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What would Nicola advise is the best way to create an online business now and in 2020? She noticed herself giving advice to a new client which was completely different to what she would have suggested only a year ago but which reverts satisfyingly to first principles.   In The Show Judith describes her latest feline companion and three week houses it in the New Forest, and Nicola’s enjoyed some delicious food at a new restaurant in Brighton.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? For Nicola it is Russell Brunson’s Expert Secrets book and for Judith it is a smattering of new PWYW (Pay What You Wish) clients and returning annual clients in each of her coaching groups for a second and fourth year respectively.   Focus Of The Week What would Nicola advise is the best way to create an online business now and in 2020? She noticed herself giving advice to a new client which was completely different to what she would have suggested only a year ago but which reverts satisfyingly to first principles. She describes it as both too

Nicola loves the talent shows on TV and cries all the way through them. She wonders about talented people and discusses with Judith whether there is any requirement to take your talent to the max, and whether or not you spoil your passion for your gift if you commercially exploit it or make a business out of it.   In The Show Judith is moving house twice this week from Oxford to Cambridge to Hampshire. There are tales of cats and death and Christmas. Nicola also talks about death, and about helping Phoebe avoid the sharks in the modelling industry.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? For Nicola it is Russell Brunson’s Expert Secrets book and for Judith it is a smattering of new PWYW clients and returning annual clients in each of her coaching groups for a second and fourth year respectively.   Focus Of The Week Nicola loves the talent shows on TV and cries all the way through them. She wonders about talented people and discusses with Judith whether there is any requirement to take your talent to the max, and whether

Aussie listener guest Bernadette talks to Own It about how to improve Airbnb results and create an income from various related ideas. Nicola is especially impressed by the fact that you don’t need to own the property to do it, you can help others who don’t like hosting or who are bored by the whole process.   In The Show Nicola has a day off in a story which involves cuddles on a new sofa, Esther Hicks, rapping, coincidences, James Corden and Kanye West and Phoebe learning to act for an online audition so she can be in a rap video. Judith’s preparing to start a new chapter of housesitting in Hampshire and London.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? A new testimonial for Judith from a podcast listener, and inspiration for a new mid-priced package for Nicola from Chris Barrow. Your Best Year Yet 2020.   Focus Of The Week Aussie listener guest Bernadette talks to Own It about how to improve Airbnb results and create an income from various related ideas. Nicola is especially impressed by the fact that you don’t need to

Judith and Nicola brainstorm their answers with some discomfort – and their answers include philanthropy for self-employed single women including the entrepreneurs bank and a big hilltop house in Stoupa.   In The Show It was a week of frustrating niggles for Nicola, and also a scary drive to Brighton and back at night. She’s been out hardly at all and is having to make a serious effort at reintroducing walking 5,000 steps a day. Judith went on a surprise trip to Manchester for a long weekend with her friend Susie, her sister-in- law has sailed through a hip replacement operation and Judith is on the move 48 hours sooner than anticipated so completely trusting in life to house her for two days between homes.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Nicola’s discovered Bridge Pages and Judith enjoyed podcasting with Alice Sheridan on episode 40 of Art Juice.   Focus Of The Week “If everything is up for grabs and nothing is a given, what would I want to create in the world and how would I go about creating it? Just let the

Inspired by an Abraham video called Complete Trust in Life, Judith and Nicola discuss what makes them happy.   In The Show It was a week of new things for Nicola’s family, a new car for her son and new homes for her nephew and both of her sisters (one only in prospect, as yet). Judith’s been on two road trips, one to Oxford in vile weather and one to Yodel in Birmingham.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Nicola’s Indian developer, Vikas, and busting an affiliate toleration. Judith is excited about being a guest on Alice’s podcast Art Juice, standing in for Louise.   Focus Of The Week Inspired by an Abraham video called Complete Trust in Life, Judith and Nicola discuss what makes them happy. LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #246 | Happiness   Words Of The Week Nicola chooses Equilibrium and Judith picks Maverick.   Project Updates Stoupa Life moves into Phase Two.   Who Or What’s Impressed Nicola enjoys great customer service with Phillippe & Gisele from SupaPhoto in Brighton, and Judith falls deeper in love with Mark Ron

