The Anything Goes Podcast

Haley Hughes on Earning In The E-Commerce World

Haley Hughes is the Founder of Empire & Co and Shopify Course, “Shopify School”, helping people launch their very own brand leveraging the power of Shopify.

Her journey in e-commerce began 11 years ago when she embarked on her first trip to the Canton Fair and shortly after established her first successful E-comm venture on E-Bay. 

Alongside her feats in the e-commerce jungle she also founded Australia’s first online Makeup Artistry School and was featured in Australia’s leading women’s magazine for the impact, the school was having on helping women transition into the workforce. She has now helped hundreds of women around the globe achieve their dreams in business….All whilst juggling 2 young kids along the way.

She has now partnered with Reliable Education to bring the world's best Shopify course to you, documenting her own personal journey every step of the way so you can get the real unabridged guidance you need to make your very first dollar on Shopify.

Show Notes

01:45 Fast Five

06:15 Why Hayley chose e-commerce as a business

15:00 How Hayley started her business

20:55 Hayley’s 3 Mantras 

22:00 Is now a good time to start?

25:30 Starting at ground zero

27:00 Facebook twinking

28:45 What actually is E-commerce?

34:30 The ups and downs are lessons

35:45 How to start an E-commerce business

39:30 Overwhelmed by options

41:45 The biggest obstacle to overcome

45:45 The importance of good sales skills

50:15 What's Next?

51:45 Hayley’s one thing

FIND HALEY HERE

https://www.empireandco.com.au/

@haleyhughesofficial

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

The One Lesson That Will Change Your Life

In this podcast, we discuss our thoughts and personal experiences with unintentionally causing offense to people online.  We also help you understand why you should never let someones else's opinions or offense hold you back from pursuing what you are passionate about.  

Show notes

02:15 The Purpose of this episode.

04:11 Speak up in spite of your fear.

07:39 How Anna offended 3 people in one post.

11:30 You can't be all things, to all people, all the time.

14:45 Stop worrying what people think of you

17:00 Chris Nikic

22:50 Steel is forged in fire

29:00 The best ideas can be found in the Graveyard

29:45 Think about your offense before lashing out.

33:20 What if you died tomorrow?

3 Lessons from 3 Triathlons

In this podcast, Anna shares her 3 most invaluable lessons from completing her first 3 triathlons.  These important takeaways can be applied in your work life, relationships, hobbies as well as your fitness goals.  If you are wanting to start living into more of your potential then this episode is for you.

 

SHOW NOTES

04:00 Lesson 1 - Just book it.

06:30 How long does the average person need to prepare?

08:50 Do I need to compete?

9:40 What are the categories?

13:05 Lesson 2 - You can do hard things

16:30 Motivation must come from within

21:42 Lesson 3 -  Most people operate at 40%  (David Goggins).

How to Achieve More With Less Time

One of the most commonly asked questions Anna gets is how she fits so much into her days, months, years - and life. And it’s not about DOING more either, her philosophy is she works hard (yes) but plays harder & rests hard too.

In this episode, she dives into her 6 tips on how to get more done, in less time. How to schedule like a boss but never feel enslaved to it, & even the system she uses on how she creates total freedom whilst fitting all of her business calls & life in.

 

Show notes

02:40 Tip 1 - Drop the Story.

05:35 Tip 2 - Know we Come from where Time comes from.

08:30 Tp 3 -  Have a Morning Routine.

13:55 Tip 4 - Set radical boundaries.

17:00 Tip 5 - Have a System (I use Calendly).

31:00 Tip 6 - Respect Your Time and Others Will Too

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

6 Steps to Avoid Burnout While Working From Home

When it comes to working from home, we have 13 years of combined experience between both of us.

In this episode we dive deeper in to our 6 non negotiable steps to working from home to maximise productivity and avoid burnout, while also ensuring you keep a balanced life and maintain solid relationships.

 

Show Notes

02:35 Our experience 

05:45 Step 1 - Set Boundaries 

08:00 Step 2 - Get Dressed and Ready Each day

10:30 Step 3 - Eliminate Distractions

13:07 Step 4 -  Schedule Breaks

16:45 Step 5 - Keep a Dedicated Work Space

18:30 Step 6 - Leave Home

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

Brett Campbell On Navigating Entrepreneurship

From Journeyman Cabinet Maker to Entrepreneur having built one of the fastest growing fitness brands in Australia, Brett Campbell is a man on a mission and is living the dream life of a young and successful entrepreneur. Impacted and inspired by the passing of a childhood friend, Brett is now taking his mission to the next level: helping the generations of entrepreneurs and professionals realize their true potential and assume a life of freedom and abundance that is possible for all who dare to take charge of their destiny.

