Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

We know relationships can often be positioned as “perfect” on social media, but we all know that’s not the truth. In fact, constantly seeing a “perfect” relationship can be harmful in that it doesn’t normalize the reality that we all often are experiencing. Relationships are wonderful, but they can also be difficult as we’re two humans trying to operate in the world with unique brains and (potentially) opposite ways of thinking/feeling minute to minute.

In this episode, we share the “problem” we’ve run into and the five solutions we’re using to work through it. We are NOT relationship therapists, or coaches, we’re just two normal people who think relationships should be shared more authentically more often!

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/155

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Links mentioned:

“Fair Play” Book/Game - https://amzn.to/409YZc6

Stutz Netflix Documentary - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21819228/

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⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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We’ve built up a bit of a “creative dam” and are trying to figure out how to not overwork ourselves and get into burnout territory (no thank you!) In this episode, we share a couple of important ways we ensure we notice when we’re reaching maximum capacity and how to create a more sustainable pace.

Whether you’ve been working for yourself for years (like us) or you’re just getting started, there are times when you’ll put too many items on your to-do list and we want to help you navigate those moments.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/154

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Links mentioned:

“Fair Play” Book/Game - https://amzn.to/409YZc6

Everything Everywhere All At Once - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/

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💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

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⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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In our first episode of 2023, we’re zooming the lens way out and sharing the results of a few lonnnnng planning days we had to kick off the year. We set a new “enough” revenue goal for all of 2023 and we talk about how that breaks down between our two businesses: Wandering Aimfully and Teachery.

Hopefully, this episode can help you think about your 2023 revenue goals (that are unique to YOU!) and how to break those goals down into actionable steps you can take. And don’t forget, it’s all an experiment 👍👍.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/153

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Links mentioned:

Marketing Bridge podcast ep -  #078

Content Strategy Salad podcast ep - #065

2022 Review/2023 Preview article - https://wanderingaimfully.com/2022-review

Lingo Language app - https://www.lingolegend.com 

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⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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If you listened to last week’s ep (#151) then you know all the advice, lessons learned, etc from our year of full-time travel in Europe in 2022. This episode though, we wanted to share our FAVORITE stuff with you. We didn’t want to spoil the Top 5 lists in this description, but we will share links (out of order 😉) in case you want to look into things we mentioned.

Restaurants: Pollen, Grottino 1313, Finns’ Farmcut, Cavalariça, L’Arpège, Hagakure Noh Samba, Ard Bia at Nimmos, The Newport

Airbnbs/Hotels: Emmetten Airbnb, The Dockhouse, The Beach House, Kokomo Villa, Windmill,  Royal Senses

We really hope you enjoyed our travel recap episodes! We appreciate you tuning in while we shared our adventures all year long.

SCHEDULING NOTE: We will be taking a break from the podcast until Jan 26. Thanks for listening and we’ll be back before you know it.

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This episode will serve as a Part 1 of 2 recap of our year of travel! We visited 10 different countries in Europe (30 total cities) and we wanted to go over the UPs, the DOWNs, what we would do differently, what advice we would give, how it affected our relationship, how we changed as people, and some business advice tossed in the mix!

There is soooo much good stuff to get through in this episode and we hope you enjoy everything we shared. Watch your podcast feed for the second episode of our travel recap where we share our top 5 memories, top 5 restaurants, and our top Airbnbs/hotels we stayed in.

Besides just having a good time hearing us chat about full-time travel life, we hope you get some value out of this episode and maybe it helps you create a plan for a dream you have in your future!

SCHEDULING NOTE: We will share our part 2 travel recap episode on Dec 8 and then we will be taking a break from the podcast until Jan 26. Thanks for listening and we’ll be back before you know it.

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🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

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Want to know some of our favorite things from our first two weeks living in our new home in Portugal? In this episode, we share 10 things we have gratitude for in a format that we hope is fun to listen to.

At the time of recording and sharing this ep, it’s Thanksgiving for our listeners who celebrate in the U.S. which means it’s the perfect time to express your own gratitude! However, you may not celebrate OR don’t live in the U.S., so how about using the week you listen to this to sit down and share your own gratitude list?

