True To You

Join me in this podcast masterclass where I share the four keys to boundary setting. From awareness, to your boundary style to how to stick to your boundaries once you've created one.

This is the perfect episode to support you in your life and business so you can move your dreams forward at speed.

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My guest today is THE definition of the word go-getter. To share with you in detail Mel Histon’s resume and achievements will be an extended intro to say the least. So before we get into the interview, here’s just a glimpse at what she’s been up to in the last few years.

After 10 years in corporate, Mel left to establish her photography business - a decision that would open new doors and a completely new life. After experiencing a number of life-altering events, Melissa created The Sista Code in May 2014 with a dream to see women empowered, happy and connected. 

In 2016 she established Got Your Back Sista the charitable arm of The Sista Code movement. Her vision with this non-profit organisation is to see women and their children happy, thriving and living independently after escaping the trauma of domestic violence.

Got Your Back Sista offers benevolent relief and support to women and children escaping domestic violence and are at risk of living below the poverty line.  In just this past 3 months as the country went into lockdown, the charity received 3x the number of calls for support.

And Mel’s love of community, uplifting women and creative projects doesn’t stop there. At the end of 2019, Mel launched her personal project the Hey Soul Sista podcast and just this year she opened an “op shop” to support the Got Your Back Sista charity.

In the spirit of the True to You podcast, we go wide and deep with this conversation. Exploring everything from Mel’s career journey, to a life-altering cancer diagnosis to family to mentors. This woman is truly remarkable and I am so pleased to be able to share this episode with you today. She is an example of someone who has followed her heart on the path towards meaningful work.

https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/

https://www.thesistacode.com/

https://www.instagram.com/melissahiston

Emilia Cardillo is the founder of boutique law firm - Cardillo Commercial Lawyers. She is also the first female accredited specialist in business law in Newcastle, a mother two two beautiful boys and when she's not doing all this you'll find her running trails.

Her work specialises in commercial, leasing and property law. Though this might sound like terms that are only relevant to big business - Emilia has first hand experience in small business after launching an e-commerce store Royal Rhino back in 2016. Emilia also became our fairy godmother for many small business during COVID-19 as they navigated what was a challenging and confusing time.

Her work is founded on 3 key principles of real value, transparent pricing and plain english advice because Emilia believe this is essential to providing dynamic and innovative legal solutions to our clients.

If you run a small business, this episode is incredibly valuable, but as with all my guests I wanted to share Emilia’s story.

Connect with Emilia:

https://cardillolaw.com.au/

Clancy Allen is a partner, daughter, mother to a spirited 4 year old boy and has worked as a doula since 2017 attending home births, birth centre births and hospital births. She is a Birthing From Within mentor and prenatal yoga teacher. She has also studied and practised kinesiology, and in her former career was a civil litigation lawyer for 6 years.

She offers birth mentoring, postnatal doula support, mothering the mother ceremonies, and her online course, Yoga for Empowered Birth is launching on 4 June 2020.

In this conversation, we chat about visibility - communicating with authenticity and speaking the truth (even when you know not everyone will agree), knowing when you’re not in the right career path, leaning into who you need to be to attract your ideal clients, perfectionism and finally starting out one way in business then shaping your offerings over time in line with the needs of your energy and growing a family.

https://www.instagram.com/clancy_allen_doula/

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My guest today is Karissa Kouchis also known as KK - is the youngest and currently the only female trainer for Tony Robbins. This woman is a firecracker, and I promise you will not know what has hit you after listening to this episode. I am constantly inspired by her tenacity and “lady balls” to get out there, show the world who’s boss and show up time and time again for her tribe through Tony’s work.

In this episode we go deep into the following:

Her journey to becoming a trainer for the worlds most recognisable personal development figure - Tony Robbins

Sales and why it shouldn't be so hard if we love our product or service

Leaning into growth even when it's uncomfortable

Surrounding yourself with the right people

Her morning and evening routines

How she's built a massive following and is very motivated to provide a channel for women through UHPW

To hang out with Karissa head to: https://www.instagram.com/karissa_kouchis/

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I’m joined by Hannah Mitchell, Antoinette Cano and Kendall Dodson - these three women I had the pleasure of working with in the last year and each of them have undertaken the significant task of starting a small business, some even doing a complete career switch in the process.

As you’ll hear in this episode, the three women have come to this process with different backgrounds, Kendall is a mama of a toddler, Antoinette is still full-time in her work, and Hannah left her finance career to move home to the UK to work in the education sector.

We cover everything from the need for boundaries, mindset, the challenges of balancing multiple things, what they need to work at their best and how to make a career transition.

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My guest today is a pug mama to Audrey, she’s a little woo woo, a former teacher and now happiness advocate.

Her name is Karen Harrison and officially she is an NLP Coach, Time Line Therapist, Reiki Master and Holistic Counselor who supports her clients to release their energetic and mindset blocks, and create a life that is connected to purpose and intention.

As you’ll find out in our conversation, life wasn’t all roses and waking up to Pharell Williams every day, she’s been on quite the journey.

We talk about the transition from full-time teaching to starting her business in a completely different field and her lessons from this process, what skills and strengths she transferred from teaching, being driving by your inner voice, how to create your point of difference by harnessing what you do best, what it’s like to “start from the beginning again” and so much more.

If you love this episode, you can hang out with Karen here:

https://www.thehappyco.com.au/

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In today's episode we come together to have a conversation on the topic of boundaries - a concept that has changed how we do life and business for the better. Here's what you'll find inside this episode:

Why we have a desire for flexibility and freedom - and whether small business is the way to get that

What is a boundary

How to balance your business with other areas of your life when you're building a business

What boundaries has John put in place to maintain consistency

Communication and creating content for your audience - how boundaries ties into what you do and don't do

Where consuming content can actually be important to understanding your audience and leads to creating content that brings value

How do you hold yourself accountable to your work when you work for yourself or work from home and you are your own boss

Today’s guest is Nic Minter the founder of the boutique social media agency - SoQual. SoQual is all about aligning quality businesses with quality social media. From experimenting with the social media of one of Australia's most iconic female fashion brands to 7 years later running her own agency.

With extensive experience in Social Media and Digital Marketing, Nic has worked with many well established brands and businesses local to Newcastle and Hunter Valley areas to help them build their online presence and ultimately grow their business.

In this conversation we talk about:

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Today’s episode is designed to support you not just now, instead to prepare you should you face any change in the future. This is a timely conversation as we find ourselves in the midst of a worldwide shutdown or shift in delivery for many industries due to COVID-19.

I wanted to bring on a guest that is practical yet all calm and kindness at this time. Jade Pearsall heads up Puro People as the People & Operations Coordinator, located here in Newcastle, Australia. Jade brings over 8 years experience in varied industries and roles in the Human Resources and Recruitment space.

In this episode Jade and I discuss some thoughts on:

How to approach applying for work during COVID-19 (hint "using VIDEO")

What to do if you find yourself in the midst of an unexpected career change that you didn't plan for?

How do you explain employment gaps in your resume?

Should we consider up-skilling or making a career change in these times and what could this look like?

How to maintain focus and wellbeing and set yourself up for success in the application process

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