This is the best investment I’ve ever made…

I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this episode is being recorded, the Komboo Marry people. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson,

I know, I have a downloaded on my phone and it's so surreal. Every time I look at it, I'm like, that's our app.

It's an app. I know, I see it. I'm like, who's that bloody professional at there? I know it's very exciting. But before we get into the show, a tear a weekly recommendation.

It's been a while since we've done REX, so I have two Yes. Number one is it's almost February, so do your monthly audit if you've done it for your future self, the workbook, get on that smart. Yes, I started that on the weekend, but I do have a little bit to finish off. And then my second recommendation is a book cool tell Us more a Cord of Thorns and Roses.

Oh, you guys have missed so much. So George's actually become a full time reader. She has. It's scary. It's actually scary how many books I've read over the hol days.

Guys.

I think I'm up to ten books now. I read two on the weekend, two books I read one per day. Fantasy. No, okay, that's I'm back to the real world. Oh okay, so guys, my my rex. I obviously we've already spoke about four Wing and Iron Flame. Been there, done that, love it. Obsessed, we can't wait for the next book. I've done the whole series of.

Akata, which I've only done a book of.

I'm honestly so disappointed. I'm obsessed with being in like a book world. I love it, and I've never been like I haven't been on social media because you're just so consumed. As soon as Ivy goes to bed, I'm like, see Tim, I'm bed reading and I just yeah, I'm obsessed, guys. I'm actually I'm a book where I love that. So it's gonna be like last year where all we would recommend the same thing, and now this year it's gonna be all we recommend to books. Except all right, Cooper,

It was pretty hard. Actually I only had a few hours sleep, so very tough.

I'm also a little bit daisly, so excuse that you was like, why don't you go and blow your nose? And I'm like, I have a hundred times. It's really

Yeah, So the smaller things I have always done, Jim, I've always wanted to do other stuff, but I've always been drawn to the gym and just wanting to be fit. When I was younger, it was more muscle, but now it's yeah, just to be fit and healthy. So I go to gym three times a week, and then yeah, the next thing is yoga.

Big from yoga and.

Just going back to the gym thing. You Know, what I think is interesting is I had almost a block because I also had a PET last year, and I had a bit of a block between getting a PTE because I was like, oh, but this class is that, you know, a cheaper Why would I get a PT. Did you ever have that.

Definitely, back in the day I used to do the classes, I did prefer them because I just never trusted a PT and it was just too I didn't really want to be with someone and talk to them the whole time. Like you're a big group, you're with everyone, and it's more of a team thing. So it was just a lot more fun. But my PT that I've got now, Wade, he's the owner of the gym and he's a fitness scientist.

But that's something you think, it's definitely worth it because it's so specific to you.

Yes, very tailor made to my body. And what it needs. Like I was very arched over because.

And stuff don't didn't.

You, Yeah, back and neck pain. So he's strengthened my back and my neck and my lower back and then did chest and now I'm just like proportioned as I stand up. Yeah, it was really weird my chest. I used to have a big chest, but then I did that and it was like, oh, it's not big anymore because I'd straightened my posture. And then and then I was kind of like sticking my got at because of my lower back. And then I was like I just look like I'm really bloated, and he's like, it's just

Stay with it.

All right, you got me at posture.

Yeah.

So it's been that's been massive to invest like that, Like I wouldn't change that.

Amazing.

So that's the gym yoga.

Yoga just opens up my whole body and I'm so much more flexible, so much my core strengths way stronger, and it's challenging and Georgia said discipline as well, and it's hot yoga.

So I've done yoga classes where it's like more relaxing and calm. Whar as I found this year got to be it's very about like the poses and you get in the pose and you hold it and it feels like a discipline like it it feels really good.

It just feels it's hard. It's hard, you're sweating. It's forty one or three degrees, like you're in a sauana. Yeah, what are your little things doing?

So very similar, Jim, I'm like, I'm a bit of a bit of a workout slot right now. Sorry that language just in the way of I haven't been consistent with tears. I just haven't been consistent. I have been loving doing different things. So first of all, I got into pilates last year because I needed to like really calm my nervous system, and I was consistent with pilates.

Know, so all over the place. You're very normally.

