Challenges That Change Us

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

Trigger warning: this episode discusses miscarriage, child abuse and domestic abuse. A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, w...

Trigger warning: this episode discusses miscarriage, and depression, and difficult child births. A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the ment...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A big thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more! W...

Trigger warning: this episode discusses depression, suicide, self harm and brain cancer A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health...

Trigger warning: This episode discusses infertility for men, mentions suicide, and a possible heart attack. A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode. PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!...

Trigger warning: Sexual assault, Suicide, Losing a parent, Depression/anxiety, Post natal depression, Charging a perpetrator. This may not be the right time or the right episode today. Give yourself permission to skip this episode and we will see you next week. It is my absolute honour to introduce our guest for this episode, Anna Lyon. Anna suffered trauma at a very young age when she lost h...

Trigger warning: Drug crimes and false arrests This episode is a story that took me completely by surprise and had my jaw absolutely on the flaw. Our guest is Brenda Denbesten, a chemical engineer with over 15 years' experience in the mining and manufacturing industries, and a Women in STEM advocate and driver for change Brenda is a best-selling author of ‘the FIFO wives tale’s’ and creator of 'Ch...

Trigger warning: Anxiety, panic attacks, cancer At this point we all know that the events in our formative childhood years can have long reaching effects, often influencing us decades later. So what happens when your Mum goes through life threatening cancer when you are just going through your teenage years? That’s exactly what happened to Erica Smith. Erica is an Associate Professor in Chemistry...

Trigger warning: suicide, depression and substance abuse. This episode is all about what comes after the challenge. At 19, Morgan T Nelson found himself in a toxic work and life situation that resulted in substance abuse and a suicide attempt. Shortly after he vowed to turn things around and reached financial freedom at the age of 23. Now he’s a business owner, international speaker and podca...

We’ve spoken before about the horrifying experience of being in limbo when the medical industry cannot give you a diagnosis. Imagine what it’s like when that happens to your new born baby. In this week's episode I’m speaking with my close friend and incredible mother, Jess Galvin. After having her first child, Jess and her husband were delighted when their daughter Lucy was born, apparently happy...

Trigger warning: brain injury and trauma This is an extra episode that we have released just to thank you all for listening. Today’s guest is Suz Greig, an amazing friend and an incredible woman who was rushed to hospital after her car was found wrapped around a tree in 1996. She suffered an acquired traumatic brain injury and the doctors told her family she would never walk, cycle, work or live i...

Sometimes one of the greatest challenges can be our interactions with other people. Settling disputes, overcoming inter-personal conflict or just reaching a compromise can often be anxiety inducing events. That’s why today’s episode will be highlighting advice on how to navigate these experiences with the help of Allan Parker. Allan Parker OAM is a Micro Behavioural Scientist and Negotiator. Allan...

Trigger warning: this episode discusses anxiety, depression and agoraphobia. We have spoken about anxiety and depression on this podcast before, but what happens when the panic attacks and symptoms are so bad that you end up feeling too scared to even leave your home. A small town country kid who never quite fit in. that’s the feeling that would follow Daniel Bentley for decades and eventually lea...

Challenges That Change Us Marie Claire Battling any illness is a challenges in and of itself, but when it comes to often unknown autonomic conditions, the medical field can leave patients feeling lost, ignored and forgotten. Combine that with trying to seek medical help in the 90’s in a second world country like Uzbekistan and you might begin to imagine the overwhelming challenge that Marie Claire...

In previous episodes we have discussed long term illness, but this week we are getting specific by talking to Andrea Wildenthal Hanson about the challenge she has faced in living with Multiple sclerosis. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, Andrea coaches people to become their own wellness guru. Andrea combines her experience from five years of life coaching and 16+ years of living well wit...