Kc Rossi 0:02
Are you ready to scale your business in a way that's aligned with your soul, and profitable? I'm KC Rossi, a business and leadership coach. I've been a full time entrepreneur for 30 years and love business. I help conscious leaders increase their impact and optimize their lives. Join me each week for tips and deep conversations on cultivating confidence, increasing your visibility, elevating your vibration, and leading with purpose without burning out. Let's go. You know that I love to keep you in the loop on anything that enhances performance. I've been taking an awesome productivity drink called Magic mind, and I will give you the full scoop in just a bit. My guest today is is Ilene Rosaceae. She is a former corporate project manager turned into a time management and success coach, she has learned how to transform her life from a draining corporate nine to five, to building a meaningful nomadic business that is helping purpose driven professional women gain clarity and master their time and productivity so they can reach their goals. I love my time with azulene. Because you can tell that she is just so dedicated to helping women dissolve any mindset blocks that getting in the way of helping them truly create a schedule, but more over a life and a business that they love. I hope you enjoy today's episode. Yes, Leanne, welcome to the show.
Ysaline Rozier 1:32
Hello, Kc, how are you doing?
Kc Rossi 1:35
I'm doing great. It's so awesome to see you on. I know that we connected last year for your Get More Done Summit. And it was awesome. So I'm really thrilled to have you on the show today. And I'd like to first jump in. And I know that you really have the time management piece down you help people achieve success through understanding their time. And I'm wondering what is the key mindset block when women say I don't have time to and then fill in the blank, it could be to prepare healthy meals, it could be to, you know, take my business to the next level, it could be networking. I'm just wondering, from your professional point of view, what is the mindset block that keeps them from thinking that way?
Ysaline Rozier 2:22
I think it's something that is coming up from early age where you know, like, we are all the time doing something. So we have plenty of stuff to do since a young age, oh, you need to do that you need to do that you need to go there, you need to do your homework. And the fact is, like we are all the time, you know doing doing doing doing, and we're used to do all the time. So when it's come to, we have a lot of things to do. And when we don't succeed to do all the things that we wanted to do, we're like, okay, I don't have the time. But I mean, it's really easy. Like, it's not that you don't have the time because we all have 24 hours during our days, we cannot extend that, unfortunately, or fortunately, I don't know. And the fact is like you are choosing how you spend your time. And the fact is like since we're young, we're kind of driven of like, you need to do that you need to do that you need to do that. So you're not really choosing where you're spending your time. So when you're growing up, your biggest job is to say okay, so I have plenty of stuff to do like everyone. So what am I priority? What do you want to do with my time? Because the fact is, like, a lot of people tend to, you know, time sucker in their life, if people are around them, asking for help all the time, but the reality is, is like, you need to be mindful with your time and you need to choose carefully. What do you want to do with you 24 hours every day?
Kc Rossi 4:05
Yeah, absolutely. Do you recommend that people do a little audit of their day and kind of see where those time suckers, as you said, exist?
Unknown Speaker 4:16
Oh, yeah, of course, is that I will say that step number one that you need to do, whether you're running a business, whether you're an employees, but every time that you say, Oh, I don't have the time you need to understand, okay, so why am I saying that? Where is this food coming from? Why do I have the feeling that I'm not accomplishing everything that I want to accomplish? And the fact is like, what are you telling my client is to use like a time tracker. So for like one week or two weeks if your week are really different from one one to another track everyday what you are doing, because the first key in order to know where you spend your time is awareness. So we stick in your time What is taking your time? Because if you don't know that, like it's like everything. If you don't know, what is the root cause of the problem of the problem? How can how can you solve it?
Kc Rossi 5:10
Absolutely, absolutely. And many times when we're trying to become more efficient or be better with our time, I feel like there's a little bit of a resistance because these are habits that are needed. And a lot of times habits are unsexy. Right? So I'm really curious, where do you find your ideal client? Whether it is a specific type of person? Or do they have to get to a certain stage before they're like, Okay, I get it, I'm ready to put the work in. Just show me how.
