Jodie Thornton has saved many a mum from completely losing her marbles (me included). We chat about how this time in lockdown can transform us as mothers - FOR THE BETTER!

Michele Peppler is the QUEEN of connection. We talk about the MOST important connections and relationships to maintain during lockdown - and how to do it!

Tash Corbin and I talk about how to use this WEIRD time to make your business more profitable, easier to run and more aligned to your own gifts!

Shannon Dunn is an incredible entrepreneur and a talented artist! Join us as we discuss how to connect with your creative side during lockdown and beyond!

Naomi Findlay (www.facebook.com/naomifindlayofficial) is Australia's Renovation Royalty. Naomi works with hundreds of homeowners around the country helping them create healthy, wealthy and beautiful spaces. She is the founder of NaomiFindlay.com and the International Institute of Home Staging, and a Mum to 4 beautiful children. Naomi was voted Ausmumpreneur's Rising Star of the Year and is a featured design expert on shows like Changing Rooms AU and The Home Team.

- Naomi was in radiation oncology and medical science, did a PhD but was always searching for something to make her happy

- realised she needed to just do what she loved

- did design quals while doing

- design, renovation and styling business

- moved to teaching / courses / TV

- having a plan is the best for when shit goes wrong

- understand what makes us most efficient, productive and creative

- space medicine - what's around us changes us on cellular levels

- cells are effected by their environment

- we are effected by our environment

- 16% productivity and 17% creativity impacted by what's in our environment

- connecting environment with nature

- positioning desk to have a view

- plants at eyeliner

- using natural timbers in desk accessories

- sansiveira - #1 air purifier

- textures, patterns to create environment can increase relationship building

- it's also about how the people you bring in to your space feel

- pay attention to how spaces emotionally effect you

- certain spaces can increase our heart rate, change cognitive ability, impact blood pressure etc

- take note of what positively effects you

- colours, textures

- we collect so much stuff all the time - sometimes we think we don't like it... could just be what's relative

- put all the accessories onto your dining table - then treat that like the shopping centre

- what do you love as-is

- what do you like... but... (needs to be a different colour, or if I cut the top off)

- then top it up with 50% of other things you need / love

- High / low in interiors (as in fashion)

- lounges were $50

- upholstery cost $1000

- Branding

- whatever's behind you needs to be on-brand

- not too polarising or offensive

- variety -

- backdrops

- space medicine

- clear space

Advice from a non-perfectionist who coaches a LOT of perfectionists! How perfectionism is fear in a fur coat and fear stops you moving forward.

Jenny Cole is an Executive Coach, Consultant & Cheerleader

⁃ Jenny is a Recovering Principal who worked in education for a long time but burned out trying to do too many things at once

⁃ She coaches women who are perfectionist but has never identified herself as one

⁃ Women are often juggling so much - careers, caring for families, very busy etc

⁃ She was curious about perfectionism

⁃ Perfectionism is 'Fear in a Fur Coat' - women who are perfectionist are frightened

⁃ Imposter syndrome: we're so afraid of making a mistake and of 'being caught out'

⁃ We gloss over this fear with beauty and order and doing

⁃ Social Media perfectionism is its own issue

⁃ The concern is that some women attach self-worth to the quality of what they do - everything they do has to be 100% perfect

⁃ Anxiety, being too busy, and procrastination, lack of confidence

⁃ Turn our thoughts into action

⁃ If we think it has to be perfect, we put it off or it takes too much time, we won't take risks, we won't do something if we can't do it perfectly

⁃ All behaviour is learned - if you try and squash your perfectionism, it will show up somewhere else

⁃ Give yourself tiny little new behaviours

⁃ Catching the thoughts in your head - tell a different story

⁃ Accountability buddy

⁃ perfectionism naturally builds failure

⁃ lower the bar

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About Jenny

I am a busy professional woman. A mess of glorious imperfections stitched together with good intentions. I am a coach, facilitator, cheerleader and mother to Albert the spaniel. In my spare time I run a successful Education Consultancy.

