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- Alvin Quah - How to be truly valuable
Authenticity gets thrown around constantly in workplaces, but what does it actually mean to bring your real self to work without oversharing, burning bridges, or pretending the bottom line doesn't exist? Tam Callaghan sits down with celebrity chef, LinkedIn writer and longtime friend Alvin Quah to dig into one of the most overused and underexplored ideas in modern work culture.
Alvin brings a perspective that's hard to find: someone who has lived and led in corporate environments, left them, and can now speak with honesty about what psychological safety, authenticity and values alignment actually feel like from the inside. Together, he and Tam cover what it costs when people can't be themselves at work, why a great boss can make a broken company survivable, and why soft skills are foundational, not optional extras.
The conversation also gets into culture, generational difference, introverts in the workplace, hiring for team fit, and what it looks like when trust and friendship exist in a professional setting.
Warm, thoughtful, and the kind of conversation that makes you reconsider a few things.
In this episode:
- What authenticity actually means, and what it doesn't
- Filters, code-switching and the layers people wear at work
- Why psychological safety often lives or dies with one person: your boss
- Edited authenticity: being real without being raw
- Generations, culture and making space for introverts
- How Alvin thinks about hiring and constructive conflict
- Why soft skills are the most foundational skills of all
- Values, leadership and being genuinely valuable at work
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/doyourselfafavour_podcast
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro — Do Yourself a Favour (Bed Edition)
0:06 Setting the Scene — First On-the-Bed Episode
0:33 Guest Introduction — Alvin Quah
0:57 What We Mean by Authenticity
1:31 Authenticity vs. Corporate Masks
2:03 Filters, Code-Switching & Workplace Layers
6:00 Psychological Safety & Leadership Umbrellas
8:16 Authenticity Isn't Rawness — Edited Authenticity
10:02 Love, Boundaries & Managing Difficult Conversations
12:01 Generations, Culture & The Power of Introverts
17:03 Hiring, Team Fit & Constructive Conflict
22:21 Trust, Friendship at Work & Psychological Safety
24:04 Soft Skills Aren't Soft — Foundational Skills
46:43 Being Valuable — Values at Work and Leadership
1:12:20 Closing Thoughts — Vulnerability, Hope & Wrap-up
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#AlvinQuah #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #Authenticity #PsychologicalSafety #WorkplaceCulture #Leadership #SoftSkills #CodeSwitching #TrustAtWork #ValuesAtWork #WorkplaceWellbeing #PodcastAustralia #LinkedInCreator #BringYourselfToWork
1 hr 13 min - The Terrifying Freedom of Not Knowing
What do you do when there's no plan, no clear path, and no idea if what you're doing is heading anywhere? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets honest about the extended period of unknowing she's been living through and what she's learning from it.
This one covers the ego structures we build to protect ourselves from disappointment, what happens when those structures fall away, and why the mission she thought she was on turned out to be something else entirely. Tam talks about the difference between chasing external validation and actually finding peace in yourself, why self-love isn't selfish, and what it looks like to just keep taking the next step that feels right without knowing where it leads.
It also includes one of her favourite Hugh Laurie quotes, which is worth the listen on its own.
Raw, personal, and genuinely useful for anyone sitting with uncertainty right now.
In this episode:
- The ego structure of 'one day I'll be famous' and what happened when it collapsed
- Why external recognition will never be enough, and what to do instead
- The bridge of cringe: walking into the fog and staying in motion
- Why self-love is the foundation, not the reward
- Choosing a context that works for you rather than against you
- Doing the next right thing when there's no plan
- Hugh Laurie on readiness, and why now is as good a time as any
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/doyourselfafavour_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan/
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
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0:00 Terrifying freedom of not knowing
0:10 Privilege and perspective
0:36 Ego: 'One day I'll be famous'
1:43 Facing uncertainty about worth
2:01 Transition, freedom and experimentation
2:26 Faith and trust challenged
2:44 Mission: peace and self-love
4:06 Doing the next right thing
4:37 Walking into the fog — the bridge of cringe
4:58 Breakthroughs, joy and presence
6:00 Choosing a helpful context
7:20 Self-love as the foundation for giving
11:00 Take steps before you're ready; now is as good as any
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#TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #NotKnowing #SelfLove #Uncertainty #PersonalGrowth #Authenticity #InnerWork #ExternalValidation #TrustTheProcess #Ego #Mindset #PodcastAustralia #HughLaurie #BridgeOfCringe
12 min - Daily Serve Nutrition's Jess Burvill - From Supermarkets to 171K Followers
Tam Callaghan sits down with her friend and accredited dietitian Jess Burvill, the person behind the wildly useful Instagram page Daily Serve Nutrition, to talk about how a career in advertising, a mid-life study pivot, and a clear no-judgment voice turned into one of Australia's fastest-growing nutrition accounts.
