This Connected Life with Mel Kettle

Earlier this week my friend Emma put up a post on Facebook saying that when we are children we laugh 400x a day. And now as adults, we laugh an average of 15x a day. Quite simply, laughter makes us feel good. It also improves our physical health and it can definitely improve our mental health. Why do we need to laugh more at work and what can we do to encourage more laughter at work? According to...

Kate Billing and I met when we both started at Thought Leaders Business School on the same day, about two and a half years ago. I immediately knew we would become firm friends, and we have. As well as being one of the smartest people I know, she is also kind, generous, funny and determined to make the world a better place. I can’t tell you how delighted I am to share some of her wisdom with you. K...

We live in a digital world and people today expect CEOs and leaders to be seen and heard. Both within your organisation and within the broader community. This means you need to have an active presence on social media. In this minisode we talk about how you can become a Social CEO. Why is this important? It’s important because people do business with people they know, like and trust. And if they ca...

Jeremy Watkins (aka the Barefoot Leader) is one of my favourite peeps and so it was an absolute pleasure to chat with him when we were both in Melbourne last week. Jeremy works with Senior Leaders, Corporate Executives, Business Owners and their teams across Australia and internationally to help them develop new insights, that increase their influence and maximise their impact as leaders. He is on...

I’ve said many times recently that the irony of our increasingly connected world is that we – as individuals and as organisations – are becoming more disconnected than we ever have before. I can’t remember where I first heard this analogy but I love it – we all carry around our smartphones as though they are epi-pens and we all have a fatal illness. Isn’t it great? In this podcast minisode I quest...

Jen Dainer is a Brisbane based photographer and videographer. While she specialises in taking photos in dangerous places – such as hanging out of helicopters! – she is also great at getting reluctant victims clients to enjoy the whole photography experience. I should know, she has shot me three times. Jen and I met at a networking event about ten years ago and have been firm friends ever since. Th...

A stat I quote often is the one from Gallup that tells us that only 13% of people are engaged at work. This means that 87% aren’t engaged. Imagine what this does to your performance, your productivity, and your profit? Think about how much opportunity is being missed. In this podcast episode, I talk about why people are less engaged at work. Spoiler alert: quite often it’s because of a lack of con...

Steph Clarke is an accountant turned facilitator and team coach and pommy (that’s a Brit living in Australia for the uninitiated) based in Melbourne. We’ve not actually met yet, but have some very good mutual friends so I feel like we’ve been friends for AGES! Steph and I have bonded over our shared love of facilitation, but, more importantly, our love of Ottolenghi, Middle Eastern food and readin...

Before we can connect with others we need to learn to connect with ourselves. What does this even mean? In this latest podcast mini-sode I share my thoughts around what it means to look after our bodies, minds, hearts and souls if we are to be truly connectable. People who haven’t connected with themselves can be a bit like vacuum cleaners – they suck up all the love others have to give but never...

Penny Locaso and I met at the fabulous s p a c e event we attended earlier this year. Penny is the world’s first Happiness Hacker, on a mission to teach 10 million humans, by 2025, how to future-proof happiness. She advocates fear(less)ness and she definitely practices what she teaches!! In 2018 she went viral on LinkedIn (50,000+ views) and created a global movement after delivering a keynote in...

Welcome to This Connected Life with Mel Kettle. The show where connected leaders share their experience, values and strategies that have helped them become more connected so they achieve success in life and business.