My Focus Inspire Me: Recent Episodes
Leonie Lam
I am interviewing people who I consider to be an expert in their field, who are authentic and are happy to share their career insights. So we can learn, be inspired and grow together.
Lisa Tozer shares her knowledge in preparing her clientsfor Senior Executive Service interviews. You can reach out to her directly:+61 439 246 372, www.interview.coach, lisa@interview.coach
Lisa Tozer is a Career Coach with particular expertise in helping candidates prepare for job interviews. She works with individuals to help them maximise their personalpresentation and use behavioural interview strategies to demonstrate their capabilities. Her background includes more than 20 years working in sales, management, training, counselling and coaching in a variety of organisations. She also holds a Master’s degree in Counselling, a Certificate IV in trainingand assessment, she is a professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia.
Lisa Tozer
You can also reach out to her on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-tozer-546ab21/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
This podcast is for anyone who might be considering a Career Change or for Career Changers to learn about how to write a good LinkedIn profile? Sue Ellson is an Independent LinkedIn Specialist and Career Development Practitioner providing consulting and training on the topics of LinkedIn, social media and marketing to individual clients and organisationsworldwide. Sue's website is: https://sueellson.com/
Questions asked throughout the podcast are as below:
- Tell us a bit about your background and how you help your clients?
- What do you think are some of the key challenges of someone who is changing careers in reference to their LinkedIn profile?
- When a professional is changing careers, what is one tip you can share on how to make their LinkedIn profile stand out?
- How about their career summary, can you give an example on what someone would write if they are moving from one career to another e.g. Accountant and they are studying tobecome a Counsellor?
Article:
How to change your career for health, wellbeing and lifestyle
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-change-your-career-health-wellbeing-lifestyle-sue-ellson-qapjc
https://www.facebook.com/sueellson2
Google Business Site
https://sueellson.business.site
https://www.instagram.com/sueellson
LinkedIn Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueellson
Interviewed by Leonie Lam,Career Coach | Speaker at My Focus https://www.myfocus.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
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Please subscribe and help us reach more people. Together we can inspire people to develop their knowledge, grow and be happier.
Wishing you a wonderful day ahead." - Leonie Lam
George Konstantin, Facilitator, Consultant and Leadership Coach shares his journey and how he works with organisations to build resilience and psychological safety in the workplace.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gkid8pi/
“Once you really see people, they will be open to seeing possibilities.”- George Konstantin
George has built his career on enabling and enhancing organisational effectiveness, culture and performance. He has over 20 years of real-world consultative, entrepreneurialand management experience. He has extensive leadership and practical expertise in facilitating open and genuine discussion, collaboration and planning for the responsible and accountable management of operations, people and change.
His work has predominantly focused on defining and building ownership in teams from the executive level through to operational and service personnel. He is passionate about identifying and genuinely acknowledging capabilities in people as the foundation of creativity that leads to real innovation and business improvement.
Speakers:
George Konstantin
You can also reach out to him on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gkid8pi/
Website: https://id8pi.com/
Leonie Lam
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Website: https://www.myfocus.com.au/
“Thank you for reading and feel free to send this podcast to your family, friends and professional network.
Please subscribe and help us reach more people. Together we can inspire people to develop their knowledge, grow and be happier.
Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.” – Leonie Lam.
Leonie Stanfield interviews Leonie Lam on Job Application Tips on How to get a Government Job – Australian Public Service (APS).
The interview covers the below:
- Tell us a bit about your recruitment background in the public sector?
- What are your key tips for writing a good resume for government applications?
- How can you effectively respond to the targeted questions/selection criteria, especially if there is atight word limit?
- What are your thoughts on using ChatGPT in job applications? How would you use it well and are there anydangers to watch out for when using it?
- And if you had one piece advice for job interview preparation, what would that be?
Speakers:
Leonie Lam - Career Coach, Facilitator & Speaker
Website: https://www.myfocus.com.au/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Phone: 02 8328 0882
Email: leonie@myfocus.com.au
Leonie Stanfield - Career Coach, Facilitator & Speaker
Website: https://www.leoniestanfield.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leoniestanfieldcareercoach/
Resources:
Victorian Place-based Capability Framework
https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-03/VPS-place-based-capability-framework.pdf
New South Wales – Capability Framework
https://www.psc.nsw.gov.au/assets/psc/documents/capability_framework_v2_2020.pdf
Job Search Strategy and Career Direction- Leonie Stanfield and Leonie Lam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZJ0DAnRxA
Trisha Harris, Counsellor and Career Counsellor shares her journey and how counselling is the new norm. https://www.riverviewcounselling.au/ She focuses on the importance of self-care and provides examples of the clients in which she has achieved exceptional results with.
