Ever grappled with the tension between the drive for success and the unease of being in the limelight? Jude Wharton, the co-founder of Ready Steady Websites, joins us once more on the Mindset & Action podcast to unravel this complex dilemma. With a refreshing openness, Jude shares her personal journey through the winding roads of ambition and self-worth, examining the worthiness of her contributions in business against those in more highly regarded roles like healthcare. This Mini Mindset Monday is a beacon for entrepreneurs who wrestle with the push-and-pull of professional growth and the societal scales of value.
Tune in for an episode rich with introspection and strategic advice, as Jude and I, Donna Eade, dissect common mindset blocks that entrepreneurs face. Thursday's full episode promises even more golden nuggets, as we explore how to maximize your website's potential, tap into current online trends, and steer clear of frequent website blunders. If you've ever found yourself questioning the impact of your work or wondering how to strike the right balance between ambition and contentment, let Jude's candid conversation guide us through these shared challenges.
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Ever grappled with the tension between the drive for success and the unease of being in the limelight? Jude Wharton, the co-founder of Ready Steady Websites, joins us once more on the Mindset & Action podcast to unravel this complex dilemma. With a refreshing openness, Jude shares her personal journey through the winding roads of ambition and self-worth, examining the worthiness of her contributions in business against those in more highly regarded roles like healthcare. This Mini Mindset Monday is a beacon for entrepreneurs who wrestle with the push-and-pull of professional growth and the societal scales of value.
Tune in for an episode rich with introspection and strategic advice, as Jude and I, Donna Eade, dissect common mindset blocks that entrepreneurs face. Thursday's full episode promises even more golden nuggets, as we explore how to maximize your website's potential, tap into current online trends, and steer clear of frequent website blunders. If you've ever found yourself questioning the impact of your work or wondering how to strike the right balance between ambition and contentment, let Jude's candid conversation guide us through these shared challenges.
My recommendations: Want to get booked more and get more out of your guest appearances? Join fabulous podcaster & Podcast Guest trainer Kelly Mosser for her signature Program Hell Yes Guest get 10% off the program with my link plus some extra bonuses from me check it out HERE FEA Create Simple all-in-one web, CRM, email system For graphics Canva For Email Convert Kit
Want to Guest? Apply here >>FORM Edited and produced by Donna Eade
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Speaker 1:
You're listening to the Mindset in Action podcast, the place to be to grow and streamline your business. I'm your host, donna Eade. Let's jump into the show. Welcome back to another Mini Mindset Monday. It has been a while since I had a guest on with me for the Mini Mindset Monday, just due to the podcast program launching and whatnot, so I'm delighted to have Jude Wharton here with me today. Hi, jude, hello, so glad to have you here today.
Speaker 1:
Now, for those of you who don't know, jude has been on the podcast before. She runs a company with her husband, chris, and they were both on the podcast last time. Today we've just got Jude, so we've got it all to ourselves and we are going to be doing an episode on Thursday. So if you want to find out more about Ready Steady websites and everything that Jude does, definitely make sure that you tune in on Thursday for that full episode where we're going to be talking about how to make the most of your website, what's working right now in the website world and the three biggest mistakes that she sees people making on their website. So you don't want to miss out on that.
Speaker 1:
So come back for that one. But today we're on mindset Jude, so today is really us kind of, you know, showing other people out there that you know we're all in the same boat and we all have these issues that come up and knock us for six and like can put us on our ass sometimes, um, and just get in the way of us being successful, whether it's in life or business. So have you got um a mindset block that you can think of that has kind of really sort of put a spanner in the works for you, and what did you do to overcome it?
Speaker 2:
it is one that kind of re-emerges every so often and I think I've seen myself going on a cycle time and time again of like do I, do I want to have like this level of success or being noticed and that like that kind of thing. I think I kind of, I I don't like sort of celebrity in some way, and I know I am nowhere near being a celebrity and people are listening to this going what the hell is she talking about?
Speaker 2:
but I kind of I've sort of have this kind of uncomfortableness about some people having this status purely almost based on luck, having a huge amount of money for doing something that is arguably much less valuable than people working in hospitals, and this, that and the other. And I feel a little bit the same. Sometimes I'm just helping people to create websites little bit the same. Sometimes I'm just helping people to create websites and I have moments where I'm like if I'm not just doing that, because actually all these people have got businesses and their businesses are helped by me helping them with their website, they are all able to earn a living because I'm helping them with their business. Therefore that's helping their families and their children have a nice life and that's's all really important. And by all of us making money, we're putting it back into the economy and it's all really important.
Speaker 2:
So then I have these moments where like, yeah, what we're doing is great and wonderful. And then I have these other moments again where I go why am I trying to push this to be bigger than it is? Like, why should I have a big business? Is earning me this much money? Do I want to push this more? Should I just be grateful for what I've got and stop striving to push my business further. And so that is my mindset block that I basically feel like I'm earning more money than people who do much more worthwhile things than me and I shouldn't be pushing any further to get more money because it's greedy. So, yeah, that is my thing.