Jess came to dietetics as a second career after years in advertising agencies, and it turns out those two worlds have more in common than you'd think. They cover how she applies advertising principles to nutrition content, why simple and useful always wins, what the growth from zero to 171,000 followers in 18 months actually looked like from the inside, and how she handles the less glamorous parts, including trolls, , From the supermarket job that helped shape her thesis focus, and what it takes to study full-time through COVID while working, to her current reality of success, opportunity and truly hard work.
Warm, honest, and a lot of fun.
In this episode:
- How advertising skills translate directly into social media content
- Why Daily Serve of Nutrition grew so fast and what Jess actually did differently
- The IDC posts and why the no-judgment approach resonates
- Studying dietetics part-time, then through COVID, while working
- The supermarket job that sparked her research direction
- Dealing with trolls and imposter syndrome at scale
- Brand partnerships, workload, and where it all might go next
Follow Jess: https://www.instagram.com/dailyservenutrition/
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/doyourselfafavour_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro & Welcome
0:07 Meeting Jess Burvill
0:22 Daily Serve Nutrition — Instagram Praise
1:03 No-nonsense approach & ‘DNC’' posts
1:53 Follower milestone: 171,000 & rapid growth
3:01 Career shift: Advertising to Dietetics
5:01 Advertising skills carried into social content
11:01 Studying, COVID & juggling work
15:00 Supermarket jobs & thesis inspiration
20:03 Dean's Scholar research project
27:00 Content strategy: design, voice & no-judgment
33:00 Challenges: trolls, imposter syndrome & balance
40:00 Workload, brand partnerships & future options
46:00 Reflection on mission, impact & celebrating wins
53:00 Closing, birthday plans & sign off
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#JessBurvill #DailyServeNutrition #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #Dietitian #NutritionPodcast #InstagramGrowth #SecondCareer #NoBSNutrition #SocialMediaStrategy #ContentCreator #WomensHealth #PodcastAustralia #HealthyEating #ImposterSyndrome
1 hr 8 min - You're Angry at You!
Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening.
Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which creates its own risks. Mid-level managers in particular are being handed responsibility without the agency, resources, or support to actually deliver it, and Tasha's research found they are burning out as a result.
Tasha and Tam cover what a genuine systems approach looks like versus a tick-box one, who should actually own psychosocial safety within an organisation, how to facilitate real cross-level dialogue, the silence problem around vulnerable workers, and some practical things leaders can do right now without waiting for organisational change.
Honest, rigorous, and genuinely important for anyone who manages people or influences how workplaces are designed.
In this episode:
- What Tasha's PhD research set out to find and what it revealed
- Why leaders are DIYing psychosocial safety and why that's a problem
- Who should own this, and why handing it to safety or HR alone doesn't work
- Building a cross-functional reference group that actually functions
- The mid-level manager squeeze: responsibility without authority
- Why vulnerable workers often can't report, and what organisations miss because of it
- NDAs, exit processes, and the ethical concerns Tasha raises
- Practical steps: the 10-minute check-in, device habits, and consultation pathway
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C8EfBw7yP/https://www.instagram.com/upspiral.life?igsh=MjN6eHZkY3Y1Z3po'Drink the Poison' Quote Info -https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/holding-onto-anger-is-like-drinking-poison/Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro & Guest Introduction
0:35 Episode Purpose & Webinar Reflections
2:31 PhD Research Focus: Psychosocial Safety
4:24 Study Method & Key Findings Overview
5:41 Leaders' Uncertainty and DIY Responses
7:28 Theories Used: Systems Thinking & SDT
9:53 Who Owns Psychosocial Safety?