After last week’s show, Judith invites Nicola to tell the listener how to get a business off the ground fast, how to get your minimum viable product to market and be motivated by that fast-start momentum.   In The Show It was Nicola’s son Nelson’s 22nd birthday this week, and she describes life flat-sharing with her two children in their twenties. Judith’s week has been about contemplating business as a lifelong service-provider. What do people want to buy in 2019 and beyond?   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Nicola is studying SEO and Judith has enjoyed helping two returner clients find their equilibrium and work out what to do next in their respective businesses.   Focus Of The Week After last week’s show, Judith invites Nicola to tell the listener how to get a business off the ground fast, how to get your minimum viable product to market and be motivated by that fast-start momentum. LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #245 | Momentum, Motivation and your MVP   Words Of The Week Nicola chooses scale and Judith picks cloyin

Women’s Leadership coach Sue talks to Own It! about women’s leadership, equal rights, women’s issues etc., and how she handles it when someone always asks “what about men?” This question can put down women and silence their voices. It is hostile and stifles debate.     In The Show It was Nicola’s birthday this week and she describes her stash of gifts and her celebrations in a Greek restaurant in Worthing. Judith week has included ducks and drakes, month-end accounts and finding yet another new hairdresser.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s enjoyed some really good conversations in her personal life and Nicola’s been busting more tolerations.   Focus Of The Week Women’s Leadership coach Sue talks to Own It! about women’s leadership, equal rights, women’s issues etc., and how she handles it when someone always asks “what about men?” This question can put down women and silence their voices. It is hostile and stifles debate. Sue sees it as a modern curse and she describes herself as fizzing when normally mi

Triggered by Ocado sending Judith a money-saving voucher worth £1.16, and furthered by contributions from listeners in the Own It! Facebook Group, today’s focus is on thrift.   In The Show Nicola is back in touch with local business colleagues in the Brighton area and been out with them for two lunches, both of which may result in profitable new business. Judith has had a quiet social week which was a good thing since her business diary was busier than it has been for quite a long time.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s enjoyed this new level of being useful to clients, and Nicola’s excited by new social media platform called TikTok.   Focus Of The Week Triggered by Ocado sending Judith a money-saving voucher worth £1.16, and furthered by contributions from listeners in the Own It! Facebook Group, today’s focus is on thrift. To what extent is being thrifty a good thing? What issues arise from thrift such as hoarding, and not charging what your products and services are worth when you know how to create s

Kerryn lives in Australia with her partner but also with donkeys and cows! Aged 50, she got fed up with people pooh poohing her ideas and resolved never to be put off again. She created Magnificent Kids and told the stories of 23 superhero kids which led to One Planet Classrooms.   In The Show Nicola is beginning to hit her stride socially back in Shoreham with a day out with the children, an all-you-can-eat curry with friends, jazz night at the pub with her sisters and poker at the Crabtree Inn. Judith collected another 5* review on Trusted Housesitters, grappled with upcoming daylight savings switches across four continents on four different dates, enjoyed a bumper busy Tuesday and looked after two Labradors for the weekend with worrying consequences, all resolved now.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s enjoyed a conversation with a potential client on her Facebook Page and Nicola’s set up a new podcast about Resilience.   Focus Of The Week Kerryn lives in Australia with her partner but also with donkeys

Nicola talks about the opportunities and potential challenges offered by her return to the UK. What new networks will she create?   In The Show Nicola has returned from Greece, and describes it as “seamless” but exhausting on the body. She’s upbeat with much to look forward to, not least being back with her family. Judith is enjoying an atypically social time at her new temporary home.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith is being stimulated by the geared-up energy of September, and Nicola is excited about two more of her own podcasts. She recommends Spotaguest.com.   Focus Of The Week Nicola talks about the opportunities and potential challenges offered by her return to the UK. What new networks will she create? What new areas of creative pursuits will she take up? What business opportunities will present themselves simply due to her local presence?   LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #241 | Starting Over   Words Of The Week Nicola chooses Adjust and Judith picks Cuckoo.   Project Updates Own It! being back live in Sep

