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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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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.  

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.  

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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?

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Martha Barnard-Rae Martha Barnard-Rae

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.

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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.

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