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Michelle Boyde

Do you believe work should enrich your life? Perhaps you’re even thinking about leaving your career and creating a work evolution? Hear the stories of awesome people who have designed a work life they love. Join Michelle Boyde, Founder of Floetic, as she hosts WEL: the Work Enriching Life podcast. Drops of inspiration, ideas to life you up and mindset hacks to make your feel good.

Are you’re desperately seeking inspiration for your next career or source of income?

Do you find yourself listening to podcasts (like this one!), scanning social media, books, googling and attending workshops? Hoping they will give you a winning idea?

What if this could be leading you further from the correct path for you?

Inspiration is powerful, but following our personal strategy and authority is more potent.

Can you hear your own voice over all the others?

In episode #35 I explain why more inspiration is not always better.

If you’re ready to begin following your strategy and authority begin by grabbing your free Human Design Chart or book in for your Life by YOUR Design Roadmap.

Episode highlights

00:48 The process of finding what's next
01:38 The paradox of choice in today's world
03:01 Finding what we want through external influences
03:52 We are getting bombarded with content
05:12 Turning inwards to know what is correct for us
05:52 The point when information is not valuable for us
07:00 Remove the noise to find inspiration
07:47 Embracing Human Design for personal insight
09:28 The Head Center
11:53 The Artist's Way book
12:59 The impact of removing content in our lives
15:59 Human Design makes the process easier
16:14 Introducing Life Design Roadmaps
17:04 Invitation to share and rate the podcast

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About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

There is a specific scenario that often plays out when people want to leave their professional and corporate jobs.

Can you guess?

It’s the one where they fall in love with a modality that has supported them, and they mis-understand this to be their calling.

So, they train as a breathwork instructor, reiki practitioner, sound healer – [simply insert your chosen modality here]!

But here is the thing: not everyone is meant to become a teacher of their favourite modality.

You are here for something else.

In episode #34 I explain what is happening behind the scenes and how to make this desire work for you on your journey to discovering your full potential.

Episode highlights

01:28 You are not meant to be any of these things!
02:26 This is what is actually happening - it’s not your final destination
03:27 The initial enthusiasm fades and it falls into the background
04:00 You are experiencing the pendulum swing
07:40 The rebound relationship
07:56 My pendulum swing: I become a meditation teacher and did my RSA
11:59 You may want to switch your brain off, but this will change
12:36 You’ll need more to maintain your lifestyle
13:03 Your potential is so much greater than what we have learnt
15:13 If you are in this stage right now - enjoy it
15:38 An example of incorporating this modality into your current work
16:24 The recalibration when you’re ready to shake up your life

Download your human design chart.Book your Human Design Read.Follow the podcast on Instagram. About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Are you living your big dream of success – or are you playing a bit small?

We all have more potential than we can imagine from where we are right now.

Your next level of life requires you to come face-to-face with more of your potential.

Are you ready to change the space you play in?

In episode #33, I talk about how your beliefs create the parameters of your potential and how your Human Design is one of the keys to unlock it.

If you’d like to chat about this more: drop me a DM at @michelleboyde_hypnotist.

Episode highlights

00:56 Michelle will be running workshops at Ocean Lovers Festival 23rd March 2024 – grab your tickets here: Hypnotic Workshop and Embodying Action to Create Change
02:14 How to access your potential
04:24 Successful individuals use more of their potential
05:34 The parameters of your potential and your beliefs
07:42 Increase the space you can play in
09:46 Use your environment to enhance your potential
14:04 Your potential is in your Human Design
16:49 Get your chart and explore your potential
17:15 Some people know they are meant for more

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About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Stress is NOT normal.

I invite you to put your job title aside. Don’t compare yourself to your peers or the industry. Now ask yourself:

Am I comfortable with how stressed I am?

If the reason you want to leave your job is because of how you feel and not for a bigger more noble purpose. I want you to know that is perfect!

In episode #32, I talk about stress in the workplace, why we need a revolution in how we work and why you wanting a change for a so called “selfish” reason is the best place to start.

If you’d like to chat about this more: drop me a DM at @michelleboyde_hypnotist.

Episode highlights

00:56 Chronic stress in work life
02:22 You should leave your career because of YOU
05:26 Wanting to have more fun is perfect
06:43 We have normalised things that are not normal
08.12 Business is always asking for more
11:28 Symptoms of chronic stress on health
12.55 My experience of deciding I didn’t want to do this anymore
15.45 Our vitality is everything
17:07 The two options to go forward
19:15 You feeling stressed is a great reason for you to pursue something else

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About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

My guest is Anita Kolni, a 6/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator.

She is the Founder of the Volvo Ocean Lovers Festival, an annual celebration of ideas, art, music and actions, showcasing some of the latest innovations, science, state-of-the-art technology and cool ideas for helping the ocean.

Anita successfully staged the first Festival in April 2019 at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach and in a short time, it has grown into Australia’s largest cultural and science celebration for the ocean, attracting 58K visitors over three events with a digital media reach of 12M.

In today’s episode we chatted about:

How to get a project of this size off the ground, including the balancing young children, no budget and the challenges of Covid.

How the gifts of her vocation (7), life’s work (50) and purpose (41) gene keys are all alive in her role at the Ocean Lovers Festival.

Plus, we ended up chatting about our passion for the ocean and sharks!

Episode highlights

02:39 The importance and impact of the Ocean Lovers Festival
03:25 Anita's human design and its influence on her work
05:24 The origin and evolution of the Ocean Lovers Festival
08:27 The future of the Ocean Lovers Festival
09:12 Anita as a Manifesting Generator
09:35 What helped Anita to be successful
10:25 Balancing motherhood and running a festival
17:01 Triumphs of the festival
24:52 Life's work Gene Key 50
30:31 Purpose Gene Key 41
33:19 Advice to those who wanted to do something similar

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Attend my talk: Embodying Action to Create Change.
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More About Anita Kolni
Anita is a passionate, changemaker, communicator and connector.
The festival showcases successful marine projects restoring the coastal ecology, hero’s ocean innovating entrepreneurs and gives a platform to government initiatives, ocean champions, marine scientists and community groups to inspire and empower audiences to better protect the ocean.

She is fast becoming recognised as global connector in the ocean sector for her innovative approach of bringing inspiration and hope for the ocean, and engaging audiences to accelerate change that positively impacts our world.

Anita championed the Sydney Coast Hope Spot at the inaugural Ocean Lovers Festival with the support of Mission Blue, Sylvia Earle Alliance, to recognise Sydney’s cherished coastline on the international stage.

Connect with Ocean Lovers Festival
Website: https://www.oceanloversfestival.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceanloversfestival/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OceanLoversFestival
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/42310638/admin/feed/posts/
TikTok: @Volvooceanloversfestival

Image credit: Daniel Kukec

Are you stuck in your zone of excellence?

This is what people want to pay you for and recognise you for. It’s deeply integrated into our identity, and it can be tricky to escape. You may have impact in your zone of excellence, but you won’t feel fulfilled.

Now imagine your zone of genius – the place where you are still excellent at what you do, but also more on-purpose and experiencing more vitality and joy!