Ysaline Rozier 5:41
I mean, it's very different for everyone, because like, also people who are coming to me, they reach a point where they say, okay, so I want to accomplish this goal, I want to do this in my life, I have been trying to do it for a month, and for a month, I have been repeating, like you said, the same pattern, doing all the same thing all over again, without changing what I'm doing. And what I'm doing every day is not leading me where I want to go. And that's when my actually isn't my client realized. Okay, so now I need someone to help me in order to get there because I have tried on my own, or I have tried with, like, you know, the help of the people around me. It didn't work. And I need this specific framework to get there. So it's really about understanding that. Okay, right now, I don't have any more solution. And I know, and I'm conscious that I can do it alone.
Kc Rossi 6:41
Yeah, absolutely, for sure. And have you found since COVID, that people are even more distracted, or they have a harder time staying focused, or they're just, there's a, it's to me, it feels like an easier rationalization to say, Oh, let me just jump on x and check that out. Or let me just go in, you know, look at this product that I just saw on this YouTube video. And it was a new makeup item that looks super fun. Like, it feels like we're looking for an outlet. I mean, I've experienced this myself, when it's I'm just curious, what you have seen with your clients, has it gotten increasingly difficult because our world is more chaotic.
Ysaline Rozier 7:21
I will say that, again, it's depending on the type of people that you are, some people when they are going to work every day is I love it. And actually, when they were doing that, they were actually busy all day. So they were not thinking about like, oh, I need to get on my phone, or I'm going to check this email, or I'm going to do that. Why when you are when these people had to go back home because they didn't have the choice. Because of COVID. They were like it was actually face, their house. And your house is a biggest place for distraction. You have TV, you have tablets, you have computers, you have your phone, you have everything that you want in order to distract yourself. And the fact is like some some people are not good at focusing when they are like in this type of environment, because they tend to let themselves distraction more. Which when you are at work, you know, your environment is different. You just have all this temptation around you to say, Okay, so I'm going to be into beat like to do one at fixed pieces right now. No, you're at work, you're not going to do that. When you are at home, the word of possibilities is opening yourself.
Kc Rossi 8:38
Oh my gosh, that's so true.
Ysaline Rozier 8:41
So you need to ask yourself, and you need to have the mindset to say, Okay, right now, I'm going to focus on this and this and without distraction. And that's a choice. And that's also a mindset. And unfortunately, not everyone has this mindset to say Okay, so right now, I'm not going to go on YouTube. But instead of that I'm going to focus for one or two hours. But I mean, that's something that is really hard. That's not something that we're used to do, because like most of the distraction around us, like there are made for her to spend hours and hours on them.
Kc Rossi 9:21
You've got that right. Absolutely. And I feel like I've said this before, but the smarter the marketers get the more psychological data that they harness on the social media platforms. It's kind of like the formula for Lay's where you just can't eat one. I mean, it's almost like that same kind of philosophy is happening and the social media channels that they're studying how to hijack our time because time now is our biggest commodity. So it really does take mindset and takes discipline. It takes repetitive habits like you're talking about for sure. And one of the things that I'm thinking about is you know, we spend A lot of time is high achievers, entrepreneurs and CEOs focused on productivity, which is fabulous, we have to be productive. And you know, really mindful about our time management and all of those things. But I'm also really curious what you do personally. And if you integrate how to just be for your clients, do you help them understand how to just be,
Ysaline Rozier 10:24
Of course, this is one of the key because, as I said, when you are at home, you're facing yourself. So when before when you are, when your company with your colleague, you know, you can, it was just easy to put aside all of your problems, all that you like, didn't had the time to do. But when you are at home with yourself, you're like, Okay, so this is the one thing that I need to do, and you are actually facing yourself. So which means that you are facing is a step that you're procrastinating on your face, you're facing the stuff that you don't want to do it, and there is no one behind you telling you, okay, now that you need to do that, like this is really, really urgent. So when it's come to, to actually do this stuff, stop procrastinating, you need also to be and I know that a lot of people, as you said, they think that, Oh, if I'm taking one hour for myself, that bad, I didn't do anything for one hour. And after they're actually beating themselves up, because they didn't do anything. But the reality is like we can be productive 100% of the time. And I mean, we're not wired to be productive 100% of the time. And the fact is like, you will realize, if you're taking more time for yourself, where you're actually disconnecting from everything, not just spending one hour on YouTube, you will realize that this time, is the time where your brain is going to get the most the most creative, that's where you're going to have your best idea. So when you are relaxing, when you are taking care of yourself, when you're spending time with your kids, that's what is going to be like a game changer for you. Because I mean, let's face it, personally, is not a way of life. It
