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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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17:18

Why Vulnerability Feels Unsafe for High-Achieving Women

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/02/03

Four weeks to calm, focus, and clarity: Register for Leverage today (starts Friday 6th February!) When control stops working, what actually builds credibility? We open the door to a different kind of authority: the capacity to stay present, honest, and steady when the ground is moving. Instead of chasing the illusion of certainty, we show how vulnerability becomes a practical leadership skill that strengthens trust, speeds learning, and sets a clear path through chaos. We unpack the old mod...

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7:04

Why Your Life Might Need Triangle Sushi (Jo Moment)

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/30

A small shift can change the whole day. We explore how novelty inside structure calms the nervous system, restores agency, and brings back breath without blowing up a perfectly good life. • triangle sushi as a metaphor for context and experience • the squeeze of routines as school and work resume • why structure is not the enemy, sameness is • environmental micro changes that reset your nervous system • practical ideas to reclaim agency within constraints • designing novelty to avoid subcons...

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18:26

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/27

Ever wonder why a tiny choice—how you part your hair, whether you eat a donut—can spark a wave of judgement in your head? We pull back the curtain on the quiet scripts that turn neutral moments into moral verdicts and show how those stories hardwire your nervous system, shape your identity, and dictate whether rest feels safe or forbidden. From the myth of “I’ll rest when things calm down” to the efficiency trap of “it’s quicker if I do it myself,” we unpack four powerful narratives many wome...

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6:42

A Lesson from Travis Kelce. Yes, Really! (Jo Moment)

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/23

We explore how desire shrinks under self-editing and why holding a want without making it about worth can change the shape of a life. A public love story becomes a mirror for our conditioning and a prompt to name a bigger want and take one clean step. • the difference between wanting and pre-rejecting • how cultural conditioning teaches women to self-edit • the four-part sequence: want, name, act, detach • why nervous system capacity matters more than hype • practical micro-steps to build to...

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11:24

The Rules That Built Your Success Are Now Working...

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/20

If you don’t want to start the year on autopilot, the New Rules for Career Success workshop is for you. Learn how to stop equating speed with value, create space for real perspective, and upgrade the rules that are quietly burning you out. Register here for Day 1 which kicks off Friday 23rd January: www.balanceinstitute.com/rules The ground rules of work have changed, and running last year’s playbook harder won’t save you. We open the door on a different path: moving from busyness and ...

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8:34

Speed Was My Advantage. Now It’s My Kryptonite. It’s...

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/16

Before you blink and 2026 is already underway, join our January 23rd workshop to uncover the unconscious rules shaping your work and redesign how you lead, respond, and create space in your career: www.balanceinstitute.com/rules We explore how speed becomes a nervous system rule that feels like safety, why AI amplifies it, and what it costs when pace outruns capacity. We share practical ways to upgrade the rule so you keep your edge without burning out or abandoning yourself. • speed a...

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13:55

What Stepping Away Taught Me About Coming Back

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/13

Before you blink and 2026 is already underway, join our January 23rd workshop to uncover the unconscious rules shaping your work and redesign how you lead, respond, and create space in your career: www.balanceinstitute.com/rules What if the smartest move for 2026 isn’t more control, but more responsiveness? After stepping out of routine during a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, we saw how thousands of scooters glide through “organised chaos” without aggression. No one clings to a rig...

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24:17

The Surprising Power of Play for High Achievers

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/09

Meetings don’t need more sticky notes; they need better thinking. We sit down with Cate Sefton to explore how structured play — especially Lego Serious Play — turns flat brainstorms into 3D strategy, elevates quiet voices, and surfaces ideas that actually move teams forward. Kate breaks down why hands-on metaphors matter, how great facilitation changes the questions we ask, and why joy is not a luxury but a performance edge. From there, we zoom out to the tectonic shift happening with AI. Br...

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26:17

The Real Reason Gen Z Makes Us Uncomfortable

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/09

Ever felt the sting of doing everything “right” only to be told you’re too direct, not ready, or simply invisible? We dig into how good girl conditioning collides with workplace reality, why women are penalised more for risk, and how to speak up without burning bridges. With leadership strategist and author Dr Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, we trade vague advice for a concrete playbook built on values, allies, and smart timing. We start by naming the bias: men are often rewarded for potential and ma...

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19:01

Is It Them or Is It You? The Truth About Toxic...

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/06

Bullying often hides in plain sight, wrapped in polished charm and shifting rules that leave you doubting your memory. Author, executive and consultant, Jane Phipps joins me to pull the mask off toxic and narcissistic leadership and get practical about how to spot the patterns, protect your energy, and keep your team safe without sacrificing your career. We start by naming the behaviours that erode confidence: gaslighting disguised as “feedback,” image management that crumbles under stress, ...

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23:46

This One Shift Will Give You More Energy Than Any...

Balance & Beyond ·

2026/01/02

When your calendar looks perfect but your body says no, something deeper is going on. Jo sits down with women’s transition coach and transformation specialist Nicole Adey to trace how high achievement, grief, and people pleasing quietly drain energy until the body forces a reckoning. Nicole’s story moves from Asia-Pacific executive life to divorce, loss, a health scare, and the surprising discovery that leaving the job didn’t fix the fatigue. What did? Learning to feel again, practising somat...

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25:05

Ambition After Babies. The Truth No One Says Out Loud

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/30

Ready to stop waiting for permission and start leading with intention? We sit down with Khiara Cureton—VP in healthcare and executive career and money coach—to unpack how motherhood can sharpen ambition, not dull it, and how to turn quiet excellence into visible impact. From fifteen-minute daily resets to rethinking success around fulfilment and time, this conversation gives you practical ways to protect your energy, raise your voice, and build a life you actually love. We dig into the shift...

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8:08

The Two Questions That Will Change Your 2026 (Jo Moment)

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/26

We share a simple, identity-first practice to end the year with clarity and begin 2026 on purpose. Two questions help you release what no longer fits and choose the version of yourself that your habits and calendar will support. • shifting from self-judgement to curiosity and compassion • leaving behind old labels, guilt and unhelpful stories • choosing identity before goals and outcomes • translating beliefs into small, aligned behaviours • creating space to reflect and feel the truth • red...

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2:41

A Christmas Message From Me to You

Balance & Beyond ·

2025/12/23

The holidays can be noisy, busy, and strangely empty all at once. We wanted to create a quiet pocket in your feed to say a sincere thank you, share a few of our own rituals, and invite you to make space for rest without apology. From the notes you send to the stories you trust us with, your courage and honesty shape everything we do, and we reflect on how that shared momentum helps ambitious women lead with more ease and less burnout. We talk about gratitude as a practical tool, not a platit...

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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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