Episodes
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Kate Billing is the Founder & Creative Director of Blacksmith, a specialist leadership development practice committed to the forging of human-centred leaders and fully human organisations.
For the past 25 years Kate has worked in the people, culture and leadership space, building a reputation for sharp insights, compassionate challenge, warmth, and energy.
Kate believes it’s time for a new kind of leader: human-centred leaders who together will create the world we need for our shared future. Leaders who are examples of what’s possible when we commit to the highest levels of humanity and responsibility in the ways that we live, lead and work.
A lot of ground is covered during this episode in terms of discussions topics, (all related to vulnerability of course) including, toxic positivity, how the term midlife crisis should be rebranded as midlife awakening, the definition of productivity and the importance of space (all topics that I LOVE talking about hence why this is one of our longest episodes to date). On top of this Kate also shares her personal story and experiences around the big V.
You can connect with Kate on LinkedIn or find out more about Kate's work through Blacksmith on https://blacksmith.co.nz
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Sandro Mota is a highly qualified HUMAN ENHANCEMENT COACH and the creator of THE MOTA METHOD. His method includes a hybrid of different techniques that Sandro has studied and developed that integrate body, mind breath and spirit to help them overcome emotional and physical imbalances.
Sandro has helped 1000s of people doing this work, his clientele ranging from Medical Doctor referrals, celebrities, olympic athletes, high schools students , corporate clients, parents and many more seeking a healthier & happier lifestyle.
Sandro calls himself a "MAN WITH A CLEAR PURPOSE" in his own words, you stop SURVIVING and START LIVING when you follow your true call in this journey called life.
Originally from Brazil, Sandro has lived in 7 different countries but has called NZ home for the past 10 years. Raised by a single mother, Sandro has faced adversities financially and emotionally but soon understood that running away from his early age traumas was haunting him and holding him back, that's when FULL VULNERABILITY came into his life ... So his journey of deep healing took him full circle to help others and become what he refers to as his LIFE CALL!
Visit https://sandro-mota.com to find out more.
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In this episode I chat to Lisa Anstead - the founder of 'SoulTravelFitness' a health, wellness, travel, and fashion company.
Lisa helps clients feel beautiful in their skin by creating a lifestyle of movement and wellness from a place of love.
Originally from California, Lisa has lived abroad in South America and Asia for almost 10 years.
From a young age Lisa loved fitness and wellness and also spent almost 20 years working in education, specifically early years.
Lisa's journey to find health and happiness, like many, has been a winding road. In her teens a love of fitness, along with trauma and grief, and living in California became the perfect equation for a negative body image.
Then in her 30s Lisa experienced gut issues, hair loss and burn out which sent her searching for more answers. Since western medicine was not giving her answers Lisa found a health coach to do some deeper work, which is what inspired Lisa to train and become a certified health coach and personal trainer herself.
Lisa is now passionate about helping people live healthier happier lives, looking at all areas of their life, making peace with food, eating intuitively, moving their booty, being fully present, and living intentionally whilst pursuing their dreams
Lisa offers health coach, virtual personal training, and has a wellness, travel, fashion, and lifestyle blog at www.soultravelfitness.com.
You can find out about and reach Lisa on:
-Instagram: @soul_travel_fitness
-e-mail: [email protected]
-Website: www.soultravelfitness.com
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Jimi Hunt is a mental health change maker, speaker, author and adventure seeker.
You may know him from when he floated down the Waikato on a Lilo or for building the World’s Biggest Waterslide. Through these adventures he found out he could also help people, and so co-founded a charity called 'Live More Awesome'.
Jimi's passion is encouraging and inspiring everyone to take control & increase their mental health. It’s a growing problem, the WHO estimates that by the year 2025 over 80% of people on the planet will suffer from a mental health condition in their lives. Jimi's hope is to contribute to that not becoming reality.
You can find out more about Jimi, his books, his free 100 day program and what he's up to at www.jimihunt.com
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Gillian Brookes is the founder and director of social enterprise, 'My Kids Village', designed to help working parents find local childcare to manage the juggle of work-life and kid-life. She also runs her own HR consultancy focused on building flexible workplaces and fair pay systems.
During this episode Gillian shares both her personal experience and views on vulnerability along with how that shows us with the leaders and organisations she works with. Gillian talks about the importance of choice during vulnerability and how watching Brene Brown's infamous Ted Talk on vulnerability completely shifted her perspective on this inevitable part of being human.
