Wellthy Living conversations

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 55.
I’m Lisa, your host and the founder of Wellthy Living.
It is here that I connect with a variety of people to have inspiring and insightful conversations to help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life both personally & professionally.

I love a good story, especially ones from women who challenge ideas and societal norms, showcase diversity, overcome judgment and shame, find beauty in the broken and redefine success to live their best life. And in this episode, I am chatting with a woman who has done and continues to do all of this.

My guest is a woman often referred in women's business circles as ‘the copyright queen” Jay Crisp Crow.

But we do give you tips on copyrighting, instead Jay shares with us about her life with an invisible illness and her achievement in successfully staying connected and living well despite her body being sick…or unwell.

A little more about Jay:

In her old life, Jay juggled a family, a disability, and a communications job that sucked the juice from her bones. Then she had firm words with herself, found her voice, and took her own gig on the road. Through Crisp Copy, Jay writes blow-your-hair-back premium copy for brands, big and small, and teaches women in business how to write copy that sells through coaching, consulting, and courses.

She regularly presents in Perth and online on everything from Staying Away From Safe Copy to Disability and Business and Being Both Fat and Successful. She co-founded a social enterprise with her Queen Ruler daughter, Ella, and in 2019 launched her first podcast – So Crisp.

Some days she runs a business just as a middle-finger to everyone who said she couldn’t make a living writing or tells her she charges too much. 


Despite not talking about copywriting, I begin by weaving Jay's wordsmith magic, by asking her to define two words: Success and well.

I then ask her to delight you with her words -and paint a picture of her life pre-illness, living with the illness prior to starting her own business and lastly running a successful business on her own terms.

We continue to discuss:

-Loss of identity to building a new identity?

-Losing and rebuilding trust

-The importance of being connected to your internal power source for your wellbeing?

-Knowing your limits and asserting your boundaries lovingly

and more.

This really is an inspirational episode.

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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from today's conversation.

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Jay : https://crispcopy.com.au/

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I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaentwisle/


Until next time remember connection is medicine

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 54
I’m Lisa, your host and the founder of Wellthy Living.
It is here that I connect with a variety of people to have inspiring and insightful conversations to help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life both personally & professionally.

Our choices impact our work, health and relationships and today I am chatting with Jenny Cole to talk about the choices people make when it comes to helping others and discuss :

Why helping is not always helpful - how to avoid the "advice trap” and the relationship dynamics that often get played out.

Guest intro:
Jenny is an executive coach, facilitator, educator and mother to Albert the spaniel, running two successful businesses, Positively Beaming and BEAM Consulting.

Jenny believes that the world is always ready for a little more joy and her focus is ensuring you find it and build it into your life.

Despite being a committed, excellent educator of 20 years and recognised national expert in the field of Special Education, she crashed and burned, walking out on the career she loved - an exhausted wreck.

Her nervous breakdown/spiritual awakening led her to study why and how people thrive and the simple things we can do each day to make it so.


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Sometimes we think the best thing we can do for a person is to offer help and advice but this can have implications on both the helper and the person being helped.

It is also important to know that Jenny and I are both coaches and facilitators and not psychologists or counsellors so what we are bringing to the conversation is our own formal and informal learnings and lived experience ( with self or clients) in human behaviour. If you disagree with any of the content we share, that is ok and we welcome any feedback or contribution to the conversation. You can use the contact page on either of our websites, reach out on social media or leave a comment to further contribute to today's topic.

In the episode, we start by defining: helping, helpful, what contributes to advice giving and what is the advice trap.

and go on to discuss:

- Relational dynamics that contribute to people owning certain roles:
victim, persecutor or rescuer. - sometimes referred to as the dreaded drama triangle

Victim - perceived hurt or harmed
Persecutor- doing the hurting
Rescuer- intervene to support victim -peacemaker ( completes loop)

- Common reasons we step into the helper or the rescuer role:

- Implications/signs and symptoms
For the helper: (rescuer)
For the receiver ( or the victim)

- How the rescuer can be more aware of the difference between their own needs and the other persons

- A more mindful and empowering way to be supportive: How to you help without over helping? How do you support someone to help themselves?


- Leading with curiosity

- Detachment to outcome of other peoples choices - relinquishing the needs to feel responsible or have control over someone's outcome

- Supporting with presence, process and communication

- Self awareness tools and practice

A question to ponder on:
Does helping enhance our connection with others or does it harm our connection?

Share your response to this in the comments section.


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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from today's conversation.

