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Five Questions Over Coffee with Ted and Leigh Matheson (Ep. 56)
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Five Questions Over Coffee with Ted and Leigh Matheson (Ep. 56)

Who are Ted and Leigh?

Ted and Leigh help Parent Bosses extract themselves out of the day to day, so they can run a successful business and have time for a rich family life.

Key Takeaways

1. Many business owners have a indset that they need to be good at everything to be a succes

2. A business owner needs to get the business right so that they canhave a family life without worrying about the business

3. Free-up time by making the best person for the job responsible for it.

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Transcript

Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

parent, work, stressed, business, person, spend, business owners, mindset, suffering, resource, week, concept, ted, terry, whack, give, brilliant, coming, care, clean

SPEAKERS

Leigh Matheson, Stuart Webb, Teriann (Ted) Matheson

Stuart Webb  00:19

Hi, I'm welcome back to it's not rocket science five questions over coffee. I'm here with a mutual back as you can all

Stuart Webb  02:33

no problem. Listen, we're, we're, we're, we're having fun. That's the I'm really grateful to you, Ted and Lee, for taking some time today. We're just going to do five questions about your business. And let's try and let's try and have a sensible discussion as to to business owners. So what's the ideal client? And how are you? What What problem do they have when you first meet them.

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  03:02

So generally, when parent buses come to us, they are tired, they are rushed, they're stressed, they're not living a life that feels good to them at all. They're not spending any time like proper quality time with their kids or their partner or their friends. Their health, or their mental health, like physical or mental health might be suffering. Or they might find that they're not getting results in their business like they want just because they're trying to keep up with every single part of life.

Stuart Webb  03:33

Yeah, and I know as a parent, but at least now a much older person. But that difficult balancing act is almost impossible to make happen, isn't it? So what what problems do you see them having and making before you try and sort of help them to to do what you do?

Leigh Matheson  03:53

Well, I think they sort of I guess they're out of whack, you know, that they're feeling like they're not achieving what they want to in their business. They've they're not being present as parents, as Terry mentioned, you know, the stress, the health, suffering, you know, their work, performance is not great, their sales might be suffering, there might be turning over staff because they're not paying enough attention in that aspect as well. All these things are sort of contributing and piling on to them. And it's just building up building up and building up to they have to do something. And I think some people you know, then go well, businesses with me and they go back to a job or, you know, or something else has to give yeah,

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  04:33

sometimes a relationship will suffer. Yeah. You know.

Stuart Webb  04:36

And so what's, what's the what's the intervention you bring? What's the thing you do to try and resolve some of those issues?

Leigh Matheson  04:46

Well, I guess we try and change their mindset a little bit. So we get them out of the mindset of having to do everything themselves. They shouldn't have to be, you know, attending to every single job doing everything day to day, at home and at work. It's breaking that mindset of, you know, it has to be me only I can care as much as anyone else sort of thing. So it's breaking that mindset. And again, to understand that there's help out there for them to do, you know, you know, survive better and get along better and thrive better. Yeah.

Stuart Webb  05:19

Sorry, Terry, you were gonna

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  05:21

say quite often when we've been brought up, I don't know about you. But you know, we were brought up with if you if you want to get somewhere, you've got to work hard. If you want something done, well, you've got to do it yourself, nobody's going to care about your business or your money the same way that you do. So then when you take that into a business, you've got all those things playing in the background. And so you, you try to do everything, because that's how you think you'd be successful. And same at home, you know, a good parent, make sure you get nutritious meals, the house is clean you there for all the events. So you try and do that, because that's what you've been shown a good parent is. So when we sort of talk to them and say, you know, that was when we're all balled up in, you know, 70s 80s, whenever you were brought up, that was sort of the mindset, we're 20 years into the next century now, where, with COVID, and even before that, there is so many different support things that you can get the same benefit without you being the person doing it. So we just sort of take them out of that might have worked back then when there was one parent at home more, maybe one more person who goes out to earn more, whereas now most people tend to have both people working in the household. So it's just changing that mindset. So that they understand that they can still get where they want to go. But maybe it doesn't have to be it does not have to be them doing every single thing themselves.

Stuart Webb  06:41

It's a great mindset to try and change as well, isn't it because, you know, I, I speak a lot to people in businesses. And it worries me that so many business owners often try to do everything themselves, as you say, because they never ever believe that anybody else can care as much as they do. But also, they have to recognise that very often, they are not the very best person to do their accounts. This person to write the copy for their website, because actually, there are people who are highly skilled and better at it, and they would be much better off giving those jobs to the people who are good at it. And as I often say to them that, you know, they they do what I call, they use the path of least assistance, because they do their very best to sort of say, well, I'm the only one that can possibly care enough. But actually, they're not very good at it. So they're pressed about things which they don't actually need to get stressed about. Yeah, exactly. You're

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  07:38

exactly right. That's, that's not their areas of strength, right. So it's not the best use of time, a job that can be done by someone where they might pay themselves less frees them up then to earn more. Brilliant. Yeah.

Stuart Webb  07:51

So what's the valuable free resource and free action you bring to the audience today that will enable them to grasp some of these concepts a bit better?

Leigh Matheson  07:59

Okay, so if people go to our website, parent, Boss, life.com, and there is a free book there, that is the five quick ways to get back eight plus hours in a week. Yeah. And that just goes through, you know, that's more of the home base, sort of, you know, outsourcing resources that people can use. And we go through a lot more, you know, in other areas for your business as well. But with this freebie, it's just gives you quick and easy ways to get those eight hours back per week. And we've done Yep, perfecting.