Sharon and Nicola spent a strategy day together in a hotel once and have worked together on and off since then. Sharon explains how she changed her business activities around so as to better support her life and that of her family.   In The Show Nicola’s packing up, weighing her luggage, dodging farewells in her honour and she sings Greensleeves to Judith! Judith is creating a supportive environment and gearing up for a more peoply September, reigniting her more socialised extrovert half.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s doing some brain training with an app called Lumosity, and Nicola is pulling the money tips out of her Business Success Factory podcast interviews and repurposing them in support of her resurrecting the Money Gym book and audio.   Focus Of The Week Sharon and Nicola spent a strategy day together in a hotel once and have worked together on and off since then. Sharon explains how she changed her business activities around so as to better support her life and that of her family. Find Sharon

J&N are not sure whether they should have played this one before or after the school holidays. When do mums feel most guilt about all the different directions they are pulled in?   In The Show Nicola’s made up her mind to return to the UK semi-permanently on Saturday. Wow! That was a surprise. Judith has experienced a kitten-related house sitting low during August but landed on her feet now in blissful peace and quiet.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s clients bullied her into getting excited about returning to work after the long break by filling up her diary on Monday evening, the first day of September. And Nicola took up the Click Funnels 30 Day challenge and has nothing but marvellous things to say about their software and its ease of use.   Focus Of The Week J&N are not sure whether they should have played this one before or after the school holidays. When do mums feel most guilt about all the different directions they are pulled in? Do please share your opinions in the Own It Facebook Group

After listening to Esther Hicks and Abraham and having some very fast manifestations, Nicola fell to pondering whether spending 20 minutes in the podcast each week talking about problems is the best way to solve them.   In The Show Nicola’s been to the beach every day, and she’s had a bit of a breakthrough with Cosmote who supply her superfast broadband. Judith has moved to Surrey where she’s in charge of two black pussy cats. Two people she cares about have been seriously ill.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s cleared three days in her diary this week during which her attention was pouring cool water on her fire (literally) and trying to keep cool in impossible temperatures in the UK, and Justin Brooke has given Nicola a genius replicable idea to send paid traffic to her best landing page, not her home page.   Focus Of The Week After listening to Esther Hicks and Abraham and having some very fast manifestations, Nicola fell to pondering whether spending 20 minutes in the podcast each week talking about p

Nicola was experiencing a difficult and confusing week and no sooner had she reached out to Judith for some help than things began to improve.   In The Show It has been a cooler week in Stoupa and all her guests are gone, but Nicola’s internet is still not fixed which has made it difficult for her to do everything she wants to online and in her business. And she’s still without a cleaner. Judith has found Suffolk to be full of bug perils (tiny wasps and big fat mozzies), and also surprisingly social with two outings in six days. That’s a lot for her.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith really enjoyed an outing with a long-time colleague in the Waitrose café at Sudbury (!) and Nicola couldn’t find anything whatsoever to discuss in this section this week, which she explains later.   Focus Of The Week Nicola was experiencing a difficult and confusing week and no sooner had she reached out to Judith for some help than things began to improve. She’s had some challenges but really couldn’t work out what to do about

Listener guest Clare Hanbury takes Own It! with her when she travels all over the world with her charity, Children for Health.   In The Show Nicola has been without internet for nearly a week but her new website went live today. Yay! What do listeners think? She’s invited those in the Own It! Facebook Group to let her know. Judith has moved into gorgeous spacious luxury in beautiful Suffolk and is looking after a lovely little furry soulmate called Gracie who greeted her with vomiting up her breakfast.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith is staying in the home of a writer which has caused her to think long and hard about communication in the written word, books, instructions, information and more. Nicola is excited to see whether the new version of her website performs better than her old one when it comes to Google Ads.   Focus Of The Week Listener guest Clare Hanbury takes Own It! with her when she travels all over the world with her charity, Children for Health. She shares why she enjoys the podcast on her

