Grace Beverley: Entrepreneurs, productivity, and gussets
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel burnt out, but also like you’re not achieving enough? Entrepreneur Grace Beverley believes implementing clear boundaries can be the secret to success.
In this chat with Fearne, Grace talks through the hard and fast lifestyle rules she sticks to in order to keep her mental health in check, and why self-care needs to be reframed as a valid form of productivity.
And stick around to the end, because there are some proper productivity hacks for your daily to do list!
Grace also explains the various routes for businesses to get funding... and why they’re so often not available to women (only 2% of venture capital funding goes to female founders in the UK!) They chat about why it’s so dire for society that we’re not investing in women. Getting angry, she says, can have a positive effect in galvanizing change, especially around gender and diversity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that |
| 0:05.1 | questions what success really looks like. Today I'm meeting Grace Beverly. |
| 0:10.3 | Self-care is a form of productivity and you cannot have productivity without self-care, but also you cannot have self-care without being productive. |
| 0:16.7 | Like sometimes self-care is about reaching that deadline that you said you would reach three times and now you're letting it not happen again. |
| 0:23.0 | I think boundaries are a huge, huge part. |
| 0:26.0 | So for example, I have some really hard and fast rules |
| 0:28.0 | around like how I spend my week. |
| 0:30.0 | So on weeknights, I will only do things two days and like if it looks like I'm free on those |
| 0:35.0 | extra days I'm not free like that's time for myself and I know the second I go over that threshold is the |
| 0:40.4 | second that everything will be affected. Grace is an absolute powerhouse in the business world. |
| 0:45.0 | She's a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:47.0 | She's founder and CEO of Active Wear Brand, |
| 0:50.0 | Tala, Fitness Tech Company, Shreddy, and Personal Organization Business, The Productivity |
| 0:56.2 | Method. |
| 0:57.4 | As well as writing a Sunday Times best-selling book and hosting an incredibly successful podcast both called Working Hardly Working. |
| 1:07.0 | She's a real leading voice on female funding, representation of women in media and barriers to entering entrepreneurship. |
| 1:15.0 | That's where we start this chat with Grace talking through the absolutely |
| 1:19.5 | appalling situation we're currently in when it comes to female founded businesses |
| 1:25.4 | getting funding. There are some really brilliant nuggets of advice in here about |
| 1:29.7 | the practicalities of getting your business ideas off the ground too. |
| 1:34.9 | Of course running a business is bloody exhausting no matter how much you love it, it's going |
| 1:40.0 | to take up a lot of your time and energy. So we also talk about burnout. That weird thing |
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