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The One That Works For You
Two frantic type-As with unreasonably high expectations of themselves on a mission to find that elusive trifecta: fulfillment, balance, and success. We explore ways people from all walks of life have built their businesses while they try to work out what success looks like for them. Our biggest lesson? The best life is the one that works for you.
So if you're efficient up to your eyeballs and you have systems and processes up the wazoo, power to you.
If not, you'll like this podcast.
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21. Dené Logan doesn’t do things she hates (and you don’t have to either)
Find out how a practice of kindness and compassion can pave the way for the type of life that lights you up. Dené Logan is a marriage and family therapist, facilitator, and co-host of the Cheaper than Therapy podcast. Her first book, Sovereign Love: A Guide to Healing Relationships by Reclaiming the Masculine and Feminine Within, will be released in May 2024.
20. Integrate your personal mission into your work with Zoe Simmons
Zoe shares the power of her advocacy work—in her life and business as well as in the disability community. She shares how she manages business ownership with a dynamic disability. Learn Zoe’s tips for prioritising your health while you manage the juggle.
19. How to love what you do every day with Amy Posner
Amy opens up about her personal experiences with burnout and the pivotal life changes that led her to a period of ‘unproductivity’. She shares four questions to ask yourself if you want to work out what’s YOURS to do—so you can wake up each day and do what makes you excited.
18. All in the family: finding balance in an intercontinental family business with Nick Akkanen
A social media crisis (and a global recession) sparked a re-evaluation of Cassandra's business and personal values. Find out where she’s landed and learn her tips for identifying and living your own values.
Cassandra is the founder of the Quirky Pineapple Studio, a brand visibility strategist for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and feminist-run brands.
17. End-of-life therapy lessons for a balanced business with Kirsty Fanton
Kirsty Fanton shares the end-of-life psychotherapy lessons that inform her business. Listen up for practical tips for balancing your business and a chronic illness, and how to create a daily check-in practice to manage overwhelm. Kirsty is a coach, ex-psychotherapist, and a great question-asker. She provides copy, coaching, and strategy for online business owners.
16. Embracing your mission—overcoming pushback and finding balance with Cassandra Le
A social media crisis (and a global recession) sparked a re-evaluation of Cassandra's business and personal values. Find out where she’s landed and learn her tips for identifying and living your own values.
Cassandra is the founder of the Quirky Pineapple Studio, a brand visibility strategist for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and feminist-run brands.
15. How taking control of micro decisions can help you do less with Belinda Weaver
Belinda Weaver shares the tweak she made that 10x-ed her motivation: she made her business about Belinda. Find out how this micro change helped her forge a big, bold new path. Belinda Weaver helps copywriters supercharge their income, create financial stability, and avoid career burnout.
14. Neurodiversity and swallowing the frog first with Liv and Martha
We answer Liv’s burning question about prioritisation: Do we tackle the hardest tasks first or fill our cup first? Find out how our listeners do it, what neurodiversity’s got to do with it, and what it says about how much society values self care.
13. My day starts with me—how to nail your creative practice with Sarah Wayte
Prioritising her creative practice was life-changing for Sarah—and it benefitted her business as well! Learn how she combines smart systems and self-acceptance to make the most of her ADHD brain.
12. Subscription law services and creating a business that honours your full self with Emma Maxwell
Identifying and creating a business around her values helped Emma create a sustainable law career that honours her full self. Find out how she did it—and how her unique business model makes compassionate family law services more accessible.
11. Finding play and pleasure as a business owner (and is ‘coach’ a dirty word?) with Lindsay Hyatt
After surviving lockdown with a newborn and a toddler, Lindsay learned an important lesson: self care and wellness are essential to creating a sustainable business. Find out about her daily quest for pleasure and softness (and how she works it around getting sh!t done).
10. Managing client expectations when the stakes are high with Jennifer Heath
Jen talks us through how she holds space for overwhelmed clients in high stakes situations (without taking on their panic
9. Grief, neurodivergence, and finding your soapbox with Peta O'Brien-Day
Peta opens up about grief, single parenting, and coming to terms with imperfection—and how her experiences led to a calmer, gentler life.
Content warning // death of spouse
8. Find your brand g-spot💦with Lanae Carmichael
Learn the three strategies Lanae Carmichael uses to keep her sh!t together, and find out the four steps you can take to find your brand g-spot 💦
7. Self care: from woo-woo to logic with Yael Keon
Find out what early-career burnout taught Yael about balance—and how she manages her energy each day. Spoiler alert: it doesn't involve journaling, candles, or inspirational quotes!
6. Military level executive function with Patricia Viscount
Patricia teaches us how she executes her tasks with military precision as a work-from-home human. Find out our favourite task management tools and learn how Patricia keeps her favourite f-words alive as a business owner.
5. Wake up when you wake up — with Grace Sullivan
Grace shares the routines that help her ADHD brain stay on top of ALL THE THINGS. And we all come to grips with the fact that 5am ice baths aren’t for us and that’s freaking fine. Join us as we work towards unlearning the BS and accepting our delightful selves.
4. Significantly and constantly (how guilt shows up for us and how we fight back)
Martha and Liv discuss the many ways guilt creeps into their lives—and how identifying what success looks like helps them give guilt the flick. Learn how rationing energy and identifying what makes you joyful can make family / social / productivity guilt slightly more manageable. Then ask yourself: what do you owe anyone and at what point does that outweigh what you owe yourself?
3. The Third Space—how rituals can help you find yours
Thanks to the pandemic, lots of us have created space for working at home. But what happens to the transition periods that were ingrained into our pre-Covid lives? Liv introduces the Third Space and walks us through how rituals can signal to our brain that it’s work time—no matter what’s going on around us.
2. Protecting your energy as a business owner (also—handstands!) with Liv Steigrad
If you’ve ever wondered how to protect your energy when you’ve got eleventy-billion balls in the air, you’re gonna want to tune in to this episode. Meet Liv Steigrad, a brand strategy and brand voice copywriter with a background in performance poetry and psychology. Find out how she ‘gave herself a job’ as founder of The Branding Psychologist when she learned about copywriting in a Facebook group.