Challenges That Change Us

For this episode I am so excited to introduce you to a guest who is extremely special to me. I want to introduce you to my beautiful Aunty Di.This is a story that when you see it on paper you think, there is no way that so much could happen to one family at one time.In the space of forty days, my Uncle Barry, Aunty Di and cousin Laura were all diagnosed with cancer and this was all during the peak of the covid pandemic in the UK.Their resilience and zest for life is extraordinary and for anyone going through or is going through the cancer world you know how challenging it can be and I am still blown away by how these guys tackled this head on.In this episode Di shares:-      The journey her family took to relocate to the UK as her sister died from cancer-      Living through the covid pandemic with an immune compromised husband-      What it felt like to suffer from long covid-      Discovering her husband had cancer, then shingles-      How she felt discovering she had breast cancer shortly after her husband started cancer treatment-      The devastating moment they discovered her daughter also had breast cancer-      What happened when her husband did get struck by covidKey Quotes“We went 6 weeks from being a perfectly normal family to 3/4 of it having a cancer diagnosis to deal with.”“We thought cancer was bad, we knew nothing about covid.”You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!I’d like to introduce you to Josh Marshall a veteran nurse who has been living with MS since he was was 23. He’s used a wheelchair for the last 5 years and is incredibly passionate about equality and inclusion in our community.Having worked through the health system, handled MS and major injuries from a car accident you would think that would all of Josh’s story but he has gone on to achieve so much more. He is a member of Queensland Council of Social Service, a member of Spinal Life QL, a member of the Regional Access Disability Advisory Committee to Toowoomba Council and has made it his goal to work with both Governmental and non-Governmental agencies to improve the education, understanding and empathy for those living with disability.In this episode Josh shares:-      The hard journey of getting an MS diagnosis-      The big life change he made after his diagnosis-      The moment his life changed in a car accident-      How the car accident combined with his MS to cause long term health problems-      The journey he has gone on to become a disability access advocateKey Quotes“There’s no use focusing on what we can’t achieve, because we are not going to achieve it.”“It’s not the challenge that defines us, it’s the challenge that helps direct us.”“It’s important to be grateful for those things (the little things), because a lot of people won’t have that opportunity.”Find out more about JoshYou can find out more about josh and Inclusion Access (and donate) here: https://www.inclusionaccess.com.au/You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!Trigger warning: suicideThe grief of losing a loved one is a powerful thing and when it is an unexpected loss such as homicide or suicide there can be other complicated feelings involved as well.Imogen Carn is one half of the Good Mourning podcast, an incredible show that shines a light on what grief is really like with honesty, hope and humour.Imogen lost her mother to suicide and after partnering with her co host Sally they have gone on to release an amazing podcast, release a book and grow an incredible community.In this episode Imogen shares:-      What it was like to lose her mother to suicide with no warning-      The common misconception about grief-      Why she felt alone even with a lot of support-      How therapy helped her-      Her advice for how to support someone who is grieving-      How grieving is different for everyoneKey Quotes“There was no note, no goodbye. She was just gone, vanished.”“I felt huge amounts of rage an anger.”“We don’t move on, we move forward.”“The real grieving starts after the funeral.”Find out more about ImogenYou can check out the Good Mourning podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/good-mourning-grief-podcast/id1529978129You can also find out about their book and community here: https://www.goodmourning.com.au/#1You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!The weeks episode is with the very impressive Peter Holtmann of Holtmann Professional Services.Peter is a visionary business leader who  was Formerly the President and CEO of a global non-profit. But when the lifestyle was taking a toll on him he decided to make a big career change, which left him wondering what he would do, how he would do it and how he could continue to support his family in the way he was with the finances of a CEO.In this episode Peter shares:-      How his background in science and management lead to a career of travelling around the world-      The toll that a high level CEO non for profit job took on him-      The moments he realised he needed to make a change-      The story he told himself in his head-      His fears and challenges that he faced in making a career change-      His advice for others on how to make a big career changeKey Quotes“Don’t be put off by rejection and failure. It’s just part of the building process.”“Just keep moving forward because when you look back over the days and the weeks and the months, you've actually made progress.”Find out more about PeterYou can find out more about Peter’s services via his website: https://holtmann.com.auYou can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!Trigger warning: this episode discusses excessive alcohol use.In society we are well aware of the term ‘alcoholic’, but have you heard of Grey Area Drinking?This episode’s guest is Grey Area Drinking Coach, Motivational Speaker, Workshop Facilitator and host of a community of over 20,000 women, Sarah RusbatchAfter years of dysfunctional drinking, falling hard for ‘Mummy Wine Culture’ and using alcohol as a crutch to manage stress, overwhelm and anxiety, Sarah finally made the decision to remove alcohol from her life in April 2019.In this episode Sarah shares:-      Her long history with alcohol and how it shaped her life growing up-      The moment she realised her relationship with alcohol was not benefiting her-      The stop and start process she went through trying to stop drinking for short periods of time-      The difference between alcoholism and grey area drinking-      How the subtle messaging of alcohol and mum culture is dangerous-      Her advice on the work you have to do to improve remove alcohol from your lifeKey Quotes“It turns out that your boozy friends don’t like it when you don’t drink anymore.”“I would just drink and smoke until I didn’t feel anymore.”“In the end I realised it's easier to say none than it is to say 1.”Find out more about SarahIf you want to know about her grey drinking coaching you can find out more here: https://sarahrusbatch.com/You can also follow her on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahrusbatchcoachAnd on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!Jonathon (Jono) Peatfield is CEO of Life Ed NSW/ACT. He manages a team of 80 people delivering health and wellbeing programs to around 280,000 children right across NSW and the ACT, with support from the infamous mascot Healthy Harold.  After graduating in Commerce/Psychology from Australian National University, Jono went on a varied and very unique career pathway that saw him move from being in sales leadership and national account management with national hardware business, Otter Group to Head of Partnerships at Batyr, a social enterprise that focuses on preventative education in the area of young people’s mental health. Recently, Jono has been working with the Thrive by Five movement to promote equitable, affordable and accessible access to early learning so that every child can thrive.In this episode Jono shares:-      Why he made the unusual move into sales for a Hardware company after studying psychology-      The lessons he learnt from working in a vibrant work culture-      Why he moved to help launch Batyr-      The challenges he encountered working in a start up-      The active moves they made to ensure a healthy work culture at Batyr-      Why he moved to Life EdKey Quotes“You should bring your true self to work and be able to enjoy yourself and have fun.”“We would purposely take the time to stop and celebrate and go and have some fun. If we couldn’t have fun, what was the point?”You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance

