Episode Transcript
Nina Huchthausen (00:02.86)
Welcome everyone to the Makers Business Tribe podcast. My name is Nina. I'm your host and my gosh, these last week, weeks, the last few months, I think I've mentioned it in one of the, my previous podcasts have been, have been intense, have been different, have been,
It's a story full of change. And now today, and I must apologize because this episode is being recorded one day late. is normally every week on a Wednesday, I'm releasing a new episode for our makers, for you guys, for the women and men that are out there creating some really beautiful products.
that helping make the world a better place and help us nourish and support our beings and being well, getting well, staying well, becoming better and all sorts. I'm really sorry. I was trying to get an episode recorded yesterday, but life got in the way. And then I was like, look, Nina, you got to surrender.
You got to surrender into what is happening right now. And ultimately I was like, what does it matter? Does it matter who would really get really cross except for the, the Apple algorithm, the Spotify algorithm who's like, she's not posting consistently. So, we might not promote her podcast as much. And I was like, so be it.
Fine, I don't care because really this is my life right now and it is my mission to support health conscious product based business owners to figure out business and to figure out how to grow and scale what they are doing to get their products to the masses and
Nina Huchthausen (02:27.853)
That's what I'm doing here. And I'm sure it's fine to share this episode a little bit later. And ultimately, what I've been really wanting to share is a bit more of that journey that personally, us as a family, we're going through right now. Yeah? Because any business owner knows this.
Business and family and life is not separate. You cannot separate it. It all impacts each other and it all can nourish each other and it all can stifle each other if it's not flowing. And I think it's very important to honor that
There are a lot of things that life can throw at you and you got to go through. And we as a family and me as a mom, as a partner, as a business owner is going through this right now. And if you've ever read the bear hunt, which me and my toddler Tio is almost three and my partner Adam have.
probably read like a hundred times and we will continue to read it. You can't go over it. You can't go under it. You have to go through. So my friends, here's what's happening right now. Me and my partner Adam, we've realized towards the end of last year that we are living in a beautiful town in Agnes Water.
at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Our house is probably 10-minute walk to the beach. If we walk it with tea or it can sometimes take an hour, but just to give you like on an adult feed perspective. And the house is beautiful. It's the most beautiful Queenslander that I've ever seen. And I love every corner of this house.
Nina Huchthausen (04:44.174)
We have an Airbnb underneath the house and it's thriving. And we always have really wonderful guests that we are hosting. You know, both me and my partner, Adam, we run an online business, so we have the flexibility to live in a spot that feels like, that feels like heaven at times. And she was loving Kindy. We have beautiful teachers that are teaching him everything a little human needs to learn about.
empathy and compassion and fun and play and developing yourself your character and your spot in the world and gardening and appreciation for nature and animals and All of all of the things that I've always wanted for him but Here's the challenge that we've been noticing There are a few things That me and Adam
are needing in our lives to, to fully thrive and be a 10 out of 10 that we don't have access to in Agnes. And one of those things is the connection with like-minded people. And by like-minded people, I mean people who, who work in the same similar space, who go through the same challenges, who are also business builders, who
and who are moving at the speed that we're moving, who are hungry to create and grow and define themselves. And that ultimately we can sit down and we can, I'm just about to say talk shit. Adams always say, we won't talk shit. it's not shit. Apologies for that. I hope you get the picture that you can just sit down with a glass of wine and kind of talk about
anything and everything and you kind of seem to get each other. Yeah. And I found a few people like that, but it's a few and Agnes is small and has a town of 8,000 people. And to me it's the perfect holiday home, but it's not the home where we feel like we can grow and expand. It's not the home where we can.
Nina Huchthausen (07:08.258)
just network where we can go to like a gazillion different cafes and meet different people. And it's not the home where Adam and I can go on dates with. Yeah. Tio is almost three, so we can do that. We should be able to do that now. that was always our plan when we have kids. We keep going religiously every week on a date and explore different places.
and, you know, take each other to secret spots and be an adult. We can't do that in Agnes. And for a while we've been saying, well, that's, we can make it work. We can make it work because both Adam and I, we're very flexible in that degree. And we say this a lot. Don't worry, we can make it work. We can figure this out. However, like about a year and a bit into this journey, I was like,
We're trying to live in a tiny fishbowl that's way too small. I feel like I'm stuck. I can't get out. I can't spread my wings. I'm just walking in circles, in a very small circle, from playground to beach to home to the one cafe or two cafes that we like. When it to dating, this is one spot. And we're like, man.
It crushes our spirit. It crushes our spirit as a couple, as individuals, but also as business owners because
with little inspiration.
Nina Huchthausen (08:53.794)
and that let us down this path of feeling exhausted, of feeling frustrated, of feeling all the emotions and the things that are not helping us thrive.
Nina Huchthausen (09:10.446)
But the funny thing is that for the longest time, I thought these are like nice to have, if you will, because I feel like, man, we're living in a beautiful spot. have a beautiful house. We have jobs. Our child is thriving. What more do you want? Yeah.
But the more we've been like, we want our relationship to be a 10 out of 10. I want to wake up and be a 10 out of 10. Adam wants to wake up and be a 10 out of 10. But realizing that our environment, even though it's so beautiful, is not helping us to get to that 10 out of 10. So we've been soul searching, and we've been...
moving backwards and backwards and backwards, trying to find it. Where is it? What's missing? Now, a few weeks ago, I talked about one big need for me is to have some type of business partner that I can play with, I can bounce with, that I can create with. And that's huge for me.