Usually I'm so routine, But Cooper my word for twenty twenty four is like pleasure. So it's like what, oh, yeah, what is going to bring me pleasure? And it's not just one thing right now. It's like dancing between all these and it's like literally the night before, I'm like what do I feel like doing? Sometimes it does bite me in the ass because some things are like already booked out, But I'm really leaning into this stage with my workouts to like what would feel good of my

I would say, and I would challenge that, but you said you're not consistent, but you're very much consistent because you look back from that and at a higher level and you're consistently wanting to listen to your body, feel happy and do it for yourself, and that's consistency. You're just doing it in a different way that you're not used to. Consistency might be in in people's head that I've got to do this and I've got to do that. Because that's this is how I'm going to get to

We're doing, that's the point of it is.

To be happy every day, and then that's a big thing a lot of people, Well.

That's so true. I guess I am being very consistent because it's like a consistency to my pleasure to myself to that kind of like what would feel good rather than I have to do this workout because I paid for this membership or I had to do this thing, and yeah, it just feels really good at the moment to lean into that because it is very different, you know, I'm usually the opposite. Yeah, so that's kind of like my current workouts. On top of that, I'm huge on acupuncture.

I get a massage every week.

Love massages.

Yeah, acupuncha.

Have you tried it?

I've tried it. Just don't feel indifferent.

I'm also big on massages. One of my love languages is touch. Wa'ts your love language very similar and I reckon yours would also be quality time.

Yeah.

I feel like now having more of awareness, I've got a lot of love languages, all them. Yeah, like kind of love, skifts, love touch. Yeah, I don't know, just because you like, why not have all? Why do you have to have one?

Well, I think it's just more what you vibe with.

Yeah, I get it.

Yeah, Yeah, so we both get massages. That is a huge one. Something I also want to get back into is hydro facials because that was something I was really in my glowy skin era last year, and I feel like being consistent. I only I get them done like every six to eight weeks. Oh and you know what else, I know, we're like focusing more in health. I was

Oh my god, me too.

Shut the fuck. But as a girl, I you know, I love not wearing makeup, and I will just use my summer skin glow drops. I'll have my eyebrows already done, my lash is tinted, I'll put a bit of lippy stuff on, and I'm like, good to go, and I feel presentable and I feel good. And that's just like an appointment that I'm like, oh this, this is something that I invest in to feel really good. I think those are.

Use code Georgie. I couldn't.

No, I use I say, don't, actually you don't put some skin in oil.

Yeah, I have that every night.

Don't actually you don't put the tear drops on your face.

I did that once and then every once everyone called me out and I'm like, no, I'm not doing it.

Everyone goes why is your face so And you're like, it actually did match your body, but I think it's just because we weren't used to it and it was so glowy, and everyone was like, why is your skin so glowy?

Right now, it's investment that as I about a year ago, I stopped drinking and I started going on a real health kick, and that was a huge investment on myself because before that I was very pale and just not like that was one thing. Yeah, I didn't look just looked, yeah, just not healthy, I guess in my eyes and my skin was very white, and I just didn't I just

Just feel healthier, Like yeah, well.

It's not really. I wouldn't actually call you ten, but it's like vibrancy. It's like you've got vibrancy back in your skin and body.

That's because you're very but like for me, I'm like stoked because I'm investing in myself, in my health, in my body, because.

You are what you eat. The Netflix thing I haven't watched.

Okay, so I loved the drinking one. That is such a good I'm gonna get like a bit left field here. You know what has really helped like future me is really being conscious where and who I spend my time with. So it kind of happened once I had IVY and I just realized how much limited time I have. But a huge thing is like being conscious of like, oh my god, where am I spending my time and energy?

You I've seen something online and it's show me your five friends and I'll show you your future.

Oh that's a good one.

Yeah, it's stuck in my head. So you look at them and what they're doing. Because everything's energy energy, So if you're around energy that's not going in the way you want to go.

It's maybe time to.

Leave that energy and you go in nowhere fast.

Yeah.

And so that's a huge, huge one because it's influenced, like yeah, massive influence.

Hugely runs off. All right, sorry, going back to investments because I went off. Let's talk about like the bigger investments we have made in our future selves. I said this at the start that one of my first big investments was I got like a life coach and well she was like live slash business. But again, it was at a time where I had just quit my corporate job and I really wanted to make this other thing work.

But I remember you're telling me, and I was like, yeah, do it, go girl, go and do it, like.

