Leverage Lifestyle Podcast

In this episode, Catherine is with Adam A. McBride host of ‘The Costa Rica Experience Podcast’. As someone who has lived in Costa Rica for over eighteen years and with experience of owning multiple companies Adam shares great advice on the best way to move and experience the best of living in Costa Rica. He explains what’s important when living in Costa Rica and why researching where you want to locate is a vital step in the process. This is the best time to do whatever you want to do and the world today offers the opportunity to leverage your life and live the lifestyle you want wherever you want to in the world.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Most people are looking for a beach lifestyle and the pacific coast is the most desirable with great locations. You can have a great lifestyle if you have a source of money. New people and foreigners are welcomed in Costa Rica. Seek professional help with official and legal documents, to ensure they are correctly completed. If you value your time then leverage other people

Catherine explains the underpinning principles of a leveraged lifestyle and how to go about moving your life to be intentional and leveraged giving you the freedom and choice to live a life you love. This is a great opportunity to hear not only about the fundamental elements of a leveraged lifestyle but also how you can use them to create the right leveraged lifestyle for you. It can be easy to think that your aspiration should be to seek the same life as someone you admire but listening to this episode will help anyone understand how to be inspired by others but successfully leverage to achieve freedom in the life they have chosen for themselves.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Freedom and choice – freedom starts with your mindset and it’s having the ability to choose your life and be free in your mind. Living to your highest values – are you living the life you love? if you are it’s highly likely you’ll be living your life in alignment with your highest values. Designing a life you want – whoever is around you ulti

In this special episode Catherine curates responses to the ultimate question – ‘What does a Leveraged Lifestyle Mean to You’  A selection of her many guests who have included millionaires, apprentice finalists, and successful entrepreneurs share their responses about what a leveraged lifestyle means to them and illuminate the most important aspect of any leveraged lifestyle – that it will be different for every individual.  The power of a leveraged lifestyle is unique to every individual, listen in and be inspired to answer the question for yourself and start working towards your own leveraged lifestyle.   KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s getting more done in less time, making more money on less money, creating a vision and a system to give you the lifestyle you want. You get to build a lifestyle that’s right for you A leveraged lifestyle is about being able to move to the next level. It’s living your perfect lifestyle and being able to only do the stuff you want to do. You are able to have the life you want to l

Catherine shares great advice about hiring your Virtual Assistant and as someone who has extensive experience and expertise in the arena of Virtual Assistants shares some key steps that can be followed to make sure you hire a VA that will have a positive impact on your business and immediately increase business productivity. Getting it right is key when taking on a VA and Catherine has created a range of resources available in the VIVA club, where you can also find great VA’s who want to get started in your business making a difference now.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Improve your business to-do list – know what are you currently doing, what do you should be doing,  and what you want to do so you can prioritise. Categorise tasks as  ‘do’- high value, ‘manage’ – can be done by someone else with management oversight and  ‘leverage’ – low-value tasks that can be outsourced to others. Creating the job description and advert - Creating a detailed job description means your virtual assistant can get straight to work inc

Catherine revisits one of the most downloaded episodes from the last 2 years with guest  Emma Dalton who created the freedom she wanted by moving from the corporate world and creating a successful eCommerce business. Emma discusses the turning point and what it actually takes to get started with no money and create the type of business you want. They discuss finding your passion and why all the knowledge and experience you have previously has value and can be transferred to new ventures. There are always numbers that you have to know and it’s vital that even as a small business you plan as if you are a big business so the right systems and processes are in place, making it easier to successfully grow. This is a great insight with lots of advice on how to get started in business and design the life you want.   KEY TAKEAWAYS I didn’t have the money to set up a business but I did have an overriding belief that everything will work out if you work hard enough. The essential numbers are turnover and profit

Cast your mind back to Episode #033 of Leveraged Lifestyle; Catherine explains how finding your Ikigai is an important part of leveraging your lifestyle. Catherine has been reflecting on this episode and the content around IKIGAI! Specifically she wanted to preface it and revisit, to open a discussion with you the listeners (so make sure you get in touch and let Catherine know your thoughts and comments)   KEY TAKEAWAYS Ikigai, the 4 concentric circles The first circle is what you love, the second circle is what the world needs, the third circle is what you can be paid for and the fourth circle what you are good at. Overlapping these are passion, mission, profession and vocation. In the centre of the circles is Ikigai. Ikigai The Japanese believe that everyone has an Ikigai and it is the reason we want to jump out of bed in the morning. There is no secret formula for finding happiness but there is one key ingredient the ability to reach a state of flow and through that state to have the optim

Catherine looks at the ways we all compare ourselves to others - both personally and in business. It’s a part of being human but how can you use it to your advantage? This is a great opportunity to reflect on how comparing yourself to others can be a productive process if you understand how you can learn and benefit from the comparison and move yourself and your business forward on your journey to achieve the lifestyle you want.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Everyone has their own journey and every journey is different. You can’t know all the challenges others have faced and overcome. It’s important to realise it’s all a part of the process, the journey. Don’t try and do everything ask yourself what will give you the best return on your investment of time and effort? What is going to give you the lifestyle you want? Focus your energy on the area where you are going to get the best return on your investment Use others success as motivation, inspiration and to help you learn. Success leaves clues, look at the jour

