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Podcast: MORE Entrepreneur in a Car on School Run

Treasures,

Another car update!

This is a rambly one so you if you hate that kinda thing, just hit next!

Let’s talk family, school runs, resting and more!

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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2021 Goal Getter Workbooks & Planners by Leonie Dawson OUT NOW!

KNOCK KNOOOOCK……

Can I get a drumroll pls…

THE 2021 GOAL GETTER WORKBOOK COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE NOWWWWW!!!!

I am thrilled to announce there are FIVE products in the Goal Getter workbook collection this year… all designed to work beautifully together to help you get your goals every day!

2021 Goal Getter LIFE Workbook :: to help you plan out your goals for every area of your life (health, creativity, family, adventures, career, money & more!)
2021 Goal Getter BIZ workbook :: guides you through creating your business & marketing plan for the next 12 months to get your business growing wildly. Helps you set goals & plans for income, marketing, work-life balance, customer relationship, getting your business organised & so much more!
Goal Getter weekly planner :: an undated planner for you to use for 12 months to help you map out your monthly & weekly goals, track habits, to do list & appointments!
Goal Getter To Do List planner :: use daily to write down & prioritise your tasks, practice gratitude, track daily habits & drink water!
2021 Goal Getter wall planner :: gorgeous full colour poster to map out your year at a glance!

You can order them now at www.goalgetterbooks.com

If you have ANY questions, ordering issues, feedback etc, please email us at support@leoniedawson.com and we’ll get back to you lickety-split.

I’ve been in a creative cave these last two months birthing these babies into the world, and I am SO PROUD AND THRILLED they are here at last!

I hope they bring you as much delight as they have me.

Love always,

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The Gumboots By The Sea podcast

 

Gorgeous ones! 
 


I have another interview to share with your quivering ears!
 


I sat down with Kate Darnell from Gumboots By The Sea and we had the most soul nourishing convo!
 


We covered:
 

Dear Diary: Oct 2020

Boo boos,

I wanted to do one big long share about where I’m at, what I’m thinking about, what I’m creating… all that good stuff.

Writing these kinds of blog posts always help me clear my head… and is such a beautiful way to connect with you as well!

Settle in with a cup of chai, my treasures!

Covid-19

I figured I’d start with the overarching theme of 2020… that ole global pandemic thang!

My state (Queensland) in Australia has managed to almost completely contain it. We’ve only had just over 1000 cases in total, 6 deaths & 6 active cases. I feel ridiculously grateful to be living in such a safe place – and am thankful that our State Government has been so cautious. We’ve been out of lockdown for a few months now and things are slowly returning to normal.

In Australia, state borders have been locked down for months to contain spread within states, and it seems to be working. One Australian state – Victoria – had a second wave but went straight back into strict lockdown. I know it must have been blinking difficult for peeps living there – but they were successful and managed to contain it again. Again – I feel ridiculously lucky.

Overall, my family and I still err on the side of caution, and don’t do a lot of things that other people might do. We also pulled our kids out of school earlier than the government mandated, and took them back to school later than everybody else – all at our doctor’s recommendation. It can feel hard when you are being cautious and it feels like others aren’t – but we’ll keep on with doing what’s right for us nonetheless.

It looks unlikely that we’ll need to go into another lockdown – numbers are contained with current restrictions. Still, I actually wouldn’t mind going back in. I know it’s a wildly privileged thing to be able to say – but fuckkk meeee did I LOVE not having to leave the house. I loved the extra time with my kids. I loved how quiet it was all around us. I loved the baking and gardening. I loved how it felt like we were living in a different era. I loved not having to think of anyone but us. I loved creating whacky shit like SALT, my erotic novella & my free quarantine planner! I guess that’s the thing about being a hermit… you REALLY don’t mind being forced to stay home!

I think I might be raising homebodies as well. During quarantine, my six year old would ask: “Mum, are we going out today?”

I’d reply: “No honey. We didn’t go out yesterday. We aren’t going out today. We aren’t going out tomorrow either.”

Beth: “YAY! I was hoping you’d say that! I just have a lot of things to do at home today! I’ve got art to make and a game to play with Starry and play on my BIKE!”

Return to school

My kids just finished their first full term of school AT SCHOOL for the year.

Term 1: We pulled out six weeks into term or so because the pandemic was beginning, and our doctor recommended we do. Schools were officially closed a few weeks later.

Term 2: Most of the term schools did online learning. We decided not to follow our school’s online learning, and homeschool in the way that we were used to and fit for us. Schools went back onto campus for the last few weeks, but we held back (again on our doctor’s recommendation) to see how the numbers went.

Term 3: We were confident enough to send the kids to school for the term, but pulled them out anytime there were school events that didn’t appear COVID-safe.

Again – it can feel really hard being the overly cautious family. But I’d prefer the regret of that than the regret of being sloppy & contracting Covid.

