Balance & Beyond

Jo Stone

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.

  1. 1D AGO

    Diary of a CEO (Jo Moment)

    We explore the sting of comparing lives, the grief of roads not taken, and the power that returns when we actively choose the life we have. Acceptance becomes the doorway to redefine success, process envy, and pursue bold goals on our terms. • owning the life you chose as a daily practice • grief, envy and disappointment for the path not taken • conscious tradeoffs between career ambition and family presence • processing emotions to unlock agency and energy • redefining success to fit values and capacity • moving from passive acceptance to active commitment • choosing goals on your terms without straddling two worlds If this resonated, share it with a friend who needs to hear it today And don't forget to subscribe to Balance and Beyond for full episodes and more of these bite sized breakthroughs. Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    9 min
  2. 4D AGO

    Why Smart Women Are Learning to Lead Beyond Their Head

    Anchored launches 6th March. Find out more here: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/anchored Ever felt your brilliant mind switch on while your voice shakes and your body pulls back? We go straight to the gap between what you know and what you can embody under pressure, unpacking why logic stalls when your nervous system doesn’t feel safe and how to rebuild confidence from the inside out. With somatic coach Jaclyn, we chart the limits of a head-led operating system and show how emotional and social safety drive presence, influence, and sustainable performance. Across this conversation, we map the difference between physical safety and the subtler realms of social threat that shape tone, timing, and truth-telling in the room. We dig into self-worth as the root of real confidence, explore how perfectionism and over-responsibility show up as somatic signatures, and outline simple practices that bring your system back online: orienting, breath, grounding, and naming sensation. You’ll hear why awareness and therapy insights often fail to shift behaviour and why nervous system change only sticks through felt experience, repetition, and co-regulation with other humans. We also introduce Anchored, our six-week live, embodied program designed for self-aware women who are done trying to outthink their patterns. If you’re ready to partner your sharp intellect with a regulated body, make faster aligned decisions, and speak with steadiness when it counts, this one’s for you. Expect practical tools, real-time practice, and a supportive group that helps you hold your centre while the stakes rise. Listen now, share it with a woman who needs the reminder that her body is an ally, and if the conversation sparks something, check the show notes for Anchored or book a call with our team to find your right next step. If this resonated, subscribe, share, and leave a review so more women can find their way back to themselves. Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    19 min
  3. FEB 20

    Learning to Trust From the Neck Down (Jo Moment)

    We explore what happens when sharp thinking is no longer enough and how trusting the body can guide braver, cleaner decisions. We share real choices we made using a simple heavy–light check and how strategy and somatic wisdom can work together. • trusting intelligence and noticing its limits • the shock of realising the next chapter needs feeling • why the nervous system won’t be reasoned with • lineage of non-feeling and learning to feel • using heavy or light as a practical decision tool • reshaping a program from evergreen to cohorts • deleting 10,000 leads to restore alignment • reconciling rational proof with embodied faith • expanding where intelligence lives beyond the mind If this resonated, share it with a friend who needs to hear it today And don't forget to subscribe to Balance and Beyond for full episodes and more of these bite sized breakthroughs Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    9 min
  4. FEB 17

    How to Stop Living on Fumes and Escape Depletion

    BALANCE & BEYOND IS BACK FOR 2026 - JOIN THE 9TH MARCH INTAKE! Find out more here: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/balance-and-beyond Take your first step and book your free discovery call here: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/book  What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t time, but the stories that keep you sprinting? We shine a clear light on depletion—the bone-deep fatigue that a holiday can’t touch—and trace it back to three patterns we see in brilliant, high-achieving women: over-responsibility, perfectionism and people-pleasing. Together with Sabina, we unpack how these habits sneak in under the banner of competence and care, and why they quietly hijack your nervous system, your calendar and, ultimately, your sense of self. Across a grounded, practical conversation, we map the invisible trade-offs: picking up what wasn’t asked, delaying until it’s perfect, saying yes to protect harmony, and losing sight of your own needs. We talk about the bittersweet moment when success lands and feels numb, the fear of “Who am I if I’m not busy?”, and the seductive fantasy of blowing up your life for relief. Then we offer a different route—stacked micro-shifts you can start today and deeper inner work that changes how you choose, ask, and rest. Think: one boundary you can keep, direct asks at home and work, “good enough” standards that restore momentum, tiny rituals that let your system land and celebrate. We also explore why external fixes alone don’t stick without a shift in beliefs, and how community and coaching reveal blind spots you can’t see on your own. If your mornings start with a groan or your patience is threadbare, consider this your nudge: small, honest steps can move you from depleted and reactive to spacious and grounded without waiting for a perfect window. We’re opening new Balance Beyond cohorts to help unwind the patterns behind the pace and build a life that feels as good as it looks. If this conversation resonates, follow the show, share it with a woman who needs it, and leave a quick review to help more listeners find us. Your shift might be the invitation someone else is waiting for. Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    19 min
  5. FEB 13

