings with clients or anything because we're just going to be focused on, you know, me doing some training, Emily on one of her major clients that she needs to commit to for two days and, um, and really like head down, bum up.
So Because until I can do that training, we can't offer the service. And it's money that we need to get the return on that investment. And then I can train other people to do it. Um, to potentially go, well, oh, lovely, I don't need to do it. You can do it in our team. But obviously I've got to do it to begin
Rah: able
to manage the quality of
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, totally.
Emily: So it's, it's, you know, I think the big one for us, and I think we're probably wrapping up to the concept of what's our word for the year, conversation would be boundaries for Juniper Road. Um, really, really, I mean, look, I know that I'm shockingly bad at, um, Not, uh, saying yes to I'm a people pleaser, I'm a helper, I want to help people, and I want to say yes to everything, and I have a good tendency to overload myself.
And then when the slightest thing happens, like, you know, I have something go on with my children, or, you know, my air conditioning
Chris: yep, yep.
Emily: happens. Life happens. Yes, I, it fucks everything. 'cause then I can't handle it all. And so boundaries is a big one. I think for me personally, as well as with Juniper Road, is to just make sure that we've got some clear boundaries in place.
And especially because Chris and I have realized that this, you know, this long before Christmas holiday isn't really a holiday.
Chris: No, no. And it's funny, I didn't really have any false pretenses over this break because I knew that going into a break over Christmas didn't, it just meant I wasn't doing any client work or any work. But, you know, for me personally, Christmas is a marathon of family events and we've got birthdays over the Christmas break.
And, um, you know, I did six family Christmas events in seven days.
Emily: it's a lot of socialization.
Chris: a hell of a lot. Yeah, and um, and so you know, get exhausted. So me, I just can't pull myself off the couch, which is totally detriment to my back and what not. Um, but yeah, so boundary is huge. Plus we really want to look at how we can do breaks better.
You know, that whole balance and boundary relationship. But it's like, okay, well, if Christmas isn't the two weeks off that you desperately really need, what are we going to do six monthly? Or what are we going to do about, I'm taking a long weekend, or I'm going to have a Friday off every whenever. And that's the stuff that's important part of our business planning for 2025.
What about you Ra?
so what's your
Rah: need boundaries as well. However.
Chris: I mean we all need them really, but you know, what's more important word wise so and why yes
Rah: saw. not like the horror like what I did to my ankle last year when I broke it while walking in a
pothole. Saw like a bird?
Eagle? Pick some sort of flying
Chris: yes Airplane.
Rah: Yes! Oh my god!
Emily: did you not connect those
Rah: I hadn't even thought of that.
Emily: As you said it, I was like, of course, you're a plane person, that's exactly right.
Rah: You know why
Chris: the
Rah: last night because I was watching the stream of planes landing in heavy weather at Heathrow Airport right where I did it, on the side of a paddock.
Chris: Oh, lovely.
Rah: So yeah, that's a good point. So, not the technical term that they use in aviation, but I will take it. So yeah, so that's my word for the year.
And the reason I picked it is that 2024 was all about getting in the weeds and doing the hard yards and some of it was very difficult.
Chris: Yep.
Rah: towards the very end, so just over a year ago diagnosed ADHD towards the end of 2024 after a year finally got into a psychiatrist who gave me the drugs and agreed that they were going to be helpful and been an absolute game changer.
So.
It's just given me a whole new perspective of what I'm capable of.
Emily: what
Chris: of Yeah.
Rah: And what I can actually do now because like the whole spoons thing of like you've only got so many spoons in a day. I only had so many spoons. I have more spoons now. I have like a bigger drawer and they're organized.
So the sore part for me is the um, Yeah, taking everything that I've done for the last two and a half years of business, because I turned three on the first of April,
Chris: and
of
business because
Rah: Um, and I know.
Emily: are two, aren't feels longer. It feels like
Chris: soon.
Rah: Whereas I'm, I'm like,
Chris: You, oh my god, you're a terrible threesome thing.
Rah: Um, but it's all about taking what I've learnt in the first two and a bit years, and relaying some of those foundations that were a bit wonky, and then just running with it,
Yeah, so I've got, you know, big plans for the services that I want to launch that didn't quite kick off last year the way that I planned, but really knuckle down with my coaching and like actually do the hard work.
Like I feel like I've got the strength now to get into the weeds and work out what I need to do. And I've started talking to people about having them on as collaborators, contractors, that kind of thing. Yeah. So taking, you know, stock of, you know, the wins from last year, which I did with a workbook, um, over the break and went through and went, Oh shit, I actually did some stuff.
