Work.Mama.Life with Dr Ali Young

Todays episode is with the effervescent Laura Campbell from HackerLily - a company bringing her very well designed and super supportive HipSurfer to Australian shores. Laura has worked with some of the worlds' largest companies in a creative manner, and after moving back to Australia with her young family, she realised there was a massive gap in the market for a strap free and stylish hip-style se...

When did you just have that blinding realisation that you have given too much? That you've suddenly ended up with too much going on in your world, and you are, once again, at the bottom of the pile. Or you've just continued to say YES to people without thinking about it's impact on you? At work? At home? With family? With the kids?   In today's episode I have a chat about the powerlessness in over...

Eve Drew is an amazing woman with a story of grit, determination and life-changing decisions. I was fortunate to meet Eve in Uluru this year, and I really wanted to have her on the podcast to share her journey from a practice owner, through some really tough times, to creating a support process for women health professionals. Eve is a podiatrist based in Regional Victoria, starting her first busin...

Are you a working mum and also a business owner. Be it a small, medium or large size business, you are navigating a whole different ball game when it comes to the 'juggle' of working mum life. In this episode I dive into my Top 10 tips for absolutely thriving in the role of business owner and working mum. A big part of this is overcoming the perfect mother myth, and I explore how this often shapes...

This episode we explore Suzanne's movement from the corporate world to becoming a weight loss coach, and now the amazing work she does with mothers on learning how to say NO. She is an international mindset coach, speaker and author, who helps over-givers and people pleasers learn to say 'No' to others in a way that fees good, so that they can say 'Yes' to themselves. Through her signature online...

This short sharp chat is for all the working mums out there who are diving into a little bit of fear. I chat about uncovering the stories that are holding us back, how the perfect mother myth can affect our enjoyment of our motherhood, and how mothering is an action, motherhood is an experience and YOU are still you.   If you want more of this, and are ready to dive into a change, make sure you gr...

Uncovering the stories of a very busy working mum that you just never knew were there is one of the greatest pleasures I have on this podcast. Today I chat with Leesa Barr. Leesa and I actually live about 400m from each other, yet I didn't know her amazing story. Leesa has overcome adversity, has reframed her personal story and has created a life doing something she loves and allows her to be pres...

Have you wondered why it really matters if you burn brightly from the inside? How your awesomeness communicates with other peoples awesomeness? The How and Why of allowing your innerself to show up... all the freaking time! Today's episode is designed to make you think? Are you burning brightly or burning out? What would that look like for you? How can you shift it a little and help it happen a bi...

This week I chat about how we determine our worth as a mother. Are we providing ourself a lens where we are only determining it based upon the 'outcomes' of our mothering, or are we looking backwards at worth dependent on career? However we determine our worth, it is great to stop and examine this concept. As a busy working mum, it is easy to fall into a societal trap of worth determination, and t...

This weeks episode see's the amazing Dr Lucy Burns from Real Life Medicine join us to chat about her health journey, her motherhood, and how she has changed her life dramatically by changing her mindset and how she eats. Like me, Lucy had a bit of a health crisis, and joined forces with the awesome Dr Mary Barton to forge a path of lifestyle medicine. She's a practicing GP, and runs online courses...

Chaos isn't always the crazy, the fluster and the hot-mess mum moments. Chaos can show up in so many ways, and learning how to navigate out of the chaotic realm into calm is a working mum's super power. In this episode I chat all things Chaos to Calm, and how giving ourselves the opportunity to navigate a calm state is key in learning how to bring the reality of life and self into our being.  Next...

Join Jocelyn Brewer and myself as we chat all things the modern mother experience, our involvement in technology and how we can do it different and better. We dive into the impact of technology and the role that we can play as mothers in shaping our childrens tech time. Jocelyn Brewer is a Sydney-based psychologist teacher and human, with expertise in cyberpsychology, digital wellbeing and mental...