He is also the founder of the Unleash Your Greatness movement, an international live-event series to help others pursue living the life of their dreams. Having grown up in New Zealand, Brett now lives in the Gold Coast of Australia with his lovely wife, Emily, and their two Pugs, Burt and Puggsly and is also about to become a father for the 1st time.


SHOW NOTES:
01:34 Carnivore Diet

05:51 Reasons To Keep Pursuing Fitness

06:50 Most People Don’t Work Hard Enough

09:15 Claxon Agency

12:00 Bretts Beginnings

22:20 Where Did Your Drive To Excel Come From?

24:30 Re-evaluating Your Values

29:15 Unleash Your Greatness

35:40 Breaking Down Your Values

37:30 Scheduling Whats Important

39:00 Number 1 Thing Business Owners Should Focus on

44:30 Be Clear On Your Number

47:01 Love what you do

51:50 Fun Tickets

53:30 Ripple Effect

55:55 Leading By Example

56:30 Relationships

59:30 Anna’s New Business

01:01:30 How To Get More

01:04:31 Negotiating as a Sport

01:05:30 Don’t Follow what Everyone Else Is Doing

01:11:30 What are you focusing on right now?

FIND BRETT HERE:

WEB: https://brettcampbell.net/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/brettjacampbell

INSTA: @brettcampbellofficial 

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

Peta Kelly on Intuition, Liberation and Self Governance.

Today's episode is a really special one to us as we are joined by the best selling author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Peta Kelly (PK).  She has built several 6 and 7 figure organisations across different industries ranging from Network Marketing to Personal Development. PK has also written 3 books, including a children's book - "Earth is Hiring for Kids".

 

In this episode, we dive pretty deep into Conscious Parenting, something PK is becoming a huge voice for, as she herself navigates motherhood raising her Two incredible kids, Sol and Pax.

 

On top of all of this, she is also a wife to an amazing man Erik, & she also happens to be one of our very best friends!

 

SHOW NOTES:

04:02 Cancelling Netflix (cuties outrage).

07:00 The Bachelor and Reality Tv.

09:30 Why Pk has never posted her kids face on Social Media.

21:30 Having Boundaries.

26:00 Ricky Gervais.

28:00 You can't please everyone.

31:30 Anna’s lessons from PK’s Books.

33:45 Don’t justify who you are to other people.

41:40 The personification of self-love.

44:20 Breaking the cycle.

49:00 Conscious Parenting.

54:00 Bullying.

56:30 Why PK quit Veganism.

01:00:21 Cafe Gratitude.

01:07:00 Never idealogical enough.

01:10:20 Making better food choices.

01:14:50 Why network marketing?

01:27:00 Pks Podcast (Cake Clubb)

FIND PK HERE:

PK: petajean_

https://www.petakelly.com/

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

5 Steps for Dealing With Online Hate

Being scared about 'what will people think/say about me ', is one of the most crippling things that we believe truly holds most people back. Thing is, what then happens when you DO start to speak up, go after the goal, call out B.S online, enter political conversations - and criticism and haters come knocking? 

 

Well, in this episode, having come up against more online criticism & hate imaginable - we break down the exact 5 steps we live by that allows us to stand in our truth always, say what we mean (& mean what we say) on ALL topics ever on our heart - and NEVER care what other people think or say about us along the way.

 

Show Notes:

01:46 Haters vs Critics

06:15 Step 1- Have boundaries

07:30 Encourage difference of opinions

09:14 It's ok to disagree

10:20 Attacking the person instead of the topic

11:11  The Dunning Kruger effect

15:30 Understanding ideologues

20:00 It's ok to delete and Toxic block people

20:35 Step 2 - Lean into empathy

24:20 Treat people how you would like to be treated

24:45 Try to understand their position

28:20 Step 3 - Ask yourself, is it helpful, respectful, or insightful?