    Debunking Work Life Balance Myths For Ambitious Women (Vault)

    We challenge three myths about work life balance and show a practical way to define it for yourself. Growth, connection, and health can coexist when you use leverage, not longer hours, and treat balance as an ongoing practice. • myth one: there is no single formula for balance • defining balance by personal fulfilment and season • myth two: balance does not block career progression • tools that compress hours into outcomes • shifting from time spent to influence and clarity • myth three: balance is a journey, not a destination • three pillars: fulfilling work, present relationships, vibrant health • simple check-ins to rebalance through change If this resonated, share it with a friend who needs to hear it today And don't forget to subscribe to Balance and Beyond for full episodes and more of these bite sized breakthroughs Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    12 min
  6. FEB 10

    The Surprising Invisible Source of Your Stress

    Ever felt strangely exhausted even when your life looks organised on paper? We dig into the quiet force shaping so many choices: the avoidance of discomfort. Not the dramatic kind, but the subtle, anticipatory flickers—a tight chest in a meeting, a delayed email reply after you set a boundary, the micro-pauses that make you want to smooth everything over. We trace how early praise for being helpful and reliable trained a deep habit of over-responsibility, and how corporate cultures double down on this by rewarding vigilance and punishing mistakes. From there, we connect the dots between perfectionism, people pleasing, procrastination, and over-preparing. They look different on the surface, yet they share one engine: keep discomfort away. The result is the duck-on-the-pond life—calm above, frantic paddling below. Decisions slow down as we chase 95 percent certainty, energy gets siphoned into managing reactions, and even simple choices feel dense with risk. We unpack the critical mix-up between safety and comfort, and how the nervous system over-corrects by flagging everyday stress as danger. What changes everything is tolerance. Not fake bravado or recklessness, but the skill of holding uncertainty without shutting down. We talk about building inner safety so your prefrontal cortex stays online when stakes feel high, and we use Barack Obama’s “51 percent certainty” as a practical anchor. With tolerance, boundaries simplify, decisions get cleaner, and energy returns—not because life softens, but because you stop organising around avoidance. You learn to feel a hard moment and move anyway, trusting you can re-decide on the other side. If this resonates, hit follow, share it with a woman who needs it, and leave a quick review to help the show reach the right ears. Then tell us: what “good enough” decision will you make today? Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    18 min
  7. FEB 3

    Why Vulnerability Feels Unsafe for High-Achieving Women

    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 model of leadership built on control, polish, and having all the answers, and why it’s faltering in a world defined by complexity and rapid change. Then we offer the alternative: being human on purpose. That means dropping the masks that drain your energy, acknowledging what you don’t yet know, and pairing that honesty with a simple plan for testing, measuring, and iterating. You’ll hear concrete language you can use with your team, ways to set boundaries without apology, and how to admit mistakes without slipping into defence or self-critique. The heart of this approach is your nervous system. We explore how to stay calm in the mess, decouple identity from outcomes, and avoid the traps of oversharing or performative toughness. Expect practical strategies to reduce over-functioning, move from perfection theatre to real influence, and model a culture where learning happens faster because truth is safe. In a world where AI can mimic polish, your imperfect, present, accountable leadership is the advantage. If the old playbook feels heavy and you’re ready to lead with clarity and courage, this conversation is your next step. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s levelling up their leadership, and leave a review to tell us the one mask you’re ready to drop. Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself! If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.com Podcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcast Email: jo@balanceinstitute.com LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/ Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

    17 min

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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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