Not Another PD

Episode 41: Are You Looking After Everyone Except Yourself? As helping professionals and leaders, we're often the people everyone else relies on. We support clients, lead teams, care for our families and encourage others to prioritise their wellbeing. But recently, I found myself asking a different question: Am I looking after everyone except myself? In this episode, I reflect on five powerful...

Episode 40: Just Because You're Responsible Doesn't Mean You're in Control Many leaders I work with aren't actually carrying too much work. They're carrying too much responsibility. Responsibility for team culture. Responsibility for whether everyone is happy. Responsibility for another leader's behaviour. Responsibility for organisational decisions they didn't make. Re...

Episode 39: The Cost of Always Being the Strong One: A First Responder's Perspective with Joshua Surgenor Important Content Note: This episode includes discussion of alcohol misuse and suicidality between approximately 9:30 and 10:40 . There is also broader discussion throughout the episode about mental health, psychosocial hazards, and the wellbeing of frontline workers, including first respo...

Episode 38: What Helping Professionals Are Really Saying About Their Workplaces. Last week (in Episode 37), we explored whether increasing sick leave is really the problem, or whether it's a symptom of something happening beneath the surface. In this episode, we're continuing that conversation by exploring what helping professionals are actually saying about their workplaces and what leade...

Episode 37: Is Sick Leave Becoming a Workplace Band-Aid? Many leaders across helping professions are noticing the same trend. Sick leave is increasing. In this episode, Jazmin explores a question that often gets overlooked: What if increasing sick leave isn't the problem, but a symptom of something happening underneath the surface? Drawing on conversations with leaders and helping professional...

Episode 36: Habit Stacking: How Busy Professionals Can Build Better Habits Without More Time As helping professionals and leaders, we're often told we should be drinking more water, eating better, taking breaks, getting more physical movement, and looking after ourselves more effectively. The challenge? Most of us aren't sitting around with spare hours in the day. In this solo episode of N...

Episode 35: Beyond Business Cards: Networking and Inclusive Practice with Jase Wilson In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m joined by Jason Wilson (Jase), a personal trainer, Allied Health Assistant, founder of FrieNDIS Fitness and Social Group, and organiser of the NDIS Gold Coast Local Providers and Participants Networking Group. What began as supporting one young autistic client eventually bec...

Episode 34: I Was Terrified of Public Speaking. Now I Have a Podcast In this episode of Not Another PD, I’m talking about: Public speaking anxiety and avoiding visibility Fixed versus growth mindset in leadership Limiting beliefs in helping professionals Natural strengths vs learned skills Leadership confidence and imposter feelings Supervising staff with more experience or higher qualifications P...

Episode 33: From Employee to Business Owner as a Helping Professional (with Jess Marsh) If you’ve ever thought about starting your own business as a helping professional… or you’re already in it and quietly wondering why it feels harder than expected… this episode is for you. Because no one really talks about this part. The part where you go from being a confident, capable practitioner… to suddenl...

Who Taught You to Work Like This? (And Why It Might Be Burning You Out) Who taught you to push through when you’re unwell? Who taught you that taking a sick day means letting people down? And why does that still feel normal… even when it’s clearly not working for you anymore? In this solo episode, Jazmin unpacks something most helping professionals never stop to question their work ethic . Because...

I remember asking for specific feedback in supervision when I was working in child protection. I wasn’t asking for praise. I was asking what I needed to improve so I could actually progress. And I didn’t get anything specific back. In this episode, I’m introducing a concept that I don’t think we talk about enough in the helping professions: Career-interfering behaviours in supervision. This episod...

Episode 30: When You Know the Right Thing But Can’t Do It: Leadership in High-Risk Work | Kelvin Kamara Here’s the truth. I loved this conversation. It was so lovely to catch up with Kelvin again and reflect on the work we’ve both been part of in complex, high-risk environments. In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by Kelvin Kamara, Chief Operating Officer from Hopewell Community Care. W...

Episode 29: Lived Experience Isn’t a Weakness. It’s One of Our Greatest Strengths. Lived experience is something we talk about a lot in the helping professions. But often, it’s framed as something to manage. Something to be careful with. Or something that sits quietly in the background. In this solo episode, I explore what lived experience actually is, how it differs from learned experience, and w...

Episode 28: “Bring My Baby to a Child Protection Office? No Thank You.” Culture, Boundaries & Workplace Assumptions. In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by Susan Nkechi, a social work student based in Perth, a mother of three, and the founder of Multi-Cultural Drama Dance. Originally from Nigeria, Susan was an experienced teacher before relocating to Australia and transitioning into...

Episode 27: The 20% Better Approach Helping Professionals Need for Nutrition (Not Perfection) In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by Angel Fan , an Accredited Practising Dietitian and the founder of Weight Your Options. This conversation is about nutrition in the real world. Not the ideal version. Not the perfectly planned version. The version that fits around full days, emotional load,...

Cultural Supervision and Cultural Load in the Helping Professions with Yaleela Torrens In this episode of Not Another PD , Jazmin speaks with Yaleela Torrens, proud Guren Guren and Budjalung woman, social worker and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Worker of the Year (2025). Yaleela is the founder of Yaleela Torrens Social Work, a private practice based in Gladstone, Queensland. Throug...

This episode is being released during the week of World Social Work Day (17 March), making it a timely and important conversation for our profession. In Australia, social work is not nationally registered. Which means, technically, anyone can call themselves a social worker. That might sound surprising. Or even confronting. In this episode, I’m joined by Brooke Kooymans, an experienced social work...

Episode 24 - Burnout Isn’t Always Personal: Psychosocial Hazards in the Helping Professions In this solo episode of  Not Another PD , I unpack a topic that is gaining increasing attention in Australian workplaces: psychosocial hazards. Burnout is often framed as a personal issue, something that can be solved with better coping strategies, improved time management, or simply becoming more resilient...

Episode 23: What Is Your Work From Home Environment Doing to You? Around 6.7 million Australians now work from home in some capacity. For helping professionals, that often means holding trauma, conflict, high-stakes conversations and emotional intensity inside our own homes. But we rarely stop to ask: What is our work from home environment actually doing to us? In this first solo episode of 2026,...

Episode 22: Are You Taking Your Clients’ Energy Home? Emotional Boundaries for Helping Professionals & Therapists (Part 2 with Sarah Xanthos) Do you ever leave work still carrying your clients’ emotions? Do you find yourself replaying sessions at night, thinking about their stories while you’re trying to switch off at home? In Part 2 of my conversation with Sarah Xanthos, we explore emotional...

Not Another PD | Season 2, Episode 21 What Is an Empath? Why Helping Professionals Feel Everything (Part 1) We’re back for Season 2 of Not Another PD. This episode marks the first episode of the new season, and Jazmin is excited to be back with more honest, grounded conversations for helping professionals navigating boundaries, burnout, and sustainable practice. To open Season 2, Jazmin is joined...

Episode 20: Inclusion, Boundaries and the Stuff Workplaces Avoid Most workplaces say they value inclusion. Far fewer are willing to look at the systems, boundaries, and decisions that actually determine whether people feel safe, respected, and able to stay. In Episode 20 of  Not Another PD Podcast , Jazmin is joined by  Patrick Rory-John (they/them) , senior psychotherapist with  The Identity Clin...

In Episode 19 of  Not Another PD Podcast , Jazmin is joined by her best friend Kim, a youth worker, former residential care worker, mum, and school wellbeing practitioner. This episode is a raw, lived-experience conversation about gender bias in the helping professions, the expectations placed on women to be endlessly available, and what can happen when pregnancy and parenting quietly change how w...

Episode 18: Why Does “Being Nice” Feel Safer at Work? Why does “being nice” feel safer at work? In this solo episode of  Not Another PD , I explore people-pleasing through a different lens, not as a personality trait, but as a  stress response . I unpack the  fawn response , a lesser-discussed nervous system response alongside fight, flight and freeze, and why it shows up so commonly for helping p...

Episode 17: Failure Isn’t the Threat You Think It Is with Bree Coulter Failure isn’t the threat you think it is. For many helping professionals, fear of failure quietly sits underneath people-pleasing, overworking, blurred boundaries, and chronic self-doubt, even when insight, experience, and professional knowledge are already there. In this episode of Not Another PD , Jazmin is joined by Bree Cou...