31:40 This applies to friends and family

33:00 Step 4 - Don't take things personally

38:00 Step 5 - Be open to having your mind changed

40:00 Its ok to be wrong

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

Dr Dennis Jensen - On An alternative to Lockdowns

It's a true honour to bring you Dr Dennis Jensen, or as we warmly refer to him, and have for 11 years as DJ. He's a brilliant scientific mind, has worked for the CSIRO, and an ex-member of Federal Parliament who served the Lower house for 11 years as a brilliant politician, and he is also the man who just so happens to be Anna's old boss in that Parliament.

 

In all of this legislative chaos that we have seen unfold in Victoria, the question that has rung out over & over again is 'but what's the alternative to the Lockdown?' to which Dennis says is no lockdown. He is a man with some backing to make such bold claims though, with a Bachelor of Applied Science, Masters of Science (Physics) and a PhD in Materials Science.

 

In this episode, we cover a lot, but specifically why, by his own Scientific mind that continuously pours over all the data & literature at hand, he believes the Lockdown should end & what the Government should have always done is protect our society's most vulnerable & let business & society get back to functioning.

 

He would still be IN Politics if not for inner-party corruption of branch stacking, so we dive into that right at the end (if you want to stick around).

 

Show Notes:

04:30 Growing up in South Africa

06:30 Living through apartheid

08:50 Are policy makers experts?

10:40 Lack of scrutiny around lockdowns effectiveness

12:31 The problem with computer modeling

16:31 DJ’s position on lockdowns

19:15 Associated health impacts of lockdowns

22:00 Inflection points and flattening the curve

24:30 Natural immunity and T cells

29:30 Dan Andrews obsession with lockdowns

34:10 Cutting policy makers pay during the lockdown

34:20 Nazi Germany didn’t start with death camps

36:20 Section 92 of the Australian Constitution

37:30 Victorian - the police State

39:10 Weakness’s within the Australian Constitutionn

45:45 What can people do to oppose bad policy

47:35 No plan and no measure for success

49:25 Powers of the federal government in regards to state law.

51:20 Totalitarian behavior

55:30 unherd.com

57:30 But you are not a medical doctor?

01:02:30 Branch stacking

01:04:15 LNP branch structure borderline illegal

01:06:30 Anyone should be able to vote in preselection

01:09:20 DJ’s Defamation case and subsequent win

01:12:20 The problem with major political parties

01:13:30 Lack of diversity in Australian politics

FIND DENNIS HERE:

https://www.facebook.com/DennisJensen1962

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-jensen-57b13434/ 

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/

 

 

Matt Wong on the Victorian State of Emergency

Matt is a serial entrepreneur and has spent the last 17 years scaling small companies and start-ups across different sectors and organisational types.  These include a multidisciplinary medical clinic that spearheaded private DNA testing in the Australian market, a health food manufacturer, and a migration law firm.

His Facebook and youtube show called Discernable recently posted a video explaining Melbourne's proposed changes the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Act has been viewed by over 65,000 people.

SHOW NOTES:

04:00 How we came across Matt

05:20 Who is Matt?

08:05 Matt's academic background

11:00 Why he chose to speak up

12:00 Changes to emergency powers

16:00 The devil in the detail

20:25 Dan Andrews is doing his best

21:13 Tyranny for the good of its victims

26:00 Politicians are humans too

28:30 Increasing power while removing oversight

30:00 Changes in wording to section 199

31:00 Necessary vs reasonably necessary

32:01 Constantly evolving science

33:00 The emphasis on staying healthy

39:00 Changes in accountability for the government

40:10 Recapping the first two changes to the Act

40:45 The third change to the act

43:45 Why the ALP claims they need this amendment

46:52 What happened to flattening the curve?

48:35 The hierarchy of power within the act

51:31 Anna recaps

52:50 How does the Chief Medical Officer form his opinion

55:42 Members supporting legislation before they read it

58:10 Weakening sections within the act that relate to compensation

01:00:00 A Gambit play

01:01:34 A Reasonable Solution

01:02:43 Jeremey Benthem’s Ponopticon

01:07:00 Morgan goes on a bit of rant

 

FIND MATT HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/discernable
https://www.discernable.io/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBwEbcgGgjvy-FHcDwPX8Sg

 

FIND US HERE:

Anna: @annarose_richards

Morgan: @morgangrichards

Website: https://annaandmorgan.com/