Long term readers may remember that a few years ago I was horrifically ill for six months with what doctors later realised was most likely swine flu and that I should have been hospitalised. I was on endless antibiotics, and was tested for lung cancer and tuberculosis. I remember my husband standing over me, with a furrowed brow, and saying “I have never seen someone so sick before.” I wrote this piece while I was getting huge vials of blood being taken. I was bedridden with fevers, my limbs hurt, I found it hard to swallow and eat, and would wake in large pools of sweat… so much so that after I recovered we had to replace our mattress because my side was stained yellow from the fever sweats. It felt like it took another 18 months after that for my body to recover.

Having been there and smoked that absolute shit-stick, I do notttttt want a redo. I’ve already spent enough of my life bedridden thanks to swine & hyperemesis gravidarum. I can’t schedule in another six months! Of course – I can’t know if Covid-19 would leave me incapacitated for that amount of time. I also can’t know if I’d survive it either.

So, Covid – no thank you and kind regards. I’ll keep being cautious!

School holidays

We’ve just had 2 weeks school holidays before Term 4 starts. At the school my kids go to, they start Term 4 with a 3 day camp. My eldest Starry (who is now 10!) is super excited to go – she went last year and had a glorious time. My youngest Beth (6) will skip it this year and have an extra week of holidays with this. She’s not ready to be away from us – plus she’s a sleepwalker. She does however have big plans for herself – make art, read books with Mummy, ride her bike and listen to audiobooks.

Having two weeks break has been glorrrrious. I just love days upon days where we are all hanging out at home, going on mini adventures & living life in our own gentle rhythm.

Fast800

I’m on my 7th day of the Fast800 program.

It’s rewiring my brain & body in glorious ways. I’m noticing my tastebuds are changing – I crave leafy greens and the small amount of fruit I have had tastes very sweet. It’s definitely not as hard as I was expecting it would be. I have three meals a day which are way more nutritious than I usually would have – and I thought I was eating well before.

In the first 4 days I lost 4kg (!!!) I don’t think I even lost that much when I jumped on that dumbass “maple syrup, cayenne pepper and lemon juice” master cleanse 15 years ago. All THAT made me do was make me shit my pants.

Fast800 is a wooooooooorld away from that kind of dumbassery. My fridge is bursting at the seams with vegetables and a little bit of protein. I’m feeling pretty groovy, really. Chris asked me today how long I’d do it for. I don’t have an answer for that – for as long as it feels right.

Gardening news!

Quarantine changed me: I’m now developing a green thumb.

I bought a Vegeopod mid-quarantine after a water rat devastated my quarantine veggie garden. I had prolapsed my lumbar disc by the time it got delivered however, so it had to wait for a few months to be set up.

I just got the okay to start lifting stuff again, and immediately planted it out with spinach, kale, peas, cucumbers and broccoli. Just need to plant some tomatoes, pumpkin and silverbeet and that will cover most of our veggie needs.

My kids were very excited today – they discovered a tomato plant and pumpkin vine growing in our orchard. They’d sprouted spontaneously from where I’d buried some kitchen scraps.

The water rats had previously dug down to eat all those kitchen scraps as well, so I also bought myself a compost tumbler. I’m neaaaaarly at the point of having matured my first compost batch and I am EXCITED. I love the ritual of going out to feed my compost multiple times a day – it gives me a moment to look at the sky and marvel at all the microcosms at play decomposing my scraps!

TV I’ve watched lately:

Ted Lasso was a joy to watch. I totally ship Roy + Keeley. I also had a minor sexual realisation: I ABSOLUTELY have a type. My love is an intense Scorpio. The only blokes on TV I find attractive? The same kind of intense brooders: Mr Darcy (from the original TV series with Colin Firth. Fuck the movie!). Nick from New Girl. Even freakin’ Doc Martin! Brooding intensity? HELLLLOOOOOOOO LEONIE LADY BONER.

Also: Long Way Up. We were rabid fans of Long Way Round and Long Way Down when they were aired 15 years ago or so. And I’m THRILLED the adventure is happening again! If you’re not familiar with the series: it follows Ewan Macgregor & his BFF Charley Boorman riding motorcycles on epic 3 month long quests around the world. This time they are adding the extra intensity of attempting to ride through South America on electric motorbikes. If you haven’t tried this doco series before… highly recommend. It’s exquisite and one of our very favourite things.

Kidliwinks

My kids are 10 and 6 now. How is that possible? But they are, and it is a blessing to behold.

I know I shared a lot about my kids in their early years. As they’ve gotten older and grown into their individual selves, I’ve naturally pulled back from sharing their stories (or many pictures of them) publicly. I want to give them space to be able to tell their own story how and if they wish.

Starry is 10, and has a dry, hilarious sense of humour like her Papa Bear. She’s started beating me at chess. She loves Minecraft and audiobooks.

Beth is 6, and is full of bounce & excitement. She tells me 53 billion times a day: “Mama! I love you!” She loves her trampoline, talking about animals and playing with her big sister.

Both kids currently love art class and hate sports. This makes me laugh heartily – can school preferences be genetic?

Either way – they are fucking rad. I’m lucky to be their mama.

