In The Game Podcast

Meet Katrina:
After serving an unprecedented two consecutive terms as USTA Chairman and President, Katrina M. Adams will serve the next two years as Immediate Past President. Adams was the first African-American, first former professional tennis player and youngest person ever to serve as USTA President.

An accomplished professional player, Adams competed for 12 years on the WTA Tour, winning 20 career doubles titles and reaching the quarterfinals or better in doubles at all four Grand Slam events. In 2015, Adams was elected vice president of the International Tennis Federation, and in 2016, was appointed as chairman of the Fed Cup Committee. In 2018, Adams was also named chairman of the Gender Equality in Tennis Committee.  

She was named to Adweek magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Sports” list in 2016 and 2017 and Forbes magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Sports” list in 2017.  Also in 2017, Adams was named to Ebony magazine’s “Power 100” list. Since 2005, Adams also has served as the executive director of the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program, based in New York City.

During her administration, the USTA achieved a number of major milestones, including the opening of the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., and the completion of the strategic transformation of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. She also spearheaded an unprecedented outreach effort into underserved communities—with an emphasis on Hispanic communities—in an effort to share the sport of tennis with more people. 

A native of Chicago, Adams now lives in White Plains, N.Y.

Contact Katrina:
Instagram: @katadams68
Twitter: katadams68
Facebook: katrina.adams.921

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Meet Megan:

Megan is a social innovator, global change-maker, tech entrepreneur and champion for human-centred solutions to complex social problems.
 
In 2010, after a 25-year career in government, publishing, and international aid and development, Megan’s son was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Through her experience in addressing system-wide change she took on the glaring inequity facing children with serious illness -- isolation due to time away from school. She co-founded MissingSchool, a now internationally-recognised not-for-profit.

Working inside of the Australian Government, she designed a world-first education innovation that connects seriously ill students to their classrooms through “tele-presence robots”!

She has authored publications on issues of Australian national interest and co-wrote an Australian-first report on school connection for sick kids, generating a PM's statement of support and 160+ media articles. She instigated the first Australian government report on the issue and guided its governance methodology. Megan then moved to designing a world-first education innovation that connects seriously-ill students to their classrooms through telepresence robots.

Megan's experience has forged a strong sense of social justice, she began her career in government and rose through the ranks to become the NSW Finance Minister’s youngest staffer. Her later work in international development saw her spearheading multi-million dollar initiatives to address complex social and development issues across 24 countries. She is an expert on raising funding for large and dynamic innovation projects.
 
Megan now teaches and mentors changemakers to build enterprises for social good, and has co-founded tech startups in the global development and the assistive robot sector. Megan is a Churchill Fellow, a media spokesperson, and a keynote and TEDx Speaker. She was a 2019 finalist for the ACT Australian of the Year and won 2019 ACT For Purpose and Social Enterprise Telstra Business Women’s Award. 
 
Megan pursues lasting social change at scale and, through the power of human connection, shifts people from passive observers to active changemakers.

See Megan in action during her TedX talk

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Lessons from our day at IMD Business School 

IMD Business School has been voted #1 by the Financial Times for the past 7 years in a row for Open Executive Business Programs.

We got the lucky honor of sitting “incognito” in the back of the room of the "Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives" 10-day business course and we just had to share all the enlightening we received.

We surely couldn’t keep all this high level and leading edge stuff to ourselves…

Come to know IMD: www.imd.org

This exact program: www.imd.org/bpse/executive-leadership-development-program/

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Reflections from the movie "Boy Erased"
Here’s the description of this movie from a PLOT point of view.  We recommend you GO & WATCH before listening to our reflections as we will surely spoil it for you.  However, come back to us for the discussion as we were deeply moved and compelled to share what “Being Gay” is according to US!

