Time auditing, launching a community, and nurturing adult friendships with Les Alfred
Welcome to our Creator Communities series. Throughout the next few episodes, we’ll be speaking to several creators about how they do the damn thing. When is it time to go all in? When is it time to rest? Retire? How do you know if you’re on the right track? Is balance achievable while launching your business and working full time? How many friends do you have? Money do you make?
These are just a sample of the intimate questions we’ll be diving into while we speak to our guests over the next few episodes.
This episode features a lovely discussion with Michelle and Les Alfred from the Balanced Black Girl. Les is the founder and host of Balanced Black Girl, an online wellness community and podcast focused on wellness, healthy habits, spacious productivity, personal finance, and self-care from the perspectives of Black women.
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“There’s something so magical about creating content… when no one’s listening, you are the most free. It can be whatever you want, you can do whatever you want. And so, yes, having an audience – great! That’s an amazing next step. But there’s so much freedom and beauty in creating something when no one’s watching yet.”
“Having that peace of mind of at least knowing that your basic needs are taken care of, that you can get a little bit of a break because I also think when you have your own business, or you do your own thing, it can be all-consuming, where it’s all you think about. It’s all you look at, and that can be so stifling for creativity.”
“I think so many people get caught up trying to figure out what is their “purpose”, like, the one big thing. And if you’re just oriented towards that, you’re not living!”
“When I can bring other people along with me and feel like other people are on the ride, too, that’s when I think I feel I’m on the right track. But when I feel like every problem is for me to solve, or all of the weight is on my shoulders, that’s when I’m like… Okay. Pause. Timeout. We got to move some things around here.”
“Sometimes it’s really hard to know when you’re on the right track, but you just need to have a little consistency and persistence.”
Show Notes
The Balanced Black Girl, founded by Les Alfred in 2018
Les shared how many good friends she has, and how they keep their friendship alive
Shocking podcast review Les received during those times that she was overwhelmed and burnt out
Les used to be a one-man team — how did she handle it?
Learn a recipe for disaster!
How Les manages both her full-time job and her content creation empire? What has she learned while juggling the two?
When a problem presents itself, how does Les respond?
How can you tell that you’re off track?
Gen Z compared to millennials
The idea of time abundance
Measurements of time — can time really be measured?
Spatial synesthesia — what is it?
When Les did a live podcast, how did it go?
How to use your intuition to carve out what feels good for you to make, and at the same time solve the problem for the people in your crew
Tools and platforms Les couldn’t live without (Michelle shared hers, too!)
Resources
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