Seize the Yay

Few things feel as special as absolutely frothing one of our guests and everything they do, then hearing that they’ve been listening to the podcast themselves for years. And I feel even more privileged to have today’s guest on the show because she doesn’t do these very often (and in fact didn’t even reveal herself as the founder of her business until 8 months after its explosive launch onto the scene!)

That’s just one of the many examples of Samantha Brett blazing her own trail – I found this chat such an invigorating reminder that someone out there is always looking for exactly what you have to offer even if it doesn’t already exist or nobody else is doing it. And it turns out ALL of us were looking for and NEEDING exactly what she has to offer with her award-winning, world-leading Naked Sundays SPF skincare.

If you’re in the demographic of this podcast you’ve probably already heard if Naked Sundays but if not – it’ll change your life (or at the very least your skin). In a country where melanoma rates are among the highest in the world, Samantha has changed the way the most at-risk but most reluctant demographic relates to SPF creating WORLD first, high performance, multi-purpose, chemist-formulated products.

She explains them best herself, but imagine sunscreen without the whiteness, stickiness and clogging of the skin and I can’t not mention the hydrating glow mist that allows you to reapply ON TOP of your make up INVISIBLY while setting not interrupting it!!!! AND this has all happened only recently with an ENTIRE career in news reporting and column writing beforehand – talk about a pathYAY! I’ll stop before I gush too much, but I hope you are as blown away by this one as I am.

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I doubt there are many of you listening who haven’t drooled once or twice over Chris Hemsworth’s body before... I mean, you’re only human right? WELL, you may NOT have realised you were actually drooling over our GUEST for this week – yep, I’m thrilled to have Chris’ legendary body double and professional stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton on the show this week.

Bobby has worked on many major Hollywood blockbuster films including Thor, The Avengers, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, as well as hit TV show, Game of Thrones earning him a host of awards including 8 SAG AWARDS and 2 EMMYS. You know I love having all sorts of pathways on the show and we all see stunt doubles ALL the time but I’ve never really thought about how you actually become one, so this one was a BLAST!

It kind of makes sense that Bobby’s beginnings were in gymnastics starting as young as four building up to becoming a Gold Medalist for Great Britain and competing all around the world – a career interesting and multi-faceted in itself that you’ll hear about. PLUS Bobby isn’t just a pretty face slash body, he’s also just THIS WEEK releasing his first children’s picture book - The Adventures of Eddie and Flip Boy. He’ll tell you more about it himself, so introducing…. Bobby Holland Hanton!

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This week is Men’s Health Week from the 13th to the 19th June and every year we dedicate a specific episode to the conversation. Like most international or national awareness weeks, the health and wellness of men and boys and their specific needs are important every week and not just right now, but it always helps to have gentle reminders, especially for topics that can carry by stigma, tradition or shame.

We’ve had some amazing conversations with fabulous guests about the changing social conceptions of masculinity, the biggest challenges for men’s mental health and how we can better support our boys earlier on in life. And I can’t think of anyone better to continue those chats this year than clinical psychologist, leading men’s mental health researcher AND Director of Mental Health Training at Movember, Dr Zac Seidler.

Zac is the ultimate advocate for better understanding men’s mental health and masculinity dedicating his career to helping reduce the staggering rate of male suicide worldwide. I loved hearing how he approaches this passion from all directions continuing to see patients one on one, research academically AND work at an executive level at Movember.

He’s got a million things going on so I feel very lucky he has shared his wisdom and passion with the yayborhood. Content warning - We do discuss mental health and suicide in some depth, so please do take care and I’ve listed some resources below – please never hesitate to reach out for help.

PLEASE REACH OUT IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING:

Lifeline 13 11 14

Beyondblue

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Our final guest for the Finders SEEKers miniseries is none other than SEEK’s very own Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand – Kendra Banks. And we are SO lucky to benefit not only from her insider tips on taking advantage of the Great Job Boom, but also her personal wisdom on pivoting gleaned through an incredibly diverse and exciting career.

With a BA from Yale in Economics and Maths followed by a Masters in Euro Politics, Kendra – like many of us – has ended up in places she never expected spanning industries, roles and even continents across the US, UK, Denmark and Australia. She is the perfect example of how rewarding the INTRAPreneurial pathyay can be working with huge companies from McKinsey to Oxfam and Tesco to moving down under for Coles before her current role with SEEK.

Like all our guests for Finders SEEKers, I feel very lucky to give the yayborhood access to such incredible tips on taking advantage of the Great Job Boom and hope it’s sparked something for some of you along the way. We’d love to follow laong if any of you do take the leap this year so please keep the messages coming!

