The Magnify Conversations

Today we’re talking about burnout. It’s a topic so many of us can relate to and have already dealt with in our lives and probably will have to deal with again. Because of the way it can impact our work and our health, it’s important to be aware of it and to know how to manage it. 

In this episode, we’re speaking with Rochelle Currie, founder of Australian organic beauty company Nila Botanics. As a mother, founder and author, Rochelle juggles a lot in her life and like most of us has seen burnout in her life which she recognises is as a result of her not wanting to disappoint people. 

She shares with us her journey as an entrepreneur, her own experience with burnout, how she recognises it in her own life and how she prevents it.

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KEY QUOTES

‘My childhood was filled with spending time with my grandparents which I loved.’ 10:10 

‘I think God does that, those tiny moments when He says 'I am real’ 13:04

‘I just felt like I had so much more to give. I was just like I don’t know if this is for me, I don’t know what my life should look like.’ 14:29

‘If someone said to me two years ago you’re going to have a beauty brand and two kids and love being a stay-at-home mum, I’d be like you’re crazy.’ 17:44

‘I don’t see any point in having influence or making money if you’re not going to give back.’ 23:30

‘The first time I experienced burnout was the year after I finished high school.’ 28:40

‘When you have control over all of your time, it’s quite dangerous - you need to be strategic. If you don’t plan then you plan to fail.’ 29:30

‘I just have this innate work ethic within me which I think comes from not wanting to disappoint people.’ 31:10

‘You need to work out how to identify burnout and not as it being like ‘I’m just tired.’ 32:21

‘It’s so easy to find hobbies and make them not hobbies.’ 36:09

‘My default if things are really difficult is just to distract myself with doing everything instead of feeling everything.’ 37:03

‘What do you do when you’re not working?’ 38:45

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In this episode, we talk about surpassing our own potential. Both internally and externally we face obstacles every day that try to limit our own abilities. So in those moments of questioning what we’re capable of, how can we overcome that?

In this episode, we’re chatting with Leanne Dlamini, the singer turned founder of End Girl Hate and Life Designed Her, both amazing platforms that aim to unite, empower and encourage women. Leanne is really at the heart of helping women globally realise their potential.

In this episode, we get to chat about her own career journey and how she has dealt with being put in a box by the people around her. She also shares the tools she uses to overcome her own doubts and imposter syndrome.

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Magnify: https://www.instagram.com/magnifycollective/

Leanne Kistan Dlamini: https://www.instagram.com/iamleanned/

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Life Designed by Her: https://www.ldhworld.com/ldh-world/

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KEY QUOTES

• ‘They say we can have it all, just not all at once.’ 15:28

• ’We just need to step out of our boundaries, do something different, do something new. We can all be beginners at something. It’s about finding the thing you can be a beginner at.’ 17:16

• ‘I really just remember what my purpose is at the end of the day. What I’m here to do and stay focused on that.’ 18:15

• ’We don’t have to put ourselves in boxes. I think that’s what really helped me. We are women who are evolving constantly.’ 22:36

• ‘For me, it’s definitely about pushing past what people say we can do and when they try and put limitations on us and just push through.’ 27:39

• ‘We have meetings with so many people throughout the day. We make sure that we schedule other people, but how many times do we have meetings with ourselves?’ 30:10

• ‘If I’m feeling overwhelmed, I ask: what gift is this trying to give me?’ 32:39

• ‘I often doubt myself so I am learning that I belong in the spaces that I’m at.’ 36:38

• ’There is more potential to everyone and you don’t need to limit yourself.’ 42:08

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Music

"Summer Chill 2" by Mona Wonderlick — bit.ly/youtube-monawonderlick​

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

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We all have weaknesses. In a work context these can look like a lack of skill in one area, or spending too much time at work and not enough time at home. For each of us, weaknesses look different. In order to see our weaknesses in a positive light, we must first identify what they are.

K.J Ramsey, therapist and author of ‘This Too Shall Last’ joins us today to chat through this. After being diagnosed with a chronic illness at 20, now 31, K.J has had to face her weaknesses face on. 

In this episode, she shares how she was able to shed light and face the other weaknesses that face her in her work, how having weaknesses has been an advantage to her and her tips as a therapist on working through the stress that our weaknesses can bring up.

K.J had so much wisdom to share, so have a listen.

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K.J Ramsey: https://www.instagram.com/kjramseywrites/

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This Too Will Last: http://kjramsey.com/book

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Today we’re talking about feeling stuck in our careers. It’s hard to give our all when we keep showing up yet it feels like our dreams and visions keep getting deferred. So, when things become stagnant in our career, how do we keep moving forward?

Today Elyse Murphy is joining us to talk about her own experience with feeling stuck in her career after celebrating wins that haven’t landed in the way she expected them to or getting promotions that haven’t been what she thought. Now as a coach and author, Elyse puts the lessons she’s learnt along the way into practice in the lives of others.

In this episode, Elyse shares with us how she’s managed to find progress in the stillness, why we need to get off the hamster wheel of our to-do list, and why she created a celebratory scale for her work. 

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Magnify: https://www.instagram.com/magnifycollective/

Elyse Murphy: https://www.instagram.com/elyse/

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PLATFORMS MENTIONED

Light Workers: https://www.instagram.com/lightworkers/

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Do you beat yourself up when something doesn’t go right? If something isn’t 100% perfect, do you think it’s not good enough? Does your fear of something not being perfect stop you from saying yes to opportunities? When holding onto perfectionism we hold ourselves to impossible standards, so how do we work against it?

