I met Tammy in 2016 at a symposium in the beautiful Blue Mountains. She is a naturopath, ex-scientist, helicopter pilot, mother and speaker.

She blew my mind with just one of the tips she shared to boost vitality and lower stress, and in this interview we cover three!

@5 mins: How to reduce your stress levels (cortisol) by 50% with just 1 hour a week

 

@8’45”: The benefits of halving your coffee intake rather than cutting it out completely

 

@13’: How Google HQ boosted their employee’s creativity by 6x with a 20min ritual.

Let me know which ones you try.

Speak soon,

Nikki

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Some perspective from a 79 year old who still finds work fulfilling

This podcast interview is with one of my favourite people - Moshe Lang - who I've known since I was a psychology student. He is a world renowned psychologist who specialises in family therapy. In this interview he reveals some of his key insights, developed over his life, into how to boost your happiness at work and in relationships.

1.35 Moshe's top question to ask yourself when figuring out what to do with your life

3.29 How he wanted to be a psychologist, but not necessarily study psychology

The question he asks himself after every holiday

Why he still practices family therapy at the age of 79.

5.11 How the language we use around work trips us up

6.57 What society gets wrong when it comes to work

8.25 What working for pleasure in your 70's can you look like

8.50  The most critical element to enjoy your work and why the opposite invites disaster

9.58  What Moshe would change if he ruled the world: and yes it involves singing, and nature

12.20 Why 10 minutes matters and how you can re-design your work week

14.27 Why pleasure makes you a better worker

16: 41 If you don't look after yourself your capacity to look after your children or your team at work diminishes

18:39 Moshe's impression on why studying psychology is different to practicing psychology

21.22 How you can use top family therapy principles in your life

31.00 One of the best things about ageing - Hints to live your best life

32:13 Moshe's top tip to optimise relationships.

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Moshe Lang was born in Israel, migrated to Australia as a young man and settled here in 1961. He studied psychology at the University of Melbourne, and is the Director of William Road Psychotherapy Centre. Between 1965 and 1979 he was senior psychologist at the Bouverie Clinic and Director of Training. In 1979, he founded Williams Road Family Therapy Centre, the first independent family therapy centre in Australia.

Moshe has practiced and taught clinical psychology and family therapy in Melbourne since 1965 He has been a regular commentator on issues associated with clinical psychology and family therapy, and he is well known for his workshops and unique teaching style, marked by clarity, humour and empathy.

You can find out more and read Moshe's articles, videos, upcoming workshops and discover his books at moshelang.com.au.

Speak soon,

Nikki

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Strengths play a critical role in success and happiness, regardless of how junior or senior you are in your role.

In this podcast I speak with the amazing Alex Tullio. Alex has had a stellar career in finance, but realised something was missing. As it turns out, what was missing was the insights that came from understanding her strengths.

We discuss how strengths can enable leaders and the fabulous career change her strengths insights have allowed her to make.

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Whether you want to fulfill your bucket list (see last episode), create your dream job or business, or simply to create your best life, mini‑experiments create clarity, momentum and fulfillment.

Do you think about writing a book, starting a podcast, public speaking, or running an event that would fill a gap you’ve noticed?

In this episode Deanne Renting – the Queen of Mini-Experiments – takes us behind the scenes of her many mini-experiments:

Starting a blog

Establishing a podcast

Speaking at a conference

Creating a food event.

We discuss how to overcome the objections that we all create in our heads: What would I talk or write about? Do I need to pick a niche? Who would listen to me? Do I really have anything to offer?

We share how mini-experiments are the antidote to overwhelm and procrastination.

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You don’t have to marry a concept and do it forever. Just identify one small thing you can test out. This enables you to find the joy and experiment with doing something fun or adding creativity to your life. That is where the genius comes from: mini‑experiments open doors, build connections, and enable you to discover unexpected and fascinating things.

Deanne works as an engineer with a large multinational company in Perth. She lives with her partner and is mum to 2 young children.

When we first met, one of her core wishes was to return to Perth after numerous overseas postings in Thailand and North America. She has achieved that wish within the same company. In addition to returning to Perth, Deanne wanted her new role to match her strengths more strongly. She has also achieved that!