This episode marks the second year anniversary of the Leveraged Lifestyle podcast and Catherine has some great birthday giveaways for listeners along with one of the most popular guests from the previous 100 plus episodes – Jackie Tomes, Property Strategist. Jackie built a portfolio worth over 6 million in just over 6 years and achieved all of this before she reached her thirtieth birthday. Jackie has extensive knowledge and expertise in the property sector and shares some great advice on what makes a difference when you are starting out in property and how to move successfully through the levels of business. Jackie wants renting to be better than buying and with a value-driven company she is building new and better ways of doing things and inspiring others.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We have built a business that we can remove ourselves from because our vision at the start was about being able to travel. We help others build great property businesses that are systemised and have the right processes in place. It

Catherine reflects on how, as an entrepreneur, it can be easy to always be thinking about your business and your family but never yourself. She shares some practical advice that can be implemented to help anyone to take a pause and clear their head. Taking action for yourself can be a challenge but clearing your head and enjoying some time exclusively for you will ultimately help both you and your business to perform better.   KEY TAKEAWAYS A leveraged lifestyle is about freedom of thought and being able to live the life you want to for you. Creating opportunities to pause, get out of your own head and enjoy being you is a crucial part of a leveraged lifestyle. Get outside, enjoy nature and be present in the moment. Get out and move, our bodies are made to move so any kind of movement is a positive whether its active or relaxation. Meditate to find your inner calm, it’s an opportunity to be still, stop being busy and clear your thoughts. Listen to music, create a playlist and enjoy your favourite so

  Welcome back to Leveraged Lifestyle’s “Break without a break” where we look back at some of the most impactful episodes of the podcast from the very beginning!   In this episode, Catherine takes you through the importance of setting deadlines and gives you five ways to help you set hard and fast deadlines so that you can really get done what you need to, whether that's in business, in your personal life or in work. Hop in to learn about this and much more. KEY TAKEAWAYS   Five ways that you can set hard and fast deadlines. Number one is to get a version one out there right now. Don't over-think it. Don't just think I will do it by the end of the week or I’ll do it tomorrow, if you've got some content in you maybe it could be a Facebook Live, a podcast episode, maybe a blog that you've been thinking about for ages, get it written, get it recorded, get your camera out, get your phone out whatever it might be, and just do it right now.   Number two is to book something as a reward for getting th

Neville Wright, Founder of Kiddicare is the entrepreneur who started with £300 and built the largest independent UK baby business. A business which when it sold achieved a record-breaking figure.   Neville talks about his journey and discusses why his business was different. As Neville built the company he placed a hugely high value on training and staff always knowing more than the customer about the products and he never lost a sale to the internet. As many retailers struggle to deliver what the customer wants from a face to face retail experience Neville shares a masterclass in exactly what it takes to be the retailer who is pushing positive boundaries and making the difference that means people keep coming back.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We pushed the boundaries and were disruptive in our area of business. When you have entrepreneurial skills, your ambition will mean you have to employ people to maintain and grow your business and you then need to ensure your business can support those people. If you employ

Whether you are a long time leverager or beginner thinking about how you can outsource there is great content in this episode with Catherine sharing great advice and tips that will make anyone think about the tasks they can outsource. How many times have you felt you have a never-ending ‘to-do’ list? Or felt overwhelmed when you open your inbox?  The solution is a Virtual assistant, they usually work remotely, are self-employed and can bring their skills to your business. There are always tasks you don’t like doing or those that don’t resonate with your skillset and these are the tasks a Virtual Assistant can do and make your business life run more smoothly.   KEY TAKEAWAYS There are a range of tasks Virtual Assistants can successfully undertake such as; Email management – filtering out spam, highlighting priority communications and setting up projects within your online software. Organising your ‘to do’ list against specified criteria and arranging for others to complete tasks that don’t require your

This week Podcast Host Alex Sapala (Business Wealth & Mindset Podcast) asks Catherine all the questions! They discuss her entrepreneurial journey and why the right mindset and being solution-focused are key requirements for anyone in business. Catherine also discusses how to achieve a leveraged lifestyle and why it can make the difference and achieve the balance needed for freedom and success.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Lots of people have ideas it’s knowing how you can turn those ideas into a business. People who stay in business and keep going as entrepreneurs are those who have a risk mentality There will always be questions and situations that are new to you so it’s important to have a strong network around you. Everyone will experience overwhelm and it is usually because you have said yes to something you shouldn’t have. It’s a very important part of an entrepreneurs mindset – the ability to look at any problem and immediately look at how it can be solved. Mentors and coaches are different, a mentor will

As the Leveraged Lifestyle podcast series moves into triple figures Catherine is taking a season break without taking a break as she provides the amazing opportunity to revisit some of the best interviews from the 100 episodes to date in the coming weeks. It’s something very special to be able to revisit favourite episodes – and Catherine is giving us the listeners the opportunity to decide on what we hear again, so get over to the Leveraged Lifestyle Community Facebook page, take part in the poll and listen in and enjoy.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Over the next 11 weeks, there will be an amazing opportunity to hear again the best interviews to date with next level and updated information. The top ten interviewees from the many informative episodes have been selected by the number of downloads. Go to the leveraged lifestyle Facebook community to access the poll and vote for your favourite. The second anniversary of the Leveraged Lifestyle podcast is on 22 July, listen in to hear about special gifts to celebrate