Trisha has her own counselling business. She supports those who are anxious, stressed, who are dealing with challenging behaviours and who may feel less than "perfect" in the millions of areas expected of us by society. She works with individuals, couples and families. She is compassionate, caring and passionate about her work.
Trisha Harris
You can also reach out to her through:
riverviewcounselling@outlook.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisha-harris/
https://www.facebook.com/RiverviewCounselling
https://www.instagram.com/riverviewcounselling_/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Love Languages Quiz
https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes
Leonie Lam is a Career Coach and the Founder of the Inspire Me Podcast Channel. https://www.myfocus.com.au/ Jessica Rapesoska is a Yoga Teacher and Educator. Jess interviews Leonie on this podcast and the discussion covers the below questions:
- What’s your signature story about Meditation Leonie?
- Why did you start meditating and share with us your journey so far?
- How about mindfulness practices? What is one practice that you use regularly?
- What message to you have for your listeners on meditationand mindfulness practices?
4 Free Meditations:
https://insig.ht/vxxyLJI3Bxb
About the Speakers:
Jessica Rapesoska
https://www.instagram.com/jessicaryoga
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Erwin Diaz is a Rage and Resolution Consultant, Speaker and a highly experienced Customer Service Manager. He has more than 30 years of experience in Customer Service Leadership. In this podcast Erwin talks about Rage and Resolution - Cultivating Calm. https://thephoenix.com.au/
So what is RAGE? It’s in the air, it’s on the road, it’s at home, at work and it can explode at anytime, anywhere. The scientific community has defined RAGE as state of mind that is motivated by EMOTIONS rather than a personal goal. So is a powerful negative emotion that has been suppressed and is unleashed with violence and unconscious aggression. And it’s first experience in ourselves.
“I listened to Erwin present on Rage and Resolution, he is an expert on this topic. His knowledge, experience and wisdom will surprise you and inspire you to take action personally and professionally." - Leonie Lam, Career Coach
About the Speakers:
Erwin Diaz
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwin-diaz/
erwindiaz@thephoenix.com.au
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au
leonie@myfocus.com.au
Jessica Rapesoska is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher as well as a part time Primary School Teacher. https://www.instagram.com/jessicaryoga
Jess is passionate about health and wellbeing for all individuals and strives to impart her wisdom and experience in this area into all areas of her life.
In this podcast, she shares with us her thoughts and feelings as she navigates through a career change. Her authenticity and her love for life really shines through her voice.
About the Speakers:
Jessica Rapesoska
https://www.instagram.com/jessicaryoga
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Robbi Zeck, is the author of the most beautiful book The Blossoming Heart and creator of the Aromatic Kinesiology Method - The Aromatic Heartwork that Inspires Transformation. Robbi shares with us the importance of valuing yourself and creating your platform of presence.
Robbi is a true trailblazer in the wellness world, in particular in the field of aromatherapy and kinesiology. She has spent many years in France and loves the folklore and traditions of this ancient modality.
Based in Ballarat Australia, with a career spanning more than 40 years as a Kinesiologist, Counsellor, Naturopath and NLP Practitioner, Robbi has led more than 30 exquisite women’s retreats in Bali.
She is also co-founder of Aroma Tours which she established with her husband Jim Llewellyn in 1995. Their beautiful tours and retreats take them to Spain, Italy and Provence in the South of France every year.
About Robbi Zeck:
www.robbizeck.com/love-grace-gratitude
Links to follow if you would like a copy of her book or to attend one of her events:
Website: www.robbizeck.com and www.aroma-tours.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robbi_zeck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robbizeck
Robbi’s Favourite Quote:
Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love. – Rumi
Robbi’s book to give away:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Interviewer:
Leonie Lam
Career Coach | Speaker | Facilitator
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Listen to Paul Siulepa, a highly experienced Learning & Development professional who shares his own personal experience of the benefits of meditation. After 2 years of cultivating this brand new habit in his life, meditation for him has been a game changer. You can reach out to Paul here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsiulepa/
About the Speakers:
Paul Siulepa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsiulepa/
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Mark Digby is a successful and inspirational Leadership Coach, Career Coach and Facilitator. He will be sharing with us his own personal story and the Two Mindsets from The Arbinger Institute. Mark can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-digby-9b9823/
Mark has more than 30 years of experience in leadership and management roles. He has a passion for working with teams and organisations wrestling with significant change or transformation - who know they must build an aligned leadership culture enabling people to engage, execute, deliver and grow. He introduces highly effective frameworks and toolsets that invite and empower leaders and team members across diverse teams to collaborate, unleash their collective innovation and deliver exceptional results in a way that also has a positive impact on others around them.
About the Speakers:
Mark Digby
mdigby338@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-digby-9b9823/
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Leonie Stanfield and Leonie Lam are both Career Coaches.
In this episode we will be covering the below:
- What external pressures can impact our communication?