Yeah, you're very snot of and I yeah, I invested in my future self. And obviously then after that RNC came and h and that was like one of the best investments. And I'm so proud of myself because especially back then, like I know, the coaching world is a bit more prominent now, but it was not normal to spend that much money on a life coach or a business coach. And I did it, and it was literally the best thing I have done.

Yeah, Like on that note, like fifty k was a lot for you, Like it was massive. But if there's someone that just fifty k is too much out of your just can't fathom it, Like do five grand, like or a couple grand whatever you think that is above what you're thinking. Because when you invest a lot of money, it kind of it turns in your brain that you have to make it work. And you just think, if I'm going to do this investment, it just has to work. There's no failure like this, like it just has to do.

Other words, you.

Just it ignites something in you. Yeah, we're like I am going to make this worth it, yes, and that like the actual price of it one hundred percent. You have to like live within your means and understand what is available to you. But one hundredcent Cooper, it's like it's almost that stretch of extra, st that little And this is something we consistently do where me and Cooper will absolutely take a risk that feels a little bit out of touch or like or a lot out of touch,

Oh I love it.

I love people to say, yeah, you can't do that. I talked to my dad last night and it's about a holiday, and you just said, how the hell can you spend that money?

And I was like, yes, you're a sicker. I'm gonna do it.

I'm going to do it just to really fuck with them.

But that's the thing, Like money is money, Like it's just the thing when we are here for experiences, we're here to learn and those things you hold on. So like if you didn't want to do the five grand coach or something because you wanted to keep the five grand, Like, are you going to remember the coach or are you going to remember saving five grand? Like You're not going

That's so true.

Love such a money block.

Yeah, and should we absolutely do a whole episode of money.

She should do more?

Should we do a.

Course might be controversial?

Yeah, Like I love that and that and that's absolutely what we want to normalize in this episode of like investing in yourself, you are always going to be your best investment. Growing up personally, like with me and Cooper, I remember it was like if you're going to invest its property or It's like I remember growing up and like my whole goal in life was like do my degree, get a job, buy a house, get married, And I

It's studying courses like all that stuff.

Yeah, do you want to chat about what you're studying this year because that's a huge investment in yourself.

Yeah, that's I'm investing in doing my NLP course. So that's neuro linguistic programming, and it's yeah, to become a therapist, which I'm very unsure right now, just my confidence in that.

I'm just not ready.

But I'm gaining a lot of knowledge with the mind and how we think and using all of our senses and how we yeah, and that sort of thing and potentially yeah, go into more the trauma side, which we'll get on that later. But yeah, so that's a pretty good investment huge myself.

And even that's even like I think about my law degree and that was a huge investment that I'm not currently utilizing, but it gave me so many skills and it gave me so much life knowledge. It's like the life and Business coach, like I probably don't use the exact knowledge that she gave me when you know, we did that container. But I have so much life knowledge and like lessons and like moments from that that I can now implement in what I do now.

Yeah, hugely.

I think that's why that's a big part why you're so successful as well. Like it's definitely given you a lot of discipline and like doing all this studying and I've been talking to you that you're up studying every freaking day and I was just plumbing.

But fun times.

Yeah, So it's given a lot.

Yeah, it's like it's never a waste even if you don't go and then live out the thing. What other investments do you invest in for yourself?

Well, my biggest one that I've done is investing into his call a Mind Body Coach, and he deals with he does trauma therapy and toxins and toxin yeah, but he also does like your body and because he's a natural path as well and nutritionists and he's just got a lot of licenses and he has definitely changed my life. And it's been a wild ride for sure, dealing with like I didn't even know what trauma was. I just thought trauma was a pretty bad word, and it wasn't

Now you're kind of talking about it doesn't have to be like, it doesn't have to be big tig trauma, like you see a parent die, like something horrific. It can just be trauma in the way of like maybe you're trying to get your parents' attention and they didn't give you what you needed in that moment, and then your body stores that as like rejection or not being seen, and it's something that gets stored in your body that you then react in a certain way.

Yeah, it's just a big thing. When you're a child, we always put it in ourselves, and we blame ourselves because we don't have the knowledge to not like we just naturally have it into ourselves. We put it on our shoulders and then it's stored for a long time, and that's that's the trauma that kind of follows on

It all starts with you.

It all starts with you.

