
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through January, isn’t it?
This year has started off with a lot of excitement and plenty of things to reflect on. On today’s episode, Kaylie and I had a chance to chat about our personal and professional goals for the new year, the wins and challenges from last year, and what we hope to achieve moving forward.
What Went Well in 2024?
Reflecting on 2024, one of the things I’m most proud of is that I’m still ahead on my course content.
You might remember from previous episodes that I batch-recorded several months’ worth of classes, and I’m still running them!

Last year, I also wrapped up a major course launch—my Affinity Designer foundations course—which was a huge accomplishment. It was such a rewarding experience to see students enjoying the course and gaining success from it.
And, of course, we can’t forget the travel I did in 2024. My husband and I hit several states on our journey through the US heading to Florida and back in 2024.
I also had a wonderful time connecting with other creatives along the way, whether in-person or online. There’s nothing like the joy of meeting new people and sharing our creative journeys together.
Personal Goals for 2025
This year, I’m focusing on ‘focus.’ It’s a word I picked for myself after realizing how easily I get distracted by new ideas.
While it’s important to explore new opportunities, I know that this year I need to slow down, focus on one project at a time, and work on seeing those projects to completion before diving into new things. Of course, I will still be doing the Procreate Foundations launch and the two card challenges, the first of which we are gearing up for now (March 3-7, 2025).
Another big goal of mine is to improve my physical health. I’m hoping to incorporate more exercise into my routine and focus on self-care. I know this will help me have more energy to do the things I love, both in my personal life and business.
And lastly, I will pitch several greeting card lines consistently throughout the year! That's the plan.

Challenges and What I Plan to Do Differently
The biggest challenge for me last year was managing my time effectively. I had a lot on my plate, and while I did accomplish a lot, there were some things that had to be put on the back burner.
One of the things I’m committed to this year is better time management—really planning ahead and making sure I’m prioritizing what’s most important. I’m also going to work on balancing my work and personal life so that I’m not always running around like a chicken with my head cut off!

2025: A Year of Focused Action
I know that this year, with focus and intention, I can achieve all the goals I’ve set. I’m excited for what’s to come and can’t wait to see how all of our hard work starts to pay off.
We’ve already got a lot planned for this year—more courses, collaborations, and, of course, exciting new episodes for the podcast!
Join Me in 2025
I’d love to hear about your own goals and intentions for the year!
What’s something you’re excited to work on in 2025?
Drop me a message or comment below—I can’t wait to hear from you.
If you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to the podcast to stay up-to-date with all the latest episodes and content.
I’m so grateful for everyone who listens, and I’m looking forward to this new chapter with all of you!
TRANSCRIPT:
Kaylie Edwards (00:00)
Hey everyone and welcome back to the Creative Juggle Joy podcast. I'm Kaylie Edwards and I'm here today with my co-host Delores Naskrent Hi. And we're going to do more of a casual episode again for this episode as it's in the new year. We're already halfway through January which I can't believe is it's already gone. But we're gonna just reflect on last year and...
Delores Naskrent (00:28)
I can't believe it.
Kaylie Edwards (00:33)
Yeah, alright, goals and intentions for this year.
Delores Naskrent (00:36)
Sounds good.
Kaylie Edwards (00:38)
So Delores what's something you're proud of from last year, personally or professionally, that you didn't expect to achieve?
Delores Naskrent (00:46)
I am proud of the fact that I am still ahead on my courses. I recorded, you probably remember that I batch recorded a ton of classes and at the time it was several months worth and I'm still running those courses. So I haven't had to do any recording for my membership.
Content which is really great. I of course took a little aside there and I did the procreate or the affinity designer foundations which of course was huge and I would say if I was looking back at last year that would be the thing that I'm the most proud of is getting that you know, completely done
ran it the whole, you know, eight weeks and had a very good turnout and some very happy students who are already seeing some success. So that's my, I think, my crowning achievement for 2024.
Kaylie Edwards (01:51)
Yes, I think that was... I don't know how you do it and get ahead so much with course content. With my new release, yeah, it's been difficult. think the problem is, think because I'd set it up to go out after Christmas, I think that's where I've gone wrong is I think, I thought I'd have time because obviously I was off for Christmas. I'd have that time.
Yeah, but it didn't... Yeah. It's hard! And then life happens. Life happens and toddlers get sick. So... Yeah.
Delores Naskrent (02:30)
And double whammy, right? Because he was sick first, and then he got the...
Kaylie Edwards (02:36)
Yeah,
he had like a cold. Yeah, he had like a cold for three weeks and it was dragging out and then it just seemed like he was starting to get over it and then he finished playgroup and a couple of days later he got conjunctivitis. I was like... and it was like full on like his eyes were closed in the morning. I couldn't... and I had to like pry his eyes open. It was awful.
Yeah, I think it was the first morning. It was just the one eye and it wasn't so bad. But then he'd gone to bed in the evening and he was starting to get it in the other eye. And then yeah, it was the next morning he'd had it full on.