To find out more about Gillian visit www.gillianbrookes.co.nz or www.mykidsvillage.co.nz.
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Shelley used to be the stereo-typical higher achieving, super-busy, corporate girl. She worked insane hours, skipped meals, lost sleep, over exercised and by her own admission did not take care of her health.
That all changed in 2010, when Shelley reached total burnout, her health crashed and Shelley lost all physiological function. Doctors wanted to admit her to hospital, telling her she was on ‘death’s doorstep’ and there was little hope to heal her fully.
Shelley was eventually diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and spent many, many months bedridden, nursed day and night by her parents, unable to stay awake for more than 30 minutes a day.
Despite speaking to several specialists, nobody was able to help. So, Shelley embarked on journey to heal herself, studying as a functional nutritionist.
Shelley discovered that her body had been giving her signals for many years up to when her health finally totally collapsed, but she'd been too driven and busy to listen. Shelley was able to heal her own body and as a certified and trained functional nutritionist has now made it her career and passion to help others listen, treat and heal their bodies so they can live well.
Find out more about Shelley at https://shelleygawith.com/
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Shannon Harvey is a devoted wife, mother and award winning health journalist and filmmaker, on a mission to inform, empower and inspire people to make long-lasting health changes in their life.
Shannon herself has battled her own health problems - being diagnosed with the auto-immune disease 'Lupus' several years ago. This led her to research and produce the documentary film 'The Connection'.
While Shannon found plenty of recommendations on diet, sleep and exercise, discovering equivalent offerings to help the mind was more illusive, which prompted Shannon to look closely at the potential benefits of mindfulness and her most recent project the film 'My year of living mindfully'. During the making of this documentary Shannon embarked on a 365 day experiment that has turned in to over a 1000 days of devoted practice.
In this interview Shannon shares what motivated her to make the film, her experience with vulnerability and how she believes vulnerability teaches us how to suffer better (as does mindfulness), which is an unavoidable part of being human.
To find out more about Shannon go to
www.shannonharvey.com
To find out how to download a copy of 'My Year of Living Mindfully' or arrange a private screening go to
www.myyearoflivingmindfully.com
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Digby Scott works with people and organisations that are on a mission to make a difference. His aim is to help people to think and act in new ways so that they nail it.
Creative, curious and a master communicator, Digby has a unique perspective on the leadership and workplace challenges that we are all trying to navigate.
Digby admits he's fallen flat on his face more times than he cares to remembered and shares some of his lessons from those moments of vulnerability in this interview. He now applies what he's learnt to help 1000's of leaders to learn how to develop themselves, and grow others, so they create lives worth living and cultures worth being a part of.
For more about Digby’s work and thinking, visit digbyscott.com
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Bronwyn Hudson is motivated by the desire to make a real difference in the health and happiness of people. With a Masters degree in personalised nutrition and over 20 years’ experience across education and children’s development, parenting support and health coaching, along with four young children, Bronwyn understands the real-world challenges relating to heath and balance for many.
Bronwyn is also the wife of previous guest Craig Hudson. During this interview she talks openly about her experience being the key support person to Craig during his journey and mental wellness challenges. We also discuss kicking the guilt habit, self care and the importance of nourishing your own health and wellbeing so you are fully able to nurture and support others.
Find out more about Bronwyn at www.bronwynhudson.com
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Kerene Strochnetter is an author, public speaker and Managing Director of Mindful at Work, a business hell-bent on making the M-words cool in the workplace - mindfulness and meditation.
Kerene's new book ‘Crazy Busy’ targets people suffering from the relentless pace of modern life - people who struggle to switch off and are looking for effective strategies to help to reconnect with what really matters - their lives, their work and the people close to them. Kerene's message and the tagline for 'Crazy Busy' is - "if busy is the new stupid, then mindful is the new smart!"
Kerene wants to get the message out there that mindfulness isn’t just limited to meditating, but includes a set of robust well-researched practices, which when implemented, powerfully impact people’s lives and positively change workplace culture.
As well as discussing Kerene's latest book Kerene also provides tips and framing for how to deal with anxiety and overwhelm associated with the current COVID19 pandemic.
