How's the business going?

We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. view at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle

out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at

business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. This is part two of a two-part

episode I recorded with Catherine Finney. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause now and go over to your

podcast feed and give it a listen and come right back over here when you're finished. I'll see you then.

Let's take a step backward. So you were getting this ad revenue because I want to finish the

story because I just think it's so interesting. You're getting all of these people, you know, clicks and all.

Then what happened after that? Yeah, you know, it grew and it became this whole thing. And actually

what happened was 2008, which was the big sort of stock market crash and, you know, the recession and things that we were in.

And I had this

blog called the Budget Fashionista at a time where everybody had to be in budget. So it was

very, very interesting. One of the things in my life, I've always been a couple of steps ahead.

And so, and that, I mean, that's it. You know, my entire life, I've always been able to

see around the corner. And I don't know if it's a

natural ability if it's growing up I grew up in the Midwest I gave up deeply midwest in

Minneapolis I don't know if you can get more Midwestern in Minneapolis and there's a certain

pragmatism when you grow up in a place that that's cold all the time.

So it's like the pragmatism of growing up in the Midwest, along with maybe this innate vision and having parents who gave me probably the greatest gift I think you can give a child, which is the possibility to do whatever.

My parents never told me I could not do anything. And my father would challenge me. He would

ask me for budgets and all sorts of details, but he never said you can't do that, ever. And so I grew up

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