But in the environment, in that little island spot that we call Agnes, that we call home, it's very hard to find someone like that because the population is so small. At the same time, we also realized, man, we need more music in our life, and we need the music that we love listening to. I need more dancing in my life. And that's not just every six months a bushed of
You know, it's, want to hang out with girlfriends after work and do fun things with and for probably a lot of people are like, well, yeah, I like, maybe I have that, maybe I don't, but are you making use out of it?
Nina Huchthausen (11:12.92)
So we make this.
this really intense, emotionally intense and uprooting and fearful and brave and
and hungry and all of the emotions that you can attach to a decision to
pack up and move back to the sunny coast. We used to live here. We used to live here for almost two years. And it was always our dream. We were coming up from Sydney. And we knew Sydney, we were done with that. was just, too much. I don't need a party in the cross every week anymore.
But we have built some really beautiful friendships on the sunny coast. And just being here, we position ourselves in the center of the coast so we can go up, we can go down. And just the sheer amount of possibilities, environment-wise, in terms of people to meet, places to go to, things to do, what Tio can learn in terms of he can play footy, he can swim.
Nina Huchthausen (12:31.648)
scape on all of that stuff is like in my mind I'm like possibilities and that environment set up of like I can see possibilities
feeds my soul in a way that I can't even describe because the possibilities that I can see in my environment just around me, I can use them now. I can use them. healthy. Adam's healthy. Teal's healthy. We can use those possibilities. It's like being in Mario Land, yeah?
where there's all these different stars and I can be like, can point against this, against this, against this and see what comes out of it. I can use those opportunities now to see what, who else I can partner with in my business. What's my next step? can create new relationships. can network. can.
We can, I can dance.
Nina Huchthausen (13:45.376)
and introduce you to new things, to new friendships and breathe and move and do all these things and go back to Agnes on a holiday.
So this year has just been so big for us to really understand what are our core needs. Not in terms of I need a car or I need a million dollars or I need more clothes. Like no. But what are our core needs in terms of people to thrive? So.
If we ever get to meet or have listens to this or you haven't met me because you're part of the tribe or your friend or whatever. I have now identified our friends. The core need of Nina is to be around inspiring people and to meet new people and to have a wide circle that I need to connect with or can tap into.
And I need to have possibilities around me and other people creating, a bunch of people creating, you're creating, they're creating everywhere for me, for my inspiration to tap into that, for my being to tap into that, for me to expand and being able to soak it up and my brain, MacGyver kind of creates something out of it.
And as much as I woke up feeling very sad and very scared because for me new environments are scary. And Tio has been very scared and sad about leaving his old kind, his old friends behind and very scared going to the new kind and meeting new people. He's also been incredibly brave.
Nina Huchthausen (15:57.868)
Incredibly brave. saw him this morning. We're going into kindy. said, OK, we're going. And he grabbed his little snuffy. It's a little doggy. And we walked in there. Of course, he held both me and Adam's hand. And we played for quite a while.
But at some point, he turned to his papa and gave him a kiss and said goodbye. And then he played with me for a bit. And then we gave each other a kiss and he said goodbye.
And I know he can do it. He can find his friends and his people. And I know he loves to connect with people too. He says hello to every person he sees and says goodbye. And he's very brave on his little feet. He can do it. And I know I can do it too. And I know Adam can do it too. And once we've weaved our roots into this new soil,
and grow them deep, deep, deep, deep. We can grow up, up, up, more and more into the light. And we can use the soil that we're digging our roots into as nourishment. And the soil is so much richer here, so much more spicy in the street, as my friend Sarah says.
and that will help us grow up, up, up into the sky.
Nina Huchthausen (17:30.254)
Because that's what plants do, right? They have to go down first into the dark and anchor and root themselves. Yes, it might be dark. And it might be scary down there. But once they're rooted and anchored and can fully source all the nutrients in the soil, then they can go up, up, and spread their wings, their branches, and blossom, and grow, and nurture. And that's the path that we're on right now.
Nina Huchthausen (17:59.84)
And yeah, this week, I think is for me.
nourishing my roots and making sure that they go down, down, down and getting stronger and practice a lot of patience with myself and emotional self care. And thanks to one of my amazing clients, he just said to me, look, take your time and do that. And then we continue. And I feel very grateful for that advice.
And if there's one thing that's, yeah, I want to share with you listening.
Make sure you check in with yourself, because it's very easy to just do, do, do as a mom, as a business owner, as a partner, as a lover. Just do an execute, but to check in and see, hey, those needs that my being longs for, that my heart longs for, that my soul longs for, are they met? Or is there something that it's worth stepping up?
for.
Nina Huchthausen (19:20.022)
And go on that bear hunt. Go through so that you can thrive and be a 10 out of 10.
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as we all deserve to thrive and be a 10 out of 10.
Nina Huchthausen (19:44.641)
And with that, I love you and leave you and I hope you have a wonderful week. And I promise you next week, the episode will be on time and let's see what it brings for all of us. And if you want to reach out and connect, just shoot me an email. It's in the show notes. Bye for now.