When we want to change our career, what we are really yearning for is to operate from our zone of genius.

In episode #30, you’ll discover why you need to leave your zone of excellence, how to connect with your zone of genius and part of my personal Human Design that informs my genius.

If you’re ready to use your Human Design to pin-point your genius zone download your chart for free here and drop me a DM at @michelleboyde_hypnotist.

Episode highlights

00:00 Introduction to the zone of excellence and genius
01:21 Understanding the zone of excellence
04:24 The impact of the zone of excellence on your identity
06:29 Transitioning from zone of excellence to zone of genius
09:09 Exploring the zone of genius
11:19 Discovering your zone of genius with Human Design
12:46 My personal experience of discovering my zone of genius
13:35 Gene Key 18 and channel of surrender in my genius
16:22 Get your charts for free at my website

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About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

I have one question for you: Are you happy with how you spend your time?

If your answer is not a full-bodies, hell yes! Then this episode is a must-listen!

In episode #29 I talk about time, our relationship to time, how it speeds up and slows down and why you don’t have as much as you think.

Life by YOUR Design is fundamentally about choosing how you want to spend your time and then designing a life that gives you that.

The waitlist for Build Your Freedom Fund is open. If you want to save that glorious pot of money that supports you to walk away from your career and reclaim your time – then join me for the simplest way to Build Your Freedom Fund.

Episode highlights

02:26 Understanding the concept of time
03:49 The importance of time
06:55 Changing our relationship with time
07:26 The perception of time
08:27 The finite nature of time
09:57 Are you happy with how you spend your time?
12:10 The core tenet of Life by Your Design
13:04 Redesigning your life
16:42 How COVID helped us realise the importance of time
18:06 Get below surface conditioning
19:42 The two questions to ask yourself – now!

Download your human design chart.Book your Human Design Read.Follow the podcast on Instagram.

About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Ever imagined what it would be like to quit your job and work from anywhere?

My guest today is Liis Kaskpeit, a Brand and Website Designer and the Founder of Sparkle Creative Studio.

She is a 4/6 Splenic Projector and she walked away from her 9-5, after exploring loads of different ways to make money!

Liis got really raw and honest about the last two years. This is not the instagram sugar-coated, filtered version of being a digital nomad.

In episode #28, we chatted about how she landed on the correct path for her, the realities of building a lifestyle as well as a business – all while honouring her Projector design.
Episode highlights

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Guest introduction: Liis Kaskpeit - a journey of self-discovery
02:37 Liis' entrepreneurial journey: trials and triumphs
04:29 Exploring different avenues: from freelance journalism to e-commerce
08:01 Finding the right path: the intersection of passion and skill
14:08 Gene key 46
19:00 The reality of starting your own business
23:32 The power of recognition and confidence as a projector
24:11 Overcoming challenges and embracing personal development
25:22 Vision for future businesses and ongoing learning
26:20 The journey of becoming your own boss
27:29 Setting up life as a Projector
35:06 The impact of space and spiritual connection
37:50 Advice for those starting their own business
42:59 Connecting with Liis and final thoughts

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About Liis Kaskpeit
Liis is the Founder of Sparkle Creative Studio, who supports female-owned service-based businesses with elegant branding, compelling copy and website design that helps to turn website visitors into paying clients.

With nearly 10 years of experience in marketing from the corporate world, impactful, eye-catching design is Liis’ passion, and her mission is to help other women bring more ease, money and impact to their businesses, so that instead of fiddling with tech and design, they can focus on what matters to them the most – in business and in life. She loves seeing other women succeed with their businesses because she knows first-hand how much hard work and dedication it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.

Connect with Liis
Website: sparklecreativestudio.com
Instagram: @sparkle.creative.studio
Facebook

Did you know Projectors have only been on the planet for approximately 250 years and we’re 20% of the population?

Discovering I am a Projector has been profound – and it’s helped me make sense and peace with many aspects of myself.

The Projector is one of five types in Human Design. Download your BodyGraph now to discover your type.

In episode #27, I’m sharing some of the aspects of being a Projector I have personally noticed as I have played with how my Human Design comes to life for me.

A must listen if you’re a Projector or you have a Projector in your life and you want to understand them better.
Episode highlights

00:53 Understanding the projector in Human Design
02:56 Personal reflections on being a projector
06:35 1st Reflection - Energy
12:47 2nd Reflection - Navigating social interactions as a projector
17:12 3rd Reflection - The challenge of waiting for invitations
24:51 4th Reflection - Running a business as a projector
29:11 Conclusion and invitation to the Purpose Pathway

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About Life by YOUR Design
It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fueled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Do you consider yourself quite a successful person? I don’t mean you shout that from the rooftops, but when you look at your life, you recognise that you have achieved some stuff.

Yet, you feel dissatisfied with aspects of your life – and perhaps feel bit guilty that you do?

If so, it’s possible you’re following the incorrect definition of success for you.

In episode #26, I discuss the three key scenarios which indicate your definition of success is holding you back or inhibiting your happiness.

Episode Highlights

01:14 Understanding your personal definition of success
02:35 Three scenarios to evaluate your definition of success
03:58 Origins of our definitions of success
04:57 How we learn
08:16 The standardised roadmap for success
12:15 Scenario one: achieving success but feeling dissatisfied
16:26 What is Purpose Pathway?
19:32 Scenario two: struggling to change your life
23:38 Scenario three: uncertainty about what you want
25:54 The power of defining your own success
27:33 Invitation to join the Purpose Pathway

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About Life by YOUR Design

It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fuelled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

My guest is Helen Leith, Founder of Nokori, a Sydney-based company that provides a range of scar care products and support for people undergoing surgery.

Helen is a 4/1 Emotional Manifesting Generator.

We got frank about leaving a secure job to start a business, going back to corporate, self-doubt and the tipping point into success.

There is no right way to leave a career and start your own business and if you choose to dip back into your old career to support that transition - that can be a great tactic.

We also chatted about how aligning to her Human Design shows up as her core sales channel in her business.

Episode Highlights

02:35 Helen's Journey
03:53 Receiving the idea for Nokori
05:36 Strategy in action
06:38 The reality of leaving a stable job
14:22 Nokori’s growth
17:08 Overcoming self-doubt
19:10 Helen’s Design Jupitar from inadequacy to resourcefulness
20:28 Nokori patient success
22:33 Profile Line 4 and networking in building Nokori sales
24:34 Balancing business and personal life
25:15 Chasing money vs. making money
29:58 Emotional Authority and productivity
31:13 The Journey from Corporate to Entrepreneurship
32:15 Helen’s Motivation in Human Design
37:44 The future of Nokori: expansion and investment
39:55 Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

Download your human design chart.Book your Human Design Read.Follow the podcast on Instagram. About Helen LeithHelen has over 20 years’ experience as a senior product specialist in the medical device industry. After decades at Johnson & Johnson she left in 2017 to take a break and explore starting her own business. She founded Nokori, a Sydney-based company that provides a range of scar care products and support for people undergoing surgery, which she now runs with her business partner.

