The High Performance Hive Podcast

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The High Performance Hive Podcast episodes

July 04, 20238. Emily’s Journey: From Teacher to Award Winning Specialised Tutor
Today I am speaking with Emily who is a successful tutor and went from starting a business to being booked out in 10 weeks. We chat about making the leap to jump careers and start your own business.
Listen in as we celebrate Emily’s success and find out the steps she took to get there.
In this episode we cover:
Transitioning from a career to starting a business.
How research is so important to know the market and your costs.
Pursuing your passion to serve the community.
How to manage stress and avoid burnout.
Creating boundaries and sticking to them.
Being consistent with advertising and marketing efforts because it does pay off.
Blocking out time for your business.
Being open to feedback can lead to growth.
Having interests outside of work gives your mind a break and a chance to switch off.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051
Emily Wise Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wiseowltuitionwa/
Emily Wise Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wiseowltuitionperth
Emily wise website: https://www.wiseowltuition.com/
26 min
June 20, 20237. How Retreats Saved My Life and How They Can Save Yours Too
Today I have some epic knowledge bombs for you on how retreats can have a transformational impact on your personal and professional life.
Getting out of your comfort zone is life changing. Retreats help you disconnect from the stress of everyday life to find clarity and balance.
In this episode we cover:

Going into retreats with an open mind can expose you to different experiences.

They can be a great place to show up as yourself, free of any judgement.

There are people out there to help you, without the use of traditional medicine.

Retreats can open doors to a new way of thinking.

Attending events with like-minded people creates great friendships.

Networking in person in a positive environment can open doors to new ventures.

Retreats offer space for you to bring self-care and mindfulness into your life.

These are great places to be vulnerable and create deep connections.

Finding a retreat that suits you is important, along with a facilitator you can relate to.

You can gain new perspectives that make you flourish.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast

Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au

Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade

Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051
31 min
June 06, 20236. Interview with Steph Gorton: A Millionaire Who Didn’t Think She Was A High Performer
Today I am super excited to have a very special guest, Steph Gorton. She is not only one of the most amazing award-winning coaches out there that helps business to business coaches and consultants go from $5K months to $30K months. She was my first coach as well.
She has built her first business up to a six-figure startup in under three years, which is phenomenal.
Anyone in business knows how hard that is to do, and to date has coached over a thousand women to successfully grow their businesses to $10K+ months.
Steph is the recipient of the Brains Global Award and has been named among Forbes top business coaches in 2021.
In this episode we cover:
Steph talks about her mission in life; to help more women have a seat at the table.
Steph’s earliest memory of being a high achiever. Which was surprisingly very recent!
How high achievers don’t identify themselves as high achievers because they always want more.
The importance of community.
If someone else can achieve what you want, then it’s possible for you.
How Steph spent years developing an audience before she reached $10K months.
Steph says how earning her first $1M was the hardest. But once she hit that mark, her skills and systems were well developed, and it got easier.
When you imagine where you want to be and reach it, it doesn’t surprise you as you’ve already felt how it feels to reach that goal already in your head.
The importance of social proof.
Steph reveals her methods for launching new products and her biggest achievement to date.
How, in life, you must fail fast, and fail often. Otherwise, nothing changes.
Steph tells us about her hardest failure and what she’s learnt from it.
Steph answers five fast questions on being a high achiever.
How to reach Steph.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
Steph Gorton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephgorton__/
The Steph Gorton Show: https://open.spotify.com/show/2vGX4V3DTkApkkD7DxEARk
Steph Gorton website:
https://stephgorton.com/
28 min
May 23, 20235. Tips for Managing Start-Up Stress
Today is our first knowledge bomb episode, where I talk about managing stress. I've got six tips for you that will help you manage the stress of being in a startup business or still being new in your business, that will change the game for you.
In this episode we cover:
A reminder to take a break and remember your why.
Step 1: Be crystal clear on what you want.
Step 2: Make time for yourself.
Step 3 Communicate often.
Step 4: Get new friends.
Step 5: Get out there and engage with people.
Step 6: Get yourself a mentor or coach.
That staying motivated, positive, and looking after yourself is most important.
How retreats can support you.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
18 min
May 09, 20234. Shaunace’s Story: How cancer changed my life but not how you think
Today we talk with Shaunace West from the beautiful skincare brand 11:11 Lab. She tells us all about her high achieving background and how she transitioned out of her former career as a Senior Occupational Therapist and into her beautiful epic business, which is a vegan, all-natural friendly skincare brand.