Stuart Webb  08:33

rolling across the bottom of the screen at the moment is that website, which is parent boss live.com. And that's a free resource that gives you back eight hours a week. Yep. Which I think is a whole day if I remember.

Leigh Matheson  08:46

pretty much exactly. But it's all the stuff you end up doing out of your your regular workout. So it's you know, you have your workout plus all this extra stuff that you have to do. So

Stuart Webb  08:56

if you were if you were having to work Saturdays in order to keep your your, your your business going. But now you can spend Saturdays with the kids, this is the way to do it. This is the way to get your Saturday back so that you have Saturday watching the kids play footy or whatever it is they go into gymnastics or swimming, you get the opportunity by doing this to actually spend that quality time even with your spouse if you have to. You can even do that. Work is so great. So that's that's that's a great free resource. Has it been a particular book or concept that has really sort of helped drive your drive your thinking or the way in which you manage your your your business?

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  09:41

I think for us it was more about not a book per se but it's just we through experience for so many years of being business owners and being parents we just could not make this concept of the equal 5050 work life balance work. You know in reading that everywhere you're supposed to be able to have equal time In each side, and you might just get the balance, right, and then one of the kids will be sick or you lose an employee, you know, and it gets thrown out of whack again. So we could never make it could never make that work. And we realised that it was us running backwards and forwards between work and life and work and life and work and life, it was more like a pendulum. You know, we wanted to be able to spend time, like proper time, focus time on one side and not worry about what's happening on the other side, because it was taken care of. So I guess the concept that we sort of took was the work life balance 5050. And we just sort of turn it on side a little bit, if you get what I mean,

Stuart Webb  10:37

I do, I do, I have to, I have to be honest with you, I do get a little bit upset with the words work life balance, because they should never be in balance. For me, I've always, I've always thought you know, if you hold a small, sweet, that's yellow, up arm's length, it can look like the sun, but I can absolutely promise you one is very much more powerful than the other. And, you know, to be honest, if you think of your business, it's that small, sweet candy and, and the sun has been this big yellow ball, which is actually your family, one of them is one, the thing that you should be spending more of your time worrying about. So it is not about is it it is supposed to be making sure that you keep the important things important.

Leigh Matheson  11:19

Exactly. And they just lead to so much stress. You know, everyone's cuz it's a buzzword and whatever I should be doing. And all that sort of thing is what you know, the pressure is on you, you know, both sides of a partnership. And that's where the stress comes from. So if you sort of, don't give yourself a break, it's about managing your time and as Tarun said, making sure the other side is taken care of. So you don't have the worry on that side.

Stuart Webb  11:40

Terrific. Well, we've had a great discussion, but I bet there is one question that you're currently thinking, I wish he were asked me this really important question which he hasn't yet asked. So I'm going to give you the opportunity now, which is where I relaxed, I think I've done all the questioning. So I'm going to give you the say the question now. So what is it that you wish I had asked you? And please, once you've asked the question, and then also answer it, otherwise, we won't get the value.

Teriann (Ted) Matheson  12:09

I think for us, one of the key things is who are the most important people to us to help us live a good parent Boss Life. And for us, you know, in the business, we personally wouldn't go into business. Now, if we didn't have a bookkeeper, if we didn't have a person who did our social media, if we didn't have staff, who were trained in law, all the different jobs. So if someone came out, someone else can easily slot back in. And it's not us having to feel the house. So, you know, they're the most important people on the business side. What about on the last time?

Leigh Matheson  12:44

I think in the home side, it's you know, it says, honey do list sort of things as well, you know, whether it's out doing the lawns for an hour or two and the garden everything on the weekend or, you know, is it someone to clean the house so that someone's not slaving over the toilets every every week for, you know, all this countless hours. It's those sort of things that we just sort of do almost non negotiables. Now that, you know, that's our time, we want to protect it. We don't spend that time doing that sort of stuff. Yeah.

Stuart Webb  13:11

Brilliant. I love I love both of those concepts. This has been a fascinating discussion. But my apologies that we had so much so much technical issues at the beginning, but really fascinating discussion. I love what you're doing Ted and Lee, I think it's absolutely wonderful. It's so important for people to start recognising that work and life needs to be put in the right balance. Let's not pretend it's 5050 it's the right balance. And, you know, to be honest, I think the message you're giving is absolutely the right one for the times, particularly for those stressed bosses, stressed business owners who are currently trying to do everything and believing that they should be able to manage everything. Listen, if you're watching this and you would like to be able to receive an email we send an email on a Monday morning and let everybody know who's coming on to the to the podcast and for the interview this week. And get on and watch these live because they are brilliant teachings people have got some fantastic stuff to cover bring to you. So get on to the to the to the newsletter list and that's TCA dot FYI forward slash subscribe, that's TCA dot FYI, forward slash subscribe, you'll get you'll get a notification of when the notes from the from the podcast come out. And you can see the links that people Lee at Terry Terry, give with those free free resources which are just brilliant. And if you do like this stuff, well tell all your friends to subscribe because you'll get more value from it. Terry Angley I can't call you Ted, you don't look like Ted, thank you so much for spending some time with us. I really do appreciate all you doing. And I look forward to watching watching all the stuff you do on social media and everything else in the future and everything you're doing with So that's really great. And thank you very much indeed for spending some time with us. Thank you very much. Thank you really appreciate it. Thanks.

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