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The podcast that explores how and why you might be feeling stuck in your life, career or business and provides stories, insights and practical tips on how to get unstuck and create unstoppable momentum.
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Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Kate Merryweather.
Kate Merryweather describes herself as “that redheaded LinkedIn coach”, although I’d argue she is “THE redheaded LinkedIn coach”... surely there is no-one else?
Kate believes that LinkedIn is a tool that can transform your life — IF you have the right strategy. She teaches clients to create and share content that turns fans into followers and followers into buyers.
Kate is the first to admit she wasn’t born a LinkedIn expert. Her career has been a text book of experimentation, intentional choices and evolution. With a background in Public Relations, Kate chose the path of self-employment after she started her family. She spent 10 years as a copywriter and SEO specialist.
In this conversation, Kate talks about how you need to get out of your head, push beyond your comfort zone and try new things in order to create success in your business or career.
Highlights:
- Recognising “stuck” signs: How dropping the ball with her client work and feeling disinterested in what she was doing led Kate to realising she was professionally stuck.
- Going back to being a beginner: Being brave, taking small steps and accepting you need to learn as you go are the keys to getting unstuck and finding your way and growing your profile on LinkedIn.
- Creating a strategy that works for you: Kate explains how she fell into using LinkedIn as her chosen promotional channel - identifying where her target audience was and finding a way to differentiate herself in a crowded marketplace.
- Fear of Showing Up (FOSU): Understanding the excuses you’re making for why you’re not using LinkedIn or implementing a strategy on the platform that works for you.
- Benefits of experiments, mistakes and deadends: Building a business helping people use LinkedIn was a process of experimenting and testing different options to find the right solution.
- Authenticity is key: Creating a sense of familiarity and building your know, like and trust factor by showing up as your “real self” - ensuring others feel comfortable engaging with you and knowing what to expect.
More about Kate
If you’d like more information about Kate and her work, you can find it here:
Book a LinkedIn profile review with Kate.
Book a LinkedIn strategy session.
Connect with Kate on -
LinkedIn - @katemerryweather
Instagram - @katemerryweather__
Facebook - @katemerryweatherlinkedincoach
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To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
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Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
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LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
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How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Cynthia Chung.
Cynthia is a procurement guru. Her 20-year career spans diverse industries including consulting, technology, automotive, FMCG, and retail.
Cynthia has a track record of building highly effective teams that drive award-winning outcomes.
Having spent the last 8.5 years with one of the world’s most recognised brands, Nandos, Cynthia has recently taken the leap into a new role with Vicinity Centres, a leading retail property group here in Australia.
In recent years Cynthia has been active in leveraging her professional achievements to promote the benefits of a diverse workforce, to encourage more varied representation in leadership roles, and to advocate for and be a role model for women from multicultural backgrounds.
In this conversation, Cynthia talks about making big decisions, accepting not everything is going to work out perfectly or as you might hope or expect, and stepping out of her comfort zone to be a role model for others.
Highlights:
- Stop blending in, start standing out: How her early life experience of trying to “blend in” led her to realising that she should be proud of not being the same as everyone else and step forward to showcase her differences.
- Challenging unconscious bias: Cynthia explains how even after more than 20 years experience she is still dealing with, often unintentional, but mostly unfounded perceptions about who she is and what she brings to a professional setting.
- Developing diversity in the workplace: The importance for businesses of having a diverse workforce, to benefit their growth and bottom line.
- Avoiding analysis paralysis: A procurement expert’s advice on how to get unstuck from making big purchase decisions (or any big decisions!).
- Fitting your oxygen mask first: Prioritising self-care and protecting her energy in order to best support her professional and personal responsibilities and commitments.
More about Cynthia
If you’d like more information about Cynthia and her work, you can follow or connect with her on LinkedIn - @cynthia-chung-au
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To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
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Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
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LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
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How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Claudia Neal-Shaw.