In this episode we cover:
Introduction to Shaunace and how Harmony and Shaunace met.
Shaunace tells us about her uni days as she trained to be an Occupational Therapist (OT). How she’s a high achiever and worked her way up to be a Senior OT in just 3 years and, in her mind, had to complete her studies the quickest and have the highest KPIs.
Shaunace’s first memories of being a high achiever.
How she was a high achiever both inside and outside the workplace.
She would fill her day with extracurricular activities.
How being diagnosed with breast cancer at 27 forced her to slow down. But only briefly.
Straight after a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, Shaunace was back at work.
She was unable to do so many physical activities. This is when Shaunace found yoga. But was only interested in the physical aspects of yoga, not the spiritual.
Shaunace trained to become a yoga teacher.
Covid hit and Shaunace carried on with her busy schedule. She didn’t know how to slow down.
Her cancer returned.
This forced her to stop work, stop yoga and her extracurricular activities.
Shaunace feared losing her identity.
Life finally slowed down for Shaunace. She made time for yoga and walks along the beach.
She was sent makeup as a gift from the hospital. When she looked at the ingredients of the expensive makeup, she realised that it was full of cancer causing ingredients.
That’s where the basis of her business 11:11 Lab came from.
Shaunace now lives a high quality, rewarding and slow life.
In time, Shaunace started to enjoy not just the physical but spiritual side of yoga.
Shaunace now balances work and life whilst building her business and tells us about her products at 11:11 Lab which are 100% natural, cruelty-free, vegan, ethically sourced, Australian, and sustainable.
Shaunace tells us the lessons she’s learnt from her journey.
Harmony asks Shaunace five fast questions.
How a small mindfulness skincare routine can ground you.
Harmony talks about Shaunace’s in-person, shopping experience where you get to test 11:11 Lab products.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
11:11 Lab Perth event tickets: Elevate Your Self-Care Game With 11:11 Lab's Founding Member Launch Tickets, Fri 26/05/2023 at 2:00 pm | Eventbrite
11:11 Lab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1111_lab/
11:11 Lab Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elevenelevenlab
11:11 Lab website: https://www.elevenelevenlab.com.au/
48 min
April 25, 20233. How Facing Fears Helped Niav Create Her Dream Life as a Digital Nomad. Interview with Niav Konno
Today I am so excited for our very special guest Niav Konno, who left home at 18, because she knew that there was more out there for her. Since then, she has travelled the world.
She has lived in Perth when she quit her 9-5 job and became an entrepreneur.
Now she’s a digital nomad, living and travelling Croatia. She's a social media strategist, a content creator, and absolutely loves the freedom and flexibility of working remotely in her business and meeting inspiring business owners.
She is also a very good friend of mine, and she is one of our bees inside of the High Performance Hive Coaching Program.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcastHarmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
Niav Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niavkonno/
The Content Cheerleader Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecontentcheerleader/
In this episode we cover:
Introduction to Niav
Niav’s travel story, starting with her first big move overseas trip at the age of 18, when she moved to London.
Niav quit her job and started her own business so that she wouldn’t have to ask for annual leave anymore. She specialises in social media marketing for small businesses, and her job is now based from her laptop or phone! She can work anywhere that has Wi-Fi.
What Niav’s 9-5 job was like before she quit.
Towards the end she found herself burnt out, exhausted, emotional, and didn't have the right support in her working environment.
Niav dropped down to 4 days a week at work so that she could focus on starting her business. But she was spreading herself too thin and it wasn’t working out sustainably.
At the same time, she was in a group coaching program for entrepreneurs. Other entrepreneurs were recommending that she quit her job and focus on her business. So, one day, she took the risk and did just that! That was three years ago now.