When J&N first learned how to invest in property and teach others how to do the same, life was simple. Buy and hold or buy and rent out.   In The Show Nicola describes the chaos and carnage at Kalamata airport during holiday time as one of the “Seven Circles of Hell”. You are alright coming in, apparently, but be warned…long queues in the sun to have your passport scanned on the return trip. Judith has moved into some serviced accommodation near Gatwick for eight nights, which property has prompted this week’s Focus.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith is inspired by re-sharing a memory on Facebook from a year ago, a post by Robert Craven who is the Founder of Grow Your Digital Agency. Nicola has been on the receiving end of what looks at first glance to be very bad news – Facebook shutting all her ad accounts. So she’s motivated now to study all the other ways of paid ads, Google AdWords, YouTube Ads etc.   Focus Of The Week When J&N first learned how to invest in property and teach others how to do

Nicola is re-launching Swagger & Soul and wants to know what Judith thinks about it. She’s mainly all for it and explains why.   In The Show Nicola’s sold her first item of #StoupaLife merchandise, manifested a surprise affiliate win and is looking forward to visits from her family and friends across the summer. She’s really booked up now. Judith has enjoyed some spooky goings-on in the bedroom, found somewhere to live for next week and is slightly worried about triffids in the garden. What will the returning householder think?   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith did a VIP day with a favourite long-time client, which both found exhausting but productive. Nicola has received a couple of fabulous testimonials from two of her Vegas pals after working their way through her 21-day Be Everywhere Online challenge and getting some great results and sales.   Focus Of The Week Nicola is re-launching Swagger & Soul and wants to know what Judith thinks about it. She’s mainly all for it and explains why.   LISTEN

After last week’s show where she suggested to Judith she should immortalise her sayings and testimonials on t-shirts, Nicola had a brainwave over the weekend and turn that round on to her own opportunities…   In The Show Nicola has enjoyed a lovely summer week in Stoupa, helping a local business set up their Facebook Page, swimming most days and a wonderful night out with live music and Greek dancing. She’s also had a dream about she and Judith doing a big gig together with 800 attendees in a darkened room which Judith saw as Own It! LIVE. Judith has become the Wasp Whisperer, enjoyed frantic Monday, visited a sick friend on Tuesday, made it to the local beautician on Wednesday, is expecting the hairdresser on Thursday and a three client calls before a well-deserved Friday off.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith’s received a letter from America from a would-be client who enjoyed her book and is missing her newsletter. She’s an artist who offered to send her a gift of some Angel Warrior cards from her Etsy Sh

Louise Fletcher is an artist who, against her own better judgement, came to London to participate in a somewhat woo woo workshop put on by fellow artist Alice Sheridan, and Georgina Noel..   In The Show Summer has arrived in Stoupa and so has Nicola’s sister, Sarah, so there’s been lots of beach time, tavernas and book swaps as the tourist season gets well and truly underway. Nicola is planning her own travel to Dublin in August and for her daughter Phoebe to come back with her for a week on the beach after that trip. Conversely, it has been very rainy for Judith in England, lots of water coming out of the sky and none out of the taps as she found herself in the middle of a water disaster story trending on Twitter.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith really enjoyed recording four more listener guests last Friday, particularly meeting today’s LG who had been a self-confessed silent lurker until stepping up to talk to Own It! And also the fury expressed by another LG because fury denotes passion and passion get

This week Judith has been thinking about how she would buy her next home and about the advice she gave her old friend about selling her business, and advising a client on how to structure a creative deal to sort out moving on from her home and going her separate way from her ex.   In The Show Nicola’s enjoyed a reflective week, thinking about her family in England and whether or not to apply for a residency permit in Greece if Brexit goes ahead, or come home to be closer to her kids. Also she’s been engrossed in something new she’s learning and not managed to get out to the beach much due to some “funny” weather. Since getting out and about is the whole point of being there, well… you see her dilemma. Judith has been out and about meeting a client friend for coffee at a beautiful garden centre, packing up to move to a new home tomorrow for the month of June and bagging some more housesitting gigs to look after cats Gracie, Pedro, Pixie, Smidge and Dizzy, thankfully spread across three homes, not all five cats