If you're asking THESE common questions to connect with people, you're working harder than you need to—for low-grade relationship success.

Personally and professionaly, these common check-in questions are the reason your kids bottle up and your stakeholders agree to do deliver work they never follow through on.

In this episode, we're flipping the script on lazy questions and unpacking: ⚡ The sneaky bias trap that's making you misread people in your life ⚡ How better questions = deeper connection (with your kids, partner, team & more) ⚡ The 5 DOs & DON'Ts for instantly upgrading your communication game

Because if you want better relationships, more ease in your life, and less frustration, the fix is simple: Ask better questions.

Much love, Cath x

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

All men don't communicate in a certain way, not all women communicate the opposite...

I know, knickers will be twisted over this episode and given how the phrase 'toxic masculinity' has been hijacked and even emerging young men are scared to be themselves... I understand the concern...

But in my work coaching leaders to be heard, there are some common blockers... and specifically, in this chat we're talking about how you sell yourself. In an interview or on the job. How do you make your brilliance known, without... agression or sleaziness?

How do we lean into the strengths of masculie and feminine styles of communication, without veering to the extremes? And, does doing that mean we're being inauthentic?

The way we communicate has less to do with the gender assigned at birth and everything to do with how we were socialised to communicate. The way we were taught to show up in relationships, how to be taken seriously, how to be seen.

This episode is a micro masterclass in how to challenge the stereotype you were taught to use... and what to do instead, for a better, more helpful result. This is the communication style that will help you to be heard - without slimy self promotion tactics that make your skin crawl.

Let's break the mould. This episode explores how we can communicate from a place of authentic power and balance, specifically in relation to 'selling yourself'.

If you're ready to embrace communication that's grounded in authenticity, power, and balance, this episode is for you.

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

This 9-minute guided meditation is designed to cut through the noise of your mental load and bring you instant clarity, focus, and alignment—fast. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or just need to reset your energy, this practice will get you there without overthinking it.

There isn't even an INTRO for this episode. (No extra talking at all - who KNEW that was psossible!)

Download / save this shortie mediation episode for whenever you need it. At work, at home, its a hefty 9 minute fog - clearing balance session.

Hit play, drop in, and walk away with a clear head and balanced thinking—ready to move forward with confidence.

Much love,

Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

The Recharge for the Time-Poor: This is the 9-Minute Game-Changer

When you're juggling all the things, balance can feel like a luxury you just don't have time for. But, shcking as it may sound, balance doesn't have to take time away from what's important to you—instead, it's about thinking better in the time you already have.

In this episode, I break down a 7-step mental shift that takes just minutes to get you thinking more clearly, prioritising better, and showing up as the leader (and human) you actually want to be. No fluff, no guilt—just practical strategies that fit into your reality.

And because I know knowing isn't the same as doing, I've got a bonus guided meditation dropping today too—so when you need a reset, it's right there for you.

Because balance is performacne plus rest: they enable each other. It's a power move.

🎧 Listen now

Much love,

Cath

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Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

Imposter Syndrome is when others think you're better than you think you are. But what happens when you know you're brilliant, yet you're still not getting the recognition you deserve? That's what I call Reverse Imposter Syndrome.

In this episode, I'm sharing the term I coined to describe that dangerous trap where you start doubting your brilliance because your work isn't being acknowledged. The truth is, the problem isn't your brilliance at all—it's likely your communication style.

If you're caught in Reverse Imposter Syndrome, this episode is a must-listen to break free from the frustration, reclaim your confidence, and step into your true potential.

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

Balance Vs. The World: Wha'ts AI's role in the chaos?

Achieving balance is an internal game, but let's be real- it's constantly held hostage by the world we live in. Expectations, conditioning, the cost of living, kids, parents, the boss...

And now we add in AI to that mix. AI has the potential to make it better- or make it worse.

You and I are the end users of AI, right? We're not just consumers, we're humans. So it should be built with us in mind. But is it?

Enter Tracey Spicer. She's the expert on how a lack of diversity is shaping our future world-and not in a good way.

Tracey Spicer AM is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster, and fierce advocate for gender equality and media reform. We're also practically neighbours, sharing a lagoon and a love of balance.

In this brilliant (and hilarious) chat, we dig into how AI is already shaping our world and what we can do to take the wheel from here.

AI gives us an ironic mismatch: technology meant for the future that's actually dragging us back to the inequities of the past. Tracey's got the insights on how we can step up right now and become active participants in shaping the world we want for tomorrow.

So, join us, friend. It's a brave, funny, and powerful conversation you won't want to miss.

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

If you've ever wondered whether you're focusing on the right things in your growth — this one's for you.

Nicole Webber is one of my favourite humans to talk to about power, leadership and what it really looks like to build capacity — in yourself, and in others. She's an absolute expert in CliftonStrengths, and the kind of coach who helps people unlock something big by showing them what's already working.

In this episode, we talk about:

• how to stop obsessing over your 'gaps' and start trusting what's already strong

• why 'growth' doesn't mean becoming someone else

• and how Nicole's new book Powered Up came to life (spoiler: it's full of permission, power, and fun)

If you're leading a team, growing your career, or just tired of feeling like you have to be good at everything — take a beat and tune in. This conversation is packed with insight, ease, and a few joyful truth bombs.

🎧 Listen in. And if you love it, share it with someone who's doing too much and needs a reminder of their magic.

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

Are you silently raging about how women are so quick to feel guilty over pleasure? Why does the term 'guilty pleasure' even exist?

It's no surprise that the only things we've been conditioned to feel allowed to enjoy are the ones marketed to us—making us feel guilty for indulging in our own joy.

If you've found yourself last on the list—whether it's at work, at home, or in the bedroom—this episode is your wake-up call. Time to stop apologizing for your pleasure and start embracing it fully. Press play and join the conversation. 💥

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!

Ashling O'Brien is ceaselessly curious. A radiant heart and a ruthless organiser. She's also a super engaged mum, adoring wife, briliant business leader, and instantly recognisable local icon.

But life doesn't always feel as polished as it looks.

In this episode, we explore global moves with babies, starting a business in a new country with no support networks- and twins. Then starting the next new business during the very week COVID lockdowns rolled out. Most would scale back. Ashling leaned in.

Her business baby, OsteoStrong, thrives when her clients do. And they are. Bringing technology to wellness for dramatic health gains.

This chat was recorded two weeks after we strategised: huddled in the only café in our tourist town with doors to keep out the icy wind off Sydney Harbour.

Ashling throught she was failing miserably at balance. Because how it looked didnt' match how it felt. Other people's standards vs our own. In this chat we're digging in to how to take balance off the heavy to-do list and make it real.

You'll take away insights on keeping your life, work, and ambition moving without losing yourself.

🎧✨ Tune in for a conversation about curiosity, strategy, and making balance actually happen—even when everything is stacked against you.

Much love, Cath

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🎙️ About The Goddess of Balance Podcast Hosted by Catherine Nolan — five-time #1 bestselling author, multi-award-winning leadership and performance coach — this podcast explores how to build real balance: the kind that fuels peak performance at work and peace at home. Because balance is doing what matters brilliantly, and resting just as well.

Thanks for sharing the journey with us!