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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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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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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...

Balance & Beyond ·

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

Balance & Beyond ·

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...

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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