Kc Rossi 12:20
It's absolutely not. And I love that you underscored that we cannot be productive 100% of the time, it has to be a rhythm and a flow just like we breathe, we inhale and we exhale. And there's a rhythm to that process. So I feel like when we treat ourselves like robots, and in the early part of my career, I did that if there was whitespace on the calendar, I would fill it in. And there would be anxiety if there was too much whitespace because it there's those old patterns right like, that you talked about early on from childhood. So I think just acknowledging and and also relishing in those juicy moments when we're resting when we're driving, when we're playing with our kid where we get this new idea for a blog post or a summit or fill in the blank that really you couldn't have done sitting there trying to grind it out. It just kind of bubbled up because you allowed yourself that that period of time to rest in space. So I'm a fan of that philosophy as well. I'm very curious what your thoughts are, do you think that this concept of the work/life balance which we hear, and we're hearing more of over and over again, it's almost become a little bit trendy? Do you think it's a farce?
Ysaline Rozier 13:32
I mean, I don't I don't know is there is really a balance, I think like you know, because like the fact of balance is like when you're putting something on the left, you're removing something reforms the right so you know, you need to every time you need to take from one side to another and for me, I mean, our life is not really balanced, we're just choosing to where we're spending our time and what we want, or you know her equilibrium to be. So which means that for some people that are gonna be really happy maybe to work like seven hours a day, some people that will prefer maybe to work three hours a day and do something else. It's really depend on yourself and what is what is the kind of life that you want to live? How do you want to spend your everyday because as long as you are building like a schedule, where you are doing your work where you are happy in your personal life. I mean, that's all good. I mean, you don't have to remove like something from your life in order to you know, to find the right balance, because I think everyone has a balance but everyone has his own imperfect balance. So you just need to find what is what is yours. And you know, stop. Stop trying to find you know, life is this ideal life you know, I know that a lot of people online are advertising. Yeah, I'm leaving here I'm doing that my life is amazing. And especially, you know, an Instagram, where when you're looking at these people, you say, Oh, they have an amazing life, and my life is really crappy. But I mean, just build the life that you want. I mean, your life doesn't have to be the same as everyone else, as long as you feel good about it. So you need to deal with your time as you want to deal with it.
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Kc Rossi 16:51
Absolutely such a good point. And I can see where the confusion is because I think it was Jim Rohn that said success leaves clues. So if you have entrepreneurs that are looking to uplevel and scale, then naturally they're going to be looking at other people in their environment that have maybe cracked the code. And to your point of the Instagram real you know, where we're checking other people out and seeing what they're doing and how are they living the nomadic life and the laptop, laptop lifestyle and all of those good things, I can see where it would be absolutely confusing. So for example, here's a huge contrast and really interested in your point of view on it. So you have like Tim Ferriss, and he wrote the book on the The Four Hour Workweek. So you have this concept that you know, and I you see this too over and over again, which I actually think it can be damaging where the message out there is if you're working too hard, or if you're grinding, you're not in alignment, you're not in you like your own spiritual essence, you don't have flow or you're putting out the wrong message to the universe. And there's like a block in the channel. So there's this side of the coin of philosophy. And then on the other side, you have something that's far the extreme, which is say Gary Vee, who in his own words, works as fast as hell 18 hours a day. And that type of mindset is you can sleep when you're dead. If you really want success, you have to just keep showing up putting in hard, hard effort. And again, not really leaving that time and space to just be so talk to me a little bit about that because I am sure listeners are like wait a second like yes, it's a personal thing on who to subscribe to, but it is all over the board out there.
