To be the best leader that you can and to inspire your team it'sabout communication, focusing on your fitness both physical and mental to ensure that you don't 'suffer burnout and your team is protected also. There's more to working on your professional career - investments, tax structures and aged care rules, you also need to focus more widely to ensure you remain at the top of your game longer and in better shape. Vanessa Bennett spent most of her career convinced on the imporantance of maintaining a healthy body and mind todo the best job.

Here she talks about the latest thinking in neuroscience and the difference it can make to avoiding burnout - a common malady in today's corporate world.

Vanessa is the CEO of Next Evolution Performance - a global high performance coaching company using neuroscience to help driven leaders and teams, in over 20 countries, to optimise profitability, productivity and energy AND to decrease their effort, sickness, burnout and mental health problems.

She works predominantly with legal firms, accounting practices and financial services companies, in Australia and around the globe. Vanessa also has over 20 years of experience in financial services.

She has a Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health - with Distinction, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

February typically marks a surge in divorce queries aftercouples come back from summer holidays resolving to split up. For some it might be a decision that’s been brewing for some time, others may find themselves blindsided by their partner. This makes progressing with a divorce difficult –and it may be a waste of lawyer’s time to try to deal with two people in different headspaces. This is where a divorce coach may come in handy.

Sallyanne Hartnell is a divorce coach and strategist and host of podcast Reflect Reclaim & Liberate.

Sallyanne HartnellSallyanne Hartnell is a multi-award-nominated divorce coach & strategist and host of podcast Reflect Reclaim & Liberate.  She supports clients through every stage of relationship transition, separation, divorce and beyond. Sallyanne helps her clients identify, shift and heal unhealthy relational and communication patterns, decide whether to stay or leave a marriage/relationship, divorce with less drama, and reorganise life and family post-divorce to create a rich, fulfilling future. She ensures clients avoid critical (and costly) mistakes with a balance of nurturing emotional support and objective, practical guidance.

Jane Monica-Jones is a financial therapist and trauma expert. Find out what that is and what Jane does, for whom and why in this fascinating discussion about someone who can help financial planners help clients who find it hard to make decisions around money understand why and how they can overcome some of the trauma holding them back. 

Jane is Australia's leading Financial Therapist. She is a pioneer in the study of the psychological issues with money, behavioural management of finances and maladaptive financial practises, such as gambling, risk, retail therapy, overspending and underearning. She has a passion for thissometimes-challenging subject and works compassionately with clients and employees to repair this relationship. ​Shereleased her latest book The Billionaire Buddha in 2019, a culmination of seven years of work, study and research in the field of Financial Therapy. ​Jane is the host of the Financial Therapy podcast. Jane is also a Path Retreats Facilitator.

Mortgage brokers and financial advisers both have a very similar gender splits in their industries with only around a quarter of the industry practitioners being women.

Today we talk to two experienced women in mortgages discuss the similarities to planners, how they help clients, through tough times and how they keep connected. And most importantly how building networks is key. 

Tracy Hall was the last victim of a serial conman who stole her future – in the form of her superannuation. But Tracy is a fighter, and she is rebuilding her future – speaking to others about her experiences that she wrote about in The Last Victim. With the help of a financial adviser, Tracy is disciplined in making up her financial losses and at the same time talking about scams and educating people about avoiding cynicism while maintaining vigilance over their money.

Bec Wilson wants everyone to have an epic retirement, so much so, she’s written the guide book on how to do it – How to have an Epic Retirement. Initially writing for Baby Boomers, as she heads into her 50s she’s now looking at setting up her own generation – Gen Xers – (the  first Gen Xers turn 60 in 2025) and is priming them for retirement with her second book Prime Time.

Here she talks about why she’s decided to devote her career to retirement and what she believes people need to learn before they start their own journey.

Julia Newbould, host of the Stella Podcast interviews Shelly Horton. Shelly Horton, the Peri-Godmother and author of I’m Your Peri-Godmother – a happily-ever-after guide to kicking perimenopause in the ovaries.

Shelly Horton is a journalist, television presenter and health advocate who thought menopause was for old ladies and wassimply hot flushes and no more periods. She’d never heard of “perimenopause” until she went from kicking ass in her career to waking up in ICU because her hormones staged a full-blown peri-mutiny. After meticulous research to get through this, she felt armed to help other women navigate their ownperi-menopause journeys.