Connect with Nokori
Website: nokori.com.au
Instagram @wearenokori
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About Michelle Boyde
Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Has your quest for self-discovery and purpose hit a roadblock? Do you wonder why you have more or less energy than other people? Perhaps you want to tap into the wisdom of a greater force to guide you down the correct path for you?

What can I tell you…Human Design will give you all of this and more.

On a personal level, delving into Human Design has been a profound experience, so much so that I've restructured my business in alignment with my unique Design.

In this episode, I share an intro to Human Design and the top three reasons it’s a powerful system to have up your sleeve.

Episode Highlights

01:43 How to get your Human Design chart
01:58 Exploring different tools for self-awareness
03:11 The value of Human Design
03:46 Origins and components of Human Design
05:55 Understanding your energy in Human Design
08:17 Discovering your gifts and purpose through Human Design
09:53 How your aura interacts with the quantum in Human Design
15:40 Awareness and intuition in Human Design
22:22 How to start using your Human Design
25:08 Next steps in your Human Design journey

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About Life by YOUR Design

It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fuelled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

Are you fresh out of inspiration for what’s next for you? Perhaps you seem unable to come up with any new ideas or solutions to a situation you face?

What if I told you that it’s stress and the state of your nervous system which is creating tunnel vision, or a complete inability to move into action?

A regulated nervous system provides the space to contemplate what’s next and tap into new ideas.

In episode 23, I provide an overview of the nervous system states and how they create tunnel vision or inaction. I discuss why our ability to move between these states provides a fertile environment for change.

If you feel stuck around what’s next in life, join me to discover the role stress has in where you are today.

Episode Highlights:

01:50 How stress impacts us
02:54 My personal experience with stress
05:29 Creating space in my nervous system
07:04 The nervous system and its different states
10:06 Getting stuck in a certain nervous response in our daily lives.
11:39 Sympathetic response; the flight and flee
13:00 The parasympathetic response; the Dorsal Vagal response
13:26 Ventral Vagus state
13:51 Scarcity and money
14:34 Supporting your nervous system
18:22 Podcast Break Announcement for the Holidays

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About Life by YOUR Design

It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fuelled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

My first guest of Season 2 is the productivity powerhouse that is Rachael Sanderson, a 6/2 Sacral Generator.

Rachael owns and operates Life a Little Greener, a community focused regenerative gardening business based in the Northern Rivers of NSW Australia.

We discussed leaving her EA career in Hong Kong and moving her family back to Australia in search of healthier food. Her self-driven passion for regenerative gardening which sowed the seeds for her successful business - initially driven out of necessity during Covid.

Rachael is a solo parent to 3 beautiful free-range babies aged 4,6 and 8 (while her husband travels for his work). She speaks freely about how her approach to food and parenting has positively impacted the behaviour of her children.

Racheal is living her Human Design and we reflect on the impact of her profile, Purpose Gene Key and Personality North Node on the life she has created.

We chatted about boundaries and balance, the mess behind the scenes, planting mint and so much more!

Episode Highlights:

0:42 Introducing Rachael Sanderson
3:39 What is regenerative farming/gardening?
4:30 How Rachael's journey evolved from passion, need and success
7:20 How she creates balance
11:52 Rachael’s Personality North Node in her purpose
13:27 Organic food and its effect on her children
21:11 Top 3 steps to move in a different direction in your life.
26:54 How she now views work and life differently
32:38 Reflections on her Purpose Gene Key on her direction
37:22 How can we do better and contribute?
41:12 Rachael’s advice on changing a job you don't like

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About Rachael Sanderson

Rachael owns and operates Life a Little Greener. She takes a holistic approach to property management, with a primary focus on improving soil health and creating and restoring ecosystems.

They support people in growing organic, nutrient dense food at home, provide chemical-free garden care, designing native and edible landscapes, create region specific revegetation plans and create food waste solutions.

She lives on a 5-acre micro regenerative farm called A Greener Little Farm with 50 fruit trees, 20 veggie gardens, goats, chickens, and 1.5 acres of swamp sclerophyll forest she is revegetating.

Connect with RachealWebsite: lifealittlegreener.com.au
Instagram: @life.a.little.greener
Facebook - www.facebook.com/life.a.little.greener

Ever wondered why some goals are a breeze, while others feel like an uphill battle, or escape you completely?

The secret: new goals lack the subconscious programming for seamless achievement.

In this episode, I break down how your conscious and subconscious mind team up or work against each other to shape the life you are living today.

Join me to explore the power of your subconscious mind and discover why a belief upgrade is your shortcut to inevitable success.

Key Takeaways:

While subconscious automations can be incredibly efficient, they may not always serve us well when we want to embark on something new or different
By altering our belief system, we have the power to propel ourselves toward our visions and goals
Step one is building awareness of our subconscious beliefs influencing our goal
The subconscious mind is a goal achieving machine when you learn to work with it!

Highlights:

1:49 Working with the conscious mind can only get us so far
2:41 We have 4% in our conscious awareness and 96% is the subconscious mind
5:09 Subconscious automations and how they can hold us back
6:35 The Ultimate Goal Accelerator: How this applies when a smoker wants to stop smoking
8:37 Start working with your subconscious mind
10:20 How your beliefs influence you if you want to leave your job
12:08 Our beliefs are always evolving

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About Life by YOUR Design

It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fuelled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

If you find yourself stuck in your search for purpose, feeling unsure of how to navigate your desires and direction, you're not alone. But here's the truth: everyone has a purpose. It's not some elusive treasure hidden at the end of an over-analysed path.

Unfortunately, it's a journey which we've complicated with unnecessary dogma and misconceptions.

It's not about success, achievement or careers, but a journey of self-discovery.

If you are feeling stuck or simply ready to begin your exploration, join me in this first episode (after my hiatus!) where I encourage you to explore the concept of purpose from a fresh perspective. I cover the three things purpose is not, as well as what it is.

Episode Highlights:

02:06 The reason I support people to connect to purpose
03:21 My personal and professional journey with purpose
05:11 Everyone can find purpose
06:27 Purpose goes beyond life success, achievements, and possessions
09:30 “Purpose does not equal a job or career.”
12:04 “Your purpose is not a tagline.”
13:47 You don’t discover it with your head
16:15 A new definition of purpose
20:05 Steps to progress in your journey
21:31 What to expect in this new season of the podcast

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About Life by YOUR Design

It’s time to change that career, share your gifts and create the ripples that change the course of your life. If you’re seeking more purpose and meaning, then you know it’s time to live Life by YOUR Design. Join Master Hypnotist Michelle Boyde as she discusses subconscious power, heart-fuelled passion, discovering your soul-led purpose, Human Design and interviews people committed to living life by their own design.

About Michelle Boyde

Introducing Michelle, Master Hypnotist and Life Architect. She's your trusted guide for nurturing unconventional beliefs, delving deep into the subconscious mind and supporting you to reconnect to your purpose. She’s been facilitating leaders for over 15 years to gain clarity on their vision and act on their goals. Her unique mix of Hypnosis, Matrix Therapies and Human Design will guide you to unlock your true potential and live Life by YOUR Design.