11:07 Building a Cross-Functional Reference Group
13:30 Facilitating Safe Cross-Level Dialogue (example)
22:06 Mid-Level Managers: Burden, Burnout & Boundaries
28:24 Psychosocial Silence: Reporting & Vulnerable Workers
33:54 NDAs, Exit Processes & Ethical Concerns
39:19 Regulatory Duty, SDT & Simple Leadership Tips
40:48 Practical Moves: 10-Minute Check-Ins & Device Habits
45:59 Team-Level Ownership & Consultation Pathways
58:48 Closing: Make Work Better — Vision & Next Steps
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#PsychosocialSafety #TashaBroomhall #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #WorkplaceWellbeing #Leadership #MidLevelManagers #WorkplaceCulture #HRPodcast #PsychologicalSafety #WorkHealthAndSafety #SystemsThinking #ManagerBurnout #PodcastAustralia #MakeWorkBetter
12 min - Tasha Broomhall - Psychosocial Safety at Work: From Simple to Systems-Based Solutions
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Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening.
Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which creates its own risks. Mid-level managers in particular are being handed responsibility without the agency, resources, or support to actually deliver it, and Tasha's research found they are burning out as a result.
Tasha and Tam cover what a genuine systems approach looks like versus a tick-box one, who should actually own psychosocial safety within an organisation, how to facilitate real cross-level dialogue, the silence problem around vulnerable workers, and some practical things leaders can do right now without waiting for organisational change.
Honest, rigorous, and genuinely important for anyone who manages people or influences how workplaces are designed.
In this episode:
- What Tasha's PhD research set out to find and what it revealed
- Why leaders are DIYing psychosocial safety and why that's a problem
- Who should own this, and why handing it to safety or HR alone doesn't work
- Building a cross-functional reference group that actually functions
- The mid-level manager squeeze: responsibility without authority
- Why vulnerable workers often can't report, and what organisations miss because of it
- NDAs, exit processes, and the ethical concerns Tasha raises
- Practical steps: the 10-minute check-in, device habits, and consultation pathway
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
———————
Chapters
0:00 Intro & Guest Introduction
0:35 Episode Purpose & Webinar Reflections
2:31 PhD Research Focus: Psychosocial Safety
4:24 Study Method & Key Findings Overview
5:41 Leaders' Uncertainty and DIY Responses
7:28 Theories Used: Systems Thinking & SDT
9:53 Who Owns Psychosocial Safety?
11:07 Building a Cross-Functional Reference Group
13:30 Facilitating Safe Cross-Level Dialogue (example)
22:06 Mid-Level Managers: Burden, Burnout & Boundaries
28:24 Psychosocial Silence: Reporting & Vulnerable Workers
33:54 NDAs, Exit Processes & Ethical Concerns
39:19 Regulatory Duty, SDT & Simple Leadership Tips
40:48 Practical Moves: 10-Minute Check-Ins & Device Habits
45:59 Team-Level Ownership & Consultation Pathways
58:48 Closing: Make Work Better — Vision & Next Steps
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#PsychosocialSafety #TashaBroomhall #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #WorkplaceWellbeing #Leadership #MidLevelManagers #WorkplaceCulture #HRPodcast #PsychologicalSafety #WorkHealthAndSafety #SystemsThinking #ManagerBurnout #PodcastAustralia #MakeWorkBetter
1 hr - All of you is welcome - How Acceptance Ends Inner Battles
What if the parts of yourself you most want to get rid of are actually trying to help you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan explores parts therapy and why resisting any part of yourself, whether it's striving, jealousy, impatience, or anxiety, makes it louder, not quieter.