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Jenny : https://positivelybeaming.simplero.com/

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please give it a like, write a comment and share it with your friends. Also subscribe to the Wellthy Living podcast on iTunes, Spotify and the Wellthy Living youtube channel, so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans whose stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaentwisle/


Until next time remember connection is medicine

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 53
I’m Lisa, your host and the founder of Wellthy Living.
It is here that I connect with a variety of people to have inspiring and insightful conversations to help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life both personally & professionally.

If you are a regular listener or follow my work, you know that I strongly believe that self knowledge is a major key to sustainable success.

So today, I’m chatting with Melanie Mideggs, who brings an additional perspective to the self knowledge puzzle. Melanie is a Psychosomatic Therapist, Face Reader & Speaker

In this episode, we discussed Melanie's favourite psychosomatic tool - Face reading - What insights does your chin, mouth, nose, ears and eyes reveal about your personality and which chakras do they relate to in the body?

It was a fascinating conversation and I hope you enjoy it.

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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from this conversation?

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Melanie https://www.seedtosoul.com.au

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please give it a like, write a comment and share it with your friends. Also subscribe to the Wellthy Living podcast on iTunes, Spotify and the Wellthy Living youtube channel, so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans whose stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaentwisle/


Until next time remember connection is medicine

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 52
I’m Lisa, your host and the founder of Wellthy Living.
It is here that I connect with a variety of people to have inspiring and insightful conversations to help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life both personally & professionally.

My guest on this episode is Nina Hjortlund and in this episode, she shares her admirable and inspirational story and insights.

Nina is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to generosity of spirit and giving back, creating positive change in the lives of the vulnerable. Her dedication, passion and enthusiasm drive her entrepreneurial personality, and she is a believer in creating opportunities rather than waiting for them.


Nina is a single mother of 4, 3 of which are neurodiverse, Founding Director and CEO of non-profit-Australia for Cedar Tanzania funding projects in rural Tanzania and Artefactz supporting African women and also currently undertaking a MicroMasters at Queensland University in Leadership in Global Development.

In this episode we chat about:

- Living in Tanzania, getting involved in the non for profit sector and the projects she’s involved with.

- Why Africa matters and why Global Development is important to us all.

- Why supporting women in 3rd world countries matters?

- Nina’s perspective on what it means to be a non-profit and what is a common misconception with regards to making a profit.

-Parenting 3 neurodiverse kids and how she manages to thrive

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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from this conversation?

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Nina https://www.artefactz.org and https://www.australiaforcedartanzania.org


If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please give it a like, write a comment and share it with your friends. Also subscribe to the Wellthy Living podcast on iTunes, Spotify and the Wellthy Living youtube channel, so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans who’s stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaentwisle/


Until next time remember connection is medicine

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 51. I'm Lisa, your host and Founder of Wellthy Living.

My guest today is a podiatrist, Andy Bryant.

Andy has worked as a podiatrist for 20 years but the past few years have seen big changes in methods of practice. He works in alternative ways to many traditional podiatrists, becoming a disruptor in his industry. Andy is committed to returning feet to the way they're designed to move in harmony with the rest of the body. He is passionate about the barefoot movement and natural footwear.

We started the conversation with Andy sharing his story about how and why you shifted from the more traditional perspective on foot health to a more progressive way of thinking and working with clients.

We went on to discuss:

- Conventional podiatry- where he believes it needs to change?

-Why more foot health practitioners aren't seeing, supporting & practicing this approach, despite there being physiological principles that support it?

-How difficult is it to go against the status quo and Andy shared the advice he'd give to other practitioners who are thinking outside traditional and learnt approaches, for taking action

-Assumptions we are feed by medical association that can impact negatively on peoples self-worth

Throughout the conversation we talked a lot about Footwear & orthotics, covering:
- Footwear and foot support technology versus natural living
- How shoes affect foot function
- Why the boom in orthotics and when they are and are not useful
I challenged Andy with a number of counter-arguments, and he was able to provide clear and clarifying information to all my questions.

We talked about Pain:-
- Whether pain is the best indicator of a problem or is there such a thing as asymptomatic dysfunction and whether there are other indicators that there is a problem, which could then lead to our inability to do desired actives due to pain.
- The catch 22 of exercise to reduce pain and exercise causing pain and whether anti-inflammatories or pain killers are a good circuit breaker

We covered common foot problems, causes and some treatment options:
-Overpronation
-Arthritis
-Plantar Fasciitis

Additionally, we discussed:
-How adaptable is our body to our lifestyle choices?
-How do we get better at giving the body better instructions.