Yeah, you know soaking the cotton wool balls and soaking his eyes and he didn't like that after the second day and yeah, I Think it was after Christmas Obviously we couldn't get anything for him before Christmas because it was so close to Christmas went to the pharmacy they gave us eye drops the antibiotics and
We were supposed to put in his eyes every two hours for two days and then every four hours for three days for a five-day course. How on earth you're supposed to keep a toddler still when they're screaming and squirming and they don't understand, they're shouting at you, And please, he was shouting, please, please, please, stop, stop, stop.
Delores Naskrent (04:03)
Yes.
Kaylie Edwards (04:09)
And was like, my god, how am I supposed to do this? I feel such a guilty parent, but I know it's for the best to help him with his infection in his eyes. yeah, we ended up having to run its course and let it leave on its own because we just couldn't, we couldn't keep doing that to him because we had to like force it. It was horrible. It was like the worst parenting moment.
Delores Naskrent (04:32)
Yeah, we all have those. Well, I'm glad that he's over it because now we're back in the swing of regular life. It's like holidays seemed like so far in the distance already. Like it was it just happened and yet it just seems like a while ago already because we've done so much since the holidays already.
Yeah, we're in Florida. So we traveled. Part of our, what you'd call holidays, was traveling. We went to Winnipeg to have a nice Christmas there with family. And the next day we were at the border by about eight in the morning. And then we drove here. We took a little bit of extra time because we wanted to hit a bunch of the states that we have not hit. So we went pretty much
straight east so we were able to hit like Maryland and Virginia both Virginias and my I can't remember them all I should have had them all written down but we went through a whole bunch of states that we hadn't because one of our
I don't know what you'd say like here, retirement wishes was that we would make it through all of the states at some point. And we used to say we're eating our way across America because we would choose, we would choose cities that had restaurants that were featured on diners, drive-ins and dives. So we have eaten at some fantastic restaurants and yeah, it's been, it's been really fun, but we still have quite a few states left to go about.
Kaylie Edwards (06:10)
You
Delores Naskrent (06:21)
Now at least on the map, most of the east side we've done.
Kaylie Edwards (06:24)
Awesome.
Delores Naskrent (06:25)
So that was kind of fun.
Yeah, it was fun. And you just not thinking about work for that period of time. We really enjoy when we travel. We like to stop and take a look at things on the, you know, that come along. And we don't necessarily always take the interstate highways. So sometimes we get off on some little back roads or little highways and it's fun. You know, we get to see the real America, know, the behind the scenes that you don't see on the news and stuff.
you
Kaylie Edwards (06:55)
That sounds
really really fun. I'd love to do something like that. I've always said I'd love to go to the US and go to the States and just have a look at different places because you see it on the TV and I've seen like so many films and TV shows for different places. Like Miami was one I want to go to.
Delores Naskrent (07:16)
So yeah, we're going back. We have to go back We're not we're not super close to it here in Florida, but yes, I would say put that on the top of your list
Kaylie Edwards (07:28)
like that one and New Orleans was big on my list to go to. I'm not a big fan of crowds. I don't like London. So I know I'm here in the UK but I don't like going to London. It's just people are rude. I don't like it.
Delores Naskrent (07:34)
That's one.
You
Kaylie Edwards (07:46)
If
someone bumps into you they don't apologise. They're just so rude. I don't like it. People just crowd at you. don't... yeah, I'm not a big fan. I'm an introvert. I'm not a big fan of big crowds. So like the likes of New York and things kind of terrify me a bit. I'd love to go but just for the experience of it and see the sights... yeah, it's just...
Delores Naskrent (08:12)
Yeah, we went through Savannah, which is really nice. We've been to Savannah a couple of times and last time we went through there, we went to the, there was a train museum that my husband wanted to see. And then right beside it was SCAD, it's called. So Savannah School of Art and Design. And I was going to go in, but the door was locked. But then a student, a young student came along and I just said, oh,
faculty and she just let me in. So I was able to walk around this whole faculty design like all digital art. It was fantastic and it just happened too that the bookstore there was having a big kind of a
I don't know what you'd call it, but like a trade show where all the suppliers of art supplies were on hand with giveaways. And so I left there with a big bag full of all kinds of new things. And I even got to try some things that I had never tried before, like alcohol ink, which is something I've always wanted to try. And there I was in the college. I did have my teacher card. If they had ever asked me, I would have been able to pull it out. But it was kind of fun
just talk to other staff people, how they teach, what they teach, and then also talking to students because students were manning a lot of the tables. And there was one young lady who had a sketchbook there. So I got to looking at her sketchbook and we ended up exchanging Instagram, you know, just so that we could keep up with each other. And now she's out of school and I've been able to see her as she's
kind of like moved into kind of transitioning into working as an artist. So it was a wonderful experience. So we're going to go back at some point we're going go back to Savannah. We definitely want to do the East Coast before we leave.
