Episode Transcript
Nina Huchthausen (00:10.162)
Hello everybody and welcome to the Makers Business Try podcast. I hope you guys are doing exceptionally well and if this has been a hard year for you or year of challenges or year of wobblers and bumps and
stressful situations and easy situations, situations of celebrations and situations of worry. I get you, my friends. I so get you. Amen. And all of all of the all of the fields. But this year, I don't know what for me, 2024 has been a year of a lot of insights so far and.
Yeah, had a few big ones this weekend. And when I was reflecting on these insights with a few friends and yesterday with one of my clients, I was like, I got to share this story with you guys, my listeners, and product -based business owners, people that
this story can hopefully help in some shape or form. I don't know how, but for me personally, I love a good story because my brain, whatever story someone shares with me, starts taking me on a journey and starts taking me towards the light, towards insights, towards something that helps me. So in this week's episode, I'm not sharing
a specific business tip with you, but I'm sharing with you a personal story. Yeah. And I'm not at the end of the story. There's no hero yet. I'm in the thick of it.
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in the hopes that you guys get something out of it. inspired by Jenna Kutcher because she's written this amazing book of How Are You Really? And I think recently she's been posting it with that topic again. like, and I saw a post of her last night. I was like, well, I love it so much because how are you really Nina? All right. Let me share with you guys. So
Here's what has happened. I think it was at start of last week or even the week prior that I woke up in the morning and was like, I felt really stiff. quite stiff and you know, one of like my right glutes, okay, quite visual. Started getting tight in the holiday. was like, man, I can feel this. Why is this so tight? Next day, I normally go to the gym. I was like, I'm not going to go because I feel like I could hurt myself.
So I took another day break. Next day, it got even worse. And got worse and worse until on the weekend, I was like, I got to see someone. This is really painful. I don't know what to do anymore. And just keeps getting worse. What, what, what the actual, yeah? And I hadn't injured myself. So then finally on a Wednesday, I got an appointment with, his name is Rob.
It's a bit hard to describe what he does. He does a mix of kahuna massage. And I would say he has very strong senses and the ability to connect with human bodies exceptionally well. To not just find knots and pains in the body, but he can actually sense what is going on within us.
He, so when, and when he was on the surface level, just giving me a massage, he was asking me a whole bunch of questions for me to just like sit with and feel into. And so one of the things that Adam and I have been struggling with is the location where we live, which is Agnes Waters. And it's a beautiful seaside town.
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at the very bottom of the Great Barrier Reef. And if you love the ocean and the beach and snorkeling and fishing and all that stuff, it's amazing. But the challenge here is that it's quite isolated. We're about 8 ,000 people in this town. And the next bigger towns are an hour and a half drive away. And they're not the most exciting towns for me personally, which
has been creating a big sense of stuckness from time to time for me and that I feel like I'm in this beautiful patch of heaven, but I'm isolated. That's what I used to just feel. so we've been talking about moving back to the sunny coast for quite a while and we're like, hmm, okay, let's take that leap. So we decided that before my glutes started getting tight.
So I was like, well, something is stuck within me. So something isn't flowing yet. And I need to figure out what is this, Rob. And I was like, Rob, help me out. Why? Why does my body just feel so tight and tense and stuck after we've made this hopefully quite relief -creating decision of moving back to the sunny coast, closer to our friends, and being in a hustle and bustle again?
And being able to shop, being able to go to the movies, going for gigs, like all these things that just really nourish our soul. But why? Why does my body does not feel that way yet? So.
And whilst I was lying there and he did this treatment, he suddenly started asking me about my sister and how we used to play as kids. And it made me feel really teary. And maybe I can feel that coming on right now because it was the most wonderful time. my gosh. OK, there it goes.
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It was the most wonderful time because I see, I love playing. I love playing and I love inventing stories and creating stories and playing out these stories. And that's what my sister and I used to do a lot. So thank God we are still best of friends and we really intimate relationships. So these are tears of joy. Okay.
But what I realized in that moment when he was asking me about my sister and play, that's all he asked.
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And I was like, man.
When I was a little girl
just me and my sister being in a room together and deciding what's the next story we're gonna play out with our Barbies. So we each had Barbies and we had this house and we just make up the story. And for hours and hours we would play, but we would create a play and then we would record it on tape. Record it on tape, we would listen to it again. And each episode we would just...
keep going, keep on going and building upon that. And it extended from Barbies to being a travel agent. And we would make up all these stories about people where people would travel and how we would support them and what's going to happen on their travels and stuff. And the interplay between me and my sister was that only together.
we could create these stories. Yeah, one person would start, the other person would build upon it. One person continued up and up and up. It would go and the story would be created through us both chipping in. I couldn't do it by myself. She couldn't do it by herself. We had to do it together.
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We had to do it together.
being in the physical together in the same room together.
And what I realized at that moment is that my sister and I, we were a super team. And all through my career, I was seeking out people that would recreate the super team with. In my first job, was my boss, Ben, that I would.
work really closely together and he would inspire me and drive me and that's where I would get my energy from and that's where I would try to excel because I'm competitive at times. I kind of see, can I do this better? And there was always a push and pull and beautiful dance and it was really fun. My second job, was my boss, Sarah. Yeah, that would give me energy and drive and pull me out of my comfort zone. I would kind of like...
When she was on holidays, I would take over a job and I would be like graded it and like exhausted and tired. But like, that's my jam. Having a second person and being that second rower. Yeah, if you will, that's how Adam describes it. And I'm really good in that position. And I love just seeing life and especially work as a game. I think if I'd
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if I had found the right sport earlier in my life or would have become an athlete in a small team, not a big team, that gets confusing for me, but in a small team.
