I'll never do that again!

#119 - I'll never do that again (EDITED)

Tue, Feb 11, 2025 5:54AM • 19:42

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Emma, do you want to live a life of freedom and adventure? Are you wanting more than the daily grind? Me too. Welcome to the Emma Lovell, show a place where we talk about living a life you love. Now I'm your host, Emma Lovell, and my number one value is freedom. I've spent the last 14 years running a business and traveling the world, and now I take my husband and toddler along for the adventure too. It's possible, and I know you can create a life doing what you truly love as well. This podcast will inspire, motivate and encourage you to go after your dreams, to create a life you love and to live it now, not wait for a time and or someday in the future, I'll be sharing episodes weekly about how I harmonize business travel and self care. I'll also bring on incredible guests to share their journeys, the wins, the challenges, and how they're creating a life they love. Let's jump in and get dreaming. This is a space for you to manifest a life you love.

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I would like to acknowledge and recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of this place, now known as Australia. I am grateful for the continuing care of the land, waterways and skies where I work, live, listen, learn and play from here on, you can bear country and from wherever you are listening, I pay my respects to the elders past and present. Welcome to the Emma Lovell Show. I'm your host. Emma Lovell and today we are talking about, well, something I'll never do again.

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The subject of this podcast, some of you just get rolled along so you don't know what it's called, but it says I'll never do that again. And what I should say is I'll never do it like that again. And this really came to me in November after I hosted my Sri Lanka retreat. So my rest and receive retreat in Sri Lanka, I came back and I was exhausted, depleted,

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just um, huge energy. And look, there's been a 2024. Was a huge year for me, releasing the book The Art of pleasure, just a lot of life stuff. And we were very, very close to the rebrand that you have now got to see and experience over at Emma lovell.au, and all of my channels. So that was all in the works, and it was a lot and but something about Sri Lanka, just something didn't I felt strange after I came back, and I couldn't just exhaust it, but I was just couldn't quite figure it out. And look, I was in the messy middle, which I've talked about a little bit. I was in the messy middle because I have these retreats that I love running. I've been running for three years, and I've been teaching people for 18 months. So I've been training people on how to run retreats. I've supported people to launch and run retreats in India, they repeat customers coming back and back, which is amazing. I've hosted my own retreats in India and Sri Lanka, as well as multiple in Australia, I hosted retreat training days called retreat on retreat days where I taught people about how to run profitable retreats, how to host profitable retreats, that you're creating transformative experiences, but also, you know, making another revenue stream in your business or income stream, Regardless of what you're doing, and that's all great, but it was a lot. And retreats was living underneath Emma Lovell, and I knew that wasn't going to be forever, but we weren't there yet, and I just felt so torn. And I knew that my next retreat, the pleasure life retreat, well actually, I didn't know what it was called yet, but it was in Nepal. I knew what it was. I knew what it was going to be, but I just couldn't bring myself to launch it. I like I had all the quotes, I had all the information. I just and I have the templates. I teach people how to do this. I can build a sales page and all the assets in a day. I could have got it out. And I had people who were keen. I knew there were people interested, but something wouldn't let me do it. And I just had this moment of clarity, and I was like,

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oh, it's not rest and receive anymore. The retreats are not rest and receive. They were called the rest and receive retreat. It's not the rest and receive retreat in Nepal, I'm not I'm never going to do that again. I have the kangaroo Valley one, and that is going to be my last one

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signature retreat,

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because rest and receive is what the company had become. Rest and receive that message of when you rest, when you take time and space for yourself, when you take time out, which is like total self care 101,

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just having some time for you. That's when

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the opportunities come to you. So when you rest, you receive, when you rest, you receive a message. And so me going to Sri Lanka, I thought I'm going to get so much energy and vitality and rest and.

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And feel come back feeling energized and refreshed.

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I came back feeling

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so drained, and it was wild, because we had a lovely time. The guests had a lovely time. Sri Lanka is a beautiful country. We did amazing things. We we walked with an elephant and hugged it. We stayed in stunning, five star properties. We visited tea plantations, we had exquisite food. We had breakthroughs and moments and wonderful conversations. And, you know, I know these women's lives are going to be changed, and as well as

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and Andrew came with us as well, but

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something just wasn't right for me, and it's because rest and receive had become bigger than a retreat. Rest and receive is the message that

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the company was all about, and I kind of knew that the company would be called rest and receive, but I just could no longer live under that. And I just had this moment. I was walking, talking to my friend, I like, stopped in the middle. This happens to me. Sometimes I stop in the middle of the path. It's a sunshiny afternoon, and I was like, Oh my gosh,

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Nepal isn't rest and receive. The company is rest and receive. The company is hosting the retreat. And the retreat is the pleasure life retreat hosted by Emma Lovell. So rest and receive is the company which the retreats all go through. So they all rest to receive retreats, because we always have that time and space element built in, no matter if it's me hosting, if it's another someone hosting, if it's being facilitated by somebody different, our company is all about that.