Ysaline Rozier 18:38
Yeah, and I think it's it's all the pain and you said on the base that you want to reach your goal. I mean, Gary Vee wants to do like everything that he can do in his life lifetime. So for him like a second like if he's losing a second that's a big big big fail. Why on the other side, you have Tim Ferriss with advertising a life or okay that good to work but that's also amazing to enjoy because our life is short and I mean like you can just die tomorrow like just at the crossroad you know like you can be hit by a car and that's it. So you need to under everyday in order to under your life. And I think it's home comes down to okay you have you have goals that you have plenty of projects that you want to achieve in your life. But what is the pace that you want to add a completion? Do you want them to get done to be done like in a year do you want them to get them like maybe in five years in 10 years? What do you want to do because that side of your goal and the work that you need in order to reach them will actually set your day to day schedule. If you want something to be achieved really quick. You are maybe going to work more and but you will be fine with that because you know why you are doing it. Why maybe there is something that you want like to achieve in two years, like, let's say, like build house, because there is a lot of, it's usually projects that are taking time. It's gonna take two years, and it will impact less your day to day because you are not going to do everyday something in order to get there. But maybe we'll do something about it, like every week, or every two weeks or whatever. So it really depends on you. And what are you expecting from your life?
Kc Rossi 20:30
Yeah, yeah, I like that point of view a lot. That's awesome. So I do have a question, because one of the things that I see coming up more and more is, when the entrepreneur has something unexpected come up, you know, whether it is they themselves have COVID, or I've seen higher anxiety come in, or more, like attention deficit disorder, like I've seen more and more of these kind of conditions and circumstances, some unknown and unable to, like even be proactive about, I'm wondering what advice you have for people that are trying to kind of juggle this, they are their CEO, they may or may not have a team, and all of a sudden, there's like this new life thing that's come in and has shifted, what was read maybe in line for them for their productivity, what can they do?
Ysaline Rozier 21:20
I mean, first, you need to learn how to give you some grace, because I have a lot, a lot of my clients are actually in the same position, you know, they have the perfect plan, we're working on the girls that are taking action, and then something is like is coming on, and they just go like, they're just thrown off because they need to take care of it, whether it's your kid who is sick, and they need to go to the hospital, whether there is like death in their family or something else happening. And you need to revise everything in your schedule, and everything that you are doing during this day. But the fact is, is like that's, that's life, and you need it, and you need to understand it. And you need to actually give you some great for that, because there are some events in your life that you won't be able to, to, you know, to, to master to actually being able to control them, you won't have control over it. And the fact of not having control over it. That's also a good thing and bad things. Because some time, it's not a good thing to control everything that is happening in your life. Because when you don't control everything, you are open to new opportunities, your opportunities, open to new things that can arise. And that can lead you somewhere unexpected, but where you're going to love it. Yes, but so that that's my first bump. My first point. The second point is that there's just life. And that will happen and what you do, and that's one of the key in order to master your time, is that you need to know how to replan and replan quickly. So which means that all the things that you have planned for this week, you know, you're not being able to do it. So what are you going to do is like, Okay, you are going to assess everything that you can do, and say Okay, so next week, how can I put the things that I didn't have the time this week to do to make it happen next week, thinking about the most urgent tasks first, because there is always some days that are more urgent than the than the other one. So I will say, really give you some grace, you are able to do it. So just take the time and just like take 10 minutes to say, okay, so how am I going to reschedule everything in my life for the next two weeks over the next week?
