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Balance & Beyond

Balance and Beyond is the podcast for ambitious women refusing to accept burnout as the price of success. Here, we’re committed to empowering you with the tools and strategies you need to achieve true balance, where your career, relationships and health all thrive and where you have the power to define success on your own terms.

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8:50

The Untold Cost of Being the First Generation Who...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/17

We're navigating a once-in-a-generation shift as women balancing careers and motherhood. Understanding our place in history helps us recognize we're not alone in wanting both professional success and present parenting. • Within just one generation, women have moved from needing male cosigners for bank accounts to comprising half the workforce • Until the 1960s, it was legal to refuse employment to women solely because of their gender • Most families today require two incomes, yet our subcons...

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28:51

Horizontal Is the New Hustle: Escaping Miserable Success

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/14

Ever felt like your confidence vanished overnight? That spark of self-trust gradually eroded by society's constant message that you're simply not enough? You're far from alone. In this transformative conversation with Cortney McDermott—motivational speaker, bestselling author, and advisor to Fortune 500 executives—we uncover the hidden path back to trusting yourself in a world designed to keep you searching elsewhere. Cortney reveals how our relentless pursuit of external success creates wh...

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8:11

The AI-Fuelled Imposter Syndrome Spike (Jo Moment)

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2025/10/10

As AI capabilities rapidly advance, women who've built their identities on being the smartest and most dependable in the room are facing a confidence crisis as these traits are being replaced by technology that doesn't tire or have family obligations. • Many women are responding by working even harder and trying to "outgrit the algorithm" • Learning about AI is valuable, but using it just to get more done accelerates burnout • This technological shift is threatening not just roles but identi...

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18:22

The Confidence Crash: What Happens After Burnout (and...

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2025/10/07

Burnout doesn't just drain your energy—it shatters your confidence, leaving you disconnected from yourself and questioning who you really are beneath the high-achieving facade. The real struggle begins after the crash, when you're standing in the rubble of your former identity, wondering how to rebuild without using the same flawed blueprint that broke you. This deeply personal exploration takes you beyond the clichés of "bouncing back" to reveal what truly happens in the aftermath of burnou...

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8:49

How Your Success is Feeding Your People-Pleaser (Vault)

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2025/10/03

People pleasing behaviours develop in childhood and become deeply ingrained by age eight, creating a pattern where we believe we must earn love through meeting others' needs. This psychological conditioning leads to resentment, career limitations, and an inability to set boundaries that ultimately holds us back from becoming true leaders and women of influence. • People pleasers have a strong need to be liked, are often high achievers, perfectionists, and struggle to say no • The pattern beg...

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37:07

Beating the Odds: How This CEO Took on a 50% Survival...

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2025/09/30

What happens when life forces you to completely step away from the business you've built over 30 years? For Jennifer, CEO of Integrity Marketing Solutions, this unexpected journey began with a breast cancer diagnosis that changed everything. When Jennifer discovered she had metaplastic triple negative breast cancer—a rare and aggressive form affecting just 1% of breast cancer patients—the statistics were grim. With a 50% five-year survival rate, she made a powerful decision: "I just have to ...

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8:15

Reclaiming Smart: The Part of Me I Spent Decades...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/09/26

We often hide parts of ourselves that we've been told are "too much," but reclaiming these disowned aspects is key to wholeness and freedom. I share my personal journey of hiding my intelligence because it made others uncomfortable, creating compensatory behaviours and identity fragmentation. • Intelligence became something I downplayed despite teaching myself to read and finding school came easily • Developed hypervigilance about how my achievements might make others feel • Created unhealth...

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17:08

The 6 Biggest Confidence Killers for Women

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/09/23

Tired of working harder only to feel less confident? You're not broken – you've just been following a broken model. Most ambitious women have been caught in a vicious cycle, believing that if they just work harder, polish their presence, gain more credentials, or wait until they've conquered self-doubt, then they'll finally feel confident. But the truth is shocking: these very strategies are what's killing your confidence. In this revealing episode, we unpack the six hidden traps drai...

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10:22

Why Your Perfectionism is Fear in Disguise (Vault)

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/09/19

The journey from proud perfectionist to recovering perfectionist is crucial for career advancement and personal wellbeing. Perfectionism acts as a ceiling that limits growth, creativity, and influence when left unchecked. • Perfectionism often stems from early career mistakes that damage confidence • Common signs include excessive time spent on details, procrastination, and fear of making decisions without complete information • Perfectionism and procrastination always come together, both dr...

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32:14

Anger Is the New Black: The Midlife Meltdown That...

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2025/09/16

Ever wondered why that headache appears right when you finally sit down after a hectic day? Or why your back pain intensifies during stressful periods despite no physical injury? The answer lies in the profound mind-body connection that many of us have lost touch with. Dr. Evette Rose joins us from Bali to unravel this mysterious relationship between our emotions and physical wellbeing. She explains how many women become "numb from the neck down," disconnected from bodily sensations until pa...

