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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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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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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.

Balance & Beyond ·

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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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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9:00

Moment: Emotional Intelligence Unlocked

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/08

We explore the powerful concept of somatic coaching and how unresolved emotions stored in our bodies can sabotage our best attempts at positive thinking and personal growth. Jaclyn, our mindset coach, explains why affirmations sometimes fail to create lasting change and offers practical approaches to finally process stuck emotions. • Somatic coaching focuses on the body (soma) rather than just the mind • Unprocessed emotions remain stored in our nervous system, creating a mind-body disconnec...

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31:12

Women Rising: The Quiet Shift Reshaping Success and...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/05

What happens when success leaves you empty? When the leadership box you've been placed in feels suffocating? Megan Dalla Camina, founder and CEO of Women Rising, shares her powerful journey from corporate burnout to awakening in this captivating conversation. Megan's story begins with what many high-achieving women will recognise—the relentless pursuit of success that led to multiple burnout cycles, culminating in her dramatic exit from a prestigious role as IBM's youngest general manager. H...

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6:13

Moment: The Dirty Yes That Hit Like a Slap

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/08/01

Every tiny "yes" we say when we mean "no" is a drop in our resentment bucket, creating a heavy weight that contributes to burnout more than we realize. These "dirty yeses" might look like generosity on the outside but are actually moments of self-abandonment that leave us feeling resentful and exhausted. • Small acts of saying yes when you mean no accumulate over time • Dirty yeses create feelings of resentment, exhaustion and scorekeeping • People pleasers often feel they have no choice but...

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16:04

Breaking Free from Over-Responsibility

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/29

Are you the one who always keeps it together? The fixer, the rescuer, the emotional buffer who holds it all? This powerful exploration of over-responsibility reveals how many ambitious women weren't born control freaks – they were trained to be responsible for others' emotions, outcomes, and wellbeing from a young age. Through intimate personal reflections and client stories, we uncover how this pattern silently sabotages your wellbeing. From the perfectionist who can't sleep because of a mi...

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6:07

Moment: One Foot on the Gas, One on the Brake: No...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/25

Our body's fight-or-flight response treats everyday stressors the same as life-threatening situations, making it impossible to experience joy while in survival mode. Breaking free from this cycle requires embracing discomfort and understanding that what we truly want—joy, calm, and fulfillment—lies on the other side of temporary unease. • Your body can't distinguish between being chased by a lion and waiting for your boss's email response • We often stay stuck until the pain of our current s...

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19:22

The Over-Functioning Epidemic: Why You Can’t Stop...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/22

The world around us has pressed the turbo-boost button, leaving ambitious women struggling to keep pace while maintaining their sanity. In this powerful episode, we unpack the hidden epidemic of over-functioning and hyper-responsibility that's leaving high-achieving women quietly burning out. When life feels like a runaway train, our instinct is to grip tighter and speed up - creating more lists, taking on more responsibilities, and micromanaging every detail. But this approach creates the p...

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8:47

Moment: The Top 4 Skills Women Think They Need

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/18

The Women's Agenda Ambition Report reveals women want to develop communication, empathy, resilience and adaptability in 2023, but these are skills women already excel at. What women truly need isn't more skills but permission—permission to set boundaries, focus on themselves, rest without guilt, and anchor in their authentic identity. • Communication: women need directness, not diplomacy—learning to speak up without apologising for taking space • People-pleasing dampens our ability to commun...

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15:17

If I’m Not Useful, Who Am I?

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/15

Ever noticed how your entire body tenses when asked to play or make a mess? Our recent Joy Challenge at the Balance Institute revealed a fascinating pattern: ambitious women often experience massive resistance to activities without tangible outcomes. The pushback was palpable - "Play? I don't have time!" or "Make a mess? I spend my life cleaning up messes!" This resistance stems from a deep-rooted identity where our worth has become inextricably linked to productivity and achievement. From c...

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9:13

Moment: Breaking Free from Self-Sabotage

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/11

We often know exactly what we need to do to improve our lives, yet fail to follow through despite our awareness. This common pattern stems from becoming chemically addicted to emotional states like guilt and shame, creating barriers that prevent us from making positive changes. • Recognising when we give others advice we need ourselves • Understanding how our brain prioritises survival over happiness • Breaking the cycle of guilt and shame that weighs us down • Learning why comfort zones are...

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15:24

117 Emails. 153 Pings. Zero Peace. Why Time...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/08

Ever found yourself drowning in notifications, constantly interrupted, yet still expected to produce miracles? You're not alone. The modern workplace throws a staggering 117 emails and 153 messages at us daily, creating interruptions every two minutes. No wonder we feel perpetually behind. The solution isn't what you think. Time management strategies won't save you in a system designed to fragment your attention. What you need are boundaries—the essential skill for not just surviving but thr...

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9:45

Moment: Why Being Good at Your Job Won't Save You...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/04

Being visible isn't optional in today's professional landscape—it's a crucial part of your job. High-achieving women have been fed the dangerous lie that keeping your head down and doing excellent work will eventually get you noticed, but invisibility now comes with an accelerating cost. • A pivotal moment when my chairman told me "if no one sees it, it doesn't count" • In a world being swallowed by AI, invisibility is no longer neutral—it's a risk • The truth about why ambitious women stay ...

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15:38

If You Can’t Remember the Last Time You Laughed…...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/07/01

Remember when you used to laugh more, dance more, feel more? Somewhere between endless meetings, mental load, and pressure to perform, your joy got buried – not gone, just buried beneath layers of "should" and "must." Today we're diving deep into what makes ambitious women lose their capacity for joy and the surprisingly simple path back to reclaiming it. Joy has been systematically replaced by control. When we're stuck in fight-or-flight mode, joy feels frivolous or wasteful. Living in our ...

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10:38

Moment: Mindset Before Methods

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/06/27

Strategies for balance don't work without the right mindset to support them. No matter how many wellness tools you try, they'll only become effective when paired with crucial mindset shifts that ambitious women often miss. • Meditation works when you shift from trying to stop thoughts to letting go and processing your day • Time blocking requires detaching from the belief that busyness equals importance • Waking up early needs preparation and clarity about why that time matters to you • Self...

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15:12

Your Body’s Not a Machine: The High-Achiever’s Blind...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/06/24

Your body has been whispering all day, but have you been too busy to listen? For ambitious women pursuing big goals, there's a tendency to live exclusively from the neck up—treating our bodies as mere vehicles for our brilliant minds while we conquer the world. This disembodied approach works, until it doesn't. Achievement comes, but satisfaction remains fleeting. Success looks impressive from the outside, but feels increasingly hollow on the inside. The irony? The very bodily wisdom we're i...

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8:13

Moment: The Life You Didn't Choose

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/06/20

Making part-time work arrangements successful requires more than just reducing hours – it demands unshakable confidence built from the inside out rather than being dependent on external validation or productivity. • Unshakable confidence is essential for setting and maintaining boundaries in part-time roles • Women often try to prove themselves by maintaining full-time workloads in part-time hours • Finding your voice is crucial for negotiating appropriate workloads and expectations • Clear ...

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20:24

The Growth Loop: Why Brilliant Women Keep Reaching...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/06/17

Overwhelm isn't just a fleeting feeling anymore—it's become the air we breathe. In this candid conversation, Sabina and Jo explore why we're all feeling caught in this collective chaos and how our desperate attempts to maintain control are actually making everything worse. The world is undeniably chaotic right now. Between geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, workplace demands, and the rapid integration of AI into our lives, it's no wonder we're all feeling stretched beyond capacity....

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