Plot:
Jared Eamons[a] (Lucas Hedges) is the son of Marshall Eamons (Russell Crowe), a successful car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons (Nicole Kidman), a self-styled hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love In Action gay conversion therapy assessment program. Chief therapist Victor Sykes (Joel Edgerton) tells the group that their sexuality is a choice influenced by poor parenting. He instructs them to perform harsh "moral inventories" of themselves and their families and requires them not to tell anyone else about what occurs during the sessions. Nancy rents a nearby motel for her and Jared to stay in until he completes the assessment; however, Jared soon discovers that the therapy has no set end point, and may require him to move into an on-campus home if he fails to convince Sykes that he has become straight.

Jared's life prior to entering the program shows him well-adjusted and happy, though he breaks up with his girlfriend upon starting college. Once there, he becomes friends with another student, Henry (Joe Alwyn), and has a brief, romantic, intimate encounter with an art student, Xavier (Théodore Pellerin). While staying the night in Jared's dorm room, Henry rapes Jared and tearfully confesses that he has done the same to another young man. Traumatized, Jared returns home to recover. Henry calls the Eamons' home and poses as a school counselor in order to out Jared and ensure his silence. Jared confesses to being attracted to men. After consulting with other pastors, Marshall signs him up for conversion therapy, to which Jared reluctantly agrees.

Weeks into his therapy, Jared gets to know the other attendees also seeking to become straight. Some, like Jon (Xavier Dolan), are fanatically devoted to conversion to the point where they refuse to even touch other men. Others, like Gary (Troye Sivan), are merely "playing the part", pretending that the therapy is working until they can be released and return to a normal life. At her insistence, Jared lets Nancy read the program's handbook, which is full of questionable psychology and obvious grammatical errors. After failing an exercise, attendee Cameron (Britton Sear) is humiliated by Sykes in front of the group and intimidated with a fake funeral service. Cameron is then beaten with bibles by both the therapists and his own family and forcibly dunked in a bathtub in one of the program's prison-like homes. 

Read more here

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Meet Chris:

“Serial Entrepreneur. Strategic Adviser. Former Head of Product @ Uber Developer Platform. Co-author of APML. Co-founder of the DataPortability Project. Mentor @ Founders for Founders. Podcaster. Aussie living in both San Francisco and Brisbane. Curious about everything.”

I build Strategies, Products, Messages, Brands, Ecosystems, Standards and Startups.

I am interested in both the form and the function. I prefer streams over pages, liberal over conservative, open over closed. I am interested in helping others succeed so that we can all work and play in shared personal and professional success.

I have been a leader in the following fields...

• Startups

I have started, built and run a series of great startups. Most as CEO, all as co-founder.

• Product Management and Design

Designing Minimum Viable Products (MVP), User Experience, User Interface, Baking in social etc.

• Developer Platforms

APIs, SDKs, Ecosystems & more. Built a platform from 0 to 85 Billion API calls a month (Echo). Ran Product for Uber Developer Platform.

• On-Demand/Sharing Economy

Building two-sided marketplaces, managing reputation & trust, marketplace management etc

•  Future of Media

Worked with all major media including ABC, Reuters, CNN, AMC, TechCrunch etc to help them design and build next-generation media experiences and monetization models.

•  Enterprise BD, Sales, Strategy & Support

Building, selling and supporting products into large brands and media companies. I worked with central product and IT groups at CNN, Univision, NASDQ, Disney, UMG, NBCU, Coke, Fanta, AT&T and more.

• Data Portability

Developing, participating in and inventing open standards and protocols for interoperability between independent services and tools.

•  Unbundling

The breaking down of companies, apps, services into more discrete component parts for hyper-personalization and disruption at runtime. 

• Silicon Valley

Fundraising, key players, politics, relationships, logistical and cultural insights, etc).

• Social Media Strategy

Techniques for participating in, influencing and leveraging social media to grow new markets, influence thought leaders and drive industry conversations. 

Contact Chris:
Website: chrissaad.com
Twitter: twitter.com/chrissaad
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chrissaad
Facebook: facebook.com/chrissaad

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Meet David:

• Background Education 
• Chartered Herbalist 
• Medical Exercise Program Director
• NLP Master Practitioner 
• Bio-Kinesiologist 
• Currently working on completing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy program. 

