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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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25:50

The Part-Time Trap: Why Flexibility Fails Without...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/16

Tired of the part-time trap? You're not alone. While dropping to four days seems like the perfect burnout solution, many women find themselves cramming five days of work into four – making stress worse, not better. Debbie Bailey, co-CEO of Four Day Week Global, reveals the startling truth: it's not about working less, but working differently. Drawing from global trials involving thousands of employees, she shares how organizations implementing a four-day work week saw burnout drop by an asto...

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11:27

How to Navigate the Three Phases of Life After...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/12

We map the three-phase evolution beyond burnout—unravelling, reawakening, emergence—and share the questions that move you from survival to self-trust. December becomes a checkpoint to trade adrenaline for calm conviction and design a life that fits. • why burnout is initiation, not failure • phase one: unravelling and the clarity beneath collapse • the escape fantasy vs nervous system truth • phase two: reawakening and rebuilding self-trust • following curiosity into new practices and commun...

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20:34

The Three Biggest Trends of 2025

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/09

What if the missing piece in your success story isn’t another strategy, but a safer nervous system? We explore three potent trends shaping ambitious women: rebuilding worth at the body level, reframing perimenopause as a gateway to power, and ending the silent burnout of over-responsibility. With coaches Jaclyn and Sabina, we dig into how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn show up at work and home, why grit can’t replace regulation, and the simple, repeatable practices that build real capacity u...

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9:42

The Dark Side of Fierce Independence (Vault)

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/05

We challenge the “I can do it myself” script and show how fierce independence can cap career growth, fuel burnout, and create loneliness. We offer a path to bigger impact by asking for help, delegating earlier, and letting yourself be seen. • the hidden costs of doing it all yourself • how not asking for help stalls delegation and growth • why armour and perfectionism block real connection • the island metaphor for scale and support • working in your zone of genius with help • how human trib...

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26:22

You Can’t Out-Think Exhaustion: The 4R Fix for High...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/02

Burnout doesn’t always arrive with sirens; sometimes it’s a quiet collapse on the office floor before a board meeting. We sit down with leadership psychologist and human performance expert Rachael Edmondson-Clark to unpack how high-achieving women slide from “I’ve got this” into overload, why dopamine and constant wins can become compulsive, and the simple biological habits that pull you back to steady ground. Rachael’s story moves from masking and toxic positivity to a mission-led life, with...

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10:51

The Ache of Outgrowing The Woman You Used to Be (Jo...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/28

We explore the uncomfortable in‑between where success stops fitting and intuition asks for the lead. Jealousy becomes a compass, big goals are set down, and we choose aliveness over metrics while stepping into a sacred, uncertain void. • noticing jealousy as a clue to unmet desire • releasing the need to be seen as smart • reframing misunderstanding as their filter • stepping into the void with fear and faith • pausing big goals to measure by feeling • shifting from frameworks to intuition •...

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11:14

How to Survive December Without Losing Your Sh*t (or...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/25

Head over to balanceinstitute.com/sos to save your seat and learn how you can survive December! December isn’t the villain. It’s the spotlight. When the concerts, deadlines, and family dynamics collide, our survival wiring takes over—over-responsibility, overthinking, and overfunctioning. We walk through how these patterns quietly run the show all year and hit peak volume now, why a holiday rarely fixes the underlying exhaustion, and how to plug energy leaks without relying on brittle willpow...

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10:04

The Fear You Don’t Know You’re Carrying (and How It...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/21

Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life. • Only two fears are innate (loud noises and falling from heights) - all others are conditioned • Perfectionism stems from fear of making mistakes and ultimately fear of rejection • Procrastination is actually a protective mechanism to avoid the fear of getting it wrong • Str...

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31:28

The One Question That Led Lisa to a Volcanic Island...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/18

What would you regret more: staying where life feels predictable or choosing a path that feels alive? We sit down with former executive, best-selling author, and master coach Lisa Toste to unpack how she moved her family from Canada to a volcanic island in the Azores and redesigned work, health, and identity without abandoning ambition. This isn’t a fantasy montage. It’s a practical, warm, and funny roadmap for anyone who senses “there has to be more” but worries about the how. Lisa shares t...

