Yellow Shelf Podcast

 How To Be Happy: Stop Chasing Happiness, Learn the 5 Skills to Create It Instead You don't have to search endlessly for happiness.  You can practice it. You've worked hard, achieved your goals, and followed the well-meaning advice. Yet that sense of deep fulfilment still feels just out of reach. But the problem was never you. It's that no one ever taught you that happiness is a ski...

 THE BAD DAY PLAYBOOK: What to do when everything sucks Bad Days happen. The trick is not to pretend they don't, but to have a plan when they do. The Bad Day Playbook is your calm companion and usable game plan for those times when life flattens your spirit. It helps you notice when you're slipping into the spiral, take gentle control, and make small, meaningful shifts that bring you bac...

 Do you spend your days trying to implement and defend changes you can't control and may not even agree with? Leadership is about people. Yet many leaders find themselves responsible for implementing change without ever being taught the foundations of HOW to support and lead people THROUGH change.  If you're a leader challenged with navigating the rough seas of change, this book is your...

Thank You, Burnout: From depletion to peace It’s possible the message in the wind, sky or the trees isn’t about fighting for a fairy tale. Maybe it’s about being receptive to finding the fairy tale in the most unexpected places. This book is about burnout—with a beautiful twist. Hayley Hughes pushed herself to depletion in the name of accomplishment and success. Her burnout felt eternal, deep, con...

The Future is Female: Finding Your Voice and Becoming Fearless in Business is a raw, honest and deeply inspiring book from author Trudy Heins, fearless leader, CEO of Fempire, and business and money strategist with decades of experience across finance, retail, agriculture and coaching. This is not just a business book.  It is a wake-up call for every woman who has ever dimmed her light, doubted he...

 A killer on the loose. A surfer out of his depth ... Bo Curren was once a champion surfer. Now, at twenty-eight, he’s all washed up – unable even to set foot near the ocean. Instead, he spends his days alone in his apartment, drowning his sorrows in whiskey and watching surfers on his laptop via the 24-hour surf webcam. Then one day he sees something he shouldn’t. A camera trained on a deserted B...

What if the future of work depends on kindness? A culture where conscious leadership creates environments for people to thrive without burnout and achieve without the expense of their wellbeing. The Kind Way is a call to action and a practical framework for those exhausted by and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of perpetual overdrive culture. Sophie Bretag presents a tangible lead...

 I never meant to get so drunk. Each time it happened I swore it would be the last time and the next time I had a drink I believed that I could chug it down and it’d somehow end different … Luke, Josh and Matty live for the summer: surfing, fishing and drinking. When Millie joins their crew, life feels even sweeter. But, like the wild coast they call home, where the tide can change from safe to ca...

Seen Again: Light on Matrescence Seen Again is a modern companion through matrescence, the profound transition of becoming a mother.  Matrescence is a biological, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual transformation that can leave mothers without the language or support to make sense of who they are. Many feel disconnected or invisible, wondering: Who am I now? Is it normal to feel this w...

The Wellness Paradox Why the more we succeed, the further we drift from real wellbeing Grounded in real stories, research, and reflection, discover how to rethink what living and working well actually means and how to create a life that feels good, not just looks good. A new way of living and working for a generation raised to do more. The wellness movement encourages us to work smarter, rest more...

The roadmap to selling your business for what it’s actually worth. 81% of founders wish they had prepared for their exit earlier. Don't be one of them.  Exit Like an Expert gives you the exact framework to prepare for exit and command a premium multiple when it's time to sell. Calculate your "walk-away" number. Spot the red flags that kill your multiple. Build a valuable and sa...

 The Experiment Mindset: Unlocking the Science of Personal Growth Your next breakthrough starts with one experiment. You've done the courses, listened to the podcasts, made the plans. But you're still stuck in the same patterns. The problem isn't your ambition — it's that you've been trying to think your way into change when you need to experiment your way there. The Exper...