So I like learned that the hard way because I've done other stuff and but yeah, that one has just flipped me upside down. Like the knowledge I've gained from that, and I'm able to talk a lot easier and better with everything that I do now. And it's it is from.

You're a completely different person. Yeah, absolutely changed your life. But also like the investment of you taking because sometimes your sessions like four hours long, are they? Yeah, so you're you're you investing that sort of time out of your week is so huge and a lot of people like aren't prepared to do it or feel like they can't do it.

Yeah, because that's the funny part which a lot of people don't understand what it can give you.

But like, well it's not normalized, is that.

Yeah, it's not, Well, no one knows about it. We didn't know about this stuff. We didn't know have this knowledge, And like I talked to our mom and dad, and I'm letting them know what I'm learning, and they're learning off what I've learned and changing their lives already, Like they've changed a lot since I've done it, and the

Is that too too much?

No?

No, that's and then just do the rest after. No, but one hundred, it's not normalized to look at the internal things first and to focus on your internal things first. It's normalized to do the external things, to buy the house, to invest in those like the recognized education, because in society, that's what we're told you need to be successful. But it's like if you.

Get the car, you get this status, and then when you get the house, you get this, and then you get whenever you.

Read security, I don't feel different.

I feel worse because I've got a bloody mortgage for the Yeah.

And I think that's like the biggest thing we want to want to push in this episode is just like realizing that when you invest in yourself, in the eternal in you, yeah, the return is tenfold. And I think also there's so much to be said about how starting with you, like you just said, Cooper, is such a catalyst for other things falling into place. Because when you're happy with you, when you're solid with who you are, when you feel good in your body, in your mind,

No, definitely not. And it's a shame, Like it is a shame. It's a shame that our society.

Yeah, doesn't prioritize it.

Yeah.

And because I have worked with the same or I'm still currently working with the same coach that Cooper has and absolutely life changing and also I have also I remember, I want to say, three years ago, I started seeing like a psychologist and even that I remember, you know, she was, you know, two hundred bucks an hour or something like that, and that was a stretch for me

Yeah, that's a good point that there's so many different therapists there's so many different therapists in the world, so trial it. If you go to one and it's just not working, get out, like, yeah, there's so.

Many, don't don't then go oh, well all this boody mental health thing that don't work.

Don't don't give up because I did do that and I even want your therapist.

And it was the worst except in my life.

But I didn't like it, but I gave up and I just thought, nah, I can fix it in myself, and then a couple of years down the track, not fix it help because when we have triggers that we have and things that come up, it is near impossible to fix them on your own. And that's very annoying, like you can try and help it, but deep down it's just it's too hard to get rid of.

But well, I think it's even not like I was just gonna say. That's also another thing that I've noticed in our evolution is like normalize getting support and help, Whereas growing up it felt like I couldn't do that unless I was like at breaking point, Like I shouldn't

Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Like that is hard probably to hear from other people because they probably can't do it, but doing it yourself and getting like that the meal preps and going to that investing in yourself with good nutrition, food, take the time and the journey you're on now, like you can do it and you shouldn't feel guilty.

Yeah, it's for that's what comes in. It's guilt, yeah, of like I shouldn't be doing this and.

That that can stem back from our parents.

But just blame everything on your parents.

That's what we do.

But it's not absolutely take her to.

It's in yourself. But it's okay, And yeah, but that's so good that you're able to do that, and like you might have a bit of guilt there, but you still did it.

So it's not enough.

And you've changed a lot since going to the mind, body coach, like you're a different person as well, So like you, I always tell you lately that you're just completely different and like consistently being happy and free flowing. It's like weird a mere but it's so nice to be around, and it's I'm getting such good energy from you, especially in business when shit does hit the fan and I'm.

Like, how are we going to do next month? And You're like, it's all good, It'll come to work, Universe.

Yeah, And I'm like, lord, but then it does work, and then I've slowly like I am pretty good. But I think it's because you've always been that person. Now you're not. I have to take it on board. But then now I'm following in your footsteps of that's it all happened for us.

That was the biggest thing that I worked on with my body coaches, like my need to control an outcome and to be that like driving factor in every single aspect of my life. And Goop is like it's absolutely backfired because now I'm like the chill One Naked Harvest is like it's just all gonna work out and it's gonna be perfect.

