The Fun Side Of Business
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The Fun Side Of Business
Helen's Journey: Balancing Ambition and Motherhood
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The Fun Side Of Business - The Extra Slice
Exclusive access to premium content!Sometimes the unplanned moments create the most powerful podcast experiences. What began as another episode of our "Fun Side of Business" series transformed into something far more when Helen Couch opened up about the real, often unseen challenges of her entrepreneurial journey.
This conversation struck deep personal chords with our hosts, particularly reflections on what children truly learn from watching parents work tirelessly. While Helen worries about being absent, we discussed how her daughter might instead absorb the powerful lesson that "there's nothing you can't do" by witnessing her mother's determination.
We're deeply grateful to Helen for allowing us this window into her reality, and to you, our listeners, for joining us on this journey that continues to evolve in unexpected ways.
Good morning. So welcome to the extras edition of the Fun Side of Business podcast, Morning Gem.
Speaker 2:Morning Nick.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about Helen.
Speaker 2:Helen Helen Couch.
Speaker 1:Honestly sorry about that. I just dropped my keys. Yeah, it's difficult what to say about Helen, because obviously it was.
Speaker 2:Do you know what it was? So, so real. And this podcast is all the fun side of business, but Helen today made it the real, real side of business. You know the humans behind yeah, I think.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think ultimately you know everything. If you're going to do anything, naturally it's always going to take whatever turn it takes, so you never quite know the direction this thing is going to meander and, as much as people may think that we have a script, at least we show how much we actually are winging it. Um, but yeah, that the story today from helen, um, I'm really glad I was here to witness it. I'm really glad I was in the room, um, and it was nice to just hear people really, really kind of put the other side onto business and when she mentioned, like her, her daughter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that will resonate with so many other listeners well, I mean, you heard it there.
Speaker 1:There was me instantly going hang on a second. I I did this.
Speaker 1:My mum was out to work Exactly that, but I suppose the difference is obviously mum would come home and yeah, she'd then come home and, you know, be a mum or, you know, later on be a wife after she got remarried. Yeah, but yeah, you know it's like, but imagine if in the evening you're still then working and grafting and what have you? As much as I think she thinks that you know she's, you know, maybe has let her daughter down, I think the lesson she's going to teach her daughter is going to be invaluable to her.
Speaker 2:There's nothing you can't do. I think that's what her daughter will take from that. That's the thing I see my mum working hard. I see the passion.
Speaker 1:I see the drive and, ultimately, you know we're talking about this generation it's all about. You know the rewards and what they can get from it, and you know making a million inside of three seconds on you know, selling your feet pics and done.
Speaker 1:You know, I saw that actually there was someone who who put it on social media and they went. Yeah, I've seen the house I want to live in. It was 1.4 million and I think she was like 14, 15 or something and her dad went. Yeah, it's great to have goals, you know, but you do realize how much effort it's going to take to get that. She went. Not really. She said when I'm 18, I'm going to have an OnlyFans account and just sell feet pics. That's it.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah you know determination, and the nice part is then the rewards and the good side that's come out of it. I think it's a valuable life lesson.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so yeah, it was a treat, yeah, yeah. The crazy part is I still feel a bit choked up talking about it, because it just was that you know, nice thing, and everything that I know about helen. I've known helen for now. You know long enough to call a friend yeah and I didn't know you know this side of her and I didn't know like half of the stuff she was going to open up and tell us about I mean, helen is like the walk-in yellow pages.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when there was a yellow pages I don't know what the equivalent is now but there's no one helen doesn't know. Everyone knows helen on in the business scene and to get that from behind, you know, from behind helen, yeah, like what's actually going on, why she does what she does, how she actually feels day to day, was, yeah, real eye-opener yeah, but that's the thing I'd hazard a guess.
Speaker 1:I would imagine that unless it they're her really really really like best lifelong friends, I'll put money. There's so many people that she knows that think they know helen quite well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that won't know that side yeah and so yeah, head down, driven, motivated, crack on yeah, but but then failure is not an option.
Speaker 1:But you know to even hear where it's like a struggle to sleep because she's still thinking about shit I need to get that release out, or shit, I need to get that done, or you know this still needs to be done. That level you know she must be. I mean, no wonder she's, you know, hoping to not have to wait until she gets 70 to retire.
Speaker 2:She must be exhausted because she's effectively working like 18 hours a day because even if she's not actively working she's thinking about my mind, forever thinking about yeah, I mean she's example, she um, obviously she's done some pr bits for us and she emailed me at some random time and I said, oh jim, I've had an idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she'll ping me over an email and she's constantly thinking which is yeah, brilliant it's always brilliant and probably very exhausting brilliant for a client but yeah. So so to me, I mean I'm I'm so glad that we picked this for one of the top three, yeah, um, to go in, just because it had to be there, because it was such a true, just just a true, like real, real raw, yeah. But you know the ups, the downs, the highs, the lows, the fun, the sadness, and you know the sacrifice and it just underlines the whole reason.
Speaker 2:We've put this podcast together just to get to know the people. Yeah, and, like you said, not many people hang on.
Speaker 1:We can't quite blag this yet because, as we remember, we put this together to go. Oh, we'll get a load of fun stories. But now it's kind of you know it's nice to evolve because these things have to go, you know, like a river, they're going to flow the direction they're going to go in, but they're going to meander and change and whatever. Um, but yeah, it was, it was just a real joy to be in that yeah, it was so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, helen thank you so much, helen, if you listen to this and if not, and if not, please like, subscribe and subscribe. So, yeah, thank you very much. Premium listeners um, and probably helen, who's subscribed, so she could just um hear what we had to say about that. Um, we are gonna be back. Uh, just so we know. I know we keep saying 7, 30, 7, 30, 7, 30. Um, there we go, look, a premium listener will let you know they're actually available from 7. So every Wednesday, from 7 o'clock, we've got some cracking guests coming up, and thank you very much for your support. Without you guys, this would not be possible.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:And we will catch you at the next one.