Things I thought were 18 months ago are only like six months ago. So taking that, yeah. And just running with it, but having a better idea of how I'm going to do
Chris: to do it.
Rah: So yeah, it's a bit of a pants shitting kind of vibe, but yeah, we'll see how it goes.
Chris: Nice, nice. Yeah, it's
Rah: so sore, but
not, but not painful.
Emily: thinking, winds beneath my wings.
Rah: Yeah, I was, yeah, I was like thinking wind beneath my wings when I first thought of it.
It's
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
Rah: yeah, it's, yeah, it's gonna be
interesting.
Emily: be a big year, I think, for all of us.
Rah: Well,
yeah.
Emily: a lot of stuff
Rah: Well, yeah, so now we can pivot into, pivot!
Chris: my God, let's pivot.
Rah: talking about, Now we hinted at this towards the end of last year, but we are now the Women and Business Collective Proprietary Limited.
Chris: my god. I tell you what, I still get goosebumps when you say that. Like because it was, it was just such an exciting thing to happen. It was such to find our name.
Emily: Mmm, that was like gold.
Chris: I know.
Rah: And the fact that there was a name that had lapsed the exact amount of time it needed to lapse
Emily: to be literally meant to be.
Chris: no,
Emily: And it just fits so perfectly to what we were looking
Rah: Yep. And it was a word we did not find in our thesaurus lookup that we were happy with, so, mm,
Chris: yep,
Rah: it's
Emily: So we are the women in business collective,
Rah: Proprietary
limited.
Emily: P2LGD. Love it. We're three directors. Um, and as most people who've been following us long know that this lovely podcast now is nestled under that, um, um,
Rah: the bosom
Emily: the bosom of our
Rah: Or the hairy armpit in
Emily: one love at the hairy armpit.
We'll go with that
Chris: like that one.
Emily: It's one of one of the multi faceted areas that the collective will be touching on We've also got our community
Chris: my
Emily: and we've got our women in business conference Which obviously we've got all a lot of that going on with our first conference last year 2024 which I can't quite remember Yeah, I know, we pulled that shit together in like 21 days or something like that, it was ridiculous, and we did so well, I'm so proud of us, and that it's last year now,
Chris: I know.
Rah: like, ah,
Emily: work that, rephrasing that,
Chris: I know.
Emily: one around, um, but we've got so much lined up for this year, we've, we've gone hard or gone home, kind of, kind of deal for this year, so let's hope, let's hope it all works,
Rah: no pressure, it's
Emily: it'll work, it'll be fine,
Rah: And so, yeah, the first thing we've got coming up at the end of the month, it's in like two weeks from the time of recording,
Chris: I know that is
Rah: our 2025 planning day that's being held in Sydney.
Emily: It is it's in the West in the Juniper Road office space. which, um, yeah, we're going to have it there. And it's a day where you can come and work on your business. I think it's a really important sometimes to have a set aside day to sit down and actually power through, um, your goals for your business.
Chris and I have done it last year. We're doing it obviously tomorrow. Um, it really helps us. And I do believe truly that if we wouldn't have achieved as much as we did this year, if we hadn't done it at the beginning of
Chris: to it.
Emily: sorry, last year, we hadn't all of it last year.
Rah: been two days, we're still
Emily: still used to,
Rah: to it. I'm still
Emily: yeah, it's fucking weird, but I think that really helped us kind of, I mean, Chris and I seem to be relatively on the same page naturally anyway, which is a benefit of, um, and also half the reason we're business partners in the first place, um, it was nice to kind of sit down and work on it in this instance, almost separately, and then kind of put it together and go, well, fuck, we've just written the exact same thing.
It helps to kind of align where your
Chris: it really does. Yeah. Absolutely.
Emily: even if you don't feel like you're actively working towards it, it's always in the back of your mind and your subconscious, and that's where magic happens. So I think it's really good to do that and to help get some clarity. It's also great because if anyone does choose to come, Chris, Rara and I will all be there.
So we use it as an excellent sounding board. Opportunity. Bounce ideas. We're really big collaborators. Anyone who's spent any time with us know that it's blue sky dreams and all that kind of
Rah: Every client call I have always ends up with me going, So have you thought about
Emily: Yes, you and I, we do it to each other all the fucking time. And it's so, um, I love it because it's so exciting because you're like, Oh, the
Chris: Oh my God, yeah. And you don't have to have the 23, 000 steps below to, you know, work out what that is. But if you've got some nice big ideas, then you can, you know, chunk it down a little bit later or discuss it with people.
