Not Another PD

Episode 29: Lived Experience Isn’t a Weakness. It’s One of Our Greatest Strengths. Lived experience is something we talk about a lot in the helping professions. But often, it’s framed as something to manage. Something to be careful with. Or something that sits quietly in the background. In this solo episode, I explore what lived experience actually is, how it differs from learned experience, and w...

Episode 28: “Bring My Baby to a Child Protection Office? No Thank You.” Culture, Boundaries & Workplace Assumptions. In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by Susan Nkechi, a social work student based in Perth, a mother of three, and the founder of Multi-Cultural Drama Dance. Originally from Nigeria, Susan was an experienced teacher before relocating to Australia and transitioning into...

Episode 27: The 20% Better Approach Helping Professionals Need for Nutrition (Not Perfection) In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by Angel Fan , an Accredited Practising Dietitian and the founder of Weight Your Options. This conversation is about nutrition in the real world. Not the ideal version. Not the perfectly planned version. The version that fits around full days, emotional load,...

Cultural Supervision and Cultural Load in the Helping Professions with Yaleela Torrens In this episode of Not Another PD , Jazmin speaks with Yaleela Torrens, proud Guren Guren and Budjalung woman, social worker and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Worker of the Year (2025). Yaleela is the founder of Yaleela Torrens Social Work, a private practice based in Gladstone, Queensland. Throug...

This episode is being released during the week of World Social Work Day (17 March), making it a timely and important conversation for our profession. In Australia, social work is not nationally registered. Which means, technically, anyone can call themselves a social worker. That might sound surprising. Or even confronting. In this episode, I’m joined by Brooke Kooymans, an experienced social work...

Episode 24 - Burnout Isn’t Always Personal: Psychosocial Hazards in the Helping Professions In this solo episode of  Not Another PD , I unpack a topic that is gaining increasing attention in Australian workplaces: psychosocial hazards. Burnout is often framed as a personal issue, something that can be solved with better coping strategies, improved time management, or simply becoming more resilient...

Episode 23: What Is Your Work From Home Environment Doing to You? Around 6.7 million Australians now work from home in some capacity. For helping professionals, that often means holding trauma, conflict, high-stakes conversations and emotional intensity inside our own homes. But we rarely stop to ask: What is our work from home environment actually doing to us? In this first solo episode of 2026,...

Episode 22: Are You Taking Your Clients’ Energy Home? Emotional Boundaries for Helping Professionals & Therapists (Part 2 with Sarah Xanthos) Do you ever leave work still carrying your clients’ emotions? Do you find yourself replaying sessions at night, thinking about their stories while you’re trying to switch off at home? In Part 2 of my conversation with Sarah Xanthos, we explore emotional...

Not Another PD | Season 2, Episode 21 What Is an Empath? Why Helping Professionals Feel Everything (Part 1) We’re back for Season 2 of Not Another PD. This episode marks the first episode of the new season, and Jazmin is excited to be back with more honest, grounded conversations for helping professionals navigating boundaries, burnout, and sustainable practice. To open Season 2, Jazmin is joined...

Episode 20: Inclusion, Boundaries and the Stuff Workplaces Avoid Most workplaces say they value inclusion. Far fewer are willing to look at the systems, boundaries, and decisions that actually determine whether people feel safe, respected, and able to stay. In Episode 20 of  Not Another PD Podcast , Jazmin is joined by  Patrick Rory-John (they/them) , senior psychotherapist with  The Identity Clin...

In Episode 19 of  Not Another PD Podcast , Jazmin is joined by her best friend Kim, a youth worker, former residential care worker, mum, and school wellbeing practitioner. This episode is a raw, lived-experience conversation about gender bias in the helping professions, the expectations placed on women to be endlessly available, and what can happen when pregnancy and parenting quietly change how w...

Episode 18: Why Does “Being Nice” Feel Safer at Work? Why does “being nice” feel safer at work? In this solo episode of  Not Another PD , I explore people-pleasing through a different lens, not as a personality trait, but as a  stress response . I unpack the  fawn response , a lesser-discussed nervous system response alongside fight, flight and freeze, and why it shows up so commonly for helping p...