I am endlessly curious and draw greedily from the well of worldly wisdom and I am always keen to share what I know with the wildly wonderful women I work with.

I believe that my clients are endlessly skilled and capable but sometimes they need to just get out of their own way. I also believe that the world is ready for a little more joy and we need to find ways to build that into our lives

My professional qualifications are diverse - from Industrial Relations, Education (including 12 years as a school Principal) , Leadership and Positive Psychology but my greatest learning came when I was taught to SHUT UP and listen - to let go of my ego and get out of my own head. Only then I could truly be of service to my clients

Check out her Website - https://www.positivelybeaming.com.au

After finishing her studies, Honor had an opportunity to work with women who had Post-Natal Depression

•Then at around the age of 30 she experienced burnout and all she was offered was medication

•She went on her own healing journey and uncovered her perfectionism and how it was manifesting

•Perfectionism comes from the way we're parented and also the way we're socialised to be the good girl, be polite, be neat etc.

•There's a lot of pressure to fit into these roles and when we step outside of these roles, we don't really know what to do with ourselves

•Mini goals - break down the big goals into tiny steps and just focus on one at a time

•80% of something is better than 100% of nothing

•Grab Honor's free Perfection eBook

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About Honor

Honor Newman is a psychologist who has been specialising in women with perfectionism for the past 7 years.

After experiencing depression as a teenager and especially severely in my 20s I've dedicated my life to learning how to heal in every area of life - including health, wealth, love and happiness. I've seen my life and those of clients transform as there has been shifts in limiting beliefs and traumas from of my mind and body.

I went from living in a falling down share house with no partner and no job to owning a gorgeous four bedroom home with amazing views, a great career as a psychologist and coach, great friends and 2 beautiful children. ( I have a cute lover too but-shhh!)

Habits - taking small sustainable action (breaking big goals down into sustainable steps

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Suzanne Culberg is a weight loss coach who doesn't do weigh-ins! She helps women press the reset button on their life, establish new habits and chunk down their goals into doable bite-sized parts so they can feel good about the progress they are making.

•Suzanne had 2 kids and a FIFO husband when she decided to enter online business in the weight release area

•She was still 150kg but really wanted to know what was actually going on, beyond the calories in and out

•We understand habits as an adult, such as brushing our teeth or having a shower

•When we go to make a change, we compare ourselves to what we want and it's too big of a jump

•If we discount the power of small steps, we set ourselves up for failure

•Choose a minimum baseline - 5 minutes, 3 days a week - it's about consistency, sustainable and habit rather than outcomes

•Celebrate what you're achieving as you're achieving it!

•Everybody is different - when we're feeling motivated to make a change, it's easier to do stuff so we pick too many

•The process is more important than the outcome

•Add things in, don't cut more out

•Don't wait for motivation... be a GPS - where do you want to go (not away from)

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About Suzanne

Many of us want to make life long changes to the way we eat and move, but instead we cycle through patterns of dieting and binge eating. Having overcome this cycle herself, going from super obese at 150 kilograms Suzanne has released 78 kilograms.

Suzanne's great passion is helping people break out of this cycle by understanding that it isn't about the food, people can never get enough of what they don't truly want, and instead she helps them release the weight by uncovering what it is they are truly hungry for!

Suzanne knows that no single approach is right for every individual and so she has trained in a range of modalities including Neuro-linguistic Programming, Personal training and group fitness training (she holds a Certificate III and IV in fitness). Suzanne's educational background also includes a Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Tasmania.

How brave boundaries and contracts that care can help you face the fear of getting it wrong. Sorting out limiting beliefs from real world dangers, and why taking imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

•Michelle Whitehead is an Australian lawyer and mediator to creative, intelligent entrepreneurs

•She studied law after being told that she'd never make money writing books

•After a few years, she qualified in mediation and realised that she had no idea how to market a business of her own

•Discovered online community of women in businesses that lit them up

•Thinking she'd leave law behind, she felt called to help these women to create business relationships that flourish, rather than feel like barb wire fences

•Having boundaries means you can be of service without throwing yourself under the bus

•Boundaries need to be1. Internally aligned - if they're not a match for you and your vision, you're never going to stick to them. Approach these from a holistic space. How do they affect you physically, financially, personally, spiritually?

