Two Booked Up Shelley Tonkin Smith and Rowena Mabbott

It’s been a year since the first Two Booked Up podcast episode aired, and in this episode, Rowena and Shelley are celebrating their one-year podcast anniversary!
To mark this auspicious milestone, they are sharing some insights and reflections from their year of collaborative podcasting, including what they have loved and what they have learned. And they will answer some BIG questions. Some are listener questions, and others are ones they have used in their own behind-the-scenes process. Rowena and Shelley are pulling back the curtain on Two Booked Up in this episode.
Additionally, they are taking a big-picture view of all the episodes that have aired and are sharing their favourite takeaways and the books or ideas they keep coming back to!
And if this is your first Two Booked Up episode, welcome! This will also be a great episode to give you a taste of what the podcast is all about and give you some ideas on where to start diving into our back catalogue. 
Join Rowena and Shelley as they celebrate the Two Booked Up anniversary.
Episode Links Mentioned

The Four Tendencies

Two Booked Up Episode 1 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
Two Booked Up Episode 2 - Personal Life and The Four Tendencies
Two Booked Up Episode 3 - Running Your Own Business using The Four Tendencies 
Two Booked Up Episode 4 - Take Yourself on a Date

The Lazy Genius Way

Two Booked Up Episode 6 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi - Overview and Top Takeaways
Two Booked Up Episode 7 - How We Are “Lazy Geniusing” our Lives - and how you can too
Two Booked Up Episode 8 - Our Best Tips to “Lazy Genius” Your Business (Inspired by The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi)
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In this episode, Shelley and Rowena reflect on their words for the year. The bookworms are revisiting the idea they shared in their most popular episode, Episode 21: "February is the new January — our guiding words." With over half the year behind them, they're checking in on their progress.
Shelley shares how her word "momentum" has supported her to make a particularly important decision in her business. And Rowena's phrase for the year, "curate and cultivate" has resulted in her writing a novel — much to her (happy) surprise!
If you've ever wondered how a "word of the year" actually works — then there's plenty for you in this episode. Shelley and Rowena will share more on how their words/phrases have helped them with intention-setting and a light focus to the year.
Links Mentioned
Two Booked Up Episode 21 - February is the New January
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The Two Booked Up 23 for 2023 Reading Challenge
Have you signed up for the Two Booked Up 23 for 2023 Reading Challenge? This is a playful way you can build a reading habit and bring some intention to your reading life. We’ll be talking about the books we’ve each been reading for the Challenge in our next episode.
Sign up for your PDF Checklist for the Two Booked Up 23 for 2023 Reading Challenge here. 
When you download the PDF, we’ll add you to our Two Booked Up Email list so that we can continue the fun together (but you can unsubscribe anytime).
Connect with us:
Find us online at twobookedup.com and keep in touch with Two Booked Up via email by signing up for the Two Booked Up Bookclub.
Connect with Rowena @rowenamabbott on IG and at rowenamabbott.com. You can also get Rowena’s FREE e-book, The A - Z of Career and Life Confid

The Two Booked Up Podcast has come to the end of Season 2, and Shelley and Rowena are excited to share the highlights and stand-out moments of this Season.  In this episode, the bookworms share common themes from the books they featured, the most popular episode, the thing that’s been the most fun, their top highlights, and their lightbulb moments!
It’s an episode of superlatives — all the things that stand out at this point of the journey. If you’ve been with Shelley and Rowena throughout Season 2, this will be a great episode to tie up some of the common themes and maybe direct you to a few episodes you want to revisit.
And if this is your first Two Booked Up episode, welcome! This will also be a great episode to give you a taste of what the podcast is all about and give you some ideas on where to start diving into our back catalogue. 
Come and join Shelley and Rowena in conversation as they revisit the highlights and standouts of Season 2 of Two Booked Up!
Links Mentioned

Atomic Habits

Two Booked Up Episode 23 - What’s the Big Deal about Atomic Habits?
Two Booked Up Episode 24 - Supportive Habits: Intention + Habits = Change that’s Worth it

Four Thousand Weeks

Two Booked Up Episode 25 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Overview
Two Booked Up Episode 26 - How to Become a Better Procrastinator, inspired by Four Thousand Weeks
Two Booked Up Episode 27 - How to Use Your Time with Intention, insights from Four Thousand Weeks

Workstyle

Two Booked Up Episode 29 — Workstyle Overview
Two Booked Up Episode 30 — Shelley and Rowena share their own Workstyle Stories

Shelley and Rowena are delighted to be interviewing Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, co-authors of the book featured and discussed over the last two episodes, the Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity and Society.
Workstyle is all about deliberately choosing when, where, and how you work — and that’s completely aligned with intentional living, which is something both Shelley and Rowena are passionate about.
Listen in to hear Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst share what inspired them to create Workstyle, and how you too can embrace your own individualised workstyles and play your part in the wider Workstyle Revolution.
This episode is also available on YouTube in video format.
Links mentioned:

Learn more about the Workstyle Revolution
Join the Workstyle Community on Slack
Lizzie Penny LizzieTheWorkstyler on Instagram and Lizzie Penny on LinkedIn
Alex Hirst — AlexTheWorkstyler on Instagram and Alex Hirst on LinkedIn
Two Booked Up Episode 29 — Workstyle Overview
Two Booked Up Episode 30 — Shelley and Rowena share their own Workstyle Stories
South African Listeners! Want a hardback version of Workstyle? Email shelley@shelleysmithcreative.com and let’s see if we can arrange a bulk order.
Alternatively, Workstyle is available on Kindle and Audible on Amazon.com and

In this episode, Rowena and Shelley are continuing the conversation about the book Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity, and Society, by Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst. 
They are going to be bringing the concept a little closer to home and sharing more about their own Workstyle Stories. 
Specifically, they will explore one of the important tenets of the book, that you need to SET, PROJECT, and RESPECT the Workstyle. 
That means you need to think about what your workstyle actually looks like, then tell the people you work with about your workstyle, and you need to respect other people’s workstyles — and if this revolution gains the traction it needs — other people will respect your workstyle too.
So, with that in mind, they are going to be PROJECTING their workstyle in this episode and hope it will give you some inspiration to SET your own workstyle. Which will lay the foundations for us all to RESPECT each other’s workstyles.
Links Mentioned
The Playful Mompreneur Episode 4, interview with Rowena
Check out the Workstyle Revolution website for tools and resources to help you set, project, and respect your workstyle
Need a better chair for your home office? My client and friend Phumla Motsa can help! She's an occupational therapist specialising in ergonomics and she's also The Chair Matchmaker. Get her Top 5 Ergonomic Chair Recommendations at: https://matchmaker.remoteergonomics.co.za/.
And she's also got an excellent free email course called the Home Office Makeover if you'd like to make your home office a little more comfy, without having to spend a fortune. (Those are not affiliate links, but Shelley did have a hand in Phumla's copywriting ;)
Become a better procrastinator
A message from Shelley:
In Episode 26, I explained my 7Rs process for procrastinating better. I also wrote a blog post outlining the 7Rs process.
And now, I’m taking it a step further with an audio course on Becoming a Better Procrastinator.
My aim is to free up hours of time for you each week. So you can get the important stuff done and complete the projects that matter.
And because it’s an audio course, you can do it while you’re cooking dinner, shuttling the kids around in the car, or — even better, treating yourself to a solo retreat.
The course will be seven teaching sessions, each followed by a journaling session. So you could do it over seven days (teaching + journaling), 14 days (teaching one day, journaling the next — repeated for 7 days), or that solo retreat option, where you binge the whole lot on one day and then wake up the next day a better procrastinator!
Sign up for the VIP waitlist at 

It’s time for a revolution! Our new featured book is by business partners, Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst and it’s entitled Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity, and Society. Workstyle is a Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller and when Lizzie and Alex talk about a revolution, they mean it.
If you're looking to work in your own way — throw out the 9-5, rethink hourly-based work, and even rethink flexible work, this is your book.
Lizzie and Alex have given expression to the ideas of individualised work, autonomy at work, and the freedom to choose when and where you work.
They make the case that by embracing Workstyle, you’ll get three major benefits:

you’ll improve your well-being in a holistic way;
you’ll become more productive; and
you’ll play your part in building a more inclusive society, where everyone will be free to work in their own Workstyle.

If you're sceptical about whether you can ever work in a workstyle way, then tune in — embracing your own ideal Workstyle might be more possible than you think.
Links mentioned:

TBU Ep 28 - The Reading Challenge is ON (need recommendations… we’ve got 'em)
Learn more about the Workstyle Revolution

Become a better procrastinator
A message from Shelley:
In Episode 26, I explained my 7Rs process for procrastinating better. I also wrote a blog post outlining the 7Rs process.
And now, I’m taking it a step further with an audio course on Becoming a Better Procrastinator.
My aim is to free up hours of time for you each week. So you can get the important stuff done and complete the projects that matter.
And because it’s an audio course, you can do it while you’re cooking dinner, shuttling the kids around in the car, or — even better, treating yourself to a solo retreat.
The course will be seven teaching sessions, each followed by a journaling session. So you could do it over seven days (teaching + journaling), 14 days (teaching one day, journaling the next — repeated for 7 days), or that solo retreat option, where you binge the whole lot on one day and then wake up the next day a better procrastinator!
Sign up for the VIP waitlist at procrastination.shelleytonkinsmith.com.
The Two Booked Up 23 for 2023 Rea