I'm excited to welcome Emma Lovell back to The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Emma is The Bleisure Coach, helping people design a life they love now, not someday, by combining business, travel and self-care.

With 17 years in business and 77 countries visited (and counting), Emma has built a life and career that allows her to work from anywhere, while being based on the Gold Coast with her husband Mathew, their son Finn, and fur baby T'Challa.

Known for her practical approach to lifestyle design, Emma shares how to create greater harmony between work, wealth, travel and wellbeing through her Bleisure Life philosophy.

Retreats have become a natural extension of this work. Through her retreat consulting business, Rest & Receive, Emma supports coaches, business owners, studios and venues to design, launch and deliver retreats that are strategic, impactful and profitable.

Emma is also the author of The Art of Bleisure and A Life of Magic: Bill Hunter's Story, the biography of her cousin Bill Hunter, a WWII Navy veteran, magician, entertainer, and master storyteller. The book captures 102 years of service, showmanship, and unforgettable life lessons.

An experienced emcee, speaker, author and consultant, Emma brings energy, honesty and real-world experience to every stage, conversation and retreat she leads.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Contribution, connection, purpose, and presence. Emma talks about her definition of a meaningful life and a meaningful business.
• Emma shares her story and what led her to becoming The Bleisure Coach and to then starting her retreat consulting business, Rest & Receive.
• What makes a great retreat?
• The common mistakes retreat organisers make when planning a retreat.
• There are endless possibilities for retreats. Emma talks about her most memorable retreat experience.
• Emma's latest book, A Life of Magic: Bill Hunter's Story. The biography of her cousin Bill Hunter, a WWII Navy veteran, magician, entertainer, and master storyteller. Emma talks about the writing process, Bill's story, and what it was like seeing the book in print for the first time.

Plus, more!

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Joining me on The Debra Shepherd Podcast is Amy Green.

Amy is a futurist for work and life who has spent over a decade challenging the stories leaders, teams, and organisations tell themselves about success, productivity, and performance, and what it actually costs them.

With a background in teaching and leadership, and experience drawn from face-to-face conversations with over a thousand educators and corporate leaders across Australia, Amy doesn't just talk about the future of work, she helps people design their way into it. Her keynotes and workshops have shifted the thinking of leaders at every level, from staff and teams to executive leaders, leaving audiences not just inspired but genuinely seeing differently.

Amy is a bestselling author, with her latest book being The Wellness Paradox, and she is the host of the Rethinking Success Podcast.

In this episode, Amy shares her story. We talk about burnout, success, and Amy's book, The Wellness Paradox.

HIGHLIGHTS

• What creating a meaningful life means to Amy now and how that has evolved over time.
• Amy shares her story. Amy talks about her experience with burn out, chronic stress, and the three biggest lessons she learnt during that time in her life.
• How burnout can happen when you're doing life perfectly.
• The increasing size of the global wellness industry and how it's creating additional stress and pressure.
• What led Amy to write, The Wellness Paradox.
• Amy takes us through the six paradoxes reshaping the way we work and live.
• Creating a slower, simpler version of success.
• The differences and the relationship between wellness, wellbeing, and self-care.
• The four dimensions of energy and knowing what builds your energy and what depletes it.
• A powerful question to ask yourself if you're chasing success and feel burnt out.
• How Amy is helping individuals and workplaces do things differently.
• Why being well shouldn't be complicated.

Plus, more!

SHOW NOTES

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Let's talk about why working even harder and putting in more effort is not the answer to leading well and creating success on your terms. Join me for this quick conversation on The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

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I'm honoured to welcome Tracey Mylecharane, Founder of TM Legal Atelier to The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Tracey Mylecharane provides established purpose-driven coaches, creatives and consultants with tailored legal support. Driven by her mission to transform legals from a necessary burden to a strategic foundation for small businesses, Tracey provides tailored legal frameworks that anticipate business growth challenges, contracts that maintain healthy client relationships and agreements that act as business enablers.

Tracey is the host of the Rise Up in Business Podcast and the creator of the Legals by Design® signature approach, providing a clear alternative to cookie-cutter templates and confusing legal jargon.