If you've got that kind of tribe. Um,
Rah: getting your brain into that different space to think about what's possible. And even if you don't take any, some or whatever, like it's, it's that next step,
Chris: Yeah, absolutely.
Rah: outside the
Emily: and I think it's also too, you know, having that mindset shift because a lot of us get to the point where it's like, You can't retrospectively plan. So you need to sit down and do it beforehand. And I find myself so, um, almost antsy at this time of year, because I'm like, I need to have a plan in place.
I can't, I can't, like, go past this date without a plan in place, otherwise I can't function in my brain. And I think it does help, um, give you some direction and some clarity. So, we've got that coming up, 17th of January, Norwest in New South Wales. Um, there is Lincoln, yep, you can book it. Put your tickets in, um, buy your ticket, register through Eventbrite, we're also on there too.
Um, it's on a website.
Rah: places,
Emily: Yup.
Rah: it deliberately
Emily: Yes, small and a bit more niche.
Rah: get get our shit done, but also be, collaborative,
Chris: know who are
Rah: who we know who are coming, um, the ones who we know really well, we know that they'll be in that mindset as well. So it'll be sort of a group think tank if that's what people are needing. you know.
Emily: Um, and then the next off the bat, Um, we're working on some webinars and we are working on some masterclasses. So your TBA with that stuff, it will come. Um, but the biggest, one of the biggest, it's not the biggest, it's one of, because we've got a lot going on.
Um, the first big conference is in May. So stay 23rd of May, 2025, Melbourne. Early bird tickets are available currently. Um, get in, it's going to be so exciting. Um, we have already started to put together a wonderful line up of speakers who we will start to announce, um, now that the new year has clicked over and get some of that more information out.
But yes, 23rd of May, the Cluster in Melbourne, CBD.
Rah: the prettiest venue, you guys. Oh my god.
Emily: That's lovely. And it's, it's all, it's a day about, you know, connecting, collaborating, learning, um, with the learning being the emphasis. We've got some really, um, wonderful topics lined up to really help people get a bit of a mindset shift and just that information and get your brain kind of chugging along with your business as well.
It's open to anyone in business.
Chris: Yep, absolutely.
Emily: There's no industry specifics with us. We just want to help educate, um, and connect and inspire people.
Chris: well said Em, well said.
Emily: Yeah, so that's, that's coming up, um, in Melbourne. That'll be great. We're also going to be in Melbourne for a little while as well. So we'll try and hit up some communities, um, and get some podcast recording done live on the sport, which will be fun.
Chris: And for us, it's a bit of a road trip. So we're coming home via Canberra, which we're looking forward to connecting with some people in Canberra. Yeah, so that'll be exciting as well.
Emily: so stay tuned because we will be around and we really definitely want to catch up and, you know, help build and expand our community. It will be a really fun little thing. Um, we've also got our second conference of the year, which is going to be, uh, info is going to be coming out about that soon.
Anyone who has spoken to us will know just a little bit already. But it is the 5th September?
Chris: Yes, it certainly is the 11th of September.
Emily: that's why I was like, I might check this before I say this out loud.
Chris: Yes.
Emily: Uh, 12th.
Chris: there you
Rah: it's the 12th. Oh, it's
Chris: 12th. Oh, yes.
Emily: got it right. Friday the 12th of September, Central Coast.
Chris: Yes. Upper Terrigal.
Emily: Tarragul. Crowne Plaza, Tarragul.
We are going to be there for our, yeah, our second conference of the year. Very similar to Melbourne, but it will have a different lineup of speakers. We'll have some different topics. We're also going to lean heavily into some master classes on site that week as
Chris: we are and you know, it's a nice destination so you people attending can also, you know, have a mind break and enjoy the very resorty feel of the beach and the water and it's a very different feel to Melbourne.
Emily: Yeah, it's a totally different vibe, which is really nice. And
Chris: I think so.
Emily: um, you know, central coast allows us to capture Sydney and Newcastle as well, which is always really fun. Um, and we will be staying there for the week probably as
Chris: Yeah. So we'll
goes. Um,
Emily: and that's just, you know, Terrigal's got places to eat, places to drink, places to just sit and relax and look at water,
which really, what else do you want?
That's just the best part of it all, it is quite nice, it's a really nice hotel that one. Um, so yeah, they're the main two events we've got locked and loaded.
Rah: and also, we haven't booked a venue yet, but in March, we've
Emily: yeah, that's a big
Rah: an International Women's Day launch.