Drawing on her own experience with her striving part, and a conversation with a friend battling impatience, Tam makes a case for welcoming all parts of yourself rather than fighting them. It's the same principle as the previous episode on emotions, applied to the deeper, more persistent forces that drive how we behave.
She shares the experts and resources that have helped her most, and sets herself some homework alongside you.
A good companion episode to What You Resist Persists, but works as a standalone too.
Kim Holland - https://trulybe.au/
Usha Raman - https://usharaman.com.au/
Lachie Samuel - https://www.lachiesamuel.com/Peter Crone - https://www.petercrone.com/Mike Fields - https://jmikefields.com/What is "Parts" Therapy? - https://integrativepsych.co/new-blog/what-is-parts-work-therapy-ifs#:~:text=Parts%20work%20is%20a%20type%20of%20therapy,versions%20of%20managers%20that%20act%20more%20impulsivelyIn this episode:
- What parts therapy is and how it differs from working with emotions
- Why rejecting a part of yourself just makes it fight harder
- Tam's striving part and what it was actually trying to do
- The jealousy example and why she couldn't be with it
- Reframing impatience as a strength, not a flaw
- Recommended experts including Usha Rahman, Peter Crone, Lockie Samuel and J Mike Fields
- Homework: practice arriving as you are
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
#AllOfYouIsWelcome #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #PartsTherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS #SelfCompassion #PersonalGrowth #Striving #PeoplePleasing #Impatience #SelfAcceptance #Mindset #PodcastAustralia #MentalWellness
17 min - Stephan Bodian - Infinite Awakening: The Pathless Path to Presence and Love
Tam Callaghan sits down with author, meditation teacher and former Zen monk Stephan Bodian to talk about his new book Infinite Awakening, a guide to non-dual wisdom for people walking what he calls the pathless path, those who have found their way to awakening outside of monasteries, ashrams, or formal traditions.
Stephen has spent decades as a psychotherapist and teacher at his School of Awakening, and this conversation draws on all of it. They cover why spiritual bypassing is so common and so hard to spot, the difference between awakening light and the real work, and what it actually means to rest and allow rather than push and achieve.
Tam shares how Stephen's welcoming emotions meditation and the four Rs (remember, recognise, return, rest) have already changed her daily experience, and Stephen walks through his 'is anything missing?' inquiry live in the conversation. One of the most grounded and genuinely useful conversations on meditation and awareness you'll find anywhere.
In this episode:
- How Infinite Awakening came to be and who it's for
- The pathless path and why it's valid without a monastery behind it
- What spiritual bypassing actually looks like in practice
- Why awakened people can still be angry, and what that really means
- The four Rs and how to use them throughout the day
- The 'is anything missing?' meditation, explained and experienced
- How to share this kind of practice without coming across as an evangelist
- What the School of Awakening offers and how it works
Infinite Awakening by Stephen Bodian:-https://infinite-awakening.org/
His series on Waking Up -
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PDC04C?source=content%20share&share_id=1DEF4C54&code=SCF32EE09
His discussions with Sam -
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PKB5F28?source=content%20share&share_id=9D7E18CC&code=SCF32EE09
His interview with Sam Harris -
This track called The Direct Path got me thinking. I thought you might like it, too.
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C4407A?source=content%20share&share_id=AB3D2ABD&code=SCF32EE09
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
#StephenBodian #InfiniteAwakening #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #NonDual #Meditation #Awakening #SpiritualBypassing #MindfulnessPodcast #PathlessPath #SchoolOfAwakening #WakingUp #Consciousness #PersonalGrowth #PodcastAustralia
1 hr 4 min - What You Resist Persists
What you resist persists. It's one of those lines that's easy to nod at and genuinely hard to live. In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into why avoiding painful emotions doesn't make them go away, and what it actually looks like to stop fighting what's there.
Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, her own experience with 4 a.m. fear spirals before training sessions, the work of Eckhart Tolle, and Rumi's Guesthouse poem, Tam walks through what shifted for her and how you can start applying the same ideas without having to overhaul your whole inner world overnight.