Claudia Neal-Shaw is a human super-connector. She’s an ex-lawyer turned entrepreneur who once dreamt of “wearing sneakers every day and turning up to a job that lit her up from the inside out.”
So she fled her corporate cubicle to become an entrepreneur. She realised that many female business owners get stuck communicating their value and that with her legal and marketing background, she was uniquely positioned to help.
She’s subsequently supported hundreds of women to break through their confidence barriers and propel themselves and their businesses forward.
In this conversation, Claudia talks about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone to make things happen, speaking up for yourself and the power of authentic connections and storytelling for building your self-confidence.
Highlights:
- Being brave enough to “call it”: Measuring the gap between expectations and reality starting out on her career path and recognising the need to take a leap of faith and make a change.
- Other people's expectations: Claudia explains how her concern about how those close to her would perceive her study and career decisions kept her stuck.
- No such thing as wasted time: Everything you do - study, life, travel, work - gives you insights into what you like and don’t like and provides valuable experiences and skills.
- You’re in charge of your destiny: Claudia credits her parents for supporting her to advocate for herself and to be confident in asking for the opportunities from an early age.
- Being your most confident self: Valuing your unique talents and nurturing it in a way that best suits you and your life, and to build a compelling personal brand.
- The benefit of connectivity: There’s no reason why we shouldn’t all be connected to great people to share experiences, share stories and support each other.
More about Claudia
If you’d like more information about Claudia and her work, you can find it here:
Join the Power Moves Club.
Connect with Claudia on -
Instagram - @claudia.nealshaw
Facebook - @candourconsulting
LinkedIn - @claudia-neal-shaw-07b4a197
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Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Emma Walkinshaw.
Emma Walkinshaw is a highly accomplished all-rounder - she is a coach, creator, facilitator and founder - and she’s dedicated to empowering women to unlock their full potential and achieve their dreams.
Emma is an ICF certified coach and accredited yoga instructor. She’s also an incredibly successful entrepreneur and business owner, having started her first business at the tender age of 23.
She’s the founder of the successful online membership program 21 Minutes of Morning Magic - a simple morning ritual using the techniques of yoga, meditation and flowetry (a form of journaling).
In this conversation, Emma talks about the evolution of her career, why it’s important to prioritise investing in yourself, and the injecting play into your life and business.
Highlights:
- Stepping stones: How each transition of her working life has connected to contribute to Emma’s current work and business.
- Outgrowing your business: Emma explains how her first career as a hairdresser and salon owner plateaued after 14 years leaving her feeling stuck.
- Key components for getting unstuck: The importance of a supportive network and an investment in coaching for raising your confidence and self esteem and for exploring new opportunities and ideas.
- Tuning into your own answers: Reconnecting to your inner self to turn down the volume on your inner critic so you can hear your voice of wisdom and intuition.
- Making big (and expensive!) choices: Emma talks through the process she and her husband went through in making the decision to take a month away from their businesses to travel overseas.
More about Emma
If you’d like more information about Emma and her work, you can find it here:
Join 21 minutes of Morning Magic.
Join the waiting list for the Clarity Catalyst.
Head to Byron Bay with Emma.
Listen to the Celebrate a Sister podcast.
Connect with Emma on -
Instagram - @emma_walkinshaw
Facebook - @emmawalkinshawcij
Did you love this podcast episode?
If you found this interview interesting, helpful, entertaining, or inspiring, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on iTunes or where you listen to podcasts.
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Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Lisa Mulligan.
Lisa Mulligan is playing an influential role helping create organisations where people can comfortably contribute and flourish.
She’s the founder and Director of The Culture Ministry, and The Culture Club and it’s her dream to build a pragmatic network of experienced D&I practitioners, offering D&I support to organisations to create successful and thriving workplaces.
Prior to starting The Culture Ministry, Lisa spent more than 20 years working in HR and organisational change roles in global businesses in Australia, the UK and Singapore.
Now based in Auckland, New Zealand, Lisa is also the host and presenter of the popular podcast ‘A Dog Called Diversity’ which has been rated by FeedSpot as one of the 20 best Diversity and Inclusion podcasts
In this conversation, Lisa talks about her experiences making big changes in her own life and how she leverages what she’s learned to support individuals and businesses create sustainable and inclusive workplaces.
Highlights:
- A series of imperfect steps: Realising early in her career that each role she took needed to be the perfect position, but could be an important stepping stone.
- Realising big dreams: Lisa explains how sometimes achieving a “big dream” can leave you feeling stuck once you get there because you haven’t thought about “what’s next?”.
- Journey from corporate to entrepreneurship: The building blocks Lisa put in place in order to transition from being in a corporate role to becoming self-employed.
- Lived vs organisational experience for a career in D&I: Highlighting the importance of bringing strong transferable skills e.g. communication, stakeholder engagement etc into the D&I space.
- Supporting organisational change: How Lisa leverages her own personal and corporate experiences to support businesses and community groups to make changes.
- Focussing on the gains, rather than the losses: Lisa shares the decision-making processes that led to moving her family internationally twice over recent years.
More about Lisa
If you’d like more information about Lisa and her work, you can find it here:
Join the Culture Club here.
Listen to the A Dog Called Diversity podcast.
Connect with Lisa on -
LinkedIn - @lisa-ann-mulligan
Did you love this podcast episode?
If you found this interview interesting, helpful, entertaining, or inspiring, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on iTunes or where you listen to podcasts.
Great reviews will help others to find my podcast and learn how to get unstuck.
Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Content Warning: This episode includes discussion about relationship breakdown and domestic violence.
In this episode, Helen chats with Becca Maxwell.
Becca Maxwell is on a mission to change the narrative around divorce and separation. She is incredibly accomplished - a consultant, a coach and mentor. She’s also the founder of the Do Divorce Right online business and podcast.
Becca has experienced divorce twice, the second time drawing out over a number of years, involving a lengthy court case, financial troubles and custody challenges.
It’s a testament to her resilience and strength of character that she “came out the other side of this challenge with greater financial stability, a fantastic partner, a beautiful blended family and a life that she loves”... all without stooping to dirty tactics throughout the process.
She’s built her business on creating a safe space and community for women to support each other through often trying situations, to be surrounded by cheerleaders, and to find the inner strength they need to keep going when things feel tough.
In this conversation, Becca talks candidly about the experiences of her own relationship breakdowns and how having come out the other side stronger, she’s on a mission to help others rewrite their separation stories more positively.
Highlights:
- One step at a time: Becca explains the steps she took to move through the physical, financial and emotional “stuckness” of her first marriage.
- The obstacles of “happily ever after”: The stories, beliefs and expectations that get in your way and keep you stuck are often not as difficult to work through as you expect.
- Breaking the stigma around divorce: How her own experiences led Becca to become an advocate for challenging the messaging around divorce and separation.
- Models of positive divorce: Showcasing examples of where divorce and separation has led to positive and meaningful change for the individuals involved.
- Self-care as a priority: Remembering to prioritise moments for taking care of yourself when you’re working through big life challenges (like divorce).
More about Becca
If you’d like more information about Becca and her work, you can find it here:
Join and be part of the Do Divorce Right community here.
Listen to the Do Divorce Right podcast.
Connect with Becca on -
Instagram - @dodivorceright
Did you love this podcast episode?
If you found this interview interesting, helpful, entertaining, or inspiring, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on iTunes or where you listen to podcasts.
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Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
In this episode, Helen chats with Helen Ebdon.
Helen Ebdon is a business and executive coach and the founder of the groundbreaking Take15 program.
Helen is a lifelong business owner who trained as a graphic designer and started her first business at 25. Her business was incredibly successful but she was exhausted and stretched to her limits. And… she was stuck. She says it felt like being on a treadmill she couldn’t get off.