Emily: We are in the middle of looking through venues and hopefully, we'll have that finalised
Chris: Very soon.
Emily: I'm gonna say at the end of the
Chris: in for a month. Yeah, oh yeah,
Emily: Yeah, so please keep that date free.
It's Friday the 7th,
um, because the actual day is on the Saturday. The 8th is International Women's Day, so Friday the 7th, lunch, block that out in your calendars.
Rah: I've never done an International Women's Day thing.
Emily: It's like, you know, really, I just think it's really important to celebrate women. given that's what
Chris: that's what we do, right? And
Rah: with women who have their own businesses or run them on their own. Yep. They don't do
it, like, it's not like a team thing where all the ladies organise it
Emily: know, and that's exactly the point, right? We want to bring everyone together that might not have been able to do,
Chris: beforehand. Yep.
Emily: something beforehand. We also do know it's not the easiest to be able to take some time off some paid work, so we've got to be mindful of that, um, as well. But try and keep it to a Friday where it might be a tad easier.
Um, we probably won't do too much in the terms of formalities at this point, but the day is about celebrating women, which is celebrating each other. Um, and really kind of just bringing everyone together to have a glass of wine and be like, we fucking rule the world.
Chris: Yeah, that's right.
Emily: Who run the world? Girls!
Chris: want to
Emily: Cause we do.
Rah: feel girl power, watch the Beyonce, um, halftime show that was done on Christmas Day
Chris: Christmas
Rah: It's on Netflix, I think.
Chris: I think I've seen a tile of her in some silver spangled thing on Netflix.
Rah: silver, yeah, Cowboy Carter mode. It is, um, Incredible. Yep. And her daughter performs
with
Chris: her. Oh, wow. Yep.
Rah: yep. Yep. So if you want some girl power,
Emily: However, we do love powerful women,
Chris: we absolutely
Rah: celebrate the powerful women on the
Emily: 7th of March, yeah.
Chris: So we've got some good stuff going and then obviously we also want to, you know, we'll be putting a lot of effort into the community and there will be a smattering of, you know, whether it's going to be a co working day or, hey, meet me for coffee.
I'm in your neighbourhood. Kind of like, you know, a bit set up, but, um, you know, we hope we'll get out and about this year.
Emily: travelling a little bit this
Chris: We are.
Emily: So we'll obviously be in Melbourne. I think we are going to, I'm saying this tentatively looking at these two, like, We had plans,
not locked into stone, but we have plans to possibly try and hit Melbourne up before we go down for our
Chris: Yes, yep.
Emily: and
then possibly hit up Tasmania
Chris: Yes, that's correct.
Emily: Um, possibly doing a trip out to Bathurst.
Chris: Yes, yep, out to Bathurst. Last trip was really good, so I want to head out there again.
Emily: might go and see Ace and friends up in Newcastle
at some point. Just because we can. Um,
Rah: a great time in Newcastle
Emily: we love our Newcastle girls. They're amazing.
Rah: peeps are
Chris: So out and about, and then obviously, you know, doing the stuff to make this all happen in the background.
Emily: make the money.
Chris: Yep, yep.
Rah: Oh, that thing.
Chris: gotta sell my kidney for the 74th time or something.
I've run out of the ones in the family. I've sold them many times. Yep,
Rah: IOUs are great in that
Chris: Oh,
Emily: I was skinny, only
Rah: Yeah.
Uh uh. Uh uh. Anybody is open
Emily: Oh, I know. I know. Oh, I know. I would just want to be skinny for me. Not for anyone else.
Chris: else. We were, we were talking at my lunch yesterday. Girlfriend of mine was like, you know, we were talking about early fan stuff.
And it's like, she said, look at my foot. I said, yes, darling, you've got a gorgeous foot. You could take, take a photo and make lots of money for the foot fetish people out there. You know? And as we know, I, I haven't had a pedicure for a while. So, it's not going to be my foot right now.
Rah: now. I wonder if there's a market
Chris: Hairy legs.
Hairy legs. It
totally
Emily: be. People are crazy like that. Totally would
be.
Chris: poor
husband,
Emily: Blah
Rah: poor
Chris: already married,
Emily: knew when he married, it's fine.
Rah: I know, like, I know he's got my face and my personality, but
Chris: but
Emily: Oh, don't worry. The amount of times I've looked at my husband and it's just been like, well, you're stuck
Chris: all his documents? Yeah.
Emily: Like, oh, you know where the door is. Like, it's not your choice.
