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We Lived on a Boat, Ate Porridge, and Built Something Extraordinary

Join Jonny and me as we journey back in time to buying and running our first small business together, the Rock Adventure Cruise. Our chaos, learnings and business advice offer insights into the challenges and triumphs of entrepreneurship, especially when your business partner is also your spouse. How an impulse decision, a whole lot of ignorance + arrogance, and two very determined humans built a business… and a marriage. Jonny joins me to take you behind the scenes of our 18-year adventure of buying, building, and growing The Rock, our very first business we bought together back in 2007. And no, we didn’t buy it with a trust fund (I wish). We bought it with loose change, blind optimism, and zero clue how big of a ride we were strapping into. From kicking each other under the table when one of us (me) accidentally said “We’ll buy it!” to survive GFC, volunteer crew realities, handwritten booking sheets, porridge-based cuisine, and running cruises on caffeine and not nearly enough sleep… we’re pulling back the curtain on all of it. This is a love letter to big leaps, messy action, partnership under pressure, and what really happens when you go “all in” on a business you believe in long before you have the systems, strategy, or sleep to back it up.   Inside: 🔥 Our Impulse Buy That Changed Everything The true story behind the night we first heard The Rock might be for sale… and how my mouth said “We’ll buy it” before my brain consulted our bank account. 🔥 What The Rock Actually Is (and why people lose their minds over it) An overnight adventure cruise through Northland that feels like getting plugged straight into the heart of real New Zealand phosphorescence, fishing, kayaking, island hopping, stargazing, sunrise magic. 🔥 Why Ignorance + Arrogance Were Our Superpowers We didn’t know the economy was tanking. We didn’t know compliance would explode. We didn’t know that most of the crew were volunteers. (Yep. That one hurt.) We just knew we were all in, and honestly, that was enough to get us off the ground. 🔥 The Hardest Parts We Never Saw Coming A tax bill that nearly flattened us. Endless compliance layers (hi Maritime NZ + liquor licence + food control plan + DOC + Qualmark…). Living on the boat, eating leftover sausages and porridge, and running purely on grit. 🔥 The Strengths We Discovered in Each Other Jonny = calm AF under pressure, natural connector, the steady anchor our magpie-energy business needed. Me = fast learner, fast decision-maker, systems brain, the visionary pushing us forward. Together = unstoppable (even when completely unqualified). 🔥 What We Would Tell Our 2007 Selves “Enjoy the ride, it's going to shape everything.” (Jonny) “Who, not how. And pay yourself. For the love of god, pay yourself.” (Me) 🔥 The Big Lesson Taking a big risk together isn’t just survivable, it can be fun, expansive, identity-shifting, marriage-deepening magic when you’re both all in. Why This Matters for YOU Whether you're sitting in business overwhelm, wondering if you’ve made the wrong choice, feeling like your vision is too big or your bank account too small, hear this: Every successful woman I’ve ever coached has had a moment where she made a decision she “had no business making”… and it changed everything. Your version of The Rock is calling. Your leap doesn’t have to look like ours, but it does have to be yours. If you missed Jonny and I jamming on business, relationships and parenting -    • Money Fights vs. Money Alignment: Why Most...   - it gives you more behind the scenes of life in business as life partners and parents. The differing backgrounds, the systems we needed and even the mindset changes… it’s all there. And if you want the clear, structured, step-by-step version of how we help mums reshape their businesses so they can be present before 9, Done by 3 and Profitable in between, watch The Done by 3 Business Model here    • The Done by 3 Business Plan For Mums (Expl...   00:00 – Why we bought a boat with basically no money (insane… but it worked) 05:00 – How the business deal happened (and why we said yes so fast) 08:30 – Borrowing the money + the GFC timing we didn’t even see coming 12:00 – The “we weren’t listening to the noise” advantage (blinders on = progress) 15:30 – What made the business such a clear yes (epic product + huge potential) 20:00 – The due diligence we thought we did (and the red flags we missed) 27:00 – Splitting roles as a couple (strengths, tension, and survival) 34:00 – The pressure point: fatigue, insane hours, and the moment it got real 39:00 – The tax + compliance shock (the part nobody warns you about) 44:30 – What we’d tell our 2007 selves (who not how + Profit First lesson) 50:30 – The big takeaway: risks pay off when you’re both all-in (and not feeding the noise)