Before she quit her job the atmosphere in the office was bad. Leadership had changed and staff were frustrated and upset. This was when Niav realised that no job is worth this.
Niav enjoyed working with her colleagues and didn’t want to let them down, but she knew she had to quit her job.
How Niav balanced her 9-5, her own business and Covid.
Niav tells us the pros and cons of being in a group coaching program.
Niav’s earliest memory of being a high achiever when she was 6 years old!
How Niav didn’t realise she was a high performer until she watched Harmony’s free webinar. After watching the webinar, she joined the High Performance Hive coaching program.
The activities in the program really lit her up and made her excited.
Harmony points out how Niav is the epitome of a high performer: she knows that there is more out there and doesn't care how hard it's going to be. She chases it no matter what.
Niav joined the High Performance Hive to be surrounded by inspiring women and for Harmony to kick her bum and chase her dreams.
The universe gave Niav a push after her long-term relationship ended in Australia, and she ended up moving to Croatia.
She realised she could still have amazing clients and a thriving business is she moved overseas.
Niav joined the High Performance Hive for both business support and personal development. She needed it after these big life changes.
Niav tells us her biggest realisation for herself since joining the program: her limiting beliefs and how she’s afraid of judgement.
How these limiting beliefs have stopped her from achieving what she wanted. The High Performance Hive has helped her recognise her capabilities and to not be afraid.
How Niav started a TikTok, just for research, and she ended up going viral.
Through this success she decided to expand her service. She now offers clients, not just support on Instagram, but TikTok support too.
How she created a new community on TikTok.
She now also works with Croatian based businesses in her local area.
Niav was scared when she left Australia, but she believed in herself more than the fear.
Harmony asks Niav some fast fire questions.
Interview wrap up and where you can find Niav.
48 min
April 25, 20232. Kate’s Success: Making Clients over $1M Without Burning Out
Today I interview Kate White, the creative genius and Kajabi expert. She is the Launch Queen who helped me launch my program, The High Performance Hive.
She helps you get any course out there launched and making you money. She has so far made businesses over a million dollars in revenue.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
Kate White Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/launchqueen_/
Kate White Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kate.white.353803
Launch Queen website: https://celestinedesign.com.au/about/
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
In this episode we cover:
Introduction to Kate White
How Harmony and Kate met
Kate’s interests and hobbies
Kate explains what her business, Launch Queen, does; takes you from step one of, “I want to launch an online course”, all the way to your actual launch day.
Kate helps you design your offer, pricing, curriculums, to make it a kick ass offer.
What Kate is passionate about is the consistency of making revenue from an online program.
Kate tells us about her family and how they’re all high achievers.
How Kate was disappointed that she wasn’t a natural writer, unlike other members of her family.
How she started her launching career in one of her dad’s companies.
Kate tells us how she juggles a fully booked business and her personal life.
Having a great team was a game changer for Kate.
Kate shares her experiences of burnout, guilt, and anxiety.
How she hired her first team member so that she could grow her business to the level she wanted.
Kate tells us how she started connecting mindset with business and that resting was the key to achieving her goals.
Kate shares with us her biggest achievement to date, her fails, and how these fails have helped her to improve her business.
Kate answers some of Harmony’s fast fire questions.
How people can connect with Kate.
31 min
April 25, 20231. Finding Purpose After Burnout: How I Built a Successful Business and Transformed My Life
Today, is our first episode, and I could not be more excited to be here. This has been something that has been on my mind for such a long time, and I cannot wait to share my story with you to help you become the best, most optimised, high performance version of yourself, where you get to have an epic life, as well as an awesome, successful business.

