Challenges That Change Us

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...

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...