She also shares the practical resources that have made the biggest difference, including Stephen Bodian's Welcoming Emotions meditation and a free month with the Waking Up app.
Honest, personal, and genuinely useful.
This track called Welcoming Emotions got me thinking. I thought you might like it, too.https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C0C545?source=content%20share&share_id=E9A776F8&code=SCF32EE09I've been using Waking Up and really enjoying it. I wanted to offer you 30 days free! No credit card required.https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SCF32EE09Rumi Guest Househttps://grateful.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/In this episode:
- Why trying to push painful feelings away makes them worse
- The downward spiral of self-critique and how to get off it
- ACT and what acceptance actually means in practice
- The 4 a.m. breakthrough that changed things for Tam
- Eckhart Tolle's 'accept, then act' and why it works
- Rumi's Guesthouse poem as a way of living
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
#WhatYouResistPersists #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #AcceptanceAndCommitmentTherapy #ACT #EckhartTolle #Rumi #MindsetShift #EmotionalHealth #Meditation #AnxietyTips #SelfCompassion #PersonalGrowth #WakingUp #PodcastAustralia
23 min - Tammy Tansley - Can we be the L word at work?
What happens when a difficult situation at work gets avoided, passed around, or quietly buried? Tam Callaghan sits down with executive coach, mediator and author Tammy Tansley to talk about one of the most common and costly patterns in workplaces: the failure to address problems early.
Tammy has spent decades being called in after things have already gone wrong. In this conversation, she and Tam get into why delay makes everything harder, what psychosocial safety actually looks like in practice, and why some of the people causing the most damage in organisations genuinely don't know they're doing it.
They also cover neurodiversity and misinterpretation, the gap between workplace rhetoric and reality, what good early intervention looks like, and two practical rules that can make a real difference even if a full culture change feels out of reach.
Honest, experienced, and genuinely useful for anyone who manages people or works in an organisation.
In this episode:
- Why wrapping a difficult employee in a bow and passing them on never works
- The real cost of heartless leadership
- Psychosocial safety vs. the bottom line
- Long-term trauma from unaddressed workplace problems
- Why the 24-48 hour rule changes everything
- Tiny steps that actually move things forward
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
#WorkplaceWellbeing #TammyTansley #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #PsychosocialSafety #Leadership #WorkplaceProblems #ManagerSupport #Neurodiversity #EarlyIntervention #WorkplaceCulture #ExecutiveCoaching #HRPodcast #PodcastAustralia #DoWhatYouSayYoullDo
1 hr 20 min - Are YOU successful? - Western Expectations vs Your Heart
Are you actually successful, or are you just measuring yourself against a standard someone else handed you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into one of the most loaded words in the Western world and asks the question most of us are quietly afraid to sit with.
Tam introduces Barbara, the name she's given to her ego, that grasping, never-satisfied inner voice that worries about how things look and whether she's keeping up. Drawing on her own experiences living in Peru, returning to one of Perth's wealthiest suburbs, and eventually leaving a high-powered Sydney career for a $2,000 Ford Laser, she makes a case for choosing heart success over grasping success.
Funny, honest, and genuinely thought-provoking.
Healing From Self-Abandonment
In this episode:
- Why advertising is designed to make you feel like you're lacking
- What living in Peru taught Tam about how much of our stress is environmental
- Status anxiety, social media, and the Sydney chapter
- What success actually looks like to Tam at 52
- The Dalai Lama story that sums it all up perfectly
Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast
Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan
Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio
Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.
#SuccessMindset #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #RedefiningSuccess #PersonalGrowth #StatusAnxiety #LifeCoaching #Authenticity #EgoVsHeart #SelfDevelopment #SocialMediaPressure #BeautyStandards #PodcastAustralia #MindsetShift #ChooseYourself
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About Do Yourself a Favour
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Tamara (Tam-rah) Callaghan Cooke (or just Tam!) Uses the wisdom of the great thinkers to discuss the whole of life. Talking about not just the pretty shiny parts, but also the challenges and setbacks,…
and how these very things, when faced courageously, can most lead to growth, joy and success.