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My guest today is Cam Scott who is a street & gallery artist and diversified maker who goes under the name of NOTNOT. He was born in New York, but grew up in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, where you can see his street art all over the community.

He studied fine art at the University of New South Wales and has been exhibited in numerous shows both here and abroad. Predominantly working with reflective and transparent materials, his unconventional printmaking practice merges digital and analogue processes.

He’s an artist, a surfer and an inventor. You may know his Digital Realities Street Art which he talks about in his TEDx Talk and in his new book. He’s also the creator of Sunnys Eyewear and more.

In today episode we chatted all about living an as artist outside of societal norms, Cam’s many inventions and the value of community exchange projects including his North Bondi Board Share:

[2.28] Cam wanted to be an inventor, he used to draw himself with a white coat and test tubes.
[3.20] Cam makes wooden boards and adds foam so it’s easier to catch and more fun to ride.
[5.13] He also made a Christmas tree for Bondi’s QT based on the surf boards he makes for the community.
[6.15] Cam’s been working as an artist for over a decade
[7.24] After uni was torn between a marketing profession and did some of that but kept making art alongside.
[9.54] Cam’s book is on sale at the MCA. A public series of art called Digital Realities for five years.
[13.00] Street art permissions
[14.50] Graffiti is about taking space, bravado, putting their name on it and making that public arena their own. Street art is about making it better.
[16.35] How NOTNOT came about.
[17.46] Designing his lifestyle: turning something interesting into something that can sustain you.
[19.25] Pat, from Sunburnt Mess (the best surf ship in Bondi!) helped gave advice around getting them produced. Cam worked with the Fred Hollows Foundation on a Vivid installation. They offer eye surgeries to return peoples sight. He decided that $5 of every pair of Sunnys goes direct to the Foundation.
[21.00] Surf hats: based on Legionnaires hat, he has created a design that connects to the wetsuit zip so you don’t lose it in the surf.
[23.30] The creative process, where Cam looks to for inspiration
[25.40] The idea of the original can be detrimental.
[28.30] Interpretation of work: great worry for an artist
[30.30] North Bondi Board Share is all about community custodianship.
[35.30] One of the North Bondi Board Share boards escaped on a train from Bondi.
[37.17] Cam’s tips for being an artist
[38.00] It’s the best way you can live. You need to be quite strong to situate yourself in a different way.
[40.40] Surfers and running!
[42.00] More gallery work coming! Twenty Twenty Six Gallery on O’Brien Street, Bondi. Cam’s exhibition of Oceanic Abstractions was postponed in January due to Covid, but coming up soon.

You can follow his adventures on Instagram or visit this website.

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In this episode I’m talking about how to decide whether to work as an employee, freelancer or start your own business.

[2.51] Expansion: things will bubble up and it will change
[3.12] When you leave a job there are two key considerations for what is next: What should I do and how should I do it?
[3.46] What should I do is the heart question, to be led by your heart brain to ensure you have purpose and meaning
[4.46] How is the head question, this is how we creatively work it out, of which a component is should I work for someone else, myself of a bunch of people. This can change over time.
[5.33] Caution: make sure the heart brain is leading!
[7.00] 6 Core needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection, growth, contribution
[9.40] Apply the core needs to being an employee, freelancer and business owner
[13.00] My core needs
[14.15] Using the core needs for changing your career

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

My guest today is Tameera Kemp. For over 20 years she has brought healing, insight, clarity and empowerment to thousands worldwide working with the ancient sciences of astrology, numerology and Feng Shui to transform your world.

She specialises in relationships, life direction, career, home energies, names and changes. She is featured in Vogue and has conducted readings for luxury brands, leading Australian magazines and television media.

Tameera brings further healing through the Light Language and dowsing with profound insight dating back thousands of years to Atlantis as a record keeper.

Tameera developed the Moon Lovers Astrology Numerology Guide which syncs to your phone, aimed at the busy person to help you understand the energies worldwide. She is currently working on a dating book and further online resources to help you live your best life.

In today’s episode she shares practical ways to use Astrology and Numerology to guide leaving your career and starting new projects. As well as easy Feng Shui tops to support a career change:

[3.30] Tameera wanted to be an air hostess, seems quite different to what she does now, but it is still “up in the air”. From the age of 10 she got into Astrology, then Numerology and Feng Shui later in her twenties. Since a teenager she wanted to do this for a living.
[7.48] 14 years working at one of Sydney’s top universities
[9.30] There are two key things that triggered Tameera to leave that job.
[13.10] How do you interpret the signs? This is what each number vibration means
[19.2] Astrology - we have our charts and then transits happening around us
[21.00] 84 is a really significant age – also a Uranus return then. People who have not gone into life’s calling their dementia sets in and they regress into childhood
[22.10] Characteristics of Saturn Return – births, deaths and marriages. Whatever you thought was going to be happening, it’s transformation on a grand scale. Soul partnerships come in, pregnancies, moving countries. It changes directory of your life. Lasts for 2.5 years.
[24.31] You can look at where Saturn is in your chart right now to see which house it is in and that will guide your experience and decisions.
[28.30] Nissan Whirlpool, Nike – all their logos are based on Saturn. Nike – “just do it”- push through limitations
[30.11] Descriptions of each House
[36.20] Numerology
[36.40] Calculating Personal Year Vibration and Life path Number
[44.10] There is a universal energy as a collective. This years is a 5 year ( 2 + 0 + 2 + 1). This year is about profound freedom! Last year was a 4 characterised by yin energy – we were forced to stay at home and go within!
[45.40] Personal years vibrations descriptions
[54.00] Inspired action – Destiny vs taking action.
[57.00] We have 7 main numbers that make up our blueprint.
[1.00.29] Feng Shui tips: Your home is a reflection of you.
[1.07.50] Western Fung Shui and Traditional Feng Shui Compass method
[1.08.45] Feng Shui key parts of your home
[1.15.03] If you are going for an interview or public speaking
[1.15.55] Tameera is writing a book on dating. Developing new online resource. The Moon Lovers Guide is released and working on a retreat

You can follow Tameera’s adventures on Instagram, Facebook and find out more on her website.

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Guided Meditation: Simple Breath Meditation

I've had requests for guided meditations on the podcast. So that is exactly what we are doing today!

This simple breath meditation is around 20 minutes long. Simply turn off notifications, find a quite spot, get comfy and treat yourself.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

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My guest is Alex E Lamber who is passionate about raising the consciousness of our planet and uses entrepreneurship to bring this shift into manifestation.

After studying at a prestigious business school in Paris and growing startups in Australia, Alex got a spiritual awakening that motivated him to use his skills to empower other lightworkers, healers, conscious entrepreneurs and heart-centred leaders.

He is the host of “The Lightleaders Podcast” and the author of “The New Wave: Escape 9-5, Do What You Love and Make an Impact”. He organises events around the world such as the Masterminds of Conscious Entrepreneurs.

He also coaches other lightworkers to achieve financial freedom and scale their positive impact in the world.