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7:03

Why Ambitious Women Are Secretly Turning to Woo‑Woo...

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2025/09/12

The transformation of logical, high-achieving women who discover the power of intuition is becoming increasingly common. This shift represents not an abandonment of intelligence but an expansion of it—combining analytical thinking with deeper knowing for a more fulfilling life. • Even the most logical, no-nonsense women are beginning to trust their intuition • Many discover this path after burnout or exhaustion from constant pushing and striving • Women are questioning if there's an easier w...

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15:48

Why the Mental Load Is Killing Women’s Careers (and...

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2025/09/09

There's a silent career killer lurking in your daily life, consuming your energy and holding you back professionally—the mental load. That invisible project manager in your head with 50,000 tabs open is doing far more damage than you realize. The mental load creates a devastating double burden where you're essentially working two full-time jobs—one that pays and another where you labor endlessly without compensation. Research shows that up to 80% of women report home responsibilities prevent...

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8:10

Why Your Get-Sh*t-Done Identity is Costing You...

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2025/09/05

The "Get Shit Done" identity that once propelled your career may now be causing burnout and limiting your potential. This episode explores why being efficient, reliable, and productive is no longer enough in today's workplace, and offers strategies to transition from being someone who "gets things done" to someone who "makes things happen." • Three characteristics of GSD people: high achiever tendencies, efficiency obsession, and external validation dependency • Warning signs your GSD approa...

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38:03

When a CEO Comes Out of the Spiritual Closet

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2025/09/02

What happens when a corporate CEO dares to embrace her spiritual side? In this soul-stirring conversation, Sara shares her extraordinary journey from buttoned-up business leader to what she calls a "soul explorer" – without abandoning her executive responsibilities or strategic mindset. The catalyst? A profound encounter following her stepfather's death when Frank Sinatra's "My Way" mysteriously played through her car speakers while her display showed a completely different song. This unexpl...

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7:28

He Called Me Selfish... And I Finally Took It as a...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/29

Embracing the word "selfish" as a compliment rather than an insult marks a revolutionary shift in how we approach self-care and personal boundaries. • Breaking free from constant permission-seeking behaviours like asking to take a shower or go out for dinner • Letting go of mental calculations that track who "deserves" free time based on previous activities • Redefining selfishness as a positive trait rather than something to avoid at all costs • Understanding that women today spend 50% more...

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26:14

It’s Not Just Mental Health...It’s Brain Health (and...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/26

Barbara Gustafson didn't set out to become a brain health educator. Her journey began with leadership development, but everything changed when she witnessed firsthand how Huntington's disease devastated her family. After losing her mother to a stroke, Barbara and her siblings became caregivers for their father, uncovering a genetic condition that would later claim her sister's life as well. The experience ignited a passionate mission: making brain health an essential part of every leadership...

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10:30

Success vs Fulfilment — The Real Power Play (Jo Moment)

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/22

We explore the critical distinction between success and fulfillment, explaining why external achievements often leave us feeling empty despite societal programming. This mindset shift can transform how you approach life's goals, helping you find genuine contentment instead of chasing hollow victories. • Success is external, measurable, and something you do—often defined by others through material possessions, titles, and achievements • Fulfillment is internal, personal, and a state of being ...

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14:43

The Silent Tax on Women Leaders: Why Burnout Hits Us...

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2025/08/19

Feeling constantly drained despite giving your all at work? You're likely paying a tax you never agreed to – not in dollars, but in energy, sleep, health, and joy. This eye-opening episode reveals the hidden "silent tax" that disproportionately affects professional women and fuels burnout. We unpack three insidious ways this tax manifests: First, through the impossible double bind where women must navigate contradictory expectations (too soft or too tough? too ambitious or not ambitious enou...

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8:35

Moment: Too Much? Too Loud? Too Bold? Good.

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2025/08/15

The lifelong training we receive as women to be agreeable, low maintenance, and undemanding is at the core of people-pleasing and burnout. This good girl conditioning teaches us to stay small and shrink ourselves to meet others' expectations, creating an impossible tightrope of contradictory behaviours. • Good girl conditioning trains women from childhood to be quiet, grateful, and not make a fuss • This conditioning forces us to walk an impossible tightrope of being strong but not intimidat...

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22:04

The 3 Productivity Myths That Are Burning You Out and...

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2025/08/12

Ever wondered why no productivity hack seems to stick? Three hidden patterns are silently sabotaging your success, and they've likely been running your life for decades. Forget what you've been told about needing more discipline or a better system. In this eye-opening episode, we expose the myths that are bleeding your productivity dry. That belief that pushing harder will help you "get it all done"? It's costing you precious energy as you tweak emails into oblivion and chase the dopamine hi...

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