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.   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...

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: suicide, mental health For Tara J Lal, trauma and loss is sadly nothing new, but in a sea of trauma, for some people it can still be one event that stands out as a truly identifying point and that is very much the case for Tara. Amongst losi...

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.   Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a business and having it succeed, only to lose it all because of a relationship breakdown with the business partner you worked with. That’s what happened to Annette Densham and it left her feeling lost, hurt and strug...

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 the second episode of a new bonus series we’re releasing all about burn out. The incredible Vanessa De Sauty returns to help me break down and explain the next steps when it comes to this experience. Last week we covered what burn out is and how t...

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: sexual assault Every now and then I encounter someone who has lived a life that is so much bigger and jam packed than you could expect. That means it comes with more than a few highs and more than a few challenges. That is very much the case for And...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We often ask guests if they would have made the changes in their life if they hadn’t faced their ‘challenge’ and many say no, but none can definitively know for sure quite like Melanie Lechte. Mel is a seasoned marketing professional with over 25 years of experience in high-level marketing across diverse industries, including sports...

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. IN PERSON MASTERCLASS June 1st:  https://challengesthatchangeus.com/burnout-masterclass-armidale Welcome to the first episode of a new bonus series we’re releasing for all of you! I’ve been hearing you all on the various topics you want to hear more about and...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.    So here’s a quick peek behind the curtain. This past week or so has been really big for me, and it has made it pretty hard to get a full interview ready. Now I have never missed an episode of this podcast and I wasn;t going to do so this week either so I decided to do something a little different. If you've been with me since...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Jules Brooke has lived a life full of twists, turns and more experiences from childhood than many of us might have in our entire lives. But it’s her business journey and her choice to go into solo entrepreneurship that shows how resilient and durable she is in the face of adversity. Jules is the founder of Handle Your Own PR, She’s...

Try our FREE burnout quiz or grab your burnout workbook HERE.    Trigger warning: Alcohol Australians have a complicated relationship with alcohol and it’s not helped by how we have created the idea that people only have problems with alcohol if they are complete alcoholics. The reality is that binge drinking and how we associate with alcohol is a lot more nuanced and a lot more destruct...

In today’s episode we are delving into the relationship between faith, and the ability to recover from a challenge. Lisa Britcliffe was on a search for success and achievement when she lost over $100 000 overnight. The stress brought on fatigue and headaches unlike anything she had ever experienced and it was when that she found solace in returning to her faith. She has relied on her faith to reco...

ADHD diagnosis is trending on social media a lot, but what does it actually mean to live with it? And what does it feel like to be diagnosed with it as an adult who oversees multiple businesses? Beau Frith was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and it provided a lot of answers for him. Now, Beau is redefining climate resilience by helping industries, businesses, and communities adapt to climate chall...

Trigger warning: Domestic violence We’ve spoken a lot on this podcast about family violence that starts when a child is young, but what about the insidious effect of domestic partner violence, where the perpetrators actions slowly escalate? Often survivors can find themselves excusing and explaining away actions from their partner until it is too late, and that was a situation Jen Harwood found he...

This weeks episode is a little different. We now how many people have encountered challenges and their individual ways that they have overcome them, but how does a professional suggest we approach resilience and struggle? Dr. Adam Fraser, a human performance researcher and consultant, helps organisations build a high-performance culture to thrive in our demanding environment. Passionate about rese...

Some people have just lived a bigger life than the rest of us, but that also means they have encountered more challenges too and Francesca Emerson has definitely lived a life of experiences. She was born and raised in New York City. The mother of three children and five grandchildren.  She was one of the first Black Bunnies at the New York Playboy Club, the first Black woman to be i...