In this episode we talked about his spiritual awakening triggering leaving his career, morning routines, psychedelics and much more. And Alex’s shares lots of tips and book references to get your started (you’ll find a list at the bottom of the show notes):

[2.33] After graduation he did one year in private equity, didn’t excited him. Then he moved to Australia and spend six years growing start-ups including Hello Fresh.
[3.45] The combination of interest in entrepreneurship and meditation triggered him to create the life he lives now.
[4.44] Freedom and time from not being in a 9-5 creates a lot of emptiness so there is a need for discipline.
[5.08] Alex has a disciplined morning routine.
[9.44] Advice for beginning a morning routine.
[10.28] Alex’s morning routine.
[12.55] Alex’s spiritual awakening.
[15.23] Three years ago, he did a weekend with friends with LSD.
[16.11] The mind creates a lot of fears that are in fact irrational.
[17.35] What expanding consciousness means: recognising we are more than what we see with our senses and challenging what we have been taught.
[20.05] A more professional approach answer to that question.
[21.35] When he finds himself in fear and ego.
[24.56] Breath work and energy work.
[26.02] We are wired to focus not the negative for survival. We rewire with gratitude. It balances the brain ad see things more clearly.
[28.50] We live at a time when things are very uncertain. Which is why meditation is so important. We have to become uncomfortable with change. “If things change, I’ll learn again with pleasure.”
[32.20] Alex’s Ayahuasca Experience (see his podcast episode)
[35.00] “Living in the world of today without meditating is getting very hard.”
[36.25] Healy – device emits frequency’s through a micro current, supports wellbeing.
[38.15] Network marketing has a bad rep.
[43.54] Alex’s tips how to walk away from a career you feel embedded in
[48.11] What he wished he has known

Alex’s Reading List:

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
The 7 Habits pf Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Power of Now, by Erkhart Tolle
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

You can follow Alex’s adventures on Instagram and Facebook. Find out more on his website alexelamber.com, including his podcast: The Lightleaders Podcast here.

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Do you know what to expect when you go under hypnosis? Or what the difference is to meditation?

Monday 4th January 2021 was World Hypnosis Day and I love hypnosis so in today’s episode we are talking all things hypnosis. I’ve giving you a bit of history, how it works, what you can expect, how it’s different to meditation and how it could be useful for you:

[1.50] Some people think it’s all pendulums and chicken dances – it’s not. What you’re actually looking at in an incredible re-programming tool for your unconscious mind
[2.36] I was nervous the first time I had hypnosis, but I love it.
[3.25] Over the years hypnosis has been used for entertainment, including by Franz Anton Mesmer who used it in the 1750s to entertain the French Aristocracy
[4.08] In 1950 Dr Milton Erickson revised hypnotherapy, taking it off the stage and made it a respectable therapeutic intervention. He practiced hypnosis daily from 1920-1980 seeing up to 14 people per day
[4.52] Only 4% of our minds are in our conscious awareness at any time. 96% is our unconscious mind.
[5.28] Once we have learnt something our brain wants to automate it, so we don’t have to use the precious 4% in our conscious awareness
[6.41] We have a programme for everything we run in our bodies and everything we do – some are more advantageous than others
[8.10] In hypnotherapy we are suggesting new programmes that are more advantageous and aligned to what you want to achieve
[8.40] The more you use a neural pathway the stronger it becomes
[10.16] You can expect to:
- Feel deeply relaxed – we are slowing your brain waves
- Hear your practitioners voice at all times – it’s conscious hypnosis
- Have complete control – your unconscious mind is more powerful than any hypnotherapist
[12.55] How is it different to meditation? They look the same and they are both relaxing. There are some key differences:
- Brain wave states – in meditation you are in alpha and in hypnosis you are in theta
- Meditation is awareness and hypnosis is about reprogramming
- Meditation is passive, you are observing, and hypnosis is active, you are reprogramming
[18.30] Think of hypnosis as an accelerator towards your goals
[19.36] This time of year, we are setting new year’s resolutions, making visions boards, goal setting or simply daydreaming.
[19.55] You may think about what you need to do to achieve those goals. I encourage you to consider who you need to be
[20.10] This is more important as who you need to be, will affect what you need to do to get where you want to go.
[21.10] Every time you learn something new you reshape your brain.

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My guest today is Anna Kooiman, the creator of Strong Sexy Mammas: a virtual, home fitness for busy mammas. She is an American TV personality who left a wildly successful career in New York City to move to Sydney to start a family with her Aussie husband. They now have a 2.5-year-old and 6-month-old. Baby Annabel joined us for today’s podcast record – you’ll hear her chiming in!

Anna has a long list of women’s fitness certifications including Pre and Post Natal Corrective Exercise Specialist, Diastasis and Core Consultant. She teaches classes in some of Sydney most sought-after boutique fitness studios. So, you can catch both her Strong Sexy Mammas Video on Demand home fitness classes and live in-person classes around Bondi.

Anna comes from a family of entrepreneurs. She is also a proud board member of the Bondi Beach Chamber of Commerce and loves being a cheerleader for her new community that has been so good to her husband and kids.

In this episode we chatted about changing course with young kids, finding your new identity and pre- and post-natal fitness:

[2.38] Overwhelming when we have our kids, my skills are not necessarily translating. Exciting to go back to my routes in fitness.
[3.44] Social media numbers – don’t be fooled, nobody knows what the hell they’re doing!
[4.14] Anna wanted to be a dolphin trainer, then a physical therapist, then she wanted to do TV (which she did) and now personal training.
[6.07] There are four types of learning; Visual, through seeing; auditory through listening; kinaesthetic through doing and auditory digital, learning through facts and figures.
[6.45] Strong Sexy Mamas is more than simply tightening your tum and booty.
[7.28] In pre-natural and post-natal women centre of gravity shifts, booty goes back causes issues like back pain and incontinence.
[8.36] Anna is about more than before and after photos. In the Strong Sexy Mamas challenge every Friday they do the Cardio Sculpture Fitness Tracker.
[11.00] The things about post-natal that are not always talked about: Weeing yourself!
[13.08] Pelvic floor is the taboo subject. If you have a well-functioning pelvic floor, who central canister function well.
[16.44] Mental health can be something that a lot of mum’s struggle with as we try to find out new identity. Hormones and sleep deprivation.
[17.00] What feels good to them. Sometimes we make excuses, but sometimes we really are too tired. Then you don’t have to exercise, rest is more important.
[18.19] Preparing your body before you have your child, Anna’s tip to do this.
[20.30] Labour training and toddler tantrum training – moderate intensity training.
[21.57] Anna’s tips, they want to change their careers but also want to start or grow their family.
[25.10] The future: Strong Sexy Mamas becomes the go to place for an active, smooth pregnancy and an empowered and speed post-partum recovery.

You can follow Strong Sexy Mamas’s on Instagram, Facebook,Youtubeor on her website.

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What is the storying you are telling yourself about 2020? What are you planning in your next chapter?

