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The One That Works For You
Two frantic type-As with unreasonably high expectations of themselves on a mission to find that elusive trifecta: fulfillment, balance, and success. We explore ways people from all walks of life have built their businesses while they try to work out what success looks like for them. Our biggest lesson? The best life is the one that works for you.
So if you're efficient up to your eyeballs and you have systems and processes up the wazoo, power to you.
If not, you'll like this podcast.
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9. Grief, neurodivergence, and finding your soapbox with Peta O'Brien-Day
Peta opens up about grief, single parenting, and coming to terms with imperfection—and how her experiences led to a calmer, gentler life.
Content warning // death of spouse
8. Find your brand g-spot💦with Lanae Carmichael
Learn the three strategies Lanae Carmichael uses to keep her sh!t together, and find out the four steps you can take to find your brand g-spot 💦
7. Self care: from woo-woo to logic with Yael Keon
Find out what early-career burnout taught Yael about balance—and how she manages her energy each day. Spoiler alert: it doesn't involve journaling, candles, or inspirational quotes!
6. Military level executive function with Patricia Viscount
Patricia teaches us how she executes her tasks with military precision as a work-from-home human. Find out our favourite task management tools and learn how Patricia keeps her favourite f-words alive as a business owner.
5. Wake up when you wake up — with Grace Sullivan
Grace shares the routines that help her ADHD brain stay on top of ALL THE THINGS. And we all come to grips with the fact that 5am ice baths aren’t for us and that’s freaking fine. Join us as we work towards unlearning the BS and accepting our delightful selves.
4. Significantly and constantly (how guilt shows up for us and how we fight back)
Martha and Liv discuss the many ways guilt creeps into their lives—and how identifying what success looks like helps them give guilt the flick. Learn how rationing energy and identifying what makes you joyful can make family / social / productivity guilt slightly more manageable. Then ask yourself: what do you owe anyone and at what point does that outweigh what you owe yourself?
3. The Third Space—how rituals can help you find yours
Thanks to the pandemic, lots of us have created space for working at home. But what happens to the transition periods that were ingrained into our pre-Covid lives? Liv introduces the Third Space and walks us through how rituals can signal to our brain that it’s work time—no matter what’s going on around us.
2. Protecting your energy as a business owner (also—handstands!) with Liv Steigrad
If you’ve ever wondered how to protect your energy when you’ve got eleventy-billion balls in the air, you’re gonna want to tune in to this episode. Meet Liv Steigrad, a brand strategy and brand voice copywriter with a background in performance poetry and psychology. Find out how she ‘gave herself a job’ as founder of The Branding Psychologist when she learned about copywriting in a Facebook group.
1. Time-blocking, shame, and running a business with ADHD with Martha Barnard-Rae
Meet co-host Martha Barnard-Rae, copywriter and neurodivergent business owner. Owning her own business means Martha has the freedom to hack her ADHD brain to make the best of the dopamine she’s got on offer. Will time blocking be the tool that eliminates distraction and makes Martha a whole new person? (Spoiler alert: probably not).