Challenges That Change Us

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Steve Pocock’s life has been shaped by early loss - and by what can grow from it.  He was ten years old when his family fled their farm in Zimbabwe, one of thousands displaced during the country’s land reform era. The experience left deep scars that took a lot of time to heal from but also planted a conviction: that dignity and...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Welcome to part 2 of my chat with Sarah Davis, the absolute powerhouse who went from working in banking to completely throwing herself out of her comfort zone. In this episode we return to Austr...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Imagine being an introvert who works in banking and deciding to be the first women to lead an expedition down the Nile where you face attacks from crocodiles, hippo’s and more. That’s what happe...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. This episode is a bit different to our normal ones. A lot of you have been repeatedly asking me to cover Imposter Syndrome and how to fight it, so I’m delighted to welcome back Clifford Morgan t...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: Domestic violence, PTSD, child deaths ’Domestic Violence does not discriminate, and sadly the systems and law enforcement don’t always protect us. One person who knows that all...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Coming back from a deadly illness and stroke is big enough challenge in itself, but the equal challenge that many don’t think about is having to survive with the disabilities from that incident,...

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace  INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership Summit To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. Trigger warning: suicide, domestic violence, depression Intergenerational trauma can be an incredibly hard cycle to break, especially if it forces you to live through verbal abuse, manipulation...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. I’m so excited to be welcoming back Allan Parker to share his personal story of overcoming an extraordinary challenge to being able to learn, and to also share some amazing pearls of wisdom on neuro plasticity and learning. Alan Parker OAM is a distin...

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: Domestic violence   Many of us have heard how hard it can be to live in a domestic violence relationship, but not all of us realise just how hard it can be to leave. And by ‘leave” we mean how to financially and emotionall...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Trigger warning: Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a scourge on our society and the brave survivors who have lived through it are some of the strongest in the world, and that can definitely be said for Diana Connell. Diana is a survivor advocate, speaker, and...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   There is a general belief that ‘life on the land is tough’, but many of us don’t realise just how tough it can be, and the toll it can have on the lives of the individuals and families who work the land. That is an experience that Tina Kendall-Davis knows ve...

Challenges That Change Us –   Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.     Relationship breakdowns can have a huge impact on our lives, and while that might seem obvious, business relationships can have a much greater impact than expected. So what happens when a business relationship, espec...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   I am fresh back from a life changing holiday and have some personal perspectives I want to share with you all. In this solo episode, I’m diving into a space we don’t often talk about, that quiet, messy middle between who we were and who we’re becoming. You k...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Depression is something that can linger in the background, unrecognised for a very long time, so it’s no wonder that many people live undiagnosed for years before finally seeking help. That was very much the case for Ann Marie Grace, who...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   Anxiety and depression can hit many of us, but for some, the symptoms can be masked by the high level stress of their work which results in them taking years to finally seek help. That was very much the case for Nick Gorman who suffered an period that severe...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   Every time we talk about domestic violence and sexual abuse on this podcast the story is different, and this episode is no different. Alyson Richelle is a former Senior Sergeant with the NSW Police turned lived-experience advocate, speaker, and founder of Wh...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   When trauma hits us, it can reverberate throughout our lives, echoing and causing more damage as time continues. That’s the experience Andrew Draney had after surviving a tragic and fatal car accident as a child. The after effects of his accident caused resu...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   By now we know that society’s fixation with ‘body image’ can have a negative impact on our mental health, but just how crippling can it be? Pete Winmill has over 20 years in the fitness industry, working as a personal trainer in London, Bali, and Australia,...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   I have spoken frequently on this podcast about the power of therapy and why it can help with resilience and trauma, but I understand that a lot of people who have never done it are often blocked from trying because they just don’t know what to expect. That i...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   The environments we grow up in have an enormous impact on us, and while some destructive childhood environments are easily noticeable, the subtle control of a strict religious group can be just as damaging. That was the case for Rachel Pietsch whose controll...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Trigger warning: alcohol and drug addiction We've spoken around addiction before, but each story shows how differently a path to addiction can start, and just how tragically it can effect the person’s life. That was the case for Jourdi Bleu whose addictions saw her...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. This week we are exploring a challenge but in a slightly different way. Anna Grosman is an entrepreneur whose diverse career journey has seen her work in roles from Medical Clinic Manager, to founder of two male escort agencies for women. Her Confidant came from ye...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   The relationship between disability and personal identity is incredibly complex and navigating that can take a lot of work and self-analysis. For Skye Shannon, growing up with Spina Bifida had an obvious impact on her life, but it wasn’t until she underwent...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. We’ve heard countless times on this podcast how the western medical system can often get in the way of, or even prevent people from being diagnosed or healed. But in today’s episode we are joined by someone who proved her doctors wrong after they told her there was...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.   Welcome to our third and last bonus episode on burn out. So far we have discussed how to identify burn out and how you can prevent it, but what if you’re already in it? Well I’ve brought our in house psychologist Vanessa De Sauty back to help work out how we...