Episode 17: Failure Isn’t the Threat You Think It Is with Bree Coulter Failure isn’t the threat you think it is. For many helping professionals, fear of failure quietly sits underneath people-pleasing, overworking, blurred boundaries, and chronic self-doubt, even when insight, experience, and professional knowledge are already there. In this episode of Not Another PD , Jazmin is joined by Bree Cou...

Episode 16: The Myth of the Good Practitioner: Letting Go of Perfection in the Helping Professions In this solo episode of  Not Another PD , Jazmin explores one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs in the helping professions: the myth of the “good practitioner.” Where does this idea come from? Why do so many of us equate being “good” with being endlessly available, endlessly capable, endlessly cal...

Episode 15: The Stories We Inherit: How Family Patterns Shape Us as Helping Professionals with Sarah Voronov This week on  Not Another PD , Jazmin is joined by her old high school friend Sarah Voronov, a Naturopathic Kinesiologist and Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery Practitioner-in-training, to explore how the emotional patterns passed down through generations shape who we become, and how we show up...

Episode 14: The Excuses Leaders Use to Avoid Supervision (And Why They Don’t Stack Up) This is the second instalment of my  Bold Boundaries for Leaders mini-series , and today we’re talking about one of the most overlooked but essential leadership strategies:  supervision . Here’s the irony I see all the time: as leaders, we expect our staff to engage in supervision, yet so many of us don’t priori...

Episode 13: Should the Next Generation of Leaders Have No Boundaries Just Because We Don’t? As leaders, supervisors, and mentors, our boundaries don’t just affect us, they quietly ripple out to the people we guide. This solo episode is part of my  Bold Boundaries for Leaders  mini-series on  Not Another PD . And today, I’m asking a confronting but necessary question: “Should the next generation of...

Episode 12: Beyond the Tick-Box: What Real Supervision Looks Like with Jess Marsh What does real supervision look like, the kind that actually helps you stay well in the work instead of just ticking a box? In this episode, I’m joined again by Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Jess Marsh , to talk about supervision as a genuine burnout prevention and recovery tool. Jess shares her own experie...

Episode 11: Burnout and When Your Work Starts Clashing with Your Values with Jess Marsh What happens when the work you love starts pulling you away from the values that made you want to help in the first place? In this conversation with Social Worker, Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor Jess Marsh , we explore what burnout really looks like, not just in your workload, but in your nervous system, va...

Episode 10: Back Yourself: Imposter Syndrome, Supervision & Vicarious Trauma with Hannah Gordon From “doing the bare minimum” to going all-in: how to trust your skills and protect your wellbeing. This week on Not Another PD, I’m joined by Hannah Gordon, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and founder of Nextdoor Counselling & Consultation. Hannah supports adults feeling overwhelmed, uncertain,...

Episode 9: From People-Pleasing to Embodied Wellbeing with Steph De Niese How movement, boundaries, and knowing your needs can change everything. This week on  Not Another PD , I’m joined by  Steph De Niese , counsellor, psychotherapist, and dance/fitness instructor with over 15 years’ experience helping people connect body, mind, and spirit. Steph shares how chronic people-pleasing led to a major...

Episode 8: Who Are You Without the Title? Identity Beyond Work Do you over-identify with your professional role? Let’s talk about who you are outside the job title. In Episode 7, we looked at three mindset shifts to get unstuck in your career. Today, we’re continuing this two-part career series with a focus on something I’m deeply passionate about: your identity beyond your professional title. As...

Episode 7: Don’t Stay Stuck: Career Mindset Shifts to Move You Forward Feeling stuck? These mindset shifts will help you turn self-doubt into progress. Whether you’re moving from student to practitioner, applying for your first graduate role, or shifting into a new field of practice, mindset blocks can hold you back. In this solo episode, I share my own story of navigating career transitions as a...

Episode 6: Stop Setting Goals That Don’t Fit: Values Matter with Tracey Lindsay In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by counsellor and personal development coach Tracey Lindsay , who works with mums and women juggling too much, feeling stuck, or constantly putting everyone else first.  Through her guidance and her Ignite and Grow membership , Tracey helps women get clear on what matters...

Episode 5: Breaking the Sitting Cycle: Everyday Movement with Natalie Barbieri In this episode of Not Another PD , I’m joined by my very first guest, Natalie Barbieri , Exercise Physiologist at MK Movement (and also my own EP!). Natalie holds a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology from Deakin University and has worked across private, community, and hospital settings with clients of all ages and...