Deanne’s strengths’ profile means she wants to do a lot outside of work. Mini-experiments have been a way for her to explore what these other things might be; to learn, be creative and pursue other interests. Some of the interests we identified for her to explore included writing, travel, great food and sharing others’ stories. The barrier to starting was: How frivolous extra activities can be and how they tend to fall by the wayside in the mix with young children or extra work commitments.

Mini-experiments gave her a clear approach to add her projects into her busy life.

I recommend you listen to the entire interview, but if you don’t have time here are some key points you can jump to:

1.55 Deanne’s strengths

Find out what these strengths mean:

Communication – find it easy to put her thoughts into words

Individualisation – leverage unique qualities in others

Input – curate information from multiple sources

Significance – want to do be recognised at work

Learner – insatiable desire to learn.

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2.55 What are mini‑experiments and the benefits of doing them?

8.45 How Deanne has embraced the mini-experiment model to explore different things that she might be interested in/grow her creativity/play with her strengths, e.g. there were 3 separate mini-experiments around her blog:

Build a website

Write the content

Publish!

7.03 The ‘before’, ‘during’ & ‘after’ experience of the mini‑experiment

8.05 How Deanne’s podcast came about and how she figured out her topic. It combined her communication, individualisation, significance and learner strengths to overcome the ‘don’t’.

13.00 Benefits of the podcast mini‑experiment. How the ‘before’, ‘during’ & ‘after’ experience changed from the very beginning. Deanne’s shift from being overwhelmed to getting traction and feeling satisfied and purposeful.

16.25 How speaking at events connected Deanne with her communication and significance strengths, but not individualisation.

17.25 A mini‑experiment around a bigger project: a food tasting event

19.

“A lot of people think that everything we want to do costs time and money.

But it’s not a matter of resources. It’s a matter of resourcefulness.

If you want to do something badly enough – when the what and the why is strong – the how will work itself out.”

Trav Bell, The Bucket List Guy

On the last podcast we heard Mel’s tips from her experience as a palliative care nurse in the cancer domain. Her daily definition of success is simple and liberating:

“How much FUN have I had today?!”

We sometimes lose the ability to know how we want to spend our time; how we have fun if we’re not working and doing the things we have to do or think we have to do.

Time to introduce Trav Bell – The Bucket List Guy – who has a formula to help us to figure out what all the fun things are that we want to do in our life. And travel/adventure is only 1 of the 12 categories in the formula.

Are you like me and have a bucket list that doesn’t quite feel right? Mine has adventures I want to have, but it never felt like the full story. Now I know why.

Trav’s formula is brilliant! He is on this planet to help others wake up and live theirs before it’s too late.

Trav has ticked off an impressive list of bucket list items, which he first wrote when he was 18:

Hike to the Mt Everest advanced base camp

Climb Mount Kilimanjaro

Be a model for a life drawing class

Complete an ironman triathlon

Run a paperless business

Walk the Kokoda Track

Ride the Alpe D’Huez In France

Visit The Happiest Country On Earth

Meet Tim Ferriss

Go To The Burning Man Festival.

Yours don’t need to be as massive as these!

Mini-experiments enable us to make a start, build our confidence and keep adding to our bucket list.

If you’re thinking, “How on earth do I find the time?”, start with working from home 1 day. If it goes well, you now have the evidence to shape that in your role. Then work from home 1 day every week, so you re-claim your commute time and dedicate it to something else.

If you want some help on this, simply book a free discovery session.

If speaking is on your list, you can book in a chat with Trav.

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Your mini-experiment/challenge

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Sign-up to Trav’s e-book: www.thebucketlistguy.com

Send your top 5 bucket list items for this year to Trav: [email protected] & see how his community helps each other achieve their bucket list goals together

Listen to Trav’s TEDTalk (above).

“Life is way too short not to live your bucket list… Hurry the hell up!”

So, what’s on your bucket list?

