Leading Beings

In this episode, I reflect on what it means to step back into the workforce after working for yourself and why it takes courage. Support the show Website LinkedIn Instagram Get in Touch Want to work with me in 2025? Book your complementary clarity call.

Mandy Messer believes that great things happen by accident, or by design. As one of the founders of Kismet Design and now UX strategist at Ford motor company, she leads and inspires the new generation of designers to transcend through the field of UX. A great lover of people, Mandy combines creative strategy, technical knowledge, analytical thinking in her teaching, research, and design work. Join...

My guest on the Podcast today is Dr Jason Fox. Jason is a modern-day wizard-rogue, author and leadership adviser.   Sought after for his pioneering philosophies and expertise in motivation design, Jason shows forward-thinking leaders around the world how to unlock new and meaningful progress—amidst a volatile sea of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox and doubt. Jason is the bestselling au...

  My Guest today is Eddie Harran. Eddie Harran is a futurist, artist and researcher who for the last couple of years has been in a deep investigation of chronosophy - essentially an interdisciplinary study of time. A life long explorer with a deep curiosity for life and the world, Eddie has done some amazing things from live in innovation experiments in Berlin to working as an Explorer in residenc...

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My Guest today is Kate Reardon. Kate is a qualified practitioner of Naturopathy and Nutritional Medicine, an author and speaker, an Intuitive Metaphysical Healer and yoga teacher. After travelling the world as a young adult, Kate began her journey into the world of healing through the world of food and nature, studying and working as a naturopath and nutritionist   But after building up a successf...

In this episode I reflect on my conversation from last episode with Matt Henricks. In the episode Matt reflected on what in the past he 'thought' was valued in the workplace and how that changed. Join me in this episode as I delve into this and why being heart or human centred in business is something we all need to sit up and pay attention to.   Are you ready to create work that fulfils...

My guest today is Matt Henricks. After starting his career in HR, where his early roles saw him responsible for 'letting go' over 100 hundred employees, Matt sought out a change in his work to do something more meaningful. Flash forward to today and Matt is now the CEO and Founder of Henricks Consulting, the Helping Hands Program and Water Works Program, Matt's passion is helping co...

Welcome to the first episode of the Good Work Revolution for 2017. In this episode I introduce a bit about what the podcast will hold this year. I also explore some ways you can rekindle your new years resolutions and use your resolutions guilt to your advantage. Show notes can be found at www.katemccready.com/blog/good-work-revolution-2017-rekindle-resolutions Support the show Website LinkedIn In...

My guest today is Amy Watson, who is one half of the creative team behind Pickles Mag. An online video magazine exploring the future of food.   After experiencing a bit of an existential crisis, Amy decided too take her skills and her talents from journalism and video production and apply them to something she was passionate about. Her passion for food.   Growing from what she describes as almost...

This week I reflect on the theme of finding your people*. Why it's important, how we can do it and why it can so exciting when we do. This theme was inspired from last episode's conversation with Sean Morrow who spoke about how he really started to understand his Good Work after finding his tribe while travelling in his 20s.   The Good Work Revolution Podcast is for people who are creati...

My guest on the podcast today is Sean Morrow from One Earth Education & Consulting.   Sharing a deep connection with nature, it was no surprise that Sean has built a career and business around the natural environment.  Sean is landscaper, consultant and educator with over 20 years experience and qualifications in both horticulture and permaculture design. He has a passion for teaching others a...

This week I reflect on a number of themes around growing our good work. The idea of starting small, rather than not starting at all and accepting and embracing the fact that our purpose will grow and change over time. This theme was inspired from my last episode's conversation with Danielle Malik who spoke about feeling she wanted to 'up-level' on the problems she was trying to solv...

My guest on today's episode is Danielle Malik - founder and mentor at Design Equation. A business that pairs junior user experience designers with nonprofits and early-stage startups through a hands-on mentorship model to fill a gap - affordable design services for organisations and hands on design experience for new designers. Before starting Design Equation Danielle had prior work lives as...

This week I reflect on the theme of howe we measure our own worth. The topic of came out of my conversation with last episode's guest, Sheldon Walters of Splinter and Callous.   Worth is something that is often measured in financial terms and we often judge ourselves and our experience on how they have contributed to our worth on the financial scale. Yet the things we truly value are not alwa...

Sheldon Walters - Crafting Personal Worth Beyond Money   My guest on the podcast today is Sheldon Walters. Sheldon began his career as an IT Engineer, but felt he was missing out on something by working in an office all day.   Spending long hours working on abstract projects with no tangible outcomes, he developed a longing to do something hands-on.   Unable to find a place that taught the skills...

 This week I reflect on the theme of conscious transitions. The topic of transitions came out of my conversation with last episode's guest, Andrew Newman. Transitions are an important part of our life and growth. They are the messy middle between where we are and where we want to be. It is easy to want to rush through them, but often there is much learning and growth to be done within those p...

My guest today in Andrew Newman, founder of the Conscious Bedtime Story Club. While expecting a working life as a retail jeweller in the family business in south Africa, the tug of something more always seemed to be there for Andrew. Shifting from everything from community development making hammocks, Andrew ended up following his deep longing for connection and his love of all things spiritual in...

This week I reflect on an idea that came out of my conversation with Annie Carter of Eve Studio - that to create balance in our lives, sometimes we need to add something in. I go on to explore the idea that there may be no such thing as work/life balance and perhaps work/life integration is more realistic. Balance is different for all of us. Only we can know what to add or take a way to create con...

Today I speak with the lovely Annie Carter. Annie owns and runs a the beautiful Eve Yoga and Fitness Studio here in my home suburb of Thornbury in Melbourne. Eve Studio celebrates the uniqueness of every woman, and aims to support them, wherever thy're  at, to awaken their best.  Eve is a boutique studio just for women with classes designed to help build strength and flexibility in  body and...

This podcast is a reflection on last week's episode with Jacqui Lewis. I explore two ideas Jacqui and I spoke about: 1. That we should be building our work around the life we want to live (and not the other way around).As we grow up we are always asked what do we want to be? What do we want to do? But we are rarely asked about the kind of life we want to live. Part of the Good Work Revolution...

My guest today is Jacqui Lewis - one half of The Broad Place, a school for consciousness, clarity and creativity which teaches 4 part live courses in vedic meditation, workplace programs, sells ayurvedic products and so much more. Jacqui - a Master Meditation teacher - specialises in taking regular, stressed, under the pump people and shifting them through accessible tools and practices so that th...

Reflecting on last week's episode with Christian Duell, I dive into an idea we explored in our conversation on how our purpose is not fixed. It is something that can bend and change over time. I also look at the idea of using projects to explore your purpose: to approach the idea of finding your purpose as an experiment as opposed to a journey with an end point. Finally, I explore playing wit...

Today it's my absolute pleasure to be chatting with my friend Christian Duell or Duell depending on where in the world you're from. Christian began his working life as an architect, but after years in a corporate design firm a relationships ending was a catalyst for him  to take a step back from his linear work pathway. He chose to take a sabbatical which took him on an unexpected series...

Reflecting on last week's conversation with Julie Parter, I delve into the concept of identity and how aligning our work and identity can improve our wellbeing and step us closer to fulfilling and inspiring businesses and careers."It's just not me". Have you ever used this line about your work? It's something I've heard a lot. So why is this such a big thing? And if o...