Challenges That Change Us

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Billy was once the guy everyone knew as the happy-go-lucky, always-up-for-anything friend, but beneath that surface he was quietly navigating a growing sense of overwhelm that would eventually reshape his life. From the early days of university, where depression first took hold, through years of uncertainty, physical symptoms, and a...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you’re a mum, a dad, a worker, a carer or a friend supporting someone through something, if you’re carrying multiple roles and responsibilities, you might love your life, but feel like you’re moving from moment to moment without a breather. Always on. Always needed. Always thinking about what’s next. T...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Today’s episode is a deeply honest and powerful conversation with Jacinta Tynan, journalist, author, presenter, podcast host and creator of The Spiritual Book Club. With a background in mainstream journalism, she’s also not afraid to explore concepts like spirituality and meditation, helping to make them more relatable and atta...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Imagine being a regional farmer living in remote Australia. Then imagine deciding to swim the English Channel. This is part 2 of our chat with Brendan Cullen. I highly recommend listening to part 1 first. After his journey with his mental health, Brendan decided to make some big changes, and one of those was getting into swimming. B...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We know remote and regional Australia has often been a space where mental health and abuse can fester untreated, and Brendan Cullen’s story is a prime example of this. Brendan has always lived and worked on stations outside of Broken Hill, but his life has been much more than just managing stations. With his diagnosis of depression...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.    We’ve heard before about receiving a diagnosis later in life, but imagine the confronting experience of being admitted to a psych ward as an adult and being told you have bipolar disorder. Laura Schiller is a self-proclaimed hot-mess wife, mom of 3 and retired lawyer.    Five years ago she was a content wife, mom, l...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: child sexual abuse and trafficking This is part 2 of Robyn Cameron’s incredibly traumatic story of abuse, and trafficking inside a cult and continues to share the trauma she experienced and how she has come out the other side. own healing journey in the 1990s, combined with lived experience, inspired the creation of Golden Keys...

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here. Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: child sexual abuse and trafficking We have discussed the horrors of child sexual abuse before, but Robyn Cameron’s story reveals a level of depravity an injustice that is truly shocking. Growing up in a cult she was subjected to abuse and mistreatment from an incredibly young age, b...

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here. Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: suicide and suicidal ideation This week we have the privilege to talk to someone with incredible experience working in the mental health space. Ken Meldrum has a history of being a registered nurse for 46 years working mainly in Rural, Remote Health and Mental Health. H...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We’ve talked about experiencing a health issue and not knowing the cause and we’ve talked about the impact of suddenly losing mobility from an accident. But what if you suddenly became paralysed, but no one knew why? That was the experience for Ro Clark in 2019. Ro is a Sunshine Coast based acrylic painte...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We often talk about how challenges shape us, but planning and prevention are just as powerful as recovery. In this episode we bring back our in-house psychologist Vanessa de Sauty to unpack practical ways to set your year up for success, from visible yearly and weekly planners and color-coding to energy accounting, nervous-system aw...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Claire Torkington has lived a life. That means there have been big highs, as well as some big challenges. Besides dealing with burnout, and fighting fires as a firefighter, Claire has lived through numerous other close calls and just avoiding multiple deadly incidents, including 3 terror attacks. Her career spans the globe as she ha...

Hey all! We had a bit of a glitch with this weeks episode. It will be coming soon, but until it does I wanted to take a walk down memory lane and highlight an episode that has stayed with me ever since we recorded it. This one is powerful and such a great listen, and even if you have listened before I think there would be whole new takeaways from a second liusten. And if you haven't listened. enjo...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: suicide, depression, acts of war. Many of us have seen war movies, but nothing can truly explain the horrors and intensity of war. So we can only begin to understand the mental impact that going to war can have on the brave soldiers who are involved. Dave Payne has carved a difficult path...

Trigger warning: suicide, depression, acts of war. Many of us have seen war movies, but nothing can truly explain the horrors and intensity of war. So we can only begin to understand the mental impact that going to war can have on the brave soldiers who are involved. Dave Payne has carved a difficult path from the frontlines to the boardroom.  He has served as a leader in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.    Trigger warning: sexual abuse   For many survivors of child sexual abuse, the moment the truth comes out can almost be another form of trauma while for others it can be cathartic. In fact as Alison Mau knows very well, the needs of survivors are infinitely varied. Alison is an award-winning journalist with more than thir...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Welcome to 2026! For many 2025 was a pretty hard year, and some of you may have just been knuckling down and powering through, often even being the support for those around you whilst also desperately trying to keep your head above water. I wanted to do this episode to help those of us who have fallen into the role of being ‘The Str...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  What is it like to be a narcissist? And how can. Narcissist do good in the world? This week we are continuing our conversation with 89-year-old keynote speaker, author, and Gestalt therapist Lenny Kravich. After an abusive upbringing, Lenny realised a long time ago that he might be a narcissist, and that realisation shaped an entire...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We have heard from the victims of generational trauma from it’s victims, but what about the people who perpetuate it, until they finally realising what they are doing? That is the story of Lenny Ravich, a man who experienced abuse as ‘punishment’ and passed it on to his children until he realised what he was doing and worked hard to...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Lara Hamilton is an Australian Trail Runner, Ski-Mountaineer, DJ & Vocalist, and Digital Growth Hacker and is currently training for the Skimo 2026 Winter Olympics Trials. She was also diagnose with Ankylosing Spondylitis, also known as the ‘young person’s arthritis’. Lara’s journey of elite athlete, to battling an undiagnosed c...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: Alcoholism Imagine starting a journey of alcoholism and addiction from the age of 5. That was the case for John Griffith who still remembers the life altering impact of the first drink he had as a child and how it lead to over a decad...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. This week is actually a bit of a different style of episode. Normally, we interview a guest on a challenge they faced, but today is just you and I. I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the year, on the incredible conversations that we've had. Eve...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: Childhood sexual abuse, alcohol addiction   Our identity and how we see ourselves has a huge impact on our lives. But what if huge incidents in our early life caused us to create an identity that was harmful and complex and actua...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. The journey of fighting cancer is so much more than just: finding out you have it and then getting treated. This week’s episode is part 2 of our chat with Melanie Staudt, an incredible woman who overcame breast cancer and all of its challenges. For th...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Cancer has a devastating effect both on those it afflicts and those around them. For Melanie Staudt her cancer journey was full of challenges that often felt insurmountable. Melanie is 51 years old, lives in the US in Ohio and is married with two girl...