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Lovely yayborhood, I hope your June is going well so far. In case you need it, a little reminder of last week’s quote of the yay – if you aren’t where you thought you’d be as we approach the middle of the year (which as always, has crept up outrageously quickly), it is impossible to fall behind in your own life as your pathway is on its own timetable. From my conversations over the past few weeks, a lot of us are still feeling a bit of an emotional hangover from the past few years but are quite hard on ourselves about letting it show now that there’s a bit more normality in life. If that’s you, stop that right now – you’ve been through a lot and it takes time to restore your sense of balance…

Speaking of balance, today’s episode is a bit of a hybrid between #yaysofourlives and a regular interview - it started as one to spread awareness of an important yayborhood movement but then morphed into the other because our guest’s pathyay is interesting in itself. It’s a little heavier than our normal episodes so just a little content warning – we do discuss domestic violence and other content that may be triggering or disturbing so please take care and there’s a list of resources below.

It's structured a little differently because there was so much to cover and I thought I’d play around a bit to make sure we highlighted the most important stuff. As you know, we are all about lightness and finding joy but also feel it’s important to acknowledge the facets of life that might obstruct your ability to do so, so that nobody feels alone or so that a resource might reach one person who needs it who might not otherwise have had that information.

To that end, I am honoured to introduce you to our guest for today – the National Director of White Ribbon Australia, Allan Ball. You know I love to follow people’s pathyays, and Alan has certainly had an interesting one. We talk all things White Ribbon, as well as his journey from early beginnings as a school counsellor to working across rural communities, the NDIS, LGBTQIA+ organisations and youths struggling with drug abuse. So, there’s a little bit of lots of things, but a lot of very important things too.

MORE INFO ON THE WHITE RIBBON TAX APPEAL HERE

Some resources should you need them:

• If you are in immediate danger - please call 000 for Police and Ambulance help.
• 1800RESPECT - 1800 737 732 - This is a 24-hour national sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line for any Australian who has experienced, or is at risk of, family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
• Lifeline - 13 11 14 - Anyone across Australia experiencing a personal crisis or thinking about suicide can call 13 11 14, or text 0477 13 11 14 at night (6pm-midnight AEDT). Someone will help put you in contact with a crisis service in your state or territory.
• Kids Help Line - 1800 551 800 - Free, private and confidential, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25 in Australia.
• Men's Referral Service - 1300 766 491 - This service from No to Violence offers assistance, information and counselling to help men who use family violence.

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Lovely yayborhood, I am so excited about today’s guest – if you follow me, you’ll already know how much I admire her talents and if you follow her those talents will need absolutely no introduction. On the off chance you don’t, however, you’ve still probably seen her work without realising it draped on some of the nation’s biggest names (although, to be fair, she is in her own right one of the nation’s biggest names and an absolute icon of style).

Even if you do already know of Effie Kats, I’m honoured to share a bit more about the wonderful woman behind the immaculately polished exterior – although you’d never expect it, we have bonded many a time over the crushing weight of impostor syndrome, perceived failure and burn out. And yet, she is one of the most successful, hard-working, trail blazing women in the business shaping our perception of style with her eponymous made to measure label, Effie Kats, and its ready to wear sister, Bayse Brand.

I LOVE that Effie learnt the trade in her family's workroom, alongside her father and grandmother who have over 40 years experience in the industry which you will hear all about in the episode. You may also know Effie from her first business, Zachary Label, which she launched at just 23 and which has a story of its own with so many themes we love to talk about on the show. I love knowing this woman and hope you enjoy getting to know her a bit better too! And if you don’t have Effie Kats or Bayse Brand in your wardrobe get on that stat!!!

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Lovely yayborhood, welcome to June!!! And welcome back to #yaysofourlives after a few weeks of Ang and I taking turns cancelling because of what we like to call "PLEH" (as well as some pretty jam packed schedules).

You'll hear all about what "PLEH" means and why it's become such a crucial part of our friendship in the episode (and hopefully it helps you in some way too as I suspect we're not the only ones feeling it right now). And if you are, you couldn't get a more perfect #quoteoftheyay than this - "it is impossible to fall behind in your own life because your pathway is on its own timetable".

I saw this one the other day when I was in the middle of beating myself up for how randomly we've been serving up the yays lately - very unstructured in order and frequency - but realised I can't actually be falling behind because the only person imposing deadlines or expectations on the schedule is me. Especially given the middle of the year has crept up so quickly, I thought some of you might also be thinking critical thoughts about where you thought you'd be by now and need the reminder that where you are is just perfect.