And when COVID hit, and I was still on my last job before I went on my own, that super team fell apart because we were physically distanced, and we hadn't really figured out how we would continue that connection. And that's what kind of, that was one of the reasons why at some point I didn't see a point anymore working in that company, because I'd lost my, my body. And
at that company, were the three Musketeers. It was Charles, Dionne I. Not that those names mean anything to you. And I went solo. And I was really excited about that at the time. And my first company, Sector Growth, it was all going really well. And when I had my baby and I had to step out and other people take over, I was really sad.
I was really, really sad. And I couldn't pinpoint why. But I realized that when I was on that massage table, was because I had this constellation of this, this body constellation, these people that I was looking up to that would inspire me as clients in my past role. And I was sort of giving up that relationship, that inspiration, that drive, that
Climbing a mountain together, the sweat, the tears, the frustrations, the celebrations. I had to let that go. yeah, now with the Makers Business Tribe, at the start of this journey, I had a business partner. And I thought we were doing it together. That was the big reason.
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to now build out this dream of leaving my big dream, and it was also his big dream, and it is, I think still is, for him, to leave the planet better than we found it. But I wanted to bring this dream to life together.
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And here I am on this table realizing.
I don't have the together right now. I'm doing this solo, even though I build a team. So we have Georgie, Haley, and Cecilia. And I'm looking for another person. But they are looking up to me. They're looking up to me for direction, for leadership, for where we're going next, how are we solving this problem. And I love them all dearly.
They're such amazing, incredible humans. But when I was laying on this table, was like, but what about me?
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What about me? What about my need for me having someone to look up to, to to like wake up and be like, my gosh, what are we creating today? And that person has already left me three messages on like an idea they had, and then we jam and grow together. Right now, that is me and myself talking ideas out, solving problems, me and myself, Nina and Nina.
And when I was laying on the table, I like, I think this is the thing, Nina, that you need to solve for yourself to be in full flow. When 1 plus 1 equals freaking 10. When I'm in full flow and I have 1 plus 1 equals freaking 10, freaking 20. my goodness, hold your horses world. That's when I'm on fire.
And that's when I'm at my best. That's when like, when he's so magnetic to be around me because I have so much spark and energy. But spark and energy is a little bit dependent on that interplay with the other person. But right now I'm holding the ball, I'm catching the ball, I'm throwing the ball and I'm running to the other position and trying to catch it back.
And yes, there is some energy between me, myself and I, but not enough. Not enough. So the big insight what came to me is like, I need to find a partner to play with, to make this frickin' epic fantastical. Okay? Right now the Makers' Business Tribe is good.
I love everything about it and I love the tripe members and the people that are in it.
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But business is not just about serving others. It's also serving yourself. Because the time that we invest every single day in making, creating, serving, delivering, supporting, that's giving out, right? But there has to be giving back.
There has to be giving back and filling your cup with every interaction too.
But I can't put that on my clients, that they keep filling up my cup, or on my partner, or on other people. Knowing that what I need is, I need to have some crazy person, visionary, action taker, risk taker, person who loves to play in my life. I can't put that onto my clients and they can't...
expect that that's going to happen through them.
But I identified this isn't corny of me. So what am I now going to do? My first action is always when I'm standing in front of a hurdle like this, I tell people to see what comes back, to see what my mind comes up with, to see what other people might say.
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And the reason I'm sharing it on this podcast is, well, look, maybe there's someone of you out there listening who has an idea for what, who I could be talking about this, because I don't fully know what this means. Am I going to bring in a business partner and what is happening? I don't know yet.
But the moral of this story for you or my call out to you, my ask to you is number one, if you feel like you're not in a hundred percent flow, please check in and find out what's holding you back from being a freaking 10 out of 10. Cause if you love your business, if you love your favorite humans, if you're all in,
on creating what you're looking to create. You should, right? In my case, I should have, but something was missing because man, human beings, we as humans, are so damn complex. There's so many facets and needs and desires and things that we kind of need to put in place.
Now for me, with that Schumann, that ball playing, that inspiration, the celebration, the gongs would thicken, thin together, that's missing for me. Now I need to go onto that journey and find that. But what is it for you? What makes you tired right now? What makes you exhausted right now? What creates a headache for you or a stiff butt?
What is it for you that throttles you?
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And how can you address that? How can you face it? How can you face that thing and turn it into something frickin magic? Because if you can, your business again will catapult to that next sphere because your energy is a 10 out of 10.
Yeah. And I think that's the real work as a business owner to make sure you're freaking 10 out of 10. Because what is the energy that the business taps into? It's your energy. If our energy isn't freaking on point, the business is going to suffer. Your products, your services, your people, all of those.
will realize, my gosh, there's a stifling energy. There's a slowed down energy. There's an exhausted energy. And that's what we are feeding our business as an ecosystem. We can't be doing that. And that's what I've been realizing. I've been doing that. I'm not a 10 out of 10. Right now, I need to get back into freaking thriving.
And thanks to my soul bud and Rob, I've been realizing it for myself and invitation to you guys.
to step into this story a bit more, see what's coming out for you. Let your mind wander and then take some action.
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and would love for you to share your story, your insights, your ideas with me. And I will put my email into the show notes because I'd love to hear. If anyone has any ideas, suggestions for me, please let me know. All right, and with that, my friends, have a wonderful rest of the week and make sure you are moving yourself.
back into 10 out of 10 if you're not there yet. I'm going to do it and I'll keep you updated. Bye for now.