Chris: tinkerer. That's right.
Emily: I'm just gonna keep pushing this boundary to see how long it lasts. He just looks at me like, fuck.
Rah: vowels, shall we?
Emily: Oh, I've tested them real good.
Chris: so what's our word? What's the Women in Business Collective's word for 2025? Who's gonna say it?
Emily: The word?
Rah: Three, two, one.
Chris: Roar.
Rah: Hey, we did it. Well
Chris: Well done. We
Emily: I know. Roar. Watch us roar, motherfuckers.
Chris: So,
Rah: rhymes with my word of the year. But,
Chris: I'll give you a chance.
Emily: and roar and have boundaries.
Chris: boundary.
Yeah.
Emily: I'm gonna be sore with roar.
Chris: with roar. I'll stop it.
Emily: And then put in boundaries.
Chris: Oh
Emily: Yeah, that was gross. Sorry,
Rah: That escalated in a way I was not
Chris: Yeah, we'll be cutting that one out.
Emily: that was my brain,
Rah: yeah, the word, I think, fits perfectly with what's in store for the collective.
Chris: we
Emily: well, we were setting up some foundations last year and now we're gonna flex.
Rah: Yeah, well, considering this time last year, This wasn't
Emily: we didn't even, this wasn't even a glimmer in our eye. We came up with this in July. July,
Rah: on 1st of July. I think, was it in April we went to see Anne Juliet?
Because that
Emily: No, that was after my birthday.
Chris: No, no, that was
Rah: So it was at the end of
Chris: So, yeah, yeah. June, it was June. It was
Emily: We literally came out with this
Rah: that was a real, I thought we took forever to launch
Chris: No,
Emily: we didn't. We, we recorded, we, we, no,
Chris: been recording
Emily: we must've, we recorded
Rah: maybe it was the collective bit
Emily: conference. We came up with a conference in June, but the podcast, because we actually recorded the week of my birthday, and that was our first recording with the lovely Mary Groth from Groth Collective. that was, that was the week, that was the same week as my birthday. So we obviously started recording in the end of May.
Yeah, so.
Chris: point. I
Emily: I know, this wasn't even a glimmer in our minds at that point.
Rah: Wow. Yeah, right.
Emily: It's amazing what you can achieve in a year, and I think that's one of the things I kept trying to circle myself back mentally to at the end of last year, especially with how burnt out we felt was we were exhausted and we were done, but fuck, we created from the beginning of the year where this, like we just said, wasn't even a thing, created a full podcast, recorded 28 episodes that are now live on and
Rah: another
Emily: four or five, four, three, three, three already.
Um, and you know, we started the collective, we started a community, we threw a conference and managed to make it work with absolutely no issues, nothing substantial. We got fabulous
Chris: We did. We got cancelled. Yep.
Emily: Um, and had a solid attendee group. We've got this lovely little budding community growing.
The responses to everything we've been doing has been so well received, which has just been a bit scary and a bit mind blowing that we've, you know, decided to go all in on this, and
Rah: Yeah, and the people who have been
positive, they're not saying it just because, like, you know how you could just tell people who are just like, Oh, that's a great for you, like, as if they're talking to you on LinkedIn, but these are like genuine.
Emily: love that for
Rah: else around. Yeah, like, yeah.
Emily: Um, thank you, Schitt's Creek. Um, but it, you know, it's really legitimate. And it's people that But you know what else? Even this podcast, I love the fact that we've reached people in ways that it's a bit boggling.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Emily: And also the response we've had from the podcast has really spurred on the rest of it because there's obviously been a gap that people have been wanting.
And I think we're probably chaotic enough that most people think we're either hilarious or just a train wreck or both. And it works.
Rah: We'll
Chris: Yeah, well you know what, I
Emily: We're both.
Chris: entertaining and people can learn things and be entertained
Emily: big on, um, people on, you know, do you, you, we do you, you do you,
Rah: As Robbie Williams said on the New Year's Eve TV show that I live streamed on TikTok when I was in bed on New Year's
Emily: some serious work done.
Rah: Oh, he, he has, but I still would. 100%. I'm now typing Robbie Williams instead of what I'm meant to be
Emily: I, I, um, would be worried that I'd walk away with an STD.
Chris: he's got
Rah: no, he's got a wife now, so he's not gonna bang
Chris: wife and four kids. No, he's a very settled man
Rah: Yeah, he's
Emily: surprised, to be honest, I'm surprised he's got only four.
Chris: He's become a better
Emily: to be like.
