Podcast

Our brain makes up only 2% of our total body weight. Whilst we know it has an intelligence that can support us to activate healthy decisions for ourselves – what information is it using to make these decisions? Quite often the source of information we use is external from us – an article or opinion from another person.

But what if the other 98% of our body has an intelligence that could give us the wisest of answers? Could each cell of our body be housing a wealth of information about the our self-loving (or not so loving) choices we make? Epigenetics and cellular science would say so.

Join Katie and Sam as they explore the magic of body intelligence and how you can use it to your full advantage for both your physical and mental wellbeing.

Join Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work, as she talks to Rene Ryan Thompson and Glenda Cameron-Strange about how to demystify kindy from both a practical and an emotional point of view. Rene is Deputy Principal of Currans Hill Public School and Glenda Cameron-Strange is an experienced child educational specialist. The discussion covers topics like:

1. Covering the basics – what’s practically needed before school starts, in the first two weeks and throughout the year

2. Parent protocol – your involvement, teacher contact, volunteer options, P&C

3. What to prioritise and what not

4. Flexibility – having a flexible mindset and allowing for adjustments

5. Practical strategies to support children in their first few years of school ie. nutritional and sleep needs, family discussions, support with homework etc.

6. Supporting your child to accept the changes and new routine

7. How to approach anxiety and behavioural or learning challenges

8. The power networking - who and where to ask for support

Listen to  psychotherapist and relationship family counsellor Jean Gamble, and Kiri Stejko, from Parents At Work as they discuss how to enrich and evolve your relationships ~ be that with your partner, your colleagues/manager and your children... even the milkman gets a mention!

Jean provides some great real life examples, including her own experience and what she commonly sees in her practice, to assist you to develop or revive the relationships in your life so that you find them more fulfilling.

Sometimes as a dad it can feel like you’re never winning - leaving work at a time that feels too early, but when you get home it feels too late. We all know that mothers are familiar with huge amounts of guilt when they don’t feel like they’re meeting all of life’s demands - is it any different for dads, or is it similar? The Father Hood team talk to one of our favourite working dads - the honest as ever, Dr Vijay Roach - about his journey as a working dad, proving its never too late to be an awesome father whilst maintaining a successful career. The team also explore how dads can work out how to balance competing priorities as they manage the juggle of fatherhood and work.

Listen to child development expert Sharlene Vaholos from Karitane and Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work talk all things toddlers. If you enjoy this free 1 hour podcast you might like to try our Raising Toddler Course which is a 3 part series.

In this Shared Care Special, Sarah Maxwell, People & Performance Director at Solotel, opens up to us about how she and her husband plan to take their parental leave with their baby on the way.

Their plan is to alternate in taking blocks of time off, with Sarah taking a block of 6-8 weeks off, then Peter taking 6-8 weeks, then Sarah will take a second block, then Peter will take a second block – up until 6-8 months when they will put their baby in care and both return to work.

They both love their work, and are both passionate about being fully committed, hands-on parents, sharing the care for their child.

What makes this series so unique is that we'll be able to follow Sarah & Peter over the coming months, and hear first-hand about how they're finding the experience. It's fantastic to see parental leave equality in action from the parent point of view.

As a working parent it can seem that there are never enough hours in the day and at times we can feel guilty about not spending enough time with our toddlers. Being with your toddler in a connected way that is meaningful for you both does not have to take hours, it is definitely quality over quantity.

Join Sharlene Vlahos, parenting expert from Karitane who will discuss exactly that- how to spend quality time with your toddler that ensures your relationship remains connected even through very busy days!

Every year the new year resolution theme crops up asking us to reassess what it means to be healthy.

How many of us make wellbeing decisions based on what others (the media, friends, health products) say are the ‘good’ things to do? What if there was another way of approaching our health goals? And what if, more importantly perhaps, there was a way to make changes that are sustained through the year?

Join complementary health practitioner Katie Walls and executive career coach Sam Eddy as they explore some of the common roadblocks to making real change in your wellbeing choices as well as how one might go about finding true motivation without a quick fix fad diet or ‘resolution’.

Do you have expectations? Who do they go to? How do they impact the relationships in your life? Who has them on you?

In this episode youth advocate, teen expert and mother of three teenagers, Lucy Dahill, presents what expectations are, the flavour of fear teenagers have of disappointing their parents in the face of expectations, and how parents should understand the source of expectations so as to avoid unnecessary disappointment.

Lucy talks about the three key areas that expectations appear in our lives as parents: expectations on ourselves, expectations on others, and expectations for ourselves. She also asks us to think about what WE do when we don’t meet expectations. Do we then set expectations on others so as to alleviate some of the pressure from the expectations that we are living under? She talks about how the expectations we set on others may clash with the expectations they have of us, and to understand that the communication of the underlying values within expectations is more important than just knowing what is right and wrong.

This episode looks at four big food myths that get in the way of a healthy relationship with what we eat.

1) The Food Pyramid / diet is for everyone

2) Superfood XYZ will make me healthy

3) If he/she can then I can

4) Everything in good balance (hint: who measures the good exactly?).

Join Complementary Health Practitioner Katie Walls and Executive Career Coach Sam Eddy as they myth bust these four biggies and explore ways you can remove the barriers that get in the way of you being able to make food a ‘non-issue’ for your mental and physical health.