Liz Forkin Bohannon is joining us today to share some of her tips. Founder of Sseko Designs, she spent some time with Seth Godin early on who encouraged her to not focus on the perfection of a design but to focus more on how it can grow. Her own podcast ‘plucking up’ mission is to show that nobody is immune to messing up and self doubt.

In today’s episode, she bares her true self and honestly chats about her own struggle with perfectionism, how as a leader she encourages room for imperfection amongst her employees and how when we show up as we are imperfections and all, we allow permission for others to do the same.

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Magnify: https://www.instagram.com/magnifycollective/

Liz Forkin Bohannon: https://www.instagram.com/lizbohannon/

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PLATFORMS MENTIONED

Sseko Designs: https://ssekodesigns.com/

Plucking Up Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/plucking-up-with-liz-bohannon/id1514706748

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How do you view failures? Do you see it as a career-damaging catastrophe or as an experience that allows you to learn and therefore move forward? We all know we should use failures to help us grow in the area we’re in, but in order to do that, we need to know how to reframe them. 

So in this episode, we are chatting to speaker and consultant Jaz Ampaw-Farr on how to reframe our failures in work. In her words, Jaz could easily tell her story of childhood abuse and of being fired from the business reality show The Apprentice from a place of anger, but after years of learning how to reframe, she tells from a place of humour and humility.

Jaz shares how losing her brother made her realise we really do have a choice over how we handle the situations we’re faced with, she hilariously recalls her emotions on experiencing a failure on national TV and discloses the 3 things she does to help reframe the hurdles she faces in life.

This is probably one of the rawest conversations we’ve had yet, so give it a listen.

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TALKS MENTIONED

Jaz's TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3xoZXSW5yc

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We all want our work to have a meaning, both personally and on a wider scale too. So, in those times when we may find ourselves in jobs where the meaning isn’t obvious or when we go through times of falling out of love with the work we do, how can we find significance where we are?

Our guest today, Ben Higgins, is the author of ‘Alone in Plain Sight' and the founder of ‘Generous’ a company where 100% of its profits from its products are donated to life-changing organisations. And after starring in the US reality show ‘The Bachelor’ he realised that finding meaning in the work we do is rooted much deeper than our material wealth.

In this episode, Ben opens up about the work he does with ‘Generous’, the key to finding meaning in our work even on the days when the bigger picture is hard to see, and why he’s had to re-define his meaning of success in order to find significance in the work he carries out.

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Magnify: https://www.instagram.com/magnifycollective/

Ben Higgins: https://www.instagram.com/higgins.ben/

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ORGANISATIONS AND PRODUCTS MENTIONED

Generous: https://generousmovement.com

Alone in Plain Sight: https://www.thomasnelson.com/p/alone-in-plain-sight/#preorder

My Fan Threads: https://myfanthreads.com

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Have you ever had to deal with toxic relationships at work? Relationships are at the centre of all the work we do, without collaboration and teamwork, no company would exist and no project would be complete. So when they're not working this impacts not only our work but our day-to-day lives too. So how do we build healthy and long-lasting relationships in our work?

In this episode, we chat with Michaela O’Donnell Long, CEO and co-founder of Long Media Winter and Strategist and Senior Fellow at Fuller De Pree Center. Both her roles and companies revolving around building relationships with clients and people.

With relationships at the centre of all that she does in work, in this episode Michaela shares what makes a good relationship, how to promote that in our own work and her own experience of trying to salvage them when they go bad.

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Magnify: @magnifycollective 

Michaela O'Donnell Long: @michaela.odonnell

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Long Winter Media: here

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Do you ever feel timid in sharing more of yourself at work? In a job where our personality and experiences merge together, how do we navigate a passion to educate through our own stories whilst also honouring what we went through and keeping our privacy? Not only is it a question of how much we share with our audience or customers, but also how open should we be with colleagues and how do we handle disagreements?

Our next guest Heather Torres is the Chief Operating Officer at THINK Media, a team of content creators using video to help other businesses grow online. With 1.6 million subscribers watching their videos, and a YouTube channel of her own which shares her homeschooling experience as a mum, Heather has a wealth of experience in negotiating her personality within and at her work. 

In this episode, Heather shares how she’s handled integrating her life and work, the importance of not sharing something you’re still going through and how to handle differing views and opinions within your team.

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Magnify Instagram: @magnifycollective 

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Are there moments in work where you’ve experienced doubt about your abilities? Have you ever questioned your achievements or wondered if you measure up? Imposter syndrome often keeps us from experiencing the fullness of our success and can stop us from going after what we are passionate about. But what are some of the ways that we can overcome the doubt that arises within ourselves?

As the Digital Director of OprahMag.com and a recent first-time author of the book, What Would Frida Do, Arianna Davis has spent over ten years building a career in journalism. Throughout this time, she has encountered many moments where she has had to choose whether or not to be led by internal questioning.

In this episode, she shares with us about pushing through moments of ‘what if,’ the importance of acknowledging every part of our journeys, and allowing intention to lead her decision-making process.

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Magnify Instagram: @magnifycollective

Arianna Davis Instagram: @ariannagab

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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS MENTIONED

What Would Frieda Do: here

Oprah Mag: here

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