Feel free to “Bring 5” in a journal, with a friend, partner, or pull the family together and make some sort of game out of it!

Keep your ears peeled (ew, weird) for episodes very soon that feature this “Bring 5” format related to our year of full-time travel.

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🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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If you love podcast episodes breaking down a big moment in life, well friends, this one is for you! We share all our thoughts, feelings, and logistics of getting from the U.S. back to Portugal and accepting the keys to our new house.

We’ll take you through the first morning after 3 days of travel, our initial emotions, what we’ve been experiencing right away, and then we’ll share some fun stories from our first shopping adventures and a funny/low moment trying to find a lunch restaurant in a new area.

We are so excited to be in our new place, but we’re also wrestling with so many conflicting thoughts as our brains still think we’re traveling and going to be on the move. Hope you enjoy us sharing everything from our first week in the Silver Coast of Portugal.

As always, thank you for listening and if you have any questions about moving to Portugal you want us to answer shoot us an email at [email protected].

Timeshifter App: https://www.timeshifter.com

Some photos from our first week: https://www.getdrip.com/broadcasts/754382869/7c788e916f7f48ac036b4

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🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

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In this week’s ep, we break down the entire visa process we’re going through to eventually end up with a residency permit (which lasts two years, renewable for another 3 years) and then hopefully becoming dual citizens in the U.S. and the EU [after 5 years]!

Whether you’re planning to move to Portugal or anywhere else in the world, maybe hearing us break down this entire process can help you with a big change in your life?? Or, it’ll just be entertaining to hear us go through all the silly steps.

Here are some helpful links we mentioned if you’re interested in learning more about the Portugal D7 Visa process:

NIF + Bank account setup: https://www.bordr.io/

VFS Global website: https://visa.vfsglobal.com/usa/en/prt

Printscan for FBI Fingerprints: https://www.printscan.com/services/fbi-fingerprinting/

Expats Everywhere YouTube channel (we bought their D7 Visa course too): https://www.youtube.com/c/ExpatsEverywhere

Portuguese lawyer we chatted with: https://eimigrante.pt/en/

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This week, we wanted to share some thoughts and feelings about our upcoming move into our new home. If you somehow missed the announcement, we are moving to Portugal and living in the Silver Coast starting in November (2022).

We chat about the slower pace of European life, the Portuguese culture we’re excited to explore, the new community we hope to build (friends!), as well as getting back into routines and having all the same STUFF every day of our lives.

Hope you enjoy this ep and maybe it’ll inspire you to make a big move in your life too??

✈️ Our pramvel takes you through our FINAL country we visited on our (almost) year of full-time travel: Switzerland! And wow, what a country to end our trip with. We spent two weeks in one of the most beautiful countries in the world and we navigated a flu as well as Caroline’s Mom having a dream trip with us!

🏠 Here’s the magical Switzerland Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/13402661

🪵 Here’s the Swiss restaurant that had amazing ambience: https://g.page/grottino1313

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We want to be 100% transparent with you: The 20-hour rule is NOT something we came up with. We watched Josh Kaufman’s TEDx talk and realized this concept was very applicable to how we’ve learned or adapted to new things, especially one thing this year: Caroline’s flight anxiety.

🎥 Watch Josh Kaufman’s TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY

While the super-popular 10,000-hour rule has merit, we think the 20-hour rule makes a lot more sense and is a lot more realistic for the majority of us who just want to learn a new skill or educate ourselves in some way. But, it’s not just about doing something for 20 hours, it’s about deliberate, intentional practice. You may not become an “expert” in 20 hours (or 45 minutes per day for 30 days), but who actually needs to become an expert at anything these days? Becoming “good enough” at most things can get you REALLY far! Trust us, we know!

Hope you enjoy this convo and if you have ONE skill you’re trying to learn right now and going to put the 20-hour rule to the test, email us and let us know about it.

✈️ Our pramvel takes you through our second trip to one of our favorite places this year, Ballybunion, Ireland. We had a ton of fun staying in the modern beach house again in this tiny Irish town. Hope you enjoy our chat about it!

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🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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