Part 2: Pia Mance Shares the Resources and Routines That Help Her Level Up

0:28Hey, welcome back to Female Founder World. kind of help you show up as this best version of yourself? Because you just seem like someone who has never had imposter syndrome in their life and has like worked through, you know, like, no, seriously, like I asked you these questions about like leadership and hiring and you just feel very secure and sure of yourself as you're building the business. And like, not everyone feels like that. So talk me through what you do. Okay. Well, thank you. I do. I am a confident person, I think. Maybe not in every area. I don't know how I got this confidence. I'm a little bit insecure about the fact that I can't read don't know what it is like I can't remember the last book I read it was actually the last book I read was Hanging by a Thread by Erin Deering who started Triangle Swim yeah I loved that book because it was so written so easily and like I loved her story but I don't really read I'm like a quarter of the way through atomic habits through success principles like all of them but I've never finished them so that's that's there um listening I love a good podcast.

1:25I'm listening to podcasts like every day, a couple a day. I love SIF's podcast, Dream Bigger, Skinny Confidential. I've been listening to your episodes in the past couple of days. Love them. Who else do I love? I love my friend Bryony Deary's podcast. Like I just like listening to conversations between people and like getting a little habit or a little business hack or something. So I always listening to something, whether I'm driving or at the gym or something. and then in terms of habits I think waking up early and going to bed early is like the thing I wake up at five every day I go to bed at nine or 9 30 I take my supplements you live in LA this is a very LA thing it's so LA like I don't want to cringe you out but I wake up so early I go to the gym I get my matcha I come home I dry brush I make my protein breakfast I have my supplements every day yeah it's like if you saw my morning you would be horrified but the thing is like I think my morning's bad I'm like I need to be journaling I need to be sitting in front of my red light meditating and journaling and then no I don't want these like productivity recommendations to just be like a stick that women beat themselves with because like it's like one more thing that I need to do that I don't have time to do but I do find it really like just like interesting and pervy to figure out like what's working for people in their habits okay so you have an amazing morning routine.

2:43I wouldn't say it's amazing, but I mean, okay, by my standard, that's amazing. I've got to go to the gym because if I don't go to the gym, I won't go. So I've got to do some kind of exercise and I have to eat my breakfast, two chicken sausages and half an avocado. That's like a life hack is I have the same food every single day. Okay. Every single day. I'm not going to comment on the chicken sausages for breakfast. Oh, it's, I know I never used to be like this, but I'm into protein now since my naturopath told me. Okay. And then I have the same lunch every day. I get ready every day, like not crazy, but I try and do a little bit of makeup and try and wear something that isn't active wear because I just feel so much more productive and like put together and it honestly changes the way I work.

3:20And then I go downstairs and work from home and my team comes to my house. However, that's something I want to change. I would love that. Okay. So you're going to find an office space. Yeah, I'm going to find an office or maybe we'll do something hybrid. Like I was even thinking we could all go to a Soho house or a cafe or something, but I have to get out of the house because sometimes I just feel like a little flat and unproductive. Yeah. And then I try and finish the day. I'll try and push like a call or something that's not that needing to be on camera to the later in the day and I'll go for a walk.

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5:16Are there any apps that you use anything that's kind of like helping on that front oh I use this amazing software actually Maggie Sellers got me onto it and I know you've interviewed Maggie yeah it's called Black Crow AI did she tell you about it this is you have to pay for it it's kind of expensive but it's like a plugin to help with building your email list so it like helps people on your site get onto your email list kind of like the people who weren't going to subscribe it makes them subscribe I I don't really understand it, but it's helped build our email list, which is obviously helpful to get leads.

5:51Other apps on Shopify, I don't know, like pre-order is really helpful. I didn't have pre-order and all my stuff would be sold out and people would always say like, oh, it's always sold out. That's so good. Like, oh, let me tell you something. This is like a little hack. Yes. Everyone freaks out when you've sold out of something. I'll get messages like I'm so from friends I've never spoken to in years. I'm so proud of you. You sold out. I'm like, you don't know how many units I bought I could have bought one yeah or I could have bought a million totally sold out is such a buzzword this sold out is like the biggest buzzword but recently I realized like you don't want to be sold out like no stock no sales so I now have my pre-order app like nothing is ever sold out it will always just go straight on to pre-order because if it's selling that fast I will already have bought new stock amazing okay anything else that you want to recommend before we close out the show that you're just like this has been a thing that's helped me to be this business leader that I am now I like to like I said go to bed really early I like to have saunas and I like to just kind of relax and like close my eyes and think like this is sounds really crazy but like I like to before bed play out what I'm going to do tomorrow and like what I'm going to achieve tomorrow in a really like relaxed environment.

7:07Not like a meditation. You're literally just like thinking it through and working it through in your brain. Yes. Yeah. I think just like having a minute to think, to have to yourself, to think about it. Yeah. I think has really helped me. I wish I had something more to give you. No, this has been awesome. Pia, thank you so much for coming on Female Founder World. Thank you. I just wanted to jump in and end the show with a quick thank you and shout out to all of our paid Business Besties subscribers. For$9 a month, Business Besties bypass literally years of networking by getting access to all of the people that you need to build your dream business.

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