Challenges That Change Us

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!

I’d like to introduce you to Josh Marshall a veteran nurse who has been living with MS since he was was 23. He’s used a wheelchair for the last 5 years and is incredibly passionate about equality and inclusion in our community.

Having worked through the health system, handled MS and major injuries from a car accident you would think that would all of Josh’s story but he has gone on to achieve so much more. He is a member of Queensland Council of Social Service, a member of Spinal Life QL, a member of the Regional Access Disability Advisory Committee to Toowoomba Council and has made it his goal to work with both Governmental and non-Governmental agencies to improve the education, understanding and empathy for those living with disability.

In this episode Josh shares:

-      The hard journey of getting an MS diagnosis

-      The big life change he made after his diagnosis

-      The moment his life changed in a car accident

-      How the car accident combined with his MS to cause long term health problems

-      The journey he has gone on to become a disability access advocate

Key Quotes

“There’s no use focusing on what we can’t achieve, because we are not going to achieve it.”

“It’s not the challenge that defines us, it’s the challenge that helps direct us.”

“It’s important to be grateful for those things (the little things), because a lot of people won’t have that opportunity.”

Find out more about Josh

You can find out more about josh and Inclusion Access (and donate) here: https://www.inclusionaccess.com.au/

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!

Trigger warning: suicide

The grief of losing a loved one is a powerful thing and when it is an unexpected loss such as homicide or suicide there can be other complicated feelings involved as well.

Imogen Carn is one half of the Good Mourning podcast, an incredible show that shines a light on what grief is really like with honesty, hope and humour.

Imogen lost her mother to suicide and after partnering with her co host Sally they have gone on to release an amazing podcast, release a book and grow an incredible community.

In this episode Imogen shares:

-      What it was like to lose her mother to suicide with no warning

-      The common misconception about grief

-      Why she felt alone even with a lot of support

-      How therapy helped her

-      Her advice for how to support someone who is grieving

-      How grieving is different for everyone

Key Quotes

“There was no note, no goodbye. She was just gone, vanished.”

“I felt huge amounts of rage an anger.”

“We don’t move on, we move forward.”

“The real grieving starts after the funeral.”

Find out more about Imogen

You can check out the Good Mourning podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/good-mourning-grief-podcast/id1529978129

You can also find out about their book and community here: https://www.goodmourning.com.au/#1

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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!

The weeks episode is with the very impressive Peter Holtmann of Holtmann Professional Services.

Peter is a visionary business leader who  was Formerly the President and CEO of a global non-profit. But when the lifestyle was taking a toll on him he decided to make a big career change, which left him wondering what he would do, how he would do it and how he could continue to support his family in the way he was with the finances of a CEO.

In this episode Peter shares:

-      How his background in science and management lead to a career of travelling around the world

-      The toll that a high level CEO non for profit job took on him

-      The moments he realised he needed to make a change

-      The story he told himself in his head

-      His fears and challenges that he faced in making a career change

-      His advice for others on how to make a big career change

Key Quotes

“Don’t be put off by rejection and failure. It’s just part of the building process.”

“Just keep moving forward because when you look back over the days and the weeks and the months, you've actually made progress.”

Find out more about Peter

You can find out more about Peter’s services via his website: https://holtmann.com.au

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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!

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

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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: 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

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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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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.