Challenges That Change Us

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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

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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

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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

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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

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@Altitudefitnessarmidale

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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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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 a guest who both helps those with their challenges, but also worked through one our biggest, recent natural challenges. The Lismore floods.

Michael Were is the Regional General Manager NSW for Lifeline and it is Michaels’ responsibility to oversee Lifeline’s operations across the Hunter, Central Coast, New England North West, and Eastern Sydney.

As well as having a career in a variety of non-profit organisations, helping out those in need, he was on the ground helping during the Lismore floods.

In this episode Michael shares:

-      How he went from working in insurance to Open Heart International

-      The lessons he learnt about how people’s situation influenced if they could live or die

-      Why he made the move to lifeline

-      His experiences with the beginning of the Lismore floods

-      What he and Lifeline did to help during the floods

-      What he witnessed in the aftermath of the Lismore floods

Key Quotes

“Where you live shouldn’t effect whether you live.”

“Culture and change and refreshing of people is actually a good thing.”

“There's a refugee crisis that no one is talking about in Australia.”

“People in crisis act in so many different ways.”

“Turning a chaos into a canvas.”

For more information lifeline

If you would like to become a crisis supporter check it out here: https://lifelinedirect.org.au/newengland/get-involved/become-a-crisis-supporter

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 big 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!

When it comes to overcoming a challenges, one of the reoccurring factors is nutrition.

Health problems can be caused by, or exacerbated by an unbalanced diet. Or when other problems occur our nutrition can fall to the way side, often causing additional problems.

So for this episode we will be speaking to Andrew Hall an advanced sports dietitian, motivated by improving the nutrition, health and performance of others. 

Andrew has worked with a range of individuals, from recreational to elite athletes. He is fascinated by interactions between the environment, mind, food, and the human body, and uses science-informed approaches whilst adjusting recommendations to the individual’s unique requirements and situation.

In this episode Andrew shares:

-      The study that connected nutrition to mental health

-      The surprising number of vegetables we should be eating and how to not be overwhelmed by that number

-      The reason he thinks eating fruit is not a bad thing for most people

-      The reason why he thinks meal replacement shakes should not be the first approach for most people

Key Quotes

“The strain on the health system from nutrition is not because people are eating too much fruit...For most people it’s very hard to over do.”

“Rather than feeling overwhelmed (by the number of veggies you need to eat), just wonder, how many you are already eating.”

“Two sessions on the track isn’t going to win you a gold medal, but every session you do adds up. Everything we do is just a series of small actions.”

For more information about Andrew

You can find out more about Hally and book in with him via his website: https://andrewhalldietitian.com/

Or you can follow him on social media: @andrew_hall_dietitian

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 depression, suicide, self harm and brain cancer

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 Sienna Catterall, our youngest guest so far at 20 years of age.

Sienna’s self awareness, knowledge and life experience is beyond her years.

Today she talks about the dark cloud that started to engulf her. Throughout her story she reveals the factors that influenced her depression and pushed her to a point where she considered taking her own life.

In this episode Sienna shares:

-      The triggering factors of sexuality repression and her mother’s battle with cancer

-      How it felt like she was cutting herself off from everyone and everything she loved

-      The balancing act she had to find between her sexuality and her religion

-      The point she reached where she considered taking her own life

-      How she reached out for help and what happened after

-      Her strategies for managing self harm

Key Quotes

“It was like I had created a nest of darkness around me inside the house and that’s when I made a plan to end everything.”

“For me, my mental illness is always going to be a part of my life.”

“I just imagine like drowning in this pool and then the side of the pool and pushing yourself up and getting out of it and then there are people to support you once you get out.

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

And you can follow them on Instagram:

@Altitudefitnessarmidale

@trialtitudeperformance

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Trigger warning: This episode discusses infertility for men, mentions suicide, and a possible heart attack.

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 Ben Law, The Financial Bloke.

While Ben is a successful coach and podcaster in the agriculture space, he is joining us to discuss the incredibly challenging journey he faced when he and his wife chose to try and have kids, despite the fact he had been told he was infertile years earlier.