Speaker 1:
Do you know what? It's really funny that you should say that, because I feel, do you know? I know that there are going to be people that are going. That's me, I absolutely hear you and I agree because it's not, that's not imposter syndrome, because you know you're good at what you do, but it's that comparisonitis of my thing compared to somebody else's thing and what they do.
Speaker 1:
You know nurses, doctors infinitely more important to the world than a website. I would agree with you. They're more important than podcasts, for sure. You know I could, you know I could see it. But we all do our own little thing. We're all our own little cogs in this big machine that makes it all work. And exactly what you said. You know, people out there are literally keeping their families afloat with their businesses, and that's what you are helping them do by providing the website so you can see both sides of the coin. It's just which one's winning out in what moment. So is there anything that you have found has helped you to stop that in its tracks, or is it something that you just kind of ride the wave and know that you're going to come out the other side and slap yourself around the face? I?
Speaker 2:
think I've got better with it. I definitely still ride the waves from time to time.
Speaker 2:
I think I have got better with it because, firstly, no one wants me to be their doctor that's very, very apparent, um, so I do need to go with the skill set that I have been given, yeah, um, and. But also I do think I do think it is important that that you know people are able to get their businesses out there, and so I do really focus in on the fact that we know. I read back through testimonials of people and it's always about the amazing experience and support and everything that they've had from us, and so that is actually that is my skill, this talking to people and just and so I feel I am getting better at thinking I am where I'm supposed to sit in this world and I am helping people in my way. I'm helping them to have the money that they can do what they want to do, and if that means that we keep growing our business and having more, then we should be grateful for that. And you know what, and I do.
Speaker 2:
I also do look at other stuff. We do like we do quite a lot in the community with helping run a children's football club and you know all these kind of things, and we wouldn't be able to be flexible and do that and finish work early to go, and Chris does the coaching and I do the social media and this, that and the other. We wouldn't be able to do that if we didn't run our own business. Yeah, you know, and all those things that allow us to do the other things. Um, I just think, well, yeah, it's just, it works and it's where we are supposed to be. But I do find it funny that we set ourselves one financial goal and we made it, and then we're like, oh, but we want more. And then that's where my like oh, should we want more? Comes in. But, yeah, I think it's just about kind of just reflecting and thinking, yeah, we can't all be the people who have the really big, important jobs no, no, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
and I feel like that's like a key takeaway there for me is, you know, reminding yourself of why you do what you do and reading through those testimonials, because that's another reason to like go after them. And a lot of people are like, oh yeah, but people don't do it. I was like you've just got to ask and if they don't do it, ask again, because people, you know, especially in the business world, people know how important testimonials are, so they want to give, give it. Like I recently asked my last cohort of um podcasters to leave a testimonial for me on my LinkedIn. One of them did it straight away. The other came back and went can you contact me next week? Because I'm going away, um, and I want to do that for you, but I'm going to be away, absolutely fine, came back. I know she's really, really busy. She's about to go into her book launch, so I know she's really busy. But I was just like I really really would like to have that testimonial up and I just messaged her and I said you've got time, I'm just reminding you, like you asked me to, and she was just like it's on my list, I will do it, and it went up that night. So you know, and they're two fantastic testimonials that show me that actually, what I do is worth doing and it's worth being paid for.
Speaker 1:
And yeah, I think it is one of those like, just like, think of the Kardashians. You see, this is what it's like. That's that's where my mind goes to these people that have got more money than sends and don't really need it, and what do they actually do with their wealth? And it's like, yeah, I don't ever want to, like I don't want to get there. So it's just like so what am I? What am I doing it for?
Speaker 1:
And I think, having a strong why at your core your flexibility to be with your boys, flexibility to work in your community. You know, knowing why you do what you do for the people that you do it for, because you want to help them with their businesses. You want them to be able to flourish with their business and have a good website that shows them off to the best of its ability, um, to bring them in more money so they can do the same for their families that you're doing for yours. It's a chain reaction and I think it's yeah, so, yeah, definitely one that I think we all suffer, with a couple of really great tips on how to kind of reset your mind when it starts to go down that route. Because, you know, inflation's a thing, guys.
Speaker 2:
so we do always have to be moving the financial goals, because otherwise we'll be going backwards definitely, and chris and I was saying that recently just like the reason our goals move, like we achieve a goal, and we thought, well, we thought when we hit this, yeah, we'd be like done, we'll just stay here, just maintain this level. But yeah, when we set that marker two, three years ago, things were a lot cheaper, yeah yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:
It was a lot different. It was a lot different, brilliant. Oh, thank you so much for that, jude. It's it's always a little bit vulnerable to sort of say these things out loud, but I think it really does help us all to kind of understand that we, we all have these thoughts from time to time. We all have different things that we're dealing with and, as much as the, you know, social media is the highlight reel. I think, as business owners especially sort of ethically based, you know, honest businesses that work in integrity we always want to be able to show that actually, it's not always sunshine and roses, and we, we all have our moments. So I really appreciate you sharing that and thank you for coming on today. Thank you for having me. Okay, guys, make sure you come back on Thursday for our full episode where Jude is going to be diving into all things websites. You do not want to miss it, and I will see you and and so will Jude, there. Bye for now.