Find out more about Kerene at
https://mindfulatwork.co.nz
Kerene is also offering listeners a 20% discount on her new book 'Crazy Busy' if you use the discount code 'chillax' which can be ordered at the following link.
https://mindfulatwork.co.nz/crazy-busy-book/
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Craig Hudson is Xero's Managing Director for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, a father of 4 and former professional rugby player, spending 8 years playing in New Zealand, France, England, and Wales.
By most peoples measures Craig is an impressive and talented guy with everything going in his favour - only the other part of the story is he has faced many years dealing with bouts of deep depression. During an event (that actually inspired this podcast called 'The Vulnerability Project') in October 2018 - Craig bravely shared his story of depression and facing vulnerability publicly for the first time. A courageous and moving moment. Since then Craig has shared his story several times in the media and more recently at Xerocon in front of 1000's of people. He has become passionate about raising awareness around Mental Health and looking at ways to improve the sobering statistics that New Zealand faces in this area.
During this interview Craig shares his story, the work Xero is now doing to assist small businesses across New Zealand in providing support for their mental wellness, the importance of showing vulnerability as a leader and his experience of facing into the reality of the vulnerability hangover.
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Jess Stuart is a well renowned event speaker, author and coach who works with women to realise their potential by helping them find more time for themselves, so they focus on what really matters to them and build resilience to beat overwhelm and keep calm in the midst of chaos.
Jess started her career in Senior HR roles and spent a decade in the corporate world, before deciding there was a calling for her beyond what she was doing, so left her role to decide what that was.
Jess is now an author of two books and in the process of writing a third. The latest of which, Like A Girl, is designed to help women unlock their potential and thrive at life. Giving practical advice and tips for building resilience, leveraging strengths whilst navigating fear, getting over self-doubt and mastering the art of balance.
You can find more about jess at www.jessstuart.co.nz
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Olie Body is the Founder of 'Wā Collective', an Edmund Hillary Fellow, an award winning storyteller, TedX speaker and social entrepreneur. Aged 19 Olie moved to India to work on a project that provided bright reusable menstrual kits to the local school girls who otherwise would not have access to such things and were therefore house bound during their period. In 2016 aged 22, Olie began to question the system at home in New Zealand and through research found many New Zealanders were also struggling to afford the cost of how we manage menstruation. Through 'Wā Collective' Olie is crafting a paradigm shift by shaping what it means to inhabit this earth consciously, and with a pair of ovaries. 'Wā Collective' produces and provides menstrual cups with every cup sold subsidising a cup for students in need,
keeping our next generation in class and stopping period poverty from adversely affecting education in New Zealand.
In this interview we discuss a wide range of topics from period poverty, the research Olie has done around this, Olie's personal story and her own struggles with burnout and with showing her vulnerability to others, which she still admits feels very uncomfortable. To find out more about Olie and 'Wā Collective' go to www.wacollective.org.nz Watch Olie's TedX talk here https://youtu.be/wvWwya59QYc -
Sweden has Greta Thunberg - New Zealand has Ollie Langridge. Ollie Langridge is a Wellington based business owner, part-time yoga teacher and father of 5, who likes to roam the hills of South Wellington with his trusty dog Spanner. As well as being (in his own words) a 'regular suburban dad' Ollie is a passionate environmentalist. So much so that earlier this year Ollie spent 100 days (between May to September 2019), peacefully protesting on the front lawn of New Zealand Parliament in a bid for the Government to declare 'Climate Change Emergency'. Although Ollie had been gravely concerned about the state of the planet for some time, however the decision to embark on a 100 day protest wasn't preplanned. It all came about when Ollie read the latest UN Biodiversity Report back in May, which warned that our planet was in the middle of a mass extinction that could see one million species go extinct. In this episode Ollie talks about his experience over those 100 days, how it impacted him, his concerns for our planet and practical steps we can all take individually to make a difference as we face into a potential existential vulnerability that could affect us all. You can find out more about Ollie and his continued mission to get people to collectively stand up and 'save the planet' on facebook, twitter and instagram under @ThatHumbleMan'.