Kc Rossi 23:48
Yeah, that's so crucial. And I would love it if you could share. If someone struggles with allowing themself grace, what can they do, and I'll just share with you that I had an associate, and this is why it's fresh in my mind, who got COVID A couple of weeks ago, and it was just so exhausted. And you know, even despite having conversations of you know, rescheduling, and doing all the things that you talked about pivoting and shifting, and really, you know, just kind of like recategorize and just the urgency and knowing that it's going to be okay, and letting go of perfectionism and all of that. She refused to do that and saw five clients today because she has a full client roster, and literally felt like she was at death's door and just kept dabbing on the makeup, putting on glasses to kind of hide that she was sick and just plowed through it. And so I don't think she's the only one. I think it does go back to mindset that you talked about in the beginning. And so what if someone is in that state where it's like, all this responsibility is on me. I have people waiting for me there's expectations to fill. There's income that needs to be had, what's a baby step that they can take when it comes to help Greece,
Ysaline Rozier 25:02
The thing that in this kind of situation, what you need to remind yourself is like you are your best assets. So if you're not taking care of yourself, how how can you take care of your client? How can you take care of your family? Are? Can you take care of all the people that need you? I mean, like, having COVID, I know that some people are just undermining it. But that can be like something that a lot of people died from it. So that's something that where you should say, Okay, so in all the priority of the word health is the first one. And that's how you, you need to really take a step back and say, what is important because if tomorrow, I'm sick, and some people are sick for four years, four months, what am I going to do? It's, it's even better to take like, maybe like few weeks off for yourself. And don't worry, your client will understand it, especially during this pandemic, where a lot of people lose a lot of people close from them, then actually try to, to go through it, like in pain, because it must have been really hard for her to show up every day, to be able to give advice. And the fact is, like, you are not giving your client services. First of all, you are not showing them that you can actually, you're not setting a good example. Because when you are like when you are not doing well, you're not giving them the best advice, you are not showing them that they can actually take time for themselves. And that's okay. So that's the two things that you need to also to have in mind. How do I want to show up what I want? What am I going to give my client? Because sometime just saying, okay, so I need one week or two weeks to raise because I'm feeling really down? I'm not going to be at my best to help you. I don't see any client telling you. Oh, no, that's bad. Yeah. Don't Don't do that.
Kc Rossi 27:09
Firing because like you talked about, they're modeling something that is it's not just a trendy hashtag, you know, I mean, it's so vital. It's so very vital. So thank you for that. I didn't want to cut you off. Did you have more to say on that point? No.
Ysaline Rozier 27:23
I mean, is that that's completely fine. But I mean, health should be the priority of everyone. And I know that some people are really stressed about like, yeah, I want to have income, I want to have income. But you need to realize that sometimes just seeing is a truth to your client is going to help you make more income than just hiding the truth and trying to keep on.
Kc Rossi 27:47
Yeah, absolutely. For sure. How can people learn more about you and your world?
Ysaline Rozier 27:53
I mean, is there is plenty of way to learn about me, they can go on my website, easily noisy.com. You can also find me on Pinterest and Instagram. So I'm pretty much over the internet. And also you have a free Facebook group, where you have like 900 people who are here to learn how to master the time to be more productive, so they can level up their business and life. So if you want to feel free to join, I will be more than happy to see you there.
Kc Rossi 28:24
Oh, that's awesome, Ysaline - I think that that's just fabulous. We need community more than ever right now to be with people that are willing to do the work and to stimulate deep conversations and have awareness and then just like keep showing up for themselves, show up for themselves show up for their clients show up for the community. So I love that I'll make sure to put the links in the show notes. And if you were to leave our listeners with one last bright light piece of wisdom, what would it be?
Ysaline Rozier 28:54
Be mindful about your time and actually use your time wisely. Because I mean like a lot of people think time is something that you know is innate that we all have. But it's not because that's something that we'll all have that we know how to use it like properly. So if you are using your time properly, you will be able to do everything in the words that you want to do.
Kc Rossi 29:23
Perfect I love it, Ysaline thank you so very much. It's always a pleasure to connect with you.
Ysaline Rozier 29:29
Thank you for seeing me today. It was really nice to be here.
Kc Rossi 29:32
Alright until next time, my friend breathe joy.
Ysaline Rozier 29:36
Bye!
Kc Rossi 29:39
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Kc Rossi 30:02
One, your feedback means the world to me, too. I absolutely agree with you that the guests are inspiring. And I just get so juiced up bringing you all different types of people from around the world that are just displaying bravery and courage by showing up by saying yes to themselves and their business. And by committing to making the world a better place through entrepreneurialism. So, I'm so thrilled that you're here. Thank you. And to you, my listener, I know that you have everything with inside of you to do that as well. I'm sure you're already doing that in some way, shape, or form. And so just continue to commit to spreading that positive ripple effect and just be so confident that you are affecting more people than you even realize. Okay, my friend. Until next week, Breathe Joy!