In this episode I’m talking about the importance of the story we tell ourselves, how to review and rewrite our stories to support to live the life we want:

[1.40] How do you want to write your story of 2020? It’s your time to reflect.
[2.50] Stories are important to us as humans – we use them to communicate, pass on ideas and connect[3.15] How we construct our stories impacts our day-to-day experience – check our episode 8 to learn more about the reticular activating system
[4.26] Write the story of a pessimist and the story of an optimist – you decide where on the spectrum you want to sit
[5.40] Check where you use humour in your stories – the unconscious mind is always listening
[6.46] Carrying other people’s stories – my experience of absorbing the 30-something fertility story
[9.40] We pick up other people’s rhetoric, from social media and news
[10.38] How to review and rewrite your story
- Step 1: Identify the facts
- Step 2: Notice the meaning you have created from those facts
- Step 3: Decide the perspective you want to have
- Step 4: Who are the key characters (who have you given power to)?
- Step 5: What’s the learning or moral of the story

I’d love to hear your thoughts o this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

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Do you want to live as a artist? Listen to this for a goose bump giving description of living in flow!

My guest today is Catherine Hiller. Originally from France, she worked on the business side of advertising and communication in the UK and Australia for 20 years. Painting was always her passion from a young age and she always pursued it outside of work, until six years ago, when she quit my job to become a full-time artist – and have never looked back!

In today’s episode we talk about how that moment she had to leave came quicker than expected, living a creative life and how not worrying about money brings her more:

[2.13] “You’re always told being an artist is not a job, you cannot make money with.”
[4.00] When Catherine went to get an eftpos machine at the bank, there was no box for artist, so she had to tick “painter decorator”, because and artist is not a job.
[5.00] She loved her job for many years and the passion tuned into obligation. Stressful and didn’t enjoy it anymore. The more stressed she got the more she painted. She would paint until midnight. The more she painted, the more reaction she got, she sold more work. The thought came if you’re giving it only a tiny part of your time and energy, what if you gave it 100%?
[6.37] Conference call with a client. And she thought: “I don’t care what you are saying, it’s not important anymore.” Said to colleague: “I cannot do this anymore.” The colleague said you’ve got to tell them!
[8.00] You can always go back – there is never any true risk. It’s not irreversible. If you see it as a life changing decision, it’s a bit scary. But not if you look at it as trying something for six months.
[9.46] Catherine calls it the Freedom Fund, I call it the Fuck Off Fund – she always had it.
[11.25] When you are happy and doing what you love, you don’t need to spend that much.
[13.40] There is a lot of freedom when you realise you don’t need much money to live on. The shift in money mindset from 9-5, knowing where it’s coming from. Catherine says just don’t worry about it. She doesn’t worry where money is going to come from. The less you worry about it, the more it comes to you.
[14.54] Laws of manifestation – you amplify what you focus on. So, if you focus on not having enough money, you attract not having more money.
[17.38] I said to my boss: “My time is not my own, I don’t have any control over it.”
[18.47] Covid: People were at home more, looking at blank walls, not spending money in restaurants and her website traffic went up 267%. She received enquires like she has never had. Art makes people feel happy.
[20.18] “Prisoner of their own mind”: Catherine’s expression for those people who want to leave their career but don’t.
[25.25] Living flow – living from a creative space. Catherine can only paint for 2-3 hours per day, feels like it’s not her painting.
[28.14] Catherine’s tips to begin the change: what do you love doing the most. Doesn’t need to be a job. Work back from that. Don’t think about money or status. If I was given $10m tomorrow would I still be doing this job tomorrow? Nothing is irreversible.

You can follow Catherine’s beautiful painting on Instagram or on her website.

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Do you have the resources in place to overhaul your work and life? Which are you craving the most?

Are you familiar with the Work Evolution Roadmap? If you are not you can grab it for FREE here. This is the exact roadmap that I used to leave my career and work out what’s next and it’s the roadmap my clients use to guide their journey. In this episode I'm digging into the second pillar of the roadmap: Resources:

[2.11] The journey to discovering what’s next, like all healing is not linear, it’s a spiral where you revisit similar ideas but from different prospects and through different lenses.
[5.10] The six pillars of the roadmap: Revaluate, Resources, Rebalance, Reconnect, Reprogramme, Reignite.
[7.00] Resource 1: Space - this is all about the space to explore and rediscover yourself. There are four types of space and we all need different amounts of each.
[8.48] Mental space - you know you don’t have enough when you can never quiet your thoughts and your head is constantly busy. If you have a demanding job, or very cerebral job you may not have very much mental space.
[10.32] Emotion space - if the mental spaces is about your thoughts, things of emotional space as your heart. Are you emotions very heightened, so that it’s hard to cut through to listen to what you really want? Lack of emotional space does not only come from work.
[11.45] Physical space - this is space for peace and contemplate and an environment that stimulates you in a positive sense.
[12.52] Spiritual space - whether you identify as spiritual, religious or neither this is relevant. It’s all about the awareness to understand you are not the external expression you put out into the world.
[14.22] Resource 2: Support - do you have the right support around you? The key element here is you don’t want to deepen limiting beliefs about why you should not explore a different life. If you cannot change the opinions of those closest to you, rebalance their opinions by introducing more supportive people into your life
[17.15] Resource 3: Inspiration - this journey is about creating space, shifting beliefs and perspectives, this creates more space! You can fill that inspiration to being in new energy, ideas and help you creatively discover what you want to do next.
[19.49] Resource 4: Money - our world is constructed around money so we need it. However, it’s interesting because so many people get caught up on this resource, when unlike others such as time which we cannot create more of, money is infinite and we can always create more. Money is key whether you walk away from your career and want time off. Reduce your hours, increase child care. get a cleaner. Or retrain or take a course just for the fun of it. I call this pot of money the Fuck Off Fund. Everyone considering a work evolution needs one. Want to learn how to build your Fuck Off Fund? Pre-register for my FREE Masterclass in January 2021 here.

Join me and Stacey Dimitriou for our Facebook Live - Work Life Rebalance. We'll be discussing tips, tricks and ideas of now to design your work life in 2021 for even more balance. We’ll be going live at 11am AEST Thursday 10th December. Join us here.

I’d love to hear your thoughts o this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

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My guest today is Bini Noble.

A writer-producer, motivational speaker, author and intuitive transformational coach, Bini has produced nine short films, line produced a feature film for Television, and worked on at least 27 more. Her shorts have all played at various festivals around the world, including TIFF, AFI, Palm Springs, Austin, Berlin, Melbourne and many more.

She was also recently one among 25 transformational women to co-author the 3rd Edition of Change Makers, published by Change Maker Press, which went on to become an Amazon Best Seller in multiple categories in the US, UK, Australia, and Germany.

