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Trigger warning: this episode discusses excessive alcohol use.

In society we are well aware of the term ‘alcoholic’, but have you heard of Grey Area Drinking?

This episode’s guest is Grey Area Drinking Coach, Motivational Speaker, Workshop Facilitator and host of a community of over 20,000 women, Sarah Rusbatch

After years of dysfunctional drinking, falling hard for ‘Mummy Wine Culture’ and using alcohol as a crutch to manage stress, overwhelm and anxiety, Sarah finally made the decision to remove alcohol from her life in April 2019.

In this episode Sarah shares:

-      Her long history with alcohol and how it shaped her life growing up

-      The moment she realised her relationship with alcohol was not benefiting her

-      The stop and start process she went through trying to stop drinking for short periods of time

-      The difference between alcoholism and grey area drinking

-      How the subtle messaging of alcohol and mum culture is dangerous

-      Her advice on the work you have to do to improve remove alcohol from your life

Key Quotes

“It turns out that your boozy friends don’t like it when you don’t drink anymore.”

“I would just drink and smoke until I didn’t feel anymore.”

“In the end I realised it's easier to say none than it is to say 1.”

Find out more about Sarah

If you want to know about her grey drinking coaching you can find out more here: https://sarahrusbatch.com/

You can also follow her on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahrusbatchcoach

And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/

You can get involved with the podcast online

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Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

Jonathon (Jono) Peatfield is CEO of Life Ed NSW/ACT. He manages a team of 80 people delivering health and wellbeing programs to around 280,000 children right across NSW and the ACT, with support from the infamous mascot Healthy Harold. 

After graduating in Commerce/Psychology from Australian National University, Jono went on a varied and very unique career pathway that saw him move from being in sales leadership and national account management with national hardware business, Otter Group to Head of Partnerships at Batyr, a social enterprise that focuses on preventative education in the area of young people’s mental health.

Recently, Jono has been working with the Thrive by Five movement to promote equitable, affordable and accessible access to early learning so that every child can thrive.

In this episode Jono shares:

-      Why he made the unusual move into sales for a Hardware company after studying psychology

-      The lessons he learnt from working in a vibrant work culture

-      Why he moved to help launch Batyr

-      The challenges he encountered working in a start up

-      The active moves they made to ensure a healthy work culture at Batyr

-      Why he moved to Life Ed

Key Quotes

“You should bring your true self to work and be able to enjoy yourself and have fun.”

“We would purposely take the time to stop and celebrate and go and have some fun. If we couldn’t have fun, what was the point?”

You can get involved with the podcast online

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Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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Trigger Warning: Strokes, medical recovery

Well we are properly into our second year of Challenges That Change Us and this week we are continuing with Part 2 of my story.

If you thought Part 1 had a lot, we are about to take a hard left turn into the world of medical challenges and delve into the moments of my health journey that left me feeling like I was dying a slow death.

In this episode I share:

-      The moments I started having a stroke and how it ended with me in hospital not remembering people I’d known my whole life

-      The long battle to recovery and my journey to compete in triathlons

-      The big medical journey’s I have encountered with my daughters

-      What happened when I was diagnosed with POTS

Key Quotes

“I was just thinking, I am dying a slow death here.”

“By the time I got to the hospital I couldn’t recognise people.”

“We spend so much time and energy on the things that we don’t value. I think we all fall in that rut of just doing and not doing what matters.”

You can get involved with the podcast online

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Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

Leadership challenges and skills

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Can you believe we have made it to the first anniversary of Challenges That Change us?

Thank you so much to everyone who has joined us on this journey, and to celebrate 1 year of stories I will be sharing my personal story, the origin of why I am doing this whole project.

This is part 1 of 2 and will be covering the abuse and trauma I suffered as a child and how it impacted me well into adulthood.

In this episode I share:

-      The abuse I suffered as a child

-      What repressed memories are and how late in life I actually remembered my abuse

-      The reasons I slept in the school yard as a child during winter

-      Why no one could tell what was happening

-      The ways I acted out in response to what was happening

-      How I struggled in relationships because of what had happened to me

-      The journey I went on to recovering

-      The amazing people who helped me on my journey

Key Quotes

“I remember being in the middle of Winter and I would be sleeping down in the school yard thinking, this is the safest place for me right now.”

“That very first person you tell about sexual abuse is so critical to your recovery and that healing work.”

“A lot of people that have experienced sexual assault, your body remembers.”

“My earliest memories are from the age of 5 and during my time living there I experienced 2 years of sexual abuse.”

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

Leadership challenges and skills

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A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

This week we have one of our expert episodes where we get advice on how to overcome a particular challenge.

For this episode we are joined by Clifford Morgan, an endorsed organisational psychologist and leadership expert with over fifteen years of service with the Royal Australian Air Force. His years of service leading and coaching people – both in uniform and out – bring a wealth of experience that provides a unique perspective to assist his clients.

As a coach Clifford has worked with CEOs, military commanders, government executives and business and community leaders across a wide variety of industries. 

In this episode Clifford shares:

-      His journey from the military to psychology

-      His experience with leadership and executive coaching

-      Some challenges leaders have encountered

-      What is the difference between mentoring and coaching

-      How he’s had dad’s use his coaching advice to mend family relationships

-      The importance of teaching people about the long term consequences of choices they make with co-workers

-      Why leaders should not just solve problems for employees

-      The art of questioning

Key Quotes

“People think if you're not doing the talking you lose control of the conversation. It's actually he opposite.”

“If you don’t (ask questions) your employees are going to be passive problem presenters rather than active solution generators.”