- What internal resources can shape our communication?
- How do we best navigate these internal and external influences?
- What are some of the challenges you see at the moment with communication within teams and a simple approach to handle this challenge?
- What is one tip you can suggest to improve someone's listening skills?
- What makes an excellent communicator at interview?
About the Speakers:
Leonie Stanfield
https://www.leoniestanfield.com/
Leonie Lam
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Teddy Kosasih shares his journey and how working with a clear vision and core values makes a difference in a career and in business. https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddykosasih/
Leading with Vision and Values is key to a business success and also key to individual's career success as well. Teddy shares with us how he leads his team with vision and values. Teddy is inspirational, genuine and a leader in his field. Recognised and highly respected by professional members within CPA Australia.
Teddy is a Chartered Tax Adviser and SMSF Specialist Advisor with over 18 years’ industry experience, his passion is to implement an efficient system and strategy to maximise values for Small Medium Enterprises and high net wealth individuals. He has worked in a wide range of diverse industries including small and large companies, with the largest being listed on Australian Stock Exchange.
You can also reach out to him on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddykosasih/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam - Career Coach | Speaker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Vandana Nand is an experienced Senior Executive with more than 17 years of experience in Financial roles. She has experience in people management, business partnering, leading teams, change management, strategic planning, management, finance, operations and program management ranging from newly formed to well-established multi-million dollar organisations.
Vandana shares how she leads and manages individuals and teams whilst creating a fun and accountable culture. Vandana is full of surprises and uses a few different techniques to engage people. She genuinely cares about the people she works with, and they follow her because of her leadership skills and authenticity.
She has qualifications in Master of Commerce (Public Accounting) from University of New England (AU), Post Graduate Certifications and Bachelors with double majors (Accounting & Information System). Certified via Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
You can also reach out to her on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vandana-nand-77a37934/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
June Parker shares her knowledge and experience in coaching Senior Managers and General Managers transitioning into Executive roles. She is the General Manager and Executive Career Coach at Fisher Leadership. https://www.linkedin.com/company/fisherleadership/
June is passionate about enabling people to reach their full potential. June has extensive operational leadership experience, coupled with HR consulting, career and executive coaching expertise.
June gained her 20 plus years commercial experience working in large and smaller organisations such as Link Recruitment, Civilex, Symal, and Compaq. She now heads up the coaching and transition practice at Fisher Leadership. June has worked with clients across many industry sectors including public and private sector. June has designed leadership programs, facilitated team workshops and provided executive coaching to a range of clients from individual contributors to CEO’s.
The book that June refers to is called: Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High.
You can also reach out to her on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juneparker/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Leonie Lam speaks about her career change from being an HR professional to becoming a Business Owner - Career Coach & Trainer. https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Not only did she changed her career once, most recently she has diversified her business into a second career, delivering Mindfulness and Meditation programs as well. She shares her personal experiences of how she navigated through these transitions and that our working identities can impact career transitions.
Speaker:
Leonie Lam
Career Coach | Job Interview Coach | Speaker | Mindfulness Facilitator
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonielam/
Contact: 02 8328 0882
Email: leonie@myfocus.com.au
Interviewer:
Heidi Winney
Executive Career Coach & Career Strategist
Mobile: 0414 438 577
Email: heidi@strategiccareerdevelopment.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidiwinney/
Heidi Winney shares her knowledge and wisdom on how she coaches her clients to manage their career. https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidiwinney/
She shares with us how she coaches her clients to identify their target market, create a marketing plan and how to network strategically.
Heidi is an Executive Career Coach and Career Strategist. She works with her clients to develop an effective job search strategy including a pitch for networking purposes, how to reach out to others, build and maintain relationships, how to create their strategic marketing plan, develop a Personal SWOT analysis and how to market themselves.
Her contact details are below:
Heidi Winney
Executive Career Coach & Career Strategist
Mobile: 0414 438 577
Email: heidi@strategiccareerdevelopment.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidiwinney/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam - Career Coach and Speaker https://www.myfocus.com.au/
We have both happy and unhappy emotions, learn how to process unhappy emotions such as anger and frustration. https://www.quintessencecounselling.com/
Sahaja Samarasa is an experienced Counsellor, Retreat Leader, Trainer and Mentor for professionals working in private practice in Hobart, Tasmania. She holds a Diploma of Counselling and she is trained in numerous modalities including SE Trauma Resolution, Meditation and the Enneagram.
Sahaja is my personal Mentor and Meditation Teacher. I love her work.
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach at My Focus.
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
I recently achieved over 1000 days of meditation. In this podcast, I will be sharing my insights with you and practical tips of "How to Live a Life filled with Bliss?"
