Curious Emu

Lauren joins us to tell us about her journey as an Interior Designer.  Her ability to work semi-remotely allowed her to make a last-minute decision to spend a year-long working holiday in Australia with her friend.  We also talk about her experience of being in a small town that was severely affected by the worst Australian Bushfires to date.

Find Lauren:

Show Notes at www.curiousemu.com/ep38

Marie-Louise Corin shares some incredible experiences she has had from her family moving to Australia in her 30s to her travelling around Australia on a motorbike.  

She also discussed some of her other amazing and varied ventures she had had along the way, such as becoming a psychologist and starting a cattle farm.  

Join us in this expansive episode as Marie-Louise shares her struggles and journey as an expat in Australia and how she has come to call it her home.

Join regular co-host, Maria Phillips and I as we discuss the benefits of maintaining a regular meditation practice.

In this insightful episode, Maria talks through what led her into meditation and details for us her daily meditation routines.

We discuss the various forms of meditation (including those based around religious practices) and benefits of each. As little as 1 minute a day can improve your resilience, de-stress you and make your days more productive and focused.

I know I've been inspired by this episode, I hope you can be as well!

Check out the shownotes at www.curiousemu.com/ep34

In this week's episode we are joined by passionate advocate for living with no waste Julie Abreu, who - underpinned by the primary ideology of 'how would your grandparent's have done it' - shares with us her strategies for reducing waste in everyday life.

As Julie shares her story we learn why living with no waste is important and are provided great actionable strategies to use, which also gets us thinking on ways we can reduce waste and help the environment.

Do you have things you do to reduce waste which we didn’t mention? Let us know!

In this week's episode, we are joined once again by Lynne Nieman who shares with us her journey of becoming a photographer,  travel planner and writer at what some might feel is a late stage in life. Lynne is an excellent testament to the message of it never being too late to follow your true passions in life.

Join us, as we explore the struggles and adventures Lynne has experienced in pursuit of these passions. Particularly the sacrifice of her independence, by deciding to live back at home with her parents in order to reduce her living costs and better pursue her dreams.

Lynne is an excellent example of it never being too late to follow your passions; having just began her journey at the age of 45. Despite being at the beginning  Lynne is slowly working towards working for herself fulltime.

Have you noticed most people freak out when the New Year comes around? 'I haven’t done anything I planned to do? I am completely off track' are all familiar monologues heard by people at the end of the year.

In this week's episode instead of talking resolutions, featured co-host Maria Phillips and I discuss our top strategies which keep us on track every day, week or month that keep us motivated and knowing we are going in the right direction and in a healthy way.

It is by implementing these strategies neither of us have gotten to the end of the year with regret.

Let us know some strategies that you use!

In this week's episode, we are joined by Sue Dickens who became hooked on travelling after leaving Australia at the age of 17 for a year-long exchange to Finland.

From working as a podiatrist to working in ski resorts chasing the snow for 9 years with her husband, to now being a virtual assistant (VA) and working online Sue has always been looking toward her next trip.

Sue shares with us the only constant in her life these days is change.

Listen to her incredibly diverse story and if you would like to know more about VA work or hire to hire her you can reach her through her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SueDVirtualAssistant

In this week's episode we welcome back Mitch Loar to further discuss his work-life journey. From his beginnings as a software engineer, we talk about how Mitch has now become location independent.

With more than 10 failed businesses, Mitch acknowledges he has experienced many ups and downs, though he knows they have all led him to where he is now.

Mitch shares with us his insight into the advantages of choosing courses over college/university degrees and how these have allowed him to create work and job opportunities that only he is able to do.

Mitch looks to spread his mantra ‘if you want something, then make a way’, believing there will always be a way when you're looking