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9:47

Signals Your Body Doesn't Want You to Ignore (Vault)

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/14

Your body speaks in whispers, shouts, and sometimes punches to the face when you ignore its needs. Women are particularly susceptible to burnout due to perfectionism, people-pleasing, and putting everyone else first. • The whispers of burnout include trouble sleeping, brain fog, headaches, and constant tension • Shouts escalate to anxiety, adrenaline surges, digestive problems, and emotional fragility • Punches in the face are serious health crises like cancer, autoimmune conditions, or comp...

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11:59

Quiet Quitting: The Silent Revolution Freeing Women...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/11

For ambitious women who've given their all to corporate life, 'quiet quitting' isn't the lazy retreat it's made out to be—it's a revolutionary act of self-preservation. After years of answering emails at 3 AM, giving 150% to everything, and carrying everyone else's emotional burdens, many high-achieving women are discovering an emptiness that signals they're finally done operating this way. The breaking point comes differently for everyone. Sometimes it's fighting tooth and nail for a deserv...

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10:06

Why You Always Feel Behind, Even When You’re Winning...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/07

There's power in holding two perspectives simultaneously rather than falling into black and white thinking that dominates much of self-help literature. We can embrace both the gap (what we still want) and the gain (how far we've come), allowing us to celebrate progress while still pursuing growth. • The gap is the space between where we are now and where we want to be • Living only in the gap creates feelings of "not enough" and triggers unhealthy striving • Many high achievers believe focus...

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28:38

The Billionaire Who Couldn’t “Be” (and the Lesson...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/11/04

What if one unexpected act of kindness could rewire a lifetime of armour? We sit down with peak performance coach and life strategist Jessie Torres to trace a path from long-term abuse and unimaginable loss to a grounded, joyful life built on worthiness, boundaries, and fierce grace. Jessie doesn’t tell a story to blame; she tells a story to reveal how meaning is made, how microtraumas lodge in our bodies, and how we can choose a different future even when the past feels heavy. We explore th...

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10:28

Why You Don’t Know What You Want (and How to Change...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/31

We explore the crucial difference between change driven by fear versus change pulled by desire, and why many women struggle to connect with what they truly want. This mindset shift is essential for breaking free from burnout and creating a life of joy and fulfillment rather than mere survival. • Running from fear (the modern "lions" of bosses, inboxes, and perfectionism) creates unsustainable change and leads to burnout • Sustainable change happens when we're pulled toward our desires, not p...

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11:27

Why Competence Doesn’t Equal Confidence

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/28

🚀✨Step into the Confidence Accelerator! Secure your place for a 5-week leadership transformation starting Friday 31st October. Spots are limited so act now - https://www.balanceinstitute.com/drive What if your most trusted career strategy—collect more proof—has been the very thing keeping you from real confidence? We dig into the hidden gap between competence and confidence and explain why high achievers feel like imposters despite glowing resumes, promotions, and degrees. Drawing on y...

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8:52

How to stop hiding your uniqueness and own your “too...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/24

If you’ve ever been told you’re “too much,” this conversation hands you the mic back. We trace the quiet conditioning that teaches high achievers to shrink—dial down ambition, soften edges, and convert natural ease into proof of effort. That script morphs into “because I could, I should,” a mantra that hijacks strengths and turns them into obligations. The result? Endless hustle, moving goalposts, and wins that feel strangely hollow. We open up about the years spent overfunctioning—carrying ...

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16:44

The Secret to Success: Unlocking the Dark Art of...

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/10/21

Are you drowning in an endless sea of more? More work, more expectations, more skills required—all while racing against diminishing time and resources? What if I told you that success isn't coming from doing more, but is actually being stolen by it? The dark art of strategic subtraction might just be the revolutionary approach you need. In this eye-opening episode, I challenge the fundamental belief that adding more to your plate leads to greater achievement. Instead, I reveal how intentiona...

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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)

Balance & Beyond ·

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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