I welcome you to provide me any feedback leonie@myfocus.com.au
I am running a competition for April 2021, in less than 50 words if you can write what lessons you learnt from this podcast, you can win a seat to the Mindfulness webinar that I am running monthly this year. Enjoy and I look forward to hearing from you.
Leonie Lam
leonie@myfocus.com.au
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Reflections and Inspirations for 2021. Websites: https://www.leoniestanfield.com/ and https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Leonie Stanfield and Leonie Lam shares the lessons they learnt in 2020 and how they can change the way they think and do things in 2021.
Spend a bit of time reflecting on what you learnt last year and how you can change the way you think of the year ahead of you.
Leonie Stanfield
Career Coach
https://www.leoniestanfield.com/
Leonie Lam
Career Coach
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Phil Preston speaks about how to embed purpose in everything we do. Phil's website is: https://philpreston.com.au/
Phil left a comfortable corporate career where he oversaw $50 billion of investments to help individuals, leaders and organisations bring purpose to life - bridging the gap between intent and action. He is the author of Connecting Profit with Purpose, the Corporate Purpose Blueprint and many case studies. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the size of the problems we are facing today and Phil provides the recipe for making a difference at scale.
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach at My Focus. https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Leonie Stanfield speaks about Career Direction & Leonie Lam speaks about Job Search Strategies. Leonie's website is: https://www.leoniestanfield.com/
Leonie Stanfield, Director of Careertalk shares with us her perspectives on Career Direction and what you do when you get stuck in your career? Leonie has over 25 years experience in assisting a wide range of people progress their careers, including university students, athletes, school leavers, job seekers and those making career transitions. Leonie is also a professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia, NSW Division President in 2017 & 2018, National Executive Committee member in 2019 & 2020.
Leonie Lam speaks about Job Search Strategies: Resume Writing, Cover Letter Writing and Interview Skills.
Collaboration with Leonie Lam, Career Coach, My Focus
www.myfocus.com.au
Meditation and self care is so important right now. http://www.quintessencecounselling.com/
Listen to how meditation and self enquiry can help you be happier and productive in your day.
Sahaja Samarasa is an experienced Counsellor, Retreat Leader, Trainer and Mentor for professionals working in private practice in Hobart, Tasmania. She holds a Diploma of Counselling and she is trained in numerous modalities including SE Trauma Resolution, Meditation and the Enneagram.
Sahaja is my personal Mentor and Meditation Teacher. I love her work and I invite you to look at her meditation sessions:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/guided-morning-meditation-with-sahaja-tickets-116961118855?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach at My Focus.
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Tiina Hogg is a Co-Owner & Head Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner at the Saltuary.
https://saltuary.com.au/
Saltuary is a spa located in Five Dock and Wentworth Point in Sydney, Australia. It was established in 2013 with a variety of treatments such as Salt and Float therapy, massage and acupuncture.
Listen to Tiina's journey in establishing the business, where she had a vision, a dream and she has worked conscientiously to make her dream come true. In this podcast, we will explore some of the topics below:
- Listen to the whisper
- Don't focus on your competition
- Self-compassion and compassion at work
- How to notice the joy in your life everyday
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach: https://www.myfocus.com.au/
This podcast talks about Susan's journey of how she is inspired to create joy and balance at work.
https://balanceatwork.com.au/
Susan Rochester is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Balance at Work Pty Ltd. It was established in 2006 and the company provides useful insights and practical ways to help people, teams and organisations to improve the ways they work.
Everything Susan does is focused on delivering a better future for all people at work while learning from the lessons of the past. She does this by combining state-of-the-art tools with her genuine approach, insights and extensive experience - and with her team at Balance at Work.
She has written 4 e-books and one of the books is called, "It's not just a job, it's your career."
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach | Speaker at My Focus
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Discover 3 LinkedIn Strategies for your Career right now with Sue Ellson.
The 3 LinkedIn Tips start at 00:13:30.
Sue also talks about radical forgiveness in her career and how it has helped forgive her previous employer and move on in her life.
Sue is an experienced trainer, professional learner, consultant in practice and an Independent LinkedIn Specialist. She has written 4 books and one of the books is called, "120 Ways To Achieve Your Purpose With LinkedIn – Tried and True Tips and Techniques."
Sue's website is: https://sueellson.com/
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach | Speaker at My Focus
https://www.myfocus.com.au/
Discover how Career Coaching can make a difference in your life.
Learn about how you can unlock your creativity.
Leonie Stanfield, Director of Careertalk shares with us her experience in Career Coaching and the benefits of coaching. Leonie has over 25 years experience in assisting a wide range of people progress their careers, including university students, athletes, school leavers, job seekers and those making career transitions.
Leonie is also a professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia, NSW Division President in 2017 & 2018, National Executive Committee member in 2019 & 2020.
Interviewed by Leonie Lam, Career Coach, My Focus
www.myfocus.com.au