In this episode Ben shares:

-      What it felt like to be told he was infertile

-      The painful and emotional process men must go through during IVF

-      How the IVF process was socially isolating and caused him to lose friends

-      What happened when they tried for a second child

-      The mental resilience he needed to get through it and his advice for others trying

Key Quotes

“The doctor looked at me one day and said, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with you aren’t we?.”

“We lost friends over that, especially in the guy area.”

“We went through the first round of IVF and the doctor essentially said we were wasting our money and should give up.”

More About Ben Law

If you need want coaching help, especially in the agriculture space around money, you can find out more about ben via his website: https://thefinancialbloke.com.au/

You can also listen to his podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-financial-bloke-wealth-and-wisdom/id1598835360

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!

This episode’s guest is Nerissa Trinidade.

Nerissa is a professional keynote and transformational speaker who has inspired audiences globally and a two-time international bestselling author of her books Growing Through and A Different Reality. She is also the founder of the ‘Anything Is Possible’ framework and the ‘Speak for IMPACT’ program. 

Asa a migrant gay woman of colour and a carer for her wife after a major accident, she is no stranger to adversity.

In this episode Nerissa shares:

-      Her experience growing up in India and hiding her sexuality

-      What she learnt about herself that allowed her to finally be herself openly

-      The horrifying accident her wife experienced that meant she would become her carer.

-      Her advice for communicating with and caring for loved ones with mental health battles

Key Quotes

“People who live with mental health often live with shame and guilt about experiencing and sharing what they are going through.”

“It’s ok to say I’m struggling, it’s ok to say I need help.”

“We don't realise how much effort goes into not being you.”

More About Nerissa Trinidade

If you need help with accounting you can find out more about Nerissa’s coaching and speaking via her website: https://www.nerissatrindade.com/

You can also follow her via social media.

Instagram: @nerissa.trinidade

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063722824802

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9V1ZUADpKNpd6cZsaGZ4kw

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!

This episode’s guest is Martin Broad, an accountant Broad who fell victim to Guillain-Barre

syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks your nerves. It can eventually spread, eventually paralysing the whole body, which happened to Martin to the point he could only communicate with his eyes.

In this episode Martin shares:

-      What the first moments felt like as Guillain-Barre syndrome started to take effect

-      Just how bad things got for him while in hospital

-      What it felt like being trapped in his own body

-      The impact this challenge had on his family and life

-      His long road to recovery and how he kept the mindset he needed to recover

Key Quotes

“So all I had was the function in my eyes, so the rest of my body completely shut down.”

“You've still got to be entertaining hope of some sort.”

“You’ve got to make those steps knowing full well that you could fall left or right.”

“You’ve gotta know when the good times are on.”

More About Martin Broad

If you need help with accounting you can find Martin’s business here: https://www.broadaccounting.com.au/about-us/

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!

This episodes guest is former journalist, coach and leader, Carey Hauri.

Born in Switzerland, Carey immigrated with her family to Australia when she was six years old. While she now calls Australia home, she’s also lived in Switzerland, Hungary, South Africa and Spain, visited more than 30 other countries and learnt four languages.

At the age of 17 a family secret rocked her world and shook her personal identity.

And as she continued, multiple other incidents would go on to shake those same identity foundations.

In this episode Carey shares:

-      The wild family secret that changed her world at the age of seventeen

-      The horrific stabbing incident she was victim to overseas and the aftermath of it

-      The process of burn out that changed her identity for a third time

-      Her tips and perspectives on shaping your personal identity and dealing with trauma

Key Quotes

“You can have a full rich meaningful life, not knowing (your ancestry).”

“At the end of the day who we are and how we live our lives is what we make it.”

“I had a decision to make, was I going to hate this person who attacked me? Or was I going to forgive and let go.”

More About Carey Hauri

Find out more about Carey via her website: www.careyhauri.com

You can follow Carey on socials.

LinkedIn: Carey Hauri

Instagram: Carey Hauri

Facebook: Carey Hauri

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.