The Apple Cart: S2, E1: How to Balance Life and Business on Your Own Terms

Welcome to The Apple Cart; the podcast for creative disruptors, disruptive creators and anyone who wants to do things differently in business. In this episode, your host, Gudrun Lauret, is joined by Lenka Koppova.Lenka is a Marketing Therapist for coaches and health & wellbeing professionals. She helps them to create businesses that enable them to live their dream lives.She helps them to use digital marketing strategically so they can grow their business (without feeling overwhelmed) in a way that sustains their business long-term.She’s on a mission to help them bring more fun and joy into their marketing to be able to create a thriving business that fulfils all their dreams!In this episode, Lenka shares her story of moving from The Czech Republic to the UK and back again, how she balances her business and her life in a way that works for her, and what it looks like in practice when you put both of those first. Lenka also shares her thoughts on how business owners can be more disruptive and where to start and she and Gudrun discuss their differing approaches to social media but why they both agree that you need to follow a wide variety of people.Timestamps0:33 – 03:16: How Lenka does things differently05:18 –08:57: Lenka’s experience of becoming self-employed09:22 – 11:45: What putting your life first looks like in reality12:04 - 14:46: Advice for people wanting to be disruptive in life or business18:11 – 20:20: Why you need a variety of people to follow on social media23:01 – 31:00 Why I decided to leave Newcastle and move to rural France38:03 – 40:47: How Lenka takes her cat in her camper vanUseful LinksConnect with Lenka on LinkedInFollow Lenka’s adventures on InstagramListen to Lenka’s podcast: Into Your LifeSuccess, wellbeing and resilience coach: Dave AlgeoAuthor and entrepreneur: Tim FerrissService: Podcast content repurposing