Speak soon,

Nikki

Resources

E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber

Brad Sugars: Action Coach

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As a palliative care nurse, Mel has seen many people work hard and earn with a focus on enjoying retirement. Then they reach retirement and their life is cut short by cancer.

In this podcast, Mel shares how to live now rather than waiting for this or waiting for that.

Discover how working in this role has influenced Mel’s definition of success. It is brilliant in its simplicity. And, you can start today.

Mel also discusses her transition from being a palliative care nurse working with cancer patients, to counseling/mentoring with a mission to prevent cancer from starting.

How do you define success?

Mel’s definition of success took my breath away! I was sitting with her, enjoying a salad near the water in Melbourne on a sunny day when she told me.

Our definitions of success are naturally conditioned by our parents and others in our lives. Clients who come to me to navigate a career change. A key part of my process is to review their definition of success; understand what has influenced them; then identify which elements are serving them well and which aren’t.

Mel’s definition is a shortcut to living well today!

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Melonie is the Chief Energy Officer of Success on Purpose. She supports clients to live well!

Mel has a Bachelor of Nursing, Bachelor of Applied Science/Health Promotion and Specialist Certificate in Palliative Care from Melbourne University. Through her work as a Palliative Care Nurse for 18 years, and her own experience of burnout, anxiety and depression, she learnt that it is not sustainable to keep giving without receiving. Mel learnt how to be Self‑“ish” (more like self), to receive self-love, live from the heart and then give out her overflow. As a success mentor, author and keynote speaker, Mel supports professionals to not wait until it’s too late! Live life now like there’s no tomorrow!

Find out more about Mel, her services, webinars and workshops at www.successonpurpose.net.au

I recommend listening to the whole interview, but if you’re short on time, here are some key moments you can jump to:

2.00: Who is Mel and what happened at age 6 to lead Mel to become a nurse?

8.42: Cross Roads – how burnout and a broken wrist led to the start of a career change

12.39: Top tip 1 & 2 from what she learnt from palliative care, including Mel’s definition of success that blew my mind

19.48: Mel’s mission to cure cancer

22.30: Tip 3 – How to save tonnes of energy in life.

26:00: Wanted more contribution and growth in her life and decided to start her business on the side.

What to expect with career change.

30:16: Mel’s mini-experiments to take her from palliative care nurse to counseling/mentor business owner

34.30: Mel’s strengths: learner, achiever, positivity, arranger and maximiser and how she can use them even more in her business.

To find your strengths go to my free strengths guide (see below).

41.12: Mel’s mini-challenge for today:

(1) Pursue joy/fun once a day, once a week and once a month, or

(2) Write down 3 things you’re grateful for each night plus how do they make you feel.

Speak soon,

Nikki

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Are you an achiever running on empty?

Spinning your wheels with a job search that’s unsustainable AND anxiety inducing?

Is it me or this part time job? Why am I not coping?

No matter how good a role/business looks like on paper, it may not be the best-fit for you or your family.

Katie had previously navigated a successful career change and wondered why she was so stuck when doing it for a second time.

She found it hugely reassuring to hear that it’s difficult to navigate a career change when you have more than one interest (a ‘multi‑passionate’!).

She also realised that it’s OK if you can’t figure this out on your own. In fact, it’s normal.

I help multi-passionates to figure out this conundrum:

“What will I do next work wise that is meaningful, plays to my strengths and meets my lifestyle needs?”

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Listen to this episode to find out what blew Katie away and transformed her mood from anxious to inspired.

I recommend listening to the whole interview, as there’s so much in it. But here are some key points you can jump straight into:

1.44  - Why working in a law firm didn’t feel right

3.10 - How Katie moved from a law firm into publishing

5.00 - The fascinating role of a commissioning editor

10.43 - 15 years in the one workplace. Her rising fear that she might never leave.

Plus questions like, “Why am I not coping? Is it me or the role?”

The tipping point for Katie to resign: “If I stay any longer, I may not leave well.”

