Build Your Ideal Day

Paige is a honorary Fellow of the Centre for Positive Psychology and an Associate of Melbourne Business School, author and speaker who shares research on antifragility and the benefits of bouncing back not just being more resilient.

Andrew is the founder of the 4-day working week movement and shares his real-life insights on creating a 4-day-week culture at Perpetual Guardian, NZ which increased company performance whilst reducing hours at work.

Joining us is Professor Felice Jacka to talk about the link between nutrition and positive mental health. She is the director of the Food and Mood Centre and the president of the International society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. Rigorous scientific research has uncovered the link between diet and mental health, in particular, depression and anxiety. 

Joining this Build Your Ideal Day podcast episode is Dr. Kristy Goodwin to explore the profound impact of technology on our day-to-day thriving. Dr. Goodwin is an educator, an academic researcher, and a commentator on the role technology plays in our lives. We all agree that technology plays a critical role in our everyday lives, both positively and negatively. The show explores the digital impact...

Did you know that 1 in 4 Australian adults are lonely? Loneliness is gaining attention globally for its negative impact on social functioning and exacerbating mental health symptoms, such as social anxiety, depression, and paranoia.   We talk loneliness with Dr. Michelle Lim from Swinburne University of Technology, a senior lecturer in clinical psychology, leader of the social health and wellbeing...

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores stress and burnout. As we know stress is a natural response to life but when does it become a chronic issue? The recent listing of 'Burnout' by the World Health Organisation as an official disease suggests that globally chronic stress is on the rise. What can we learn from elite sports about fatigue and recovery that may provide clues for it...

  Susan Mackey is the Co-Founder of The Growth Mindset Institute and joined us in Sydney for an interview about Mindset & Me. Growth Mindset: "In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplish...

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores the impact of what we eat on our overall health. This is one of the least researched areas of health science and we explore the diets that extend longevity, time-restricted eating and how to build a healthy gut-biome for better mood and decision making.

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores the importance of social connections. We are digitally connected like never before and yet loneliness and social isolation is on the rise which will have implications at work as well as on our health system. Building more socially connected workplaces are skills we all need to relearn to help people be their best.

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores that we are living in a world of constant distraction and stimuli. Attention is a muscle that needs to be developed and the ability to focus and work deeply is becoming more valuable at the exact time that it's becoming increasingly rare.

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores why maintaining wellbeing is hard. Most of us already understand the importance of getting enough sleep, moving more and eating well in order to optimise wellbeing, but the reality is harder than it looks. The good news is that by combining a strength-based approach to change, with small intentional choices, we can make a big difference over...

The secret to a good nights sleep This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores sleep and recovery. We are living in a sleep deprived society and few of us are benefitting from the restorative power of a good night in bed. Quality sleep benefits us both physically and mentally and we need to reconsider its importance in helping us be our best both at work and in life. 

This episode of the Build Your Ideal Day series explores the importance of movement & physical activity on our overall wellbeing. The way we work and live is changing and we are becoming increasingly sedentary with the rise of computerization and knowledge worker roles.  Research suggests that physical activity is critical to both our physical and psychological health but we are not getting enough...