 ‘Seeking Sydney’ is a ten-episode podcast that looks at the people and events that have shaped modern Sydney. Through interviews and research, Sydney’s landscapes and landmarks become places of connection. ‘Seeking Sydney Podcast Show is hosted, written and directed by Kathy Prokhovnik. To connect with Kathy .... https://kathyprokhovnik.com/ 

The annual Curlew Street scarecrow competition is back, and the residents of Melbourne’s inner north have never seen an entry like it. Shirt bloody, head and arms slumped over a scarecrow crucifix: Victoria’s most conservative Supreme Court Judge, Harry ‘The Pope’ Somerton, is dead. Priyanka Pal, a former psychologist turned homicide detective, is disturbed when her investigation uncovers corrupti...

Join the fight.  Tell the story.  Survive the lie. The Writer podcast by Oliver Smuhar is a fictional, serialized audio drama that explores the events of an imagined World War Three.  It follows a young writer drafted into the Foxtrot Unit, a psychological operations team tasked with documenting the war through stories that blend truth with deception. The podcast delves into the nature of truth an...

His confession taught me that people are not always what we assume them to be; that we form our views on what we see, not necessarily on what we understand. It’s early 1941, twelve months before the Fall of Singapore, when Australian infantrymen Clarence Roberts and Alexander Campbell disembark to join an imagined heroic campaign to defend British Malaya against the anticipated Japanese invasion....

In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Vlinder faces an unimaginable choice: surrender her newborn baby to a complete stranger or risk both their lives in a brutal prison camp. What she chooses will ripple through the generations, establishing a legacy of secrets, lies, unspoken grief and lost identities. Decades after the war, Vlinder’s granddaughter Evangeline’s quest to unders...

A passionate love affair.  A glittering secret buried for centuries.  A question that could destroy everything. When an English writer meets the fifth-generation owner of a glass foundry in Murano and they fall in love, their worlds explode. Business and pleasure take them to Athens, the Greek islands and Istanbul. The shocking sequence of events that follows includes two murders in a Venetian Pal...

Courage to Be Me: A story of strength, self-discovery, and the quiet bravery it takes to stay true to yourself Courage to Be Me is a raw and uplifting memoir of resilience, self-discovery, and the unyielding strength it takes to rebuild a life. Di shares her journey of seeking validation and self-worth while balancing the demands of nursing, a turbulent marriage, and motherhood. Her world shifts d...

When Detective Sergeant Anastasia Brown is sent to investigate a grizzly murder in a small New South Wales town, she welcomes the chance to run from heartbreak and humiliation. But she quickly discovers that this is no ordinary murder. The body of a popular doctor has been found on the mountain, chained and burned, with arcane ­symbols carved into the soles of his feet – and the boy who found him...

Conscious Footsteps An unravelling.  A return to self. A walk back to truth. On paper, Dion Elliott Jensen had built a life many would envy. A successful career. Financial security. A young family. A clear sense of who he was and where he was going. He had the job, the money and the life he thought he wanted. Then he lost it all — and realised none of it was really him. Then, in a single moment, i...

How far would you go to protect your family? Jade never set out to become a thief, especially not in the Middle East, but breaking into her husband Brett’s office is the only way to get information about a missing miner. After the miner turns up dead at the copper mine where Brett works, a letter leaked to the press implicates him in the crime. In search of the truth, Jade uncovers a web of infide...

In the final week before a federal election, political adviser Francis McGuire is tasked with one job: launching the Opposition’s flagship health policy. Every detail is in place. Until the party’s ruthless campaign strategist decides to sabotage it. When his plan backfires, Francis is made the scapegoat. Publicly shamed and hunted by the press, she flees to a small town on Western Australia’s sou...

Walk in the Spirit: A page turning novel of people who walk with the Man Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Everald Compton AO and Neill Florence offer a novel grounded in compassion, humility, and the belief that our capacity to do good is not measured by religion or doctrine, but by how we treat one another and contribute to our communities. Set in contemporary Australiam the novel follows peo...

She Who Remembers: Awakening feminine wisdom in a world ready for her return More than the burnout, the endless striving, the quiet ache of disconnection. More than the roles she’s performed, the versions of herself she’s outgrown, the world that taught her she wasn’t enough. In this tender and timely book, best-selling author, PhD researcher, and feminine wisdom teacher Megan Dalla-Camina guides...