Trigger Warning: Strokes, medical recoveryWell we are properly into our second year of Challenges That Change Us and this week we are continuing with Part 2 of my story.If you thought Part 1 had a lot, we are about to take a hard left turn into the world of medical challenges and delve into the moments of my health journey that left me feeling like I was dying a slow death.In this episode I share:-      The moments I started having a stroke and how it ended with me in hospital not remembering people I’d known my whole life-      The long battle to recovery and my journey to compete in triathlons-      The big medical journey’s I have encountered with my daughters-      What happened when I was diagnosed with POTSKey Quotes “I was just thinking, I am dying a slow death here.”“By the time I got to the hospital I couldn’t recognise people.”“We spend so much time and energy on the things that we don’t value. I think we all fall in that rut of just doing and not doing what matters.” You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformanceLeadership challenges and skills

Can you believe we have made it to the first anniversary of Challenges That Change us?Thank you so much to everyone who has joined us on this journey, and to celebrate 1 year of stories I will be sharing my personal story, the origin of why I am doing this whole project.This is part 1 of 2 and will be covering the abuse and trauma I suffered as a child and how it impacted me well into adulthood.In this episode I share:-      The abuse I suffered as a child-      What repressed memories are and how late in life I actually remembered my abuse-      The reasons I slept in the school yard as a child during winter-      Why no one could tell what was happening-      The ways I acted out in response to what was happening-      How I struggled in relationships because of what had happened to me-      The journey I went on to recovering-      The amazing people who helped me on my journeyKey Quotes “I remember being in the middle of Winter and I would be sleeping down in the school yard thinking, this is the safest place for me right now.”“That very first person you tell about sexual abuse is so critical to your recovery and that healing work.”“A lot of people that have experienced sexual assault, your body remembers.”“My earliest memories are from the age of 5 and during my time living there I experienced 2 years of sexual abuse.”You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformanceLeadership challenges and skills

A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!This week we have one of our expert episodes where we get advice on how to overcome a particular challenge.For this episode we are joined by Clifford Morgan, an endorsed organisational psychologist and leadership expert with over fifteen years of service with the Royal Australian Air Force. His years of service leading and coaching people – both in uniform and out – bring a wealth of experience that provides a unique perspective to assist his clients.As a coach Clifford has worked with CEOs, military commanders, government executives and business and community leaders across a wide variety of industries. In this episode Clifford shares:-      His journey from the military to psychology-      His experience with leadership and executive coaching-      Some challenges leaders have encountered-      What is the difference between mentoring and coaching-      How he’s had dad’s use his coaching advice to mend family relationships-      The importance of teaching people about the long term consequences of choices they make with co-workers-      Why leaders should not just solve problems for employees-      The art of questioningKey Quotes “People think if you're not doing the talking you lose control of the conversation. It's actually he opposite.”“If you don’t (ask questions) your employees are going to be passive problem presenters rather than active solution generators.”If you want to find out more about Clifford MorganYou can order a copy of his book The Coaching Leader here: https://cliffordmorgan.com.au/products/the-coaching-leaderYou can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance