A solo episode from me this week where I discuss the strategies I use to manage multiple projects. The strategies I outline can work whether you are applying them for work or home life. In the episode I cover

1. Have an efficient do do list process
2. Plan out your week
3. Batch your work
4. Have proper breaks
5. Get good quality sleep

Links mentioned and additional resources:

• Why paper to do lists work for me – There are a myriad of different apps, plugins, devices and the like you can use to keep and manage a to do list. For me though nothing beats paper and pen! I share the super simple system I use to help keep me organised and on track.
• How to create a weekly schedule – Creating a weekly schedule is about planning your known work activities into the available time you have across your week. Planning out the activities allows you to make sure you fit in the things that are most important to you and your family.
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up for the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

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This week's episode is based on a newsletter that I wrote for Adapt Drinks. If you like this kind of info, then sign up here and not only do you get a weekly dose of information and inspiration to help you nurture your best self, but you will also get 10% off your first purchase! 

You can also find a written version of this podcast and some additional links here.

Adapt Relax - my new functional beverage start up! We've blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage - a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up for the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

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This week I have two wonderful guests to chat with on the podcast – Natalie Moore and Lisa Saunders from the Own Own Your Health Collective. Natalie and Lisa are Melbourne based mums who have changed from the corporate careers to work in the health and wellness space, dedicated to empowering women to be the best version of themselves in life and work.

• What their life looked like pre-kids and how having kids changed things
• What made them decide that they wanted to work in women’s health
• What training and education they undertook to be able to set up your own business
• Growing a business is exciting and challenging – how do you find time to look after yourself
• How they became interested in perimenopause and have made this phase of women’s life a focus of their business
• Lisa shares her journey into perimenopause
• The key struggles women are having at this time of life
• Tips to help women who feel like they are struggling with this phase
• For women who have not yet reached this stage of life, they share steps they can take to help make this stage more manageable
• The advice they would give to a mum who has put her health last over the last few years and now wants to change that

Natalie and Lisa are warm, compassionate and easy to relate to. I am sure you are going to love this episode and pick up tips that will help you improve your health and well-being.

Where you can find Natalie and Lisa

• Website – Own Your Health Collective
• Instagram – Own Your Health Collective
• Facebook – Own Your Health Collective
• Podcast – Peri Menopause Power Podcast
• LinkedIn – Own Your Health Collective

For full show notes head to here.

• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up for the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

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This is the second time I have had the pleasure of interviewing Mia Northrup. Mia was on the podcast back in 2016 ep 13 and we talked about: 

• Tips on redesigning your life
• Tips on how to fit your personal creative pursuits into your day
• Tips on returning to work part time
• Working on friction points in the family
• Encouraging creativity in kids

Much has changed for Mia since then. In the last five years, Mia has separated from her partner, moved to full time work, started a successful podcast and published a book! This gave us plenty to talk about. Areas we covered in the podcast were:

• Creating a co-parenting system that worked for her family
• Tweaking life admin processes and systems to cater for their new arrangements
• Managing the logistics of a week on week off arrangement for her and the kids
• What her on week meal planning looks like and what the off week looks like
• How Mia transitions between the on and off weeks
• Making the time to write a book while working full time
• Where to start if with life admin
• Why it isn’t just us – the reasons why there is so much more life admin now
• Systems that help you share the load of life admin
• The power of checklists to save you time
• The hour of power and how it can transform your approach to life admin
• Where to start if you feel like you are drowning in life admin

I recommend having some note paper handy and Mia has so many excellent tips you will want to write them all down!

Where you can find Mia

• Website – lifeadminlifehacks
• Instagram – @lifeadminlifehacks
• Facebook – Life Admin Life Hacks
• Podcast – Life Admin Life Hacks
• Book – Life Admin Hacks

Links mentioned and additional resources:

• The One You Feed – Open-minded discussions of habits, meditation, wisdom, depression, anxiety, happiness, psychology, philosophy, and motivation.
• Tea and Cake with Demons – Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy By Adreanna Limbach – Using the Four Noble Truths as a guide, Limbach shares meditation practices, personal anecdotes, and traditional Buddhist tales that help us learn to befriend ourselves — even the more unsavoury bits — so we can realise our full potential.
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up for the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

Connect: Twitter | Facebook | IG

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In episode 76, I have the pleasure of interviewing Amy Armstrong. Amy calls herself a former boozy tragic on a mission to review the best non-alcoholic libations. In June 2020 Amy decided that it was time for her and alcohol to get a divorce. She had tried previously to go alcohol-free without success, but this time it was different. This time her head and her heart were really into saying goodbye to grog for good.