17:00 Choosing to resign and what life was like on the other side. How not having a framework meant that Katie had time, but felt anxious and miserable

20:00  Reflecting on resigning, being honest about the reasons, and the wave of support for her choice to be at home and not work for a period of time

30.00 How Katie regained some control through figuring out, “What’s next?”

31.10 How she got inspired and felt relief

33.00 How your dream life does not need to be separate from your work life.

What we discovered in our first session working together and Katie’s mini‑experiments. Plus, how the power of mini-experiments blew her away, gave her a deep sense of joy and transformed her mood from anxious to inspired.

We spend @ 1/3 of our lives at work. Are you happy doing what you're doing?

Speak soon,

Nikki

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Are you an achiever running on empty?

Spinning your wheels with a job search that’s unsustainable AND anxiety inducing?

Is it me or this part time job? Why am I not coping?

No matter how good a role/business looks like on paper, it may not be the best-fit for you or your family.

 

Katie had previously navigated a successful career change and wondered why she was so stuck when doing it for a second time.

She found it hugely reassuring to hear that it’s difficult to navigate a career change when you have more than one interest (a ‘multi‑passionate’!).

She also realised that it’s OK if you can’t figure this out on your own. In fact, it’s normal.

I help multi-passionates to figure out this conundrum:

“What will I do next work wise that is meaningful, plays to my strengths and meets my lifestyle needs?”

Listen to this episode to find out what blew Katie away and transformed her mood from anxious to inspired.

 

I recommend listening to the whole interview, as there’s so much in it. But here are some key points you can jump straight into:

* 1.44  – Why working in a law firm didn’t feel right

* 3.10 – How Katie moved from a law firm into publishing

* 5.00 – The fascinating role of a commissioning editor

* 10.43 – 15 years in the one workplace. Her rising fear that she might never leave.

Plus questions like, “Why am I not coping? Is it me or the role?”

The tipping point for Katie to resign: “If I stay any longer, I may not leave well.”

* 17:00 Choosing to resign and what life was like on the other side. How not having a framework meant that Katie had time, but felt anxious and miserable

* 20:00  Reflecting on resigning, being honest about the reasons, and the wave of support for her choice to be at home and not work for a period of time

* 30.00 How Katie regained some control through figuring out, “What’s next?”

* 31.10 How she got inspired and felt relief

* 33.00 How your dream life does not need to be separate from your work life.

What we discovered in our first session working together and Katie’s mini‑experiments. Plus, how the power of mini-experiments blew her away, gave her a deep sense of joy and transformed her mood from anxious to inspired.

Speak soon,

Nikki

I’ll say it again: mini-experiments create magic in your work and life!

They:

take the pressure off you – remove the need for something new to be a success from the get go

calm the people around you – they don’t need to worry about you as you’re simply testing something out.

You don’t need to commit to it long term, simply test out an idea. You collect data or evidence for how you feel before, during and after.

Before starting something new you are likely to feel uncertain, nervous and have some self‑doubt. But so long as the ‘during’ and ‘after’ are positive, that is enough evidence to set the mini‑experiment.

Earlier in the year I interviewed Sam Sutherland on workplace negotiation coaching. We discuss a strategy she observed (in a previous workplace) and applied to triple her income in 3 years and create strong boundaries.

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Another client of mine listened to the podcast and asked if Sam would coach her on workplace (incl. salary) negotiation. Sam was initially hesitant, as she’d tried her hand at life coaching previously and didn’t think it was for her. So, we discussed whether it could be a mini-experiment.

I encouraged her to test the idea before dropping it, as here was a way she could combine her strengths and solve a problem that people wanted solved. I also pointed out that:

until you do it you won’t really know whether it’s right for you

a mini-experiment is a test: you do not need to commit to it long term.

The result of Sam’s mini‑experiment is surprising and brilliant. Talk about a massive positive feedback loop in record time! So, listen to this podcast and find out what happened.

 

Speak soon,

Nikki

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Be clear and confident and stand out from other candidates.

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I’ll help you to figure out your next dream career move

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Do you ever fantasise about working from home by the sea?

Sarah Marshall has realised this dream while being employed by a Melbourne-based organisation.

Listen to us chat about her career change and the mini-experiments that have landed her there.

If you’re inspired by Sarah’s story, book in for a free discovery session & find out what’s possible for you!

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