In this episode we chatted all about finding fulfilment, stepping into the unknown and her newest passion: numerology:

[8.00] How we give ourselves to different parts of our life. Most of us don’t answer the question of fulfilment in our lives. We give so much importance to pleasing our family and teachers. We are conditioned to accept without asking. And we end up being co-dependent. Walking through life pleasing friends, colleagues and bosses.
[13.44] Whenever Bini steps into her authenticity, into the unknown, she evolves as a person. The old Bini has died, she is gone. Each phase has a clear demarcation. She cannot any longer identify with the old version of Bini.
[15.23] For the new version to evolve, the old version must die. She got her butterfly tattoo at the brink of a big transformation – at the time she didn’t know why.
[16.47] If you want to graduate from one part of life to the next, you have to learn lessons, just like school.
[23.11] Making choices: leaving a secure world and high pay. Take all of that and put it into a master’s education to start from scratch. Financially, emotionally, spiritually, physically. I didn’t want to sit inside the glass container looking out. Moving into film was the first big shift.
[36.18] Arithmancy from Harry Potter is in fact numerology!
[37.00] Pythagorean system of numerology is followed in most of the world. It’s the spiritual blueprint to life. Life a blueprint for a home, to show you where you might need more space. Gives you guidance how your life is building, what are your gifts and talents and key events. Personality tests give you a one-sided view, in a box, numerology gives you more of a 3D view.
[42.20] How to get started with numerology: core numbers. Every number has a vibration. There is no bad or good number. But every number has a low (unresourceful) and high (resourceful) expression of that number. Start with your birth name and date of birth. Calculate your Life Path, by adding all the numbers in your birth date. Calculate your Destiny, by adding up your birth name (how you go about achieving that life purpose).
[48.33] Bini’s advice for anyone who may be feeling stuck: go be still, it’s not a luxury, it’s a need. Ask yourself: what is that makes me happy. What kind of job would you do if you had enough money – what would you do just for the sake of doing it. Work is just work. You don’t have to give it as much power as you do.

You can connect with Bini on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedInor her website.

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Do you want to know how to change your experience moment to moment? Do you wish you had more power over your reality?

In this episode I’m explaining that there is no reality, how we are creating the one we experience and how we can shift our experience . It’s powerful stuff:

[1.47] How we construct our reality through our senses
[2.43] The 138 bits of information we are consciously aware of every moment
[6.40] How we filter our sensory information
[12.35] How we use the that information to create our experience
[14.50] Something only has the meaning we give it!
[17.05] The two key interventions points to re-shape our experience
[18.05] How to change your focus with gratitude, affirmations and expanding your awareness
{20.20] How to change what you feel by noticing the meaning you give a piece of information
[22.00] Use your physiology to change your emotion at any time

I’d love to hear your thoughts o this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

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How is your mental health? Did you know regenerative farming takes carbon out the sky?

My guest today is Jim A. Barker. He moved to Sydney a decade ago to start a career in public relations, but after several years of successfully working on some of the biggest names in tech and gaming found himself quite bummed at the idea of pushing words around for someone else.

Thankfully, he'd picked up a camera a few years beforehand and was learning more about himself behind the lens than he'd ever learned behind a keyboard. So, after a couple of years languishing in agency land, wondering how to make it work, he just...made the jump, starting a photography business: Twelve Points Photography. But it's not just portraits Jim enjoys, he's also a passionate gardener and is taking steps to learn how he can reverse climate change [big call!] through farming. Nowadays Jim keeps himself busy with a variety of jobs, constantly pushing to learn new things to make himself, and the world around him, better.

Today we chatted openly about his mental health, his Doortraits projects and how he is creating a full work life evolution:

[04.50] How he splits his time between photography, publicity and farming.
[07.10] When Jim picked up a camera few years ago, it gave him the impetus to explore his creative side.
[09.08] The trigger to leave? Simple: mental health.
[11.00] Twilight years in PR: stressed, shuffling his feet, moving and talking slowly, walk home and cry behind his sunglasses.
[12.33] The financials – Lived off his final pay check and got as many eyeballs on his photography business Twelve Points Photography.
[15.09] Back to university for the third time. “My HECS debt is screaming at me.”
[16.43] The system we have of education is great at choking creativity out of us. Learn better by doing and making mistakes.
[18.39] Twelve Points Photography and Jim’s Doortraits project. During the pandemic, photographing Sydneysiders outside their homes.
[22.55] Jim pitched his photos to news organisations: The Guardian Australia ran a massive gallery, Channel 7 News ,Australian Photographer Magazine and ABC all covered it. See his Doortraits here:
[24.28] Lifeline saw the initial push from media and they came onboard and knowing lockdown was a challenge for mental health, Lifeline and Jim cobranded the initiative and Jim photographed Lifeline staff. You can still donate here:
[27.14] Jim’s work evolution is really a life evolution – it’s all about nature. How Jim is curating his life.
[29.29] Jim’s in love with the idea of regenerate farming: a method of farming where you make the soil better. Documentary 2040 speaks to how you can pull carbon out of the sky and put it in the soil.
[33.30] My mental health is the best it’s ever been.
[34.55] It’s cliché but “kicking myself for not doing it sooner.” Just do it.

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Are you unsure of your purpose in life? Do you feel pressure to uncover and define your purpose?

In this episode I’m going solo to talk about the concept of purpose and how I think we are making things harder for ourselves than we need to. Listen in to hear me share my ideas around:

[1.21] Why you don’t need a purpose
[7.50] How alignment is the answer to feeling happier and finding more meaning
[15.33] Our uniting purpose – try it on for size!
[17.41] How we put it all together and what it means for your work life

I’d love to hear your thoughts o this episode. Email me at michelle@floetic.com.au or follow my adventures on Instagram.

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My guest today is Debbie Cohen, the founder and director of The Style Chapter, a boutique interior styling studio, based in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.

Debbie spent the first 10 years of her career in business development across law firms in Perth, London and Sydney. After feeling ‘stuck’ and unfulfilled in her career for a very long time, it took a case of physical and mental burn out to be the wakeup call she needed. With absolutely no contingency plan in place she left her job, and took the time to really consider what it was that she wanted to do.

She enrolled in Design School to become a qualified Interior Decorator, freelanced for various styling companies, and in May this year, launched her own business, The Style Chapter - in the middle of a pandemic with a baby and a toddler in tow!

In this episode we chat the four stages of burnout, going back to school and how she accidentally started her business.

[8.12] The four stages of burnout
[10.25] The sign from the universe that made her realise she had to make a change and she found herself saying: “There has to be more than this.” (she took the words out of my mouth!)
[12.50] The Friday morning it all changed: Screaming on the inside: “I cannot do this anymore.”
[14.30] With hindsight, the point she realises she should have evaluated.
[17.28] A book she recommends: What Colour is Your Parachute, by Richard N. Bolles.
[18.12] Moving in with her now-husband, merging their belonging, they used an interior decorator. Debs found herself asking: “Is this your job? I didn’t know jobs like this existed.”
[19.40] Doing work experience at 32 years old and going back to school at Sydney Design School. Getting a part-time job.
[20.30] Tip to work out what you might want to do: ask the people who know you well: What is it I enjoy, when do you see the sparkle in my eyes?
[21.00] Walking away from your salary. “I didn’t have a Fuck Off Fund, if I did, I could have left earlier.” She was supported by her now husband and part-time job.
[24.39] Deb’s never set out to start her own business, it was just a Covid-19 opportunity that came around. 2016 was a busy year: she retrained, got engaged, married and had a baby!
[27.15] Birthing The Style Chapter: named because it’s a new chapter in her life and for her clients it’s a whole other chapter in moving house.
[27.55] Deb’s top tips for refreshing a space: don’t just go with what’s on trend and think about how you use this space.
[29.17] What Deb’s wishes she had known before leaving her career: I was so worried what people would think. You don’t leave a job without another job. Now I realise people don’t care.
[31.55] When I was waiting for my visa, I kept asking myself: “What is the reframe? I can put more money into my Fuck Off Fund and what I am learning?” (Fuck Off Fund: Glorious pot of money to give you the power back to leave your career.)
[33.00] What Deb’s kept hearing before she quit: “Is it really that bad? Just don’t go in? But it’s really good money.”