2. Externally applied - no good if no one knows about it

•As a procrastinator and recovering perfectionist, she knows that boundary-setting is crucial to a healthy business and mind

•16 Brave Boundaries - to look into, broken into 7 parts

•Future-proofing your business - who you want to be as a boss... taking ownership and responsibility

•Understanding the regulatory system

•Your business doesn't exist in a vacuum

•Understanding what 'best practice' looks like for yourself and your business

•Being open to feedback and customer complaints

•Website T&Cs are a perfect way to start - investigation into boundaries. Services, disclaimer, who I can and cannot work with, IP, Refund policy, payment and cancellation policies, confidentiality

•The work out where you're up to in your business - don't feel like you have to do it all

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https://www.michellewhitehead.com.au/brave-boundaries/

Michelle Whitehead is an Australian lawyer and accredited mediator who provides creative entrepreneurs with the ultimate tools for business self-care. Michelle believes wholeheartedly in the need for education around legal concepts, particularly for creative entrepreneurs who - when faced with paying a lawyer to bore them to death - would rather run the risk of not knowing. She is enchanted by the fascinating challenge of reinventing traditional legal constructs for the needs of a new paradigm of business, basing them on principles of connection and caring rather than fear and avoidance. She creates contracts that care, demystifies intellectual property, advises on setting brave boundaries, handles conflict with empathy, and provides risk management with a woo woo twist. She is also an unschooler who can't resist any story that begins "once upon a time."

Katie is all about reclaiming your awesomeness - which is whatever that is for us and how we want to grow our awesomeness!

People work from an emotional level - we carry around our baggage... she helps to lighten the load and get rid of the stress.

Optimal wellness is different for everyone!

When she first started, it was all about helping people change their lives. She was baking paleo foods commercially, as well as working as a teacher and all the usual life stuff. She realised that people needed more than just the recipes and plans - that started her on her NLP and mindset training.

She wanted to teach adults how to handle anxiety!

Katie was always told to 'step out of her comfort zone'.. but it's more like 'expanding your comfort zone'... Step in until you're frightened... then step back and reflect

Breaking it down:

⁃ Support yourself with 4-5 people whose opinion you trust implicitly

⁃ Trust they will tell you their honest opinion

⁃ Have a coach who can push you - they will put it right back to you - who can hear your story or what you're creating

Observe yourself

⁃ get curious about yourself in order to be a great leader for our families or tribes, or communities

⁃ we need to be compassionate with ourselves

Katie has been a Type 1 Diabetic for 33 years - her focus is on getting to optimal health and staying there for as long as possible. She had to have the perfect timing, perfect sugar, perfect health. There was no room for error. Now she's delving into her vulnerability - this perfectionism is no longer serving her!

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Katie's passion lies in helping ambitious but health-depleted women increase their productivity and motivation through managing their anxiety/stress, strengthening their mindset and reclaiming their vitality so that they can ENJOY life.

Katie believes you need to give yourself permission to live beyond your fears and free yourself from anxiety. She know what it is like to be BUSY, and to feel like life is spinning out of control, and more than anything, I want to help you create practical solutions to eliminate the overwhelm that has been filling up your life and getting you off track.

Katie is a wife, mum, business owner, anxiety/pts survivor, speaker, educator and the founder of Katie Godden Coaching, your calm and courage coach. In my own life, I've discovered that courage doesn't mean we're never afraid, but instead that courage is simply taking action, even in the face of fear and uncertainty. And now I'm here to not only help you unleash your dream lioness, expand your comfort zone and help you take the steps necessary to make those goals a reality. I never realised the power of taking the chaos out of life.