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But

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then the whole so the company's rest and save the person is Emma level, and I know I was talking about myself in third person, but oh my gosh, the clarity of the separation. I've just gone through this wild journey of

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working as a company, then working as my personal brand, then creating another company that needed to move out from underneath my personal brand, and ultimately, you know, ultimately, here I am, Emma Lovell talking to you, and I am the founder of both companies, but they need a place to live, and the offers need a place to live, and that experiences need a place to live. And so it just felt the day that the Emma Lovell website went live, the rest and receive website went live too, and the website is rest and receive.au which is rest word, and receive.au

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it makes me so happy to see it. It's like I, I was so excited for Emma Lovell brand, but we worked on it for so long, and then just to see the rest and receive and to move all of that content over and go, Oh, it has a place to live. The retreats, have a place to live, the all the partnership opportunities, the the wonderful days that we're going to host, the events we're going to host, the course that's going to come, all of that has a place to live. And then Emma Lovell, the brand and the business, is all about pleasure. We're all about pleasure. We're all about the books, we're all about the speaking, we're all about the consulting. And

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there'll be events and there'll be things, but Emma Lovell, the person, will host rest and receive retreats. So I am hosting the pleasure life retreat in Nepal, and as Emma Lovell through the rest and receive company, do you get it? Oh my gosh, it was

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to me. It's simple and clear, and they work together, and it's lovely behind the scenes. There's a wonderful team here helping me out, and we work across both businesses, but it's really kind of clear now. We're working on this. We're working on that, or lack the Nepal retreat, Emma levels involved. We also have, at the moment, the retreats that we have live. If you head to the Emma rest and receive.au forward slash events, you'll see that we have kangaroo Valley, which will is next week. We do still have two rooms left. So if you are keen, we have two rooms left. We have then the authors and aspirational authors retreat. So if you're keen on writing a book, and you've seen my journey, and you thought, Wow, maybe writing a book is for me, or I've always had that dream, but I've put it off. Yeah, I know I did too, but this is maybe your time, and it's time to make that dream a reality. I'm hosting it with the fabulous so rest and receive retreats. Is hosting it with the with the expert guest, Anna Featherston and I will be the facilitator and supporter of that retreat. We're hosting that at lawn rose farm from the second to the fifth of April. So that is very exciting. We only have one private room left in the house. The other rooms we have.

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Well, if the private room goes we only have two twin spots left in the house, but we also have local spots for that one. So if people are local to the Hunter Valley region, they're welcome to come and attend and experience the retreat for themselves.

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And then, of course, we have the Nepal retreat, which I'm so excited to.

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Has only four spots left. We had another wonderful woman sign up today. So if you are keen on that rest and receive.au forward slash Nepal, 2025, if you are thinking about it, please jump on. We only have four spots left. There is a payment plan. So if you're not quite ready, you feel like you need to pay it all up front. Not the case. We have generous payment plans that you can sign up for, but what else is rest and receive about because, you know, that's the thing I Emma Lovell has been hosting retreats, and we host retreats, but,

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but isn't this for something else? So hosting is always going to be something that we do, but the bulk of the business is actually about teaching other retreat hosts, working with other people in the retreat industry, to create transformative retreats that change lives and the business. So if you want to have another revenue stream, you want to add another income to your life, to your business, that's what rest and receive can do. We have a course coming out in March. We have

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retreat training days. We've just announced Perth, and we've got the Gold Coast on the 19th of March. That will be the first in person one. So the course will launch, and anyone who signs up for the retreat days before the course launches, which will be on the 10th of March. So in a month, anyone who signs up before then will receive early access to the course. So they'll get it a little bit earlier so that then they can start to prepare so they can jump in at the retreat day. Because the retreat days are really about

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picking my brain, talking to me about retreats, asking all your questions, going through all your fears, bringing your plan, working through it, so that you walk away with full confidence and a clear plan of how you're going to execute this retreat, how you're going to make it happen.

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And of course,

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that's great. And you come to the day, and if you go off and run in the retreat, that's awesome. But a lot of times we need support. And so there's actually, for the retreat day attendees, there's a support package, and they will get a lovely discount on that. But if someone's kind of like, I'm ready to go, I know what I'm doing. I there is a support package, which is a one on one coaching support package which is available to

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do with me. So that is a three month support package. The next level is VIP. Day. You're like, No, I just want to get it done. I'm ready to get out there. And we can build your retreat in a day. We can get it up and running and out there selling on the day. You can have people signing up in the evening, start in the morning, selling in the evening. Amazing.