As per usual, there's also a lot of crackpot nonsense in between but it seems you guys quite enjoy that! Don't miss the Easter egg either and shoot us your DMs when you hear it. Hope you're all seizing your yay x

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I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK. It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers.

You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunity to clear the slate of habit and obligation to actively SEEK those changes you've always dreamed of.

And there truly is NO better time than now with more jobs around than ever before but less applications per job ad driven by a shortage of candidates. The Great Job Boom is upon us and yet 45% of Aussies are worried their skills and resume won't stack up against other Aussies...

So in Finders, SEEKers, we have a host of amazing guests from coaches to intrapreneurs to help kick those nays to the curb and turn them into yays by making your next move.

Our third guest for the miniseries is someone I hadn’t met before the show but who I’m incredibly grateful to have connected with. You’ll hear pretty quickly in the episode how much her unique way of articulating human behaviours around challenge and change blew me away and I can see why she is so good at unlocking the greatest potential and power in others.

Brooke Taylor is a highly sought-after career coach helping over 3000 women globally to heal what she calls their Success Wound and find their greater purpose, so we are very lucky to have her here giving you basically a one-on-one session in your ears. She also brings to her work the depth of her own INTRApreneurial experience at Google where she had a hugely successfully career winning the Google Global Sales Award – I’ve always wanted to have a google employee on the show – and now she’s come the full circle including Google as a client along with the likes of Uber, Amazon, McKinsey and other industry leaders.

For anyone interested in Brooke’s coaching, you can apply for an intro call at www.brooketaylorcoaching.com/contact

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The number one question Brooke gets asked by women she coaches is how to get "un-stuck" in their careers, meaning how to create clarity on what their next big move is. She's generously created a free worksheet to help conscious female leaders get instant career clarity and take action towards a new vision in their career and life. Find it at www.brooketaylorcoaching.com/unstuck

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I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK. It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers.

You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunity to clear the slate of habit and obligation to actively SEEK those changes you've always dreamed of.

And there truly is NO better time than now with more jobs around than ever before but less applications per job ad driven by a shortage of candidates. The Great Job Boom is upon us and yet 45% of Aussies are worried their skills and resume won't stack up against other Aussies...

So in Finders, SEEKers, we have a host of amazing guests from coaches to intrapreneurs to help kick those nays to the curb and turn them into yays by making your next move.

I could not be more excited about today’s guest as she is not only one of my dearest friends but also the PERFECT example of an intrapreneur who has repeatedly embraced the beauty of change. She is also the EXQUISITE bride from this past weekend (if any of you were watching on socials) who you may have caught smashing plates in true Greek style – she is nothing if not extra and I love her to bits for it.

Ekaterini (Kat) Karabatos and I met at our selective entry high school, MacRob, and shared the hilarious dichotomy between our very nerdy academic selves and station hanging wild child tendencies. She also went on to do Law/Arts at Monash but unlike me stayed within the law to pave an incredibly success career but not without its own pivots.

She is a BRILLIANT employment lawyer who has worked her way through several HUGE jumps between corporate and in-house, Sydney and Melbourne, and is literally on the cusp of another big change so couldn’t be more perfect for fellow SEEKers of change to hear right now. She brings SO much yay to my life so I hope you love her as much as I do.

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I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK. It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers.

You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunity to clear the slate of habit and obligation to actively SEEK those changes you've always dreamed of.

And there truly is NO better time than now with more jobs around than ever before but less applications per job ad driven by a shortage of candidates. The Great Job Boom is upon us and yet 45% of Aussies are worried their skills and resume won't stack up against other Aussies...

So in Finders, SEEKers, we have a host of amazing guests from coaches to intrapreneurs to help kick those nays to the curb and turn them into yays by making your next move. I'm thrilled to welcome our very first guest, Kemi Nekvapil, who returns to the show for the second time and how lucky we are to have her again...

Go back to episode 50 to hear her full back story, but to recap, Kemi embodies the idea of the non-linear pathway spending her childhood with five different foster families with as many different careers covering stage and TV acting, professional baking and yoga teaching. All before finding her calling as a speaker, coach and author of two brilliant books – The Gift of Asking and, published only recently, Power.

Consider yourselves lucky yayborhood to have an hour of Kemi’s time, her coaching is highly sought after and if you’ve ever been considering making a change towards seizing your yay, she’s the woman you need to hear from...

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