On the work front…

I decided to close down my Get Shit Done Club – it was an absolute joy to do, and I LOVED connecting with so many sweet souls every week to get work done. And I have to remember my own personal kryptonite – having too much stuff consistently scheduled on my calendar kills my creativity. And I am always, always going to choose my creativity over all else. Being able to run with whatever random idea comes my idea is one of my biggest joys, and one of the drivers of my business. So sometimes you need to make choices to stop things you love in order to focus on the things you love the most.

I also just started a new live round of 40 Days To Finish Your Book course. Creating & running courses is totally my jam and flow… and I can’t wait what books are created by the emerging authors!

I’m also just reappearing out into the world after spending 2 months in the creative cave working on the 2021 goal workbooks + some new companion products for them. They will be out in the world in the next few days which I am BLINKING EXCITED BY!

They were going to be formally launched today… but this morning I woke up looking like THIS:

I’ve had an allergic reaction and had to head to emergency. Doctors still don’t know what caused it… only time will tell! The swelling has come down enough that I can now (just) see out of BOTH my eyes. It feels wildly luxurious to have TWO mostly functioning eyes. TWO!

I keep joking that I’m just allergic to 2020. FUNNY NOT FUNNY.

Life is big and hard and full of adventures. Going to keep on turning up and making my miracles happen anyway.

Big love,

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Embrace Your Destiny podcast

Lovebugs!

Let me take some time to share with you a glorious interview I did with Sandra Dawes from Embrace Your Destiny

We covered a number of delightful topics related to mental wellness, including:

My journey

The darkest days of my life

Experiencing communal anxiety in 2020

The importance of identifying your trigger points

My biggest lesson

Plus so much more about goals, inner critics, learning lessons, medication and more!

To listen, click HERE!

Big love, 

 

 

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Leonie Does Fast800: A Diary

Day Zero (The Day Before I Started)

I wanted to share about something different today – weight loss and health goals. I’ve been hesitant to talk about this publicly, mostly because I hate diet culture.

It also feels weird to talk about weight loss because so often the conversation is entwined with self confidence and self love.

Here’s the thing: I radically and wildly love every single cell of my body. I’ve never really felt anything but stupidly lucky to be able to inhabit the body I have. My body is a divine creation, and I do not believe it needs to be any different from what it is to be worthy, loveable and lovely.

And, at the same time, I know it’s time for a big, hard and beautiful change. I need to lose quite a bit of weight, for two reasons: I have hyper mobility which causes my bones to dislocate, and recent data shows losing excess weight is one of the biggest ways to improve immunity against and reduce complications from Covid-19.

If you’ve been around these parts for long enough you’ll know I was horrifically ill for six months in 2016 with whatever doctors later realised was likely swine flu. I know Covid is even worse than Swine, so I’d really rather not have that experience again.

Plus, adventures await in the future. I want to take them easily and nimbly. So it’s time to love myself into a new form of my glorious, gorgeous body.

Starting tomorrow, I’m going on Dr Michael Mosley’s Fast 800 program. I know it’s going to be hard work, and I might fall off the wagon. But I wanted to share this goal with you all to push all my overachiever buttons into action.

I want to do this with love, energy and courage. AND I’ll try to share what I can here, if I don’t turn into a full fasting hermit.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me, as always. All the adventures and crazy side projects and experiments. What a blessing it is to walk with you all.

Day 2 Update


Day 3 Update

Thought I’d record you a long podcast to share with you all the deets of why I’m doing it, how I’m doing it, how I’m feeling, what I’m eating etc!

To listen, use the below player! You can find all podcast episodes here.

Hope this is useful!

Sending you so much love from this new adventure!

Big hugs & blessings,

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Podcast: How I Become a Best Selling Author

Treasures,

Today I want to talk about

I’ve sold over $1million in books
How my books have been used by over 400’00 people
My journey of becoming an author

AND!!!! This episode is recorded in my studio!

With a proper microphone!

Aren’t you all just so spoilt?

HA!

P.S. Make sure you check out 40 Days to a Finished Book!

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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Podcast: Entrepreneur in the Car doing School Run

Treasures,

What it says on the tin!

A car chat with me!

I talk about the challenges of fitting it all in, being a “school mum” and getting creative work done in the midst of a busy life and business.

It’s been a difficult couple of weeks, phew.

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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The Creative Soul Healing Podcast!

Treasures!

A new interview is up, yay!

I sat down with Larissa from @creativeu.ca and oh boy did we talk!

“There is swearing, we talk Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and about LGBT+ youth suicides. Plus we finished up by talking about being on the autism spectrum…We also talk about creativity and healing amongst all that. And, there is also a lot of laughter.”

To listen >>> https://www.creativeu.ca/creative-soul-healing-podcast

To watch >>> https://youtu.be/EjKrBmwEMY8

Enjoy, my loves!

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Your Cheatsheet to Surviving 2020 Financially!

Baberinos! 

There’s only a few months left of this year (THANK. FUCK), and I know that a lot of people have suffered financially, emotionally, creatively and spiritually.

I wanted to put together a free eBook with some ideas for surviving (and maybe even thriving) the rest of 2020.

To download your Cheatsheet to Surviving 2020 Financially, pop in your deets below!

 

I hope it’s of use to you, lovehearts.

Big love!

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