Helen became what she calls - “a time management expert who doesn’t believe in time management”. She supports executives and business owners who are feeling stuck or bored in their work, to take back control and move forward in a meaningful way.
In this conversation, Helen shares how she learned the hard way about building a successful business, her framework for tackling big or unfamiliar challenges, and using your creativity to get out of your head and achieve clarity.
Highlights:
- Feeling like an imposter: The challenges and uncertainty of running a business, rather than being employed as an expert in your field.
- Recognising the gap in small business information: Helen explains how her experiences in building and selling her first two businesses led to her career as a business coach.
- Getting stuck procrastinating: Understanding your motivations to find what’s causing you to procrastinate, especially when you really want to get something done.
- Finding “expanders” to show you the way: Seeing what’s possible for you by finding others who have achieved what you want to do.
- Tackling a big challenge: Helen explains her process for tackling a big or new challenge that is unfamiliar and uncomfortable.
- Tapping into your creativity to solve problems: Using mind mapping to get ideas out of your head and onto paper to find the clarity you need.
More about Helen
If you’d like more information about Helen and her work, you can find it here:
https://www.helenebdon.com.au/
Register your interest for the next round of Take15.
Connect with Helen on -
Instagram - @take15_helenebdon
LinkedIn - @helenebdon-take15
Did you love this podcast episode?
If you found this interview interesting, helpful, entertaining, or inspiring, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on iTunes or where you listen to podcasts.
Great reviews will help others to find my podcast and learn how to get unstuck.
Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of IVF and infertility
In this episode, Helen chats with Wendy Geitz.
Wendy Geitz has been an actuary, a consultant, an organisational and workplace designer, an executive and a CEO. She is passionate about creating stronger communities, workplaces and individuals.
Over her nearly 30 year career she’s worked in insurance, banking, commercial property, urban generation, and not for profit organisations supporting youth and women at risk.
These days she’s moved to what she calls “semi-retirement mode”. This doesn’t involve slowing down or not working… for Wendy it means taking on work she enjoys, that feels meaningful, and to which she knows she’ll add value.
Wendy’s never been interested in conforming to any sort of “norm”, in life or in her career. She’s always trodden her own path and she is a human super-connector. She loves nothing more than a yarn and a chance to meet someone new.
In this conversation, Wendy talks about making big career moves, writing her own unique professional story and designing an extraordinary life in the face of unexpected outcomes.
Highlights:
- The benefit of feeling stuck: That feeling stuck is sometimes the precursor or signal to recognising your head and heart or lifestyle might be out of alignment.
- How to network naturally: Making the most of all types of opportunities to meet, connect and learn from others.
- Why working harder is not enough: Wendy tells of her realisation that she was responsible for her success, rather than waiting for others to recognise her talent.
- The power of career “experiments”: How to make a significant career change by undertaking small steps, research and experiments.
- Leading “non-traditional” employees: Knowing that not all employees are motivated in the same way and remaining open and curious about encouraging their performance.
- The stuckness of infertility: Wendy talks candidly about creating an amazing, fulfilling life without having her own children.
More about Wendy
If you’d like more information about Wendy and her work, you can follow or connect with her on LinkedIn - @wendy-geitz
Did you love this podcast episode?
If you found this interview interesting, helpful, entertaining, or inspiring, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on iTunes or where you listen to podcasts.
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Interested to know more about me and this podcast?
To contact me or provide any feedback, please email helen@helenthomas.com.au
Please visit me at https://helenthomas.com.au/
Take the Fix Your Career quiz at fixyourcareer.com.au
Or, for more insights and practical tips to help you get unstuck, join my weekly Wednesday words email at https://helenthomas.com.au/wednesdaywords/
Or follow me on -
LinkedIn - @helenlthomas
Instagram - @helenthomasau
How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.