Today I share with you a bit about my career background and how I wound up with burnout, that ultimately became the deciding point for me to leave my career and travel the whole of Australia solo.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
SHOW NOTES: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/podcasts/the-high-performance-hive-podcast
Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
Amanda Bisk, Fresh Body Fit Mind: https://freshbodyfitmind.com/
In this episode we cover:
Introduction to Harmony. Who she is, what she likes and where she comes from.
Harmony’s uni days.
How she left uni to start a career in retail.
The story of her childhood sweetheart and how she bought her first home at 23.
Harmony’s career journey from working at Suzanne, Cotton On and then to a large South African retailer who wanted to open stores in Australia.
How she got great results at work, but little respect.
She was working so hard, she started to become someone she didn’t like. She was finding it hard to get up out of bed. She had become a little bit aggressive and a bit bitter a twisted.
Harmony was always the person her friends and family would go to if there was something wrong, they could always talk to her. So, she found it hard to tell anyone when she felt broken herself.
So, she booked a day retreat, with other women she didn’t know, to try and help her.
This is when she saw a kinesiologist for the first time and all her emotions came out.
Then she did a yoga meditation, and something shifted in her. She felt an overwhelming sense of peace.
Not long after the retreat, she went on holiday and saw people holidaying in a little combi van and thought “I think I could do that”.
Not long after, back in Melbourne, she put her house on the market, bought a new car and an $80,000 caravan and planned the next phase of her life, which it didn't involve workm but to travel Australia.
The hardest part, for Harmony, was deciding she was going to choose herself. She knew she would be judged.
She stopped showing up to birthdays and going less to family events. She had to separate, and it caused people to turn on her because, in the past, she had been a people pleaser.
Harmony started to get thoughts such as “if I fell down the stairs at home, how long would it be before someone found me”.
She was depressed and burnt out.
So, she planned on finishing work after Christmas 2018. She got to September. Her van was pretty much complete, and she realised she couldn’t work another Christmas in retail, so she left.
This was the first time Harmony had put herself first.
She hit the road, not really knowing where she would go. And travelled for 12 months around Australia.
Although travelling was fun, there were some hard and lonely times for Harmony.
She starting practicing yoga, so she could feel the calm that she felt when she was at the retreat.
She used Amanda Bisk’s Fresh Body Fit Mind app to do workouts and yoga at the campsites every day.
But it was meditating that was bliss for Harmony.
She started listening to her body and realising that her body was giving her feedback. Yoga taught her to find moments of peace and quiet, and to listen to the feedback her body was giving her.
Harmony met many people and families on her travels and at one point they all crossed paths and caught up again in Broome.
Some ladies noticed Harmony doing yoga every morning and asked her to teach them yoga.
When Harmony arrived in Perth, in December 2019, she started to feel anxious as she knew that soon she’d need to work, and knew she didn’t want to work in the retail industry again.
She saw an advert for yoga teacher training in Bali, so she went to that.
This is where she learnt both mindfulness as well as the physical practice of yoga.
Yoga had helped Harmony so much she knew that she needed to teach other women the benefits of yoga, to stop them suffering from burnout.
After the retreat, she flew back to Perth and, due to Covid, Perth was in lockdown 10 days later.
She started to teach friends and family yoga, on Zoom, to help them feel calm. They would thank her, and Harmony loved that.
So, Harmony stayed in Perth and set up her first business, House of Harmony Yoga.
She still teaches yoga but is also a Mentor. She teaches others the importance of choosing themselves, in order to find happiness, as she’s lived through the experience herself.
Harmony asks lots of questions to make you think about how you can make yourself happy.
51 min
March 27, 2023 Welcome to The High Performance Hive Podcast
Today, your host Harmony Chynoweth, welcomes you to The High Performance Hive Podcast. The podcast for business and career women. She tells us what to expect from the podcast. It’s full of inspiring stories, interviews and tips to help you live your best life whilst creating a business that you don't need a holiday from.

Harmony tells us a bit about her career and life as a High Performance Coach and Nomadic Entrepreneur. Her mission is to help business women overcome and prevent mental health issues, caused by the modern hustle culture. And to stop burning out so that they can live a more fulfilled and balanced life filled with adventure, fun, and of course freedom. And that’s what to expect from The High Performance Hive Podcast.

In this episode we cover:
- Introduction The High Performance Hive Podcast. Who this show is for and what it is about.
- Your host, Harmony Chynoweth, tells us a bit about herself and her career.
- Harmony explains her mission; to help business women overcome and prevent mental health issues and burnout.
- Harmony askes that you follow and subscribe to the podcast.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
- Harmony Jade website: https://www.harmonyjade.com.au/
- Harmony Jade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony__jade/
- Harmony Jade Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonyjadecoaching
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmony-chynoweth-07533051/
2 min

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