Up For A Chat

Marcus Pearce is someone that the Up for A Chat girls call Charlie and he calls them Angels. Yes it is that sort of relationship. Marcus organises The Wellness summit’s each year as well as organising The Wellness Guys and as a result organises Cyndi, Kim and Carren. But that’s not why Marcus is being interviewed; rather he has a new core business that will help you with change in your life. This...

OMG James Colquhoun visited the Up For A Chat girls while they were doing their Awaken the Change Within Conference to the surprise of the audience.  Throughout this recording you could have heard a pin drop, the audience and Kim, Cyndi and Carren were memorised by the wisdom and passion of James from Food Matters.  James has gone from looking at a way to save his father from his own health woes b...

Vegie Head – a name that is on everyone’s lips. She’s young, brilliant, intelligent, motivated, inspiring and The Up For A Chat girls got to talk to her. Her following on Social Media is phenomenal and Adele as she is otherwise known has made the move from the big smoke to the Sunshine Coast and being a local and now a girl friend to Kim, Cyndi and Carren, they just had to have her on the podcast....

Over the last 2 years of Up For A Chat, Kim often speaks fondly of a 90 year young lady called Jacqueline, she is a psychologist and seeker of the truth about life. This woman has helped Kim through many tough times so on a beautiful spring morning Kim, Cyndi and Carren go to Jacqueline’s house and enjoy an hour of conversation with this wise, spiritual lady. This is one of those hours that have t...

This week is the final part of a 3 part series where the Up For A Chat girls discuss the habits of happy people.  This week Cyndi, Kim and Carren discuss 1. Know your facts and don’t jump to conclusions 2. Keep things in perspective 3. Take responsibility and deal with any issues and problems in life 4. Speak respectively and be kind to your self 5. Make goals write them down 6. It’s none of your...

This week is the continuation of a 3 part series on the habits of happy people.  The challenge to do one of the habits each day continues.  This week Kim, Carren and Cyndi discuss the following habits.  1. Speak kindly of others, look for the good in people.  2. Forgiveness is a noble habit  3. Keep Learning 4. Start and don’t quit 5. Love what you do 6. Enjoy good company and change the relations...

This is the first part of a three part series on the habits of happy people.  Cyndi found an article on the web called the 22 habits of unhappy people and decided to reverse the habits for a more positive spin on the article.  Carren, Cyndi and Kim talk about these happy habits and how to achieve them, in fact they set a challenge for all listening in to focus on one of these habits each day.  Thi...

With one in two marriages ending in divorce and many people living in relationships that are not fulfilling, the Up for A Chat girls invite Tim and Ness back to talk about values of partners, needs of partners and how to keep a marriage fun, loving and intimate.  All three girls are mesmerised by the knowledge of Tim and Ness, it’s an insightful 1 hour and 40 minutes with some home truths and grea...

Tim and Ness Join the Up for A Chat girls to talk about relationships. When we think about the word relationships we think about one with other people, but Tim and Ness say not necessarily they believe that the relationship you have with your self is the most important. Once you have a great relationship with yourself then other relationships become easier. Kim, Cyndi and Carren talk with Tim and...

The Y generation is known to expect everything for little work or nothing, but Lis Kent, a switched on 23 year old defies that stereotype. There are so many young women and men that are not sure of their path in life, the key is to keep trying and moving until you find your lives’ purpose and passion. The interview with Lis goes through the trials and tribulations of our youth looking for their li...

Fleur is a girlfriend of the UFAC girls, she was also Kim Morrison’s business partner for over a decade. She left Twenty8 to go back to New Zealand to be with her family. Fleur is a beauty therapist who loves to serve, her philosophy on life brings Kim, Carren and Cyndi to silence (a rare Listen In The post UC 99: A candid interview with Fleur Welligan appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

One of the UFAC listeners requested a podcast on reinventing a life. She had found herself in her 50’s and single and wanted the steps as to what she should do to create an extraordinary life. The Up For A Chat girls discuss the art of reinvention and finish with how they would reinvent themselves. The post UC 98: Reinventing yourself at any age appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

The Up For A Chat girls are on a road trip, it’s late at night, they have been speaking all day and have been driving for 3 hours, you could say they are a little delirious.  They begin a discussion about influence and if they have any influence on people’s lives – Carren asks the question, and in all seriousness to Kim and Cyndi.  They decide to record the conversation and so the button is pushed...