We ran out of time but I would have loved to discuss more with Andy about where to from here to expand thinking in your industry and whether he is considering approaching universities and shoe companies so they can become progressive....I'll be interested in watching this space!

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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from this conversation?

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Andy https://www.melbournenaturalpodiatry.com or follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andybryant_podiatrist/

For more info on natural footwear: https://www.instagram.com/thebarefootshoereview/


If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please give it a like, write a comment and share it with your friends. Also subscribe to the Wellthy Living podcast on iTunes, spotify and the Wellthy Living youtube channel, so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans who’s stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaentwisle/


Until next time remember connection is medicine

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations EP 50!

Being a milestone episode, I thought I would bring on my very first guest of the show and regular contributor Dr Nathalie Martinek. This episode will be somewhat an extension of the EP 1:‘How to care less, while still being caring’, which is still the most listened episode of the series. In today's episode will take a deeper look at how we can address our needs.

So often when we feel triggered and challenged it is because we have unmet needs. But the problem is many people have not taken the time to really assess their needs - physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually.

In this episode we chat about:
-Maslow's hierarchy of needs and it's limitations
-Caretaking other people's needs vs caretaking for our own needs
-Boundaries to protect your needs
-Redefining what a compassionate good person means
-Support
-Communicating of needs
-Co-dependence (self-centred vs other centred) vs interdependence (middle ground)
-When radical self-centeredness is needed

We shared some strategies/scripts

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What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from this conversation?

Leave a comment and let us know.

And if you’d like more info on Nathalie https://www.drnathaliemartinek.com/

If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it with your friends and subscribe to the Wellthy Living podcast on iTunes and the Wellthy Living youtube channel, so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans who’s stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, and a professional conversation facilitator.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/welllthyliving/
https://www.instagram.com/wellthy.living/
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Until next time remember connection is medicine

In todays episode I have a special guest known as ‘Romany Romany’ - a sassy, magnetic woman who truly understands the meaning of connection, spreading her magic everywhere she goes. She is a world renowned British magician, winner of Las Vegas World Magic Awards and author ‘Spun Into Gold’ a story of her secret life, a true story of hope . I was privileged to met and become friends with Romany earlier this year, before the world turned crazy, at the Ultimate Girls week away in Fiji, where she successfully amazed 200+ women poolside with her dazzling, burlesque style magic show as well as delivering a truly inspiration keynote sharing her inspiring, heartfelt story of hope, which had Liz Gilbert moved so much that she joined her on stage.

I’n this episode Romany shared her personal story of hope - her battle with an eating disorder and her continual persistence in following her dreams. We talked about setting an intention, follow your heart and then listen to the whispers for instructions of how to get there!

We covered the following themes:
-Persistence
-Trust
-Motivation
-Courage
-Ripple effect of joy
as well as overcoming internal and external roadblocks.

For more information on Romany and to get your hands on her book 'Spun into gold' go to www.romanymagic.com

What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from todays conversation.

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To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.


Until next time remember connection is medicine.

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations EP 48
I’m Lisa, a life, clarity and wellbeing coach, your host and the founder of Wellthy Living.
It is here that I connect with a variety of wonderful people to have inspiring and insightful conversations to help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life both personally & professionally.

If I have learnt anything in my life, it’s that life is unpredictable and despite wishing I could somehow control each step on my path and ensure predictability, I cannot. So my planning process is ongoing and agile, and my strategy is to find joy, opportunity, comfort and even excitement in the uncertainty of life.

In this episode I chat with Claire Riley about the value and pitfalls of planning and have structure and systems and how to incorporate intuitive flow and flexibility

Claire Riley is a marketing & strategy business coach. she works with business owners who are amazing at what they do but feel clueless about how to run a profitable, sustainable business the easy way.

In our conversation we discussed:

- The difference between systems and blueprints or formulas
-Personalising systems
- The importance of core personal foundations for sustainable business success
-Getting to know your your self and your own capacity rather than comparing with others
- Reasons why people avoid systems
- Personal core issues and growth areas that get highlighted when running your own business
- Joyful productivity
- Intuitive flow -does this alleviate stress or create more overwhelm
- Self trust
-Self care and responsibility

Claire offers many tips throughout this casual conversation.

For more on Claire: claireriley.co

Social media links/handles
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/clairerileycoaching/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clairerileycoaching/
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairerileycoach/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZinQAlrhtcdI3ZhQXiKHQ

Claire and I would love to hear from you.