Kaylie Edwards (10:17)
That'd
be cool. Yeah, I like the sound of that.
Delores Naskrent (10:21)
it'll be great.
Kaylie Edwards (10:23)
Yeah, see I want to visit my old college again where the art department was because there's a teacher there who had a good influence on me. She was my ceramics teacher and I know I've seen her. She attended one of the markets. was on one of my stalls and she'd come in and yeah I didn't get much chance to talk to her because it was so busy, busy there and I remember seeing her and I've
I think you know, I miss that. Miss just miss the teachers. Yeah
Delores Naskrent (10:58)
Nice.
Yeah, it's nice when you could reconnect and I did enjoy doing in-person sales when we did them in our city because I Well, che would force me to go with her Normally, she does the shows all by herself. She goes all over without me but this one in Brandon I would come and help her and I don't know why she would want me there because I literally did not help her at all because I was standing and chatting with either other people in the booth
beside me, the other artists, or I would have, you know, so many people, students and people I just knew from growing up there, all walks of life, like people who I had maybe taught their kids or the...
the kid and the mom would come in together and it was such a great visit. It's really nice to be able to share your work in person. That's one thing I kind of miss. I don't do it anymore but I know a lot of the listeners that we have do in-person sales and it's so fun to talk about these things at the Thrive meetings. On Tuesdays we've had so many people who basically had completely shared what happened in their show season this
fall so that was really cool.
Kaylie Edwards (12:21)
That's awesome. Yeah. I miss and I don't miss the stalls, doing the stalls at the markets. That's the thing, I didn't get to do a lot of it because obviously the pandemic hit when I've not long started so they all got cancelled, the ones I'd applied for. And then obviously after the pandemic it was still very funny with that kind of space. Yeah, so it was...
Delores Naskrent (12:26)
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (12:48)
Yeah was quite difficult and then obviously I fell for it. Then I got pregnant. That all had to change.
Delores Naskrent (12:55)
That happened to Ché. Did I tell you that story, Kaylie about Ché?
Kaylie Edwards (13:00)
I think so. Yeah, because was pregnant and heavily pregnant was as she was the last last fair they did.
Delores Naskrent (13:05)
That's right. We were booking, we were booking the shows of the spring and she, she had announced that she was pregnant and I said, are you sure you want to do, are you sure you want to do this in the fall? She's like, yeah, mom, you know, no problem. I mean, you know, we can do it between the Winnipeg show. You'll be born between Winnipeg and Edmonton. You know, it's not going to be a problem, but I don't think she had any idea of what she was getting herself into.
Kaylie Edwards (13:32)
don't when
it's your first you have no clue
Delores Naskrent (13:36)
No, she was
so big and she was trying to work on like standing and trying to work and she couldn't lean over the work to do like the dry mounting and stuff. And she did end up having him between shows, but I mean, you're just not in.
any good shape to go and do a show a week or two after your baby's born. So we did it though. We did, we went and I went with her, my husband and I went with her and then I was minding the baby. I was the baby minder while she did her thing, but she was so exhausted. I felt so bad for her.
Kaylie Edwards (14:15)
Yeah, I couldn't, but yeah, was only a few, I was at six, so six weeks or seven, no, it was either seven or eight weeks when I had my last fair, my last craft fair. Because I was up till like two in the morning finishing off packaging and everything. I was just sitting on the floor crying because I was like, I feel so sick. I felt so sick and I was like,
my god if this is what pregnancy's gonna be like I can't do this anymore. I couldn't. Yeah, Rhys helped but it wasn't the best show either to end on because hardly anyone turned up because it was so cold and my stall they put me near the door so it was so cold. I was like yeah I'm not doing this anymore. Not with a baby on the way. Not a chance.
Delores Naskrent (14:51)
You must have been exhausted.
Everybody who does shows has these horrors horror stories to tell you know if it's not one thing it's another you know they get all the way They've driven. You know eight hours and get there, and they've forgotten something absolutely key. know or Ché ended up in the ditch one time on the way to a show too fun. Yeah, I It you know you got to be you definitely have to be able to think on your feet
Kaylie Edwards (15:32)
be telling me about that. Yeah.
Yes you do. I can remember my first big order I got was at a craft fair and I just couldn't believe it because I thought the lady was taking the mick to be quite honest. She was like a young girl and she'd come over and she was smelling everything and she was picking loads of stuff up and then she just kind of said I'll be back and then she'd left and I was like probably never gonna see her again. You know when you just think yeah they've gone now for good.
hadn't seen her it was like mid morning that happened and then it was I think half an hour before packing up and she turned back up with her boyfriend and basically says I will have this this this this this she's just picked up a load of s***. She was like these are all for Christmas
Delores Naskrent (16:25)
Fantastic.