If you want to find out more about Clifford Morgan

You can order a copy of his book The Coaching Leader here: https://cliffordmorgan.com.au/products/the-coaching-leader

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

In last weeks episode we spoke with Jo Bird about her journey to having twin boys via IVF on her own.

In our first ever part 2 episode Jo joins us again to share what it was like immediately after giving birth and having her boys in intensive care, as well as the many struggles she encountered raising twin boys on her own.

In this episode Jo shares:

-      The long process of having her twins in the neo natal intensive care ward for days

-      How she couldn’t let anyone touch her babies for a long time

-      The everyday struggles of raising twins on your own that we don’t think about

-      How it’s even difficult going to the supermarket with twins

-      How bad things got when she and her kids caught covid

Key Quotes

“I had early on someone say to me that it was my choice to have twins and do it by yourself.”

“If I had of thought about it, I would have known for quite a while that I needed help.”

Disc Workshop

If you want to take part in our next Disc workshop check it out here: https://trialtitude.as.me/DISCprofile

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

Over the past few years Endometriosis awareness has increased significantly, and with it the understanding of how debilitating it can be and how it can affect a woman’s fertility.

Now imagine going through that fertility journey, while also having to lose 60 KG and doing so without a partner.

That is just the tip of the iceberg of Jo Bird’s journey that we will be hearing about in today’s episode.

In this episode Jo shares:

-      Just how long it took to get an endometriosis diagnosis

-      The shocking number of surgeries she has had to endure to treat endometriosis

-      What motivated her to lose 60 kg and how she did it

-      Her IVF journey and what it was like doing it as a single woman

-      What it was like finding out she would be having twins

-      Her pregnancy journey as a single woman

Key Quotes

“Watching my brother and sister have children, I was over the moon happy for them but at the same time I just wanted it to be me.”

“I have had people judge me. Not to my face. I’ve heard second hand the reason why certain friends aren’t contacting me anymore is because I made that choice.”

Disc Workshop

If you want to take part in our next Disc workshop check it out here: https://trialtitude.as.me/DISCprofile

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

Returning to normal life after a big challenge is hard for any of us, but what happens when your ‘normal’ is competing in sports at the Olympic level?

That was exactly what happened to Sami Kennedy-Sim who, after competing as an Olympic level skier, found herself in hospital recovering from a stroke at the age of 24.

Somehow, after that, she returned to the Olympics.

In this episode Sami shares:

-      Her journey to becoming an Olympian

-      Why it’s ok to want to quit

-      The exact moment she started having a stroke

-      How she was told she would not be an Olympian again

-      Her journey to returning to the Olympics

Key Quotes

“You can choose to see obstacles as speed bumps or road blocks. A speed bump you slow down and then you carry on. A road block, you may have to quit altogether.”

“Unless you give people the experience to challenge themselves they’re living in comfort zone land.”

Find out more about Sami

You can find out about Sami’s coaching and other businesses here: https://www.samikennedysim.com/

Or you can follow her on Instagram: @samikennedysim

Disc Workshop

If you want to take part in our next Disc workshop check it out here: https://trialtitude.as.me/DISCprofile

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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Trigger warning: this episode discusses miscarriage, child abuse and domestic abuse.

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

This episode’s guest is Tim Elliott, a senior writer at Good Weekend and The Age, where he has won two Kennedy Awards and been nominated for a Walkley.

He has many other accolades, but is also the host of Inside The Tribe a podcast detailing the inner workings of international religious sect The 12 Tribes.

Having worked closely with people who have been trapped inside The 12 Tribes for this podcast, Tim has a fascinating insight into what actually happens in these highly controlling groups.

In this episode Tim shares:

-      How he first heard about The 12 Tribes and why he didn’t believe what he heard

-      The way every day people are lured in

-      The horrifying practices that take place inside these kinds of groups

-      How people are prevented from leaving

Key Quotes

“Most of us at some point in our lives will be vulnerable to that kind of entreaty.”

“They isolate you from your loved ones. Completely…That allows the cult to have full control of the information you’re receiving.”

Find out more about Tim and Inside The Tribe

If you want to hear more about this in detail you can listen to the podcast Inside The Tribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/inside-the-tribe/id1533629268

You can also follow Tim on his socials

Twitter: @TimElliottSMH

Insta: @timelliottsmh

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.elliott.927/

Disc Workshop

If you want to take part in our next Disc workshop check it out here: https://trialtitude.as.me/DISCprofile

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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Trigger warning: this episode discusses miscarriage, and depression, and difficult child births.

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.

PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!

Todays episode features the incredible brave and strong Rachael Laurie.

Awareness of complications during pregnancy is becoming more and more widespread, but it is still not diagnosed enough.

Rachael joins us to explain her experiences with a premature birth, followed by a miscarriage and a haemorrhage after giving birth.

In this episode Rachael shares:

-      What happened when her first child was born premature

-      The moment she found out she was having a miscarriage

-      Why her doctor called her to come see him immediately just days after the miscarriage diagnosis

-      The process she took to heal

-      The scary moment nurses realised she was having a haemorrhage after giving birth

-      What it was like having 40 medical experts in one room with no one she knew around

-      The moment she had to make a decision to have a hysterectomy

-      How she is coping now

Key Quotes

“It was a lot to have 40 people in that room (birthing room) and not a single person you know.”

“He just kind of looked at me and he said I’m really sorry but I believe that you’re having a miscarriage.”

“So I leant into some pretty good friends and while they were great they were no therapist.”

“You need to appreciate the small things and the laughter with the kids and the family for who they are and what they are.”

You can get involved with the podcast online

On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus

Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus

If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:

http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au

Or you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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