What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from our conversation.

Leave a comment below and let us know.


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Thank you so much for watching, I’m Lisa and I’ll catch you next time on Wellthy Living conversations and always remember ‘connection is medicine’.

In this conversation with Izzy Elfa, she talks openly about her life, her diagnosis of CPTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) and DID (disassociative identity disorder) and how she discovered art and went on to become an artist.

Izzy shared about her 3 'alters' and how they present themselves and provide inspiration in the painting process and how their individual styles are represented in her expressive artworks.

We also discussed what success means for her, what painting has opened up for her and at what point making art turned from therapy and hobby to a business.

I love the way Izzy honours the unfolding of her story and how her art has allowed her to further connect with herself and sharing her works and her insights is a vehicle to connect to others and bring about change.

Her DID is becoming an essential part of her brand as her 'DID' gives her a special set of abilities that is uncommon. She has found a way t allow her "disorder" to empower her and in turn empower others.

Izzy would love her work to be a way of removing the stigma and shame around mental illness and encourage people to see their "disorders" as superpowers.

And if you’d like more info on Izzy: https://www.izzyelfa.com or follow her on -
Instagram: izzyelfa
Facebook: izzyartwork
Blog: izzyontheeye.wordpress.com

Izzy and I would love to hear from you.

What’s your biggest insight or takeaway from our conversation.

Leave a comment below and let us know.


If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it with your friends and subscribe to for more conversations with wonderful humans who’s stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.

Thank you so much for watching, I’m Lisa and I’ll catch you next time on Wellthy Living Collective Wisdom conversations and always remember ‘connection is medicine’.

By fixing our food systems could we solve chronic disease/obesity, reduce the cost of healthcare, reverse climate change and ensure everyone in society has equal access to quality nutritious food… Could regenerative agriculture be the answer for a better future?

In this episode, I chat with visionary change-maker and activist for the future food systems - Nick Rose: Executive Director of Australia’s national sustainable food systems organization - ‘Sustain’

You will get to learn from Nick’s extensive knowledge & experience about our food systems, the significance of urban agriculture, food sovereignty and about his latest project - ‘The pandemic gardening survey’- which brings hope for a better tomorrow.

We talk about how COVID has shone a light on our broken system as well as prompted more interest in creating edible gardens.

Despite the serious content matter of this conversation, I’m sure you’ll come away feeling both informed, inspired and hopeful.

Nick doesn’t just highlight the problems but identifies practical solutions and a call to action for us to all to do our bit to contribute to a more sustainable, fair and resilient future.

Relevant Links:

Pandemic Gardening survey findings :Webinar on the 16th September 2020 - https://events.humanitix.com/pandemicgardeningresultspart1

Sustain membership - https://www.sustain.org.au/membership/

Design Files Award profile - https://thedesignfiles.net/2020/08/sustainabledesign-melbourne-food-hub/

Sustain - https://www.sustain.org.au
FB https://www.facebook.com/sustainaus
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/sustainaustralia
Twitter @sustainaus
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustain-the-australian-food-network
Urban Agriculture Forum - https://www.uaf.org.au
FB - https://www.facebook.com/urbanagricultureforum
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/urban_agriculture_forum
Melbourne Food Hub - https://www.melbournefoodhub.org.au
FB https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneFoodHub
Insta - https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneFoodHub
LinkedIn - https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneFoodHub
Grow Source Eat Fresh parcel subscription + craft shop https://www.facebook.com/grow.source.eat
Cardinia Food Movement - https://www.cardiniafoodmovement.org
FB - https://www.facebook.com/cardiniafoodmovement
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/cardiniafoodmovement
Twitter - https://twitter.com/cardinia_food
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardinia-food-movement/

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Nick holds a bachelor degree in Law, A Masters in and Community and International Development, a PhD in political ecology, A Churchill Fellowship, Editor of Fair Food: Stories from a Movement Changing the World (2015) and the co-editor of Reclaiming the Urban Commons: The past, present and future of food growing in Australian towns and cities. He is also a Lecturer in Food Studies, Food Systems and Food Movement at William Angliss Institute in Melbourne.

Nick brings more than a decade of working at the grassroots and institutional level in several Australian states in food sovereignty and sustainable food systems.
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I’m Lisa, I’m an integrated life, clarity and wellbeing coach, a conversation facilitator and event creator, facilitator and host.

To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.
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Until next time remember CONNECTION IS MEDICINE