That's great. Love it when it
Kaylie Edwards (16:31)
I was like,
It was like my first craft fair and it was like my first big order and that really that really felt good and that was what I needed I think and then obviously the pandemic hit. It was like, what's going on?
Delores Naskrent (16:46)
That's great. Well,
you could still leave on a proud. And speaking of that, you asked me what made me so proud from last year and what things were really great for me. But I'd like to hear what you have. was the main thing that really stood out for you this year?
Kaylie Edwards (16:51)
Yeah.
setting up the podcast I think. That's that. I think that although it was... it wasn't rushed because I planned it for months and months ahead before I even told you.
Delores Naskrent (17:12)
Yes.
is that right?
Kaylie Edwards (17:23)
So it wasn't like a really unplanned thing. I think the problem was is we wanted to launch it at quite a very busy time. I was heading off for two weeks off on holiday and we were scared it'd set up. So yeah, that was kind of a not so great time to launch. Yeah, it was a crazy time, but it's definitely been very rewarding so far and...
Delores Naskrent (17:40)
A little crazy.
Kaylie Edwards (17:48)
got more future plans for it so yeah I think that was probably my proudest and obviously I can't not know Aston's development as well I've been proud of this year he's just come on so much he's two and a half this month and he's just especially over Christmas his speech has got so much better and there's just this one moment that me and Reece just
was so... just couldn't believe it. He was pointing at the TV. He's got this TV show sometimes he watches. It's called Danny Go. It's on YouTube. It's a YouTube channel for kids and I think it's most supposed to be for older kids but he likes watching it because it's got actions and things he can do and there's part of the episode, I think there's a few of them, that he does a bit of this where it's Floor is lava.
And Aston started doing it where he goes, laba, laba laba, floor, laba! And he points at the floor and we all have to get up and off the floor and then he goes, bye bye laba! And it's just the cutest thing.
Delores Naskrent (18:55)
That's so cute.
Kaylie Edwards (18:59)
And he does it now in the day when I'm doing work and he did it last week and we have the box for the air fryer that we got for Christmas from Rhys's parents and it's in the living room at the moment and he's actually broke the box now because he keeps getting on it on top of it and he keeps going, laba laba floor laba!
So he gets up off gets onto this box and then he's like mummy mummy mummy laba so I have to get up off the floor and put my legs up and and then I say where are you gonna go because there's nowhere for you to go you're on top of a box in the middle of the floor nothing around you so he kind of just goes bye bye laba and then walks over.
Delores Naskrent (19:41)
That's
great though. That really shows that he's really getting it. Just enjoy it. Really enjoy it. I know sometimes when you're exhausted it's hard, I know those times just pass so quickly.
Kaylie Edwards (19:58)
Yeah, it's just the little things at the moment he does. Like I was in the kitchen the other day, I was doing the washing up in the morning just before making breakfast and he'd come over, because I'd left my glasses on the table, and he'd come over to the gate and he was like, Mummy! I'd handed him my glasses and I took them off and he went, Thank you! And walked away.
Delores Naskrent (20:20)
You
Kaylie Edwards (20:21)
I was like, thanks. Don't know why, but he blew a kiss at me. was like, okay. he's so cute sometimes. Yeah, his development's come along a lot lately, which I'm very grateful for that he has. They've noticed in Playgroup when he went back yesterday that his vocabulary's come along so much more than it was before Christmas.
Delores Naskrent (20:30)
period.
Kaylie Edwards (20:50)
improved so much anyway. But like some people say that you can't have the TV on all the time because it'll affect their development, they won't speak and what have you. I've cancelled some stuff on the TV because I've seen a load of education stuff on it that's saying that it's actually quite bad for them some episodes on certain channels. I think it's Coca melon. It's not very good for children. So I stopped letting him see them.
and his speech just shot up after not seeing that for so long. It was just incredible and I thought it was just a joke to be honest but then yeah it just... He came on so much.
Delores Naskrent (21:30)
Yeah,
it's great to keep up with that information and besides it's also good for them to develop imagination and make believe and that kind of stuff.
Kaylie Edwards (21:44)
Yes, yeah, and that's why I've started putting more things on for him where it has to get him to do an action. Yeah. So he's learning how to do things like this Danny Go, he does like left and right and jump and duck and things and he tries to do it along with him and he does like dancing and stuff so he can kind of dance along to things. Nice. And it's just getting him doing different things now and yeah, keeps him active whilst Im' in the middle of doing stuff. Sure.
Delores Naskrent (22:10)
gives you a chance to do things you need to do while while he's doing that.
Kaylie Edwards (22:15)
Yes, yes it is. I'm so... I'm grateful but yes I do get the mum gil sometimes though because I'm working but Christmas obviously I didn't get to do anything so it doesn't matter with that.
Delores Naskrent (22:29)
You gotta give yourself a break sometimes.
Kaylie Edwards (22:32)
Yes,
yeah. Okay, so looking back, what was the biggest challenge for you in the past year and how did you handle it?