Other:

• National Ranked Natural BodyBuilder (11 top 3 finishes, 5 of which are 1st place) 
• Competing in May again in open heavy weight and grandmasters in Vancouver. 
• Isagenix Legacy Member 
• Owner of Factor 3 Fitness and The I AM Project 
• Currently working on a talk for a TedX in 2019

Contact David:
Website: factor3fitness.com
Instagram: instagram.com/davidgilks
Facebook: facebook.com/david.gilks1

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Today, we continue the conversation with a millennial who began slogging it out as a bricklayer before having his life interrupted by network marketing.  He is now a multiple 6-figure earner after 7yrs with Isagenix in an industry that couldn't be further from his beginnings. It seems to me that today’s guest has invested most of his money in learning and growing himself.  At only 32yrs old, Ben Kelly has quite a social media following as I believe he’s not the only one seeking answers for his life.  There is a kind of enigma around him bc he stays in his own lane and shares where he’s at with utmost honesty.  I look forward to exposing his story to you all of you in hopes that you can see possibility for your own life! 
 

Meet Ben:
Ben was a financially crippled bricklayer with large debt along with a debilitating mindset and low self worth as he struggled for purpose with a feeling of very little hope of a better life. He managed to turn that around in 2 short years through a strong desire to learn, grow and find a better way. Now, a multiple 6-figure earner in the profession of network marketing, he leads a movement of thousands around the world. He speaks to large groups throughout Australia, the US, the UK and Asia sharing the lessons he has learned as a millennial.

His successful network marketing business has allowed him, along with his sister Peta to retire their single mother of four “Christine” and alleviate all of her financial burden. Ben loves travelling the world to lead people to their own empowerment, growth and expansion so they can step into greater expressed versions of themselves.

Contact Ben:
instagram.com/__benjames_/
facebook.com/benjameskelly87

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Meet Dandipani:
Dandapani is a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and a former monk of 10 years. His mission is to help people live a life of purpose and joy by empowering them with tools and teachings that have been used by Hindu monks of his tradition for thousands of years. He works with entrepreneurs globally and companies such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Nike, Trivago, Xero in cultivating focus and managing energy. He and his wife are also passionately creating a 33-acre spiritual sanctuary and botanical garden in Costa Rica to further their mission. He invites you to visit one day when it is done.

Contact Dandipani:
www.dandapani.org
learn.dandapani.org
Instagram: @dandapanillc
Facebook: @DandapaniLLC

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Today, we continue the conversation with a profound spiritual teacher with over 30 years of experience under her “Buddhist robe”.  Having spent over 40,000hrs in meditation and silent retreat, sharing space with this Holiness the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and organizing a UN Summit; she began sharing her knowledge with “Enlightenment and Money” workshops and has now crystalized it with her ascendant mastery programs.  Imagine being able to tune your frequency to eliminate such things as procrastination and sabotage…yes please!

Angela has had a major impact on my life.  A couple of years ago, we worked intimately together to help me raise my consciousness and start aligning with the dreams I had for my life.  Unpacking my past, getting in touch w the little girl who had often been shoved to the side in order to achieve and drive for success; I began to understand me more and wade through the murk that was draining my energy.  As I began expanding who I was, other areas began to swell – like my financial barometer, my relationship with my Mom, and my capacity to make an impact in life.

Now, I so want to share Angela with you all.  Many of you are on the precipice of new dreams and ideas coming to life and she can help you move into your potential and raise your frequency to align to the visions you have for your life.  So, lets get into it…

Meet Angela:

After more than 30 years as a Spiritual Counsellor, 28 years as a student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, 40,000+ hours spent in meditation and silent retreat, and working with some of the great Spiritual Masters of our time, Angela knew it was time to bring her next level or work to the world. 
 