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My guest today is Stacey, the owner of Stacey Dimitriou Coaching and the founder of Alpha Women Rising, a free Facebook Community celebrating female Strength, Confidence and Resilience.

Stacey previously founded and managed a successful seven figure events business for 13 years with her husband Jim, while juggling their two children. After selling Divine Events, Stacey enjoyed being a stay at home mum for seven years, and then the seven-year business itch hit! She began teaching women how to reclaim their confidence through their courage and saw the immense impact women’s empowerment has on our society as a whole.

In today’s episode we discuss the myths of being an entrepreneur, including getting to the heart of the mindset you need to be successful. We also chatted about how you create confidence and “craughing”, not to be confused with crafting.

[3.16] Stacey’s superpower: walking away when something doesn’t work for her. I love this because my philosophy is “the happiness is in the leaving”.
[7.07] Stacey quit and walked away from her graduate programme 20 years ago to start her chair cover business. Stacey’s husband was mortified, he could have passed out.
[11.16] She couldn’t sew, but she bought 5,000m of fabric and started making 400 chair covers by hand. I’m going to jump into this.
[12.17] The trigger to sell the successful events company: They had far exceeded goals; they had two children and sacrificed a lot and when the little one was three Stacey said: “I cannot do this anymore.”
[16.15] Entrepreneurs feed off risk. A good entrepreneur is addicted to risk.
[17.50] The myths Stacey wants to squash about being an entrepreneur: The propaganda of how many figures, it matters how much profit you are making.
[20.15] Re-adjusting a current position to make it work better. Massive change is not always necessary. Look at all different options to make a change. It’s tweaking sometimes.
[26.40] Being an entrepreneur, the first three years, is like an apprenticeship. Being realistic and being ok with not getting it right. Look for the humour in everything.
[27.35] The “craugh”: half laughing, half crying.
[28.16] Whether starting a business or a new position, have at the forefront your values and how are they being fulfilled.
[32.50] Stacey’s tips for building confidence. The small easy to follow equation. Everyone has faced a fear and observed it, looking back is what gives you the confidence to do something similar. Fear + courage = confidence.
[34.36] Every woman is an Alpha Woman. That makes some people cringe. Someone who stands in her power, who leads. Without Alpha cannot have anything else. Find your genius zone and lead in your own life.
[38.58] Alpha Women Rising Facebook Group if you want to talk about it and rub shoulders digitally with other Alpha Women. Diverse backgrounds, ages, work places – allowed, if they choose, to be vulnerable. Conversations around topics perhaps we cannot talk about, but in a light-hearted way.
[40.13] Vulnerability and confidence – you cannot be in a true place of confidence without being vulnerable. Gives us credibility when we are raw and open and vulnerable. The capacity for soft and strong.

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Do you want to negotiate flexible and remote working into the future? Have you wondered what it’s really like going out on your own – and then Covid-19 hits?

My guest today is Liam Pietzka, the founder and director of Brightbox Consulting, a recruitment agency with a focus on the Digital space, specifically Digital Creative, Digital Marketing and Digital Technology. After 6 years as General Manager of Aquent he took the leap to start his own business.

In this episode learn Liam’s tricks for negotiating flexible working arrangements with your current or future employers, Liam’s mantra to manage his mindset and how he believes empathy and human connection is what will keep driving success.

[4.18] Originally an actor in the West End, after missing Cardiff and “falling into” recruitment he moving across the world to Sydney.
[8.00] Why Liam always wanted to start his own business.
[8.40] “Champagne and razor blades”: that’s what some people describe the recruitment industry. Liam’s doing it different, moving from transactional conversations to real consultation.
[11.00] Work life integration and being able to design work life to spend more time with family is driving Liam’s choices.
[12.00] Conversations between candidates and employers are changing. Flexibility used to be number four or five on most people’s lists of desires. Now it’s number one.
[13.35] Cultural elements such as collaboration are being discussed and businesses realise, they need to manage people by outputs if they are not already.
[16.00] Flexibility policies are now one of the first things asked about in the recruitment process. But flexibility should not be a policy, the approach itself needs flexibility as it’s different for everyone.
[17.30] Liam’s tips to negotiate on-going or more flexibility: focus on output and delivery. It’s a negotiation not a dictation. Aim for an open conversation.
[19.50] Things change: you open a business, build a strategy, stick to your guns, be consistent. And then out of nowhere the world changes. How Liam has pivoted his conversations, because the problem he is solving has changed.
[23.13] Running a company at the start of Covid-19 lockdown: it makes you learn about yourself, including your resilience and creativity.
[23.45] Liam meditates more now than he ever has before! Mindset management: understand the triggers, recognise it and change the situation to change his perspective. It’s confronting, but we choose our experience.
[25.52] Liam’s mantra: “You can’t try to manage the things you can’t control and if you can’t control it you need to let it go.”
[26.40] The ideas Liam loves from Dr. Brené Brown: we have a history of making up our own stories, our own internal dialogue. That reflects how we see each ourselves as a person. We need to recognise the story to change its path. You’re the only person who can change the direction.
[27.27] Liam’s tips for creating a work life you love:
[29.42] We all have an individual impact. Human centred designers are building products on their own to solve specific problems linked to Covid-19.
[31.29] As we look to the future, employers are going to have to listen to employees more and empathy and human connection are the most important things we need. Vulnerability is one of the most powerful tools we have.

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In this episode my guest is Dee Behan, a founder and creative director. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland she now calls Sydney home which she shares with her 3-year old son, Max and her husband, Paul. I think Dee is totally mastering the “portfolio career”, with fingers in lot of pies she is passionate about! She’s half of the creative duo behind Frankly Co, Make It Free, and Syster Design Studio. She’s also been appointed co-creative and experience director of sustainable fashion start-up AirRobe. Today we talk all about living an aligned life and how that doesn’t mean you are happy all the time. Creating the space you need to redesign your work life into something you really want to wake up to: Dee was working at fashion brand Camilla while creating space to spend time with her son Max and create her businesses. And we talk about Make it Free, the campaign for free childcare in Australia.

Welcome to the WEL Podcast! I’m thrilled to start sharing stories from people who have created work lives they love! In this episode I interview Pippa Corry, founder of philo & co, a circular economy consultancy. She works with design agencies and brands to help them rethink how we design and transition towards more regenerative ways of working. We talk what you do vs. how you do it. Pippa has evolved how she does it having been an employee, a freelancer and now an entrepreneur. Each of these ways of working can right depending on how much stability and variety you need at any given time. We also talk the circular economy; Exxpedition an all-female sailing voyage and even periods.