Delores Naskrent (22:42)
My biggest challenge was just getting everything done that I needed to get done in the amount of time that I had. despite the fact that I have no young children or pets or anything like that to distract me, and I do work long hours, I still wasn't really able to get everything done that I wanted to. Not that we didn't do lots. mean, we did a lot. We accomplished a lot. But, you know, some things were just kind of
pushed a little bit into this year. So we started a little bit later on some stuff that would have been nice to have had done earlier, but I'm kind of glad because honestly right now I can think more clearly. I think I was too busy. You know, and I think it's helped me to think more about my...
Kaylie Edwards (23:27)
Yes.
Delores Naskrent (23:34)
annual planning. So I am still annual planning. I know it's middle of January, but it's been really helpful in this last week just to touch base with you and Amber and Lindy and even Inka, everybody that helps me out, just trying to, you know, just plan the whole year out so that
First of all, I'm not surprising people with stuff that we're gonna do or that I'm thinking well enough ahead that it doesn't feel so manic, you know?
Kaylie Edwards (24:01)
Yeah
Yeah, that was the goal for this year.
Delores Naskrent (24:14)
Did I answer the question? can't remember what the cold question was.
Kaylie Edwards (24:17)
I think it was,
how did you handle it?
Delores Naskrent (24:20)
how did I handle it? I stayed in my pajamas a lot, cried tears. I was, I don't know, I did have to absolutely prioritize sleep. I mean, it was so important for me to sleep well. And one of the things I did do, which you can't do because you've got a toddler. And when I was working full time, when I had my kids at home, I could never do was to sleep in. I always said,
If I could just sleep until I wake up how nice that would be you know instead of like having to Somebody else wakes me up or an alarm wakes me up so this Past year. I just slept until I woke up
I didn't force myself to get up early for anything. There's plenty of times when I was still up by seven because, you know, I guess 30 years of 30, 40, whatever years of working had me up before seven, probably 6:30 every day. So it's like not that far off.
But you know, just some of those days when I could sleep in until eight or eight thirty, it was all I needed. And gosh, if I didn't have that, Kaylie, I don't think I would have survived it. I would have gotten sick and I ended up not getting sick, which is amazing when you think about it, because I'm just about always sick.
in the fall, like, you know, at this time of year, heading into our busy season or during the launch. I'm surprised I wasn't sick during the launch. So I think that the key was getting enough sleep.
Kaylie Edwards (25:58)
Yeah, that was something I'm sorely lacking. Last year and still coming into this year, I felt like I had a few lie-ins actually over Christmas where Aston, because we took him to bed a bit late, he actually slept longer but the issue was is I still had to get up to feed the cats so it was broken sleep. It wasn't like a full lie-in. I started to go feed the cats and then I go back to bed.
Delores Naskrent (26:01)
I know.
Yes.
Well, these are.
Kaylie Edwards (26:27)
few
more hours but it just felt like I hadn't even slept.
Delores Naskrent (26:32)
Yeah.
It gets in your bones. That tiredness gets in your bones.
Kaylie Edwards (26:39)
Yeah so I feel like I haven't had a rest over Christmas at all but I'm hoping... well that's my goal for this year. One of my goals for this year is to put in a bit more self-care and take time out for myself more.
Delores Naskrent (26:57)
Okay, well, right now,
I'm going to hold you accountable. I am going to ask you if you're doing that. Just for you listeners out there, she was up till two or three o'clock in the morning. I think it was the night before last and she was sick and I had to tell her to go to bed.
Kaylie Edwards (27:04)
that's that.
Yeah, yeah. I am. I am my own worst enemy. But problem is, because obviously when Asda's in bed, that's the most productive time I can get. Even though I'm knackered or ill, it can still sometimes be the most productive time. Sometimes it'll drag out because I'm not well. Because the other night I was just... It just took so long to do things. couldn't think. was like, what's going on? I was like, I'm trying to do this email but I can't.
Delores Naskrent (27:21)
She's her own worst enemy.
Kaylie Edwards (27:48)
quite understand what I'm reading. Then I was like, yeah, I've gotta go to bed.
Delores Naskrent (27:55)
It be getting close to your bedtime now. You should be.
Kaylie Edwards (28:01)
Well, I should probably be going to bed this time but it's 5 past 10 here so it's no... I've still got a couple of hours at least.
Delores Naskrent (28:10)
Well, for your listeners out there, I'll tell you, I am in bed by that time of night.
Kaylie Edwards (28:17)
You don't have little kids anymore so you don't have to. Like I probably should. I know one of my business friends, she goes to bed at like nine o'clock and I was like what? Nine o'clock? In the evening? She was like yeah. I was like how do you do that?
Delores Naskrent (28:19)
out.
Kaylie Edwards (28:37)
like how do you do that? That's normally the time I'm getting Aston to bed and then I'm like yeah that's my time then after that to be by myself for one and actually do something. So was there anything that didn't go as planned last year that you wish had turned out differently?
Delores Naskrent (28:59)
You hate to focus on things like money, but I had hoped to make more money than I did last year. So that is one of the things. In retrospect, I think I did well. I think I'm fine.
fine but it would have been better to have a little bit more just to put in place a few of the other things that I wanted to for the business. So it makes it a little bit harder to do things like follow through with some of the plans that I had so it would have been great if I had made more money but I mean everybody can say that.
Kaylie Edwards (29:44)
Yes, yeah, that's one thing that obviously I couldn't get through last year, which I hope I will. And, okay, what's one thing you're absolutely committed to doing differently in the new year? Well, now, new year.
Delores Naskrent (30:00)
Well, you know how everybody's picking a word this year? Everybody's picking a word. I've picked focus because I'm trying really hard to just focus on one thing when I'm working on it and get that thing done before I move on to the next thing because I really have a hard time with that. So I had a good laugh in one of the groups that we were in because one of the ladies said
Kaylie Edwards (30:20)
Yeah.
Delores Naskrent (30:27)
Her word for the year was an F word. But then she said it was focus. It was pretty funny.
Kaylie Edwards (30:38)
I think that's gonna be mine for this year because we had so many unfinished projects last year that just got put on the back burner and I really took my eye off the ball with my own audience last year just to try and keep afloat with everything else. Yeah, I think that's gonna be my word for the year's focus.
getting the task done when it's Problem is yeah but we we're terrible with each other sometimes.
Delores Naskrent (31:05)
We can help each other then.
We're
bad. We're bad. We really are bad.
Kaylie Edwards (31:14)
Because
you'll give me ideas and then I'll give you ideas and then suddenly we're talking about something completely different to what we should be doing.
Delores Naskrent (31:23)
Curses.
Kaylie Edwards (31:26)
That's the problem because we're both multi-passionates. Yeah. That is both our problem. So ideas spark ideas and then we're off on a tangent. especially when you me something. It's positive but it can also be a problem.
Delores Naskrent (31:36)
Yep.
It's positive.
It can't be.
Kaylie Edwards (31:49)
for our current situations.
Delores Naskrent (31:52)
Just so you know, I only send you like about half of the stuff I think I'm going to send you because I think to myself, gosh, if I send her this, she's definitely going to want to do this. So I'm not sending her this.
Kaylie Edwards (32:04)
Yeah.
Well that's the thing, you send me like, we'll talk about something in an email about what we're currently doing and then suddenly I've got two, three other emails to go through because you want me to do this, this or this or this is an idea for this, can you put this away? So I'm like in the middle of doing something, I'm like what do I do with this then? Where can I save this and what do I save it under? I need an ideas bank just for you. Oh, for our stuff.
That's all I need to do. I normally just save them in like, if it's related to something coming up, then I'll put it in that folder. But then sometimes she sends me random ideas and I'm like, where do I save that? But I do it for myself as well. I'm terrible.
Delores Naskrent (32:44)
you
Kaylie Edwards (32:48)
Especially if I get an email from somebody that then sparks an idea and I go off on a tangent with that. So yeah, Focus is definitely one for me this year. I'm taking baby steps to be consistent as well. But the podcast has helped with that. Obviously the Christmas period didn't... that's different. Couldn't do anything about that.
Delores Naskrent (33:11)
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (33:11)
but
this year I wanna try and get a little bit more consistent. I don't wanna be posting on social media all the time, because that'll drain my focus away. I tried doing that too much last year, and it was just up and down, up and down, and it was annoying me, and it's not fair to the people who are following me. So I want to be more consistent with my collaborations, booking collaborations this year on a...
I'm thinking quarterly, I'll try and do one collaboration every quarter, so it gives me four to do. That'll build my list as I go. If I can do more, I can do more, but obviously we've got launches coming up, so I don't want to narrow my focus away and yeah, do what we were gonna do. So what's one of the big things you want to let go of from 2024? Whether it's a mindset, a habit or something else.
Delores Naskrent (34:05)
I think I just have to really think about things and if I am going to add something before I add it as a thing on my to-do list, I want to analyze it well so that I can really gauge the amount of time it's going to take because I often will
just start doing something and not realize that it's going to eat away way too much of my time. And it's all part of that focus thing that I lose my focus. You know, it might be some grand thing that I've done or I am doing. But then, you know, in retrospect, like that's one of the things I did notice about last year, there were two or three really big things that I did that.
I probably could have not done and saved myself a lot of the time. you know, just whether it was really necessary, who knows? mean...
A lot of times it's when I start doing things like developing assets and I get really into it and it eats up a whole bunch of my time. And yes, it's useful. It's very useful in the end as either giveaways or bonuses or as something that I'm going to sell. But I have to balance it with the actual amount of time I have and how much stress is it going to give me? Because I really want to reduce the amount of stress that I
have. I really do. How about you?
Kaylie Edwards (35:41)
Yeah.
You're speaking to me already. Like how much stress I had last year. But then I'm a mum to a toddler so stress kind of comes with the package.
Delores Naskrent (35:49)
You
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (36:02)
So there's only so much I can limit but work, yeah, work. I want to balance work this year. That's why I've tried to, with our schedule for our annual planning, that's why I've kind to give margin, as much margin as I can between things. And luckily, because of all the work we did last year for the launches,
Delores Naskrent (36:23)
Yes.
Kaylie Edwards (36:24)
And your big courses now are done, pretty much. Yes! So we have content there we can repurpose. that's gonna make my life so much easier.
Delores Naskrent (36:32)
yourself on the back right now
this is Kaylie and I patting ourselves on the back
Kaylie Edwards (36:39)
Yes, I'm so glad that that the big work was done last year. Yes. It was stressful and very time consuming but it was rewarding in the fact that we've got it all there and we can repurpose a lot of that content and makes both our lives so much easier. And obviously for Lindy and now that we've got Lindy on the team as well.
Delores Naskrent (37:03)
Yes,
and what the way I look at it is that all the clothes are on, the overalls, the scarf, the shoes, all of it's in place and now this year we can concentrate on adding the jewelry.
Kaylie Edwards (37:21)
Yes, yeah that's the plan. We just need to finish off the onboarding and everything, make sure all the backend stuff's done. And yeah, and then that should do. And then obviously I've got my course, yay! It's started, it's there and I have some students so that's good. So now I've actually got that going on. But my big focus I think...
obviously apart from my course that I'm doing which is kind of a double-edged sword in a good way because I'm getting the course done but it's also going into my membership so it's helping my membership grow with content every month so I'm... that's helpful for me. Too... too...
Delores Naskrent (38:03)
Fantastic.
Way to go.
Kaylie Edwards (38:05)
So I'm glad that that's
in the works now. It's planned obviously up until I think it's the beginning of April. The last module will drop. That's why I've spaced two weeks. was like, I wanted to be able to drop one module a week, but then I thought that is not gonna give me enough time to do anything else.
Especially after I did the first module, was like, my god, this took up so much time. Because obviously you've got to research, you've got to plan, then you've got to draft all the content. Then you've got to that, record it. Then record it again because it doesn't quite go right.
Delores Naskrent (38:39)
Welcome to my world.
Kaylie Edwards (38:46)
Then edit that, then you have to upload it, let your students know, yeah, there's a lot more to course creation than people might think. And that's why I think patting you on the back for the amount of work that you get done in such a short space of time and you get so much stuff done, content creation-wise, like I don't know how you do it.
Delores Naskrent (39:13)
30 years of practice, my friend. 30 years of practice. Repetition. Lather, rinse, rinse, repeat.
Kaylie Edwards (39:22)
Yes, yeah.
Okay, so how are you going to plan and balance your professional goals with your family and personal time this year? Any strategies you're excited to try?
Delores Naskrent (39:35)
I, like, just recently my daughter announced that she was coming up to Florida here. So I have, you know, parceled out time. I'm not planning anything during that period of time. And I want to do that with a few chunks of time throughout the year.
As you know, my mom lives with us and my daughter lives across the street. We're still doing before and after care for my grandson. And my sister, who's been staying with my mom, has had the joy of a six-year-old, seven-year-old coming in every day. So we'll continue to do that. You know, and what I have found that is so great about it is it's just a break. It's literally a break. I drop everything I'm doing.
what it is I'm working on and I come out and if Terry's there all three of us just kind of hang out until either his mom or dad come to pick him up and we just see him every day talk to him every day so that's that's really great. I hope that we can do some camping this year we didn't do any camping last year but maybe we will this year coming up we've been talking about
Truck to keep the truck sell the truck I don't know it's Going on for a while trying to decide what to do. We have a massively big truck We could get away with a much smaller truck to pull the size camper that we have because we've got
one of the smaller campers now. We used to have a really, really big one, which we needed the big truck for, and now we have a quite small one. So if we can kind of get more camping in there, that would equate to more family time because my kids love to camp. So they're happy to, you know, have us in a campsite beside them or whatever, same campground. So that'll be probably one of the things that we'll try to do a little bit of.
But yeah, that's about it.
Kaylie Edwards (41:42)
That sounds nice, that. I love camping. I miss camping, but Rhys won't go camping. I'd love to take Aston I think Aston's a bit too young for camping right now. I know there's people that go with babies and stuff, but it's not for me. I like camping, but I don't want to do that with a toddler. I'm trying to keep an eye on him. What he's putting in his mouth, or is he his or his nose?
Delores Naskrent (41:48)
You love it you don't?
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (42:08)
We already had
that incident with the pee up his nose. don't want to repeat that with something else. And A &Es and yeah, no. gosh. Yeah. I think one thing kind of to do with my self-care as well is seeing friends more. actually just going to a coffee shop with a friend or something when Aston's actually in playgroup or...