Amy shares honestly about how divorcing from alcohol required a change in mindset. Amy stopped focusing on what she would lose from not drinking alcohol and began focusing on what she would gain.

Throughout the interview, Amy and I discuss:

• How family organisation/life has improved since she divorced alcohol
• How family relationships have improved since she divorced alcohol
• How finding non alcoholic drinks kicked off a passion that is now a small business for her – Dry but Wet
• The additional learning Amy has undertaken to help her grow her business
• What made Amy decide to take the leap and leave her full time position to focus on growing Dry but Wet
• How Amy takes time to look after herself to keep her relationship with alcohol a healthy one
• What resources have been helpful to Amy on her alcohol free journey
• Advice Amy would give to a mum who thinks that alcohol is no longer serving them well

Where you can find Amy

• Website – drybutwet.com.au
• Instagram – @dry_but_wet
• Facebook – dry.but.wet

Links mentioned and additional resources:

• This Naked Mind Podcast – Bestselling author Annie Grace invites you to explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture without rules, pain, or judgement.
• The Alcohol Experiment – Ready to make a change? Join The Alcohol Experiment – a FREE 30-day challenge designed to deliver happiness, wellbeing and self-respect. An effortless way to interrupt your patterns, restore your health and get back in touch with the version of yourself that didn’t need alcohol to relax or enjoy life.
• Quit Like A Woman by Holly Glenn Whitaker – a book exploring the Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol.
• Meet the Maker Podcast – a series of conversations with the clever folks who are breaking new ground by creating incredible tasting adult non-alcoholic beverages. This is less about the HOW and more about the WHY. We’re getting to know the makers behind the brands, discovering their motivations & hopefully replicating a little of the storytelling were so familiar with from the wine industry.
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up for the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

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Welcome back to a new season of the this family life podcast! I am super excited to be back doing the podcast again and this season will have a mix of fabulous guests and solo episodes. As it is has been a while since I released a season of the podcast I would love it if you could leave a review on Apple Podcasts or if you listen via Spotify they also now allow you to leave reviews when listening via your phone. Simply click the rating button on the show page (not the episode page) – thanks so much in advance.

In this week’s episode, I share ideas on how you can set up some solid foundations to make settling into the school year an organised and productive one. I look at areas for the kids first:

• Refreshing morning routines for the kids
• New device rules for the kids
• New bedtime rules for the kids

Then look at reassessing our own routines:

• Starting with our own bed time
• The time we get up each day
• Making time for activities we love
• Time blocking for work

Links mentioned and additional resources:

• my key routines
• Updating your routines for the year
• Monthly review: exercise routines
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.

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After talking last week about what you can do once you have your idea, I had many listeners get in touch to tell me that they want to do something different but don’t know what! They were after tips for how to come up with an idea for a side hustle or a business. So in this week’s episode I share five activities you can do to help you come up with an idea:

1. Determine when you get into flow
2. Write down your core competencies
3. Write down 10 ideas a day for 10 days with a time limit of 5 minutes
4. Immerse yourself in a topic
5. Set a deadline to start

If you want to come up with an idea for a side hustle or business, grab a notebook and pencil and have a listen!

Links mentioned:

• Google Trends
• How to set up a Google Alert
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.
• Meal prep primer – my e-course on meal prep.

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This week I am discussing what you can do once you have your idea. For many we have an idea but getting started can be a challenge. We don’t know where to get started. We don’t know when we will do it. We are overwhelmed by our goal or task.

I share three simple steps you can take to help prevent you from procrastinating, delaying and getting lost amongst your emotions!

Links mentioned:

• The Art of Taking Action – Lead with the Body – by Greg Krech
• How to create a plan for your bigger projects – Creating a project plan can help you get started on the project and get it finished. In this post I take you through the steps I take to create a project plan and use an example of creating a family photo album.
• Adapt Relax – my new functional beverage start up! We’ve blended the highest-quality adaptogenic herb extracts with a hint of natural flavour to create a delicious functional beverage – a beverage that not only tastes great but will help you relax at the end of the day! Adapt Relax is the perfect drink to have at the end of your work day or the end of a long day with the kids when you feel like a drink to help relieve the build up of life stressors through out the day. Make sure you sign up the Adapt Drinks newsletter to get 10% off your first order.
• Planned + Present – the first e-course I made!

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