It was like not that fucking card to take, but now it's like so much easier, Like why would you live your life worrying about something that hasn't happened, And like, that's what anxiety is. It's worrying about the future.

And I was I was living in a state of anxiety like my whole life.

Yeah, yeah, and that's very common and to live. I have found this with a lot of people around me that were either living in the past or we're living in the future. Yeah, and it's not benefit you, and it is so hard. But if you can get to the point that you live in the present every day, happiness is right there. Because I always like worry about something in the future or the past, and I stop myself and I think, look where you are, Look what

And even if like the present isn't that good, like maybe something is upp or whatever like that, it's still being like, but what can I do right now? Rather than being like, oh, well, this happened, and I feel like this or this could happen in the future.

Yeah, you can always if this bad happening in that moment, there's always good right there right next to you.

You just got to look for it well.

To finish coup. I think a good question is, you know, we're talking about investing in ourselves, and it is quite easy to you know, invest in We're not easy, but it is more normalized to invest in like a pt or acupuncture and those sorts of things. But when it does come to bigger investments, like something that is ten thousand dollars, which we're you know, giving away to our end h CO for February with the Future Youth Fund.

Yeah, it's hard because it'd be pretty normal. I would imagine that you just put on your house or even go on a holiday or something along those lines.

But it's think it's you getting clear on what the priority is for you. And like you know, my favorite saying is like, if you want different, you have to move different. So if you want a different reality, if you want something different, you absolutely have to do something different. And we don't have the we don't always have the tools to do something different. And that's why we invest in something external that is for us internally, that is

So like when we're nervous or something comes up and you're like, oh, it's kind of telling you not to do it. Like being nervous is awesome, it's so being uncomfortable, Yeah, uncomfortable, Like that's.

When the magic happens.

Yeah, and you should lean in on it and not go back inside and not do it because your experiences, learning and doing more for yourself and don't have that guilt that you shouldn't do it for yourself of like who am I to do it?

I'm not that person.

And that's the thing that I've noticed as well, that everyone has a personality of like that's just who I am, Like it isn't.

Literally be whoever the fuck you want.

Yeah, Yeah, and you can go and do it, Like you can change your personality and be the person who you want to be.

And the difference between you and the person you want to be is they just have a different set of beliefs, emotions, and tools. So if you want to be that different person, go and invest in what you need to invest to be that different person.

Yeah, just tell yourself, like the best version of myself, what would they do?

Yeah?

Because I do that daily.

I have my values that I stick to and any decision I make or anything I do in my life has to go in line with those values, and if they don't, then it's just not right for me.

And that's also another thing, is like get clear on what your priorities are, because if your priorities are is I want something different? I want this reality that's over here, all this thing that's over here and you don't know how to get there, then it's obviously a priority to invest in yourself to get there and like being clear in that. But guys, that was just a long, long rant meaning Cooper going on about how we invested ourselves.

I think that was very powerful.

No, we appreciate it, We absolutely do.

Oh.

I think it's it's good to have this conversation Cooper because, like we said, we didn't get this conversation growing up. It was not normalized for us, and we've had to like tread through a lot of interesting emotions and beliefs. So we think it's really important to put this information out there and talk about this concept because it's not often talked about. And also we are just so excited for one of our nh CO community members to get ten thousand dollars to invest in their future selves.

Yeah, that's just going to be life changing.

Literally life changing. So guys, if you do you want to go into the future, you fund or you have to do a shop through en h for the whole month of feb There will be t's and c's in the show notes. We'll put a link there and then you do have to register your interest, so you just go onto the landing page on the website, you put

And because on that, like you might it might be a bit much for you to do it, but and a bit silly, but for you to actually go in there and just let go and see what you come up with and then read back on it, like you'll surprise yourself. Because I just kind of think that listening to that, I probably would be like ain doing that, but that might be me, But I just want to say that, just give it a chance, see what you come up with, and see what you write down, and

Yeah you did it in the day, prioritize yourself for but.

Now since doing it, like I wish I did more of that stuff and I was let into that. But yeah, give it a go, and it'd be really powerful.

So powerful all right, guys, thank you so much for listening. We love doing this episode. Come with the Facebook group and chat to us because we're going to put a thread in there because I'd love to know what you would invest in. And of course all links will be in the show notes. Cooper, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks, thank you so much for listening to another episode of