Delores Naskrent (42:13)
You
Bye.
Kaylie Edwards (42:34)
which it's a bit difficult because my friends don't actually live in my city anymore. They moved away and got their own families now. So yeah, it's gonna be challenging because obviously they've got lives, I've got life with my own kid. But that is something I want to try and do a bit more of is even if it's just on the phone with a friend again. Yeah, I want to do a bit more of that.
Delores Naskrent (42:56)
That's a good one.
I'll add that to my list. Very smart.
Kaylie Edwards (43:03)
that and family but I can't see my family as often as I would like because they're not far but the problem is is some of my family don't drive. My family that do drive work so they can't come down as often and obviously we have Rhys's family but they're...
drive away as well, it's only 20 minutes but they're a bit far out as well. Not far but we see them more than we see my family so I would like to see my family more but I think it's just gonna be speaking to my family on the phone a bit more than I was... my problem is as I say I'm too busy I have to do this or do that so prioritising some family time is gonna have to be baked into this year I think that's gonna be something
Delores Naskrent (43:24)
They.
Kaylie Edwards (43:51)
I need to do, not just for myself but obviously for my family as well and friends. So is there any personal habit or mindset shift you're working on this year that will help with your growth?
Delores Naskrent (44:04)
would say that focus will come back in to that thought. It's just, I've been doing a lot of reading about attention deficit disorder and how to deal with it as an adult. so I've got a few key things that I will force myself to do. And it really boils down to focus every time, to focus every time because
You know, there's just so many things that I could easily allow myself to be distracted by. I'm, that's going to be my mindset shift, I think, from I have to do all of this and I have to do it all right now and I should try this. And I'm just going to stop myself from doing that. Look at what I'm supposed to be doing, you know, on my spreadsheet or air table or in my, my
planner, which I'm now using daily to also kind of do a bit of a brain dump as to what I
did that day to help remind me of where I left off so that the next day I don't spend you know an hour and half flailing around and reading emails and you know visiting this and that I just get to work you know because I feel like that saves me time.
Kaylie Edwards (45:33)
That's a I need to get out of is looking at my emails first thing when I sit down because it distracts you so much because I'm sat there and I'm like I need to answer that or I'll flag a load of stuff and I don't come back to it for ages and I think well I should have just left it gone and done what I needed to do and then come back to my emails when I actually have a moment that I can sit and go through.
Delores Naskrent (46:00)
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (46:01)
So I do need to do that. But sometimes it's because I've sent you something and I've gone to bed and I've come up in the morning and I think maybe she's replied and I can get on with it. And obviously you haven't because you haven't seen it when I've gone to bed because you've gone off. So yeah, sometimes it's like that.
Delores Naskrent (46:11)
you
I think we do pretty well considering our time differences here.
Kaylie Edwards (46:24)
Yes, I think
we do. So if you had an extra hour a day, what would you do with that?
Delores Naskrent (46:30)
sleep or let's see an extra hour a day I would spend more time on my fitness walk more I think that would be a goal that I would have that is actually a goal I have this year is to get a little bit more in shape and to lose weight so that's one of those sort of like a resolution type deal we've
both been working on it, my husband and I, so let's hope that we can keep it up for the whole year.
Kaylie Edwards (47:06)
Yes, see that was on my plan for last year. Well it kind of worked until Aston went to play group because I would go with him on a Monday to fitness class and then on a Thursday he would be taken to the soft play area so I was running around with him in the soft play area so I was getting that and walking there takes half an hour and back so I was getting fit from that.
But then when he started Playgroup it was... it's kind of throughout the times and things and yeah I just didn't go back after September after the holidays so that kind of didn't carry on but I'm getting fitter I guess from taking him to Playgroup because it's 20 minutes there, 20 minutes back then I have to go pick him up again so it's another 20 minutes so that's... what? I can't even think now. It's 40 and 40 like 80 minutes.
day for four days of the week where I'm walking so it's not like I'm not getting fit but intentionally getting fit I do that is something I want to do this year yeah but if I had an extra hour I think I'd be torn between doing that and doing art because I'd love to do my art again if it was an hour where Aston wasn't here then I would do probably do the art
Delores Naskrent (48:13)
Yeah.
Kaylie Edwards (48:30)
because it means he's not putting his fingers in my paint and smearing it everywhere and yeah, that's probably the only thing that I'd like to do. So I think we will wrap up this episode and yeah.
Delores Naskrent (48:48)
It's been nice, nice to have a little catch up and a little chat.
Kaylie Edwards (48:51)
Yes, it has. Yeah. And hopefully our listeners enjoyed us nattering on and probably going off on a tangent. But we do have so much more planned for this year for the podcast, so hopefully you will stay tuned in and follow us. And thanks for tuning in today and until next time, keep creating, keep juggling and most importantly, keep finding joy in the process.