In this episode, Tracey shares her business story. We talk about protecting your business and how the right legal foundations can change everything.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Tracey talks about her evolution of success and what creating a meaningful life means to her.
• From accounting to law and entrepreneurship, Tracey shares her business story.
• How leaning into your intuition, trusting and prioritising yourself led Tracey to a rebrand and business growth.
• Tracey's life changing experience with Human Design and how it has transformed her life, business, and relationships.
• What can happen if you don't have a strong legal foundation if you're a coach, consultant, personal brand, entrepreneur or business owner.
• Tracey's quest to change the narrative around the value and meaningful impact that properly tailored legal documents can have for a business.
• Why strong legal foundations are more important for smaller businesses than larger organisations. Here's what you need to know.
• Outgrowing your legal foundation and the red flags growing businesses need to watch out for.
• Tracey breaks down the big risks you'll face if you're a business owner using AI for legal advice or for your legal documentation.
• How Tracey reconnects and creates space for herself.

Plus, more!

SHOW NOTES

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Did you know on average we make around 35,000 decisions a day? Join me for this quick conversation on The Debra Shepherd Podcast and learn how to make aligned decisions that support you and help you show up with confidence, clarity and purpose.

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I'm honoured to welcome LinkedIn Coach, Kate Merryweather to The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Kate teaches small business owners how to show up and get leads and sales on LinkedIn without being pushy or annoying. Kate has built her own successful business with LinkedIn and has helped hundreds of small business owners do the same.

With an honest, blunt, no-nonsense approach Kate gives real tips, insights and strategies to help you increase your visibility and make the most of LinkedIn.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Kate talks about what meaningful living means and looks like for her.
• From a successful career in PR to freelance copywriting and now a LinkedIn Coach, Kate shares her story and talks about her business and how she helps she people get visible on LinkedIn in a way that feels comfortable, natural and authentic.
• What holds many small business owners, founders and personal brands back from building their visibility on LinkedIn.
• How LinkedIn has evolved and what's working on the platform now (at the time of this recording).
• The content gap on LinkedIn.
• Common mistakes leaders, business owners and personal brands make on LinkedIn.
• Top tips for elevating your visibility and building your personal brand on LinkedIn.

Plus, more!

SHOW NOTES

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Want to know the most overlooked leadership advantage? Join me for this quick conversation on The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

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Join me for this solo episode on The Debra Shepherd Podcast, where I talk about the business cost of being out of alignment if you're a leader, entrepreneur or business owner.

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I'm excited to welcome Theresa Miller to The Debra Shepherd Podcast.

Theresa provides media training and public speaking coaching in Australia. She has more than 30 years' experience as a journalist, trainer, presenter, author and lecturer.

Theresa has coached hundreds of people across all industries in the art of presenting, mastering media interviews, and writing and pitching media releases.

As a television journalist, Theresa worked as a reporter, producer and presenter in Britain, Switzerland and Australia, including Sky News-UK, Good Morning Britain, CNN and the Zurich-based European Business Channel.

In Australia, she reported on-camera for Channels Seven, Nine, ABC and SBS-TV, including Channel Seven's prime time Australia's Most Wanted. Theresa also produced on Radio National for Life Matters.

During the 2000 Olympic Games, Theresa was a special media adviser to the Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Theresa is the author of three books: Speak Up – how to be a successful presenter and media spokesperson; Making Babies – Personal IVF Stories and a novel, The Spin Doctor's Wife.

In this episode, Theresa shares her story and we talk about her latest book, Speak Up – how to be a successful presenter and media spokesperson.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Theresa shares her thoughts on what it means to create a meaningful life.
• Theresa talks about her career in journalism and what led her to start her business, TM Media.
• Why it's important for leaders, entrepreneurs, business owners and subject matter experts to step up and speak publicly.
• Why Theresa wrote, Speak Up – how to be a successful presenter and media spokesperson.
• Theresa shares practical tips for building confidence, overcoming nerves, and the fear of public speaking.
• According to the Women in Media Gender Scorecard, "only 30 per cent of expert sources quoted in news stories are women". Theresa shares her thoughts and talks about what we can do to change this.
• With the rise of in-person speaking events, podcasts, panels, webinars and media commentary, communication skills are a must for every professional, leader, entrepreneur, business owner and subject matter expert.
• The importance of hearing and seeing the voices that best represent the society we live in.
• The impact AI is having on media and communications.
• Leaning into the lesson of what it means to be human in our head, our heart and our hands.
• Practical tips and strategies for your next speaking or media opportunity.
• How Theresa reconnects and creates space for herself.
• Theresa talks about her upcoming workshop in Sydney on 7 May 2026.

Plus, more!

SHOW NOTES

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In today's conversation on The Debra Shepherd Podcast, we're talking about leading with clarity, confidence and purpose. In this episode, I invite you to think about leadership differently.

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