Rah: that he knows about anyway.
Emily: For the world. Anyway, we digress. Good old Robbie Williams. He did look like he'd had a lot of work done, but solid effort to
Rah: Oh and he was totally phoning it in, but I was there for it. I loved it. It was so
Emily: So when we, okay, just to get again, tangent, we're, we're here live at the Bell,
Chris: him back.
Emily: we're here live at the Bella Vista hotel right now. We did see the sign that said Robbie Williams.
Do you think that was legitimate?
Rah: an impersonator. Yeah, that's been up since the end of last
Emily: saw that and then I saw him come out for New Year's Eve and I went, what the fuck is the Bella Vista actually going to get Robbie Williams? Like, wow,
Chris: that wishful thinking there.
Rah: I mean, he's here promoting his movie, so,
Chris: Yes, darling. He's
Emily: Oh.
Rah: of The Greatest Showman, where he's a monkey.
Which makes sense when you know his albums, where he's got songs about him being a
Chris: been around
Emily: well I mean he's been around a long time and he is a very good performer.
Chris: I watched him on a quick part of the interview on Graham Norton and how he, yeah, I
Emily: I love Graham
Chris: me too, you know, and they're asking,
Rah: on that show and the question people.
Emily: But they get the real, the celebrities, you get the best glimpse of them
Chris: you do, yeah,
Rah: prep they must do to get them to do things insane.
But if you don't want something to watch Graham Norton with Will Smith performing. Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song with his kid and. They had DJ Jazzy Jeff come out and he was DJing it.
Chris: Google.
And
Rah: out and does the Carlton
Chris: Oh yeah.
Emily: can't watch Will Smith because he fucking was such a prat and they slapped someone on live TV and thought that was a smart idea like psychotic like what is wrong with you like there was one way to surely surely surely fuck
Rah: End your career? Yep. No.
Emily: like why would you ever think that's a good idea? Ever. Like, that's where I struggle with that because it's like, I would love to burn some shit down, but I don't because I'm not, I can't. Like it's not, it's not worth it.
It's not what you do. But yet others get free and to go and do the same
Chris: Yeah, but it all comes around, doesn't it? Karma's a bitch and, and it comes around, you
Rah: whole, they have to live with their
choices.
Emily: Yeah.
You know, it's the dumb shit that celebrities do
Rah: Mm.
Emily: real people don't do.
Rah: Yeah.
Emily: know, we get people just treat us like crap and we have to take it.
Rah: Yep.
Emily: Yay!
Rah: Fuck yeah. What a great vibe to be taking at the end of the episode. Yeah.
Emily: We navigated back to where we didn't want to be. Um, but, you know what, this year is going to be amazeballs, and we have so much lined up, and I'm a bit excited, and I'm also a bit tired at the thought of how much we've got to get done
Chris: You know what, but, but, but it also comes into the planning. So, you know, we're going to do ours . And then, you know, and that will be great because then we've worked, we're fresh out of. Our business planning to take it into our planning day on the 17th of January.
So, um, you know, that'll be really good. And you don't have to plan for an entire year. You can break it down, you know.
Emily: know, life throws fucking curveballs at us left right and center.
Chris: You know, and you
Emily: didn't quite plan that we were gonna have a podcast.
Chris: No. So now it's like, well, we've got to plan around it.
Emily: we do. We do.
Chris: Absolutely.
Emily: fine, you know, we look at it a year, we break it down into quarters and then we just reassess every quarter.
Chris: That's
Rah: Got my 90 day plans.
Chris: Yep. Totally.
Emily: how we like to roll, people. Well, welcome to 2025.
Chris: That's
Rah: joining us once again. Be
Emily: Buckle up, shit's
Rah: wait, that's YouTube, isn't it? Yep.
Emily: Like and subscribe.
Rah: sure to leave a review
and, yeah.
Emily: us what your goals are for 2025. I'd love to hear what everyone else's, where you're at. What's your words? What are you thinking? Um, you know, where's your mind at? I'd love to hear where everyone's, what kind of year everyone's shaping up to have. Been hearing some interesting stuff, seeing some interesting stuff in some of the communities we're in.
What's your word for 2025? What's your intentions?
Chris: intentions? Yes. And
Emily: do some intention setting, um, and then make sure we actually revisit it in a few months
Rah: Oh, that thing, we'll put it into ClickUp.
Mmm. Love you too!
Chris: time. Love you guys.
Emily: Welcome to
Chris: Century. Woohoo. Yay. And
Emily: The year that we roar.
