Shift with Maddi

The hardest thing for me to hear right now? "You're doing great." Three contract jobs, a podcast, Instagram and living between two homes had me overwhelmed, stressed about money and being really harsh on myself. So I took three days to sort my life out, ran my own SHIFT framework on myself, and ended up crying at one question. This short and sweet episode is what came out of it: a p...

Two experiences in one week, same body, completely opposite answers. A weekend away with my uni friends left me feeling light, open and ready to take on the world. A first date with a guy who was lovely on paper left me hunched over in the car on the drive home, heavy and drained. My brain couldn't find one logical reason why, but my body had already made its mind up. So what does "liste...

Journaling is one of the biggest tools I use to stay honest with myself - but even as an avid journaller, life got busy enough these last couple of weeks that I dropped it completely, and I could feel the difference. In this episode: Ho'oponopono, the Hawaiian forgiveness practice, for radical self-forgiveness when guilt or shame creeps in The love letter technique for resentment - working th...

I am genuinely mid-declutter right now, not preaching from some sorted, together place. Between moving back from Australia, living with my parents again, and juggling four contract roles plus dog walking and pole teaching, my brain has been overwhelmed — and this episode is the five-part audit I've actually been running to get some clarity back. I used to think a tidy home meant a boring life...

Friendship isn't passive - it's built the same intentional way everything else is: you find your people on purpose, you tend the good ones and you let go of the ones that only work out of habit. In this episode: - Where to actually meet people as an adult, and the small "insert yourself into the conversation" moves that turn a stranger into a friend - What separates a quality f...

A decade ago, her uni girls gave her a 21st birthday gift - an A4 page titled "21 years of...", packed with the sayings, quirks and inside jokes they knew her by. Going through boxes from the move back home, she found it again, and it sparked this one: proof that self-development doesn't mean becoming someone new. In this episode: - The decade-old birthday gift that started it all,...

I don't know about you but my mind turns to mush during my luteal phase and so I bring you my personal toolkit for helping when you feel like s***... I mean... less than ideal... In this episode: - The four-phase cycle explained simply - and why luteal is the phase for assessing and finishing, not the "bad" one - Five real tools for luteal: choosing comfort on purpose, picking your...

Identity isn't unlocked by future circumstances - it's built through what you do with what you already have, right now. "When I have X, I'll be Y" fails because behaviour is habitual, not resource-triggered - new resources just reveal your existing habits in grander force. In this episode: - Why "I'll do it when I have more time/money/a partner" is really ju...

Gratitude isn't just a nice-to-have soft skill - it's a tool you can point at literally anything (a green light, a break-up, your own liver) to actively shift your state and your path. In this episode: Why gratitude is one of the fastest ways to shift from a scarcity to an abundance mindset - and the psychology research that backs it up My 8-part gratitude toolkit - from gratitude lists...

Rest isn't one thing - most of us default to bath-and-face-mask self-care, but that only touches one type of fatigue. Knowing which kind of tired you are changes what actually restores you. In this episode: The 7 types of rest (Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith's Sacred Rest framework) - and why sleep alone doesn't fix most of them Why a "relaxing" scroll session might actually be...

This is the dating history of me in my 20s - the messy, funny, slightly cringe truth of it, and the patterns that ran underneath every single guy on that list. This is designed as an episode to provide a reference point for when I talk about how tragic my dating history is in my other episodes and why I decided it was essential for me to learn to rewrite my patterns. What you'll walk away wit...

Change doesn't happen because you finally feel "ready" - it happens once the discomfort of staying the same outweighs the effort of changing and the fear of what's on the other side. In this episode I break down the actual formula behind it (yes, there's a formula), where it comes from psychologically, and how to work all three sides of it on purpose instead of waiting for...

My morning routine - minus the 5am ice bath and the 90-minute "non-negotiable" routine everyone's selling you. I was hitting decision fatigue before 10am. Brain fried, overwhelmed, running on empty before the day had even properly started. So I built a system - not to be a productivity girlboss, but to protect the brain space I actually need for the decisions that matter. In this ep...

Psychology's always been my thing - it's my degree, it's the lens I look at everything through. But four life lessons from years of pole dancing? Turns out I was living the theory in my body long before I ever built this podcast explaining it. This week I'm looking at where my SHIFT framework actually started - not on Instagram, but years ago, in a pole studio. Acting before I...

I've been trying to make it look like I've got it all figured out - and honestly, I don't right now. This episode is the honest one: I'm back at square one with my career, and I'm talking about why pushing through doesn't work when the block is internal. I did this before - in 2024, I completely rewrote my patterns around relationships. This time it's career and...

Ever reacted to something small with a reaction that felt way too big - snapped, spiralled, went cold, got hit by a wave of "not good enough" out of nowhere - and replayed it later thinking why did I do that? That's a trigger. And it's not you being dramatic or too much. This episode's about what triggers actually are: your body reacting before your conscious brain catches...

The words you use aren't just describing your life - they're shaping it. The way you speak changes how you behave, what you remember and how much power you quietly hand away without even noticing. In this episode I get into the psychology of language - and why the words you choose matter far more than you think. A few things I cover: The studies on how the way we speak actually changes o...

Ever notice how you've got your shit together in some areas of your life and can't catch a break in others?  It's not bad luck or laziness girlie - it's your default settings. This is the episode the whole of Shift with Maddi rests on: the patterns your brain runs on autopilot, why some goals feel stupidly easy and others feel impossible, and why bailing on the new thing doesn&...

I had the house, the career, the manager title, the social life - everything that looked right from the outside. And I felt like I was wading through mud every single day. This is the origin story. In episode one I take you back to the stagnant years - happy on paper, never in crisis, but quietly certain something was off and unable to explain why. I talk about the trip to Australia that showed me...