In this weeks episode I have the glorious Kelly Bell joining me to chat about her massive pivot from Classroom teacher to online support for teachers through NSW. Covid created a new level of stress for Kell, and as she began to navigate through burnout, and a loss of family connectedness, she decided to make the jump into the online world.  This transformation has been so great for her on a healt...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to realise things need to change when you are navigating the working mother life? The surrender concept is just this for me. Surrendering to the concept that maybe what was big for me before has changed, and isn't as important. Maybe surrendering to the choice to decrease profit for a little while in order to make gains in other areas of your life.   Surrender...

In today's episode, I chat with author Zoe Haack all about restoring fun, play and 'real' childhood back into childhood. Zoe has had an extraordinary journey, and has moved wholly to supporting families to embrace a childlike and childled expression of self within their family units. Zoe Haack is a child activist and thought leader on growth through osmosis. She sees a world where our natural rhyt...

Ok, so this weeks episode has me getting a little bit ranty about judgement in parenting. We all do it, yes even me sometimes (and I share when I've been most judgey in my past), but there are some pretty solid reasons to just be kind to each other. We have just globally navigated one of the key events of our lifetimes, and our nerve systems are still recovering from it, and judgement (whether per...

Episode 58 brings the goods as I chat with Filipa Bellette all about her move from burnout to becoming a functional medicine practitioner. Filipa and I have some alarming similarities with our stress/over achieving/burnout stories, and in this episode you will learn how we have both worked through this in different ways.  Filipa Bellette is Co-founder of award-winning health practice Chris & Filly...

As working mum's, it so easy to just keep on going... until we can't. This concept of working and mumming and life-ing until we drop is a big one that pervades the societal expectations of motherhood. If we work, then to make up for it, we have to keep doing all the other things too. We need to break this narrative, and this is my story of why I desperately felt like I needed a break these school...

This week I had the absolute pleasure of having Kell Quarrell join me in the podcast room. Kell and I met each other last year, and I've loved seeing her and her family choose their own adventure and really go for it. Kell is an empowerment motivator, a life enthusiast, an adventure seeker, and mother and entrepreneur.   She loves personal development, personal style, pizza, pasta and prosecco. In...

This taster of an episode is all about my signature support program for mum's, the Working Mama Reset. The doors open to this program on  monday, so I thought I'd give you a bit of a background view of what it involves.   If you loved Work. Mama. Life. and are ready to make some change in your world, this 8 week immersive course is perfect for you. Go and check it out at www.draliyoung.com/mamares...

This week we dive into a magical episode with my great friend Donna Hann. Not only does she choose great friends 😂😂, but she also is a rockstar in the business world, and she's turning this expertise to supporting mums emerging into their business journey.   Donna previously owned Dance Kix, and you can learn all about this journey, and her transition to She's in Business right here today. In fa...

Today I introduce you to Dr Hilary Claire, a clinical psychologist who specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine. She works specifically with mum's to help them move out of exhaustion, depletion and overwhelm, and towards a optimal motherhood.    She blends nutritional supprot with supporting mums to become healthy and resilienct. She is a rockstar in low tox living, and the strategies...

This week I get the absolute pleasure of chatting with Lou Duggan. Not only is she a sharp entrepreneur, growing her business Cakes 2 the Rescue exponentially over the last few years, she is also a mum to 3 amazing kids! Lou Duggan is so proud of the life she is creating, how it shows her girls that they can achieve anything, and is vulnerably open about the role that her business played in pullin...

This weeks episode is with Lauren Oliver, the founder of Mums who Wine. She is a rockstar in the supporting mum's world, and has created a safe, inclusive and connected space for mum's all over Australia to feel connected again. Mums Who Wine was founded by Lauren Oliver. As a mother of two young boys and working in a high stress, demanding corporate job, Lauren was constantly plagued with "mummy...

In the final episode of my bite sized 5 Pillars week (welcome to all of the new listeners), I am chatting about the importance of connection. As humans, we are wired to connect. And to do this, we need to have support around us to make it happen. I jump into some simple ways as mums we can foster connection.  Knowing that in the last few years this major pillar of health has ultimately suffered (h...