Kim, Carren and Cyndi decided to talk about why they have become speakers and what it was like starting out. You will not believe that Carren managed to vomit on her audience, that’s just the beginning, her story is hilarious – in hindsight. Cyndi nearly quit speaking after a disastrous mass walk out on one of her talks and Kim’s many faux pas’ will leave you in stitches. It’s a raw look at the be...

Kirsty Ostwald meets the Up For A Chat girls at the Bunya Mountains, west of Brisbane, she provides them with a beautiful lunch with proceeds from her country garden. The girls are on their way to Chinchilla to speak at Womens RDO. Kim, Carren and Cyndi are definitely city chicks, so they explore what it’s like to be bought up and live isolated from city life and where the front gate may be 45 min...

A listener asked The Up for A Chat girls about their rituals and routines, so listen in and here what Kim, Carren and Cyndi do when they first open their eyes in the morning.  Each does something different that works for them, but may give you some ideas as to how to kick start your day.  They also discuss  the personal care, cleaning and household products that they use.  They are very different,...

Jo Whitton is a Mum who started looking at her diet after becoming ill.  She not only changed her diet but that of her whole family.  Her friends started to ask what she was doing to improve their health, so she started a blog called Quirky Cooking to share her beautiful recipes and lifestyle tips.  Her blog is a success with nearly 200,000 people following her every cooking and lifestyle move.  C...

It’s not often we interview men, but this man is different, he is the brother of Cyndi as well as an olympic freestyle skier, television and radio presenter, producer of the Snow Show and now documentary maker.  His first documentary is “What Ate My Mother and Will It Eat Me”, it is an emotional journey of Cyndi and Marcus’s family who have endured mass decimation at the hands of the medical frate...

Carren, Kim and Cyndi are constantly asked if they want to join a multilevel marketing business. They usually have something to do with supplements and skin care. So the Up For A Chat girls decide to talk about Multi level marketing and the products that are being sold by many of the popular businesses. There words of wisdom are about researching the product and not taking the hype of the marketin...

Nikki Parkinson joins the Up For A Chat girls, she is a traditional journalist turned award winning blogger. Nikki reveals to the Carren, Kim and Cyndi how she began her blog and the dizzy success of her business. Her wisdom has the girls quiet and listening for most of the podcast. If you are thinking about starting a career as a blogger or looking for some bloggers to read that may help you in y...

Kim, Carren and Cyndi have to drive to Brisbane, they are searching everywhere for a place that is quiet when Cyndi see’s a cemetery. Carren and Kim think she is mad but she says that no one will disturb them. Cyndi loves cemetery she finds them full of history and so the podcast starts there and then surprisingly talks about death and dying. All three girls discuss what they believe will happen w...

There is a real disconnect between the food that is supplied in hospitals and Assisting Living Homes and the health of the human body.  Most of the food is packaged filled with modifications, additives, preservatives, flavours, GM foods and much more.  The cost is around $9.00 a day per person and that includes any supplements, plates, forks and serviettes.  The Up For A Chat girls decide to talk...

It is suggested by one of the Up For A Chat listeners to do a podcast on  “midlife crisis” – surely the girls have never had one and what would they know?  What is a midlife crisis what is the definition is where the chat begins.  From the definition Kim, Carren and Cyndi realise they have had many in their lives and believe it’s not bad to have a mid life crisis but the key is to not remain in th...

The conversation starts with the Up For A Chat girls trying to name all the complimentary health modalities they know of, it’s amazing what is out there on offer in order to obtain physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.  Each of the girls talk about the modalities that they use and what has helped them the most.  The conversation explores how many deaths occur in hospitals due to mishap...

Has the institution of marriage lost it’s meaning?  The Up For a Chat girls ponder this question.  Carren is in a defacto relationship, Cyndi and Kim are both married?  What’s surprising is that Kim and Carren are both marriage celebrants and Cyndi is about to become one.  Kim talks about the four questions she asks each couple she marries and advises even married couples to ponder these 4 questio...