In support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Catherine has suspended her usual episode and put together a list of resources where listeners of Leveraged Lifestyle can find out more to educate, support and be a stand. The list contains either Catherine's personal recommendations or they have been recommended to her. More will be added to the Leveraged Lifestyle Facebook Community, join here: bit.ly/llocfbgroup   Podcasts: Steven Bartlett – Diary of a CEO Trevor Noah   Films/Documentaries: Netflix: 13th When they see us Hidden Figures Selma When they see us Now – Oprah Interview Dear White People 12 Years a Slave   A United Kingdom The Butler   https://www.docplay.com/articles/10-documentaries-to-watch-about-race-instead-of-asking-a-person-of-colour-to-explain-things-for-you/?fbclid=IwAR13zRYcFzAmr-APF4J6b_KeqeaQ2Wx7Hl7OXtD7tnpU_1oubQ5iS5C2f_k#.XtgbXouIHb0.facebook   https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/Best-Black-History-Documentaries-45715338#photo-45715320   YouTube: T

In this 100th  celebration episode, Catherine is in the guest seat as she discusses her journey and the evolution of the podcast with Kelly Lemon. They discuss what having a leveraged lifestyle really is and how there is a shared view on achieving freedom, choice, flexibility and opportunities but how this looks and what it is will be different for every individual. People often think that leveraging is just about outsourcing but it is so much more and can be part of your lifestyle if you truly understand it’s about time, knowledge, experience and people and a mindset about achieving the control to live the life you want to, spending your time doing the things you want to do.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Having a leveraged lifestyle – the freedom and choice opportunities has been a consistent theme across the guests but how they implement and live the freedom and choice has been very different. For me, it’s about creating freedom and choice with an element of being able to create your own security and being in cont

At times I didn't think I was going to get here...so thank you to all my listeners who have been with from the beginning, who found me through a friend, who liked an interview I did on another podcast & jumped over to here, to those who have just started listening from today's episode, I am truly grateful.    The last 2 years since conceiving this podcast idea have been a rollercoaster in life & business & so knowing you are out there listening & keeping me accountable to create new content helps keep me sane in a sometimes insane world. Thank you for allowing me to share those moments with you.   My aim with this podcast was to share how you can create a lifestyle you want, rather than you have been told you should & share the tools, skills, mindset, so you can 1. Decide what the lifestyle is you want & 2. Take the shortest route there.    Thank you for all the messages saying what I have shared has helped you or someone you know, it means the absolute world to me, 1. That it has helped & 2. Taking the

Catherine shares and reflects on a post from entrepreneur Richard Branson. His ‘How to be happy  - letter to a stranger’ is an emotional post about the importance of being and finding happiness. We can get caught up the race to move forward and achieve our goals but will this bring happiness? What’s really important is what you want to ‘be’ and appreciating the moment. If you can be bold and just ‘be’ for a moment, you will be able to put things into perspective and happiness will follow.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Happiness is not something afforded to a special few it can be yours if you take the time to let it grow It’s ok to be stressed, scared and sad, life is made up of many elements. Wealth and success do not bring happiness. Happiness brings wealth and success, happiness is about being. Write a ‘to be’ list to find your happiness ‘doing’ will bring moments of joy but not necessarily happiness. Be healthy and around your family and friends. Be there for someone and let someone be there for you. If you

Are you trying to keep up with those around you and looking to recreate the same lifestyle as those on the next level, perpetually chasing the next shiny penny? If this is you then Stop! this will not give you the life you want. The only way to live the life you want is to forge your own path because your leverage lifestyle should be yours and yours alone. In this episode, Catherine shares great advice on how to achieve and live the life you want, looking only to those who are truly inspirational for motivation.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Are you choosing to do what others are doing not because you want to do it but because you are chasing the next new thing -  that ‘shiny penny’? Your leverage lifestyle must be your own not anyone else’s Look to others for inspiration but remember your life is yours to live. You need to forge your own path and choose what you do, for you, not just follow others. Before you start something, talk to others, those who are close to you and those who can give an unbiased view about

Are you someone who could currently be learning a new skill that could snowball and impact positively in other areas of your life? Catherine explains how snowball skills can directly impact on your life even though the skill may not be obviously connected to the skills you already have or those you need for your work. This is a light bite episode that will help anyone reflect on, and be inspired to start learning a new skill because if the learning has an impact on your life either directly or non-directly then you are effectively leveraging.   KEY TAKEAWAYS You could be part of the group of people who now have the time to work on a snowball skill that will help with your job moving forward or a side hustle you are planning. If learning a new skill has an impact on your life either directly or non-directly then you are effectively leveraging. Think about both the direct and indirect benefits Ask yourself - If I had more time what skill would I want to learn? If there is a skill or task that someone