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.   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...

Book into the RHPLS: regional high performance leadership tour: https://events.highperformanceleadershipsummit.com.au/regional-tour-2025 Work with me: https://trialtitude.as.me/schedule/7f8ae792/?appointmentTypeIds[]=35227528   Trigger warning: Suicide, PTSD, depression and anxiety   There are many paths to PTSD and Suicide and many of us would expect a military man like Kevin Humphreys...

Book into the RHPLS: regional high performance leadership tour: https://events.highperformanceleadershipsummit.com.au/regional-tour-2025 Work with me: https://trialtitude.as.me/schedule/7f8ae792/?appointmentTypeIds[]=35227528   Just how bad is the recovery after an accident that should have killed you? In last week’s episode we spoke with Pete Harris about his motorbike accident that he mirac...

We’ve all heard stories of people surviving accidents that should have killed them, but when it happened to Pete Harris it wasn’t just a case of ‘walking away’. It was a period of significant recovery and hardship. Peter Harris is a seasoned educator and leader with over 24 years of experience in teaching and executive roles across New South Wales schools. Peter currently teaches at Camden Ha...

This weeks episode is a story close to my heart. Not just because it’s a close friend of mine, but because it shares the life altering and terrifying experience of suffering a stroke. Erin Benjamin was in her early thirties when she had a stroke and it changed her life forever. The initial experience, the hospital arrival and the recovery process were all huuuge hurdles for Erin to overcome and sh...

Challenges That Change Us –   Finding out you have a degenerative disease is a huge, life altering discovery, and for a parent it can be even more distressing to think about those you may leave behind. Matt Butler was a parent of two when he first discovered he had muscular dystrophy, but while he has experienced the struggles, the stress and the challenges that come with it, his story is a s...

The sudden impact of an unexpected injury can have instant, life changing consequences, and that was the case for Richard Tombs when a freak accident left him wondering if he would ever walk again. During his time whilst juggling his career Richard also represented the Wallabies from 1988 thru 1996, which included 5 test matches and a part of the 1991 World Cup winning squad and 1992 Bledisloe vic...

One experience that all parents hope they never have to go through is losing their child. The grief and loss can be overwhelming and figuring out how to navigate that can be incredibly hard. Sadly that was an experience Barbra Schulte had to go through when she lost her son Zane to bone cancer. Since working her way through how to process her grief she is now a High-Performance Coach, Cutting...

If you’d like to do more work on resilience check out our course here.   Can you believe we have made it to the end of 2024? I know the past year has been a big one for many of us, myself included, so before we hit 2025 I thought I’d jump on here to give a few tools, strategies and tips for how to can approach adversity and nurture resilience.   In this episode I share:   - &nb...

One person whose journey to success could be described as a struggled laced with tragedy is Beau Robinson. Having experienced multiple attempts and hurdles before finally making and playing in the Super Rugby Final with the NSW Waratahs and then in 2011 he found himself at the Queensland Reds and became a Super Rugby Champion winning the Super Rugby title. He also went on to play for the...

It’s shown time and time again that family abuse and violence is rife in our communities, and it’s often the other family members who keep things quiet. Caroline Brunne’s story shows just how far families can go to hide abuse, and the impact it can have when the secret does finally come out.  Caroline Brunne is a survivor coach, breath work facilitator, author, professional speaker and Founde...

In this episode of 'Challenges That Change Us,' we are joined by 18-year-old cyclist Toby Inglis, who details his extraordinary journey in the sport. Toby shares his experiences growing up in a small farming community and his rapid rise in the world of cycling despite significant challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, unexpected health issues, and living arrangement problems. Toby has developed a...