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I can support with that. We've also got

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kind of done for you, or, like, a, you know, if you kind of like, I just want to get a retreat out there. I don't really want to be involved. That's something that we can do as well. We can totally just kind of take on everything, you know, you just want to get it done. You don't really want to market it. You've got a beautiful group. Beautiful group, you got a mastermind or a group, and you say, I just wanted somebody to do it so I can go and be there and be with my guests. We also have speakers, which is coming. There's stuff a lot to come to, the website, speakers, partners, suppliers, that we can connect you with. So if you really just want to be there and have it hosted, supported,

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catered, all those things. We have the connections to make that happen. And finally, there's come with me, so there's six ways you can work with rest and receive.

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Now on this podcast, I will be talking about the retreats a little bit less rest and receive is going to get its own YouTube channel, which will act as our podcast. Still working on things. This is all rebranding a lot guys like creating Emma level was a lot,

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creating the brand for Emma levels a lot, and then now doing this one as well. So there's things coming. There's going to come in. They're coming, but keep an eye on that. For any of my like email list subscribers.

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People were all moved over to Emma Lovell, but there'll also be an email going out just to invite you to stay with rest and receive if you like. But if you're not interested in retreats, that's okay. Totally understand. I'll always do a reflection episode after my retreats. I think it's really nice. I'll do an announcement generally, and then I'll do a,

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a, I guess, a summary of a reflection of how everything went. So it's always asked you that I did my last one with on Sri Lanka, with Amanda Yuen, which is really wonderful. Nice to be interviewed about it and talk about it in a different way. And then

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I just have a few more sort of that I will share. But mostly, you know, we're here talking about pleasure. And of course, retreats are a huge part of my pleasure life. I think they are the ultimate service offering. And if you've read my book, The Art of pleasure, you'll know, forgive me, I think it's chapter 13, chapter 12.

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Chapter 12 is traveling with kids. Chapter 13 is retreats.

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That yeah, I believe that retreats are that ultimate combination of business. It's a business activity, how you can get together with business people or make money from it. It's travel, because you generally are going to go somewhere lovely, even if it's only 40 minutes away or 12 minutes away. I've hosted one. It was fabulous being so close. And then there's also the self care. You're always going to have time and space on a retreat to even as the host, to do your own work, to do your own reflection, to do your own inner work, I mean, and to have some time for yourself. That's how we teach retreats. So that's yeah I'm never going to do

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after this next one, kangaroo valley will be my last classic rest and receive, because everything that I believe in and everything that the company stands for in terms of rest and receive.

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That was in went into the retreats has now become the overall company ethos. So yeah, I hope that that's helped some clarity for you, too. In terms of, if you're after this, come over to Emma Lovell, and if you're after that, come over to rest and receive. By all means, always send me an email Emma at Emma lovell.au,

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or Hello at rest to receive.au

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we'll get back to you somewhere, somehow, and I would love to work with you in some way across either business, but I'm really excited to see where this grows and goes. There have been many times where I thought, oh my goodness, Emma, what are you doing? Why?

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Why are you trying to run two things at once? Why are you trying to launch two things at once? Why can I really run two businesses, companies? Which is funny, because I have, I've had like 10 clients at any one time, and run multiple businesses. I had a very successful pet business while I was also running my communications business. I've always had, you know, partnerships or other income streams and management things. But I don't know why this just felt really big, and I just didn't know if I could do it or if it was going to pull my focus. But to be honest, rest and receive could not be it like it was tapping on my shoulder. It kept needling. It kept coming every time I thought, how, how, how I trusted and I let go. And I went to see Liz Gilbert the other day, and she said, you know, this is Big Magic. Is her, her book, which I think is a must read, is Big Magic. And it's when an idea just comes to you, it comes down to you, and you get to co create with that idea, and rest and receive just would not let me be. It would not go away. From the moment I came to that phrase through a coaching session with the wonderful Liz Ellis,

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I just It wouldn't go away. And so here it is, but it just deserved to have its own home. It just, it just was bigger than me. It's so much bigger than me. It's so much bigger than Emma Lovell and I also just wanted to make clear that running retreats, hosting retreats, going on retreats, that's not the only way to pleasure. You know the pleasure life is is, is your choice. It's a harmony of your choosing. It's it's the what you love. It's a life that you love. Live a life you love. So you get to decide, and if retreats are part of it, I love it, and you get to come over and see us over there. So I'm going to wrap it up there. Thank you for listening. As always. Stay connected. Please rate, review and subscribe so other people can find us. You'll hear that in the outro as well, but I can always say it and yeah, just come and say hi. I love connecting with you. I love hearing you through this resonated and helped you. Please give me feedback, because I'm just talking to the computer in my office.

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It's nice to know you're out there. So come say hey, and just let me know you listened. Alright. Have a wonderful day. Lovely. Thank you so much.

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