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Dr Paul Wood is the bestselling author of 'How to Escape from Prison', which chronicles his journey from imprisoned delinquent to Doctor of Psychology. These days he is an expert in helping people and organisations strive towards their potential and flourish through change and adversity. Paul works with everyone from World Champion athletes to Fortune 100 companies. He is a regular contributor in the media and his presentation at TEDx Auckland has received more than 300,000 views on YouTube and was named one of the Top 10 TED
talks by the New Zealand Herald.Pauls book 'How to Escape from Prison' is out now in paperback and audio.
www.paulwood.com
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Jeremy Dean is the founder of riders&elephants, a leadership company that helps leaders reimagine the way they understand and 'get' their people and customers. A lot of this involves using simple tools to unlock emotionally honest communication about workplace culture and customer experiences. Jeremy believes that structured "F-word conversations", about how people truly feel in their workplace and how they want to feel, are the key to lifting culture and performance.
During this interview Jeremy talks about the vulnerability he has felt during his career both as a former professional cricketer, brand and marketing consultant and setting up his current business, which has seem him facing into feelings of recurring anxiety and imposter syndrome.
In 2018 riders&elephants successfully launched 'The Emotional Culture Deck', their first card-based tool which is at last count used by 5,000 leaders worldwide in 20 countries (and growing by the day), at organisations including Xero, Starbucks, Westpac, Air New Zealand, Infusionsoft, Panasonic, Daimler, and New Zealand Rugby, gave them the inspiration and confidence to develop 'The Customer Experience Deck', which they launched this month (july). You can back it now on Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ridersandelephants/the-customer-experience-deck-designed-by-ridersandelephants
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Wade Jackson is a speaker, author and high-performance coach. Wade’s journey to become a specialist in high performance began in Japan aged 18, where he earned two of his three black belts in martial arts. Living as a minority set him on a path of holistic thinking and over the years he's gained a deep understanding and appreciation of other cultures, traditions and beliefs. He spends his days working with NZ’s most forward-thinking organisations around leadership, resilience, creativity and storytelling and at night he teaches and performs improvised comedy. Wade and his wife Evie are ambassadors for Home & Family Counselling, a community-based service providing professional counseling to individuals, couples and families. Wade is passionate about the need to normalise the conversation around counselling.
Find out more about wade at
www.wadejackson.co
https://www.inspiredlearning.global
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Katie is a wife, Mum, health enthusiast and also the 'filter-free' voice and mind behind the popular social media page and website - 'Clean Eats From A Filthy Mouth'. Through this page, Katie shares a lighthearted look at food, fun, and the 'dirt and drudgery' of anti-glam, everyday life.
Katie’s journey in life so far has been a colourful and sometimes challenging path. She’s dealt with an eating disorder and exercise obsession, the loss of a partner through suicide, infertility, and IVF, and has had to face up to with the scary reality of her body falling apart too early, resulting in a total hip replacement at the age of 38. While all of these things have presented major mental and emotional challenges at the time, she has learned some very valuable, and often very difficult life lessons about patience, kindness and acceptance - towards others, but also far more importantly towards herself.
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Cheryl is founding director of 'Mind Coach', a boutique leadership coaching consultancy aimed at delivering coaching to leaders across New Zealand. Her journey in life has seen her face many personal challenges, starting at the age of 18, where was diagnosed with the serious auto-immune disorder - Crohn's disease. This major event, at a time when she was wanting to be a typical energetic, vibrant and driven young adult, really challenged her expectations, but also sparked her curiosity around the power of the mind. She experimented with her mindset, using meditation, affirmations, and visualisation to manage and ultimately eliminate the disease. This interest now extends into her coaching practice where she uses mindfulness, neuroscience and our internal narratives as tools and information for managing our thinking, our stress as well as the overwhelm and overstimulation facing many leaders today. She shares how her compromised health was the ultimate form of vulnerability (“if you don’t have your health, you have nothing”) and shares some of her philosophies for self-care and tuning into the body’s wisdom, which we so often ignore until it gets too serious or is too late.
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Belinda Benn is a 'Women's Health and Hormones' expert. Belinda's work is focused on helping women in their 40’s and 50’s overcome the challenges of midlife, with a special focus on hormonal changes and perimenopause.
After her difficult divorce at 40, Belinda left the corporate world to travel and start life afresh. Along the way she faced many vulnerabilities both physically and emotionally. She believes this has shaped who she is today and helped her become more compassionate.
At 55 Belinda is now helping women who are struggling with perimenopause, so they can feel better physically and emotionally.
You can find out more about her program at: https://midlifehormones.com/
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