 Angela has created the ‘Ultimate Prosperity Program’ specifically to help business owners – how to achieve Financial AND Spiritual abundance (Without Compromise).  She’s authored 5 books, 5 Guided Meditation CDs and has over 375,000 views on one of her YouTube meditations. 

After a few months of retreat in Canada, Angela put together my next level of work ‘Ultimate Prosperity Intensive Master Mind’. Now launched in Australia, these workshops are for the serious Spiritual Aspirant, Spiritual Teachers, and Business Mavericks who are looking to raise their consciousness, deepen their relationship with the divine, and watch all aspects of their life flourish as a result.

Here’s a small sample of what I now teach…

• How to ‘Dial In’ and ‘REPROGRAM’ Your ‘Electromagnetic Field’ (NEVER before offered in Australia)
• How to ‘Step Into’ - Your Sovereignty - And Claim The Power Available To You At Birth
• Step-By-Step -- How to Eliminate Procrastination, Sabotage & Life-Force Drain
• The REAL Tantra - What It Is - What it Isn’t - And How to Utilise This Ancient Knowledge
• ‘The Frequency Elevation Formula’ - Unique Tools & Techniques to Tune Your Frequency
• How to Deepen Intimacy - with Yourself -- Your Loved Ones - And The Divine
  www.ascensionmastery.com.au

Contact Angela:

enlightenmentandmoney.com
facebook.com/ascensionmastery
twitter.com/angela_hryniuk
instagram.com/angelahryniuk/

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

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Today, we continue the conversation with Australia’s most grounded architects.  I proclaim this because I can’t imagine another architect firm in Australia who could sit for 40 days in meditation without uttering a word!  Not that Vipassana meditators would ever challenge one another to such a feat, I continue to be astounded by how today’s guest Monika Obrist brings “the breath” to her daily mode of operating.

Originating from Austria, Monika and her husband Erhard (Ed) have been practicing Vipassana meditation for the past 15 years and more recently become teachers of the technique.  When they started their architectural firm Refresh in 2010, it was only a matter of time before accolades such as ‘House of the Year’ was bestowed upon them for their NSW beachhouse in 2015.  Currently, this couple are creating accessibility by providing housing for people with disability.  I wanted to showcase Monika and Ed’s life so our community could see how incorporating meditation into business leads to whole other level of success.

Meet Monica:

Monika graduated with a Masters in Architecture from TU Graz, Austria. She studied architectural influences of Spain at Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and Mexico at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. After that, Monika worked in architecture and visual communications, perfecting her skills as a designer, while working for several design studios in Austria as well as Australia. In 2010 she co-established R* driven by her desire to combine European design with the diversity of the Australian environment and culture.

REFRESH*DESIGN [R*] is an award-winning Brisbane based architectural design studio committed to realising finely crafted contemporary architecture responsive to brief and context. We have completed a diverse range of projects including houses and renovations, townhouses and apartments, commercial and hospitality projects.

The R* team is inspired by how architecture can shape a better society by enhancing the human experience. Our mission is to use design as a tool to surpass our client’s aspiration whilst at the same time balancing their intentions to positively influence the environment.

Our work has a strong focus on sustainability, underlined by its capacity to endure. It is contextual, adaptable, harmonious and well considered in the use of space, light, material and technology. Striving for the most meaningful and sustainable solutions, from concept to delivery, in every phase we continue to improve and refine the design until the project is complete.

Our collaborative approach revolves around input from all stakeholders involved, our clients, collaborators and craftsmen. With extensive experience in urban infill developments, the R* team thrives in working on complex challenges. Difficult sites or planning controls motivate us to find alternative solutions to achieve better outcomes, and in doing so to question the conventional.

European and Australian experience as architects and developers has given us an advantage to appreciate the fundamental importance of a project’s economic viability.

Contact Monica @Refresh Design:
refreshdesign.com.au
facebook.com/like.refreshdesign/
twitter.com/_RefreshDesign

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The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.

Ge...