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Meet Ayla, Colin and Elly
Hi there. We're Colin Clapp and Elly McGuinness. And we're proud parents to Ayla.
We started our parenting journey at the end of 2013 and, like many people we know, we have found it challenging balancing all it takes to fulfil all our personal and professional desires and responsibilities. But we know we are not alone and there are many people experiencing 'work-life balance' challenges.
Our cause
The term 'work-life balance' may be a myth to some but in a 2017 study report published by the UK based charity Working Families evidence suggests nearly half the population of working fathers are finding their work-life balance increasingly stressful. The report's opening statement even says "the UK is running the risk of creating a ‘fatherhood penalty’ – as fathers consider stalling or side-lining their careers to find roles they can better combine with family life."
We are saddened by these findings as we know they are not exclusive to the UK or just to dads. So we want to do something about it...
Regardless of whether you’re a mum or a dad, perhaps you may feel you’re experiencing ‘work-life' balance challenges of your own? Or perhaps you know a parent who is struggling to keep it all together? If so, we feel it’s important people know they are not alone.
But even more importantly, we want to find ways to help us all discover and choose alternative paths...
Consequently, in 2017 we're on a quest (a long and arduous search) to find parents (both mums and dads) around the world who we (and you) feel are enjoying fulfilling parenting relationships while successfully embracing rewarding business and professional ventures. And, of course, discovering how they are doing it so we can share their wisdom and allow more mums and dads to enjoy their parenting journey, instead of enduring it!
Why does this matter to us?...
In 2016, both Elly and Colin suffered bouts of ‘burnout’ (aka the late stages of adrenal fatigue) and the frustrating and often debilitating effects that come with it. Nearly all this stress can be attributed to the challenges we faced in trying to be present as a family while trying to grow our businesses...
In our case, we lost all our sources of regular consulting and coaching income early in the year , then we couldn't make our online organic grocery business work despite selling our house and investing nearly $100k. Although we worked tirelessly without reward for nearly 18 months, and tried many different tactics to get the business to scale and generate some returns, we simply couldn’t get our desired business model to work.
By the end of the year, we both recognised the health and happiness of each other, as well as our family relationship with Ayla, was under continuous and growing stress. With no obvious light at the end of our tunnels, we eventually reached our breaking point and our own darkest hours in October. At this point, we reluctantly admitted a defeat, closed the business and sold most of our material possessions. We then left our home in the South Island and set off on a one-way journey to rejuvenate ourselves and discover a new life and a more purposeful calling.
Now three months later, having spent some quality time with family, friends and each other, including reminding ourselves about enjoying the simple things in life, we can both feel our energies and creative spark returning to pre-burnout levels.
As such, we have made a renewed commitment to earn our income online and follow our desire to live as 'digital nomads’. This means we will be able to spend as much time with Ayla as we possibly can. Including fulfilling our goal to home educate her in the growing ‘worldschooling’ community we recently discovered.
We have also decided to start our new life in Southeast Asia. We leave New Zealand for Singapore on the 21st February where we will stay for two weeks before heading north again (towards Malaysia and Thailand) in search of a new place to call home!
How we wish to invest the campaign funds
Despite the mix of apprehension and excitement Elly and I are currently feeling about our impending venture into the unknown, many people have asked us to stay in touch and keep us posted. And while that will be nice on a personal level, it won’t help us with our wider cause.
In order to make our journey meaningful for others we want to record our journey via blogs, podcasts and videos. We especially feel a podcast will enable us to share the story with more people, more easily and more often. Hence the funds are required for us to quickly launch a new weekly podcast show that is going to be heard as soon as possible by as many people as possible.
But setting up and producing a high quality podcast show is not something either of us feel we could do without interfering with our cause. So this is how and where we wish to spend the campaign funds;
Investing in a highly professional Podcast Launch ($5997) and ongoing Podcast Editing ($8388) Programs that will allow us to continually attract guests (parents to interview) and listeners to the show.
As part of the fundraising campaign, we want you to tell us who you feel is enjoying fulfilling parenting relationships and rewarding business and professional ventures. Plus we want you to share the questions you would like to ask these people. If our campaign is successful, we will reach out to as many of these people as possible and ask them those questions… (note they don’t have to be celebrities or well known people).
- Peter Diamandis; http://peterdiamandis.tumblr.com/about (father of young twin boys)
- Sherly Sandberg; Facebook chief; widowed mother of two http://www.upworthy.com/how-sheryl-sandbergs-take-on-single-moms-shifted-after-her-husband-died
- Pat Flynn; internet entrepreneur behind https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ and father of two
- Jessica Alexander http://www.jessicajoellealexander.com/ and Iben Sandahl (https://www.ibensandahl.com/) co-authors of ‘The Danish Way of Parenting'
- Greg & Rachel Denning - see http://www.discovershareinspire.com/ and/or http://worldschoolfamily.org/ parents of six
- Greg Rollett (parent of one) http://weirdentrepreneurs.com/podcast/greg-rollett/
- Barack & Michelle Obama; parents of two http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/10/first-family-obamas-protected-daughters-managed-give-normal/
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James Alder; Kiwi entreprenuer behind https://www.bookme.co.nz/, father of two
- There are many others but we want you to tell us about the unsung inspiring parents most people don't know about...
Please help
We've been as guilty as the next person when it comes to asking for help. There seems to be something in the human psyche that causes many of us to take the ‘DIY’ approach to life or allow some voice in our head to sabotage good things happening!
So today we’re overcoming those fears to ask for your help! We want to play big so we can serve the world and we can’t do this without you...
Our personal 'Why'
Our family values are ‘freedom of choice’ and ‘meaningful relationships’. We try to live these values everyday.
Our life’s purpose is ‘Significance’ through a philosophy of ‘Give. Take. Invest. Enjoy.’ This project serves these values and purpose.
We know we can’t begin to imagine the way our journey will impact both our lives, the people we meet and the listening public, but we do know we must breath life into the project and see where it takes us and others!
We know our journey can be significant to many more people than us, if we are only able, prepared and willing to share it.
It is uncomfortable for both Elly and I to make our lives public, but our bigger picture purpose makes it worthwhile.
Please help us bring this project to life and keep it going!
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We will provide coupons/vouchers valued at $250 towards any parenting, lifestyle or business courses and/or resources we or others make available during our quest. Plus you will feature as the show sponsor for one week with appropriate mentions and links.
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Anyone who contributes the cost of a month's podcast production (without branded and shareable transcription PDFs) will feature as a show sponsor, with appropriate mentions, links and an invite to contribute to the show. Once a compilation book is available, we will make 10 Kindle versions available to you free of charge.
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Anyone who contributes the cost of a month's podcast productions will feature as a show sponsor, with mentions, links and an invite to contribute to the show. The shareable show notes will also be co-branded with your company name. Once a compilation book is available, we will make 25 Kindle versions available to you free of charge.
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